I only worked with data from Americans. It's scary stuff. They definately eat healthier in Asia than they do in the US (almost everyone does). More fish and vegetables, less saturated fat. I would assume the pattern of lower income corrolating to worse nutrition and health still applies, South Korea being an industrialized country.
Those high voltage towers destroy property values. You mention a higher cancer risk for poor people but you missed the main reason. People with lower incomes (who tend to have less education) have a higher cancer risk because they smoke a lot more and eat much worse than Americans with higher incomes.
If you want to see something scary, look up the projected lifetime health care costs for kids growing up today in low income housholds. For all of history, only rich people could get fat. In the past 50 years, the poor people have gotten much fatter than the rich people. Since there are more poor people than rich people, we have a serious problem.
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Several years ago at the Northwestern they showed a 70s porno film in 3D. I think it starred John Holmes. I showed up to see it, but so did a thousand other people at a 500 seat lecture hall.
Can they convert the old red/blue 3D films into this new technology?
"How exactly did he "let him off the hook". More like, couldn't find him. Letting him off the hook implies a pardon."
There are 130,000+ US troops in Iraq, where Osama has never been. There are 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan where Osama might be. There are 0 US troops in Pakistan where Osama probably is.
That's cool that bears can maintain a moderate body temp for months without eating. Having a huge layer of fat is usefull. That could be a new diet. You take two weeks off of work, go into hibernation in some lab, and have your body consume your fat gut while you sleep.
The only thing that made ReplayTV good was real commercial skipping. You would watch a show and it would jump from the fade out to the fade in, like watching a TV show on DVD. That feature was removed after SonicBlue sold Replay. I owned the 4500, the last unit with commercial skip. The user interface was pretty basic and did some quirky things. It also had a built in network adapter, something even the new Tivos don't have. I own a 40 hr Series 2 Tivo now and I miss commercial skip, but Tivo is a superior product with superior software.
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I tried Papa Johns online a couple years ago and it was terrible. Unless you use a coupon, the pizzas are like 18 bucks each. I couldn't find a way to use a coupon online (even though they have code numbers on the coupons). Unless you call at the worst peak times, ordering a pizza by phone is not a problem.
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I bought a 40hr Series 2 refurb (only 100 bucks) probably 4 or 5 months ago from Tivo.com. I paid the extra 30 bucks for the Linksys USB ethernet adapter. I get the unit, set it up, and it says to plug in the phone line. Like many people, I don't have a phone line, which is why I bought the network adapter. I call Tivo support and they told me that units were still shipping with old software on them. They didn't really see a problem in selling me a network adapter and a Tivo that couldn't use that adapter out of the box. I don't know if it was only refurb units or all series 2s. The only solution is to take the unit to an understanding friend's house, do the initial setup using their TV and phone line, then let the Tivo sit in thier house for 6 hours while the Tivo does it's thing. It was a total pain in the butt.
The White House has admitted that they gave a "shoot down" order for the Pennsylvania plane. You would think that if they had actually shot it down, they would admit to it. Very few people would blame them for it. A crashed plane debris would look very different from a shot down plane debris. Another reply says debris was found. I havn't looked into it.
What's more interesting is the story of who actually gave that shoot down order. Cheney says he spoke to Bush and Bush ordered the action (Bush being the only one with the authority to order it). Bush backs Cheney's story. Two people were standing next to Cheney and taking notes during the very short conversation. Neither of the two people reported them talking about the Pennsylvania plane.
The bigger the film, the more it costs to fix nitpicky mistakes. Maybe the artistic people notice it and want it fixed, but the bean counters won't let them.
James Cameron delayed the release of Titanic from summer to Christmas in order to fix nitpicky things. IIRC, there was a CG shot of the boat sinking where the prop was turning even though the engine room was underwater. In order to get the release delayed, Cameron gave up his entire director's fee. Luckily, he still got a percentage of the box office and ended up just fine.
People hear the word "documentary" and they can only think of National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Every big newspaper has a page of opinion columns. The goal of that page is to present well thought out arguments from different viewpoints. Think of Farenheit 9/11 as an opinion column using film instead of text. It's still a documentary.
From your sig web site: "These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. People die because they are poisoned to death by toxic antiviral drugs."
Yes, genius, tens of millions of Africans are being poisoned by the antiviral drugs they're not taking.
If Moore's film were actually full of shit, like you say, then people would just ignore it like hundreds of other documentaries. Since it has millions of Republican's panties in a bunch, it must be doing something right. People only get this defensive when they know deep down inside that they're wrong.
People on the right call Moore a capitalist because they belive that everyone on the far left is a Communist and that revealing that he's making money makes him a "sell out" or something. Like he's faking being a liberal to make money. Anyone who dresses like Micheal Moore isn't too concerned about money.
