Fact: most people are fat because of hormones, not food
So they eat 1500 calories a day, get regular exercise, and hormones magically make their asses fat?
I'm 30 pounds overweight because I screwed up my foot many months ago and had to quit walking briskly 30 minutes a day on the treadmill and working regularly in the yard (which also served as a stress relief). Guess what? It is my own fault for gaining the weight, which is why now I'm working hard to eat less and find more creative ways to get more exercise until (if) the foot heals. Oh, and a few months ago, I quit smoking after 30 years.
I could easily blame it on the fact that I quit smoking or on the foot (both feet have been significantly injured over the last three years, requiring ongoing medical attention), and I could easily be a huge fat fucker by doing so, but by placing the blame where it belongs, on myself for not being more proactive before now, I can actually do something about it. And I've already lost several pounds.
The whole "it's not their fault" thing is bullshit. It *is* harder for some people with bad metabolism, but you still can't gain weight if you burn more than you eat. The science is simple, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply ignorant of how your body works.
My concern with landfills is that no one wants one in their backyard, and it is getting near impossible to start a new one. They don't freak me out, but we are filling them up much faster than we are building new ones. THAT is a problem.
You just don't get it. Using something doesn't mean profiting from it. I use the lake, I use the woods, I enjoy these things, and using them COSTS me money, it doesn't pay me. I like roping nature off an declaring it to be off limits, I use it for my own enjoyment by walking in it, fishing in it. We manage deer populations by allowing people to harvest some each year, to maintain balance. I don't hunt, but others do, and they PAY for the right to do so, which provides the money to monitor and manage them. Hunting and fishing for "fun" and personal food is a multi-billion dollar industry for stores that sell supplies, and for the tax revenue it generates. It creates jobs and provides pleasure to millions of Americans. I don't see that as a bad thing. Some, but not all, environmentalists do, and are quite vocal about it.
You do know that human waste should be labelled "biohazard", don't you?
It is sterilized, so it is not a biohazard. We aren't talking about raw sewage here. And it is the county government selling it, through the health department, not some guy out of the back of his truck.
The only concern with using humans waste is the compost has a higher amount of metals and chemicals than cow manure, due to what is flushed down the toilet, so it is strongly suggested that you don't use it on crops for two years after composting the ground with it. That is why I said to use it on lawns, fields (ie: fallow) and golf courses. You might want to read up on it, they are starting to use it for playgrounds and all kinds of places here in North Carolina, which the vast majority of people consider a good thing since we are running out of landfill area, and chemical fertilizer uses WAY too much foreign oil to produce.
>> Then we diesel truck the manure off and bury it in a landfill.
Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?
I was about to say, I pay $2 to $4 a bag for that stuff to put on my blueberries, blackberries, etc. Better yet: use human waste for lawns, fields and golf courses.
We cleared off 1/4 acre of wood (which was taken to the lumber mill and turned into railroad ties) and in order to get grass to grow in the poor soil, we hauled in a tandem load (about 11 cubic yards or about 9-10 cubic meters) of "sterilized compost" from the waste treatment plant. This means grass clippings, leaves and human poo, sterilized and composted, all "trash" that the county has to deal with. It costs $110, delivered, and we spread by hand. Best. Lawn. Ever. And no, it doesn't smell like poo, just a little like ammonia (like all compost) for a couple of days.
I'm a conservative who is a conservationist (ie: I have no use for environmentalists as I want to USE the resources we protect) and this is the right way to recycle and reuse, as it gives great results, cheaper, and creates less landfill, which is where it would have gone if I didn't spread it on the lawn. AND it allowed the waste plant to make a profit on something they normally would have to pay to dispose of.
I do catch and clean my own fish (had crappie for dinner last night, catch bass/bream/catfish all the time), but it isn't practical for me to hunt for the rest of my meat. Besides, hunting cows and chickens is illegal;) There isn't nearly so much available hunting area in the metro Mid-Atlantic area either.
