We are a free, open repair manual wiki. We're finalizing an XML schema for the manuals, and we are going to do regular data dumps to archive.org. If you want to take all the manuals + PDFs and post them on your site, please do. This is too important to risk someone locking it down-- the world needs an open repair manual.
I love it. Too bad that's not mentioned in the summary, it might have gotten more attention. Next time I fix something I'll do a write-up for you. I have a couple SE/30s that need recapping here heh.
The US department of health defines 'moderate' drinking as 1 drink per day, and heavy drinking as anything above 2 drinks per day.
The US government deliberately sets its thresholds lower than is reasonable in order to scare people away from drinking. Their job is to keep the puritans happy, not to keep us healthy.
According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, only about 10% of Americans have more than 2 drinks per day. By comparison, over 35% of Americans consider themselves abstainers. More than half the population has at most one drink, if they drink at all.
Most people are light drinkers. That doesn't mean that 3 drinks a day is heavy drinking.
by any reasonable definition, you are a heavy drinker.
Nonsense. By any reasonable definition, a heavy drinker is intoxicated frequently. You can easily space 3 drinks in your 6-8 hour leisure time at the end of the day and never get intoxicated.
Cheap vodka tends to be harsh. Many premium vodkas, like Ketel One, have flavors all their own. Grey Goose is probably a good option, but maybe a little pricey for this experiment.
This is 100% placebo effect. Even skilled drinkers cannot distinguish premium vodkas from midrange vodkas in blind tests.
If your palate is so dysfunctional that sugar water with synthetic esters tastes better than a finely crafted brew, I'm sorry. There's much pleasure to be had in appreciating the rich complexity that comes from natural products that have undergone a process like fermentation. Think about it, there may be a couple dozen chemicals that go into Dr. Pepper. Barley and hops each contain hundreds of flavorful compounds, and the yeast chemically modifies those to thousands of different compounds.
I'm curious, do you also prefer American cheese to an aged cheddar? Reconsituted apple juice to a freshly pressed cider?
From what I know the recommendations against eggs weren't based on any actual data. We know that serum cholesterol is bad, eggs contain cholesterol, so don't eat eggs. That's about the extent of the reasoning.
If they had done a study like this, correlating egg consumption with mortality, and then controlling for confounding factors you'd have a good reason to avoid eggs. No one did that.
LOL, OK. If you non-drinkers want to show me just how relaxed you guys are, getting butthurt over what I said is not going to do it. Chill out and have a beer already.
No, you don't have to be, but it helps. In puritanical USA, if you never ever drink, you're probably a moralizer. Yes, this is a generalization, but we're talking about effects on a population, not individuals. So using generalizations is appropriate here.
Can't you use that same logic for any other activity other than drinking? "If you're so uptight and judgmental you can't even enjoy a single prostitute/line of coke/bacon butter cheeseburger/hot gay sex experience/ice cold Mt. Dew..." etc. Basically, you seem to be privileging alcohol consumption in an odd way here.
Yes, yes you could. And it would be just as valid. If you can't enjoy even trying those things once, it's your own hangup. Whether or not that's a problem for you is up to you. Personally I'm too uptight for the hot gay sex experience, but open to the rest.
Frankly, you're been pretty insulting to all of us with your generalizations.
We're talking about a phenomenon that occurs over populations, not individuals. On average drinkers live longer than non-drinkers. It's entirely appropriate to use generalizations when we're talking about averages.
The effects of having a single beer are so benign that there's really no good reason not to have one. You have to be predisposed to be negative towards the experience, or have a malfunctioning aldehyde dehydrogenase in order to think abstention is a good idea. I'm talking about the former group.
Yep. We already know that stress releases cortisol, which can cause a number of physical problems. I wonder if we'd find higher cortisol levels in non-drinkers than in drinkers.
There's also the old saw about people who don't drink, they're not the kind of people you would want to drink with anyway. That's consistent with non-drinkers being somewhat stuffier.
I imagine tightwad teetotalers live lives consumed with mental stress. If you're so uptight and judgmental that you can't even enjoy a single drink, that's got to have a lot of negative influences on your state of mind. I can see how that would translate from mental health to physical health, giving us the results we see here.
