I've installed Linux on my sister's aging laptop, as a replacement for the XP she had before. I'd warned her multiple times that XP was going EOL and that she should jump to an alternative, and after some time of nagging she agreed that I can put Ubuntu on her Laptop. Unfortunately the WiFi driver didn't work and the new shiny (and expensive!) printer she bought a few weeks earlier didn't have any Linux driver support at all, so she wasn't very happy with it.
Recently she bought herself a new laptop, she didn't want me to replace the pre-installed Windows.
I think that it deserves to be pointed out... that printers are evil. Seriously. They are my arch-nemesis. I hate them. I can never seem to get them to work properly with Windows or Linux. And if you do... DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. I am convinced they are sentient, and they are assholes.
Having gotten that off my chest - I have been running Linux for a long time. I haven't run Windows since Redhat 5.1. But I am the tech guy, helping out family, neighbors and friends. For the most part, people are not tech savvy at all, no matter what OS they run. And actually, they don't really even know they run an OS. I have countless stories where my computer has done something weird, and I have for the most part been able to correct it. I have seen Windows machines of all flavors flat out just do weird things. My mother-in-law's laptop just recently disabled her wifi... everything looked fine, fresh boot, the router signal was strong, etc. etc. I got lucky and fixed it by going into the hardware manager, disabling it, re-enabling it, and rebooting. That was it. No clue why.
But I didn't fix it because I am a wiz at Windows8. *shudder* I fixed it because I am inquisitive, I try things, I fix things, I troubleshoot. I am persistent in a good way - not in the "I clicked this 10 times and it didn't work, so I'll click it another 10" the way my mother-in-law's printer spit out 20 copies of a google map once the wifi was working again.
I think that expecting things to "just work" all the time has chipped away at our ability to make things work and figure them out. Maybe I am just an aging techie.
It is a glandular problem, their glands are being over worked. People are eating more and more foods that put the body through the 'hormone roller coaster' where their blood sugar spikes and falls. Increased carbs and sugars elevate insulin levels while overloading the liver with carbs. Your body gets physically addicted to this, which makes you crave it more and the problem only gets worse.
Being fat is not a problem of overeating, calorie in/out, or laziness. It is due to an unbalance in the body's ability to regulate fat storage which is controlled by hormones. (primarily insulin - see roller coaster) People aren't overweight because they eat a lot - they eat a lot because they are overweight! The more fat someone has, the hungrier they will be and the less energy they will have to exercise.
Ever wonder how someone with a true glandular malfunction can grow bigger and bigger no matter what they eat? Why kids shoot up and grow rapidly at a certain age? Hormones run the show.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
Is security really an issue in China? I mean, not counting what the government probably requires companies to open up for their data gathering purposes like predictive policing efforts . If they build and entirely national technology ecosystem, the only enemy they have would be from within.
Same here... I signed up, but things started crawling. Was able to upload a doc via the mobile app, then tried to share a link to it. It couldn't send an email, said to contact my administrator. So I went into the email client, it really started dragging. Started to compose an email to see if it would send.... and got "You are experiencing unsteady internet connectivity. Please check your network access." There is nothing wrong with MY access, I think their site is struggling because now I can't connect at all.
I do use office365 for work, but mainly to check my calendar or email quickly if I don't want to bother RDPing into my laptop. It still isn't very quick though.
I am still quite happily running a quad core processor from several years ago. While I am able to upgrade some parts of it, if I need to do more than one... it would cost just as much to build a new system. It's sometimes just harder to find parts for older machines. I usually get to the point where when I do build a new system, I have to re-educate myself on all the new formats/standards for hardware.
