On Fifth Gear recently (11/22) Jackie Stewart was saying that Schumacher makes more mistakes every Gran Prix weekend than any GP racer he has ever know.
Reliance on tech, whether track data or ASR and ABS in race cars has arguably reduced the ultimate skill levels demanded of racing's elite.
Bush won't even commit to the standard three Debates and you expect him to take up this offer?
Maybe he could prattle on about how after years of alcoholism and drug abuse he learned what we all should already know and there is no "science" only GOD!
Maybe if the job market finally implodes and we both end up on unemployment I will do as you say and relocate. I have family in Montana and that would be hella cheaped then New England!
Move where? Maybe back to Japan where I lived for a while... If I move closer to work to cut down on the commute the costs go up significantly. And I am not paying that much, we bought our house nearly four years ago, before the bubble pop and offshoring really took off. I also bought the smallest, cheapest house we looked at ($230k).
The point is costs are rising while salaries are falling (we have to work an extra 1/2 house per day here now with no pay increase and no raise nor bonus for a year) or simple evaporating.
How you afford that?
It's called DINK, double-income no kids.If one of us stop working to take care of a child, or even goes part-time, bye-bye house..
In my area the average home is $400,000 plus. My RealEstate Taxes are $3k. Car Excise is nearly $500. A two bedroom apartment is nearly $1500. You need a car to go to work ( we commute 50 miles each way). With both my wife and I working we can afford a small house and have one new car for the 100 miles a day commute (we work together), and save a little for retirement and emergencies. As it is we have not yet had children ( after nearly a decade of marriage ) because we cannot imagine how we can afford it.
Yes the cost of living in this country is fscking high!
This argument would be valid if decreased production costs actually translated into lower priced goods.
If Dell can have all their operations moved to India where their costs will be 1/10 of that it is now do you think that that shmancy new Laptop will sell for 1/10th the price? How about 1/4? Or even half-off?
No, it is going into the CEO's pockets, and those of their lobbyists who they pay to fight daily in the Capital for their right to ever-increasing salaries and bonuses while their workers get laid off. And they have won again...
When they attain final victory and all the domestic well paying US jobs are gone who will buy their goods? We always hear how the US is the world's greatest consumer. Well, how will the consumer fare when his pockets are empty because the best job available is that of a greeter at WalMart?
First off I agree with the statement that many bodybuilders do unhealty things, including drug use. There is a reason I no longer compete.
I do cardio and don't pass out. How about an hour of running up stadium bleachers? And I am asthmatic to boot;^)
Dieting slowly does not always work. Trust me I know. I was rather well ranked in the nation and I spent years doing the low fat thing. I never got lean enough, and I lost muscle. One or two pounds a week is a good rate, but what are you losing? You might be losing muscle via glucogenesis and you better check the calipers as well as the scale.
Yes I did get light-headeness, though I never got shakes. This lasted all of four days. After that I was producing enough ketones form FFAs to fuel my brain without issue. And as far as getting really low, it is damn near impossible to get below an honest 5% on a low carb diet *without* losing significant amounts of muscle. This is of course assuming you are not indulging in the foremantioned pharmaceutical aids.
You can keep doing what you are doing, that's fine if you are happy with it, but ketognic diets work, they are safe, and the literature is proving it.
"macronutrient" is a generic label, I used because I didn't feel like hijacking this thread.
By removing carbs from the diet you lower insulin (hormonal manipulation). You also raise glucagon levels. This condition releases free-fatty acids from fat cells which are then burned in the liver as ketone bodies. In a ketogenic state the body will preferentially burn FFAs over carbohydrates. Thus ketosis is a state induced by food choices (macronutients for lack of a better term).
