This is why I stopped paying attention to the media on health matters. Sure, big things I listen to (such as, there's a rash of hepatitis cases from people eating at Jon's-Not-so-Fresh sushi bar), but not about shit like how many cups of coffee I can safely consume or how many eggs I should eat a day.
Half the time the media gets it wrong, and when you do a little digging, you find that the study they're citing covers a very small part of the problem. Like, drinking too much coffee... while pregnant... with a certain combination of genes... and wearing a pink do-rag may be bad for you. Well, the headline "Drinking too much coffee is bad for you" doesn't apply to me, a male, now does it?
Keep this in your mind and repeat it: The media is about making money through controversy and hysteria.
Understand that, and the scary little health articles make more sense.
"Our research shows even satellite navigation equipment, if used incorrectly, can lead to driver danger," said Ian Parker, Privilege's managing director.
You don't say? You mean that stupid drivers are dangerous? Like the asshats using their cell phones while driving? I'll be if drivers were unfolding, looking at a map, and planning their route while driving, they've be dangerous too.
Yes, language does change, and the author even acknowledges this in his article.
I think his point goes deeper than that though. He wasn't being a stodgy old English teacher griping about the grammar, punctuation, or spelling of today's writers. He was complaining about their inability to write anything coherent and meaningful.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AIDS a condition and not a virus?
E.g. HIV causes AIDS?
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Oh, come now, you're telling me you've trusted Apple? What has Apple done to gain your trust? They're a profitable corporation and that's where their interests lie. How to get the moneys from your hands to theirs as efficiently as possible.
Actually, keeping the trust of the customers ultimately leads to better profits. Losing that trust will hurt the company in the long run. It's in their interest to be an honest corporation.
Unless they're a monopoly. In which case, there's no incentive to maintain your trust. No threat of you going to the competition.
Second this. Would it be so hard to put something like "What Happened with Mambo, the opensource CMS project?"
Yes, I'm aware that google is available. But I'd rather not have to go do a search for a simple definition.
But then again, this is slashdot and, like dupes and Yakov Smirnoff ripoffs, this simple request will be ignored by the masses.
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The difference is that Amazon gives you options. You can turn off most, if not all of the features of Amazon. Amazon is also upfront about the data it collects and even provides handy little links to help items explaining what the data collected is used for. Amazon, to my knowledge, has never installed software on my machine.
Gator and Co use subterfuge and dishonest tactics to get programs installed on your computer. These programs are non-optional, disrupt other work that may be done on the computer, and are very difficult to completely remove.
As soon as people started talking about biometric IDs to securing data, I thought: "Oh great, so now instead of worrying about someone guessing our password we have to worry about someone ripping off our fingers/fingernails/eyes."
We all eat so much nowadays. Do you know how much you need to survive on?
Not much. I record everything I eat during the day. If you think about the choices for food you're presented with each day, you could easily hit 3000 calories a day, no sweat. Bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (500 calories), Pizza for lunch (1000 calories), Meat+potatoes+some veggies (500-700).
That's 2200 calories, not including snacks, drinks, or alcohol.
Even with exercise, I balance on about 2000 calories a day. My job is very sedentary. I once took the time to compute what my daily caloric requirements were without exercise and came up with only 1300 calories.
Granted, everyone's metabolism is different, but it's not hard to see where the weight problems come in. Readily available food with decreasing nutritional value in ever increasing portions to a population that has become more and more sedentary.
As an aside, is it true that vitamin D can only be obtained by sunlight? My wife and I buy milk that claims to be "Vitamin A and D enriched" - is that not possible?
I dunno. Maybe it's like calcium. Some forms are more readily absorbed by the body. Like milk, dairy products, and certain supplements are great for calcium, but other supplements (I think the coral calcium) aren't as easily utilized by the body.
Or eating iron fortified cereal versus a penny.:-)
I don't think it's the scientists that are the problem. It's the media and the attention whores that cause these sensationalistic headlines to appear. And it's not that health news isn't important, it's just that media, and media consumers have the attention spans of houseflies.
If it's in the news, then it becomes the thing to do to ensure good health. Atkins, South Beach, Omega-3, Macrobiotic, Whole foods, Eggs good, eggs bad, alcohol good, alcohol bad, fat, non-fat, some fat, low-fat, trans-fat, saturated fat, refined sugar, cane sugar, aspartame, splenda, slightly overweight = bad = good = maybe, etc.