But to the topic of phones, I have upgraded my phone now for the third time in the same timespan. My first foray into smartphones was a few years ago with the HTC One, on T-Mobile. It was a great phone. When it became lethargic, I rooted it and it got new life. Then about a year and a half ago, they were updating their network and dropping 3G. My phone didn't support 4GLTE, and by law they had to provide me (and my wife) with a new phone for free. We got low-end phones that were barely above our 3 year old phones. Those became problematic as they filled up VERY quickly (2GB storage). I just bought a new BLU phone, which should have the specs to keep me going for a while... but there is no real way to "upgrade" things. Replace a battery... maybe get a bigger memory card. But a lot of things come down to your provider or if you are even able to do things like upgrade the OS. My parents have older iphones, and all my dad wants is a weather app. I couldn't find an older app in the app store, everything required a newer version of the OS. I don't belong to the Apple-verse, so I couldn't help him.
Planned obsolescence is what keeps me out of "the cloud" [or whatever you want to call it] as much as possible, but it's getting harder and harder.
I have a life-long friend who has been at Intel for 15+ years, he works in the fabs and is a ME manager. Intel has always treated him very well. He's thought about leaving on occasion, but he just couldn't do it. Every 7 years - paid 3 month sabbatical on top of vacation. I don't know his salary, but he was doing very well. During the financial downturn, while i was being told I was lucky to have a job and not getting a raise, he was getting double-digit % raises and strong 5-digit bonuses. He gets stock options worth about half my salary. He didn't have any easy job and he was good at it. He had to travel some, but mostly just worked his 40/week and loved it. I never heard anything but good things about working at Intel. He said their philosophy was to hire good people and take care of them, and during down times take care of them even better. I had many conversations with him over beers when AMD was kicking Intel's ass in processors. He said their leadership's message was that it was one of the best things to happen to Intel because it shook them awake. They had become complacent, but would get back on top because they had the engineering ability to do so. Nothing smarmy, no whining.
As with large companies, I am sure that there were flipsides to his story. Maybe it was because he was in engineering, or because of what he did. I was always somewhat jealous of his love for his company, I wish any of my employers would have had half of that dedication and attitude towards their employees.
Good carbs bad carbs? There are biological and chemical reasons how certain carbs affect our bodies. It isn't rocket science, but it is science. Sorry, it can't be classified into simple terms YOU can understand. Lots of information out there about it, so I am not sure why you are calling it BS. Vague reference to why you think it may have worked for me, with no information at all. Insightful indeed moderators.
If you want to go the full-bore "primal blueprint" way, and get the best quality you can, it will cost you. For the most part, organic will cost you more than non-organic. If you want to go grass-fed pasture raised beef... free-range chickens and eggs... local pigs where each one is named and watches only re-runs of I Love Lucy while being massaged by Swedish women..... you get the point. Shopping in bulk helps on more expensive items - olive oil, nuts, coconut oil. If you buy 30 eggs - much better deal.
Yes, buying meat/eggs/cheese from massive brand farms probably isn't really the best food you can buy. But I am better off than eating just filler foods that make me feel terrible. Reducing inflammation is such a big part of it.
I am an advocate of it, because it has worked for me. And a few of my friends, and my wife. But I don't preach. It's funny how riled some people get about it, and aren't interested in hearing how our bodies actually work. They just want to stick with what they know, think they know, or what they want to believe.
I've found that a lot more story development can be accomplished (in the right hands) of a series. In a series you have a longer time to develop characters. 10 episodes @ 45 min each = 450 minutes, which would be a 7.5 hour movie. I don't know if it would apply to this type of movie, that seems to take so much time/resources/money/planning/post-production but I think it would be pretty cool.
I always felt like there was so much more to the Avatar story than what was in the movie. Movies have to be condensed to fit into a ~2.5 hr timeframe, unless you are planning out a sequel. But then it is released years apart.
With the "Netflix model" of a series like an Orange is the New Black, or Daredevil, or any of the others out there where the entire series is released at once it seems like a new style of movie can be released. One where you can take time to develop one or more characters and not have to take shortcuts and cram it in or leave parts on the cutting room floor. While this can happen with regular TV series, I've started to realize that I want the option to watch two or three in a row, or when I want. Waiting to watch Breaking Bad in this manner took a lot of the pressure off. I personally don't like being tied to a schedule to watch TV, and never cared enough to get a DVR.
