You're only half right, I'm afraid. Your credentials really only apply to dog nutrition, not human nutrition.
Dog and human diets are very different. Dogs are carnivores, while humans are (evolutionary) herbivores. Dogs have strong pointed jaws, with many sharp teeth for biting through flesh. Humans have jaws flush with the face, making it difficult to bite flesh. We have molar teeth and side-to-side jaw movement, designed for grinding tough vegetables and fruits. Our so-called "canine" teeth and other sharp frontal teeth have nothing to do with consuming meat and everything to do with devouring tough-skinned fruits and vegetables. (Think about biting through an apple with just back teeth.) Humans also produce ptyalin in the saliva for predigestion of fruits and veggies, which dogs and other carnivores do not.
Dogs have extremely short carnivore digestive tracts. (Meat must be digested before decomposition sets in too much, as some of the byproducts of decomposition are toxic.) This is one reason dogs do less well on low-meat diets. Shorter length affords less time to absorb nutrients from plant-based foods. In contrast, humans have a very long digestive tract, associated with herbivores, about 12 times the length of our entire body. For comparison, consider the diets of primates, our nearest evolutionary ancestors. Their digestive system very closely resembles ours, and their diet consists of lots and lots of fruit.
Which is not to say that there isn't some overlap. Dogs will consume vegetables occasionally. In the wild, dogs would get their minimal plant requirements from eating the digestive tracts of their prey. Also, dogs have been bred to be highly obedient, giving humans great leeway in controlling their diets, which is the only reason it's even possible to feed a dog a high-carb diet. (Try that with a cat, and see how far you get!) And while humans are, evolutionarily-speaking, primarily herbivores, it is quite likely that meat was a supplement to their diet (but only a supplement, and not the main course). I know many primates will occasionally use sticks to eat ants from an anthill. They probably consume small amounts of meat in other ways, too. This may technically classify them as omnivores, but saying so downplays the fact that over 95% of their diet is plant-based, and should be for us too, evolutionarily-speaking.
The attempted elevation of advertising to art is a colossal waste of human effort on the part of everyone involved. Art is meant to move people's hearts, not move producers' products. Modern advertising is the opposite of therapy - it tells me I am ugly, unliked, unloved, and unhappy, and that the only way to solve that is to buy, buy, BUY!
To whomever reads this, I am sure you are fairly well off, and relatively secure economically. Isn't it time you considered that there may be more to life than the consumer lifestyle? Advertising is all illusion - why not see what reality feels like?
I think one reason he's floating the question out is that CVille is a tech-heavy town for being so small. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who works for the tech industry here.
As a resident of CVille and an ex-UVA student, I say, ignore the students! Hehehe. Statistically speaking, a large majority of the UVA students don't vote, and all the ones living on-Grounds are Albemarle residents, not CVille residents anyway. Even ones who do care about voting may not care about voting in local CVille politics, since they're only going to be there for four years. All sad but true. Considering how difficult it is to get media attention in this town for local politics (e.g., Channel 29's studied indifference), I would expend more effort in just getting known to townies.
Well, actually, I live in Charlottesville, and it's just a notch below Berkeley. (10% voted for Nader... including me:) Recently, the hot freedom debate was about a new blackboard going up on the Downtown Mall by the Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression. The idea was simple: anyone could write anything on it. Total freedom of speech. Luckily, it went up.
Waldo, I'll vote for you in a heartbeat if you do your best to make sure the Meadowcreek Parkway never comes to pass. No way do I want our town to resemble Northern Virginia.
You can't name a single company in Nader's portfolio to prove your point.
Nader is, far more than either Gore or Bush, a man of the highest ethical caliber. To insinuate that Nader, who has fought for over 35 years to hold corporations accountable for the evil that they do, would compromise his principles to make a buck, is nothing short of insulting and slanderous.
Do you know what Nader did with the first million he got? He founded the Public Citizen group. Do you know how he got that that first million? He won a lawsuit against General Motors, who tried to discredit his reputation with a prostitute after he published the damning auto-industry critique, Unsafe At Any Speed.
One thing that I saw that I'm not sure if anyone else has noted... One of the authors suggests that:
E-mail or snail mail them if you like, but faxes and phone calls will probably make the best impression.
This is NOT true. The amount of weight a congressperson will attach to your opinion is inversely proportional to how easy it was to send it. Faxes and phone calls don't carry much weight, and emails have even less. However, a real meatspace letter, stamp and everything, carries far more importance. The more effort is required, they figure, the more likely you are to vote, influence others, etc. I heard from one congressional staffer that they estimate that a single letter represents the sentiments of about 10,000 constituents. So please, if you're worked up enough to consider emailing your congressperson, make your voice louder and send them a real letter.
Uh, actually, use of a sample in another artistic work does not, to my knowledge, fall under fair use. Examples:
BizMarkey had his ass sued off for sampling a James Brown riff for one album, had to pay all the money he made off it, and then called his next album "All Samples Cleared!"
Vanilla Ice never attributed the main riff of "Ice, Ice, Baby" to Queen and David Bowie for "Under Pressure", and ended up paying them millions.
Generally, if a sample is recognizable, you are legally obligated to pay for it. Personally, I think that if you're work is different enough from the original, you should not be required to pay, but that if you are obviously using it as the bulk of your track, then you should pay out the nose for being a talentless hack. I wouldn't mind people using samples of my work to create their own works, as long as it did not appear that they were presenting my work as their own. Giving credit where due is a must.
What do you think of future user interfaces, now that we are finally starting to approach the level of computing power necessary for more advanced interfaces such as voice control and 3D "desktops"? Where (or will) GNOME fit in the future?
