You're all assuming that a certain mass of body fat will hold a certain number of calories, so eating few calories -> burning up reserves -> weight loss.
That's dumb: we all know that water = 0 cal, fat = lotsa cals.
So if the way a person stores energy changes from very fatty body mass to very watery body mass, of course one can at the same time eat up one's calory reserves AND gain weight by stocking up on water.
I agree with your definition of liberals vs conservatives, but I'm not sure that dichotomy maps directly to left/right. To me, left-leaning people are more concerned with limiting inequalities (and trust the government to do so) while right-leaning people are more concerned with maximizing overall well-being (and trust the invisible hand to do so).
I think you can actually have left-wing conservatives et right-wing liberals, as well as left-wing liberals and right-wing conservatives. At least in Europe, where left-leaning policies are much more persasive and established than in the US, so can be deemed 'conservative'.
I'm struggling with two areas where one can be 'liberal' or 'conservative': the economic one, and the social (moral, cultural, religious...) one. It boggles my mind to see how the right advocates economic freedom, while pushing for a social status-quo, while the left does the reverse.
1- How well does it work ? In my experience, translators and export filters are never that great. So even a translator is not enough, it has to be a GOOD translator.
2- More generally, how well does OpenDoc travel from one program to another, and from one platform to another ? We all know.doc is not very good at maintaining layout across platforms / versions / even PCs... is OpenDoc any better ?
The way Dell PCs are delivered full of crapware, you pretty much HAVE to reinstall Windows from scratch. And don't forget to order the OS CDs to be able to do that. And yes, those cost extra.
I'm not paying for compressed music, especially, I'm not paying full price for compressed music. I'd rather compress it myself if and when I went to travel with it.
I'm still not sold on raid at all, especially on desktops and small servers: - it does NOT eliminate the need for backups - the performance gains are not noticeable except in the most extreme cases, and even then, RAID is not cost-efficient compared to RAM for caching, except special cases (RAM already maxed out, extremelly heavy sequential data access...) - RAID hardware / firmware / software is nowhere near as reliable as as plain old PATA/SATA/SCSI, which is something of a scandal - Raid is rarely cost efficient, compared to putting your dollars into more servers, more RAM
I think RAID is a way to cover one's ass, by displacing resposability for crashes on to the raid vendor, but IRL I keep hearing horror stories.
I second that, power suplies especially have a very strong impact on a PC's, and especially its HD's life. Power supplies are then single most important component of a PC, reliability wise: crappy ones tend to fail and/or fry your components, especially if your mains if not too good.
I have ONE failed HD currently at my place, out of about 15 of various ages (oldest ones is 3gigs), and that failed HD is my lone WD drive. So I have very strong statistical evidence that WD is crap:-p. I personnally buy Seagate since none has yet failed on me... and, joking aside, that WD was my first in a long time, I bought it because it was a tad cheaper than seagate, and it failed really quickly, inside 6 months IIRC.
Well, they also, in the same time period - changed their political system - introduced the internet - were confronted with refugees and guerillas from neighbouring Nepal or Tibet - opened up their economy a bit
and that's what I read in the 20 most recent lines in wikipedia. One could argue as validly as you do that the internet causes violence. So yes, plenty other things have changed, apart from TV violence.
Which of course does not adress other issues that hinder conclusion-jumping such as - no statistics on what crime was before (surprise, their government is telling us they were leaving in a paradise with no crime, no corruption... before all those evil foreign influences) - no analysis on whether crime is simple mimicry of TV violence (as you contend), or due to other causes such as envy after seeing other countries' material wealth, culture shock, disaffection with the socio-political system...
I agree partially, about the strange values of a system that agrees with showing extreme violence but not with what is, or should be, above all an act of love, or even with showing bodies au naturel. On the last episode of NCIS, there was a fully naked body opened up on the autopsy slab, with the genitalia as always hidden by a bright light, but internal organs fully on display through a VERY large chest opening. The reverse would have been of better taste, in my opinion.
The US are also one of the, if not THE, biggest maker, distributor, and buyer of porn.
As I see it, the problem with the US and sex is more that it's marginalized and secluded in a genre where sex is shown in its less human, enriching, positive light. It's kind of a negative feedback loop: all sex is porn, porn is bad, so sex is bad. Sex as love is out of the picture (bad pun).
The biggest problem is that adlosecents looking for information on the low-level mechanics of sex and on the higher-level perspective about sex only have the porn industry to turn to. That can't be good. And I don't think parents or (insert your religious text of choice here) can fill that gap.
