Considering half the drivers there don't seem to be paying attention to their driving, self-driving cars would probably be a huge improvement.
I got a ticket about 10 years ago and had to go to driving school. Maybe 50-60 people packed into a room. First two things the guy asked were questions on how close you could legally follow another car, and who had right of way in a simple merge situation and in a lane change. About 75% of the people, by show of hands on a multiple choice answer set got the wrong answer. Which means 3/4 of people on the road don't understand the simplest of rules regarding driving.
Couple that with being able to get a handful of questions wrong on the driving test, and rarely if ever re-testing, throw in some distraction since driving a two ton killing machine just isn't that interesting after you've done it a couple of months, and you have driving problems and accidents.
The car knows the rules of the road. It isn't distracted. It wont change lanes every 5 seconds when there's heavy traffic and all lane changing does is increase the likelihood of an accident. It wont tailgate. It won't drive drunk. Its not texting continuously. It wont speed 20mph over the speed limit so as to arrive home 1.5 minutes earlier. In short, it won't do any of the 95,000 things that human drivers do, usually at considerable risk and low to no gain.
Maybe if people actually read and retained the rules of the road, and didn't drive like they were playing a video game with no downsides and no risk, along with unlimited lives...we wouldn't need this.
But...we do.
Good on California legislators for reacting quickly to a potential source of licensing revenue. While they may go for years without addressing serious problems and safety issues, or doing complex things like resurfacing roads...they're pretty quick to respond to an increase in the revenue stream that allows them to continue spending billions on pork every year.
Now I just have to figure out how to trick them into thinking its fun to spend money on roads and schools.
Two cars are rolling down the street when one says "Hey, I notice you're painted red, and my company owns a patent on the color red. So lose the paint."
Of course, this is a silly analogy. Paint color actually makes sense compared to some patent battles over finger movements and "style".
Or it means that mice with better immune systems become more promiscuous. Or that generations of mice that have been promiscuous just happened to have better immune systems, so they survived the mouse versions of venereal diseases longer and multiplied while the monogamous mice had to stay monogamous to avoid death.
Geez, the options on these studies are a lot further ranging than the headlines let on...;)
Actually on rethinking it, the primary failed premise is listening to the "experts".
I would say the problem is that experts either do not base their claims on science, or are just relays of big corporations PR
Also right, and I'll add personal or organizational agendas. The whole salt thing came about because a core group of doctors were determined to prove that salt caused health problems, and they thoroughly spindled the data until they got the result they wanted. I think thats the case with many nutritional study "findings".
The real horror here is that people adopt this information and utilize it in with the intent to be healthier, and it makes them sick. Millions died of heart disease and cancer from eating margarine and transfats/hydrogentated oils. Millions died when doctors told them in the 50's and 60's that cigarettes were good for you. And our epidemic of diabetes came about when the food pyramid appeared in the 70's, telling people to drink lots of fruit juice (also known as pepsi without the caffeine), lots of processed starches and foods commonly high in calories but low in nutrition.
I lost 70 pounds in the last year, and was able to stop taking medication for high blood pressure and diabetes. I eat meat (grass fed where possible), oily fish, eggs, whole milk, bacon, sausage, lots of berries, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, whole fruits and vegetables that grow above ground with the exception of sweet potatoes and carrots, which I do eat on occasion...mostly tomatoes, avocado's and kale. No starch, no grain, very little sugar and what I do use is coconut sugar or blue agave or honey. Nothing processed or boxed. My fats are lard, beef tallow, butter (the tasty irish type), coconut oil and small amounts of olive oil for cold applications only. I don't eat worthless oils like canola and safflower. And I salt the living crap out of everything, because it makes food taste better.
