Linux is a philosophy. Windows is a product created and sold by a company headquartered and registered in the United States, and as such, is subject to all laws and regulations of the U.S. Government.
Of course Windows contains back doors for law enforcement and intelligence authorities. Why should this be so surprising?
I have theorized for decades that the "zero day exploits" that hackers keep finding in Microsoft Windows are merely security holes created for government agencies. By dumb luck or determination, skilled hackers stumble across those exploits. Microsoft hires talented coders and engineers, and some of the security flaws revealed in Windows exploits are simply too egregious to be explained as "sloppy coding."
..the launches will be controlled by a repurposed Senior Care Autonomous Robotic Employee (SCARE) built by Hitachi Heavy Industries, that simply requires a ROM to be reflashed with its launch program, taking only two minutes and a WiFi connection.
It will look glorious, hooked into the launch control board, with its vacuum nozzle attachment and pill dispenser hanging off the side, as it guides the majestic rocket through the night sky.
You apparently missed the "Bloom County" comic strip from the 1980s in which sleezebag attorney Steve Dallas advises Opus the penguin, who has just been punched in the nose by actor Sean Penn, to sue Nikon - the maker of the camera he used. Because, deep pockets.
Bloom County won a Pulitzer 1987. If newspapers today ran full comic pages with new Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side, I'd subscribe to a newspaper again.
This smells like a counsel-advised plea for mercy prior to sentencing with the hopes of Mr. Manning breathing fresh air while he still has a few years of life left.
AppleTV and its tight hooks into anything iOS or OSX related will give you features not present in the ChromeCast stick.
My AppleTV is connected to a flat screen via HDMI, but the audio is being AirPlay'd through my AirPort Express router, with a set of Klipsch speakers connected via the 3.5mm headphone jack on the back of the router. As with all things Apple, It Just Works.
The process for displaying photos or video via AirPlay to an AppleTV, from OSX or iOS devices is tightly and seamlessly hooked into everything.
I love Google for creating ChromeCast, but it's a completely different animal, and lacks the polish that exemplifies Apple anything.
"Duke: Well, our chefs have been experimenting for many years to find a sauce most likely to tempt the crocodile. In the past, we've concentrated on a fish based sauce, but this year, we are reverting to a simple bernaise.
Loothesom: The British team are worried because Olympic regulations allow only the competitor's heads to be sauced. Gavin Morolowe...
Morolowe: Yes, well, I mean, (clears throat) you know, four years ago, everyone knew the Italians were coating the insides of their legs with bolinaise, the Russians have been marinating themselves, One of the Germans, Biolek, was caught actually putting, uh, remolarde down his shorts. And the Finns were using tomato flavoured running shoes. Uh, I think there should either be unrestricted garnishing, or a single, Olympic standard mayonnaise."
In order to create a truly shark repellent suit, designers need to mimic the colors of the shark's most fearsome predator - the mottled reddish-brown paint scheme on the hulls of commercial fishing fleets harvesting the sea for Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches.
It would be smarter for Tesla to license the technology to companies already servicing fuel resupply (gas stations) and let them absorb most of the costs.
Just drop 2 or 3 "battery swap" stations off to the side of your local BP, Shell, Citgo, Marathon, 7-11 et al station and call it done.
Filling stations already exist by the bajillions across the U.S. - They already have huge brand recognition, advertising, distribution network, close proximity to high traffic areas, offer car wash stations, attached convenience stores, loyalty card programs, etc etc. Tesla owners typically have a few gasoline cars at home that they routinely take to their favorite filling station already. We are creatures of habit.
Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new construction, or renovation when the established fuel resupply players would love to gently transition to the new energy economy? Partner with 1 or 2 of the existing petrol companies, and let them pick up part of the check for the cost of the battery-swap robots.
Tesla owners tend to be higher income, higher wealth customers anyhow, and who wouldn't like a steady trickle of them through your store.
