Could the Princeton lab photo be any more obviously-posed? Well at least the girls are cute. Reminds me of a Playboy video of similarly cute girls. Except they took their labcoats off.
Fruit juice is a horrible way to get your vitamins. Eat the actual fruit which includes the fiber (also an important ingredient). I'm gonna go eat some fiber right now: Popcorn.
The reason 85% of Americans over age 30 are fat is because (1) they eat too much sugar and (2) too large portions. See the video "sugar the bitter truth".
It seems people keep trying to blame other things (too much TV, too much gaming, too much bacteria or antibiotics) instead of themselves. You weighed 120-140 when you were 18 (less for girls)..... no reason you can't weigh that now.
Depends on what they're doing AT work. Many people listen to music or talk radio or audiobooks... same stuff they'd be doing if they were at home. So no real difference in home vs. work.
Also there was a time, for about 10,000 years, when work and home were integrated because it was the same place (your farm or your shop). That experience shaped our brains' wiring. It is only recently that the two became separated.
I noticed that with my boss today. We were chatting and his "push" email updated, so he glanced at it. Then we resumed chatting and his email updated so he glanced at it again. I found it annoying & made our chat last 1.5 times longer than it should have. I check my email just twice a day..... I figure if it's urgent they can pick up the phone and call. Or send an instant message.
I don't feel like a number? Look I have a name: cpu6502. Not just here but on facebook, on gmail, and at work (though each name is different). People even call me by that name.
No actually I feel more like a cow (human "resource"). The company provides a stall for me to hang out with food, water and toilet facilities located nearby. From time-to-time it milks me for product, which it can sell on the open market. As long as the company does not abuse me, I am a happy cow.;-)
If you read the Congress's Net Neutrality law and the FCC's followup ruling, you will notice that cellular providers are exempt from the NN agreement and therefore can limit the traffic across their radiowaves (because cellular "has limited room for expansion").
ALSO : You do have options. For example VirginMobile charges me a mere $5 a month for 30 minutes calltime. That's plenty for me, especially since the minutes rollover. I now have about 10 hours racked-up. There are other similar "pay as you go" services.
>>>>>Or the one that informed me Volkswagen has finally released a diesel-powered Beetle. >> >>They were running internet ads for this in ~1998?
The diesel-powered Beetles were discontinued in 2006 smartass. Now, in 2013, they have finally brought them back to the U.S. Hence the advertising and why I found it informative. (Had I been using adblocker I'd not have known the 2013 Beetle was an option.)
>>>All in all, it seems to work fine, we get over 50 channels
False. The TV license/tax only funds the BBC channels. It does not fund the other non-BBC channels which have to fund themselves through advertising (or direct billing). The U.S. equivalent would be if I had to pay a $230 tax to fund all the PBS television/radio channels. The other channels like NBC, ABC, FOX, Ion, etc would not receive a single dime from that pool.
My Source is speedtest.net which tests billions of connections around the globe. There are many areas of the EU, just like the US, that are stuck with slow dialup or ISDN connections. So while I and you mght be able to 50 Mbit/s lines, many people can not, and that drags down the union average.
And yes the U.S. has states that are faster than EU states. If you live in California or Washington or Maryland your average net speed is faster than all 27 EU states except Sweden. So if you have crap internet at your current location, just pick-up and move.
On the official European Union website, it uses the word "states" to refer to its members. Not just one but repeatedly.
BTW my Source is speedtest.net which tests billions of connections around the globe. There are many areas of the EU, just like the U.S., that are stuck with slow dialup or ISDN connections. So while I and you mght be able to 50 Mbit/s lines, many people can not, and that drags down the union average.
No 80s generation. "X". You should be damn lucky we don't have a worldwide government that is a reflection of our American or European governments. The U.S. and EU governments redistribute the wealth from their top 1% down to the bottom by funding 95% of their budgets off that top 1% of earners (and then providing roads, medicare, retirement, welfare, food stamps, airplines, etc).