Like every other health announcement, this will be amplified in the echo chamber of national news for the next week. Health professions will bicker over how much is bad and how much is good. And businesses will find a way to cash in. Within a month, we'll see sunscreen with advertising that says something to the effect of "Let's in a little sun for that precious vitamin-D."
Here's some rules of thumb: workout a little each day, eat healthy foods until you are comfortably full, drink water, get enough sun to ensure that you are distinguishable from paper, but not enough such that your skin could be used to reupholster a leather couch, find some destressing activities, and get enough sleep.
It makes digesting the constant blare of health alerts much easier and allows one to focus on the truly important announcements. Like "lead causes cancer" and not "eating 150% of your weight in sacharin each day may cause cancer." (I exaggerate, but you get the drift).
Chief Justice: The justices and I will now confer using high-speed telepathy. [The court clerk hooks them up and the judges discuss the verdict.] By a vote of six to three we find that flag eating is not protected by the constitution.
Okay... it's not TOTALLY a computer... they're just hooked up to one.
It's always fun to watch Californian expatriates coming to Boston for the first time. Those who've acclimated walk around in shorts and t-shirts during the fall/spring seasons while the Californians are swaddled in so many layers you wonder if there's an actual person inside the clothes.
Maybe for the professional navel gazers out there, but the practical applications of such knowledge are nil. Except maybe to stick our tongues every once in a while at some uber unix geek observing our universe.
This is a prime case where the submitter should have : 1) warned the site's owner, 2) made arrangements for a mirror or coral cache or bittorrent whatever. Because you KNOW this bitch was gonna go down like a three-year-old trying to stop a stampeding herd of elephants.
And the alledged "management" of slashdot should have at least warned the poor sap before unleashing this upon his little corner of the web.
Come now, you should know that/. editors don't give a rat's ass about little things like bandwidth. They've got network pipes thicker than Paul Bunyon's sausage, racks of servers, and a readership in the thousands; I think they get a kick out of DoSing the little sites. Sort of like frying ants with a magnifying glass.
In all seriousness, people have suggested that they at least mirror small sites at the initial posting and they have steadfastly refused. Hell, a link to a google cache would be better than nothing.
That's a waste of a perfectly good spoon. Use something that doesn't contribute anything to society, like a dot-com venture capitalist, or better yet, another IP lawyer.
Slashdot Mirror
This is why I stopped paying attention to the media on health matters. Sure, big things I listen to (such as, there's a rash of hepatitis cases from people eating at Jon's-Not-so-Fresh sushi bar), but not about shit like how many cups of coffee I can safely consume or how many eggs I should eat a day.
Half the time the media gets it wrong, and when you do a little digging, you find that the study they're citing covers a very small part of the problem. Like, drinking too much coffee... while pregnant... with a certain combination of genes... and wearing a pink do-rag may be bad for you. Well, the headline "Drinking too much coffee is bad for you" doesn't apply to me, a male, now does it?
Keep this in your mind and repeat it: The media is about making money through controversy and hysteria.
Understand that, and the scary little health articles make more sense.
Shhh... don't ruin their opportunity to bash U.S. citizens' intelligence or the south.
My favorite part:
You don't say? You mean that stupid drivers are dangerous? Like the asshats using their cell phones while driving? I'll be if drivers were unfolding, looking at a map, and planning their route while driving, they've be dangerous too.
Sheesh
Yes, language does change, and the author even acknowledges this in his article.
I think his point goes deeper than that though. He wasn't being a stodgy old English teacher griping about the grammar, punctuation, or spelling of today's writers. He was complaining about their inability to write anything coherent and meaningful.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AIDS a condition and not a virus?
E.g. HIV causes AIDS?
Actually, keeping the trust of the customers ultimately leads to better profits. Losing that trust will hurt the company in the long run. It's in their interest to be an honest corporation.
Unless they're a monopoly. In which case, there's no incentive to maintain your trust. No threat of you going to the competition.
At least in theory.
Second this. Would it be so hard to put something like "What Happened with Mambo, the opensource CMS project?"
Yes, I'm aware that google is available. But I'd rather not have to go do a search for a simple definition.
But then again, this is slashdot and, like dupes and Yakov Smirnoff ripoffs, this simple request will be ignored by the masses.
The difference is that Amazon gives you options. You can turn off most, if not all of the features of Amazon. Amazon is also upfront about the data it collects and even provides handy little links to help items explaining what the data collected is used for. Amazon, to my knowledge, has never installed software on my machine.
