Can we get some sort of mod category for bad spelling and paragraph craziness like this? I mean, he might be saying something worthwhile but honest to god, I can't read that chunk of unformatted RANDOM CAPS LOCKED chunk of text.
"Yeah, so you want the new executable then? Erm yeah, so it's zero eee wun eff bee ay... oh sorry that's a four yeah, a four oh nine, yeah a zero oh see dee." To be honest, I don't think I can shout quite far enough anyway.
Once I was calling my bank, phoning somethig like the 5th number. Ring Ring... hold music, voicing my frustration I say "You Bastards". unfortunately that was the very second they put me through. I hear a yorkshire accent (alliance + leicester, northern bank) stutter at the other end "W-W-W-W What did you just call me!?". Fortunately when I explained I was swearing at the machine and not him, he took it in good humour. Good thing too, wonder what he could have done to my credit rating.
For this Mydoom worm at least, why not have the ISP have a box that listens for traffic likely to be caused by a worm and then install a counter non worm. That is a program that exploits the hole, fixes it, then deletes itself. It'd more than pay for itself in bandwidth and hassle saved. A similar sort of thing could be built into mailservers, where virus laden e-mails as well as being blocked could be responded to with a patch. Of course there is an issue of trust, maybe, although slightly dangerously, there could be some cryptographic mechanism built into e-mail clients to allow code to just be run automatically. I understand there are abuse issues with this, not just cracking of the key, but abuse by those who have access to it. In a situation where you have a huge body of mostly ignorant users who seem unwilling or too scared to learn then it seems you're not given a lot of choice.
There is an alternative to this of course, educate the users. When the internet and broadband start coming into play, ignorant users start to cause serious problems for everyone else. And when the majority of users are ignorant as they are now. Well we see what happens. How about a mandatory broadband driving test. It took a while for people to realise that untrained drivers shouldn't hurtle about the streets and as networks become vital economic infrastructure allowing untrained users to hurtle about them is just as dangerous. The test need not be hard, maybe there could be small tests to lift bars. A level of understanding to be given access to SMTP/IMAP, another level of understanding to have your inbound ports unfirewalled (what percentage of users would notice if you firewalled all their inbound ports anyway? Those that do should be able to pass the test anyway) etc. etc. That's the true solution to this problem. Start teaching kids the important things in school now, I remember IT classes being pathetic. The most important skill is to learn how to keep learning, and not to fear technology.
I remember a similar (slightly dafter sounding) ploy made by toshiba with their libretto laptops. Their supplier no longer made hard drives of the size they wanted to supply with the 70CT (2GB I think) so they bundled a larger hard drive, and set the BIOS up to only acnowledge 2GB of space! It didn't take long for people who knew to circumvent it, probably merely a sizeable minority tho.
It's not so much "going the extra mile" by creating a profitable product, but being lazy by not writing their own. Using my work to make money, when I'd rather keep any growth of it free. If they want to make a profitable product, then it can be their own!
People don't have to use my code as a base to do anything. The GPL allows you the freedom to learn from the code, and requires you to afford others the same freedom that you were given by the GPL code. It's about the dissemination of knowledge rather than the exploitation of people for profit. Why should someone else use my work to make a profit and limit the freedom of others? If they want to make a proprietary program they can do so, just not with GPL code.
Two things about that though. Firstly Debian ships with (nearly) every piece of free software you could ever want, bar a few minor quibbles (mplayer anyone?) especially if you use testing or unstable. It "ships at least 3 different word processors and 5 different browsers, it's not quite the same. Shipping everything has package management advantages too. Secondly in an ideal world I'd agree with you, if it were a linux only world (for the sake of argument, not as an ideal people) and no distribution had supremecy then people can freely choose a distribution that has a mix of software they like. Lovely, freedom of choice. Sadly we don't live in that world though, and people get microsoft whatever plonked on their desktop, and they strongarm OEMs to make sure that it's what *they* want, where else are the OEMs going to go? People want to play a video or mp3s and it happens, little do they care if it's microsoft or otherwise till they are locked in. Experience seems to show that consumers en masse are a bit like sheep, and maybe they need protection from their own inertia, apathy and lack of knowledge. That said, if they show the same ignorance to everything, then they get the state they deserve (and to hell with the rest of us). That's life I guess
Freedom of speech is not consitutionally protected in the UK. This came up as an issue in the last week where Robert Kilroy-Silk (a man whos' telly I very much dislike) may be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred in an article in a tabloid newspaper.