I'd side with Amazon on that one for a couple of reasons at least:
1- Amazon is selling at least two books that advocate stuff much worse that animals being made to hurt each other : murder, rape, slavery... but since these two books are the Quran and the Bible, there's very little chance that they'll get banned. Why ?
2- We in France are in the middle of a high-visibility court case, with Islamic organizations suing a newspaper that printed caricatures of their Prophet. I undertsand that lawsuit is a good opportunity to discuss worthwhile issues (dont equate islam with terrorism, backwardness...), but still, I'm uncomfortable with that attempt at censorship, and I don't think that suing is conveying a very positive image.
If what Amazon is selling is legal, they can sell it. They SHOULD sell it. If you don't like what it describes/advertizes, vote, and get the law changed to make it illegal. That's what democracy is about, I think.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ is Apple's main page about bootcamp. It contains a detailed description of the product, and instructions about how to install it. There is NOTHING on that page about having to do a backup, or recommending to do a backup, nor, of course, about how to actually do the backup.
Actually the fact that Bootcamp is beta software is really de-emphasized on that web page. Clearly Apple's marketing department is pushing bootcamp heavily.
So what do you expect ? Dumb people don't even read the instructions, and do no backups. Intelligent people read the instructions, and do no backups. Most geeks are overconfident, and do no backups. Intelligent geeks (a small minority;-) ) DO a backup.
I think the mess is mainly Apple's fault. They should
1- Emphasize more that Boot Camp is BETA software 2- Include the recommendation to do a backup in their install instructions, with a link to a detailed walkthrough 3- Ideally, make that backup an integral part of the install program
Computer companies have to stop assuming all their users are geeks, or that they have the right to make us take risks with our data for their marketing convenience.
I'm disappointed at Apple for that one. Apple has historically been a lot less bad than other OS makers;-). Is the Wintel spirit already contaminating them ?
" This isn't a technical issue, it is pure politics, it is about protecting jobs, income, welfare and everything else that a government has to do for its constituents."
Mmmmm.... you mean the jobs of all those OS / Office Apps /... companies that Europe has... such as.... such as ????
Please, help me figure it out, so that I don't end up thinking you're feeding us boilerplate anti-europe crap.
I'm in IT, and when I look at the IT these space wonders use, I have to hold back a laugh. Is it any different in other fields ?
I keep hearing about all those technologies that trickled down from NASA to us regular guys. Since this couldn't possibly come from the NASA spin machine, would anyone care to enlighten me about which technologies are alluded to here ?
No, what you owned before the wedding doesn't accrue to the community.
Even more, when a spouse inherits something during the matrimony, it is counted as PERSONAL, as opposed to communal, goods, because the inherent right to that property existed before the matrimony. This is kind of unwieldy because if you inherit money, which you then use towards buying a communal home, you have to make very clear that, say, 50% of the home purchase was funded with your own inherited money, and the rest by the communal money, so in case of a divorce you own 75% of the house vs your spouse's 25%.
...at least in France, where you can choose several marriages type, one being "communal" where all money and belongings gained during the duration of the marriage do belong equally to both, BUT another type is "separate", where nothing is shared, ie both money and goods are attributed to one person only. in-between arrangements are possible if you have a good lawyer and an tax expert on hand.
My understanding, and that of the majority I'm sure, is that the fiscal advantages of marriage are to compensate for the cost of raising children, and the legal guarantees linked to marriage to prevent one spouse for bieng left in the lurch in case of the death or departure of the other.
1- Who judges if I'm doing right or wrong ? If it's the church, an activist group (healthy living, political correctness, environmentalists,....), I'm sure I'm doing a bunch of things wrong in their eyes
2- How does Society find the facts about the rightness or wrongness of my behaviour ? If it only takes the whim of a bureaucrat trying to boost his numbers, or of a politician trying to look tough for the next election, or of a pissed-off ex to condemn me, I am sure going to miss due process...
MMmmmm just one word of caution: for the last presidential election (which are two-round like you described in France), the 2 candidates to make it to the second round were Chirac and the far right Jean-Marie Le Pen (National Front), because the left's votes got spread over a lot of candidates, from Communists to Greens to several flavours of Socialists...
The outcome of that first round was a big surprise, and disapointment, to all the lefties. All moderates, from left or right, were left with no other choice than to vote or Chirac, who carried the second round with around 80%.
So, using the first round to vote for the candidate you like best, and waiting for the second to "vote useful" and make a compromise for your least-hated candidate, sometimes doesn't work.
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How can they make such a bold claim with no info on fertility rates ??? 130/year is a static figure, methinks it grows, maybe even exponentially
You're all assuming that a certain mass of body fat will hold a certain number of calories, so eating few calories -> burning up reserves -> weight loss.