The above AC is talking about the original Xbox, not the 360. Changing the drive on an original Xbox at the least requires softmodding, so you can get the EEPROM key. Then you connect the new drive to a PC running Xbox HDM, build the filesystem, and lock it with the original EEPROM. It's easy, but not a 5 minute job unless you have a hard modded system which can disable drive locking entirely.
I like this. Video game console repair and mod tutorials are scattered all over the internet. It will be nice to have them all in one place. The PDF download option is a bonus.
My question is, who owns the contributions? If I write up a guide to fix a console, what's to stop iFixit from taking that and locking the best features (like PDF download) behind a paywall like Instructables did?
Perhaps a better label would have been "insanity?"
It's not insanity. Witch hunts are behavior that perfectly normal people in good mental health engage in. It's part of what it is to be human. I'm not saying that it's not wrong and evil and all that, just that this type of evil is part of the human condition. Scapegoating, xenophobia, confirmation bias, all completely normal.
Lieberman had *no* evidence, and by his own admission never even played Night Trap. It was 100% political gamesmanship, which quite accurately sums up the rest of his political career.
In 9th grade students should have had good keyboarding skills for about 5 years already. I had good keyboarding skills well before that without any instruction, and most kids growing up today will have even more reasons to use the keyboard than I did. 3rd and 4th grade were about when they taught us cursive, which is entirely obsolete. Schools should devote that time to keyboarding, which will be much more useful, and get kids from all socioeconomic backgrounds on the same page for later education.
They should relocate to France. French courts have already ruled circumvention devices legal when there is no other way to run your own software on your machine.
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We are a free, open repair manual wiki. We're finalizing an XML schema for the manuals, and we are going to do regular data dumps to archive.org. If you want to take all the manuals + PDFs and post them on your site, please do. This is too important to risk someone locking it down-- the world needs an open repair manual.
I love it. Too bad that's not mentioned in the summary, it might have gotten more attention. Next time I fix something I'll do a write-up for you. I have a couple SE/30s that need recapping here heh.
Are Americans really hung up on drinking? Haven't gotten over prohibition or something?
Yes, most of us are that hung up on drinking. There is still a large undercurrent of puritanism, and remnants of Prohibition are everywhere.
The US department of health defines 'moderate' drinking as 1 drink per day, and heavy drinking as anything above 2 drinks per day.
The US government deliberately sets its thresholds lower than is reasonable in order to scare people away from drinking. Their job is to keep the puritans happy, not to keep us healthy.
According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, only about 10% of Americans have more than 2 drinks per day. By comparison, over 35% of Americans consider themselves abstainers. More than half the population has at most one drink, if they drink at all.
Most people are light drinkers. That doesn't mean that 3 drinks a day is heavy drinking.
by any reasonable definition, you are a heavy drinker.
Nonsense. By any reasonable definition, a heavy drinker is intoxicated frequently. You can easily space 3 drinks in your 6-8 hour leisure time at the end of the day and never get intoxicated.
Cheap vodka tends to be harsh. Many premium vodkas, like Ketel One, have flavors all their own. Grey Goose is probably a good option, but maybe a little pricey for this experiment.
This is 100% placebo effect. Even skilled drinkers cannot distinguish premium vodkas from midrange vodkas in blind tests.
If your palate is so dysfunctional that sugar water with synthetic esters tastes better than a finely crafted brew, I'm sorry. There's much pleasure to be had in appreciating the rich complexity that comes from natural products that have undergone a process like fermentation. Think about it, there may be a couple dozen chemicals that go into Dr. Pepper. Barley and hops each contain hundreds of flavorful compounds, and the yeast chemically modifies those to thousands of different compounds.
I'm curious, do you also prefer American cheese to an aged cheddar? Reconsituted apple juice to a freshly pressed cider?
From what I know the recommendations against eggs weren't based on any actual data. We know that serum cholesterol is bad, eggs contain cholesterol, so don't eat eggs. That's about the extent of the reasoning.
If they had done a study like this, correlating egg consumption with mortality, and then controlling for confounding factors you'd have a good reason to avoid eggs. No one did that.
