Of course you are correct but as you might be interested to learn, the more sugar our food contains, the harder the diabetes becomes to regulate. Blood sugar levels are supposed to stay between 4-8 mmol/L and while we have quite the margin upwards before something acute happens, the chances of over-compensating when eating a meal rich in high-GI carbohydrates and then crashing and quite easily dying are huge.
Yes, we can eat as much sugar as we want, at least in theory. We shouldn't though. Cutting sugary and starchy foods gives even you non-diabetics huge health benefits, so why shouldn't we do it when it makes our "wetware malfunction" so much more managable?
My grandfather uses this joke but with a game piece (Ludo) in place of the aspirin. And honestly, I'd expect even my somewhat religious and rather proper grandfather to understand that keeping your knees together in no way stops you from having sexual intercourse..
Great, 2 of 2 who didn't get that my post was a joke..
Apparently I need to spell it out to you, so here goes.. My point is that an artist who only gets by because of expert advertising directed at kids shouldn't be allowed to make money. If your product isn't good enough to stand on it's own feet then the problem is yours, not the consumers.
How did you manage to not get that my post was intended as a joke..? Impressive!
Of course I agree that artists should have to work for money. What I am suggesting is that "artists" like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, who wouldn't actually make a damn cent if not for advertising directed at children and their parent's wallets, should be banned from ever doing anything remotely musical again. At least until they are capable of making something that can stand on it's own feet, which is the requirement for non-Disney artistry.
And that would be a bad thing how exactly? Less brainwashing of our youngsters, and very easy to bag'n'tag the freakoes who attend the latest Disney "pre-teen pop-queen" shows despite not having the kids there as an excuse. ^^
they call it "libraries", fucknuts, and the idea is to avoid as much DIY as possible.
Wait.. so all these years, I've been calling them libraries when the real name is "fucknuts"? Man, that makes a very strange kind of sense.. "Damnit! Something's wrong with the mswinsock fucknut again!".
Couldn't Google draw upon their huge repositories of language? For example, "Enjoy the loans" and "Enjoy the launch" might have both seemed like good options for the voice transcription software, but do a Google search for each of the phrases and the difference in hits might tip the translation towards the more sensible choice.
Similarly, from the perspective of our toilet, I can eat, and to translate the conversation reaches the end of a universal translator, the parties, to purchase a backup location to buy me a house helpful must.
That is on all seriousness one of the funnier things I have read in a long, long time! (Yes, I am tired)
I said "obviously" didn't I? Because it sure looks like it on my screen! =P
A bouncer should be wearing an outfit that clearly states he is in fact at work. He should also be sober and have enough professional training/experience to handle the situation, something I assume would pretty clearly set him apart from my mo..*COUGH* the drunktard angryface bitch with issues flailing and screaming at him.
While I do understand that a Government only holds power over you if you've broken the law and that we ought to pay attention to new laws and try to understand the true intentions of the lawmakers, I still think your argument is complete rubbish.
If someone managed to make me feel a loss as my "right" to ignore someone in dire need was taken away, that someone would have succeeded in also making me feel like the biggest asshole around.
Because my "right" to ignore someone being robbed, beaten or raped is right up there with my "right" to rob, beat and rape people. Infringing on my God-given freedom to do anything is just horrible and inhumane, not to mention a huge government conspiracy to very sneakily become a totalitarian dictatorship.
Don't most of these "Good Samaritan"-type laws specifically state that you have to take some form of action assuming your own life is not at risk? Of course, proving that you did in fact believe that your life was in danger is the lawyers job, but that isn't a flaw inherit in the law itself.
If you cannot argue without resorting to the Master suppression techniques, you should simply stay out of the discussion. Allow me to demonstrate...
Yes, allowing someone to die because you can't be arsed to help due to it conflicting with your need to express your stupid, anarchistic, "emo kid clique"-type principals and ideas of freedom should be as much a crime as shooting the person yourself.
Yes, free will is a basic human right. But then, what kind of human are you if you use the very free will your government works to protect to choose something as inhuman as not helping the victim of a violent crime? If you see an innocent woman getting beaten or raped and exercise your free will in choosing to ignore it, I'd argue that you aren't human at all and as such have no place blabbering on about human rights, as they clearly do not apply to you.