(I was going to mention the Trailer Park Boys above... but that kind of killed my "character development" argument)
I've had my gold reusable filter for 10+ years now... and I found that there was always some fine silt in the last cup. So now I use a paper filter with my gold filter, and the silt is gone. The coffee is much better. I suppose I don't really need the gold filter anymore, but I have it. and it has a handle so I can carry the whole thing over to the trash can. (all it takes is dropping a filter full of wet coffee grounds on the floor once to know what a PITA that is)
Fair enough, I didn't cite it well and didn't back it up. My post wasn't meant to be an entire essay or statistics lesson. It was one of those things that I remembered from the various books / papers I have read on the topic. It was based on a fairly large set of data. And this is NOTHING NEW by the way.
Google turned up a few hits - please by all means look up more. They are out there.
The above were from 2009, and look like they may have some redundant data. And actually, this points to a higher percentage and focuses on LDL. But, my point stands that there is no definitive link between saturated fat and blood cholesterol and heart disease. You are correct, there are MANY factors, but our "scienticians" boil it down to good-cholesterol bad-cholesterol. Nearly any doctor in the country will tell you "raise your HDL, lower your LDL - here take these drugs to do it." It's not only quite wrong, it could be exacerbating the problem!
A really good one was a 10 part series by Dr Peter Attia around cholesterol. The series gets pretty deep into the topic, but here is a good summary: marksdailyapple
...Plus I don't actually use enough of butter for it's "evilness" to be a problem.
You know, that whole "moderation" thing...
The whole moderation is a myth. I use lots of butter, and olive oil, and coconut oil. Don't believe the BS about saturated fat being bad for you. Don't believe the BS about cholesterol. 80-90% of the cholesterol in your blood is produced by your body, not consumed. It *can* be influenced by what you eat, but in the way that you eat garbage that puts your hormones (insulin and others) on a roller coaster. There is no definitive link between saturated fat and blood cholesterol and heart disease. 50% of people who have heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol levels. Just let that one sink in. And I know there are stats about everything, but that is a big one.
When I started eating this way I weighed 175 lbs. Within 2 months I had dropped 15, and it has stayed off for 3 years - effortlessly - by eating a high-fat, low-carb diet of the best foods I can get. No grains, no grain products, very little to no sugar. It's not hard. I am in fantastic health.
Most of the dietary advice we have been fed (pun intended) in the last 50 years or so is not based on any real science. I could go into details, but I am not the expert. Listen to people much smarter than me. Watch this video as a primer: https://vimeo.com/45485034
Then go read Good Calories Bad Calories, and The Primal Blueprint.
Personally, I have been grain and grain product free for 3 years by following the principles put in the above (and some other) resources. No low-fat BS, no whole-grain BS. No fad diets. I won't preach, just do a little research on your own. Once the physical addiction to carbs/sugar was broken, my body doesn't want them anymore. I'm in my 40s, and I only wish I could have done this earlier in my life.
It's isn't just a meat-based diet - but it certainly didn't involve the massive amounts of grains/starches/sugars that most people consume today. What you say about meat isn't really true. I have been eating a primal diet for 1.5 years. Meat/fat/non-starchy veg/greens/tree nuts. No sugar, no grain/soybeans/corn products. No calorie counting, no limits on food apart from removing the garbage. I lost 15 lbs (170 to 155) in the first few months and kept it off, with NO increase in physical activity. My cholesteral numbers and blood work improved significantly. My teeth are even better. Overall, I am in much better health from when I started. This would likely improve if I had more time for an exercise program, I just don't.
You are right that evolution got us to where we are today, that is what a lot of it is based on. Don't take my experience as the answer, watch Attia's video talks. Read up on Sisson/Taubes books. Sissona and Attia have blogs as well. Science and evolution-based diets are not what most people follow today.
Except that you have to define what FOOD is.. and for the vast majority of the existence of the human species, it wasn't grains or sugar. Read Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It" or the more extensive book it is based on - "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Watch Dr. Peter Attia's videos on nutrition. Read Mark Sisson's "The Primal Blueprint".