Get this: We now have a coyote problem in NC. To help trim the deer population, they introduced coyotes here as a natural predator. They *could* have simply raised the hunting limit, and charged an extra fee for those who wanted to take advantage of the higher limit, thus raising money for the wildlife fund, which would actually PAY for the management. Instead, they mismanaged it by introducing a problematic predator/scavenger, which will end up costing much more to deal with. My guess is this was to keep the deer from being hunted, which ironically, is much more humane than being stalked and attacked by a coyote. Now we just need another animal that will hunt down all the coyotes and trim their populations. Maybe a T-Rex, that would make as much sense.
It appears their answer is to put the cows on a treadmill that is approximately 1x2m instead. I'm all for eating other animals that aren't smart enough to dodge a bullet, but I prefer my meat isn't tortured (veal) or subjected to crowded unhappy lives either (chickens, pigs, cows). It is a true dilemma. It isn't easy to find meat that is raised like a normal animal in the eastern USA.
You actually make a very good point, and my experiences are what you say: that Europeans don't hate us, they just think we are a bit wacked, odd or crazy. Personally, I think this is a lack of understanding on both sides of the pond. One example is *some* Europeans think it is wasteful that most American homes have air conditioning, and that we use too much electricity. I live in North Carolina, which is on the east coast, mid-Atlantic area. Not the hottest area, not the coldest. It gets 32C to 37C here all summer long, and this past winter we stayed below 0C most of the time. We would have people dropping like flies if we didn't have AC, or would have froze to death if not for central heating. It doesn't get that hot regularly in the vast majority of Europe, so it is difficult for someone from Belgium or Germany to relate to this, as our temperature swings are quite large. Most of the US is like this.
So yes, we Americans do use lots of petrol and electricity, but so do the Europeans that move here, as they quickly find they have little choice.
Sounds like it would only be missing if you had it in your pocket.;) And pickpockets are not likely to attack you for having a camera, as I am sure many people in the area are openly carrying cameras, snapping off photos left and right in the center plaza of Madrid. Pickpockets are like burgulars, less violent and confrontational than robbers, rapists & muggers. They are more likely to run, not confront. I've worked enough with both types over the years. Despite the movies showing otherwise, the average criminal is also low side or below average intellegence, which is why most get caught eventually, and why they don't instantly recognize the cause/effect of their actions to their own welfare.
Perhaps. Being an Amercian, my American-centric perspective would have thought most people would have rented cars, which is what the majority of people would do in the US, due to a lack of availability of public transportation, and the overall aversion to using what little we do have.
There is nothing wrong with our political system, the problem is the way it is being used/abused, and how we have drifted away from the original intent of the Constitution and have given too much power to too few people. As the old joke goes, "Other countries should use our Constitution, we aren't using it anyway."
Last time I went to Europe, it was a meeting with business owners all over (Franch, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, etc.) and they were a bit shocked that my friend and I weren't the stereotypes they expected. We were conservatives (my friend, Republican, me, more Libertarian) but failed to meet the expectation of being war mongering, European hating, Imperialistic thinking Americans that television portrays. (by some, others knew better) What shocked them is that we can disagree, without being disagreeable, and had actual logical reasons for our opinions. That, and the fact that we actually drink coffee and eat in our cars while driving down the highway.
Methane is over 20x as effective as a greenhouse gas as CO2, and airplanes don't emit it, and those people still had to get from point A to point B, likely using a method that created MORE CO2 per person, so the comparison is propeganda used to hug a tree, not to provide any real information.
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Is it just me, or do you live in a really, really bad neighborhood? Most people in my town just die of heart attacks, cancer, or car wrecks, with the occassional random act of violence. Not that this device is a good idea (unless you are the one selling them) but most people tend to die in ways that are less worthy of a James Bond movie plot.
As for being a witness for "every crime that ever happens near you", how many felonious crimes do you personally witness in the average day? I'm not talking copyright infringement, but about muggings, rapes, murder, burglary, robbery, etc. If your answer is >.009, you need to move. Soon.