Forgive me for a second if I cast back to my walk back from the pub the other night. I really, really needed to go to the toilet... really badly (don't mod me as offtopic yet, this is going somewhere... really!). Why can't I go to the toilet right here? Well many drunkards do, but the point is that victorian London shows us why we shouldn't. Cholera and whatever else, that bag.
The thing is that we live a technologically advanced life, especially in western cities. I can't go to the toilet in the street, because if everyone did that we'd be rife with disease (and I ain't different from anyone else). I can't just wander across the A12 or whatever highway you like because it's dangerous and we need the roads to supply us with food and whatever else in adequate volume. I can't go around shooting people from the top window on canary wharf because the state guarantees its security, by attempting to guarantee yours (and everyone elses), besides which the top windows on canary wharf very likely don't open, and I'm not allowed up there for "security reasons" to find out anyway.
All the while joe public is tap tap tapping away at a computer to meet the deadline, asking you if you want fries with that and getting stuck in a traffic jam on the way home.
Modern technology gives us new freedoms, of course, but increasingly only as you can afford them. A highway is like a slap in the face when it saws through the inner city, 75% of whom don't own cars (and if they all bought cars, there'd be nowhere to park them!), it just knocks down your mates house, and puts other mates of yours 10 lanes of highway and an ominous footbridge/underpass away.
The internet, and computers are cheaper than cars, and a PS2 cheaper still. It's worth pointing out that the highest concentration of Sattelite and Cable television subscribers (in the UK at least) is in high unemployment estates. These people can't do much outside their houses (go to the pub maybe), so they tend to entertain themselves in and around it. For people such as this grabbing some fatboy out of his kompressor and taking it for a little spin might be a very appealing idea, especially as they're zooming past your window on a newly erected concrete flyover.
The urban world isn't anything as simple as a "nightmare", it can offer new freedoms and a fulfilling way of life as cultures meet and countries worth of people are compressed into so many square miles. It also imposes restraints on all of us, but especially the poor. GTA and other violent games are a result of our hamhanded adaptation to a world changing faster than we are.
It's a funny thing. It seems a little easier to be frank with someone, or ask a hard question over IM. Maybe it's because you can't see the other parties face. Whether the impact is positive or negative I don't know, having a blazing row with someone because of that frankness is not nessecarily bad, getting it out in the open to be dealt with rather than letting issues simmer for ages. Inter household IM could have a really big effect on the way families communicate.
Most custom laptop and PDA batteries are $70-120, some even up to $200. It sucks, but what do you expect? I Don't expect it, but it would be nice if people didn't abuse their monopolies, and if they do I should be able to expect the monopolies and mergers commission to stop them. I don't really know what sort of argument you are making.
It's a fair point that you managed to assemble such a machine for such a price. The problem is that the people I'm talking about don't have access to the skills and knowledge you have. If you can maybe you could make it available, I'm sure many/most people on slashdot give out their skills for free to all sorts of people quite regularly. I know I do. The point on booze and smokes, while also drawing us neatly back to some points about advertising and what it does in society, is something else I can't let sit there. It's part of the same thing as the other point actually... the poverty trap. Among the many reasons poor people smoke and drink more (and more damagingly) the one reason is to numb the pain, satisfying a craving is also still a satisfying feeling, when I smoked I enjoyed it and I still acknowledge that it was enjoyable. Dickens said something about alcohol being the only way that poor people could find it in themselves to sing and dance, and that only a brute could deny it to them (it was in hard times, and probably many other books if someone cares to remember it exactly). While the scale of western proverty isn't the same as dickensian poverty was, and whether you agree with him about denial, you can see where he's coming from.
