And nevermind the fact that the whole idea that Omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risk of heart attack has always been a poor assumption based on poor science, the result of going on a, well, fishing expedition, for a correlation and stopping when they found one in the fat, with no particular justification for the fat being where the relevant correlation was to be found in the first place.
And, repeat after me: Correlation is not causation.
The most obvious difference to me between Greek and Inuit cultures (the high fat, low heart disease reason for the fishing expedition) and "ours" is that theirs is poor, but low stress with a bit of a fatalistic, what will be will be, view of life and death.
Skip the salmon and the Frankenstein's pork. Just mellow out dude.
And maybe get a little aerobic exercise a few times a week.
Of course nobody can get a headline out of that, or take out a patent on it to make a financial killing. . .
Oh, wait, nevermind. Excuse me, I have to go call my lawyer and patent a method for "MellowCise (tm)".
. . . 14 year olds who think they are smarter than everyone else.
Who Rand herself reviled.
You can always suggest that they get their philosophy from Harry Potter which is at least well written.
Nonsense. Harry Potter is at least entertaining, in a Scooby Doo sort of way. My taste in philosophy as novel runs more along the lines of Ursula LeGuin, but then she writes as if people and their relationships to each other actually matter and we'll have none of that "humanism" when dealing with, well, humans.
A very simple arrangement of functional repeated elements, although each element is ornamented, with a degree of taste.
. ..or Notre Dame Cathedral. ..
Gothic means "ugly." Ironically the term was coined by the baroque.
Which building is "better" -- the Empire State or the Chrysler?
A Cape Cod Salt Box.
Unless you know what you're doing, less is more.
Conversely, if you really know what you're doing less is the most. Scandinavian Modern is simple and elegant, it is also cold and lifeless. In a word, inhuman.
Shaker is simple and elegant and yet the spiritual inspiration comes through in every simple line. Traditional Japanese archtecture and furniture is so simple you can hardly even see it, but it goes past the mere spiritual to the sublime. If your posts, beams and plain white walls are themselves inherently beautiful extraneous ornament can only detract, not add.
During The Depression, Lee Wulff, the inventor of the fishing vest, sought to support himself by tying trout flies. He noted that he caught about 90% of his trout with a simple bit of fuzzy grey wool wrapped around the hook. He figured he could sell a lot of these, because he could sell these most effective, but most simple and inexpensive to make, flies for half the price of the fancy flies available in the stores.
But he found he couldn't sell them until he had doubled the price and added a bit of tinsel to catch fishermen.
Despite the fact that it was the simple mind of the trout that determined what was attractive, literally, and they had no sense of fashion.
A brownstone building is plain, but beautiful. Glueing an Italiante facade to it because those "architectural elements" have come into fasion does not make the building more beautiful, it makes it false and decadent, simply justifying Santayana's claim that "Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
Adding commercial "art" to a website to make it "beautiful" simply does the same; and I'll take Shaker furniture over baroque, thank you very much.
It has come to my attention that James Kunstler's blog (Clusterfuck Nation) has been attacked for looking "unprofessional," which rather took me aback, as I considered it one of the few truely professional looking sites left on the web. It's more than plain text, but it is simple and elegant. It gets the job done and does it in way that is graphically pleasing to the eye without being loaded up with fashionable crap. It looks professional. What it doesn't look like is commercial and pandering to whatever happens to be in vogue in commercial psuedo art on order to sell something.
Their answer, unfortunately, has nothing to do with anything I said. I never addressed the issue of junk mail and the only inference I made to garbage (well, trash, actually) containing plastics and other toxins was about your shredder.
a)All of these ethnic groups also eat a lot more beans than the "normal" population. Possibly more corn and lime (as in the mineral) as well. I don't see the justification for claiming that capsaicin was isloated.
What's not friendly is being sent this stuff in the first place.
I'm aware of this. The reason I did not bring it up is because, as you have found out, there is little you or I can do about it. I didn't design the system, but I still have to deal with it somehow.