Bear in mind I'm not eating a 24 oz steak covered with butter, its smaller amounts of very satiating food, lots of cold water (about all I drink), and walk for 30-60 minutes a day. My food yesterday was a hard boiled egg, about 4 oz of baked beans, a piece of bacon, a 6oz kobe burger (no bun) with about a pound of field greens that I squeezed a couple of limes over, tomatoes and cucumbers, a mandarin orange, a grapefruit, and a couple of st louis smoked pork ribs with corn on the cob, cole slaw with a home made low cal vinaigrette, and half a sweet potato with a yogurt/sriracha/bbq sauce crema, chopped green onions, chopped bacon and shredded mozzarella. About 1500 calories total. Eight glasses of water, and I walked about 7 miles walking my kid to school and walking my dogs around the neighborhood.
Its a simple diet. Look at a food and if Survivorman or a skilled indigenous people could find it and prepare it with limited tools and its delicious...eat it. Otherwise pass.
We've fallen into a huge hole in the ground nutritionally, and in our knowledge of food. Eat like our ancestors did. Whole foods, simply prepared. I knew we were culturally screwed when I saw the commercial that started with the positive "Nutritional studies are confusing and keep contradicting each other" but concluded with the disappointing "I know good nutrition when I see it!" which turns out to be a processed grain cooked in worthless oil and then sprayed with high fructose corn syrup. Pretty much the worst example of nutrition on earth.
Want an answer to why we've been steered away from healthy foods? Because a field of GMO soy, a field of GMO corn and a field of GMO rapeseed squeezed into canola oil are a lot easier to grow and process than a field full of cows or pigs, and grains have a much higher profit margin than tomatoes and avocado's. Heck, our original turn from lard to crisco came about because candle makers were upset that the beef tallow hegemony was jacking up prices on beef fat, so they invented a replacement f
It really doesn't bother me that much that someone could track all of my internet traffic, although I guess that means the end of midget transsexuals with horses porn viewing.
What bothers me is when they get the data wrong or are unable to ascertain the differences between my traffic and someone elses using the same internet connection. A few years ago I applied for a higher end, less expensive insurance product that required they check me out pretty thoroughly. In fact, that was as invasive as when I got a top secret and nuclear Q clearance some years ago. They were very inquisitive about my ex girlfriends ex husband, who apparently got himself into some problems with fraud. Because she and I held a homeowners policy 9 years earlier, their system crossed me with her, she with him, and therefore me with him. Except I never met him, speak to him or have any doings with him. I had to sign a document asserting those facts, and the whole thing took hours of time and delayed my acceptance for a few weeks.
The cloud model is also pretty much the same construct as the mainframe, although the terminals are a little smarter. Variability of performance and response coupled with the fact that you never save money on a centralized approach, coupled with the same reasons existing today that caused us to flee centralized computing (takes too long to get changes made, poor flexibility, one size fits nobody, etc). Hell, google printed headers and footers on all printed chrome pages, whether you wanted them or not, even if they ruined the print by forcing it to two pages. I think that was the case when chrome first launched, and it wasn't until a few months ago that they added a checkbox for headers/footers. Years. Why? Printing isn't important to google. They'd prefer you keep revisiting a page with your phone or tablet, where they get more page views and potential ad clicks. But for years I've had to switch to IE to print something out, even though thousands of requests to google to add this functionality were made each and every year.
It all sounds pretty good, but I think the cloud will be a good place for backups, extra copies of stuff, documents you want to access while on the road, and copies of savegames like xbox lives cloud storage. Not to run apps or offload ordinary processing or to own all my data. Probably not ever.
The amusement of all of this stuff ended when I installed skydrive and it found and uploaded a file from a flash drive containing all of my user names and passwords. I neither told it to, nor did it tell me it was looking for and uploading stuff, that was just its default. Yes, I know keeping a password file is stupid but I work with hundreds of sites, and there isnt a common username or password I can use with all of them since some require an upper case/special character/number sequence while others refuse to accept the same, and some require periodic changing, whether I want to or not. Another symptom of 'centralized' computing...you have to live by their rules...all 900000 variants of them, 899999 of them not what you want.