No, I am not a politician or a public speaker. The only suppression technique I feel I have a fair grip on is Ridicule, but that still leaves an argument that makes you look like an ass, and can't be rebutted in a way that doesn't just make you seem like even more of an ass.
So please be serious. Any decent person would call the cops if they witnessed a crime. Problem is, a lot of people aren't very decent at all, so they pass a law that tries to ensure that if your life is ever in danger, people (whether motivated by compassion or law) won't just turn a blind eye and leave you to your own devices.
Coming from Norway, the worlds best country to live in by pretty much any measure (not perfect, but at least we try), I'd like to change:
4) Provide completely free public education with regulations making sure everyone, no matter what their background, can get an education and a job they like.
..and append:
4.1) Provide completely free public health care and care for the elderly and infirm.
4.2) Keep the legal system sane and operative
I don't know why people disagree with me on this, but I gladly pay my taxes so I can live in a country that at least tries to make sure no one ever has to worry about cash flow should they get sick, where 10 years of education isn't just a right, it's a crime to prevent your kids from going to school, and the following 3 years of education (to become a craftsman or get the base for higher education) are free.
I'm not any braver than your average nerd but if I was somewhere where some guy was obviously getting physically abusive with a woman, I like to believe I'd step up even if I was guaranteed to get my lights thoroughly punched out. For some reason, I just find it.. well.. less wrong to see a man beat a man than a man beat a woman.
Perhaps wack the guy hard in the thigh with a bar stool or something equally disabilitating but relatively safe? =P
Owh, hahaha! Freudian slip I guess.. Of course I meant to write waist but I guess slim waste would at least be an indicator that she isn't a porn actress or some such. x)
We have yet to find a real way to change anyone's sexual attractions.
Quite wrong, actually. Castration renders a man lustless, as does any condition that stops testosterone production. No lust, no hornyness, no sexual fantasies popping up.. One can, of course, still have sex with the aid of Viagra and stuff like that, but I guess it wouldn't really be all that interesting to have sex if you're completely asexual.
It mentions that the first offense was of actual kids. That means it was real kiddie porn. Under those circumstances you should only need one castration to finish the job.
There fixed that for you.
Seriously. How do you think an otherwise perfectly decent person feels when he/she sees a child, and not just some skanky 15-year old but a child, and gets sexually aroused? I've seen interviews with pedophiles who actually search abroad to find someone willing to do a chemical/actual castration, so they don't constantly have to feel like monsters.
I mean, most people aren't born psychopaths and I bet not all that many are pedophile either, so the number of pedophiles who are actually dangerous should be pretty low. Give medical treatment to those that need/want it, and hunt and shoot/prosecute/lynch the rest. You know.. the dangerous child molesting psychopath/sociopath rapists.
Ok, mod me Flaimbait for suggesting medical treatment for a sexual orientation deviating from "the norm". No, I don't think gays should be "treated". Dendrophiles aren't hurting anyone. If, however, a pedophile wants to rid him/herself of their sexual urges instead of living their lives feeling like complete monsters, then be my guest and respect to you!
"Attracted to" is not the same as "sexually aroused by" (although the two obviously overlap a bit). What I am attracted to, i.e. my taste, what makes one girl absolutely gorgeous to me but merely pretty/hot to my mates, I cannot define but it sure isn't the size of her breasts or some other specific, easily measurable property.
What I am sexually aroused by on the other hand, is fairly easy to specify. At least two handfuls of nicely shaped, rounded boob. Slim waste, wide hips and a round, firm behind. Muscular, shapely thighs and ass. Full lips, heavy'ish makeup, long hair, high heels and the skill to not look like a clown when wearing them.
Those interested in the technical bits will. Not all problems are adequately solvable by following a step-by-step guide online, hell, most problems I'd actually need to look up are a fair bit to complex to write a simple instructable for (hence real books). Even the problems that can be solved easily by following other people's instructions will lead the potential geek to think about and perhaps research the hows and whys of the solution he/she just implemented.
The scenario was that the dad has asked the kid to fix the Internet connection. If the kid says he needs to go online using dad's phone, I'd think dad's password on the phone isn't such a huge hurdle to overcome, eh?
