THIS! Over and over this! Nutrition and weightloss are fields in which science is completely ignored. Read Gary Taub's "Good Calories Bad Calories". He painstakingly outlines study after study where the "scientists" blatantly ignore results...instead to say "we are still certain it works THIS way...despite the evidence we just generated to the contrary". This crap has been going on for like 50+ years.
I have literally lost nearly 100lbs while consuming 3000+ calories of FAT per day! No significant increase in physical activity. This after years of trying different methods suggested by my doctors....who noted that they had crap success rates.
Really...it is WHAT you eat. And you are being told to eat the wrong things.
Gonna play devil's advocate here: Why should streaming media users give a crap about DRM? Especially if it allowed services to relax a bit about caching, or device restrictions.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Except that your doctor or nutritionist barely knows anything about it. The doctor took a couple crappy classes to satisfy his credit requirements, then never looked at nutrition again. Your nutritionist was fed a bunch of government bullshit classes that push big agro-business interests. Seriously. Diabetic? The government warns that you not miss your seven servings of grain...and don't forget the fruit!
Pay attention to the doctors who are actually interested, and doing real research. Stephen Phinny PhD is a good place to start.
Just giving you a hard time man. I know the majority of the health industry considers anything under 200g to be "low". Just happens to be ten times more than where I set the bar.:)
Change the funding model. Enrollment vs course completion. Have some sort of independant auditing to make sure they are not just rubber-stamping "passed" to masses of kids just to keep that cash flowing. Don't just yank funding away from high failure rate schools...identify and address the problem.
What is this obcession with attendance? Who gives a crap if the student is there or not? If a minor misses role call, the faculty calls and tells the registered contact. The parent or guardian deals with it if necessary. If you are learning the material and are capable of passing the tests...stay the fuck home for all I care. This is something that has always bothered me. Oh, you score in the top 1% of the class on the tests....but you missed 10 days....you fail. I have the same problem with homework. Oh, you demonstrate mastery of the subject, but you didn't do this huge mass of pointless homework....you fail.
Even in college they pull this crap.
If it were easy for their customers to simply download and save all the movies they're interested in over the space of a month, and then unsubscribe for a few months until the next time they see movies they're interested in, then the entire model would break down - less revenues received, and more money spent on bandwidth per month.
That theory is already debunked. If it were true, Netflix and all the other streaming services would have already failed. Since it is tremendously simple to just hop on over to TPB and grab whatever you want in whatever quality you want it in.
People want to pay a reasonable price to have this stuff available legally.
Am I the only one who finds it horrific to use intense psychological tactics like this in such a case? What sort of permanent damage might be caused by long term isolation like this? For what purpose? Is there some loss of life or other high impact event they hope to prevent by sweating information out of this guy?
Geez.
After renting for 30 years you have accomplished nothing. You own nothing. The money is gone. What are you going to do when you are too old and infirm to afford that $320 monthly payment? Buying a house is investing in your own financial future. In the end you will have a tangible asset.
I come from a poor family. My brother is still poor (despite my attempts to help him). Even when not working and living primarily on government benefits he is capable of finding the money to party. This seems to be common amongst the poor. $300 for a laptop wouldn't be a big problem if the proper priorities were in place and some saving was done.
But I suppose the inability to do those things is at least in part related to the reason they are poor in the first place.
I for one would be willing to pay for physical copies of most anime assuming that two conditions were met: 1. The price must be reasonable. I WILL NOT pay $30 for a DVD with 5 episodes of a 350+ episode series. Just not happening. 2. The translation quality needs to increase. Its sad when a group of people on the internet translating these things for free can provide better quality than a large company with paid translators.
I pay for Crunchyroll because its cheap and convenient. The translations are pretty crappy, but simulcasts are nice.
I've jumped on the crunchyroll bandwagon, although I really wish they would put a little more effort into translation. Sad that a legitimate company with paid translators produces such mediocre translations when a small group of hobbyists working for fun do so much better. They are good enough that I have more or less stopped torrenting anime though. Now they just need s decent J-drama selection.