And as others mentioned, if you think this data exists and the government (or your garden variety anonymous type hacker) cant get it, well...thats so innocent and sweet that my blood sugar just went up 50 points.
Who in hell is issuing patents on configuration settings? That isnt a unique goddamn invention. Of course, neither are pinchy finger motions. The "Kids in the hall" should have patented that one when they were crushing other peoples heads.
I am not at all shocked to see this C&D letter arrive at their doorstep. Commercial rights owners will act to protect their properties. The (any) team doing dev work on a IP other than their own and acting without a license should expect as much too. It is always best to use IP with permission or that is original no matter how 'cool' the property may seem.
Its no big deal. They just have to change a few things. They'll be marching with Bobbits (make your own joke) and smelfs, fighting balsmogs on their way to Fordor.
As long as the game play doesn't include any pinchy motions, they'll be just fine.
What do you do with the rest of it after you take two bites?
I have three kids, four dogs, two cats and a wife. I whip up a pile of tasty food, eat some, and its then descended upon by a phalanx of small protein disposal units that all run around for 10 hours a day, so they can enjoy a few more calories than I do.
I'm also known for buying a nice burger and side salad at a restaurant, eating the salad and taking two bites out of the burger, and then carting the burger home and making two more meals out of it.
Its mostly a lot of grazing, and if you ever watch the competition cooking shows where they have to make a 'one bite" meal on a spoon...I do a lot of that too.
The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet.
The primary failed premise is the reliance on calories. Paper contains a lot of calories, but unless you are a cow, you cannot get fat by eating a lot of paper
Actually on rethinking it, the primary failed premise is listening to the "experts". Now that salt is good again (and after reading all the studies that said it wasn't, I understand the problem) and eggs are good again (oh wait, or are they bad again), all I have to do is remember when cigarettes were good for you, butter and lard and coconut oil were bad for you so we should eat transfats, margarine and polyunsaturated fats, and we should avoid eating meat.
All wrong. But people spend so much time eating sodium reduced canola oil infused low calorie crap, its a wonder anyone can lose weight. They're also starting out at an "average" caloric intake of 2000 being the baseline, and thats where people REALLY get screwed up.
Oh, and in prologue, I guess I'm not falling for the strawman "you can't digest paper" argument. All you need to do is eat food with high nutrition profiles commensurate with the calorie intake, eat small amounts of whole foods throughout the day, and eat things that satiate your appetite.
I agree. I ate vegetarian for a few years in the presumption it'd be healthier, but it wasn't. I had trouble losing weight, and frankly wasn't quite as healthy as I am now. Protein intake was a problem unless I ate soy, and I'm not a fan.
What worked for me was just eating reasonable amounts of good food, and all kinds of it. Quit the worthless oils like canola and safflower and get back to coconut oil, palm oil, butter and lard. Quit the sugar, starches and processed foods. Go for high nutrition instead of high energy.
And do it the Guy Fieri way. Look at it, exclaim how wonderful it smells, then eat one or two bites and move on to the next scene.
The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet. Thats fine if you're working with your hands, on your feet. Its too much for the vast majority of people who walk 5000 steps a day and sit on their arse all afternoon. Well that and the idea of shoving pound after pound of sugar, starches and processed foods that are very high in calories into our faces.
I think its hilarious that people look at a happy meal and think the burger is the bad actor. Hint: its the giant fries and soft drink you could start an outboard motor in.
I kicked out the crap junky foods, eat only whole foods that I can recognize in closer to 1500 calorie doses, and lost 70 lbs. I feel and look great. Its pretty easy to stay well within 1500 calories if you just drink water and nothing else...most people take in 500-800+ calories a day in drinks alone.
My typical meals are an egg, bacon and blueberries for breakfast, a salad, yogurt and some citrus for lunch, and a double cheeseburger with a salad I squeeze some limes over for dinner. Yes, thats under 1500 calories...
