They are claiming the rights in case someone comes up with a great way to make money tweeting the results of the game (in which case they can shut them down and do it themselves), not to assert draconian control over each and every fan. They aren't going to bother enforcing it except where they see opportunities for profit.
Only a little bit, the guys that are ready to play straight out of high school are few and far between, and if you look at the size of the NCAA and the size of the various pro sports leagues, it appears quite a few people are playing a sport while they earn their degrees (sure, lots of athletes earn what seem to be meaningless degrees, but so do lots of other students).
Are you serious? I went to a big ten school, the fans there were pricks to visitors and drank all the time. Every time I went to an in conference away game, there were drunk pricks there too.
Hell, when I go to games, there is a fair chance I am drunk. I'm not being a prick to the visiting fans though.
Use-while-charging is less and less important. My cell phone doesn't have a particularly large battery in it, but even so, the standby time is several days, and I don't think I have ever had a single conversation that used up half the charge.
(There are still going to be some people who use their phones a huge amount and so on, but there will also be a significant market of people who simply don't care about being able to simultaneously talk and charge, it is half of people, they just might be onto something, and batteries are continuing to improve)
It continues to get easier to purchase devices that charge using a USB cable. Some of them are persnickety, and lots of them violate the standard, but they seem to work okay.
People bother with credit cards because the system is built on the assumption of trust. The vast majority of transactions do happen to be legitimate, and at the moment, the credit card companies are able to push most of the consequences of illegitimate transactions off onto merchants, so change isn't going to come quickly.
The hero fought and killed for himself. I can think of two great examples of this: one, when they are attacking the building, he shoots a guard and Christopher (the alien!) says to him "I thought you said not to kill any of them" and he answers "He shot at me!", and two, when he locks Christopher out of the command ship, so he can go up to the mothership and try to figure out how to heal himself (or perhaps force Christopher into it).
Also, there is a guy, out there on his own (so who knows if he is a quack or not) that believes fructose is worse than other sugars:
Lustig believes that fructose generates greater insulin resistance than other foodstuffs, and that fructose calories, therefore, fail to blunt appetite in the same way as other foods.
(he says bad things about table sugar and HFCS in the article, he thinks people simply eat too much of it)
He doesn't have a problem with fruit (because people tend not to eat a great deal of it at once), but he doesn't like fruit juice.
You replied in another thread to a guy who linked a video by the doctor (Fudrucker), I think Fudrucker was probably confusing HFCS and fructose when he made his post:
Well then you phrased it pretty poorly: "Ugh... bread (white) is NOT full of complex carbs." seems to be sort of contrary to the fact that most of the calories in bread come from starch, which is a complex carbohydrate. Maybe you should try to be more precise.
And I haven't said anything bad about the sugar in fruit (which is why I said "No matter if you put a pejorative on it or not", I was pointing out that I had made a factual statement about the sugar content of fruit, you assumed I was expressing an opinion about the sugar), I was simply trying to correct the statement that I first replied to, which was "complex carbs (think veggies and fruits, not sugars or breads)". That statement is incorrect. If you want to talk about eating fructose instead of glucose, that is fine, but fructose is not a complex carbohydrate, and breads, calorie for calorie, have a much higher percentage of complex carbohydrates than fruits.
If the post had said "Eat fruits and vegetables instead of sugar and bread", I wouldn't have had much to say, but the post effectively said "Eat fruits and vegetables for the complex carbs in them, instead of eating sugar and bread", which is quite a confused statement.
I wouldn't worry about it quite yet, the U.S. Navy still probably has more operational experience with nuclear ships than the entire third world combined.
Well, other than the fact that it was blatantly factually incorrect. No matter if you put a pejorative on it or not, the majority of the calories in any fruit come from the sugar in that fruit, not from complex carbohydrates, and even more, most of the complex carbohydrates in fruits are fiber (which is a good thing to eat, but not really a source of calories, as it is not digested by humans).