I know what ketones are. What a keto dieter is concered with is not what is in your nail polish remover, but rather acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutarate, and acetone, as produced wthin the body...and in tiny amounts. The creation and subsequent usage of ketones as fuel offsets the need for other fuels, sparing protien that would otherwise be converted via glucogenesis. This allows a bodybuilder (and former sports medicine student) like myself to avoid muscle loss while dieting. It also provides fuel for the brain, which unlike skeletal muscle tissue, cannot use FFAs for fuel. After time (usually two to three weeks depending on individual metabolism and training load) the body will level off in ketone production as it has adapted to FFAs as fuel. No more acid breath;^)
Few people realize that foods, if used properly, can produce powerful positive (and negative) effects on the body's systems.
There are a lot of people involved in the Ketogenic dieting world who know quite a lot about the science behind metabolism. It's not all about Atkins.
I personally find it ironic that people will continue to eat lousy food, sit on the couch, drink alcohol, and smoke cigarettes while criticizing others go to what they may see as perhaps comparatively extreme measures to attain the top 5% of physical conditioning. I am not saying the above remark refers to anyone here, yet I am constantly struck by the resistance met from others when they discover my personal physical ideal. People who have no idea about exercise or conditiong continue to try to give me "advice" while eating ice cream and sporting 45% bodyfat.
Low carbing works and works well *IF* you do it right. Most people don't do it right. You are wrong in assuming calories equal calories. You have to consider the hormonal and metabolic implications of different macronutrients.
The light-headedness only last a few days. After that you should be burning Ketones which will provide fuel for your brain. I had no problem Saturday morning squatting, and if anything will make you light-headed, deep and heavy squats will!
BTW , my cholesterol level has swung into the positive side of the HDL/LDL balance and lowered overall since low carbing. I do the Dan Duchaine BodyOpus system, not Atkins. Lots of carbs on the weekends!
Bottom line is to get in the gym BEFORE work. I get in a hard-core 45 min workout before the commute to the office. You don't need to train long if you train hard. Most people train far too long and spend too much time yapping.
I never have to worry about having enough time or having an off day at the office that drains my will to train. Get in and out quick, keep the intensity up. Before I even consider going to work I have had a good, honest workout.
MS offered a similar deal to the Japanese government for their upcoming "e-japan" project. Microsoft would give the Japanese government access to all the Windows source code if they signed an non-disclosure agreement and chose Windows over Linux.
When I lived in Japan there was (and still is) no gun crime to speak of.
I'd argue this is because, quite simply, there are no guns to be had in Japan. Most cops don't even carry them.
There are plenty of crazy people there. Some will try to beat you, some will try to stab you, but they cannot shoot you. Even yakuza turn their guns into the police stations when they "retire". Most Japanese will never see a gun in their lives, and they have no reasonable fear of ever being killed by one.
I liked the feeling that I had no chance of being shot no matter where I was or what time of night I was out (or how much money I was carrying). I have never had that feeling back in the States.
It's all about escalation and retaliation. For some reason most people here in the US will readily esclate to the N'th degree in the name of self-defense.
I find it interesting that Columbia Japan is the first to offer this service. Columbia is notorious in Japan for being out of touch with modern music and really bad at promotion for decades. Someone new must be at the helm.
I also have to wonder how much money the artist will see. I have family who have hundreds of songs recorded with Columbia, mostly in the older catalogs. I will be very curious to hear if any money at all ever reaches them.
My father in law has around seven hundred recordings with Columbia Japan. If anyone will hear from them I expect him to.
My expectations are low however, I know Columbia was selling some tapes from the older catalog with my mother in law's works without ever contacting her.
Sorry, I don't want to get in a flame war either, but 14-16 is obese. That is going to be in the high 30s % bodyfat.
1/3 of your body as fat is not healthy, I don't care what Oprah says...
This "culture" is the only one that cries for it's "victims" of over-eating.
I don't see why being in shape (and that she is) is a bad thing today in America, except of course that it makes all the fat people feel better about themselves....
I will take, apprently, the unpopular view here.
Why is it that everytime someone mentions cameras, surveilance, etc. that everyone starts crying "My civil liberties are beig violated"
It's as if one measure immediately equals a complete pollce state, big brother on every corner, microphones in our bedrooms, and cameras in our shower.