If you had a choice between a computer with adverts and one without, at the same price, you would of course choose the one without. So this begs the question of who buys a computer worth a few hundred quid for this, it seems fairly major inconvenience. Most people have computers these days, and even if it means a small to fair upgrade I'd bet most people would be unwilling. Especially if they were considering the performance overhead that the ad software is going to take. The people left over using this are people who can't afford a new PC, and who lack the knowledge, time or wherewithal to make an old one work on older (or possibly less horribly bloated) software, or indeed the computer savvy to know that an older computer with such software is completely adequate for most peoples needs (we all survived on it however many years ago). What these people are also going to evaluate is that the benefits of having access to a computer and the internet is worth the advertising. The problem we have is that when we raise the bar to enter society there are problems. Where there is no good public transport provision in an area, a car is nessecary to conduct a decent life (especially outside a city), leading to ghettoisation of those who don't. [On a side note the people who are ghettoised in inner cities not only suffer through not having a car, but their areas are sliced up by roads to which they have no access. Crippling communities, and flaunting what others have in front of their faces every day] What I am leading to, far too slowly, is that this leads us to a world where computers are a nessecary part of life in the western world, especially with the advent of the internet. People without have less access to the wealth in society, leading to a situation where advertisers can further force their way into the homes of people who are wise enough to realise what they could gain from the computer it places there. The hardware upgrade spiral is the very most antisocial and upleasant aspect of the wintel cartel. Maybe govornments who want to free themselves from it should have schemes to recycle old computers and sell them cheaply (including software licenses). It'd probably help their GDP too.
They set up a "netscape online" ISP in the UK, which has since been axed. It was back in the day when everyone and his aunt had started an 0845 "lo-call" isp, and then ran it off the profits from the telephone calls. The reason this one didn't make any money might have been something to do with the fact that you could use your netscape online username and password with AOLs freephone dialup. Although I don't know how many people noticed that. I wonder if they'll manage to do the same thing again?
Sometimes when people on the other end have a lot of background noise I find myself struggling to hear them and myself shouting. It's just instinct, you feel like you have to shout over their noise. When I realise I stop, but I bet the people who are doing it don't even realise.
If I switch my phone on to silent or vibrate, and divert voice calls to my voicemail there's nothing wrong with me sending or recieving SMS text messages, or browsing WAP should I so wish. Why you'd go to a cinema and then use your phone instead of watching the film I really don't know, and maybe I'm lucky but I've never been bothered by anyone doing so. Mobile phone jamming dosn't stop other sorts of antisocial activity. Kids will still make a lot of noise and throw popcorn at each other, and if a group of drunken idiots decide to make a nuisence of themselves then mobile phone jamming won't help that. There are ushers and managers (and god forbid, maybe your good self) to deal with that sort of thing should they need to. If I can use my phone in the cinema (or anywhere else) without bothering people why can't I? Besides, should there be an emergency I may need that phone. If people on phones are annoying you, maybe you should tell them.
Anish says: lol you should tell them how u do things The Devellish Good JamJar says: how do I do things? Anish says: I leave bits of antique hardware amongst a random screws and bits scattered around here n there so that the cat can choke on it. The Devellish Good JamJar says: what are you trying to say? The Devellish Good JamJar says: My cat has not choked on that Anish says: are u sure Anish says: once gary thought i was poking your cat with a screwdriver The Devellish Good JamJar says: and the hardware isn't that antique The Devellish Good JamJar says: I love the sparcstation Anish says: have u never impaled ure feet on the spikes from sum old microship? Anish says: when i sleep on ure floor i bang my head on ure sparc a lot
Now I have to say, I tried to use this installer a few weeks ago. I know it's a work in progress, but it was basically entirely non functional on my computer. Bits crashed, bits had to be fixed in other virtual terminals, then it stopped switching virtual terminals (the main installer started writing all over them). In the end, I gave up and used the stable base installer and used apt to get unstable. It didn't look like it was very near release, or at least, there's some frantic work to be done.
Many of those who *live* in the cities here are lower-class/middle-class
I'm confused! How do you assume those of us in european cities live? We don't all live in castles you know. I'm pretty sure that the actual class mix in european cities is quite similar to an american city of similar size. As a londoner I probably share more with a new yorker than I do a devon farmer. Anyway, should e-mail not work please post any replies to:
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I'm a cycle messenger by trade. I have a very high carb, high excercise diet routine. The atkins diet does seem to work from what I hear from people... work inasmuch as they lose weight. But is it healthy? People I know who have done atkinds have been close to delerium at points while following the diet. I know that some would consider my lucky to be doing the amount of excercise where I don't have to worry about it, but the brain needs some carbohydrate for concentration and such. A more apt solution would be a better balance between work and life for the office workers, if people have time to prepare and enjoy good food then they will eat better and have less problems with it. So many people just work work work and eat crap to fuel it and develop a problem with it while they aren't even looking.