. ..which is slightly healthier for the environment than burning the paper
Making your shredder, distribuiting your shredder, running your shredder and the recycling process itself burns things; outside of the carbon cycle. The very existence of your shredder isn't particularly enviromentally friendly either.
You have to look at the whole system, not just the end use.
. ..doesn't catch the state on fire (see CNN))
Some people don't know how to handle their tools.
Security is about making someone else look easier to attack...
Bingo! Which is why scissors will suffice. Don't "shred." Square. To much work for too little potential return.
I'm quite familiar with this story. I was already an adult and shit at the time. It was pretty big news. In all the papers, TV news shows and everything. It's one of the other reasons I burn and the reason confettiers were invented.
I said the scissors must be properly applied.
No tool is any good if you don't know how to use it.
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And nevermind the fact that the whole idea that Omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risk of heart attack has always been a poor assumption based on poor science, the result of going on a, well, fishing expedition, for a correlation and stopping when they found one in the fat, with no particular justification for the fat being where the relevant correlation was to be found in the first place.
And, repeat after me: Correlation is not causation.
The most obvious difference to me between Greek and Inuit cultures (the high fat, low heart disease reason for the fishing expedition) and "ours" is that theirs is poor, but low stress with a bit of a fatalistic, what will be will be, view of life and death.
Skip the salmon and the Frankenstein's pork. Just mellow out dude.
And maybe get a little aerobic exercise a few times a week.
Of course nobody can get a headline out of that, or take out a patent on it to make a financial killing. . .
Oh, wait, nevermind. Excuse me, I have to go call my lawyer and patent a method for "MellowCise (tm)".
KFG
What the fuck are you talking about?
That hell is not a threat.
You were agreeing with the statement
Well, D'oh!
I am confused as to why this member of our movement murdered a doctor.
Well, perhaps you ought to reconsider your own membership then.
KFG
Dude, you should have given her the Ford Fiesta, not the McLaren F1.
KFG
I hope you go to hell when you die, since you support murdering doctors.
What the fuck are you talking about?
KFG
But telling someone they are evil and going to hell for supporting abortion is not a real threat.
Exactly.
KFG
The rats did not swim to Easter Island.
KFG
Actually, he's up on the latest proposed model:
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http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_easter_
KFG
Pedantry time. Yes it does, although it may mean other things as well.
KFG
. . . 14 year olds who think they are smarter than everyone else.
Who Rand herself reviled.
You can always suggest that they get their philosophy from Harry Potter which is at least well written.
Nonsense. Harry Potter is at least entertaining, in a Scooby Doo sort of way. My taste in philosophy as novel runs more along the lines of Ursula LeGuin, but then she writes as if people and their relationships to each other actually matter and we'll have none of that "humanism" when dealing with, well, humans.
KFG
You noticed that people and rabbits aren't the same.
And yet, like rabbits and bonobos, they always manage to fuck up a storm, even when and where fashion as such is absent.
You'd think it was its own reward or something.
KFG
. . . a facade of repeating arches . . .
Otherwise known as porch posts.
"Barbaric" is more like it.
Indeed, and I meant to write "ugly and barbarous", as that was actually my stated position.
I don't think there is one philosophy that works everywhere for everyone for all time.
I believe that's where I came in to this movie.
KFG
consider the Tower of Pisa . . .
.or Notre Dame Cathedral. . .
A very simple arrangement of functional repeated elements, although each element is ornamented, with a degree of taste.
. .
Gothic means "ugly." Ironically the term was coined by the baroque.
Which building is "better" -- the Empire State or the Chrysler?
A Cape Cod Salt Box.
Unless you know what you're doing, less is more.
Conversely, if you really know what you're doing less is the most. Scandinavian Modern is simple and elegant, it is also cold and lifeless. In a word, inhuman.