Everyone wins. Tesla gets a cheaper buildout option. Existing fuel station owners guarantee relevance and the ability to sell you overpriced milk at 1 AM.
We are still animals, we are driven to mate, to prize health and vitality in prospective partners, and outward appearance and youthful appearance continues to be one of the visual indicators of health and vitality.
Sorry, we're all stuck in meat suits being driven by genetic operating code millenia old. Are you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9p8LXD5UDs
WalMart has outsourced the production of plastic flower pots and patio furniture to China for decades - the Chinese are simply reversing the process! By letting U.S. taxpayers fund the billions of dollars per year we pour into military R&D, they save massive amounts of money and man hours, and are guaranteed the best designs that 17 year old Chinese Red-Bull & Cheetos-fuelled hax0rs can steal.
Take a copy-catted F22 Raptor, paint a Chinese air force insignia on it, and * VOILA! * Fifth generation air superiority fighter MINUS the 20 years of research and testing. What you say? Their copy is only 85% as good as ours because they made shortcuts in the radar, or avionics, or missile systems? That's OK, our congress will keep paring down the final platform order until our air force ends up only getting 200 F22s, while the Chinese will manufacture 1,150 of theirs.
The current US military philosophy is starting to look more and more like WW2 era Germany, with absolute faith placed in a relatively small number of extremely expensive, extremely high quality weapons systems, which ultimately were smothered and overrun by a developing nation (the U.S.) with phenomenal industrial capacity capable of running M4 tanks, jeeps, B17 bombers, and numerous other things off assembly lines faster than the Germans could destroy them.
The comparative ironies to today's military situation are incredible.
Battery Life Camera quality Display quality / size sweet spot Build quality / hand feel..and a huge asterisk added to the end: Strip your shitty bloatware "custom UI" off it and leave it stock Android.
Bill Gate's wealth does not exist in a vacuum. He did not win the galactic lottery. The vast majority of it came from stock in the company he founded. That company employees over 135,000 people in 139 countries, as of 2010. The vast majority of those jobs pay competitive living salaries. The company pays billions of dollars in taxes into the coffers of the countries they do business in. Bill Gates has also paid billions of dollars in personal income tax, capitol gains taxes, property taxes and sales taxes over his lifetime. While he is but one man, he has paid more into personal taxes than tens of thousands of school teachers, firefighters, cops, plumbers and other middle-income individuals who will, at nearly every given opportunity, trumpet loudly that wealthy high achievers need to pay their "fair share." You will not pay as much money into your country's tax system if you lived one thousand years.
The products his company makes, for better or worse, forever changed the world.
It is a very dangerous thing to remove incentives for success, demonize personal accomplishment and pride of achievement, for when the knife-point of intellect, drive and ambition has been blunted you are left with stagnation and mediocrity - whether as an individual, or a society.
Awesome, so as an employee *I* have to pay for my $700 smartphone -AND- the expectation will exist that I will be monitoring emails nights and weekends?
Of all the possible candidates in the U.S., Google chooses to roll Google Fiber out to the city that hosts South By Southwest every year, where countless thousands of media, music & technology movers, shakers and influencers congregate along with the journalists covering them.
Google will recoup the est. $50m rollout costs for Austin in just 1-2 festivals from word of mouth and countless thousands of mentions by journalists in national & international articles. Fifty million, you say? They'll get $200m worth of free advertising back in 2 years, when the "OMFG it's SO FAST" comments start bleeding into every story you see out of South by.
The real threat in this crisis is non-nuclear - it is a massively scaled, massively distributed artillery net that North Korea has assembled on the border since the cessation of hostilities at the end of the Korean Conflict.
An estimated 13,000 pieces of 170mm self-propelled artillery mixed with 240mm long range rockets are pointed almost exclusively at Seoul, in an overlapping criss-cross firing grid. It is believed that North Korea could saturate Seoul with > 10,000 rounds per minute of sustained artillery fire. These M1978 and M1987 artillery units have an effective range of 40 miles, placing the entire 10.4 million population of Seoul well within their reach.