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Can we get some sort of mod category for bad spelling and paragraph craziness like this? I mean, he might be saying something worthwhile but honest to god, I can't read that chunk of unformatted RANDOM CAPS LOCKED chunk of text.
It's as easy as this brother!
"Yeah, so you want the new executable then? Erm yeah, so it's zero eee wun eff bee ay ... oh sorry that's a four yeah, a four oh nine, yeah a zero oh see dee."
To be honest, I don't think I can shout quite far enough anyway.
Once I was calling my bank, phoning somethig like the 5th number. Ring Ring ... hold music, voicing my frustration I say "You Bastards". unfortunately that was the very second they put me through. I hear a yorkshire accent (alliance + leicester, northern bank) stutter at the other end "W-W-W-W What did you just call me!?". Fortunately when I explained I was swearing at the machine and not him, he took it in good humour. Good thing too, wonder what he could have done to my credit rating.
For this Mydoom worm at least, why not have the ISP have a box that listens for traffic likely to be caused by a worm and then install a counter non worm. That is a program that exploits the hole, fixes it, then deletes itself. It'd more than pay for itself in bandwidth and hassle saved. A similar sort of thing could be built into mailservers, where virus laden e-mails as well as being blocked could be responded to with a patch. Of course there is an issue of trust, maybe, although slightly dangerously, there could be some cryptographic mechanism built into e-mail clients to allow code to just be run automatically. I understand there are abuse issues with this, not just cracking of the key, but abuse by those who have access to it. In a situation where you have a huge body of mostly ignorant users who seem unwilling or too scared to learn then it seems you're not given a lot of choice.
There is an alternative to this of course, educate the users. When the internet and broadband start coming into play, ignorant users start to cause serious problems for everyone else. And when the majority of users are ignorant as they are now. Well we see what happens. How about a mandatory broadband driving test. It took a while for people to realise that untrained drivers shouldn't hurtle about the streets and as networks become vital economic infrastructure allowing untrained users to hurtle about them is just as dangerous. The test need not be hard, maybe there could be small tests to lift bars. A level of understanding to be given access to SMTP/IMAP, another level of understanding to have your inbound ports unfirewalled (what percentage of users would notice if you firewalled all their inbound ports anyway? Those that do should be able to pass the test anyway) etc. etc. That's the true solution to this problem. Start teaching kids the important things in school now, I remember IT classes being pathetic. The most important skill is to learn how to keep learning, and not to fear technology.
I remember a similar (slightly dafter sounding) ploy made by toshiba with their libretto laptops. Their supplier no longer made hard drives of the size they wanted to supply with the 70CT (2GB I think) so they bundled a larger hard drive, and set the BIOS up to only acnowledge 2GB of space! It didn't take long for people who knew to circumvent it, probably merely a sizeable minority tho.
It's not so much "going the extra mile" by creating a profitable product, but being lazy by not writing their own. Using my work to make money, when I'd rather keep any growth of it free.
If they want to make a profitable product, then it can be their own!
People don't have to use my code as a base to do anything. The GPL allows you the freedom to learn from the code, and requires you to afford others the same freedom that you were given by the GPL code. It's about the dissemination of knowledge rather than the exploitation of people for profit. Why should someone else use my work to make a profit and limit the freedom of others? If they want to make a proprietary program they can do so, just not with GPL code.
The parent isn't informative, it's wrong. The nomination was by Gordon Brown.
It doesn't take a lot to do just a little research you know.
Two things about that though. Firstly Debian ships with (nearly) every piece of free software you could ever want, bar a few minor quibbles (mplayer anyone?) especially if you use testing or unstable. It "ships at least 3 different word processors and 5 different browsers, it's not quite the same. Shipping everything has package management advantages too.