Fat doesn't make you fat, our bodies are ruled by hormones - grain-based products and sugar wreak havoc on our hormonal system. Compare the number 10,000 to 2 million, the former is how long we as a species have been eating grains and sugar as a large portion of our diets, the latter is how long we've been around.
I've been primal for 1.5 years now, and healthier than ever.
to be rich and successful enough to have principles to fall back on. It's always good to see people stand on principles, but it's just a lot harder to ignore the money on the table when you need it.
Honestly, I can imagine that people will clamor for whatever they put out, simply to get off of windows 8. But in reality, people will likely just buy a new computer instead of upgrading the OS, and I'll be there to snatch up all those cheap windows 8 machines. Or they will be using Android thin clients, or Firefox OS, or Google OS by then. Or I suppose more Linux flavors.
It doesn't matter much to me... at work we still have people migrating from XP to 7, so I won't have to worry about getting off of Win7 until 2018 or so. And at home it's Linux for me, since 1998.
Pretty much all starchy carbs (like potatoes) and of course anything grain-based (bread, flour, rice, etc). I'll eat sweet potatoes on occasion (boiled, then mashed up with butter, some heavy cream, salt, pepper), kale, spinach... pretty much any leafy greens are good. Fruits on occasion, I do like apples, try not to eat too many bananas, no grapes or other really sugary fruits. Berries are good. Fruit is really only an occasional thing. Eggs are a staple. Many people avoid dairy, but I like cheese. No milk, but I do use butter and heavy cream. Only good oils, like cocoinut and olive oils. Oh, and butter. Tree nuts are good (but not peanuts). No beans. Tonight I had a big cheeseburger using lettuce leaves as a bun and some pickles. I do also like dark chocolate, 70% cacao or above.
especially when your life and health is at stake. And don't necessarily listen to those that simply subscribe to "traditional wisdom" because it could very well be wrong.
I cut out grains, sugar, and most carbs from my diet a year ago and couldn't be happier or healthier now. Don't do it just as a way to lose weight, learn WHY it is healthier and part of our genetic makeup.
They may not be negatively impacting you.... today. But think about everything you've ever done online or on your phone. Ever. Now think about what that set of data will look like in 10 years. THAT is the power that Google has. It's the power that Microsoft DREAMS about. I'm not saying that is good or bad, but the fact is we don't KNOW what they will, or can, do with that data.
But I do know that they can do incredible things. They can do incredible good. Look at something like street view on maps. Astounding. And it's only one example. Bottom line for me is, I don't understand why people willingly share all of their personal information. Facebook, Google, etc. There is no privacy anymore unless you really try. Banks track all of your transactions, go into a casino and they monitor your wins/losses to find that sweet spot where you'll keep playing. I am sure that there are many many other things they are doing that we don't know about. But we get complacent because of convenience.
I'm not paranoid, it is the reality of today, and of tomorrow. Google is not bullet-proof, and they could someday be bought by another company, who could then own all of their data. The information age is an incredible one, all of that information is power... and you and I don't own that power.
... forcing people to create extensions to get the feature back
And then proceed to break extensions with every single release. I haven't gotten some extensions to work for several updates... fire gestures and/or all-in-one, printedit, download helper. I know they don't purposely break them, but I don't understand why they just stop working and never work again. Is it because I'm on Linux? Not to mention that it has become quite a memory hog and seems to have issues releasing memory and shutting down gracefully. I don't really like any of the alternatives as much, but have really considered dropping FF.
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I've installed Linux on my sister's aging laptop, as a replacement for the XP she had before. I'd warned her multiple times that XP was going EOL and that she should jump to an alternative, and after some time of nagging she agreed that I can put Ubuntu on her Laptop. Unfortunately the WiFi driver didn't work and the new shiny (and expensive!) printer she bought a few weeks earlier didn't have any Linux driver support at all, so she wasn't very happy with it.