I personally don't care if the government has information on me. So what? Wow, now they know I wasn't a straight A student, I was a punk rocker in my youth, I am a VW fanatic, I like computers, I speak Japanese, and I love my wife.
So frigging what?
What leap of logic does it take to arrive at the conclusions so many of us readily make? I don't believe increase security is going to make me a slave of the "State". I don't care if they photograph my face, I'll even pass out 8x10 glossies...
My Golf is chipped and makes 115 hp and nearly 200 lb. ft. I can break my 225/50 Yokos loose through second gear in the dry.
And I get 45 mpg min.
And the motor should last 600-700k miles (quoted from VW).
And in nearly 52,000 miles I have never had a single problem with it. None . Nada.
It blows no smoke unless I floor it under heavy load.
It makes hardly any noise and does not smell.
Diesels have come a very, very long way.
http://www.geocities.com/abtgolftdi
You can also run a modern diesel (like mine @ http://www.geocities.com/abtgolftdi ) on used cooking oil with minimal fuel cleansing.
Refer to the "VeggieVan".
Biodiesel is readily available and usable. I can even buy it from a local distributor.
At least I know that when the Ford Excursions finish drinking up all the world's oil, my VW will still be able run on a number of renewable energy sources.
I'v been holding out for a couple of years (cause I'm a cheap SOB) and finally got around to setting up a nice entry-level system
Cambridge Soundworks New Ensemble III Speakers = $299
A Sony STR-DE445 Reciver = $236
A Sony DVD = approx $250
A Pair of CSW Models Sixes I had. = $179
For the money I think it sounds great.
The one thing I did learn is that is makes a great deal of difference how you connect your DVD and Tuner. Even at the low end (like mine!) the tuners and dvds have coax digital. this is much preferable to the 5.1 input.
Here here!
Having lived in Japan for some time, I can confirm it is an almost absurdly non-violent society.
DBZ does have all the basic hero-myth themes - in spades.
If one were to honestly say that DBZ or animation like it promotes violence in their society, they had better take a long hard look at what is so wrong with where and when they live.
Once again people are going to look overseas for the cause of their problems.
What a completely myoptic, ignorant point of view.
The Japanese have very little to do with Anime arriving on our shores. Fuji TV and Colombia have had little interest in exporting DBZ or any other anime.
I for one am pleased that I can watch it here, thought the dubbing is admittedly poor. I am also glad I was able to watch it in Japan, where people don't misinterpret animation with the vigor that you seem to.
It's fun. Enjoy it. Don't try so hard to find fault and proclaim yourself better than the average bear.
Diesel engines are much more a thing of the future than the past. They are more efficient and longer lasting. My VW TDI is hardly noisy at all and can't be heard at all at operating speed. VW has a 4-Motion all wheel drive TDI GTI with 150 hp and more than 250 ft lbs. That should be good for very high sixes to low sevens in the 0-60. Now is that fast enough for you? With all that power you get an engine that lasts 300k miles (at least) and can travel 700+ miles on a single 14.5 gallon tankfull. Don't judge diesels by performance in the states. The big three made terrible diesels that tarnished the image in the US. If I had my way I'd have an Audi A6 Avant V-10 TDI Pump Duse chipped to 200+ hp and 450+ ft lbs...and still get 45 miles per gallon...and still produce a fraction of the greehouse gases...and still pay half what others do for fuel... Even if you don't care about the enviroment, the Diesel is better for your wallet.
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On Fifth Gear recently (11/22) Jackie Stewart was saying that Schumacher makes more mistakes every Gran Prix weekend than any GP racer he has ever know.
Reliance on tech, whether track data or ASR and ABS in race cars has arguably reduced the ultimate skill levels demanded of racing's elite.
Bush won't even commit to the standard three Debates and you expect him to take up this offer?