If a world government existed on this same model the U.S. and EU citizens would be the ones paying 95% of the tax burden, and that money would be redistributed to poor places like Africa, India, China, South America, and so on.
>>>After the birth, a mother that's unable or unwilling to care for the newborn or infant has other choices beyond abortion.
She has the exact-same choice during pregnancy: She can adopt it out to some other family. There are very few valid reasons for the killing of a human baby when it's 8.99 months old (before birth) versus 9.01 months old (after birth). Except cold-heartedness..... the belief that turning a healthy human fetus into a bloody mass of limbs in a trashcan is acceptable.
>>>Lemme get this straight, you were seriously looking to buy a diesel Beetle, and you found out they were making one from an ad?!
Yes. I was shopping ebay for USED diesel-powered beetles (2000-6 model year) and I discovered the VW just released a 2013 version..... through an ad. Why is this so surprising?
And if you want to think I'm gay for driving a cute car, so be it. I think you're a judgmental bastard. Because you are.
It always amuses me when I hear this. Whenever I download a TV show I discover the last 15-20 minutes of every hour is filled with..... guess. That's right: Ads.
Top Gear is boring. - Monty Python is not a current show. Praising the BBC for past glory is like saying, "NBC produced great shows like Seinfeld, Cheers, and E.R.!" Yeah. And today NBC sucks. The past is not relevant to the present. - David Attenborough's shows are good, but they would not exist without funding from the *ad supported* History Channel. Without that money the BBC could not afford to produce the program.
As for America's "crap" the rest of the world seems to enjoy gobbling-up Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, CSI, Law & Order, and so on. ALL produced through advertising funds. Stop and think about how empty UK TV would be without all those American imports. >>>Oh most of the crap in America is just remakes of BBC stuf
Actually the BBC has a well-known bias towards more UK government. And lots of positive "the EU is great" and "let's join the Euro" stories. They even admitted they had a bias and tried to clean it up a few years ago, though they were not very successful. It is a natural consequence that when you receive money from the government, and protection of your monopoly from the government, you will slant towards pro-government views.
>>>nothing is stopping the poor sod who is upset about adblocking everything and writing a check to the web site and popping it off in the mail.
So do YOU do that? Me neither. Because I'm a cheapassgamer(dot-com) Most people don't pay. They want something for nothing. A study recently published to slashdot shows even if you sold ebooks or games for $1 each, people would still take the stuff for free rather than pay.
1 cent per page? I would owe $10 a day with that model. $300/month and close to $4000 a year. No. I much prefer the advertising that gives me free internet (also TV and radio). The alternative would be something like the BBC, where I'd have to pay $230 a year to watch NBC. $230 a year to watch ABC. $230 a year to watch CBS. And on and on and on. Pretty soon I'd have a $2000 bill just to watch television I currently get for free. (Add another $1000 to get cable.)
No I prefer the ads. And believe it or not some of those ads are useful.... like the one that told me Dominoes has 50% off pizza. Or the one advertising the "Grimm" DVD. I discovered a new show. Or the one that informed me Volkswagen has finally released a diesel-powered Beetle. I was looking for a car and now I'll have one.
I stumbled across a site that showed people being hung, Russian soldiers decapitated with butchers knives, and cats set afire. How much worse could the internet possibly get?
>>>The slave could reasonably live without her master. The embryo cannot. That makes it a parasite.
That's a good point. Very good point. And if we follow THAT logic to its conclusion, then mothers should be able to kill newborns or infants. After all just like a human embryo or fetus, they cannot survive on their own. (And yes I have heard some radicals say moms should not be punished for murder if they dump their newborns in a dumpster. The suggestion is already being discussed for legalization.)
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At least that's what the /. articles were saying back then. Maybe it's just FUD like the movie-makers in the 1950s who said TV would kill theaters.
Could the Princeton lab photo be any more obviously-posed? Well at least the girls are cute.
Reminds me of a Playboy video of similarly cute girls.
Except they took their labcoats off.
