While I think Bill Maher is a misogynist dickhead, he does have one great quote on suicide.
It's our way of telling God "You can't fire me. I quit!"
The sad thing is this guy should NOT have had to go in a closet and blow his head off. Never ceases to amaze me how we euthanize animals on compassionate grounds, and yet we humans, we're expected to suffer.
I can get behind the idea, promoting all the bad stuff in Windows 7, especially the DRM when Microsoft is one of the few companies with the clout to stand up to the entertainment industry, but the website is horrendous. It's 1998 all over again!
You're going to choose to believe a study that involved a mere 94 people?
I take a great deal of pride in my intelligence. And I choose to think this study is absolute bollocks since it involved less people than went to my sister-in-laws wedding.
Yep. That's the problem right there my friend. A survey of 94 people and they publish this nonsense when there are so many other factors probably at play.
The fact is in 100 years people will look back and see how backward we are medically. Over the last 8 or so years I've learned a lot about the medical profession etc... And it's left me with no faith at all in doctors. I know more and more people with medical issues doctors just can't fix. I have stuff that's been going on for years and doctors just throw up their hands and say "Damned if we know".
In short, the gods have been shown to be false gods. Studies like this prove it. 94 people is a statistical aberration. 94 people doesn't prove anything. Yet this study is getting play everywhere, and the thing is almost nobody will listen to the details.
I'm overweight. I exercise as much as I can (chronic back problems), I don't eat lots of sugary stuff. I don't drink soda. I don't eat junk food. (I can also claim it's glandular though, legitimately, as my thyroid is completely fucked. TSH should be around 4. Mine is in the 70 region).
I get extremely angry with the prejudice toward fat people that studies like this enforce as there are so many other factors going on. Of course abusing fat people is one of the last prejudices that's considered socially acceptable, and these idiots and their statistical aberration have now added another arrow to the quiver for assholes to fire at fat people.
Eh? I'm overweight and see my doctor regularly for various things. He has never once harassed me about my weight.
In fact only one Doctor ever has. Of course I didn't put much stock in his diagnosis when, after suffering flu like symptoms for a month, no appetite, fever etc... He said I just had a cold. Then prescribed antibiotics for said cold.
I've also had two alcoholic drinks in the last 18 months.
You're making an awful lot of generalizations there. And the overweight people I know do not fall into the "woe is me" category. In fact the only alcoholics I've ever known were thin people.
Of course I live in a country where how much money I make has no bearing on the quality of healthcare I receive.
I do agree with the rest though. I mean this week we've had this nonsense, with a whole 94 people studied to come to this grand conclusion that because I'm overweight my brain is going to fall apart. (To be honest I'd rather lose my memory and think it's the 1980's than be aware of my failing body and how all my friends are dead)
There's also the "SUGAR IS GOING TO KILL YOU" study from a day or two ago.
A week or two back it was gamers aren't adolescents but sad depressive loners in their 30's, a study which only surveyed people 19 years of age or older in the pacific northwest where, according to people I know who live there, it rains all the time and people tend to be miserable as sin.
Reminds me of the old adage: "Giving up smoking, drinking and eating bad food doesn't make you live longer. It just feels like it."
Mencken once said that puritanism is the fear that someone, somewhere, is happy. Instead of persecuting for sex like you said (immoral behavior) they now do it via health.
I've always said to people that my body is a temple... To a long dead religion.
This study is such absolute balls. Like the "gamers are depressed loners" study that popped up on here last week, it's another flawed study.
Seriously, Slashdot needs to stop promoting these ridiculous studies. Fully expect the "sugar is bad" one from a day or two back to turn up on here soon.
A study, with so much bluster, and they studied just 94 people.
Chuck a couple of zeros on that, then perhaps you have the makings of a worthwhile study and not just an anecdote.
There is increasing evidence that obesity is not the death sentence so many seem to claim. There is also more and more evidence proving the BMI that determines if you are obese is absolute garbage.
Was that really necessary? Yes, the story is about Europe, but has clearly been going on elsewhere for some time, but nobody cared, but now it's Europe everyones panties are in a bunch.
What I find funny is if my ISP did that, capped stuff to 1/3rd the speed... It'd still be twice as fast as the DSL service I paid the same price for a little while ago.
If preventive medicine is more expensive than the failed system you currently have in place, then why is more spent per capita on healthcare in the US than any other western country, while your system continues to be ranked as one of the worst in the world, falling far behind those who do engage in preventive medicine.
Living embodiment of less for more.
There is an old adage. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."
Your observations of how public healthcare works are deeply, and I do mean DEEPLY flawed.
That wooshing sound you heard was the point flying past you.
I used Twitter when the iPhone app store first launched and there were a lot of Twitter apps. Figured I'd give it a go, expecting to quit after a few tweets, but I wound up getting hooked. I think in large part due to the fact that in 140 characters you have be concise. As someone who writes a lot I enjoy the challenge (for want of a better word) of that character restriction. Plus I've found other uses for it.
