You don't even need step 1. Most couch potatoes will struggle to do a set of squats with only their own body weight.
I think a person should be able to do a basic set of exercises without external weights, eg pull up, push up, squat, dip etc. If I was king I'd actually offer a tax incentive for anyone who passes a basic test each year, since this would surely pay for itself through savings in health costs. And yes there'd be exceptions and special cases but most people should be able to use their body for what is was designed for.
Might even turn out that they were actually more intelligent than us, and our advantage was purely a cultural accident.
And to go one step further, Neanderthal may end up being more suited to the 21st century than us and slowly breed us out of existence. This sounds like a good plot for a cheesy sci-fi movie. Especially when they tie in the big eye bit into some sort of prophesy that was foretold by the Manga gods of the 20th century. "They didn't listen! They didn't listen!"
That's nice. In the Garden of Eden every child had precisely one mommy and one daddy and everyone was white.
Then we let black people vote we knew it was only a matter of time before it meant we had to let people marry cows and fuck their children.
Cool story bro. How can I subscribe to your newsletter?
While you may not like the Church or its elected leaders they exert a large influence good and bad throughout the world
Do they really? I know church leaders would like you to think this is the case, and they'll show you images of thousands of poor uneducated people dancing in their honour, to back that up, but if the church ceased to exist overnight I doubt much in the world would change. The sheep would find something else to latch onto, and the rich and powerful would keep doing what they're doing. In real terms, Warren Buffet probably holds more sway than anything the man in the funny hat does.
Where does that 1.2 Billion figure come from? My neighbour claims to be Catholic. She doesn't go to church or even believe in the God, she just says she is because her parents were and she was baptised as a baby. How many other people in the world fall under this category?
If we classified religious people as" willing to die for their cause" rather than "I think it sounds good to say I am" then I think the number would be closer to 1.2 thousand. And lets face it, if you really believed in a big man in the sky who made everything, and can make you live forever you would happily die for it, because ultimately you actually believe you're not going to die your actually going somewhere better. I call poppycock on this so called "belief" (unless you're a radical muslim, those dudes actually truly do believe that shit).
The downside is, well, it's still Windows and prone to quirky issues, e.g. problems caused by Windows update, wanting to reboot more often than I'd like..
So turn them off, or at least wind them back. Windows updates are not as important as most people would like you to think. There was a period about 10 years ago when a number of vulnerabilities needing patching regularly or you'd get hosed, but since about WinXP SP2 it's no longer a big deal. I do mine manually every few months, haven't had problems in years.
The every-other-OS pattern is a myth that never stacked up to any real test. ME sucked and Vista sucked, but most of the others were pretty good. Now Win8 has been released it looks like it sucks too, but I'm not sure if that is because it actually sucks, or it's just the regular bitch most people do when confronted with something new and different.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that works by "doing work" (a complicated mathematical "puzzle") on your computer. It becomes a currency by the difficulty of the puzzle, and that when you have solved it you tell other BitCoin users about your success and it goes into a "chain".
That chain is the history of EVERY transaction performed on the BitCoin network and the integrity of the system is given by every user relying on the same chain - so trying to create some extra BitCoins or a fake transaction requires compromising a lot of machines around the globe to believe it happened.
Because of a stupid bug that nobody knew about related to the size of a transaction in this chain, a transaction that's too big for older clients to handle was (legitimately) created. Older clients can't handle it, so they have no idea what to do when it comes into their chain updates. Newer clients can handle it, but can't synchronise their chains with older clients because of it (they can accept the transaction whereas older clients don't).
Because the chain is now effectively split into two chains, and that all the integrity of the system comes from the fact that everyone is using, verifying and updating the same chain, BitCoin is now in an "emergency" (quoted from the forum post in the summary) situation. New clients are generating coins that old clients can't see and vice-versa, so BitCoins are being generated and lost or transacted and forgotten about.
The fix is to go back to the old code, ignore the over-size transaction, and hope to fix the code in a more backward-compatible way. Unfortunately, that requires some people on newer clients to lose coins, revert transactions, and for exchanges to shut down (temporarily) until the issue is resolved.
Basically, someone really messed up by not checking that the database could handle transactions that could pop up in the real-world.
Yeah this BTC sounds much better than real money...
Special interests are inevitable in a system that allows politicians to set the rules for businesses and individuals in the first place. The politicians are the ones that hacked the Constitution, they hacked the Law. They figured out how to remove the chains that were placed upon the government to bind it, to provide it with only limited powers (article 1, section 8). Once the politicians found the way (it was easy once the Republic became wealthy enough due to all the business that thrived under the mostly free market system in the first 124 years of the Republic), just promise the people something for nothing and they will vote for you and will let you do whatever you want to the Law. The politicians turned the Republic into a democracy by promising a bunch of stuff to be given out as subsidies and it was popular, because the promise was to make only a minority of people to pay for it (discrimination against a minority based on different levels of income).
So the more power that the government stole from the people by promising them free stuff, the more lucrative it became for politicians to keep power and the more competitive the field of politics became because it brought with it much more power than it was ever designed to give to the politicians.
As I read this I thought I was reading the intro sequence to The Phantom Menace...