You forgot the one hour plus lay overs like in Atlanta and other parts while the freight trains roll past and you wait for a connecting train.
But thanks to all the delays in arrivals and departures, sometimes you only have a 3 minute layover to get from concourse A to concourse D, whereupon you can wait 45 minutes on the plane waiting to take off, enjoying the aromatic plane fumes. This is one reason that I now drive to Atlanta (5 hours) instead of fly, that and the TSA delays and hassles. Actually, I drive instead of fly for any trip I can drive in 8 hours or less now.
By the time you consider connecting flights (can't afford direct flights, which cost 2x-3x as much), delays, early checkin, waiting for luggage, waiting for rental, layovers, cavity searches, etc., it takes 5 to 8 hours to go anywhere you can drive in 8 hours anyway. I would just about take a Greyhound over flying nowadays.
What is so odd to me is that many Europeans thought that Americans were laughing at them because the volcano interupted their air travel. I don't know anyone who thought that was funny at all. Do Europeans really think that we are that petty?
Even the comments for that link indicate that others think it is bogus, as it doesn't account for methane (a MAJOR greenhouse gas that volcanos emit) and other gases, and it has already been corrected many times. While interesting, you would have to be insane to use that data for anything important, like all Slashdot links.
We have passenger rail outside the northeast. You just rent a car, drive 90 miles to the depot, arrive near your destination, rent another car to drive 90 miles to your home. What could be easier?;)
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Fact: most people are fat because of hormones, not food
So they eat 1500 calories a day, get regular exercise, and hormones magically make their asses fat?
I'm 30 pounds overweight because I screwed up my foot many months ago and had to quit walking briskly 30 minutes a day on the treadmill and working regularly in the yard (which also served as a stress relief). Guess what? It is my own fault for gaining the weight, which is why now I'm working hard to eat less and find more creative ways to get more exercise until (if) the foot heals. Oh, and a few months ago, I quit smoking after 30 years.
I could easily blame it on the fact that I quit smoking or on the foot (both feet have been significantly injured over the last three years, requiring ongoing medical attention), and I could easily be a huge fat fucker by doing so, but by placing the blame where it belongs, on myself for not being more proactive before now, I can actually do something about it. And I've already lost several pounds.
The whole "it's not their fault" thing is bullshit. It *is* harder for some people with bad metabolism, but you still can't gain weight if you burn more than you eat. The science is simple, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply ignorant of how your body works.
what part of "sanitizing" do you not understand? The rest is answered in other posts above.
I meant to say I don't like roping off nature and calling it off limits, but it doesn't matter, the parent didn't sound very reasonable anyway.
My concern with landfills is that no one wants one in their backyard, and it is getting near impossible to start a new one. They don't freak me out, but we are filling them up much faster than we are building new ones. THAT is a problem.
You just don't get it. Using something doesn't mean profiting from it. I use the lake, I use the woods, I enjoy these things, and using them COSTS me money, it doesn't pay me. I like roping nature off an declaring it to be off limits, I use it for my own enjoyment by walking in it, fishing in it. We manage deer populations by allowing people to harvest some each year, to maintain balance. I don't hunt, but others do, and they PAY for the right to do so, which provides the money to monitor and manage them. Hunting and fishing for "fun" and personal food is a multi-billion dollar industry for stores that sell supplies, and for the tax revenue it generates. It creates jobs and provides pleasure to millions of Americans. I don't see that as a bad thing. Some, but not all, environmentalists do, and are quite vocal about it.
You do know that human waste should be labelled "biohazard", don't you?
It is sterilized, so it is not a biohazard. We aren't talking about raw sewage here. And it is the county government selling it, through the health department, not some guy out of the back of his truck.