The widely distributed nature of North Korea's artillery deterrent makes it highly problematic - unlike a nuclear facility, airfield or military base that can be bombed or saturated with cruise missiles, the artillery installations are strung across many miles. The entire nature of this problem makes destroying them without massive retaliation, or interception of their projectiles on any meaningful scale entirely impossible.
North Korea does not need a handful of nuclear warhead sitting on rickety, innacurate rocket boosters. It has something far, far better - and the effect of their artillery net being unleashed would be nuclear in scale to Seoul. Worse than one or two low-yield detonations would be the rain of tens of thousands of high explosives across the city that would continue unabated. The attack and devastation would take minutes - the South Korean & US response would take far longer.
North Korea cannot win a protracted war. They don't have to. A devilish combination of Seoul's location so close to the border and the North Koreas' Stalinist obsession with high speed, high caliber artillery en masse has put nearly 11 million people in Kim Jong Un's crosshairs.
True. Google's case is unique however - their algorithms are the secret sauce, the 11 secret herbs and spices of Google's success. Few companies have managed to duplicate the value and relevancy of Google's search results, or advertising revenue. I have read comments from online entrepreneurs on various networking sites lately that claim that Bing's advertising is getting close, in terms of value per dollar spent. But Microsoft has enormously deep pockets to sink into R&D, and the patience to spend years tweaking and refining.
Google's advertising is many-headed hydra - they will find you in your GMail targeted text links, in your web surfing with display ads based on your web history, on YouTube pre-rolls and banners as you are watching videos, and many, many other areas.
It doesn't really matter how many downloads an app has, how many page views a website gets, how many registered users a social media site receives, how many subscribers a YouTube channel has, how many Twitter followers a celebrity has, how many potential customers a marketer has in their mailing list database, or any other inflated, meaningless number that is being thrown at you.
Conversion Rate matters. The ability to generate sales, matter. Web 1.0 imploded because websites were being purchased for fantastic sums of money based solely on the amount of traffic to the site, or the site having a slightly novel or unique approach to an old problem. Virtually NONE of the sites had a proven model for earning income. The entire thing could be chalked up to "get eyeballs, we'll figure out how to sell later."
TL;DR: Pick something - anything - and commit to doing it 5x/week for 30-60 minutes per session for 30 days. It will become habit after a month and you will be less likely to quit. Install MyFitnessPal on your smartphone and use it religiously as a companion for those 30 days, and beyond. Nutrition is 80-90% of fitness. ---
Fitness and healthy living is a decision you arrive at following an inner monologue.
Experts say it takes 30 days for any new habit to become a routine, to become "cemented" in your life. So, go buy a cheap, used copy of something like P90x off eBay, study through the program booklets that come with it, and promise yourself you will adhere to the program for just 30 days. Then another 30 days. Then another 30 days.. There is an excellet P90X subreddit where experienced practitioners coach new people, and Redditors post their 30, 60, 90 day progress shots for support, encouragement and motivation.
If you are very overweight, or not fit enough for strenuous exercises, visit the Reddit/r/keto subreddit and give the Ketogenic diet a try. It works. It's essentially a new spin on the low-carb low sugar diet. Lots of fish, chicken, pork, beef, veggies, and it WILL melt pounds off like nobody's business.
The most important thing is to just do SOMETHING, KEEP doing something, and DON'T QUIT. To borrow some cheesy Tony Horton-isms from the P90X videos, "Do your best and forget the rest" or "just keep pressing play every day."