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That's dumb: we all know that water = 0 cal, fat = lotsa cals.
So if the way a person stores energy changes from very fatty body mass to very watery body mass, of course one can at the same time eat up one's calory reserves AND gain weight by stocking up on water.
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I agree with your definition of liberals vs conservatives, but I'm not sure that dichotomy maps directly to left/right. To me, left-leaning people are more concerned with limiting inequalities (and trust the government to do so) while right-leaning people are more concerned with maximizing overall well-being (and trust the invisible hand to do so).
I think you can actually have left-wing conservatives et right-wing liberals, as well as left-wing liberals and right-wing conservatives. At least in Europe, where left-leaning policies are much more persasive and established than in the US, so can be deemed 'conservative'.
I'm struggling with two areas where one can be 'liberal' or 'conservative': the economic one, and the social (moral, cultural, religious...) one. It boggles my mind to see how the right advocates economic freedom, while pushing for a social status-quo, while the left does the reverse.
Oh well...
1- How well does it work ? In my experience, translators and export filters are never that great. So even a translator is not enough, it has to be a GOOD translator.
.doc is not very good at maintaining layout across platforms / versions / even PCs... is OpenDoc any better ?
2- More generally, how well does OpenDoc travel from one program to another, and from one platform to another ? We all know
I beg to differ.
The way Dell PCs are delivered full of crapware, you pretty much HAVE to reinstall Windows from scratch. And don't forget to order the OS CDs to be able to do that. And yes, those cost extra.
These guys have chosen.
FLAC.
I'm not paying for compressed music, especially, I'm not paying full price for compressed music. I'd rather compress it myself if and when I went to travel with it.
I'm still not sold on raid at all, especially on desktops and small servers:
- it does NOT eliminate the need for backups
- the performance gains are not noticeable except in the most extreme cases, and even then, RAID is not cost-efficient compared to RAM for caching, except special cases (RAM already maxed out, extremelly heavy sequential data access...)
- RAID hardware / firmware / software is nowhere near as reliable as as plain old PATA/SATA/SCSI, which is something of a scandal
- Raid is rarely cost efficient, compared to putting your dollars into more servers, more RAM
I think RAID is a way to cover one's ass, by displacing resposability for crashes on to the raid vendor, but IRL I keep hearing horror stories.
I second that, power suplies especially have a very strong impact on a PC's, and especially its HD's life. Power supplies are then single most important component of a PC, reliability wise: crappy ones tend to fail and/or fry your components, especially if your mains if not too good.
I have ONE failed HD currently at my place, out of about 15 of various ages (oldest ones is 3gigs), and that failed HD is my lone WD drive. So I have very strong statistical evidence that WD is crap :-p. I personnally buy Seagate since none has yet failed on me... and, joking aside, that WD was my first in a long time, I bought it because it was a tad cheaper than seagate, and it failed really quickly, inside 6 months IIRC.
Well, they also, in the same time period
- changed their political system
- introduced the internet
- were confronted with refugees and guerillas from neighbouring Nepal or Tibet
- opened up their economy a bit
and that's what I read in the 20 most recent lines in wikipedia. One could argue as validly as you do that the internet causes violence. So yes, plenty other things have changed, apart from TV violence.
Which of course does not adress other issues that hinder conclusion-jumping such as
- no statistics on what crime was before (surprise, their government is telling us they were leaving in a paradise with no crime, no corruption... before all those evil foreign influences)
- no analysis on whether crime is simple mimicry of TV violence (as you contend), or due to other causes such as envy after seeing other countries' material wealth, culture shock, disaffection with the socio-political system...
I rest my case
http://imdb.com/title/tt0040746/ (almost)
been there ...
I agree partially, about the strange values of a system that agrees with showing extreme violence but not with what is, or should be, above all an act of love, or even with showing bodies au naturel. On the last episode of NCIS, there was a fully naked body opened up on the autopsy slab, with the genitalia as always hidden by a bright light, but internal organs fully on display through a VERY large chest opening. The reverse would have been of better taste, in my opinion.
The US are also one of the, if not THE, biggest maker, distributor, and buyer of porn.
As I see it, the problem with the US and sex is more that it's marginalized and secluded in a genre where sex is shown in its less human, enriching, positive light. It's kind of a negative feedback loop: all sex is porn, porn is bad, so sex is bad. Sex as love is out of the picture (bad pun).
The biggest problem is that adlosecents looking for information on the low-level mechanics of sex and on the higher-level perspective about sex only have the porn industry to turn to. That can't be good. And I don't think parents or (insert your religious text of choice here) can fill that gap.