Secondly in an ideal world I'd agree with you, if it were a linux only world (for the sake of argument, not as an ideal people) and no distribution had supremecy then people can freely choose a distribution that has a mix of software they like. Lovely, freedom of choice. Sadly we don't live in that world though, and people get microsoft whatever plonked on their desktop, and they strongarm OEMs to make sure that it's what *they* want, where else are the OEMs going to go? People want to play a video or mp3s and it happens, little do they care if it's microsoft or otherwise till they are locked in. Experience seems to show that consumers en masse are a bit like sheep, and maybe they need protection from their own inertia, apathy and lack of knowledge. That said, if they show the same ignorance to everything, then they get the state they deserve (and to hell with the rest of us).
That's life I guess
Just because it doesn't have a constitution all in one place, doesn't mean that it doesn't have one. See
Freedom of speech is not consitutionally protected in the UK. This came up as an issue in the last week where Robert Kilroy-Silk (a man whos' telly I very much dislike) may be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred in an article in a tabloid newspaper.
In a little bit of retrospective research, I'd like to point this area profile out to you.
Forgive me for a second if I cast back to my walk back from the pub the other night. I really, really needed to go to the toilet ... really badly (don't mod me as offtopic yet, this is going somewhere ... really!). Why can't I go to the toilet right here? Well many drunkards do, but the point is that victorian London shows us why we shouldn't. Cholera and whatever else, that bag.
The thing is that we live a technologically advanced life, especially in western cities. I can't go to the toilet in the street, because if everyone did that we'd be rife with disease (and I ain't different from anyone else). I can't just wander across the A12 or whatever highway you like because it's dangerous and we need the roads to supply us with food and whatever else in adequate volume. I can't go around shooting people from the top window on canary wharf because the state guarantees its security, by attempting to guarantee yours (and everyone elses), besides which the top windows on canary wharf very likely don't open, and I'm not allowed up there for "security reasons" to find out anyway.
All the while joe public is tap tap tapping away at a computer to meet the deadline, asking you if you want fries with that and getting stuck in a traffic jam on the way home.
Modern technology gives us new freedoms, of course, but increasingly only as you can afford them. A highway is like a slap in the face when it saws through the inner city, 75% of whom don't own cars (and if they all bought cars, there'd be nowhere to park them!), it just knocks down your mates house, and puts other mates of yours 10 lanes of highway and an ominous footbridge/underpass away.
The internet, and computers are cheaper than cars, and a PS2 cheaper still. It's worth pointing out that the highest concentration of Sattelite and Cable television subscribers (in the UK at least) is in high unemployment estates. These people can't do much outside their houses (go to the pub maybe), so they tend to entertain themselves in and around it. For people such as this grabbing some fatboy out of his kompressor and taking it for a little spin might be a very appealing idea, especially as they're zooming past your window on a newly erected concrete flyover.
The urban world isn't anything as simple as a "nightmare", it can offer new freedoms and a fulfilling way of life as cultures meet and countries worth of people are compressed into so many square miles. It also imposes restraints on all of us, but especially the poor. GTA and other violent games are a result of our hamhanded adaptation to a world changing faster than we are.
It's a funny thing. It seems a little easier to be frank with someone, or ask a hard question over IM. Maybe it's because you can't see the other parties face. Whether the impact is positive or negative I don't know, having a blazing row with someone because of that frankness is not nessecarily bad, getting it out in the open to be dealt with rather than letting issues simmer for ages.
Inter household IM could have a really big effect on the way families communicate.
Most custom laptop and PDA batteries are $70-120, some even up to $200. It sucks, but what do you expect?
I Don't expect it, but it would be nice if people didn't abuse their monopolies, and if they do I should be able to expect the monopolies and mergers commission to stop them. I don't really know what sort of argument you are making.
It's a fair point that you managed to assemble such a machine for such a price. The problem is that the people I'm talking about don't have access to the skills and knowledge you have. If you can maybe you could make it available, I'm sure many/most people on slashdot give out their skills for free to all sorts of people quite regularly. I know I do. ... the poverty trap. Among the many reasons poor people smoke and drink more (and more damagingly) the one reason is to numb the pain, satisfying a craving is also still a satisfying feeling, when I smoked I enjoyed it and I still acknowledge that it was enjoyable. Dickens said something about alcohol being the only way that poor people could find it in themselves to sing and dance, and that only a brute could deny it to them (it was in hard times, and probably many other books if someone cares to remember it exactly). While the scale of western proverty isn't the same as dickensian poverty was, and whether you agree with him about denial, you can see where he's coming from.