Recently she bought herself a new laptop, she didn't want me to replace the pre-installed Windows.
I think that it deserves to be pointed out... that printers are evil. Seriously. They are my arch-nemesis. I hate them. I can never seem to get them to work properly with Windows or Linux. And if you do... DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. I am convinced they are sentient, and they are assholes.
Having gotten that off my chest - I have been running Linux for a long time. I haven't run Windows since Redhat 5.1. But I am the tech guy, helping out family, neighbors and friends. For the most part, people are not tech savvy at all, no matter what OS they run. And actually, they don't really even know they run an OS. I have countless stories where my computer has done something weird, and I have for the most part been able to correct it. I have seen Windows machines of all flavors flat out just do weird things. My mother-in-law's laptop just recently disabled her wifi... everything looked fine, fresh boot, the router signal was strong, etc. etc. I got lucky and fixed it by going into the hardware manager, disabling it, re-enabling it, and rebooting. That was it. No clue why.
But I didn't fix it because I am a wiz at Windows8. *shudder*
I fixed it because I am inquisitive, I try things, I fix things, I troubleshoot. I am persistent in a good way - not in the "I clicked this 10 times and it didn't work, so I'll click it another 10" the way my mother-in-law's printer spit out 20 copies of a google map once the wifi was working again.
I think that expecting things to "just work" all the time has chipped away at our ability to make things work and figure them out. Maybe I am just an aging techie.
It is a glandular problem, their glands are being over worked. People are eating more and more foods that put the body through the 'hormone roller coaster' where their blood sugar spikes and falls. Increased carbs and sugars elevate insulin levels while overloading the liver with carbs. Your body gets physically addicted to this, which makes you crave it more and the problem only gets worse.
Being fat is not a problem of overeating, calorie in/out, or laziness. It is due to an unbalance in the body's ability to regulate fat storage which is controlled by hormones. (primarily insulin - see roller coaster) People aren't overweight because they eat a lot - they eat a lot because they are overweight! The more fat someone has, the hungrier they will be and the less energy they will have to exercise.
Ever wonder how someone with a true glandular malfunction can grow bigger and bigger no matter what they eat? Why kids shoot up and grow rapidly at a certain age? Hormones run the show.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
I believe you answered your own question.
Is security really an issue in China? I mean, not counting what the government probably requires companies to open up for their data gathering purposes like
predictive policing efforts . If they build and entirely national technology ecosystem, the only enemy they have would be from within.
Same here... I signed up, but things started crawling. Was able to upload a doc via the mobile app, then tried to share a link to it. It couldn't send an email, said to contact my administrator. So I went into the email client, it really started dragging. Started to compose an email to see if it would send.... and got "You are experiencing unsteady internet connectivity. Please check your network access." There is nothing wrong with MY access, I think their site is struggling because now I can't connect at all.
I do use office365 for work, but mainly to check my calendar or email quickly if I don't want to bother RDPing into my laptop. It still isn't very quick though.
I am still quite happily running a quad core processor from several years ago. While I am able to upgrade some parts of it, if I need to do more than one... it would cost just as much to build a new system. It's sometimes just harder to find parts for older machines. I usually get to the point where when I do build a new system, I have to re-educate myself on all the new formats/standards for hardware.
But to the topic of phones, I have upgraded my phone now for the third time in the same timespan. My first foray into smartphones was a few years ago with the HTC One, on T-Mobile. It was a great phone. When it became lethargic, I rooted it and it got new life. Then about a year and a half ago, they were updating their network and dropping 3G. My phone didn't support 4GLTE, and by law they had to provide me (and my wife) with a new phone for free. We got low-end phones that were barely above our 3 year old phones. Those became problematic as they filled up VERY quickly (2GB storage). I just bought a new BLU phone, which should have the specs to keep me going for a while... but there is no real way to "upgrade" things. Replace a battery... maybe get a bigger memory card. But a lot of things come down to your provider or if you are even able to do things like upgrade the OS. My parents have older iphones, and all my dad wants is a weather app. I couldn't find an older app in the app store, everything required a newer version of the OS. I don't belong to the Apple-verse, so I couldn't help him.