There are lots of liberal capitalists. We think that making money is fine as long as you're not destroying people's lives and ruining the environment in the process.
How inefficient do you have to be to blow through a 17 character (which is not the same as a digit, Mr. Author) alphanumeric code in 30 years? They did have the good sense to throw out I,O,Q,U,and Z, something I wish other alphanumeric codes would do, and used a check digit. If used to it's full efficiency, the VIN system could identify 121 trillion vehicles for every human being on the planet.
The article is stupid. It talks about this is a big problem, compares it to Y2K, and then mentions that Armenia and Zimbabwe were assigned huge blocks that are going unused. As long as everyone is told that the system is changing and my garage doesn't try to order parts from Zimbabwe, we'll be fine.
Batman Begins will come out next June. Christopher Nolan (Memento) is directing it and Christian Bale (American Psycho) is starring. The IMDB trivia page is great. Other actors considered for the lead role include Ashton Kutcher, John Cusack, and David Duchovny.
X-Men hinted they were going into the Dark Phoenix saga, which I'm not a big fan of, especially if they're going to squeeze it into 2 hours. All I want is Apocalypse.
The bureaucracy is so inept that they can't communicate topical and critical information from one unit to the next in four months? This wasn't some internal memo that had errors (like the terrorism report that defined 2003 as Jan 1 to Nov 12), this was an administration offical arguing on the administration's behalf in front of the Supreme Court. So instead of behind corrupt, we should be happy that they're only monumentally incompetent? I can't accept that.
In March the Solicitor General argued in front of the Supreme Court that US troops would never humiliate or torture foreign inmates because they were well disciplined and well supervised. This was 6 months after the Red Cross had told the Pentagon about Abu Ghraib abuses and 4 months after the Army had investigated it. Administration officials have misled Congress repeatedly.
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I only worked with data from Americans. It's scary stuff. They definately eat healthier in Asia than they do in the US (almost everyone does). More fish and vegetables, less saturated fat. I would assume the pattern of lower income corrolating to worse nutrition and health still applies, South Korea being an industrialized country.
-B
Those high voltage towers destroy property values. You mention a higher cancer risk for poor people but you missed the main reason. People with lower incomes (who tend to have less education) have a higher cancer risk because they smoke a lot more and eat much worse than Americans with higher incomes.
If you want to see something scary, look up the projected lifetime health care costs for kids growing up today in low income housholds. For all of history, only rich people could get fat. In the past 50 years, the poor people have gotten much fatter than the rich people. Since there are more poor people than rich people, we have a serious problem.
-B
Several years ago at the Northwestern they showed a 70s porno film in 3D. I think it starred John Holmes. I showed up to see it, but so did a thousand other people at a 500 seat lecture hall.
Can they convert the old red/blue 3D films into this new technology?
-B
"How exactly did he "let him off the hook". More like, couldn't find him. Letting him off the hook implies a pardon."
There are 130,000+ US troops in Iraq, where Osama has never been.
There are 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan where Osama might be.
There are 0 US troops in Pakistan where Osama probably is.
He's off the hook.
-B
That's cool that bears can maintain a moderate body temp for months without eating. Having a huge layer of fat is usefull. That could be a new diet. You take two weeks off of work, go into hibernation in some lab, and have your body consume your fat gut while you sleep.
-B
It's even a better mirror when you consider that the original title of Jedi was "Revenge of the Jedi" (good nerds have drooled over the poster).
-B
"Just some dudes sitting on the floor throwing up"
At the bottom of the parabola, they're getting about 2 Gs. It's like a super puke with an extra nasty splash.
-B
The only thing that made ReplayTV good was real commercial skipping. You would watch a show and it would jump from the fade out to the fade in, like watching a TV show on DVD. That feature was removed after SonicBlue sold Replay. I owned the 4500, the last unit with commercial skip. The user interface was pretty basic and did some quirky things. It also had a built in network adapter, something even the new Tivos don't have. I own a 40 hr Series 2 Tivo now and I miss commercial skip, but Tivo is a superior product with superior software.
-B
I tried Papa Johns online a couple years ago and it was terrible. Unless you use a coupon, the pizzas are like 18 bucks each. I couldn't find a way to use a coupon online (even though they have code numbers on the coupons). Unless you call at the worst peak times, ordering a pizza by phone is not a problem.
-B
**repeat post** logged in this time
I bought a 40hr Series 2 refurb (only 100 bucks) probably 4 or 5 months ago from Tivo.com. I paid the extra 30 bucks for the Linksys USB ethernet adapter. I get the unit, set it up, and it says to plug in the phone line. Like many people, I don't have a phone line, which is why I bought the network adapter. I call Tivo support and they told me that units were still shipping with old software on them. They didn't really see a problem in selling me a network adapter and a Tivo that couldn't use that adapter out of the box. I don't know if it was only refurb units or all series 2s. The only solution is to take the unit to an understanding friend's house, do the initial setup using their TV and phone line, then let the Tivo sit in thier house for 6 hours while the Tivo does it's thing. It was a total pain in the butt.