Fruit juice is a horrible way to get your vitamins. Eat the actual fruit which includes the fiber (also an important ingredient). I'm gonna go eat some fiber right now: Popcorn.
The reason 85% of Americans over age 30 are fat is because (1) they eat too much sugar and (2) too large portions. See the video "sugar the bitter truth".
It seems people keep trying to blame other things (too much TV, too much gaming, too much bacteria or antibiotics) instead of themselves. You weighed 120-140 when you were 18 (less for girls)..... no reason you can't weigh that now.
Depends on what they're doing AT work. Many people listen to music or talk radio or audiobooks... same stuff they'd be doing if they were at home. So no real difference in home vs. work.
Also there was a time, for about 10,000 years, when work and home were integrated because it was the same place (your farm or your shop). That experience shaped our brains' wiring. It is only recently that the two became separated.
I noticed that with my boss today. We were chatting and his "push" email updated, so he glanced at it. Then we resumed chatting and his email updated so he glanced at it again. I found it annoying & made our chat last 1.5 times longer than it should have. I check my email just twice a day..... I figure if it's urgent they can pick up the phone and call. Or send an instant message.
I don't feel like a number? Look I have a name: cpu6502. Not just here but on facebook, on gmail, and at work (though each name is different). People even call me by that name.
No actually I feel more like a cow (human "resource"). The company provides a stall for me to hang out with food, water and toilet facilities located nearby. From time-to-time it milks me for product, which it can sell on the open market. As long as the company does not abuse me, I am a happy cow. ;-)
The time I wasted on my Bring Your Own Device's applications instead of working. 12 hours a day are my new norm (and leave the weekends for myself).
>>>I don't think AT&T would try this if Steve Jobs was still alive
Really?
What would Jobs do to stop them?
He's not some kind of superhero or god that can force ATT to carry FaceTime calls.
If you read the Congress's Net Neutrality law and the FCC's followup ruling, you will notice that cellular providers are exempt from the NN agreement and therefore can limit the traffic across their radiowaves (because cellular "has limited room for expansion").
ALSO : You do have options. For example VirginMobile charges me a mere $5 a month for 30 minutes calltime. That's plenty for me, especially since the minutes rollover. I now have about 10 hours racked-up. There are other similar "pay as you go" services.
>>>>>Or the one that informed me Volkswagen has finally released a diesel-powered Beetle.
>>
>>They were running internet ads for this in ~1998?
The diesel-powered Beetles were discontinued in 2006 smartass. Now, in 2013, they have finally brought them back to the U.S. Hence the advertising and why I found it informative. (Had I been using adblocker I'd not have known the 2013 Beetle was an option.)
>>>All in all, it seems to work fine, we get over 50 channels
False. The TV license/tax only funds the BBC channels. It does not fund the other non-BBC channels which have to fund themselves through advertising (or direct billing). The U.S. equivalent would be if I had to pay a $230 tax to fund all the PBS television/radio channels. The other channels like NBC, ABC, FOX, Ion, etc would not receive a single dime from that pool.
My Source is speedtest.net which tests billions of connections around the globe. There are many areas of the EU, just like the US, that are stuck with slow dialup or ISDN connections. So while I and you mght be able to 50 Mbit/s lines, many people can not, and that drags down the union average.
And yes the U.S. has states that are faster than EU states. If you live in California or Washington or Maryland your average net speed is faster than all 27 EU states except Sweden. So if you have crap internet at your current location, just pick-up and move.
>>>States? is the EU a country now?
On the official European Union website, it uses the word "states" to refer to its members. Not just one but repeatedly.
BTW my Source is speedtest.net which tests billions of connections around the globe. There are many areas of the EU, just like the U.S., that are stuck with slow dialup or ISDN connections. So while I and you mght be able to 50 Mbit/s lines, many people can not, and that drags down the union average.
>>>cpu6502 who called me an entitlement generation leftist
No I didn't. The word "leftist" is nowhere in my post. Strawman argument.