In a world...yes...queue James Earl Jones or some other deep voiced character...where doing the "I'm crushing your head" motion on a phone is worth a billion dollars...yes I think that innovation is dead.
Agreed. Absolutely nothing has changed since the 70s. Nope. Nothing.
I wish it had anything at all to do with technology or things that have improved over time, but it doesn't. Centralizing resources and having those under one persons charge while many others want to use it or use it in a currently unsupported way costs more and gives less flexibility. That human issue has been the case for a lot longer than the 70's.
Geez, didn't we have this stuff years ago, only it was called mainframes and minicomputers?
Someone refresh my memory as to why we fled those for PC's? Oh yeah, it cost too much to centralize, the 'one size fits all' solutions actually fit no one, and it took too long to wait for someone to fix things or come up with new tools.
No, I'm just no so egotistical that I think I'm superior to a jury when I've only seen a tiny fraction of the evidence as presented on opinion sites.
Well lets see, I've been in the industry for three decades and have read absolutely anything and everything about the case, and I hold or was responsible for guiding the process for hundreds of patents. I think the verdict is ridiculous. In fact, I think we wasted an awful lot of judicial time even hearing it. Then get back to actually inventing things that are clearly patented. Gestures and finger flicks aren't inventions.
While I might be egotistical, I'm also far better qualified than the bunch of neophytes that were packed into the jury box. I'm also able to form a pretty full opinion without sitting in the courtroom for three weeks. Shoot me.
the Amiga proved that competing products can not only avoid infringing, but innovate in new ways improving diversity in the marketplace.
Hmm, what was it that Apples lawyers said during the trial against windows 'infringement'? Oh yeah, that if Windows wasn't stopped, Apple would be unable to innovate at all in the future.
How'd that work out? Seems they had very little trouble innovating, or continuing to charge twice as much for products that do essentially the same thing as their competitors.
Really? A billion for a few fingertip movements? I'm 99.99% sure that my thinkpad (bought long before Apple even thought of making a phone) had pinch and spread fingertip gestures on their touchpad.
'The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there.'
I guess that would have pretty much ended the apple v microsoft trial, since apple was using 68000 cpu's and microsoft windows ran on intel stuff. Not sure what the xerox star ran that apple copied to make their 'original work'.
And hey, weren't nokia and a number of other companies making smartphones for about 10 years before Apple? Isn't apple therefore running over any of their prior work?
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Its a freaking cell phone.
What is the point of this kind of shit? Money? The richest countries in the world tend to be the freest. Power? Over what? You are the government, you already have a monopoly on legal force and coercion. The only thing this is going to do is get a lot of people sent to jail that didn't do shit. It makes no sense.
Think about all the silly laws we have that create an air of uncertainty about the law and opportunities for a timely arrest or fine. It really pisses off the police when they want to slap the bracelets on someone, but there isn't a handy law available that many people break with regularity.
So this makes it easy to imprison anyone running a cyber cafe whenever they want, because chances are that someone posted something illegal in their cafe in the week or two prior.
Or its just to put a chill into people who feel relatively anonymous at a cyber cafe.
The really funny part of this is that in order to remain in compliance, the owner would have to monitor every user or all of their traffic and neither of those is feasible. Thats what I'm sure most are looking for, a cyber cafe reading all the data packets, including breaking encryption, looking for someone bad mouthing a politician. Then they'll be safe...
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don't you need to keep mixing and reloading the assault or concrete and you need people to look over the work as it's going as well.
I don't think anyone is assaulting the roads, I think they're just old.
Considering half the drivers there don't seem to be paying attention to their driving, self-driving cars would probably be a huge improvement.
I got a ticket about 10 years ago and had to go to driving school. Maybe 50-60 people packed into a room. First two things the guy asked were questions on how close you could legally follow another car, and who had right of way in a simple merge situation and in a lane change. About 75% of the people, by show of hands on a multiple choice answer set got the wrong answer. Which means 3/4 of people on the road don't understand the simplest of rules regarding driving.