I have a smartphone, and I'll be damned if that even remotely reduces my need of a proper Internet connection (and thus router). I don't see your point.
How is this news? In an average day, excluding the 7.5 hours I spend in front of a computer at work, I still manage to pack in a lot of "media"-time.
TV: 5
Music/Audio: 1.5 - 2
Computer: 7
Video Games: 1
Print: <1 - 2 (I do reading stints, where I consume much more, but on average..)
Movies: 0.3
Of course, my multitasking factor is probably higher than these lame kids'. Laptop is always on, always on the table in front of me so I can chat, surf, perhaps program a little. The TV is for the most part on as well, except that part of the evening where the most interesting program is Oprah. I read on the bus to and from work while listening to music, and naturally "TV Games" pretty much has to overlap 100% with either "Computer" or "TV" (disregarding portables, which I don't own).
News? Hardly.News to the Slashdot crowd..? Definitely not. Scaremongering for technophobic parents? Yes.
Really? When I was prompted with that option, I thought to myself "Well, I read Slashdot at least a few days a week, it's a pretty good site with an above-average crowd of commenters.. I'll just leave the ads there so Slashdot can make at least a little money off me for the service they are providing."
To be honest, I really hadn't noticed any ads before I was given the option to disable them. Not because I use adblocker, but because they are fairly non-invasive and I'm not the malcontent type to looks for things to bitch, whine and be unhappy about.;)
I've had a reoccurring though for some time now. What if one had a PCIe card with some serious FPGA business on it in ones computer, with some sort of highspeed output. If I wanted a HD Tv-out I'd download the FPGA configuration, driver and get the correct cable/converter. If I wanted to use it for USB 3, I'd download configuration and driver files for that.
What I'm saying is, please inform me of the inherit weaknesses of this idea. =P Without much actual knowledge of FPGAs, the idea itself seems pretty cool. Couldn't f.ex. media de/recoding be offloaded to such a card, if properly configured/programmed?
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Of course you are correct but as you might be interested to learn, the more sugar our food contains, the harder the diabetes becomes to regulate. Blood sugar levels are supposed to stay between 4-8 mmol/L and while we have quite the margin upwards before something acute happens, the chances of over-compensating when eating a meal rich in high-GI carbohydrates and then crashing and quite easily dying are huge.
Yes, we can eat as much sugar as we want, at least in theory. We shouldn't though. Cutting sugary and starchy foods gives even you non-diabetics huge health benefits, so why shouldn't we do it when it makes our "wetware malfunction" so much more managable?
My grandfather uses this joke but with a game piece (Ludo) in place of the aspirin. And honestly, I'd expect even my somewhat religious and rather proper grandfather to understand that keeping your knees together in no way stops you from having sexual intercourse..
Great, 2 of 2 who didn't get that my post was a joke..
Apparently I need to spell it out to you, so here goes.. My point is that an artist who only gets by because of expert advertising directed at kids shouldn't be allowed to make money. If your product isn't good enough to stand on it's own feet then the problem is yours, not the consumers.
How did you manage to not get that my post was intended as a joke..? Impressive!
Of course I agree that artists should have to work for money. What I am suggesting is that "artists" like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, who wouldn't actually make a damn cent if not for advertising directed at children and their parent's wallets, should be banned from ever doing anything remotely musical again. At least until they are capable of making something that can stand on it's own feet, which is the requirement for non-Disney artistry.
And that would be a bad thing how exactly? Less brainwashing of our youngsters, and very easy to bag'n'tag the freakoes who attend the latest Disney "pre-teen pop-queen" shows despite not having the kids there as an excuse. ^^
they call it "libraries", fucknuts, and the idea is to avoid as much DIY as possible.
Wait.. so all these years, I've been calling them libraries when the real name is "fucknuts"? Man, that makes a very strange kind of sense.. "Damnit! Something's wrong with the mswinsock fucknut again!".
Couldn't Google draw upon their huge repositories of language? For example, "Enjoy the loans" and "Enjoy the launch" might have both seemed like good options for the voice transcription software, but do a Google search for each of the phrases and the difference in hits might tip the translation towards the more sensible choice.