-B
The White House has admitted that they gave a "shoot down" order for the Pennsylvania plane. You would think that if they had actually shot it down, they would admit to it. Very few people would blame them for it. A crashed plane debris would look very different from a shot down plane debris. Another reply says debris was found. I havn't looked into it.
What's more interesting is the story of who actually gave that shoot down order. Cheney says he spoke to Bush and Bush ordered the action (Bush being the only one with the authority to order it). Bush backs Cheney's story. Two people were standing next to Cheney and taking notes during the very short conversation. Neither of the two people reported them talking about the Pennsylvania plane.
-B
My version is "I before E, except when it's not"
-B
The bigger the film, the more it costs to fix nitpicky mistakes. Maybe the artistic people notice it and want it fixed, but the bean counters won't let them.
James Cameron delayed the release of Titanic from summer to Christmas in order to fix nitpicky things. IIRC, there was a CG shot of the boat sinking where the prop was turning even though the engine room was underwater. In order to get the release delayed, Cameron gave up his entire director's fee. Luckily, he still got a percentage of the box office and ended up just fine.
-B
OS2/Warp is a kick ass name for a game.
-B
Have you ever been happy? Don't give examples, HOW DO YOU MEASURE IT?
If you want to see what qualifies as "ruining people's lives" rent the film Roger & Me.
Why am I bothering to debate someone who doesn't believe that AIDS exists? You're a fucking idiot.
-B
People hear the word "documentary" and they can only think of National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Every big newspaper has a page of opinion columns. The goal of that page is to present well thought out arguments from different viewpoints. Think of Farenheit 9/11 as an opinion column using film instead of text. It's still a documentary.
-B
From your sig web site:
"These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. People die because they are poisoned to death by toxic antiviral drugs."
Yes, genius, tens of millions of Africans are being poisoned by the antiviral drugs they're not taking.
If Moore's film were actually full of shit, like you say, then people would just ignore it like hundreds of other documentaries. Since it has millions of Republican's panties in a bunch, it must be doing something right. People only get this defensive when they know deep down inside that they're wrong.
-B
People on the right call Moore a capitalist because they belive that everyone on the far left is a Communist and that revealing that he's making money makes him a "sell out" or something. Like he's faking being a liberal to make money. Anyone who dresses like Micheal Moore isn't too concerned about money.
There are lots of liberal capitalists. We think that making money is fine as long as you're not destroying people's lives and ruining the environment in the process.
-B
In Atlanta it's all debt consolidation, sex related pills, and that Usher song about knocking up his girlfriend.
-B
On a dirty metal VIN tag, O, Q, and U can look identical.
-B
That's the first thing I thought of, too.
How inefficient do you have to be to blow through a 17 character (which is not the same as a digit, Mr. Author) alphanumeric code in 30 years? They did have the good sense to throw out I,O,Q,U,and Z, something I wish other alphanumeric codes would do, and used a check digit. If used to it's full efficiency, the VIN system could identify 121 trillion vehicles for every human being on the planet.
The article is stupid. It talks about this is a big problem, compares it to Y2K, and then mentions that Armenia and Zimbabwe were assigned huge blocks that are going unused. As long as everyone is told that the system is changing and my garage doesn't try to order parts from Zimbabwe, we'll be fine.
-B
Batman Begins will come out next June. Christopher Nolan (Memento) is directing it and Christian Bale (American Psycho) is starring. The IMDB trivia page is great. Other actors considered for the lead role include Ashton Kutcher, John Cusack, and David Duchovny.
X-Men hinted they were going into the Dark Phoenix saga, which I'm not a big fan of, especially if they're going to squeeze it into 2 hours. All I want is Apocalypse.
-B
The bureaucracy is so inept that they can't communicate topical and critical information from one unit to the next in four months? This wasn't some internal memo that had errors (like the terrorism report that defined 2003 as Jan 1 to Nov 12), this was an administration offical arguing on the administration's behalf in front of the Supreme Court. So instead of behind corrupt, we should be happy that they're only monumentally incompetent? I can't accept that.
-B
"The government said an overhaul of the system should be finished by December and copies should be available then. "
It's not a big deal. As soon as Bush has locked up another four years of warmongering and cronyism, then the records will be freely available.
-B
In March the Solicitor General argued in front of the Supreme Court that US troops would never humiliate or torture foreign inmates because they were well disciplined and well supervised. This was 6 months after the Red Cross had told the Pentagon about Abu Ghraib abuses and 4 months after the Army had investigated it. Administration officials have misled Congress repeatedly.
-B