Planned obsolescence is what keeps me out of "the cloud" [or whatever you want to call it] as much as possible, but it's getting harder and harder.
I have a life-long friend who has been at Intel for 15+ years, he works in the fabs and is a ME manager. Intel has always treated him very well. He's thought about leaving on occasion, but he just couldn't do it. Every 7 years - paid 3 month sabbatical on top of vacation. I don't know his salary, but he was doing very well. During the financial downturn, while i was being told I was lucky to have a job and not getting a raise, he was getting double-digit % raises and strong 5-digit bonuses. He gets stock options worth about half my salary. He didn't have any easy job and he was good at it. He had to travel some, but mostly just worked his 40/week and loved it. I never heard anything but good things about working at Intel. He said their philosophy was to hire good people and take care of them, and during down times take care of them even better. I had many conversations with him over beers when AMD was kicking Intel's ass in processors. He said their leadership's message was that it was one of the best things to happen to Intel because it shook them awake. They had become complacent, but would get back on top because they had the engineering ability to do so. Nothing smarmy, no whining.
As with large companies, I am sure that there were flipsides to his story. Maybe it was because he was in engineering, or because of what he did. I was always somewhat jealous of his love for his company, I wish any of my employers would have had half of that dedication and attitude towards their employees.
Good carbs bad carbs? There are biological and chemical reasons how certain carbs affect our bodies. It isn't rocket science, but it is science. Sorry, it can't be classified into simple terms YOU can understand. Lots of information out there about it, so I am not sure why you are calling it BS. Vague reference to why you think it may have worked for me, with no information at all. Insightful indeed moderators.
If you want to go the full-bore "primal blueprint" way, and get the best quality you can, it will cost you. For the most part, organic will cost you more than non-organic. If you want to go grass-fed pasture raised beef... free-range chickens and eggs... local pigs where each one is named and watches only re-runs of I Love Lucy while being massaged by Swedish women..... you get the point. Shopping in bulk helps on more expensive items - olive oil, nuts, coconut oil. If you buy 30 eggs - much better deal.
Yes, buying meat/eggs/cheese from massive brand farms probably isn't really the best food you can buy. But I am better off than eating just filler foods that make me feel terrible. Reducing inflammation is such a big part of it.
I am an advocate of it, because it has worked for me. And a few of my friends, and my wife. But I don't preach. It's funny how riled some people get about it, and aren't interested in hearing how our bodies actually work. They just want to stick with what they know, think they know, or what they want to believe.
I've found that a lot more story development can be accomplished (in the right hands) of a series. In a series you have a longer time to develop characters. 10 episodes @ 45 min each = 450 minutes, which would be a 7.5 hour movie. I don't know if it would apply to this type of movie, that seems to take so much time/resources/money/planning/post-production but I think it would be pretty cool.
I always felt like there was so much more to the Avatar story than what was in the movie. Movies have to be condensed to fit into a ~2.5 hr timeframe, unless you are planning out a sequel. But then it is released years apart.
With the "Netflix model" of a series like an Orange is the New Black, or Daredevil, or any of the others out there where the entire series is released at once it seems like a new style of movie can be released. One where you can take time to develop one or more characters and not have to take shortcuts and cram it in or leave parts on the cutting room floor. While this can happen with regular TV series, I've started to realize that I want the option to watch two or three in a row, or when I want. Waiting to watch Breaking Bad in this manner took a lot of the pressure off. I personally don't like being tied to a schedule to watch TV, and never cared enough to get a DVR.