I'd love to be able to do this with shows like Once Upon a Time, and Grimm....but I refuse to pay to watch Hulu's commercials.
In addition, the estimated costs have got to be a factor of 10 too optimistic. 60 billion dollars? For something constructed of tens of thousands of miles of superconducting cable and a structure made to aerospace engineering tolerances that is 1000 miles long? Even 600 billion sounds optimistic for something that large.
Not to mention that the idea is that the entire tube holds a vacuum, which buoys it up, and it's held DOWN with tethers. How do you even construct that? There are no cranes to LEO. Even if you put them in place, and empty out the gas slowly so that it rises (without coming to a sudden stop at the end that breaks a tether), each segment is probably hundreds of pounds of metal. Imagine being miles in the air, wrestling with an enormous hunk of metal that's tied to the earth in what you can only hope is the right position, in order to get the end to line up with the last piece...
Well, okay, it sounds like a heck of an exciting job. But it also sounds like it could go wrong so terribly easily...
I don't think you quite understood this. the tube is not elevated because of the vac. Its elevated by magnetic levitation. the vac is to avoid all the problems associated with going 25,000mph inside a tube filled with air.
What happens to my heating bill when everyone suddenly decides to use CNG for transportation? Do we have anything near the kind of production to maintain the current low cost of CNG, or would we suddenly see CNG going for comparable prices to gasoline?
So, let me see if I understand this. The American people should grovel at the feet of their government...begging for liberties like scraps from a dinner table. Those who express dissatisfaction with that arrangement should be "discouraged" from such expressions....as they are dangerous.
Whats with the draconian data policies cropping up everywhere now? Even the company I work for is requiring HD destruction as opposed to just a decent low level formatting.
Is there at least a good reason in this case?
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THIS! Over and over this! Nutrition and weightloss are fields in which science is completely ignored. Read Gary Taub's "Good Calories Bad Calories". He painstakingly outlines study after study where the "scientists" blatantly ignore results...instead to say "we are still certain it works THIS way...despite the evidence we just generated to the contrary". This crap has been going on for like 50+ years. I have literally lost nearly 100lbs while consuming 3000+ calories of FAT per day! No significant increase in physical activity. This after years of trying different methods suggested by my doctors....who noted that they had crap success rates. Really...it is WHAT you eat. And you are being told to eat the wrong things.
Gonna play devil's advocate here: Why should streaming media users give a crap about DRM? Especially if it allowed services to relax a bit about caching, or device restrictions.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Except that your doctor or nutritionist barely knows anything about it. The doctor took a couple crappy classes to satisfy his credit requirements, then never looked at nutrition again. Your nutritionist was fed a bunch of government bullshit classes that push big agro-business interests. Seriously. Diabetic? The government warns that you not miss your seven servings of grain...and don't forget the fruit! Pay attention to the doctors who are actually interested, and doing real research. Stephen Phinny PhD is a good place to start.
Also, completely the wrong way to look at it. I'm down 80lbs without significantly lowering my caloric intake. What you eat makes all the difference.
Just giving you a hard time man. I know the majority of the health industry considers anything under 200g to be "low". Just happens to be ten times more than where I set the bar. :)
In what world is 150g considered low? Long live KETO! 80lbs gone so far!
I now have the Space Battleship Yamato theme stuck in my head.
I work for one of the American Hitachi divisions. God help me if they decide to force them on us.
Change the funding model. Enrollment vs course completion. Have some sort of independant auditing to make sure they are not just rubber-stamping "passed" to masses of kids just to keep that cash flowing. Don't just yank funding away from high failure rate schools...identify and address the problem.
What is this obcession with attendance? Who gives a crap if the student is there or not? If a minor misses role call, the faculty calls and tells the registered contact. The parent or guardian deals with it if necessary. If you are learning the material and are capable of passing the tests...stay the fuck home for all I care. This is something that has always bothered me. Oh, you score in the top 1% of the class on the tests....but you missed 10 days....you fail. I have the same problem with homework. Oh, you demonstrate mastery of the subject, but you didn't do this huge mass of pointless homework....you fail. Even in college they pull this crap.