For example when I've had technical issues with something, on multiple occasions I've tweeted about them and gotten an answer from somebody almost immediately.
Then there's the news thing where stories have been breaking on Twitter before pretty much anywhere else.
And of course it's hilarious when they get it wrong and Jeff Goldblum dies.
I've also met some very cool people on there and have made some good friends who I've then, in turn, played games with on Steam, Xbox Live etc...
I loathe social networking. I hate Myspace. I hate Facebook etc... But for some reason I really like Twitter.
One of the reasons I no longer play. And seeing bullshit like "Oh the game doesn't even BEGIN until level 80" just makes me sick and reminds me why I quit the game. People talking that sort of bollocks.
It's like they've eaten the livers of Venezuelan pygmies and are bragging about how great they taste while staring disdainfully at all those who've only eaten Belgian pygmies.
It's an elitist attitude that just reeks of "I'm better than you".
If you read the details of the study it's flawed beyond belief. They argue the average gamer isn't an adolescent, yet they only spoke to the 19+ crowd. They interviewed people in the Pacific Northwest, where it rains all the time and there's probably lot of SAD going on. (That's Seasonal Affective Disorder people.)
In short, it's yet another bollocks study given credence by it popping up everywhere.
Which WH40K creators Games Workshop can't sue them for because Games Workshop stole most of those ideas themselves anyway. (Alien, Starship Troopers etc...)
Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy are the only games I can think of with cinematics to rival Blizzard, but then both those games are more cut scenes interspersed with occasional gameplay. (And I am a HUGE MGS fan, for the record.)
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Zero gravity probably makes the actual copulation bit kinda tricky too.
While I think Bill Maher is a misogynist dickhead, he does have one great quote on suicide.
It's our way of telling God "You can't fire me. I quit!"
The sad thing is this guy should NOT have had to go in a closet and blow his head off. Never ceases to amaze me how we euthanize animals on compassionate grounds, and yet we humans, we're expected to suffer.
I can get behind the idea, promoting all the bad stuff in Windows 7, especially the DRM when Microsoft is one of the few companies with the clout to stand up to the entertainment industry, but the website is horrendous. It's 1998 all over again!
You're going to choose to believe a study that involved a mere 94 people?
I take a great deal of pride in my intelligence. And I choose to think this study is absolute bollocks since it involved less people than went to my sister-in-laws wedding.
Yep. That's the problem right there my friend. A survey of 94 people and they publish this nonsense when there are so many other factors probably at play.
The fact is in 100 years people will look back and see how backward we are medically. Over the last 8 or so years I've learned a lot about the medical profession etc... And it's left me with no faith at all in doctors. I know more and more people with medical issues doctors just can't fix. I have stuff that's been going on for years and doctors just throw up their hands and say "Damned if we know".
In short, the gods have been shown to be false gods. Studies like this prove it. 94 people is a statistical aberration. 94 people doesn't prove anything. Yet this study is getting play everywhere, and the thing is almost nobody will listen to the details.
I'm overweight. I exercise as much as I can (chronic back problems), I don't eat lots of sugary stuff. I don't drink soda. I don't eat junk food. (I can also claim it's glandular though, legitimately, as my thyroid is completely fucked. TSH should be around 4. Mine is in the 70 region).
I get extremely angry with the prejudice toward fat people that studies like this enforce as there are so many other factors going on. Of course abusing fat people is one of the last prejudices that's considered socially acceptable, and these idiots and their statistical aberration have now added another arrow to the quiver for assholes to fire at fat people.
Eh? I'm overweight and see my doctor regularly for various things. He has never once harassed me about my weight.
In fact only one Doctor ever has. Of course I didn't put much stock in his diagnosis when, after suffering flu like symptoms for a month, no appetite, fever etc... He said I just had a cold. Then prescribed antibiotics for said cold.
I've also had two alcoholic drinks in the last 18 months.
You're making an awful lot of generalizations there. And the overweight people I know do not fall into the "woe is me" category. In fact the only alcoholics I've ever known were thin people.
Of course I live in a country where how much money I make has no bearing on the quality of healthcare I receive.
I do agree with the rest though. I mean this week we've had this nonsense, with a whole 94 people studied to come to this grand conclusion that because I'm overweight my brain is going to fall apart. (To be honest I'd rather lose my memory and think it's the 1980's than be aware of my failing body and how all my friends are dead)
There's also the "SUGAR IS GOING TO KILL YOU" study from a day or two ago.
A week or two back it was gamers aren't adolescents but sad depressive loners in their 30's, a study which only surveyed people 19 years of age or older in the pacific northwest where, according to people I know who live there, it rains all the time and people tend to be miserable as sin.