No 80s generation. "X". You should be damn lucky we don't have a worldwide government that is a reflection of our American or European governments. The U.S. and EU governments redistribute the wealth from their top 1% down to the bottom by funding 95% of their budgets off that top 1% of earners (and then providing roads, medicare, retirement, welfare, food stamps, airplines, etc).
If a world government existed on this same model the U.S. and EU citizens would be the ones paying 95% of the tax burden, and that money would be redistributed to poor places like Africa, India, China, South America, and so on.
>>>After the birth, a mother that's unable or unwilling to care for the newborn or infant has other choices beyond abortion.
She has the exact-same choice during pregnancy: She can adopt it out to some other family. There are very few valid reasons for the killing of a human baby when it's 8.99 months old (before birth) versus 9.01 months old (after birth). Except cold-heartedness..... the belief that turning a healthy human fetus into a bloody mass of limbs in a trashcan is acceptable.
>>>Lemme get this straight, you were seriously looking to buy a diesel Beetle, and you found out they were making one from an ad?!
Yes. I was shopping ebay for USED diesel-powered beetles (2000-6 model year) and I discovered the VW just released a 2013 version..... through an ad. Why is this so surprising?
And if you want to think I'm gay for driving a cute car, so be it. I think you're a judgmental bastard. Because you are.
>>>ALL of the above are ad-free.
It always amuses me when I hear this. Whenever I download a TV show I discover the last 15-20 minutes of every hour is filled with..... guess. That's right: Ads.
Top Gear is boring.
- Monty Python is not a current show. Praising the BBC for past glory is like saying, "NBC produced great shows like Seinfeld, Cheers, and E.R.!" Yeah. And today NBC sucks. The past is not relevant to the present.
- David Attenborough's shows are good, but they would not exist without funding from the *ad supported* History Channel. Without that money the BBC could not afford to produce the program.
As for America's "crap" the rest of the world seems to enjoy gobbling-up Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, CSI, Law & Order, and so on. ALL produced through advertising funds. Stop and think about how empty UK TV would be without all those American imports.
>>>Oh most of the crap in America is just remakes of BBC stuf
Go suck.
Actually the BBC has a well-known bias towards more UK government. And lots of positive "the EU is great" and "let's join the Euro" stories. They even admitted they had a bias and tried to clean it up a few years ago, though they were not very successful. It is a natural consequence that when you receive money from the government, and protection of your monopoly from the government, you will slant towards pro-government views.
>>>nothing is stopping the poor sod who is upset about adblocking everything and writing a check to the web site and popping it off in the mail.
So do YOU do that?
Me neither. Because I'm a cheapassgamer(dot-com)
Most people don't pay. They want something for nothing. A study recently published to slashdot shows even if you sold ebooks or games for $1 each, people would still take the stuff for free rather than pay.
1 cent per page? I would owe $10 a day with that model. $300/month and close to $4000 a year. No. I much prefer the advertising that gives me free internet (also TV and radio). The alternative would be something like the BBC, where I'd have to pay $230 a year to watch NBC. $230 a year to watch ABC. $230 a year to watch CBS. And on and on and on. Pretty soon I'd have a $2000 bill just to watch television I currently get for free. (Add another $1000 to get cable.)
No I prefer the ads. And believe it or not some of those ads are useful.... like the one that told me Dominoes has 50% off pizza. Or the one advertising the "Grimm" DVD. I discovered a new show. Or the one that informed me Volkswagen has finally released a diesel-powered Beetle. I was looking for a car and now I'll have one.
I stumbled across a site that showed people being hung, Russian soldiers decapitated with butchers knives, and cats set afire. How much worse could the internet possibly get?
>>>The slave could reasonably live without her master. The embryo cannot. That makes it a parasite.
That's a good point. Very good point. And if we follow THAT logic to its conclusion, then mothers should be able to kill newborns or infants. After all just like a human embryo or fetus, they cannot survive on their own. (And yes I have heard some radicals say moms should not be punished for murder if they dump their newborns in a dumpster. The suggestion is already being discussed for legalization.)