And white bread does contain mostly complex carbohydrates (this is what starches are!), the reason it tastes sweet when it is chewed is that amylase (an enzyme in saliva) breaks the starches down into simpler sugars. See:
The important thing is that large amounts of any sugar are bad, it isn't where the sugar calories come from, it is the amount. The public skewering of HFCS is a distraction from the real issue, that people consume way too much sugar.
I'm all for using sucrose in pop, I think it tastes better, but it isn't going to make it any healthier to consume large amounts of it.
Sorry for the double reply, but here is an article where the doctor from that video says, and I am quoting here, "High-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are exactly the same". He goes on to say "They're equally bad. They're both poison in high doses."
So I sort of doubt that he is making much of a distinction in that video.
Sorry, low bandwidth connection, but given that simple table sugar (sucrose) is, during digestion in the small intestine, converted into a 50/50 mix of fructose and glucose, additional problems metabolizing the 45/55 mix of fructose and glucose in HFCS aren't very likely.
I'm curious, does the doctor in the video draw a distinction between sugar and HFCS, or are you doing that?
The carbohydrate content of most fruits is sugar, not complex carbs. For instance, the majority of the calories in an Apple (not a particularly sweet fruit...) are from sugar:
Is there anywhere on the planet where spectrum utilization is demonstrably worse than it is in the United States?
I don't think the FCC does a terrible job, or even a bad job, but people are, in general terms, pragmatic and lazy, so I wonder just how tragic this particular commons would be in the long term.
Law and Order is all about taking ideas from current events, so I'm not sure I would give them any credit (or bother criticizing them for a single instance of it).
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They are claiming the rights in case someone comes up with a great way to make money tweeting the results of the game (in which case they can shut them down and do it themselves), not to assert draconian control over each and every fan. They aren't going to bother enforcing it except where they see opportunities for profit.
Only a little bit, the guys that are ready to play straight out of high school are few and far between, and if you look at the size of the NCAA and the size of the various pro sports leagues, it appears quite a few people are playing a sport while they earn their degrees (sure, lots of athletes earn what seem to be meaningless degrees, but so do lots of other students).
Are you serious? I went to a big ten school, the fans there were pricks to visitors and drank all the time. Every time I went to an in conference away game, there were drunk pricks there too.
Hell, when I go to games, there is a fair chance I am drunk. I'm not being a prick to the visiting fans though.
Of just batteries that work with the interface.
Use-while-charging is less and less important. My cell phone doesn't have a particularly large battery in it, but even so, the standby time is several days, and I don't think I have ever had a single conversation that used up half the charge.
(There are still going to be some people who use their phones a huge amount and so on, but there will also be a significant market of people who simply don't care about being able to simultaneously talk and charge, it is half of people, they just might be onto something, and batteries are continuing to improve)
It continues to get easier to purchase devices that charge using a USB cable. Some of them are persnickety, and lots of them violate the standard, but they seem to work okay.
People bother with credit cards because the system is built on the assumption of trust. The vast majority of transactions do happen to be legitimate, and at the moment, the credit card companies are able to push most of the consequences of illegitimate transactions off onto merchants, so change isn't going to come quickly.
The hero fought and killed for himself. I can think of two great examples of this: one, when they are attacking the building, he shoots a guard and Christopher (the alien!) says to him "I thought you said not to kill any of them" and he answers "He shot at me!", and two, when he locks Christopher out of the command ship, so he can go up to the mothership and try to figure out how to heal himself (or perhaps force Christopher into it).
Did you miss the part where the reluctant hero called in the population control team and was cracking jokes about the eggs going off like popcorn?
He was not supposed to be a likable character.
Also, there is a guy, out there on his own (so who knows if he is a quack or not) that believes fructose is worse than other sugars:
Lustig believes that fructose generates greater insulin resistance than other foodstuffs, and that fructose calories, therefore, fail to blunt appetite in the same way as other foods.
The full article is here:
http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-by-fructose-sugar-diet/
(he says bad things about table sugar and HFCS in the article, he thinks people simply eat too much of it)
He doesn't have a problem with fruit (because people tend not to eat a great deal of it at once), but he doesn't like fruit juice.