(I was going to mention the Trailer Park Boys above... but that kind of killed my "character development" argument)
I've had my gold reusable filter for 10+ years now... and I found that there was always some fine silt in the last cup. So now I use a paper filter with my gold filter, and the silt is gone. The coffee is much better. I suppose I don't really need the gold filter anymore, but I have it. and it has a handle so I can carry the whole thing over to the trash can. (all it takes is dropping a filter full of wet coffee grounds on the floor once to know what a PITA that is)
Fair enough, I didn't cite it well and didn't back it up. My post wasn't meant to be an entire essay or statistics lesson. It was one of those things that I remembered from the various books / papers I have read on the topic. It was based on a fairly large set of data. And this is NOTHING NEW by the way.
Google turned up a few hits - please by all means look up more. They are out there.
dietheartpublishing
sciencedaily
The above were from 2009, and look like they may have some redundant data. And actually, this points to a higher percentage and focuses on LDL. But, my point stands that there is no definitive link between saturated fat and blood cholesterol and heart disease. You are correct, there are MANY factors, but our "scienticians" boil it down to good-cholesterol bad-cholesterol. Nearly any doctor in the country will tell you "raise your HDL, lower your LDL - here take these drugs to do it." It's not only quite wrong, it could be exacerbating the problem!
A really good one was a 10 part series by Dr Peter Attia around cholesterol. The series gets pretty deep into the topic, but here is a good summary: marksdailyapple
...Plus I don't actually use enough of butter for it's "evilness" to be a problem.
You know, that whole "moderation" thing...
The whole moderation is a myth. I use lots of butter, and olive oil, and coconut oil. Don't believe the BS about saturated fat being bad for you. Don't believe the BS about cholesterol. 80-90% of the cholesterol in your blood is produced by your body, not consumed. It *can* be influenced by what you eat, but in the way that you eat garbage that puts your hormones (insulin and others) on a roller coaster. There is no definitive link between saturated fat and blood cholesterol and heart disease. 50% of people who have heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol levels. Just let that one sink in. And I know there are stats about everything, but that is a big one.
When I started eating this way I weighed 175 lbs. Within 2 months I had dropped 15, and it has stayed off for 3 years - effortlessly - by eating a high-fat, low-carb diet of the best foods I can get. No grains, no grain products, very little to no sugar. It's not hard. I am in fantastic health.
Most of the dietary advice we have been fed (pun intended) in the last 50 years or so is not based on any real science.
I could go into details, but I am not the expert. Listen to people much smarter than me. Watch this video as a primer: https://vimeo.com/45485034
Then go read Good Calories Bad Calories, and The Primal Blueprint.
Personally, I have been grain and grain product free for 3 years by following the principles put in the above (and some other) resources. No low-fat BS, no whole-grain BS. No fad diets. I won't preach, just do a little research on your own. Once the physical addiction to carbs/sugar was broken, my body doesn't want them anymore. I'm in my 40s, and I only wish I could have done this earlier in my life.
It's isn't just a meat-based diet - but it certainly didn't involve the massive amounts of grains/starches/sugars that most people consume today.
What you say about meat isn't really true. I have been eating a primal diet for 1.5 years. Meat/fat/non-starchy veg/greens/tree nuts. No sugar, no grain/soybeans/corn products. No calorie counting, no limits on food apart from removing the garbage. I lost 15 lbs (170 to 155) in the first few months and kept it off, with NO increase in physical activity. My cholesteral numbers and blood work improved significantly. My teeth are even better. Overall, I am in much better health from when I started. This would likely improve if I had more time for an exercise program, I just don't.
You are right that evolution got us to where we are today, that is what a lot of it is based on. Don't take my experience as the answer, watch Attia's video talks. Read up on Sisson/Taubes books. Sissona and Attia have blogs as well. Science and evolution-based diets are not what most people follow today.
Except that you have to define what FOOD is.. and for the vast majority of the existence of the human species, it wasn't grains or sugar.
Read Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It" or the more extensive book it is based on - "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Watch Dr. Peter Attia's videos on nutrition. Read Mark Sisson's "The Primal Blueprint".
Fat doesn't make you fat, our bodies are ruled by hormones - grain-based products and sugar wreak havoc on our hormonal system. Compare the number 10,000 to 2 million, the former is how long we as a species have been eating grains and sugar as a large portion of our diets, the latter is how long we've been around.