You are absolutely right, you don't have to be a tightwad to be a teetotaler. But I'd suggest that you are in the minority.
LOL, OK. If you non-drinkers want to show me just how relaxed you guys are, getting butthurt over what I said is not going to do it. Chill out and have a beer already.
No, you don't have to be, but it helps. In puritanical USA, if you never ever drink, you're probably a moralizer. Yes, this is a generalization, but we're talking about effects on a population, not individuals. So using generalizations is appropriate here.
Can't you use that same logic for any other activity other than drinking? "If you're so uptight and judgmental you can't even enjoy a single prostitute/line of coke/bacon butter cheeseburger/hot gay sex experience/ice cold Mt. Dew..." etc. Basically, you seem to be privileging alcohol consumption in an odd way here.
Yes, yes you could. And it would be just as valid. If you can't enjoy even trying those things once, it's your own hangup. Whether or not that's a problem for you is up to you. Personally I'm too uptight for the hot gay sex experience, but open to the rest.
Frankly, you're been pretty insulting to all of us with your generalizations.
We're talking about a phenomenon that occurs over populations, not individuals. On average drinkers live longer than non-drinkers. It's entirely appropriate to use generalizations when we're talking about averages.
The effects of having a single beer are so benign that there's really no good reason not to have one. You have to be predisposed to be negative towards the experience, or have a malfunctioning aldehyde dehydrogenase in order to think abstention is a good idea. I'm talking about the former group.
Yep. We already know that stress releases cortisol, which can cause a number of physical problems. I wonder if we'd find higher cortisol levels in non-drinkers than in drinkers.
There's also the old saw about people who don't drink, they're not the kind of people you would want to drink with anyway. That's consistent with non-drinkers being somewhat stuffier.
I imagine tightwad teetotalers live lives consumed with mental stress. If you're so uptight and judgmental that you can't even enjoy a single drink, that's got to have a lot of negative influences on your state of mind. I can see how that would translate from mental health to physical health, giving us the results we see here.
The above AC is talking about the original Xbox, not the 360. Changing the drive on an original Xbox at the least requires softmodding, so you can get the EEPROM key. Then you connect the new drive to a PC running Xbox HDM, build the filesystem, and lock it with the original EEPROM. It's easy, but not a 5 minute job unless you have a hard modded system which can disable drive locking entirely.
If someone goes to prison and stays there, the objective of stopping them from committing more offences is met for the duration of the imprisonment.
Is it? Assaults are common in prison. Do those just not count?
I like this. Video game console repair and mod tutorials are scattered all over the internet. It will be nice to have them all in one place. The PDF download option is a bonus.
My question is, who owns the contributions? If I write up a guide to fix a console, what's to stop iFixit from taking that and locking the best features (like PDF download) behind a paywall like Instructables did?
Perhaps a better label would have been "insanity?"
It's not insanity. Witch hunts are behavior that perfectly normal people in good mental health engage in. It's part of what it is to be human. I'm not saying that it's not wrong and evil and all that, just that this type of evil is part of the human condition. Scapegoating, xenophobia, confirmation bias, all completely normal.
Lieberman had *no* evidence, and by his own admission never even played Night Trap. It was 100% political gamesmanship, which quite accurately sums up the rest of his political career.
In 9th grade students should have had good keyboarding skills for about 5 years already. I had good keyboarding skills well before that without any instruction, and most kids growing up today will have even more reasons to use the keyboard than I did. 3rd and 4th grade were about when they taught us cursive, which is entirely obsolete. Schools should devote that time to keyboarding, which will be much more useful, and get kids from all socioeconomic backgrounds on the same page for later education.
Learn how to enjoy the computer later?
I would be interested in knowing what books you would assign as requited reading in "English Lit."
Learn how to enjoy reading later? That sounds exactly like the approach English Lit teachers actually take.
What's wrong with transparencies? Or for that matter a damn blackboard?
They should hold it outside, under a bunch of large canopies. Then they'd be sure to have a lot of MalCon tents there.
This.
They should relocate to France. French courts have already ruled circumvention devices legal when there is no other way to run your own software on your machine.