I'd side with Amazon on that one for a couple of reasons at least:
1- Amazon is selling at least two books that advocate stuff much worse that animals being made to hurt each other : murder, rape, slavery... but since these two books are the Quran and the Bible, there's very little chance that they'll get banned. Why ?
2- We in France are in the middle of a high-visibility court case, with Islamic organizations suing a newspaper that printed caricatures of their Prophet. I undertsand that lawsuit is a good opportunity to discuss worthwhile issues (dont equate islam with terrorism, backwardness...), but still, I'm uncomfortable with that attempt at censorship, and I don't think that suing is conveying a very positive image.
If what Amazon is selling is legal, they can sell it. They SHOULD sell it. If you don't like what it describes/advertizes, vote, and get the law changed to make it illegal. That's what democracy is about, I think.
Or any large animal... how handy
I for one am not totally adverse to a urinal that sucks ?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ is Apple's main page about bootcamp. It contains a detailed description of the product, and instructions about how to install it. There is NOTHING on that page about having to do a backup, or recommending to do a backup, nor, of course, about how to actually do the backup.
;-) ) DO a backup.
;-). Is the Wintel spirit already contaminating them ?
Actually the fact that Bootcamp is beta software is really de-emphasized on that web page. Clearly Apple's marketing department is pushing bootcamp heavily.
So what do you expect ? Dumb people don't even read the instructions, and do no backups. Intelligent people read the instructions, and do no backups. Most geeks are overconfident, and do no backups. Intelligent geeks (a small minority
I think the mess is mainly Apple's fault. They should
1- Emphasize more that Boot Camp is BETA software
2- Include the recommendation to do a backup in their install instructions, with a link to a detailed walkthrough
3- Ideally, make that backup an integral part of the install program
Computer companies have to stop assuming all their users are geeks, or that they have the right to make us take risks with our data for their marketing convenience.
I'm disappointed at Apple for that one. Apple has historically been a lot less bad than other OS makers
" This isn't a technical issue, it is pure politics, it is about protecting jobs, income, welfare and everything else that a government has to do for its constituents."
... companies that Europe has ... such as .... such as ????
Mmmmm.... you mean the jobs of all those OS / Office Apps /
Please, help me figure it out, so that I don't end up thinking you're feeding us boilerplate anti-europe crap.
I'm in IT, and when I look at the IT these space wonders use, I have to hold back a laugh. Is it any different in other fields ?
I keep hearing about all those technologies that trickled down from NASA to us regular guys. Since this couldn't possibly come from the NASA spin machine, would anyone care to enlighten me about which technologies are alluded to here ?
No, what you owned before the wedding doesn't accrue to the community.
Even more, when a spouse inherits something during the matrimony, it is counted as PERSONAL, as opposed to communal, goods, because the inherent right to that property existed before the matrimony. This is kind of unwieldy because if you inherit money, which you then use towards buying a communal home, you have to make very clear that, say, 50% of the home purchase was funded with your own inherited money, and the rest by the communal money, so in case of a divorce you own 75% of the house vs your spouse's 25%.
...at least in France, where you can choose several marriages type, one being "communal" where all money and belongings gained during the duration of the marriage do belong equally to both, BUT another type is "separate", where nothing is shared, ie both money and goods are attributed to one person only. in-between arrangements are possible if you have a good lawyer and an tax expert on hand.
My understanding, and that of the majority I'm sure, is that the fiscal advantages of marriage are to compensate for the cost of raising children, and the legal guarantees linked to marriage to prevent one spouse for bieng left in the lurch in case of the death or departure of the other.
1- Who judges if I'm doing right or wrong ? If it's the church, an activist group (healthy living, political correctness, environmentalists, ....), I'm sure I'm doing a bunch of things wrong in their eyes
2- How does Society find the facts about the rightness or wrongness of my behaviour ? If it only takes the whim of a bureaucrat trying to boost his numbers, or of a politician trying to look tough for the next election, or of a pissed-off ex to condemn me, I am sure going to miss due process...
MMmmmm just one word of caution: for the last presidential election (which are two-round like you described in France), the 2 candidates to make it to the second round were Chirac and the far right Jean-Marie Le Pen (National Front), because the left's votes got spread over a lot of candidates, from Communists to Greens to several flavours of Socialists...
The outcome of that first round was a big surprise, and disapointment, to all the lefties. All moderates, from left or right, were left with no other choice than to vote or Chirac, who carried the second round with around 80%.
So, using the first round to vote for the candidate you like best, and waiting for the second to "vote useful" and make a compromise for your least-hated candidate, sometimes doesn't work.