These headlines are pushing the career trajectories of working mothers directly back to 1956. The message is clear - You can have children and be a stay-at-home mom, OR you can work full time and pay nearly $1,000 per infant per month for infant day care - erasing an enormous amount of your salary. You thought you could have both, but sorry, you're wrong, says Marissa Mayer - Who like all the Hollywood stars, pop stars and celebrities make parenthood look effortless while hiding behind a small army of Au Pairs, Nannies, drivers, cooks, security and personal assistants, tutors and private schools. Yes, parenting is wonderful when your sleep is NEVER disturbed because someone ELSE sits up all night for diaper changing and bottle feedings. Someone ELSE puts your kids on the bus at 7 AM.
Marissa Mayer is the wildly out-of-touch Mitt Romney of Motherhood - How can you expect someone building a nursery off her executive office, presumably staffed with a nanny - to understand or care about the work/family balance of her comparatively proletariat cubicle drones?
Soon, I imagine the Corporate Daycare (asses in cubes) culture will crush casual dress codes and Flex Time.
So, in the future, we will simply be shifting countermeasures in air-to-air and surface to air missiles from explosive warheads to EMP devices? Ground based or airborne microwave emitters? When we start putting so much sensitive electronics in automated drone aircraft, it is no longer necessary to physically disable or destroy the aircraft with explosive missiles - Now you only need to fry a handful of chips the size of a postage stamp to achieve the same net result - disabled aircraft falling out of the sky.
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Linux is a philosophy. Windows is a product created and sold by a company headquartered and registered in the United States, and as such, is subject to all laws and regulations of the U.S. Government.
Of course Windows contains back doors for law enforcement and intelligence authorities. Why should this be so surprising?
I have theorized for decades that the "zero day exploits" that hackers keep finding in Microsoft Windows are merely security holes created for government agencies. By dumb luck or determination, skilled hackers stumble across those exploits. Microsoft hires talented coders and engineers, and some of the security flaws revealed in Windows exploits are simply too egregious to be explained as "sloppy coding."
..the launches will be controlled by a repurposed Senior Care Autonomous Robotic Employee (SCARE) built by Hitachi Heavy Industries, that simply requires a ROM to be reflashed with its launch program, taking only two minutes and a WiFi connection.
It will look glorious, hooked into the launch control board, with its vacuum nozzle attachment and pill dispenser hanging off the side, as it guides the majestic rocket through the night sky.
You apparently missed the "Bloom County" comic strip from the 1980s in which sleezebag attorney Steve Dallas advises Opus the penguin, who has just been punched in the nose by actor Sean Penn, to sue Nikon - the maker of the camera he used. Because, deep pockets.
Bloom County won a Pulitzer 1987. If newspapers today ran full comic pages with new Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side, I'd subscribe to a newspaper again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfReCoRRIow
This smells like a counsel-advised plea for mercy prior to sentencing with the hopes of Mr. Manning breathing fresh air while he still has a few years of life left.
AppleTV and its tight hooks into anything iOS or OSX related will give you features not present in the ChromeCast stick.
My AppleTV is connected to a flat screen via HDMI, but the audio is being AirPlay'd through my AirPort Express router, with a set of Klipsch speakers connected via the 3.5mm headphone jack on the back of the router. As with all things Apple, It Just Works.
The process for displaying photos or video via AirPlay to an AppleTV, from OSX or iOS devices is tightly and seamlessly hooked into everything.
I love Google for creating ChromeCast, but it's a completely different animal, and lacks the polish that exemplifies Apple anything.
.. and it's called "William Shakespeare."
Protagonist? Antagonist? Complication in the third act? All the "Save the Cat!.." author did was write a Dummies version.
"Duke: Well, our chefs have been experimenting for many years to find a sauce most likely to tempt the crocodile. In the past, we've concentrated on a fish based sauce, but this year, we are reverting to a simple bernaise.
Loothesom: The British team are worried because Olympic regulations allow only the competitor's heads to be sauced. Gavin Morolowe...
Morolowe: Yes, well, I mean, (clears throat) you know, four years ago, everyone knew the Italians were coating the insides of their legs with bolinaise, the Russians have been marinating themselves, One of the Germans, Biolek, was caught actually putting, uh, remolarde down his shorts. And the Finns were using tomato flavoured running shoes. Uh, I think there should either be unrestricted garnishing, or a single, Olympic standard mayonnaise."
