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  1. Re:Isn't this just bulimia? on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    I dont see the relation. With a smaller stomach, then you wont be able to get the calories, and eventually the portion sizes get corrected. With this sideways puking device, you are always able to eat more and purge. Will it work? probably, but the behavior that caused the initial problem has been increased.

  2. Re:Isn't this just bulimia? on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    I fear this would make someone believe that a normal serving could be several times our servings now, which are bigger than what is really needed.

    You are right on the need comment... I word that wrong because I run far too much ( was fat, fear having to lose weight again), and I have serious issues with meeting minimal nutritional requirements, but that is the opposite of this conversation. There is a tremendous amount of discipline and restraint needed for me to not over eat when not over-exercising though. The habit of how much is needed to eat is a tough one to alter, as like you said, the body tries to prepare for potential lean times.

  3. Re:Isn't this just bulimia? on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 2

    horrible... If your body needs the calories to fill the cells, then it needs the calories. Eating may make your head think that you have the needed intake, but then the calories wont arrive and the cells start screaming. This is going to train people's brains to have some very unbalanced desires.

  4. Re:Biomechanics on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    lolz, you would have to push down on the upstroke to compress this. There is a graceful solution to this in place already. The pedals clip to the shoes. The rider simply pushes the foot into a position past TDC and BDC, then simply pushes down/lifts up. there is less pressure during that small moment , but the muscles dont work efficiently through that movement anyhow. Any mechanical fix would require a biological change to use to its fullest extent.

  5. Re:Biomechanics on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    well, TDC is the same place for the foot, but there is a bit of weight in front of the crank that can "help" get the thing moving ( assuming we are at a stop, and the idiot rider has the pedal at TDC). YAY, easier ( and bullshit)! Of course, any time you carry extra weight on a bike you have made a mistake. I want to make the next wonderful product in this line of snake oil, but instead of the crank, I will put weights on the toes of the shoes. When you have the crank at TDC, the shoe will use gravitational potential buzzwords to convince dumb people to make me rich to reduce the PERCEIVED effort.

  6. Re:At least it will create jobs. on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 1

    i am not saying that I am superman's secret identity, but I have never been seen in the room with superman.

  7. Re:Sexist? on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    i looked through the white privilege checklist, and very few of them apply to me. I would attribute some of this list as having come from Boston (MIT) . Seriously, that city can be racist as all hell. I live in Atlanta now, and while there is racism in the south, being in a big city with a very large minority population, these things just dont work out for me. If I ask to see who is in charge, I have no idea what race I would end up speaking with, the news here is very mixed, the grocery store shelves and music stores are not homogenized. So, not being pissy... these points seem to be localized.

  8. Re:...and yet on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    yup, that is going straight to my facebook status. time to get trolling

  9. Re:Going to get modded down as sexist for this, bu on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 2

    this points to the real problem that this discussion should be looking into. I had similar issues, because I would ask the teachers if the goal was to learn the material or to do the work. I didnt do the work, but could pass the tests. I was viewed as a malcontent and actually asked to drop out of school. I was actually trying to get into the challenging courses because I was bored in the standard levels, but couldnt get reccomendations to move up because of poor scores. I consistently had very low participation and homework grades, but had very high test scores. I never got moved into challenging levels, and I began taunting teachers by achieving pre-determined grades in the class... literally choosing my test scores and then missing the right number of problems.

    I cant confirm a gender specific cause to this, but following rules and completing busy work was much more important than mastering and applying the concepts.

  10. Re:They would ignore it no matter what. on Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting · · Score: 1

    yup. Just like the thermostat in office buildings that goes nowhere, this gives people the feeling that they have some sort of say or control, and pacifies them while allowing the government the right to pretend that they arent just ignoring the population to the benefit of those in power. Fun game.

  11. Re:My Solution on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    I left the keys to my first car on top of the car everywhere i went. Never lost them.