Gator and Co use subterfuge and dishonest tactics to get programs installed on your computer. These programs are non-optional, disrupt other work that may be done on the computer, and are very difficult to completely remove.
The comparison is non-sensical.
As soon as people started talking about biometric IDs to securing data, I thought: "Oh great, so now instead of worrying about someone guessing our password we have to worry about someone ripping off our fingers/fingernails/eyes."
Yippee!
Not much. I record everything I eat during the day. If you think about the choices for food you're presented with each day, you could easily hit 3000 calories a day, no sweat. Bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (500 calories), Pizza for lunch (1000 calories), Meat+potatoes+some veggies (500-700).
That's 2200 calories, not including snacks, drinks, or alcohol.
Even with exercise, I balance on about 2000 calories a day. My job is very sedentary. I once took the time to compute what my daily caloric requirements were without exercise and came up with only 1300 calories.
Granted, everyone's metabolism is different, but it's not hard to see where the weight problems come in. Readily available food with decreasing nutritional value in ever increasing portions to a population that has become more and more sedentary.
How did this crap get modded "Informative"? It's hardly informative and, as a joke, it barely borders on smirk-worthy.
Try some arsenic, it's also natural. Be sure to swallow it all.
I dunno. Maybe it's like calcium. Some forms are more readily absorbed by the body. Like milk, dairy products, and certain supplements are great for calcium, but other supplements (I think the coral calcium) aren't as easily utilized by the body.
Or eating iron fortified cereal versus a penny.
I don't think it's the scientists that are the problem. It's the media and the attention whores that cause these sensationalistic headlines to appear. And it's not that health news isn't important, it's just that media, and media consumers have the attention spans of houseflies.
If it's in the news, then it becomes the thing to do to ensure good health. Atkins, South Beach, Omega-3, Macrobiotic, Whole foods, Eggs good, eggs bad, alcohol good, alcohol bad, fat, non-fat, some fat, low-fat, trans-fat, saturated fat, refined sugar, cane sugar, aspartame, splenda, slightly overweight = bad = good = maybe, etc.
Like every other health announcement, this will be amplified in the echo chamber of national news for the next week. Health professions will bicker over how much is bad and how much is good. And businesses will find a way to cash in. Within a month, we'll see sunscreen with advertising that says something to the effect of "Let's in a little sun for that precious vitamin-D."
Here's some rules of thumb: workout a little each day, eat healthy foods until you are comfortably full, drink water, get enough sun to ensure that you are distinguishable from paper, but not enough such that your skin could be used to reupholster a leather couch, find some destressing activities, and get enough sleep.
It makes digesting the constant blare of health alerts much easier and allows one to focus on the truly important announcements. Like "lead causes cancer" and not "eating 150% of your weight in sacharin each day may cause cancer." (I exaggerate, but you get the drift).
I hate ranting when I don't intend to.
Chief Justice: The justices and I will now confer using high-speed telepathy. [The court clerk hooks them up and the judges discuss the verdict.] By a vote of six to three we find that flag eating is not protected by the constitution.
Okay... it's not TOTALLY a computer... they're just hooked up to one.
It's always fun to watch Californian expatriates coming to Boston for the first time. Those who've acclimated walk around in shorts and t-shirts during the fall/spring seasons while the Californians are swaddled in so many layers you wonder if there's an actual person inside the clothes.
I've been using http://www.diningin.com/ myself. Dunno why this is such a hot idea now?
And the 20th free beer is getting close to the right to remain silent.
Maybe for the professional navel gazers out there, but the practical applications of such knowledge are nil. Except maybe to stick our tongues every once in a while at some uber unix geek observing our universe.
Come now, you should know that /. editors don't give a rat's ass about little things like bandwidth. They've got network pipes thicker than Paul Bunyon's sausage, racks of servers, and a readership in the thousands; I think they get a kick out of DoSing the little sites. Sort of like frying ants with a magnifying glass.
In all seriousness, people have suggested that they at least mirror small sites at the initial posting and they have steadfastly refused. Hell, a link to a google cache would be better than nothing.
Sig test.
That's a waste of a perfectly good spoon. Use something that doesn't contribute anything to society, like a dot-com venture capitalist, or better yet, another IP lawyer.
A5: A decorative anchor for ships.
Sure, that'll work until someone figures out that your mother in law is the moon.