So the next revolution will be in facial disguises. Either that or "Anti-Google Glass" ie regular glasses with high powered camera interfering infrared LEDs to distort any recording.
You don't really get how movie magic works, Chewy will be back, either as a reanimated Chewy, a clone of Chewy, or one of Chewy's offspring who looks and acts exactly the same and even has the same name.
Yes, because they are backed by a big govt with a big police force and even bigger military. Should Bitcoin get hacked/attacked/destroyed, who is going to come in and save the day?
I never understood why keyboards tilt backwards, as it actually makes them worse. I use one one of those rubber wrist rest mats and put it under the front of the keyboard to prop it up. not great but makes the keyboard angle a bit more wrist friendly.
I feel that learning a bit of arboristry has actually helped my programming. Arborists spend much of their time picking which things best apply to a particular circumstance, while programmers pick which algorithms are best suited to a task. Arborists then execute their decision, while the programmers simply run the compiler. Arborists work around branches and leaves by climbing or crawling, and programmers work around (some) bugs by covering them with better-written wrappers.
I feel that learning a bit of plumbing has actually helped my programming. Plumbers spend much of their time picking which things best apply to a particular circumstance, while programmers pick which algorithms are best suited to a task. Plumbers then execute their decision, while the programmers simply run the compiler. Plumbers work around pipes blockages by clearing them with their tools, and programmers work around (some) bugs by covering them with better-written wrappers.
I'm still waiting to see the connection between programming and the RPi? Sure you can do it that way, but you equally do it on your existing Win/Mac/Linux box too. In fact if you want pure problem solving then let's all just do some maths, no computer required.
When it comes time to upgrade to a new computer, your mom's going to have to get used to something new whether she wants to or not - Win8 is quite a bit different than WinXP... some Linux variant would probably be more comfortable to her than Win8.
But I'll never be upgrading to Win8 so that won't be a problem. I got 10 years out of XP, I expect to get 10 years out of Win7. By 2022 I expect there'll be a lot better options than either Win8 or current gen Linux.
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You don't even need step 1. Most couch potatoes will struggle to do a set of squats with only their own body weight. I think a person should be able to do a basic set of exercises without external weights, eg pull up, push up, squat, dip etc. If I was king I'd actually offer a tax incentive for anyone who passes a basic test each year, since this would surely pay for itself through savings in health costs. And yes there'd be exceptions and special cases but most people should be able to use their body for what is was designed for.
Might even turn out that they were actually more intelligent than us, and our advantage was purely a cultural accident.
And to go one step further, Neanderthal may end up being more suited to the 21st century than us and slowly breed us out of existence. This sounds like a good plot for a cheesy sci-fi movie. Especially when they tie in the big eye bit into some sort of prophesy that was foretold by the Manga gods of the 20th century. "They didn't listen! They didn't listen!"
That's nice. In the Garden of Eden every child had precisely one mommy and one daddy and everyone was white.
Then we let black people vote we knew it was only a matter of time before it meant we had to let people marry cows and fuck their children.
Cool story bro. How can I subscribe to your newsletter?
While you may not like the Church or its elected leaders they exert a large influence good and bad throughout the world
Do they really? I know church leaders would like you to think this is the case, and they'll show you images of thousands of poor uneducated people dancing in their honour, to back that up, but if the church ceased to exist overnight I doubt much in the world would change. The sheep would find something else to latch onto, and the rich and powerful would keep doing what they're doing. In real terms, Warren Buffet probably holds more sway than anything the man in the funny hat does.
Where does that 1.2 Billion figure come from? My neighbour claims to be Catholic. She doesn't go to church or even believe in the God, she just says she is because her parents were and she was baptised as a baby. How many other people in the world fall under this category? If we classified religious people as" willing to die for their cause" rather than "I think it sounds good to say I am" then I think the number would be closer to 1.2 thousand. And lets face it, if you really believed in a big man in the sky who made everything, and can make you live forever you would happily die for it, because ultimately you actually believe you're not going to die your actually going somewhere better. I call poppycock on this so called "belief" (unless you're a radical muslim, those dudes actually truly do believe that shit).
The downside is, well, it's still Windows and prone to quirky issues, e.g. problems caused by Windows update, wanting to reboot more often than I'd like..
So turn them off, or at least wind them back. Windows updates are not as important as most people would like you to think. There was a period about 10 years ago when a number of vulnerabilities needing patching regularly or you'd get hosed, but since about WinXP SP2 it's no longer a big deal. I do mine manually every few months, haven't had problems in years.
The every-other-OS pattern is a myth that never stacked up to any real test. ME sucked and Vista sucked, but most of the others were pretty good. Now Win8 has been released it looks like it sucks too, but I'm not sure if that is because it actually sucks, or it's just the regular bitch most people do when confronted with something new and different.
If a major bank tried to pull this sort of nonsense, they'd be bankrupt so fast that the stockholders would have whiplash.
Which is why in 10 years, we'll still all have bank accounts and no-one will have Flooz... er I meant Bitcoins.
We know what happens when a currency undergoes massive deflation - Germany in the 1930's or, more recently, Zimbabwe happens.