If it were easy for their customers to simply download and save all the movies they're interested in over the space of a month, and then unsubscribe for a few months until the next time they see movies they're interested in, then the entire model would break down - less revenues received, and more money spent on bandwidth per month.
That theory is already debunked. If it were true, Netflix and all the other streaming services would have already failed. Since it is tremendously simple to just hop on over to TPB and grab whatever you want in whatever quality you want it in. People want to pay a reasonable price to have this stuff available legally.
I'm certain that most slashdotters will have no problem "turning them off".
"fire-sharing" I am intrigued by your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Am I the only one who finds it horrific to use intense psychological tactics like this in such a case? What sort of permanent damage might be caused by long term isolation like this? For what purpose? Is there some loss of life or other high impact event they hope to prevent by sweating information out of this guy? Geez.
After renting for 30 years you have accomplished nothing. You own nothing. The money is gone. What are you going to do when you are too old and infirm to afford that $320 monthly payment? Buying a house is investing in your own financial future. In the end you will have a tangible asset.
I come from a poor family. My brother is still poor (despite my attempts to help him). Even when not working and living primarily on government benefits he is capable of finding the money to party. This seems to be common amongst the poor. $300 for a laptop wouldn't be a big problem if the proper priorities were in place and some saving was done. But I suppose the inability to do those things is at least in part related to the reason they are poor in the first place.
I will take death over an 8'x6' room.
That's the size of my cubicle you insensitive CLOD!
Dude! Your cubicle is huge! Envy^3.
I for one would be willing to pay for physical copies of most anime assuming that two conditions were met: 1. The price must be reasonable. I WILL NOT pay $30 for a DVD with 5 episodes of a 350+ episode series. Just not happening. 2. The translation quality needs to increase. Its sad when a group of people on the internet translating these things for free can provide better quality than a large company with paid translators. I pay for Crunchyroll because its cheap and convenient. The translations are pretty crappy, but simulcasts are nice.
I've jumped on the crunchyroll bandwagon, although I really wish they would put a little more effort into translation. Sad that a legitimate company with paid translators produces such mediocre translations when a small group of hobbyists working for fun do so much better. They are good enough that I have more or less stopped torrenting anime though. Now they just need s decent J-drama selection. I'd love to be able to do this with shows like Once Upon a Time, and Grimm....but I refuse to pay to watch Hulu's commercials.
Its a wonderful day in the neighborhood....
In addition, the estimated costs have got to be a factor of 10 too optimistic. 60 billion dollars? For something constructed of tens of thousands of miles of superconducting cable and a structure made to aerospace engineering tolerances that is 1000 miles long? Even 600 billion sounds optimistic for something that large.
Not to mention that the idea is that the entire tube holds a vacuum, which buoys it up, and it's held DOWN with tethers. How do you even construct that? There are no cranes to LEO. Even if you put them in place, and empty out the gas slowly so that it rises (without coming to a sudden stop at the end that breaks a tether), each segment is probably hundreds of pounds of metal. Imagine being miles in the air, wrestling with an enormous hunk of metal that's tied to the earth in what you can only hope is the right position, in order to get the end to line up with the last piece...
Well, okay, it sounds like a heck of an exciting job. But it also sounds like it could go wrong so terribly easily...
I don't think you quite understood this. the tube is not elevated because of the vac. Its elevated by magnetic levitation. the vac is to avoid all the problems associated with going 25,000mph inside a tube filled with air.
What happens to my heating bill when everyone suddenly decides to use CNG for transportation? Do we have anything near the kind of production to maintain the current low cost of CNG, or would we suddenly see CNG going for comparable prices to gasoline?
So, let me see if I understand this. The American people should grovel at the feet of their government...begging for liberties like scraps from a dinner table. Those who express dissatisfaction with that arrangement should be "discouraged" from such expressions....as they are dangerous.
Whats with the draconian data policies cropping up everywhere now? Even the company I work for is requiring HD destruction as opposed to just a decent low level formatting. Is there at least a good reason in this case?