Couple that with being able to get a handful of questions wrong on the driving test, and rarely if ever re-testing, throw in some distraction since driving a two ton killing machine just isn't that interesting after you've done it a couple of months, and you have driving problems and accidents.
The car knows the rules of the road. It isn't distracted. It wont change lanes every 5 seconds when there's heavy traffic and all lane changing does is increase the likelihood of an accident. It wont tailgate. It won't drive drunk. Its not texting continuously. It wont speed 20mph over the speed limit so as to arrive home 1.5 minutes earlier. In short, it won't do any of the 95,000 things that human drivers do, usually at considerable risk and low to no gain.
Maybe if people actually read and retained the rules of the road, and didn't drive like they were playing a video game with no downsides and no risk, along with unlimited lives...we wouldn't need this.
But...we do.
Good on California legislators for reacting quickly to a potential source of licensing revenue. While they may go for years without addressing serious problems and safety issues, or doing complex things like resurfacing roads...they're pretty quick to respond to an increase in the revenue stream that allows them to continue spending billions on pork every year.
Now I just have to figure out how to trick them into thinking its fun to spend money on roads and schools.
I'm still lost. Can you give me a car analogy?
Two cars are rolling down the street when one says "Hey, I notice you're painted red, and my company owns a patent on the color red. So lose the paint."
Of course, this is a silly analogy. Paint color actually makes sense compared to some patent battles over finger movements and "style".
No no, you misunderstand... I'm disappointed that Obama wasn't able to handle getting a hard-on in public
Its also entirely possible that he has a 17 inch dick, and didn't want to rip his pants and poke the poor girls eye out.
Or it means that mice with better immune systems become more promiscuous. Or that generations of mice that have been promiscuous just happened to have better immune systems, so they survived the mouse versions of venereal diseases longer and multiplied while the monogamous mice had to stay monogamous to avoid death.
Geez, the options on these studies are a lot further ranging than the headlines let on... ;)
Actually on rethinking it, the primary failed premise is listening to the "experts".
I would say the problem is that experts either do not base their claims on science, or are just relays of big corporations PR
Also right, and I'll add personal or organizational agendas. The whole salt thing came about because a core group of doctors were determined to prove that salt caused health problems, and they thoroughly spindled the data until they got the result they wanted. I think thats the case with many nutritional study "findings".
The real horror here is that people adopt this information and utilize it in with the intent to be healthier, and it makes them sick. Millions died of heart disease and cancer from eating margarine and transfats/hydrogentated oils. Millions died when doctors told them in the 50's and 60's that cigarettes were good for you. And our epidemic of diabetes came about when the food pyramid appeared in the 70's, telling people to drink lots of fruit juice (also known as pepsi without the caffeine), lots of processed starches and foods commonly high in calories but low in nutrition.
I lost 70 pounds in the last year, and was able to stop taking medication for high blood pressure and diabetes. I eat meat (grass fed where possible), oily fish, eggs, whole milk, bacon, sausage, lots of berries, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, whole fruits and vegetables that grow above ground with the exception of sweet potatoes and carrots, which I do eat on occasion...mostly tomatoes, avocado's and kale. No starch, no grain, very little sugar and what I do use is coconut sugar or blue agave or honey. Nothing processed or boxed. My fats are lard, beef tallow, butter (the tasty irish type), coconut oil and small amounts of olive oil for cold applications only. I don't eat worthless oils like canola and safflower. And I salt the living crap out of everything, because it makes food taste better.
Bear in mind I'm not eating a 24 oz steak covered with butter, its smaller amounts of very satiating food, lots of cold water (about all I drink), and walk for 30-60 minutes a day. My food yesterday was a hard boiled egg, about 4 oz of baked beans, a piece of bacon, a 6oz kobe burger (no bun) with about a pound of field greens that I squeezed a couple of limes over, tomatoes and cucumbers, a mandarin orange, a grapefruit, and a couple of st louis smoked pork ribs with corn on the cob, cole slaw with a home made low cal vinaigrette, and half a sweet potato with a yogurt/sriracha/bbq sauce crema, chopped green onions, chopped bacon and shredded mozzarella. About 1500 calories total. Eight glasses of water, and I walked about 7 miles walking my kid to school and walking my dogs around the neighborhood.
