Since it is free to play on battle.net with a LEGAL copy, it's highly skeptical that it had another purpose, no matter the "disclaimer" that may be attached.
No matter your skepticism people really do just want to have private LAN parties, without connecting to the Internet at all even, and without "stealing" anybody's software to do it.
Please also note that it is Blizzard who will not allow the bnetd people to use their authentication process to prevent the use of illegal copies.
I'm afraid I do worse than that. I encrypt all of my text files with something called "Pig Latin."
The poor bastards in law enforcement are powerless against it, and I am evil, evil, evil for not living my life with an eye toward making it pathetically easy for any traffic cop to fully investigate me for anything, as any good PATRIOT should.
You haven't done a lot of heart reate monitoring, have you? A person behaving normally around pool might have a heart rate of 50 bpm for an hour at a stretch, or go from 70 to 200 and back to 70 in a matter of minutes, or . . .
Heart rate varies radically. The only heart rate of interest that a safty monitor if this sort can convey is an arhythmia or no heart rate at all. Ideally you want to know about potential trouble long before that.
Relying on computers to detect "drowning" states seems a bit halfassed still.
This is why the system still relies on human observation and judgement.It does not replace the lifeguard. It is a tool of the lifeguard.
If you pay a lifeguard twice as much that does not confer on them the ability to pay attention to twice as much for twice as long.
You will find, if you try it out, that it is actually quite difficult to pay attention to a single, nonmoving, object for any long period of time. Giving equal attention to merely two moving objects is impossible.
People in hazardous jobs routinely lose their own lives simply because they are not capable of applying enough attention to save themselves.
Electronic sensors have their limitations as well, but tireless watching is not one of them.
Well, according the division of their, ummmmm, "Creative" writing dept. known colloquially as "Accounting" it costs about 49 bazillion dollars per seat to remove a virus.
Hoist by their own petard seems about right to me.
"Wow, it must have sucked to be an Inuit before "civilization" came along."
The traditional Inuit diet is nothing like the Atkins diet. They do not eat steak. They eat animals, and good deal more vegetation them most people realize.
You should try living in a subsistance culture for at least a few months. It's quite the experience.
. ..they never had obesity problems until the rest of the world came along and started feeding them purified concentrated carbohydrate.
What this got to do with wild rice and greens?
Has there been a single case of someone being hospitalized or killed by excessive ketones in the blood?
Sure. The old time frontiersmen even had a term for it, "Rabbit Death," because you were most likely to die from it by trying to subsist on rabbit. It can also be a problem in animal husbandry.
If we were all ice-dwelling Eskimos with nothing to eat but animal flesh. ..
Are you? For that matter, neither are they.
. ..lack of ketosis brought on by eating sugars. ..
Ah yes, the fundamental slight of hand that the entire Atkins argument relies on.
I don't ever recall anyone suggesting that sugar cubes were a healthy diet, do you?
Carbohydrates don't mean "sugar cubes." Carbohydrates means "carrots" and "spinich."
. ..a chef knows nothing compared to a dietician and nutritionist.
And these know nothing compared to a physiologist, the true scientists of diet.
Get the hence to the library and start watching Covert Baily's tapes. They're not only sound biological science, but very entertaining as well.
Atkins works as it thows your body into ketosis
Hepatitis worked for me. That doesn't mean I'd recommend it as a weight loss strategy. Simple aerobic exercise will increase ketosis in a low key, sustainable for life, "Times are Good" way.
Atkins "works" by inducing an "Oh my God, the crops have failed and we need to do anything to survive" way. It invokes the bodies emergency systems. These systems are inefficient and assume that when times get good again the body will have the time and strength to deal with the concordant waste products and damage.
If all you're interested in is losing fat, yeah, you can go for Atkins, but only until you've lost the fat, not as a "lifestyle." If you're interested in health and "Wellness," go for a bike ride instead.
Abandon the idea that baby food is somehow necessary for adult health (let alone the baby food of another species). That solves the price of milk problem.
Start growing your own "Heritage" food. See the book "Sailing the Farm" for how this can be done on even a small sailboat, a living space far smaller and disadvantaged than even a metropolitan studio apartment. There are tons of newer books on container gardening.