I live in the midwest and my friends (at least in the case of these voicemails) are intelligent and well spoken.
Aaahahaha, mod this guy funny! ^^
Similarly, from the perspective of our toilet, I can eat, and to translate the conversation reaches the end of a universal translator, the parties, to purchase a backup location to buy me a house helpful must.
That is on all seriousness one of the funnier things I have read in a long, long time! (Yes, I am tired)
I said "obviously" didn't I? Because it sure looks like it on my screen! =P
A bouncer should be wearing an outfit that clearly states he is in fact at work. He should also be sober and have enough professional training/experience to handle the situation, something I assume would pretty clearly set him apart from my mo..*COUGH* the drunktard angryface bitch with issues flailing and screaming at him.
While I do understand that a Government only holds power over you if you've broken the law and that we ought to pay attention to new laws and try to understand the true intentions of the lawmakers, I still think your argument is complete rubbish.
If someone managed to make me feel a loss as my "right" to ignore someone in dire need was taken away, that someone would have succeeded in also making me feel like the biggest asshole around.
Because my "right" to ignore someone being robbed, beaten or raped is right up there with my "right" to rob, beat and rape people. Infringing on my God-given freedom to do anything is just horrible and inhumane, not to mention a huge government conspiracy to very sneakily become a totalitarian dictatorship.
Don't most of these "Good Samaritan"-type laws specifically state that you have to take some form of action assuming your own life is not at risk? Of course, proving that you did in fact believe that your life was in danger is the lawyers job, but that isn't a flaw inherit in the law itself.
If you cannot argue without resorting to the Master suppression techniques, you should simply stay out of the discussion. Allow me to demonstrate...
Yes, allowing someone to die because you can't be arsed to help due to it conflicting with your need to express your stupid, anarchistic, "emo kid clique"-type principals and ideas of freedom should be as much a crime as shooting the person yourself.
Yes, free will is a basic human right. But then, what kind of human are you if you use the very free will your government works to protect to choose something as inhuman as not helping the victim of a violent crime? If you see an innocent woman getting beaten or raped and exercise your free will in choosing to ignore it, I'd argue that you aren't human at all and as such have no place blabbering on about human rights, as they clearly do not apply to you.
No, I am not a politician or a public speaker. The only suppression technique I feel I have a fair grip on is Ridicule, but that still leaves an argument that makes you look like an ass, and can't be rebutted in a way that doesn't just make you seem like even more of an ass.
So please be serious. Any decent person would call the cops if they witnessed a crime. Problem is, a lot of people aren't very decent at all, so they pass a law that tries to ensure that if your life is ever in danger, people (whether motivated by compassion or law) won't just turn a blind eye and leave you to your own devices.
Coming from Norway, the worlds best country to live in by pretty much any measure (not perfect, but at least we try), I'd like to change:
4) Provide completely free public education with regulations making sure everyone, no matter what their background, can get an education and a job they like.
..and append:
4.1) Provide completely free public health care and care for the elderly and infirm.
4.2) Keep the legal system sane and operative
I don't know why people disagree with me on this, but I gladly pay my taxes so I can live in a country that at least tries to make sure no one ever has to worry about cash flow should they get sick, where 10 years of education isn't just a right, it's a crime to prevent your kids from going to school, and the following 3 years of education (to become a craftsman or get the base for higher education) are free.
I'm not any braver than your average nerd but if I was somewhere where some guy was obviously getting physically abusive with a woman, I like to believe I'd step up even if I was guaranteed to get my lights thoroughly punched out. For some reason, I just find it.. well.. less wrong to see a man beat a man than a man beat a woman.
Perhaps wack the guy hard in the thigh with a bar stool or something equally disabilitating but relatively safe? =P
Owh, hahaha! Freudian slip I guess.. Of course I meant to write waist but I guess slim waste would at least be an indicator that she isn't a porn actress or some such. x)
We have yet to find a real way to change anyone's sexual attractions.
Quite wrong, actually. Castration renders a man lustless, as does any condition that stops testosterone production. No lust, no hornyness, no sexual fantasies popping up.. One can, of course, still have sex with the aid of Viagra and stuff like that, but I guess it wouldn't really be all that interesting to have sex if you're completely asexual.