Reminds me of the old adage: "Giving up smoking, drinking and eating bad food doesn't make you live longer. It just feels like it."
Mencken once said that puritanism is the fear that someone, somewhere, is happy. Instead of persecuting for sex like you said (immoral behavior) they now do it via health.
I've always said to people that my body is a temple... To a long dead religion.
This study is such absolute balls. Like the "gamers are depressed loners" study that popped up on here last week, it's another flawed study.
Seriously, Slashdot needs to stop promoting these ridiculous studies. Fully expect the "sugar is bad" one from a day or two back to turn up on here soon.
A study, with so much bluster, and they studied just 94 people.
Chuck a couple of zeros on that, then perhaps you have the makings of a worthwhile study and not just an anecdote.
There is increasing evidence that obesity is not the death sentence so many seem to claim. There is also more and more evidence proving the BMI that determines if you are obese is absolute garbage.
You need a contract for internet access? Jesus. I can just call my ISP and say "Shove it. Cheers!"
Was that really necessary? Yes, the story is about Europe, but has clearly been going on elsewhere for some time, but nobody cared, but now it's Europe everyones panties are in a bunch.
I download a TON of stuff. I would happily accept a speed throttle.
Of course if they charge you by gigabyte over the cap they make more money than just throttling you.
What I find funny is if my ISP did that, capped stuff to 1/3rd the speed... It'd still be twice as fast as the DSL service I paid the same price for a little while ago.
If preventive medicine is more expensive than the failed system you currently have in place, then why is more spent per capita on healthcare in the US than any other western country, while your system continues to be ranked as one of the worst in the world, falling far behind those who do engage in preventive medicine.
Living embodiment of less for more.
There is an old adage. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."
Your observations of how public healthcare works are deeply, and I do mean DEEPLY flawed.
That wooshing sound you heard was the point flying past you.
I used Twitter when the iPhone app store first launched and there were a lot of Twitter apps. Figured I'd give it a go, expecting to quit after a few tweets, but I wound up getting hooked. I think in large part due to the fact that in 140 characters you have be concise. As someone who writes a lot I enjoy the challenge (for want of a better word) of that character restriction. Plus I've found other uses for it.
For example when I've had technical issues with something, on multiple occasions I've tweeted about them and gotten an answer from somebody almost immediately.
Then there's the news thing where stories have been breaking on Twitter before pretty much anywhere else.
And of course it's hilarious when they get it wrong and Jeff Goldblum dies.
I've also met some very cool people on there and have made some good friends who I've then, in turn, played games with on Steam, Xbox Live etc...
I loathe social networking. I hate Myspace. I hate Facebook etc... But for some reason I really like Twitter.
I've never used any of them and have used at least one app that does this, so that's at least four.
It's typical Twitter really. "Hey, that feature is great. Let's nick it."
LOL! Except that doesn't work for all those that use the iPhone, send texts etc...
There are already Twitter apps that do this and add the latitude and longitude to tweets.
One of the reasons I no longer play. And seeing bullshit like "Oh the game doesn't even BEGIN until level 80" just makes me sick and reminds me why I quit the game. People talking that sort of bollocks.
It's like they've eaten the livers of Venezuelan pygmies and are bragging about how great they taste while staring disdainfully at all those who've only eaten Belgian pygmies.
It's an elitist attitude that just reeks of "I'm better than you".
"Get out more" is only a traditional and popular answer from idiots who don't understand depression.
There is vast difference between what's going on with situational depression and the workings of chemical depression.
My mother-in-law is one of those idiots who doesn't believe depression exists and that getting out more will cure it.
My mother-in-law is an idiot. Of course the irony is she is CLEARLY depressed and suffers from an anxiety disorder, but doesn't believe in any of it.
If you read the details of the study it's flawed beyond belief. They argue the average gamer isn't an adolescent, yet they only spoke to the 19+ crowd. They interviewed people in the Pacific Northwest, where it rains all the time and there's probably lot of SAD going on. (That's Seasonal Affective Disorder people.)
In short, it's yet another bollocks study given credence by it popping up everywhere.
Lucky?
No, it's named that because that's how many years bad luck you'll get from installing it.
As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.
Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.
Given about half the quests in WOW boil down to "Go get 20 Murloc penises".
Which WH40K creators Games Workshop can't sue them for because Games Workshop stole most of those ideas themselves anyway. (Alien, Starship Troopers etc...)
Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy are the only games I can think of with cinematics to rival Blizzard, but then both those games are more cut scenes interspersed with occasional gameplay. (And I am a HUGE MGS fan, for the record.)
And yet I find myself returning to Nethack far more often than either Diablo game.
I love me some TA. Now THERE is a game that has stood the test of time with user created content keeping it alive.
Though didn't the two races boil down to "Get in these robots!" and "No we will not"?