The only concern with using humans waste is the compost has a higher amount of metals and chemicals than cow manure, due to what is flushed down the toilet, so it is strongly suggested that you don't use it on crops for two years after composting the ground with it. That is why I said to use it on lawns, fields (ie: fallow) and golf courses. You might want to read up on it, they are starting to use it for playgrounds and all kinds of places here in North Carolina, which the vast majority of people consider a good thing since we are running out of landfill area, and chemical fertilizer uses WAY too much foreign oil to produce.
>> Then we diesel truck the manure off and bury it in a landfill.
Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?
I was about to say, I pay $2 to $4 a bag for that stuff to put on my blueberries, blackberries, etc. Better yet: use human waste for lawns, fields and golf courses.
We cleared off 1/4 acre of wood (which was taken to the lumber mill and turned into railroad ties) and in order to get grass to grow in the poor soil, we hauled in a tandem load (about 11 cubic yards or about 9-10 cubic meters) of "sterilized compost" from the waste treatment plant. This means grass clippings, leaves and human poo, sterilized and composted, all "trash" that the county has to deal with. It costs $110, delivered, and we spread by hand. Best. Lawn. Ever. And no, it doesn't smell like poo, just a little like ammonia (like all compost) for a couple of days.
I'm a conservative who is a conservationist (ie: I have no use for environmentalists as I want to USE the resources we protect) and this is the right way to recycle and reuse, as it gives great results, cheaper, and creates less landfill, which is where it would have gone if I didn't spread it on the lawn. AND it allowed the waste plant to make a profit on something they normally would have to pay to dispose of.
Veal is bottle fed only milk and typical restrained from moving completely. Regular cows do not have nearly so much restriction.
I do catch and clean my own fish (had crappie for dinner last night, catch bass/bream/catfish all the time), but it isn't practical for me to hunt for the rest of my meat. Besides, hunting cows and chickens is illegal ;) There isn't nearly so much available hunting area in the metro Mid-Atlantic area either.
Get this: We now have a coyote problem in NC. To help trim the deer population, they introduced coyotes here as a natural predator. They *could* have simply raised the hunting limit, and charged an extra fee for those who wanted to take advantage of the higher limit, thus raising money for the wildlife fund, which would actually PAY for the management. Instead, they mismanaged it by introducing a problematic predator/scavenger, which will end up costing much more to deal with. My guess is this was to keep the deer from being hunted, which ironically, is much more humane than being stalked and attacked by a coyote. Now we just need another animal that will hunt down all the coyotes and trim their populations. Maybe a T-Rex, that would make as much sense.
It appears their answer is to put the cows on a treadmill that is approximately 1x2m instead. I'm all for eating other animals that aren't smart enough to dodge a bullet, but I prefer my meat isn't tortured (veal) or subjected to crowded unhappy lives either (chickens, pigs, cows). It is a true dilemma. It isn't easy to find meat that is raised like a normal animal in the eastern USA.
You actually make a very good point, and my experiences are what you say: that Europeans don't hate us, they just think we are a bit wacked, odd or crazy. Personally, I think this is a lack of understanding on both sides of the pond. One example is *some* Europeans think it is wasteful that most American homes have air conditioning, and that we use too much electricity. I live in North Carolina, which is on the east coast, mid-Atlantic area. Not the hottest area, not the coldest. It gets 32C to 37C here all summer long, and this past winter we stayed below 0C most of the time. We would have people dropping like flies if we didn't have AC, or would have froze to death if not for central heating. It doesn't get that hot regularly in the vast majority of Europe, so it is difficult for someone from Belgium or Germany to relate to this, as our temperature swings are quite large. Most of the US is like this.
So yes, we Americans do use lots of petrol and electricity, but so do the Europeans that move here, as they quickly find they have little choice.
Any system can be abused or hacked. Even Linux.