Maybe he could prattle on about how after years of alcoholism and drug abuse he learned what we all should already know and there is no "science" only GOD!
Maybe if the job market finally implodes and we both end up on unemployment I will do as you say and relocate. I have family in Montana and that would be hella cheaped then New England!
Move where? Maybe back to Japan where I lived for a while...
If I move closer to work to cut down on the commute the costs go up significantly.
And I am not paying that much, we bought our house nearly four years ago, before the bubble pop and offshoring really took off.
I also bought the smallest, cheapest house we looked at ($230k).
The point is costs are rising while salaries are falling (we have to work an extra 1/2 house per day here now with no pay increase and no raise nor bonus for a year) or simple evaporating.
How you afford that? It's called DINK, double-income no kids.If one of us stop working to take care of a child, or even goes part-time, bye-bye house..
In my area the average home is $400,000 plus.
My RealEstate Taxes are $3k.
Car Excise is nearly $500.
A two bedroom apartment is nearly $1500.
You need a car to go to work ( we commute 50 miles each way).
With both my wife and I working we can afford a small house and have one new car for the 100 miles a day commute (we work together), and save a little for retirement and emergencies.
As it is we have not yet had children ( after nearly a decade of marriage ) because we cannot imagine how we can afford it.
Yes the cost of living in this country is fscking high!
This argument would be valid if decreased production costs actually translated into lower priced goods.
If Dell can have all their operations moved to India where their costs will be 1/10 of that it is now do you think that that shmancy new Laptop will sell for 1/10th the price?
How about 1/4? Or even half-off?
No, it is going into the CEO's pockets, and those of their lobbyists who they pay to fight daily in the Capital for their right to ever-increasing salaries and bonuses while their workers get laid off.
And they have won again...
When they attain final victory and all the domestic well paying US jobs are gone who will buy their goods?
We always hear how the US is the world's greatest consumer. Well, how will the consumer fare when his pockets are empty because the best job available is that of a greeter at WalMart?
Reminds me of something my wife read on 2ch at the start of the Iraq War:
"WE ARE AGAINST ANY WAR.............unless they use Mobile Suits"
Maybe Koizumi can get them to hurry up and make a robot capable of catching N.Korean missles and throwing them back, Mazinger Z style.
First off I agree with the statement that many bodybuilders do unhealty things, including drug use.
;^)
There is a reason I no longer compete.
I do cardio and don't pass out.
How about an hour of running up stadium bleachers?
And I am asthmatic to boot
Dieting slowly does not always work. Trust me I know. I was rather well ranked in the nation and I spent years doing the low fat thing. I never got lean enough, and I lost muscle.
One or two pounds a week is a good rate, but what are you losing? You might be losing muscle via glucogenesis and you better check the calipers as well as the scale.
Yes I did get light-headeness, though I never got shakes.
This lasted all of four days. After that I was producing enough ketones form FFAs to fuel my brain without issue. And as far as getting really low, it is damn near impossible to get below an honest 5% on a low carb diet *without* losing significant amounts of muscle. This is of course assuming you are not indulging in the foremantioned pharmaceutical aids.
You can keep doing what you are doing, that's fine if you are happy with it, but ketognic diets work, they are safe, and the literature is proving it.
Funny I looked back at this after a day.
;^)
"macronutrient" is a generic label, I used because I didn't feel like hijacking this thread.
By removing carbs from the diet you lower insulin (hormonal manipulation). You also raise glucagon levels. This condition releases free-fatty acids from fat cells which are then burned in the liver as ketone bodies. In a ketogenic state the body will preferentially burn FFAs over carbohydrates.
Thus ketosis is a state induced by food choices (macronutients for lack of a better term).
I know what ketones are. What a keto dieter is concered with is not what is in your nail polish remover, but rather acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutarate, and acetone, as produced wthin the body...and in tiny amounts.