It mentions that the first offense was of actual kids. That means it was real kiddie porn. Under those circumstances you should only need one castration to finish the job.
There fixed that for you.
Seriously. How do you think an otherwise perfectly decent person feels when he/she sees a child, and not just some skanky 15-year old but a child, and gets sexually aroused? I've seen interviews with pedophiles who actually search abroad to find someone willing to do a chemical/actual castration, so they don't constantly have to feel like monsters.
I mean, most people aren't born psychopaths and I bet not all that many are pedophile either, so the number of pedophiles who are actually dangerous should be pretty low. Give medical treatment to those that need/want it, and hunt and shoot/prosecute/lynch the rest. You know.. the dangerous child molesting psychopath/sociopath rapists.
Ok, mod me Flaimbait for suggesting medical treatment for a sexual orientation deviating from "the norm". No, I don't think gays should be "treated". Dendrophiles aren't hurting anyone. If, however, a pedophile wants to rid him/herself of their sexual urges instead of living their lives feeling like complete monsters, then be my guest and respect to you!
"Attracted to" is not the same as "sexually aroused by" (although the two obviously overlap a bit). What I am attracted to, i.e. my taste, what makes one girl absolutely gorgeous to me but merely pretty/hot to my mates, I cannot define but it sure isn't the size of her breasts or some other specific, easily measurable property.
What I am sexually aroused by on the other hand, is fairly easy to specify. At least two handfuls of nicely shaped, rounded boob. Slim waste, wide hips and a round, firm behind. Muscular, shapely thighs and ass. Full lips, heavy'ish makeup, long hair, high heels and the skill to not look like a clown when wearing them.
Those interested in the technical bits will. Not all problems are adequately solvable by following a step-by-step guide online, hell, most problems I'd actually need to look up are a fair bit to complex to write a simple instructable for (hence real books). Even the problems that can be solved easily by following other people's instructions will lead the potential geek to think about and perhaps research the hows and whys of the solution he/she just implemented.
The scenario was that the dad has asked the kid to fix the Internet connection. If the kid says he needs to go online using dad's phone, I'd think dad's password on the phone isn't such a huge hurdle to overcome, eh?
I have a smartphone, and I'll be damned if that even remotely reduces my need of a proper Internet connection (and thus router). I don't see your point.
How is this news? In an average day, excluding the 7.5 hours I spend in front of a computer at work, I still manage to pack in a lot of "media"-time.
TV: 5
Music/Audio: 1.5 - 2
Computer: 7
Video Games: 1
Print: <1 - 2 (I do reading stints, where I consume much more, but on average..)
Movies: 0.3
Of course, my multitasking factor is probably higher than these lame kids'. Laptop is always on, always on the table in front of me so I can chat, surf, perhaps program a little. The TV is for the most part on as well, except that part of the evening where the most interesting program is Oprah. I read on the bus to and from work while listening to music, and naturally "TV Games" pretty much has to overlap 100% with either "Computer" or "TV" (disregarding portables, which I don't own).
News? Hardly.News to the Slashdot crowd..? Definitely not. Scaremongering for technophobic parents? Yes.
Really? When I was prompted with that option, I thought to myself "Well, I read Slashdot at least a few days a week, it's a pretty good site with an above-average crowd of commenters.. I'll just leave the ads there so Slashdot can make at least a little money off me for the service they are providing."
To be honest, I really hadn't noticed any ads before I was given the option to disable them. Not because I use adblocker, but because they are fairly non-invasive and I'm not the malcontent type to looks for things to bitch, whine and be unhappy about. ;)
Aaaaw, damn! I just lost the Game!
I've had a reoccurring though for some time now. What if one had a PCIe card with some serious FPGA business on it in ones computer, with some sort of highspeed output. If I wanted a HD Tv-out I'd download the FPGA configuration, driver and get the correct cable/converter. If I wanted to use it for USB 3, I'd download configuration and driver files for that.
What I'm saying is, please inform me of the inherit weaknesses of this idea. =P Without much actual knowledge of FPGAs, the idea itself seems pretty cool. Couldn't f.ex. media de/recoding be offloaded to such a card, if properly configured/programmed?