If you've got even as little as 16 square feet of dirt, see the book "Square Foot Gardening."
You might well be surprised at how much you can produce from how little, all without using any of the modern industrial farming techniques.
It's a matter of scale. The modern industrial approach to farming may be needed to generate the largest profit (not food, profit) from huuuuuuge. ..tracts of land, but have nothing to do with producing enough tomatoes for yourself, by yourself.
KFG
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Here in Nerf(tm) World we like to greatly exagerate risks that don't have to do with automobiles and deprecate the concordant benefits to the point of ignorance.
With regard to automobiles, of course, we do things the other way around, deprecating the risks and exagerating the benefits, which are mostly imagined in the first place.
If I write a Linux kernel module that is certainly my work, and protected by my copyright, but do you not think it would be a bit much to accuse Linus and Richard of taking a "free ride" if they use it?
The Internet did not just spring out of American air without English and German influence any more than Newton's Laws sprang out of English air without Italian and German influence.
Science and technology has always been an undertaking as wide as the known world. Everyone starts with a "free ride."
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Since it is free to play on battle.net with a LEGAL copy, it's highly skeptical that it had another purpose, no matter the "disclaimer" that may be attached.
No matter your skepticism people really do just want to have private LAN parties, without connecting to the Internet at all even, and without "stealing" anybody's software to do it.
Please also note that it is Blizzard who will not allow the bnetd people to use their authentication process to prevent the use of illegal copies.
KFG
Damn, a hacker.
Managed to find the code key I taped to the bottom of the laptop, huh?
KFG
I'm afraid I do worse than that. I encrypt all of my text files with something called "Pig Latin."
The poor bastards in law enforcement are powerless against it, and I am evil, evil, evil for not living my life with an eye toward making it pathetically easy for any traffic cop to fully investigate me for anything, as any good PATRIOT should.
Muuuuuuuhahahahaha!
KFG
They already have collars for that and they work quite well, even having the capability of monitoring certain vital signs.
They solve a different problem than that faced by a pool lifeguard though.
KFG
Even if the code is bug free, omniscient and without vulnerability you are trusting one more thing as well:
That the code is of benefit to you. To whom is it without vulnerability?
KFG
You haven't done a lot of heart reate monitoring, have you? A person behaving normally around pool might have a heart rate of 50 bpm for an hour at a stretch, or go from 70 to 200 and back to 70 in a matter of minutes, or . . .
Heart rate varies radically. The only heart rate of interest that a safty monitor if this sort can convey is an arhythmia or no heart rate at all. Ideally you want to know about potential trouble long before that.
Relying on computers to detect "drowning" states seems a bit halfassed still.
This is why the system still relies on human observation and judgement.It does not replace the lifeguard. It is a tool of the lifeguard.
KFG
Why is it harder to park a car than unpark one?
Because there is only one state in the entire universe that counts as being parked. To park a car you must achieve the restricted state.
To unpark a car you need only achieve any other state.
The number of states a person not in trouble can be in is large. The number of states a person in trouble can be in is far smaller.
KFG
If you pay a lifeguard twice as much that does not confer on them the ability to pay attention to twice as much for twice as long.
You will find, if you try it out, that it is actually quite difficult to pay attention to a single, nonmoving, object for any long period of time. Giving equal attention to merely two moving objects is impossible.
People in hazardous jobs routinely lose their own lives simply because they are not capable of applying enough attention to save themselves.
Electronic sensors have their limitations as well, but tireless watching is not one of them.
KFG
. . .what's fair recompense. . .
Well, according the division of their, ummmmm, "Creative" writing dept. known colloquially as "Accounting" it costs about 49 bazillion dollars per seat to remove a virus.
Hoist by their own petard seems about right to me.
KFG
You're not new here, are you?
KFG
"Wow, it must have sucked to be an Inuit before "civilization" came along."
.they never had obesity problems until the rest of the world came along and started feeding them purified concentrated carbohydrate.
.
.lack of ketosis brought on by eating sugars. . .