Its a simple diet. Look at a food and if Survivorman or a skilled indigenous people could find it and prepare it with limited tools and its delicious...eat it. Otherwise pass.
We've fallen into a huge hole in the ground nutritionally, and in our knowledge of food. Eat like our ancestors did. Whole foods, simply prepared. I knew we were culturally screwed when I saw the commercial that started with the positive "Nutritional studies are confusing and keep contradicting each other" but concluded with the disappointing "I know good nutrition when I see it!" which turns out to be a processed grain cooked in worthless oil and then sprayed with high fructose corn syrup. Pretty much the worst example of nutrition on earth.
Want an answer to why we've been steered away from healthy foods? Because a field of GMO soy, a field of GMO corn and a field of GMO rapeseed squeezed into canola oil are a lot easier to grow and process than a field full of cows or pigs, and grains have a much higher profit margin than tomatoes and avocado's. Heck, our original turn from lard to crisco came about because candle makers were upset that the beef tallow hegemony was jacking up prices on beef fat, so they invented a replacement f
Perhaps because its not all that bad?
It really doesn't bother me that much that someone could track all of my internet traffic, although I guess that means the end of midget transsexuals with horses porn viewing.
What bothers me is when they get the data wrong or are unable to ascertain the differences between my traffic and someone elses using the same internet connection. A few years ago I applied for a higher end, less expensive insurance product that required they check me out pretty thoroughly. In fact, that was as invasive as when I got a top secret and nuclear Q clearance some years ago. They were very inquisitive about my ex girlfriends ex husband, who apparently got himself into some problems with fraud. Because she and I held a homeowners policy 9 years earlier, their system crossed me with her, she with him, and therefore me with him. Except I never met him, speak to him or have any doings with him. I had to sign a document asserting those facts, and the whole thing took hours of time and delayed my acceptance for a few weeks.
The cloud model is also pretty much the same construct as the mainframe, although the terminals are a little smarter. Variability of performance and response coupled with the fact that you never save money on a centralized approach, coupled with the same reasons existing today that caused us to flee centralized computing (takes too long to get changes made, poor flexibility, one size fits nobody, etc). Hell, google printed headers and footers on all printed chrome pages, whether you wanted them or not, even if they ruined the print by forcing it to two pages. I think that was the case when chrome first launched, and it wasn't until a few months ago that they added a checkbox for headers/footers. Years. Why? Printing isn't important to google. They'd prefer you keep revisiting a page with your phone or tablet, where they get more page views and potential ad clicks. But for years I've had to switch to IE to print something out, even though thousands of requests to google to add this functionality were made each and every year.
It all sounds pretty good, but I think the cloud will be a good place for backups, extra copies of stuff, documents you want to access while on the road, and copies of savegames like xbox lives cloud storage. Not to run apps or offload ordinary processing or to own all my data. Probably not ever.
The amusement of all of this stuff ended when I installed skydrive and it found and uploaded a file from a flash drive containing all of my user names and passwords. I neither told it to, nor did it tell me it was looking for and uploading stuff, that was just its default. Yes, I know keeping a password file is stupid but I work with hundreds of sites, and there isnt a common username or password I can use with all of them since some require an upper case/special character/number sequence while others refuse to accept the same, and some require periodic changing, whether I want to or not. Another symptom of 'centralized' computing...you have to live by their rules...all 900000 variants of them, 899999 of them not what you want.
And as others mentioned, if you think this data exists and the government (or your garden variety anonymous type hacker) cant get it, well...thats so innocent and sweet that my blood sugar just went up 50 points.