Please do some research before firing off emails. I saw him in "concert" at the 9:30 Club in DC. All he did was lie down on a sofa on the stage with a huge, 3-inch thick notebook, and noodle around all night, while two people danced around in bear suits that look like the Grateful Dead bears with photocopies of Richard's face from the RDJ album in place of their faces. Also, everything from "I Care..." forwards is obviously too complex to be programmed purely in analog.
I'm not even sure he does MIDI programming anymore. Last I heard, he was playing around with Csound.
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You're only half right, I'm afraid. Your credentials really only apply to dog nutrition, not human nutrition.
Dog and human diets are very different. Dogs are carnivores, while humans are (evolutionary) herbivores. Dogs have strong pointed jaws, with many sharp teeth for biting through flesh. Humans have jaws flush with the face, making it difficult to bite flesh. We have molar teeth and side-to-side jaw movement, designed for grinding tough vegetables and fruits. Our so-called "canine" teeth and other sharp frontal teeth have nothing to do with consuming meat and everything to do with devouring tough-skinned fruits and vegetables. (Think about biting through an apple with just back teeth.) Humans also produce ptyalin in the saliva for predigestion of fruits and veggies, which dogs and other carnivores do not.
Dogs have extremely short carnivore digestive tracts. (Meat must be digested before decomposition sets in too much, as some of the byproducts of decomposition are toxic.) This is one reason dogs do less well on low-meat diets. Shorter length affords less time to absorb nutrients from plant-based foods. In contrast, humans have a very long digestive tract, associated with herbivores, about 12 times the length of our entire body. For comparison, consider the diets of primates, our nearest evolutionary ancestors. Their digestive system very closely resembles ours, and their diet consists of lots and lots of fruit.
Which is not to say that there isn't some overlap. Dogs will consume vegetables occasionally. In the wild, dogs would get their minimal plant requirements from eating the digestive tracts of their prey. Also, dogs have been bred to be highly obedient, giving humans great leeway in controlling their diets, which is the only reason it's even possible to feed a dog a high-carb diet. (Try that with a cat, and see how far you get!) And while humans are, evolutionarily-speaking, primarily herbivores, it is quite likely that meat was a supplement to their diet (but only a supplement, and not the main course). I know many primates will occasionally use sticks to eat ants from an anthill. They probably consume small amounts of meat in other ways, too. This may technically classify them as omnivores, but saying so downplays the fact that over 95% of their diet is plant-based, and should be for us too, evolutionarily-speaking.
Here were my comments to them:
I think one reason he's floating the question out is that CVille is a tech-heavy town for being so small. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who works for the tech industry here.
Oww! Sonofabitch! Who swung that cat?
As a resident of CVille and an ex-UVA student, I say, ignore the students! Hehehe. Statistically speaking, a large majority of the UVA students don't vote, and all the ones living on-Grounds are Albemarle residents, not CVille residents anyway. Even ones who do care about voting may not care about voting in local CVille politics, since they're only going to be there for four years. All sad but true. Considering how difficult it is to get media attention in this town for local politics (e.g., Channel 29's studied indifference), I would expend more effort in just getting known to townies.
Well, actually, I live in Charlottesville, and it's just a notch below Berkeley. (10% voted for Nader... including me :) Recently, the hot freedom debate was about a new blackboard going up on the Downtown Mall by the Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression. The idea was simple: anyone could write anything on it. Total freedom of speech. Luckily, it went up.
Waldo, I'll vote for you in a heartbeat if you do your best to make sure the Meadowcreek Parkway never comes to pass. No way do I want our town to resemble Northern Virginia.
You can't name a single company in Nader's portfolio to prove your point.
Nader is, far more than either Gore or Bush, a man of the highest ethical caliber. To insinuate that Nader, who has fought for over 35 years to hold corporations accountable for the evil that they do, would compromise his principles to make a buck, is nothing short of insulting and slanderous.
Do you know what Nader did with the first million he got? He founded the Public Citizen group. Do you know how he got that that first million? He won a lawsuit against General Motors, who tried to discredit his reputation with a prostitute after he published the damning auto-industry critique, Unsafe At Any Speed.
Gore is the evil of 2 lessers!Uh, actually, use of a sample in another artistic work does not, to my knowledge, fall under fair use. Examples:
BizMarkey had his ass sued off for sampling a James Brown riff for one album, had to pay all the money he made off it, and then called his next album "All Samples Cleared!"
Vanilla Ice never attributed the main riff of "Ice, Ice, Baby" to Queen and David Bowie for "Under Pressure", and ended up paying them millions.
Generally, if a sample is recognizable, you are legally obligated to pay for it. Personally, I think that if you're work is different enough from the original, you should not be required to pay, but that if you are obviously using it as the bulk of your track, then you should pay out the nose for being a talentless hack. I wouldn't mind people using samples of my work to create their own works, as long as it did not appear that they were presenting my work as their own. Giving credit where due is a must.
What do you think of future user interfaces, now that we are finally starting to approach the level of computing power necessary for more advanced interfaces such as voice control and 3D "desktops"? Where (or will) GNOME fit in the future?
Please do some research before firing off emails. I saw him in "concert" at the 9:30 Club in DC. All he did was lie down on a sofa on the stage with a huge, 3-inch thick notebook, and noodle around all night, while two people danced around in bear suits that look like the Grateful Dead bears with photocopies of Richard's face from the RDJ album in place of their faces. Also, everything from "I Care..." forwards is obviously too complex to be programmed purely in analog.
I'm not even sure he does MIDI programming anymore. Last I heard, he was playing around with Csound.