Shaker is simple and elegant and yet the spiritual inspiration comes through in every simple line. Traditional Japanese archtecture and furniture is so simple you can hardly even see it, but it goes past the mere spiritual to the sublime. If your posts, beams and plain white walls are themselves inherently beautiful extraneous ornament can only detract, not add.
During The Depression, Lee Wulff, the inventor of the fishing vest, sought to support himself by tying trout flies. He noted that he caught about 90% of his trout with a simple bit of fuzzy grey wool wrapped around the hook. He figured he could sell a lot of these, because he could sell these most effective, but most simple and inexpensive to make, flies for half the price of the fancy flies available in the stores.
But he found he couldn't sell them until he had doubled the price and added a bit of tinsel to catch fishermen.
Despite the fact that it was the simple mind of the trout that determined what was attractive, literally, and they had no sense of fashion.
KFG
Except there is a reason, and a benefit: procreation
And that's why there are so few rabbits.
KFG
You should read The Fountainhead. . .
Please, won't someone think of the children?
KFG
And beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A brownstone building is plain, but beautiful. Glueing an Italiante facade to it because those "architectural elements" have come into fasion does not make the building more beautiful, it makes it false and decadent, simply justifying Santayana's claim that "Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
Adding commercial "art" to a website to make it "beautiful" simply does the same; and I'll take Shaker furniture over baroque, thank you very much.
It has come to my attention that James Kunstler's blog (Clusterfuck Nation) has been attacked for looking "unprofessional," which rather took me aback, as I considered it one of the few truely professional looking sites left on the web. It's more than plain text, but it is simple and elegant. It gets the job done and does it in way that is graphically pleasing to the eye without being loaded up with fashionable crap. It looks professional. What it doesn't look like is commercial and pandering to whatever happens to be in vogue in commercial psuedo art on order to sell something.
YTMV, of course, but isn't that rather the point?
KFG
Their answer, unfortunately, has nothing to do with anything I said. I never addressed the issue of junk mail and the only inference I made to garbage (well, trash, actually) containing plastics and other toxins was about your shredder.
I wouldn't advise you to burn it either.
KFG
Orgies.
KFG
Thoughts?
a)All of these ethnic groups also eat a lot more beans than the "normal" population. Possibly more corn and lime (as in the mineral) as well. I don't see the justification for claiming that capsaicin was isloated.
b)You're going to die, get used to the idea.
KFG
"You asked if it is environmentally preferable to shred or burn junk mail."
Did you really?
If so, why?
KFG
From the article:
.and subsequent peacekeeping duties (see Post-invasion Iraq, 2003-2006).
. .
KFG
One does not aquire fighter jets at the time of need. One aquires them in anticipation of need.
KFG
When was the last time they were attacked by anybody?
The mainland within living memory. If you include attacks on its embassies, Sep. 9, 2004.
When was the last time Australia attacked anyone (military equipment gets used both ways)?
Now.
KFG
What's not friendly is being sent this stuff in the first place.
I'm aware of this. The reason I did not bring it up is because, as you have found out, there is little you or I can do about it. I didn't design the system, but I still have to deal with it somehow.
KFG
I recycle them all . . .
.which is slightly healthier for the environment than burning the paper
.doesn't catch the state on fire (see CNN))
So do I. Sometimes buried in dirt.
. .
Making your shredder, distribuiting your shredder, running your shredder and the recycling process itself burns things; outside of the carbon cycle. The very existence of your shredder isn't particularly enviromentally friendly either.
You have to look at the whole system, not just the end use.
. .
Some people don't know how to handle their tools.
Security is about making someone else look easier to attack...
Bingo! Which is why scissors will suffice. Don't "shred." Square. To much work for too little potential return.
KFG
I'm quite familiar with this story. I was already an adult and shit at the time. It was pretty big news. In all the papers, TV news shows and everything. It's one of the other reasons I burn and the reason confettiers were invented.
I said the scissors must be properly applied.
No tool is any good if you don't know how to use it.
KFG