The traditional Inuit diet is nothing like the Atkins diet. They do not eat steak. They eat animals, and good deal more vegetation them most people realize.
You should try living in a subsistance culture for at least a few months. It's quite the experience.
. .
What this got to do with wild rice and greens?
Has there been a single case of someone being hospitalized or killed by excessive ketones in the blood?
Sure. The old time frontiersmen even had a term for it, "Rabbit Death," because you were most likely to die from it by trying to subsist on rabbit. It can also be a problem in animal husbandry.
If we were all ice-dwelling Eskimos with nothing to eat but animal flesh. .
Are you? For that matter, neither are they.
. .
Ah yes, the fundamental slight of hand that the entire Atkins argument relies on.
I don't ever recall anyone suggesting that sugar cubes were a healthy diet, do you?
Carbohydrates don't mean "sugar cubes." Carbohydrates means "carrots" and "spinich."
KFG
I hope you've explained to them that it was only movie. Hollywood is always making shit like that up and getting the technical details wrong.
I real life you just rip off the head.
KFG
. . .a chef knows nothing compared to a dietician and nutritionist.
And these know nothing compared to a physiologist, the true scientists of diet.
Get the hence to the library and start watching Covert Baily's tapes. They're not only sound biological science, but very entertaining as well.
Atkins works as it thows your body into ketosis
Hepatitis worked for me. That doesn't mean I'd recommend it as a weight loss strategy. Simple aerobic exercise will increase ketosis in a low key, sustainable for life, "Times are Good" way.
Atkins "works" by inducing an "Oh my God, the crops have failed and we need to do anything to survive" way. It invokes the bodies emergency systems. These systems are inefficient and assume that when times get good again the body will have the time and strength to deal with the concordant waste products and damage.
If all you're interested in is losing fat, yeah, you can go for Atkins, but only until you've lost the fat, not as a "lifestyle." If you're interested in health and "Wellness," go for a bike ride instead.
KFG
Abandon the idea that baby food is somehow necessary for adult health (let alone the baby food of another species). That solves the price of milk problem.
.tracts of land, but have nothing to do with producing enough tomatoes for yourself, by yourself.
Start growing your own "Heritage" food. See the book "Sailing the Farm" for how this can be done on even a small sailboat, a living space far smaller and disadvantaged than even a metropolitan studio apartment. There are tons of newer books on container gardening.
If you've got even as little as 16 square feet of dirt, see the book "Square Foot Gardening."
You might well be surprised at how much you can produce from how little, all without using any of the modern industrial farming techniques.
It's a matter of scale. The modern industrial approach to farming may be needed to generate the largest profit (not food, profit) from huuuuuuge. .
KFG
Here in Nerf(tm) World we like to greatly exagerate risks that don't have to do with automobiles and deprecate the concordant benefits to the point of ignorance.
With regard to automobiles, of course, we do things the other way around, deprecating the risks and exagerating the benefits, which are mostly imagined in the first place.
KFG
Ok, but what are the cons?
KFG
Happiness.
KFG
No, but I can see it from here.
KFG
I'm an old person in . . .Schenectady.
KFG
Once upon a time when you picked up a phone you were pretty sure to get Watson on the other end.
Ahhh, the good old days.
Now the phone lines seem to be jammed with muggles talking about sex, the weather and shopping lists.
What happened?
KFG
I started with System/360.
KFG
If I write a Linux kernel module that is certainly my work, and protected by my copyright, but do you not think it would be a bit much to accuse Linus and Richard of taking a "free ride" if they use it?
KFG
I fail to see anything of particular interest in the observation, although Suzuki might well disagree with me.
As I've already posted I consider Suzuki a bit slow on the uptake. The point is obvious.
KFG
The Internet did not just spring out of American air without English and German influence any more than Newton's Laws sprang out of English air without Italian and German influence.
Science and technology has always been an undertaking as wide as the known world. Everyone starts with a "free ride."
KFG
I'm surprise you even know what the word foreigner means
Someone whose stuff we stole, added a widget to so we could claim it as "ours" and bitch about them getting the widget back for "free"?
KFG