The creation and subsequent usage of ketones as fuel offsets the need for other fuels, sparing protien that would otherwise be converted via glucogenesis. This allows a bodybuilder (and former sports medicine student) like myself to avoid muscle loss while dieting. It also provides fuel for the brain, which unlike skeletal muscle tissue, cannot use FFAs for fuel. After time (usually two to three weeks depending on individual metabolism and training load) the body will level off in ketone production as it has adapted to FFAs as fuel. No more acid breath
Few people realize that foods, if used properly, can produce powerful positive (and negative) effects on the body's systems.
There are a lot of people involved in the Ketogenic dieting world who know quite a lot about the science behind metabolism.
It's not all about Atkins.
I personally find it ironic that people will continue to eat lousy food, sit on the couch, drink alcohol, and smoke cigarettes while criticizing others go to what they may see as perhaps comparatively extreme measures to attain the top 5% of physical conditioning.
I am not saying the above remark refers to anyone here, yet I am constantly struck by the resistance met from others when they discover my personal physical ideal.
People who have no idea about exercise or conditiong continue to try to give me "advice" while eating ice cream and sporting 45% bodyfat.
Low carbing works and works well *IF* you do it right. Most people don't do it right.
You are wrong in assuming calories equal calories.
You have to consider the hormonal and metabolic implications of different macronutrients.
The light-headedness only last a few days. After that you should be burning Ketones which will provide fuel for your brain.
I had no problem Saturday morning squatting, and if anything will make you light-headed, deep and heavy squats will!
BTW , my cholesterol level has swung into the positive side of the HDL/LDL balance and lowered overall since low carbing. I do the Dan Duchaine BodyOpus system, not Atkins. Lots of carbs on the weekends!
Bottom line is to get in the gym BEFORE work.
I get in a hard-core 45 min workout before the commute to the office. You don't need to train long if you train hard. Most people train far too long and spend too much time yapping.
I never have to worry about having enough time or having an off day at the office that drains my will to train. Get in and out quick, keep the intensity up. Before I even consider going to work I have had a good, honest workout.
MS offered a similar deal to the Japanese government for their upcoming "e-japan" project.
Microsoft would give the Japanese government access to all the Windows source code if they signed an non-disclosure agreement and chose Windows over Linux.
Japan chose Linux.
Look how it's affecting crime in Japan...
When I lived in Japan there was (and still is) no gun crime to speak of.
I'd argue this is because, quite simply, there are no guns to be had in Japan. Most cops don't even carry them.
There are plenty of crazy people there. Some will try to beat you, some will try to stab you, but they cannot shoot you. Even yakuza turn their guns into the police stations when they "retire". Most Japanese will never see a gun in their lives, and they have no reasonable fear of ever being killed by one.
I liked the feeling that I had no chance of being shot no matter where I was or what time of night I was out (or how much money I was carrying).
I have never had that feeling back in the States.
It's all about escalation and retaliation. For some reason most people here in the US will readily esclate to the N'th degree in the name of self-defense.
I find it interesting that Columbia Japan is the first to offer this service.
Columbia is notorious in Japan for being out of touch with modern music and really bad at promotion for decades. Someone new must be at the helm.
I also have to wonder how much money the artist will see. I have family who have hundreds of songs recorded with Columbia, mostly in the older catalogs. I will be very curious to hear if any money at all ever reaches them.
My father in law has around seven hundred recordings with Columbia Japan. If anyone will hear from them I expect him to.
My expectations are low however, I know Columbia was selling some tapes from the older catalog with my mother in law's works without ever contacting her.
No kidding...off on a tangent but very true nontheless
TDIs do in fact have the best mileage.
Numerous real-world tests revealed that the TDI consitently turns in better mileage.
My Golf (now gone in favor of my 325iX ) got as high as 54 and never lower than 46 and I drove it HARD.
Sorry, I don't want to get in a flame war either, but 14-16 is obese. That is going to be in the high 30s % bodyfat.
1/3 of your body as fat is not healthy, I don't care what Oprah says...