In order to create a truly shark repellent suit, designers need to mimic the colors of the shark's most fearsome predator - the mottled reddish-brown paint scheme on the hulls of commercial fishing fleets harvesting the sea for Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches.
It would be smarter for Tesla to license the technology to companies already servicing fuel resupply (gas stations) and let them absorb most of the costs.
Just drop 2 or 3 "battery swap" stations off to the side of your local BP, Shell, Citgo, Marathon, 7-11 et al station and call it done.
Filling stations already exist by the bajillions across the U.S. - They already have huge brand recognition, advertising, distribution network, close proximity to high traffic areas, offer car wash stations, attached convenience stores, loyalty card programs, etc etc. Tesla owners typically have a few gasoline cars at home that they routinely take to their favorite filling station already. We are creatures of habit.
Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new construction, or renovation when the established fuel resupply players would love to gently transition to the new energy economy? Partner with 1 or 2 of the existing petrol companies, and let them pick up part of the check for the cost of the battery-swap robots.
Tesla owners tend to be higher income, higher wealth customers anyhow, and who wouldn't like a steady trickle of them through your store.
Everyone wins. Tesla gets a cheaper buildout option. Existing fuel station owners guarantee relevance and the ability to sell you overpriced milk at 1 AM.
We are still animals, we are driven to mate, to prize health and vitality in prospective partners, and outward appearance and youthful appearance continues to be one of the visual indicators of health and vitality.
I'm sure you will all be really surprised - nay, shocked, awed and stunned to discover that beautiful people sell more products and services than their average looking counterparts, .. that beautiful people earn more money than average looking peers,
http://psysociety.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/beautiful-people-beautiful-products/
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_money/
Sorry, we're all stuck in meat suits being driven by genetic operating code millenia old. Are you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9p8LXD5UDs
I prefer this old gem:
"World War 2 was won with American manufacturing, British intelligence, and Soviet blood."
Some statistics:
B17 Flying Fortress: 12,731 units produced - 14 to 16 units per day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress
B24 Liberators: 18,400+ units produced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator#cite_ref-Ethell_1995.2C_p._214_6-0
P51 Mustangs, all variants: 15,486 units (1 per 24 minutes)
Willys Jeep: 640,000 units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep#World_War_II_Jeeps
M4 Sherman Tank, all variants: 53,362 units
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/usa/tanks-medium/m4-production.asp
WalMart has outsourced the production of plastic flower pots and patio furniture to China for decades - the Chinese are simply reversing the process! By letting U.S. taxpayers fund the billions of dollars per year we pour into military R&D, they save massive amounts of money and man hours, and are guaranteed the best designs that 17 year old Chinese Red-Bull & Cheetos-fuelled hax0rs can steal.
Take a copy-catted F22 Raptor, paint a Chinese air force insignia on it, and * VOILA! * Fifth generation air superiority fighter MINUS the 20 years of research and testing.
What you say? Their copy is only 85% as good as ours because they made shortcuts in the radar, or avionics, or missile systems? That's OK, our congress will keep paring down the final platform order until our air force ends up only getting 200 F22s, while the Chinese will manufacture 1,150 of theirs.
The current US military philosophy is starting to look more and more like WW2 era Germany, with absolute faith placed in a relatively small number of extremely expensive, extremely high quality weapons systems, which ultimately were smothered and overrun by a developing nation (the U.S.) with phenomenal industrial capacity capable of running M4 tanks, jeeps, B17 bombers, and numerous other things off assembly lines faster than the Germans could destroy them.
The comparative ironies to today's military situation are incredible.
Battery Life ..and a huge asterisk added to the end: Strip your shitty bloatware "custom UI" off it and leave it stock Android.
Camera quality
Display quality / size sweet spot
Build quality / hand feel
/. please stop paying attention to this man, and he'll go away.