You replied in another thread to a guy who linked a video by the doctor (Fudrucker), I think Fudrucker was probably confusing HFCS and fructose when he made his post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1338085&cid=29089857
Well then you phrased it pretty poorly: "Ugh... bread (white) is NOT full of complex carbs." seems to be sort of contrary to the fact that most of the calories in bread come from starch, which is a complex carbohydrate. Maybe you should try to be more precise.
And I haven't said anything bad about the sugar in fruit (which is why I said "No matter if you put a pejorative on it or not", I was pointing out that I had made a factual statement about the sugar content of fruit, you assumed I was expressing an opinion about the sugar), I was simply trying to correct the statement that I first replied to, which was "complex carbs (think veggies and fruits, not sugars or breads)". That statement is incorrect. If you want to talk about eating fructose instead of glucose, that is fine, but fructose is not a complex carbohydrate, and breads, calorie for calorie, have a much higher percentage of complex carbohydrates than fruits.
If the post had said "Eat fruits and vegetables instead of sugar and bread", I wouldn't have had much to say, but the post effectively said "Eat fruits and vegetables for the complex carbs in them, instead of eating sugar and bread", which is quite a confused statement.
I wouldn't worry about it quite yet, the U.S. Navy still probably has more operational experience with nuclear ships than the entire third world combined.
I'm using 'probably' in a sarcastic manner there.
Well, other than the fact that it was blatantly factually incorrect. No matter if you put a pejorative on it or not, the majority of the calories in any fruit come from the sugar in that fruit, not from complex carbohydrates, and even more, most of the complex carbohydrates in fruits are fiber (which is a good thing to eat, but not really a source of calories, as it is not digested by humans).
And white bread does contain mostly complex carbohydrates (this is what starches are!), the reason it tastes sweet when it is chewed is that amylase (an enzyme in saliva) breaks the starches down into simpler sugars. See:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/baked-products/4872/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase
I do mostly eat whole grain bread, but that is mostly because it actually has texture and flavor, the health benefits of the whole grains are a bonus.
Where is that suggested?
The important thing is that large amounts of any sugar are bad, it isn't where the sugar calories come from, it is the amount. The public skewering of HFCS is a distraction from the real issue, that people consume way too much sugar.
I'm all for using sucrose in pop, I think it tastes better, but it isn't going to make it any healthier to consume large amounts of it.
Oops, forgot the link:
http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-by-fructose-sugar-diet/
Sorry for the double reply, but here is an article where the doctor from that video says, and I am quoting here, "High-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are exactly the same". He goes on to say "They're equally bad. They're both poison in high doses."
So I sort of doubt that he is making much of a distinction in that video.
Sorry, low bandwidth connection, but given that simple table sugar (sucrose) is, during digestion in the small intestine, converted into a 50/50 mix of fructose and glucose, additional problems metabolizing the 45/55 mix of fructose and glucose in HFCS aren't very likely.
I'm curious, does the doctor in the video draw a distinction between sugar and HFCS, or are you doing that?
It's just sugar.
The carbohydrate content of most fruits is sugar, not complex carbs. For instance, the majority of the calories in an Apple (not a particularly sweet fruit...) are from sugar:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1809/2
Bread on the other hand is full of complex carbohydrates (starches...).
None, but that doesn't change the opportunity costs that they incur.
Is there anywhere on the planet where spectrum utilization is demonstrably worse than it is in the United States?
I don't think the FCC does a terrible job, or even a bad job, but people are, in general terms, pragmatic and lazy, so I wonder just how tragic this particular commons would be in the long term.
Democracy is a compromise, not an ideal. It may be an ideal compromise.
I'm a lot more concerned about my freedom than I am concerned about your ability to vote on how to mess with it.
If you wave your hands and squint, companies like Hulu and Netflix already try to make you use one of the TVs they have approved.
Law and Order is all about taking ideas from current events, so I'm not sure I would give them any credit (or bother criticizing them for a single instance of it).