...I hope they also figured out how to increase the food supply by 25%, if we're going to cut the mortality rate.
Who in hell is issuing patents on configuration settings? That isnt a unique goddamn invention. Of course, neither are pinchy finger motions. The "Kids in the hall" should have patented that one when they were crushing other peoples heads.
I am not at all shocked to see this C&D letter arrive at their doorstep. Commercial rights owners will act to protect their properties. The (any) team doing dev work on a IP other than their own and acting without a license should expect as much too. It is always best to use IP with permission or that is original no matter how 'cool' the property may seem.
Its no big deal. They just have to change a few things. They'll be marching with Bobbits (make your own joke) and smelfs, fighting balsmogs on their way to Fordor.
As long as the game play doesn't include any pinchy motions, they'll be just fine.
Only if they're blond and have huge fun bags.
What do you do with the rest of it after you take two bites?
I have three kids, four dogs, two cats and a wife. I whip up a pile of tasty food, eat some, and its then descended upon by a phalanx of small protein disposal units that all run around for 10 hours a day, so they can enjoy a few more calories than I do.
I'm also known for buying a nice burger and side salad at a restaurant, eating the salad and taking two bites out of the burger, and then carting the burger home and making two more meals out of it.
Its mostly a lot of grazing, and if you ever watch the competition cooking shows where they have to make a 'one bite" meal on a spoon...I do a lot of that too.
The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet.
The primary failed premise is the reliance on calories. Paper contains a lot of calories, but unless you are a cow, you cannot get fat by eating a lot of paper
Actually on rethinking it, the primary failed premise is listening to the "experts". Now that salt is good again (and after reading all the studies that said it wasn't, I understand the problem) and eggs are good again (oh wait, or are they bad again), all I have to do is remember when cigarettes were good for you, butter and lard and coconut oil were bad for you so we should eat transfats, margarine and polyunsaturated fats, and we should avoid eating meat.
All wrong. But people spend so much time eating sodium reduced canola oil infused low calorie crap, its a wonder anyone can lose weight. They're also starting out at an "average" caloric intake of 2000 being the baseline, and thats where people REALLY get screwed up.
Oh, and in prologue, I guess I'm not falling for the strawman "you can't digest paper" argument. All you need to do is eat food with high nutrition profiles commensurate with the calorie intake, eat small amounts of whole foods throughout the day, and eat things that satiate your appetite.
I agree. I ate vegetarian for a few years in the presumption it'd be healthier, but it wasn't. I had trouble losing weight, and frankly wasn't quite as healthy as I am now. Protein intake was a problem unless I ate soy, and I'm not a fan.
What worked for me was just eating reasonable amounts of good food, and all kinds of it. Quit the worthless oils like canola and safflower and get back to coconut oil, palm oil, butter and lard. Quit the sugar, starches and processed foods. Go for high nutrition instead of high energy.
And do it the Guy Fieri way. Look at it, exclaim how wonderful it smells, then eat one or two bites and move on to the next scene.
The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet. Thats fine if you're working with your hands, on your feet. Its too much for the vast majority of people who walk 5000 steps a day and sit on their arse all afternoon. Well that and the idea of shoving pound after pound of sugar, starches and processed foods that are very high in calories into our faces.
I think its hilarious that people look at a happy meal and think the burger is the bad actor. Hint: its the giant fries and soft drink you could start an outboard motor in.
I kicked out the crap junky foods, eat only whole foods that I can recognize in closer to 1500 calorie doses, and lost 70 lbs. I feel and look great. Its pretty easy to stay well within 1500 calories if you just drink water and nothing else...most people take in 500-800+ calories a day in drinks alone.
My typical meals are an egg, bacon and blueberries for breakfast, a salad, yogurt and some citrus for lunch, and a double cheeseburger with a salad I squeeze some limes over for dinner. Yes, thats under 1500 calories...