Bill Gate's wealth does not exist in a vacuum. He did not win the galactic lottery. The vast majority of it came from stock in the company he founded. That company employees over 135,000 people in 139 countries, as of 2010. The vast majority of those jobs pay competitive living salaries. The company pays billions of dollars in taxes into the coffers of the countries they do business in. Bill Gates has also paid billions of dollars in personal income tax, capitol gains taxes, property taxes and sales taxes over his lifetime. While he is but one man, he has paid more into personal taxes than tens of thousands of school teachers, firefighters, cops, plumbers and other middle-income individuals who will, at nearly every given opportunity, trumpet loudly that wealthy high achievers need to pay their "fair share." You will not pay as much money into your country's tax system if you lived one thousand years.
The products his company makes, for better or worse, forever changed the world.
It is a very dangerous thing to remove incentives for success, demonize personal accomplishment and pride of achievement, for when the knife-point of intellect, drive and ambition has been blunted you are left with stagnation and mediocrity - whether as an individual, or a society.
Awesome, so as an employee *I* have to pay for my $700 smartphone -AND- the expectation will exist that I will be monitoring emails nights and weekends?
What a bargain for your employer, by chipping in $50-100/mo to pay for a fraction of your service plan, they get up to 20 hours per week of additional work out of you, according to this study:
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/byod-trend-is-making-employees-work-an-extra-20-hours-per-week-report-suggests-2012-08-22
This, on top of inflation-adjusted real wages that have not increased since 1973:
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/04/16/the-best-indicator-of-u-s-health-is-wage-growth-or-lack-thereof/
Slashdot headline next summer: "BYO Desk all the rage among newer workers"
When I read "Organic Pollutants", I initially thought the article was referring to humanity.
Of all the possible candidates in the U.S., Google chooses to roll Google Fiber out to the city that hosts South By Southwest every year, where countless thousands of media, music & technology movers, shakers and influencers congregate along with the journalists covering them.
Google will recoup the est. $50m rollout costs for Austin in just 1-2 festivals from word of mouth and countless thousands of mentions by journalists in national & international articles. Fifty million, you say? They'll get $200m worth of free advertising back in 2 years, when the "OMFG it's SO FAST" comments start bleeding into every story you see out of South by.
The real threat in this crisis is non-nuclear - it is a massively scaled, massively distributed artillery net that North Korea has assembled on the border since the cessation of hostilities at the end of the Korean Conflict.
An estimated 13,000 pieces of 170mm self-propelled artillery mixed with 240mm long range rockets are pointed almost exclusively at Seoul, in an overlapping criss-cross firing grid. It is believed that North Korea could saturate Seoul with > 10,000 rounds per minute of sustained artillery fire. These M1978 and M1987 artillery units have an effective range of 40 miles, placing the entire 10.4 million population of Seoul well within their reach.
The widely distributed nature of North Korea's artillery deterrent makes it highly problematic - unlike a nuclear facility, airfield or military base that can be bombed or saturated with cruise missiles, the artillery installations are strung across many miles. The entire nature of this problem makes destroying them without massive retaliation, or interception of their projectiles on any meaningful scale entirely impossible.
North Korea does not need a handful of nuclear warhead sitting on rickety, innacurate rocket boosters. It has something far, far better - and the effect of their artillery net being unleashed would be nuclear in scale to Seoul. Worse than one or two low-yield detonations would be the rain of tens of thousands of high explosives across the city that would continue unabated. The attack and devastation would take minutes - the South Korean & US response would take far longer.
North Korea cannot win a protracted war. They don't have to. A devilish combination of Seoul's location so close to the border and the North Koreas' Stalinist obsession with high speed, high caliber artillery en masse has put nearly 11 million people in Kim Jong Un's crosshairs.