  12. Re:True on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    Always a fun question... if the two are mutually exclusive, would you rather be right, or win an argument. I dont fly anymore, so the masses can have their vote.

  13. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because the general public is rather stupid, does not mean they are right.

  14. Re:It goes the other way, too on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    it would be valuable to know if a civilization thinks Jerry Lewis is funny. The accidental information leaked could let us know whether to avoid or destroy them.

  15. Re:Bureaucracy on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    with an iron fist!

  16. Re:haha on Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting · · Score: 1

    Lack of trust was my issue also. I dont click on anything in facebook that says "click here to see or do ... " because normally that is followed by something expecting to have my permission to spread every last detail about me. Also, why would I believe that this is binding in any way.

  17. Re:Business making laws against the people on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 1

    that is cool. How much do I pay for those messages?

    I just got through a several month long battle with Tmobile for several bogus $20 texts. That is apparently enough to lie about, and to make their customers promise to cancel at the end of the contract.

  18. Re:Only ranks major ISPs on Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about this, so thank you. I had to switch from comcast the AT&T DSL a few years back, and while I had both connections active I tested both speeds. This allowed the same gear, same computer, same everything, and over a decent sized download the DSL was faster every time.

  19. Re:Business making laws against the people on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 2

    I pay per text that I receive. I am pretty certain that my carrier is more than happy to allow these to come through. I even tried to use a partial blocking application ( not just all texts ) but that apparently was preventing the texts from being read, but not received. I was still being charged for every spam that I didnt see.

    I would like an ability to send the text back to my cell provider. Every text that comes back to them does not charge my account. They can look to see that I am not sending them back legitimate texts. This way, it will cost them plenty for allowing texts, and they can actually provide a service for their million percent markup, and I wont have t o pay for this crap

  20. its getting warm in here !

  21. Re:Not possible any more on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    I am currently taking classes at a public university, and paying as I go. I am avoiding debt and also allowing myself time for a full time career and the opportunity to participate in my children's lives. I have the advantage of not needing school as I am well into my career, so this is purely for personal gain with no hurry to the finish line. That said, with the fees that get tacked on every semester, I am paying more than $1100 per class, before books. If I took 3 at a time I could get that down below $900, which is still pushing six grand for 2 almost full time semesters a year. It is expensive on low paying jobs, but not impossible if someone is determined.

  22. Re:compete instead of complain on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes · · Score: 1

    I am not sure the argument is that people are entitled to "more" of googles money. If the law states a percentage of income is to be taxed, then it is expected that the income will be taxed. Anyone moving their money around and hiding it from everyone else is then not following the spirit of the law, and things need to be adjusted.

    I cant draw the line on the definition of enough, but apple has more cash on hand then the sovereign debt of Greece. GE pays no taxes. There is a point where the concept of a percentage of income is getting shit all over, and when someone points that out, their motive cant always be jealousy or their inspiration just theft.

  23. Re:What's good for the goose... on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes · · Score: 1

    It is a bit different with companies selling intellectual property. If a company can show that it is shipping equipment, then maybe this nonsense can apply. If a company is hiring US workers to do work in the US, selling products to US citizens, hosted by servers in the US, using US infrastructure for power and comms, then it gets REALLY hard to believe that they made no money here, and the exact amount of their profits is eaten up by a contract in a tax haven. Show me where google makes 858 jabillion dollars from the few people in the bahamas, and 0 from the people in the US.

    The issue here isnt foreign countries tax laws. Show up with the IRS, call bullshit, and crank up the firing squad.

  24. Re:SSH on How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server · · Score: 1

    or if that is not enough work, install virtualbox with a similar distribution of Ubuntu as your VPS. Then do it again. Now you have two platforms to use a real shell and ssh. Why two? because you need practice to not kill access to the VPS. Use one of these as your access VM, use the other to edit away and never worry about losing any real work.

  25. Re:Apt-get install clue on How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it looks like you just told someone how to do something that you have never done yourself.