In a world...yes...queue James Earl Jones or some other deep voiced character...where doing the "I'm crushing your head" motion on a phone is worth a billion dollars...yes I think that innovation is dead.
Shoot me.
If my name was Mr. Fudd, like his is, I would have to shoot you, you Cute Fuzzy Bunny you...
The thing is, I'm not cute (well, my wife disagrees, as does the hostess at one of the local restaurants), not fuzzy and I'm definitely not a bunny.
But thats the joke...
Half the population also believes in all sorts of things when they shouldn't.
I wonder how much overlap there is between the various stupid halves? Anyone have a venn diagram?
Agreed. Absolutely nothing has changed since the 70s. Nope. Nothing.
I wish it had anything at all to do with technology or things that have improved over time, but it doesn't. Centralizing resources and having those under one persons charge while many others want to use it or use it in a currently unsupported way costs more and gives less flexibility. That human issue has been the case for a lot longer than the 70's.
Is it just a matter of time before people in boats stop looking for square grouper and start looking for $5M wave gliders to scoop up?
Geez, didn't we have this stuff years ago, only it was called mainframes and minicomputers?
Someone refresh my memory as to why we fled those for PC's? Oh yeah, it cost too much to centralize, the 'one size fits all' solutions actually fit no one, and it took too long to wait for someone to fix things or come up with new tools.
Same problem with "the cloud". Good luck with it.
No, I'm just no so egotistical that I think I'm superior to a jury when I've only seen a tiny fraction of the evidence as presented on opinion sites.
Well lets see, I've been in the industry for three decades and have read absolutely anything and everything about the case, and I hold or was responsible for guiding the process for hundreds of patents. I think the verdict is ridiculous. In fact, I think we wasted an awful lot of judicial time even hearing it. Then get back to actually inventing things that are clearly patented. Gestures and finger flicks aren't inventions.
While I might be egotistical, I'm also far better qualified than the bunch of neophytes that were packed into the jury box. I'm also able to form a pretty full opinion without sitting in the courtroom for three weeks. Shoot me.
the Amiga proved that competing products can not only avoid infringing, but innovate in new ways improving diversity in the marketplace.
Hmm, what was it that Apples lawyers said during the trial against windows 'infringement'? Oh yeah, that if Windows wasn't stopped, Apple would be unable to innovate at all in the future.
How'd that work out? Seems they had very little trouble innovating, or continuing to charge twice as much for products that do essentially the same thing as their competitors.
Really? A billion for a few fingertip movements? I'm 99.99% sure that my thinkpad (bought long before Apple even thought of making a phone) had pinch and spread fingertip gestures on their touchpad.
'The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there.'
I guess that would have pretty much ended the apple v microsoft trial, since apple was using 68000 cpu's and microsoft windows ran on intel stuff. Not sure what the xerox star ran that apple copied to make their 'original work'.
And hey, weren't nokia and a number of other companies making smartphones for about 10 years before Apple? Isn't apple therefore running over any of their prior work?
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Its a freaking cell phone.
What is the point of this kind of shit? Money? The richest countries in the world tend to be the freest. Power? Over what? You are the government, you already have a monopoly on legal force and coercion. The only thing this is going to do is get a lot of people sent to jail that didn't do shit. It makes no sense.
Think about all the silly laws we have that create an air of uncertainty about the law and opportunities for a timely arrest or fine. It really pisses off the police when they want to slap the bracelets on someone, but there isn't a handy law available that many people break with regularity.
So this makes it easy to imprison anyone running a cyber cafe whenever they want, because chances are that someone posted something illegal in their cafe in the week or two prior.
Or its just to put a chill into people who feel relatively anonymous at a cyber cafe.
The really funny part of this is that in order to remain in compliance, the owner would have to monitor every user or all of their traffic and neither of those is feasible. Thats what I'm sure most are looking for, a cyber cafe reading all the data packets, including breaking encryption, looking for someone bad mouthing a politician. Then they'll be safe...