This "culture" is the only one that cries for it's "victims" of over-eating.
I beg to differ.
I don't see why being in shape (and that she is) is a bad thing today in America, except of course that it makes all the fat people feel better about themselves....
I will take, apprently, the unpopular view here. Why is it that everytime someone mentions cameras, surveilance, etc. that everyone starts crying "My civil liberties are beig violated" It's as if one measure immediately equals a complete pollce state, big brother on every corner, microphones in our bedrooms, and cameras in our shower. I personally don't care if the government has information on me. So what? Wow, now they know I wasn't a straight A student, I was a punk rocker in my youth, I am a VW fanatic, I like computers, I speak Japanese, and I love my wife. So frigging what? What leap of logic does it take to arrive at the conclusions so many of us readily make? I don't believe increase security is going to make me a slave of the "State". I don't care if they photograph my face, I'll even pass out 8x10 glossies...
My Golf is chipped and makes 115 hp and nearly 200 lb. ft. I can break my 225/50 Yokos loose through second gear in the dry. And I get 45 mpg min. And the motor should last 600-700k miles (quoted from VW). And in nearly 52,000 miles I have never had a single problem with it. None . Nada. It blows no smoke unless I floor it under heavy load. It makes hardly any noise and does not smell. Diesels have come a very, very long way. http://www.geocities.com/abtgolftdi
Biodiesel is made from soybeans, not rainforests.
You can also run a modern diesel (like mine @ http://www.geocities.com/abtgolftdi ) on used cooking oil with minimal fuel cleansing.
Refer to the "VeggieVan".
Biodiesel is readily available and usable. I can even buy it from a local distributor.
At least I know that when the Ford Excursions finish drinking up all the world's oil, my VW will still be able run on a number of renewable energy sources.
I'v been holding out for a couple of years (cause I'm a cheap SOB) and finally got around to setting up a nice entry-level system
Cambridge Soundworks New Ensemble III Speakers = $299
A Sony STR-DE445 Reciver = $236
A Sony DVD = approx $250
A Pair of CSW Models Sixes I had. = $179
For the money I think it sounds great.
The one thing I did learn is that is makes a great deal of difference how you connect your DVD and Tuner. Even at the low end (like mine!) the tuners and dvds have coax digital. this is much preferable to the 5.1 input.
Good Luck!
Here here!
Having lived in Japan for some time, I can confirm it is an almost absurdly non-violent society.
DBZ does have all the basic hero-myth themes - in spades.
If one were to honestly say that DBZ or animation like it promotes violence in their society, they had better take a long hard look at what is so wrong with where and when they live.
Once again people are going to look overseas for the cause of their problems.
What a completely myoptic, ignorant point of view. The Japanese have very little to do with Anime arriving on our shores. Fuji TV and Colombia have had little interest in exporting DBZ or any other anime. I for one am pleased that I can watch it here, thought the dubbing is admittedly poor. I am also glad I was able to watch it in Japan, where people don't misinterpret animation with the vigor that you seem to. It's fun. Enjoy it. Don't try so hard to find fault and proclaim yourself better than the average bear.
Diesel engines are much more a thing of the future than the past.
They are more efficient and longer lasting. My VW TDI is hardly noisy at all and can't be heard at all at operating speed.
VW has a 4-Motion all wheel drive TDI GTI with 150 hp and more than 250 ft lbs. That should be good for very high sixes to low sevens in the 0-60. Now is that fast enough for you?
With all that power you get an engine that lasts 300k miles (at least) and can travel 700+ miles on a single 14.5 gallon tankfull.
Don't judge diesels by performance in the states. The big three made terrible diesels that tarnished the image in the US.
If I had my way I'd have an Audi A6 Avant V-10 TDI Pump Duse chipped to 200+ hp and 450+ ft lbs...and still get 45 miles per gallon...and still produce a fraction of the greehouse gases...and still pay half what others do for fuel...
Even if you don't care about the enviroment, the Diesel is better for your wallet.