True. Google's case is unique however - their algorithms are the secret sauce, the 11 secret herbs and spices of Google's success. Few companies have managed to duplicate the value and relevancy of Google's search results, or advertising revenue. I have read comments from online entrepreneurs on various networking sites lately that claim that Bing's advertising is getting close, in terms of value per dollar spent. But Microsoft has enormously deep pockets to sink into R&D, and the patience to spend years tweaking and refining.
Google's advertising is many-headed hydra - they will find you in your GMail targeted text links, in your web surfing with display ads based on your web history, on YouTube pre-rolls and banners as you are watching videos, and many, many other areas.
It doesn't really matter how many downloads an app has, how many page views a website gets, how many registered users a social media site receives, how many subscribers a YouTube channel has, how many Twitter followers a celebrity has, how many potential customers a marketer has in their mailing list database, or any other inflated, meaningless number that is being thrown at you.
Conversion Rate matters. The ability to generate sales, matter. Web 1.0 imploded because websites were being purchased for fantastic sums of money based solely on the amount of traffic to the site, or the site having a slightly novel or unique approach to an old problem. Virtually NONE of the sites had a proven model for earning income. The entire thing could be chalked up to "get eyeballs, we'll figure out how to sell later."
Operation Mindcrime is in effect.
TL;DR: Pick something - anything - and commit to doing it 5x/week for 30-60 minutes per session for 30 days. It will become habit after a month and you will be less likely to quit. Install MyFitnessPal on your smartphone and use it religiously as a companion for those 30 days, and beyond. Nutrition is 80-90% of fitness.
---
Fitness and healthy living is a decision you arrive at following an inner monologue.
Experts say it takes 30 days for any new habit to become a routine, to become "cemented" in your life. So, go buy a cheap, used copy of something like P90x off eBay, study through the program booklets that come with it, and promise yourself you will adhere to the program for just 30 days. Then another 30 days. Then another 30 days.. There is an excellet P90X subreddit where experienced practitioners coach new people, and Redditors post their 30, 60, 90 day progress shots for support, encouragement and motivation.
If you are very overweight, or not fit enough for strenuous exercises, visit the Reddit /r/keto subreddit and give the Ketogenic diet a try. It works. It's essentially a new spin on the low-carb low sugar diet. Lots of fish, chicken, pork, beef, veggies, and it WILL melt pounds off like nobody's business.
The most important thing is to just do SOMETHING, KEEP doing something, and DON'T QUIT. To borrow some cheesy Tony Horton-isms from the P90X videos, "Do your best and forget the rest" or "just keep pressing play every day."
These headlines are pushing the career trajectories of working mothers directly back to 1956. The message is clear - You can have children and be a stay-at-home mom, OR you can work full time and pay nearly $1,000 per infant per month for infant day care - erasing an enormous amount of your salary. You thought you could have both, but sorry, you're wrong, says Marissa Mayer - Who like all the Hollywood stars, pop stars and celebrities make parenthood look effortless while hiding behind a small army of Au Pairs, Nannies, drivers, cooks, security and personal assistants, tutors and private schools. Yes, parenting is wonderful when your sleep is NEVER disturbed because someone ELSE sits up all night for diaper changing and bottle feedings. Someone ELSE puts your kids on the bus at 7 AM.
Marissa Mayer is the wildly out-of-touch Mitt Romney of Motherhood - How can you expect someone building a nursery off her executive office, presumably staffed with a nanny - to understand or care about the work/family balance of her comparatively proletariat cubicle drones?
Soon, I imagine the Corporate Daycare (asses in cubes) culture will crush casual dress codes and Flex Time.
So, in the future, we will simply be shifting countermeasures in air-to-air and surface to air missiles from explosive warheads to EMP devices? Ground based or airborne microwave emitters? When we start putting so much sensitive electronics in automated drone aircraft, it is no longer necessary to physically disable or destroy the aircraft with explosive missiles - Now you only need to fry a handful of chips the size of a postage stamp to achieve the same net result - disabled aircraft falling out of the sky.