Sounds like it would only be missing if you had it in your pocket. ;) And pickpockets are not likely to attack you for having a camera, as I am sure many people in the area are openly carrying cameras, snapping off photos left and right in the center plaza of Madrid. Pickpockets are like burgulars, less violent and confrontational than robbers, rapists & muggers. They are more likely to run, not confront. I've worked enough with both types over the years. Despite the movies showing otherwise, the average criminal is also low side or below average intellegence, which is why most get caught eventually, and why they don't instantly recognize the cause/effect of their actions to their own welfare.
Perhaps. Being an Amercian, my American-centric perspective would have thought most people would have rented cars, which is what the majority of people would do in the US, due to a lack of availability of public transportation, and the overall aversion to using what little we do have.
I have mod points. Where is the 'Rhetorical' option?
I do too, but answered the GP instead. BTW, is Rhetorical a +1 or -1?
There is nothing wrong with our political system, the problem is the way it is being used/abused, and how we have drifted away from the original intent of the Constitution and have given too much power to too few people. As the old joke goes, "Other countries should use our Constitution, we aren't using it anyway."
Last time I went to Europe, it was a meeting with business owners all over (Franch, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, etc.) and they were a bit shocked that my friend and I weren't the stereotypes they expected. We were conservatives (my friend, Republican, me, more Libertarian) but failed to meet the expectation of being war mongering, European hating, Imperialistic thinking Americans that television portrays. (by some, others knew better) What shocked them is that we can disagree, without being disagreeable, and had actual logical reasons for our opinions. That, and the fact that we actually drink coffee and eat in our cars while driving down the highway.
Methane is over 20x as effective as a greenhouse gas as CO2, and airplanes don't emit it, and those people still had to get from point A to point B, likely using a method that created MORE CO2 per person, so the comparison is propeganda used to hug a tree, not to provide any real information.
Is it just me, or do you live in a really, really bad neighborhood? Most people in my town just die of heart attacks, cancer, or car wrecks, with the occassional random act of violence. Not that this device is a good idea (unless you are the one selling them) but most people tend to die in ways that are less worthy of a James Bond movie plot.
As for being a witness for "every crime that ever happens near you", how many felonious crimes do you personally witness in the average day? I'm not talking copyright infringement, but about muggings, rapes, murder, burglary, robbery, etc. If your answer is > .009, you need to move. Soon.
You forgot the one hour plus lay overs like in Atlanta and other parts while the freight trains roll past and you wait for a connecting train.
But thanks to all the delays in arrivals and departures, sometimes you only have a 3 minute layover to get from concourse A to concourse D, whereupon you can wait 45 minutes on the plane waiting to take off, enjoying the aromatic plane fumes. This is one reason that I now drive to Atlanta (5 hours) instead of fly, that and the TSA delays and hassles. Actually, I drive instead of fly for any trip I can drive in 8 hours or less now.
By the time you consider connecting flights (can't afford direct flights, which cost 2x-3x as much), delays, early checkin, waiting for luggage, waiting for rental, layovers, cavity searches, etc., it takes 5 to 8 hours to go anywhere you can drive in 8 hours anyway. I would just about take a Greyhound over flying nowadays.
What is so odd to me is that many Europeans thought that Americans were laughing at them because the volcano interupted their air travel. I don't know anyone who thought that was funny at all. Do Europeans really think that we are that petty?
Even the comments for that link indicate that others think it is bogus, as it doesn't account for methane (a MAJOR greenhouse gas that volcanos emit) and other gases, and it has already been corrected many times. While interesting, you would have to be insane to use that data for anything important, like all Slashdot links.
And back on topic, the Brit. Navy is actually sending two warships over to the US to pick up people. I think that's pretty impressive.
After all the news about the Tea Party rallies, I'm pretty nervous about the Brits sending over warships...
We have passenger rail outside the northeast. You just rent a car, drive 90 miles to the depot, arrive near your destination, rent another car to drive 90 miles to your home. What could be easier? ;)
Humans have multi processes but we only have two cores. So it is done by rapidly switching between tasks to give the effect of simultaneous actions.
So the human brain is kinda like Windows 3.1?