I've been primal for 1.5 years now, and healthier than ever.
to be rich and successful enough to have principles to fall back on.
It's always good to see people stand on principles, but it's just a lot harder to ignore the money on the table when you need it.
Thousands of hacker wannabes from the 90s haven't done much of anything with their lives, and are working in boring ass jobs with normal lives.
Honestly, I can imagine that people will clamor for whatever they put out, simply to get off of windows 8.
But in reality, people will likely just buy a new computer instead of upgrading the OS, and I'll be there to snatch up all those cheap windows 8 machines.
Or they will be using Android thin clients, or Firefox OS, or Google OS by then. Or I suppose more Linux flavors.
It doesn't matter much to me... at work we still have people migrating from XP to 7, so I won't have to worry about getting off of Win7 until 2018 or so.
And at home it's Linux for me, since 1998.
Pretty much all starchy carbs (like potatoes) and of course anything grain-based (bread, flour, rice, etc). I'll eat sweet potatoes on occasion (boiled, then mashed up with butter, some heavy cream, salt, pepper), kale, spinach... pretty much any leafy greens are good. Fruits on occasion, I do like apples, try not to eat too many bananas, no grapes or other really sugary fruits. Berries are good. Fruit is really only an occasional thing. Eggs are a staple. Many people avoid dairy, but I like cheese. No milk, but I do use butter and heavy cream. Only good oils, like cocoinut and olive oils. Oh, and butter. Tree nuts are good (but not peanuts). No beans. Tonight I had a big cheeseburger using lettuce leaves as a bun and some pickles. I do also like dark chocolate, 70% cacao or above.
especially when your life and health is at stake. And don't necessarily listen to those that simply subscribe to "traditional wisdom" because it could very well be wrong.
Read "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes (or the work it is based on, Good Calories Bad Calories)
Watch this video by Dr Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines -- 60 years of ambiguity
Read the Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson
I cut out grains, sugar, and most carbs from my diet a year ago and couldn't be happier or healthier now. Don't do it just as a way to lose weight, learn WHY it is healthier and part of our genetic makeup.
They may not be negatively impacting you.... today.
But think about everything you've ever done online or on your phone. Ever. Now think about what that set of data will look like in 10 years.
THAT is the power that Google has. It's the power that Microsoft DREAMS about. I'm not saying that is good or bad, but the fact is we don't KNOW what they will, or can, do with that data.
But I do know that they can do incredible things. They can do incredible good. Look at something like street view on maps. Astounding. And it's only one example. Bottom line for me is, I don't understand why people willingly share all of their personal information. Facebook, Google, etc. There is no privacy anymore unless you really try. Banks track all of your transactions, go into a casino and they monitor your wins/losses to find that sweet spot where you'll keep playing. I am sure that there are many many other things they are doing that we don't know about. But we get complacent because of convenience.
I'm not paranoid, it is the reality of today, and of tomorrow. Google is not bullet-proof, and they could someday be bought by another company, who could then own all of their data. The information age is an incredible one, all of that information is power... and you and I don't own that power.
... forcing people to create extensions to get the feature back
And then proceed to break extensions with every single release. I haven't gotten some extensions to work for several updates ... fire gestures and/or all-in-one, printedit, download helper. I know they don't purposely break them, but I don't understand why they just stop working and never work again. Is it because I'm on Linux? Not to mention that it has become quite a memory hog and seems to have issues releasing memory and shutting down gracefully. I don't really like any of the alternatives as much, but have really considered dropping FF.
Business huh? You just lost yourself a customer .. what's that Homer?
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YOU JUST LOST YOURSELF A CUSTOMER MOE!
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It's been a LONNNNG time since I was this age, so maybe these books are a bit beyond middle schoolers.
Greetings Carbon Based Bipeds by Arthur C. Clarke
The Minds I, or Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofsdater (these might be tough to comprehend though)
And not books, but what about issues of Scientific American? I got that magazine for a few years, and it was always very thought provoking.