Yes we all remember the global tragedy when Flooz was wiped out. Then again when Beenz hit the floor. Oh the humanity...
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that works by "doing work" (a complicated mathematical "puzzle") on your computer. It becomes a currency by the difficulty of the puzzle, and that when you have solved it you tell other BitCoin users about your success and it goes into a "chain".
That chain is the history of EVERY transaction performed on the BitCoin network and the integrity of the system is given by every user relying on the same chain - so trying to create some extra BitCoins or a fake transaction requires compromising a lot of machines around the globe to believe it happened.
Because of a stupid bug that nobody knew about related to the size of a transaction in this chain, a transaction that's too big for older clients to handle was (legitimately) created. Older clients can't handle it, so they have no idea what to do when it comes into their chain updates. Newer clients can handle it, but can't synchronise their chains with older clients because of it (they can accept the transaction whereas older clients don't).
Because the chain is now effectively split into two chains, and that all the integrity of the system comes from the fact that everyone is using, verifying and updating the same chain, BitCoin is now in an "emergency" (quoted from the forum post in the summary) situation. New clients are generating coins that old clients can't see and vice-versa, so BitCoins are being generated and lost or transacted and forgotten about.
The fix is to go back to the old code, ignore the over-size transaction, and hope to fix the code in a more backward-compatible way. Unfortunately, that requires some people on newer clients to lose coins, revert transactions, and for exchanges to shut down (temporarily) until the issue is resolved.
Basically, someone really messed up by not checking that the database could handle transactions that could pop up in the real-world.
Yeah this BTC sounds much better than real money...
China isn't a super power. They're at best 2nd world
I'm not sure you understand the definition of the phrase super power.
No because the enemy didn't think to use the mylar balloon ruse, so you've shot all of theirs out of the sky.
Special interests are inevitable in a system that allows politicians to set the rules for businesses and individuals in the first place. The politicians are the ones that hacked the Constitution, they hacked the Law. They figured out how to remove the chains that were placed upon the government to bind it, to provide it with only limited powers (article 1, section 8). Once the politicians found the way (it was easy once the Republic became wealthy enough due to all the business that thrived under the mostly free market system in the first 124 years of the Republic), just promise the people something for nothing and they will vote for you and will let you do whatever you want to the Law. The politicians turned the Republic into a democracy by promising a bunch of stuff to be given out as subsidies and it was popular, because the promise was to make only a minority of people to pay for it (discrimination against a minority based on different levels of income).
So the more power that the government stole from the people by promising them free stuff, the more lucrative it became for politicians to keep power and the more competitive the field of politics became because it brought with it much more power than it was ever designed to give to the politicians.
As I read this I thought I was reading the intro sequence to The Phantom Menace...
So the next revolution will be in facial disguises. Either that or "Anti-Google Glass" ie regular glasses with high powered camera interfering infrared LEDs to distort any recording.
You don't really get how movie magic works, Chewy will be back, either as a reanimated Chewy, a clone of Chewy, or one of Chewy's offspring who looks and acts exactly the same and even has the same name.
Yes, because they are backed by a big govt with a big police force and even bigger military. Should Bitcoin get hacked/attacked/destroyed, who is going to come in and save the day?
I'm working from home too :)
And a male cannot force a woman to have an abortion even if he is the one who has to pay for it for the next 18 years.
I agree that this is unjust.
Simple solution, don't put your cock in there then.
Well like music, you pay if you want to go see your favourite artists live. I think that is a workable model that is fair to both artist and consumer.
I never understood why keyboards tilt backwards, as it actually makes them worse. I use one one of those rubber wrist rest mats and put it under the front of the keyboard to prop it up. not great but makes the keyboard angle a bit more wrist friendly.
Ok that that answers the Viking's story, how about the Polynesians?
I feel that learning a bit of arboristry has actually helped my programming. Arborists spend much of their time picking which things best apply to a particular circumstance, while programmers pick which algorithms are best suited to a task. Arborists then execute their decision, while the programmers simply run the compiler. Arborists work around branches and leaves by climbing or crawling, and programmers work around (some) bugs by covering them with better-written wrappers.
I feel that learning a bit of plumbing has actually helped my programming. Plumbers spend much of their time picking which things best apply to a particular circumstance, while programmers pick which algorithms are best suited to a task. Plumbers then execute their decision, while the programmers simply run the compiler. Plumbers work around pipes blockages by clearing them with their tools, and programmers work around (some) bugs by covering them with better-written wrappers.
I'm still waiting to see the connection between programming and the RPi? Sure you can do it that way, but you equally do it on your existing Win/Mac/Linux box too. In fact if you want pure problem solving then let's all just do some maths, no computer required.
Isn't that what MS stories are all about on slashdot?
When it comes time to upgrade to a new computer, your mom's going to have to get used to something new whether she wants to or not - Win8 is quite a bit different than WinXP... some Linux variant would probably be more comfortable to her than Win8.
But I'll never be upgrading to Win8 so that won't be a problem. I got 10 years out of XP, I expect to get 10 years out of Win7. By 2022 I expect there'll be a lot better options than either Win8 or current gen Linux.