The point on booze and smokes, while also drawing us neatly back to some points about advertising and what it does in society, is something else I can't let sit there. It's part of the same thing as the other point actually
If you had a choice between a computer with adverts and one without, at the same price, you would of course choose the one without. So this begs the question of who buys a computer worth a few hundred quid for this, it seems fairly major inconvenience. Most people have computers these days, and even if it means a small to fair upgrade I'd bet most people would be unwilling. Especially if they were considering the performance overhead that the ad software is going to take.
The people left over using this are people who can't afford a new PC, and who lack the knowledge, time or wherewithal to make an old one work on older (or possibly less horribly bloated) software, or indeed the computer savvy to know that an older computer with such software is completely adequate for most peoples needs (we all survived on it however many years ago). What these people are also going to evaluate is that the benefits of having access to a computer and the internet is worth the advertising.
The problem we have is that when we raise the bar to enter society there are problems. Where there is no good public transport provision in an area, a car is nessecary to conduct a decent life (especially outside a city), leading to ghettoisation of those who don't. [On a side note the people who are ghettoised in inner cities not only suffer through not having a car, but their areas are sliced up by roads to which they have no access. Crippling communities, and flaunting what others have in front of their faces every day] What I am leading to, far too slowly, is that this leads us to a world where computers are a nessecary part of life in the western world, especially with the advent of the internet. People without have less access to the wealth in society, leading to a situation where advertisers can further force their way into the homes of people who are wise enough to realise what they could gain from the computer it places there.
The hardware upgrade spiral is the very most antisocial and upleasant aspect of the wintel cartel. Maybe govornments who want to free themselves from it should have schemes to recycle old computers and sell them cheaply (including software licenses). It'd probably help their GDP too.
They set up a "netscape online" ISP in the UK, which has since been axed. It was back in the day when everyone and his aunt had started an 0845 "lo-call" isp, and then ran it off the profits from the telephone calls. The reason this one didn't make any money might have been something to do with the fact that you could use your netscape online username and password with AOLs freephone dialup. Although I don't know how many people noticed that.
I wonder if they'll manage to do the same thing again?
Sometimes when people on the other end have a lot of background noise I find myself struggling to hear them and myself shouting. It's just instinct, you feel like you have to shout over their noise. When I realise I stop, but I bet the people who are doing it don't even realise.
If I switch my phone on to silent or vibrate, and divert voice calls to my voicemail there's nothing wrong with me sending or recieving SMS text messages, or browsing WAP should I so wish. Why you'd go to a cinema and then use your phone instead of watching the film I really don't know, and maybe I'm lucky but I've never been bothered by anyone doing so. Mobile phone jamming dosn't stop other sorts of antisocial activity. Kids will still make a lot of noise and throw popcorn at each other, and if a group of drunken idiots decide to make a nuisence of themselves then mobile phone jamming won't help that. There are ushers and managers (and god forbid, maybe your good self) to deal with that sort of thing should they need to. If I can use my phone in the cinema (or anywhere else) without bothering people why can't I? Besides, should there be an emergency I may need that phone.
If people on phones are annoying you, maybe you should tell them.
Anish says:
lol you should tell them how u do things
The Devellish Good JamJar says:
how do I do things?
Anish says:
I leave bits of antique hardware amongst a random screws and bits scattered around here n there so that the cat can choke on it.
The Devellish Good JamJar says:
what are you trying to say?
The Devellish Good JamJar says:
My cat has not choked on that
Anish says:
are u sure
Anish says:
once gary thought i was poking your cat with a screwdriver
The Devellish Good JamJar says:
and the hardware isn't that antique
The Devellish Good JamJar says:
I love the sparcstation
Anish says:
have u never impaled ure feet on the spikes from sum old microship?
Anish says:
when i sleep on ure floor i bang my head on ure sparc a lot
Now I have to say, I tried to use this installer a few weeks ago. I know it's a work in progress, but it was basically entirely non functional on my computer. Bits crashed, bits had to be fixed in other virtual terminals, then it stopped switching virtual terminals (the main installer started writing all over them). In the end, I gave up and used the stable base installer and used apt to get unstable.
It didn't look like it was very near release, or at least, there's some frantic work to be done.
Ah, but we make fun of our royal family (in the UK, at least), so we're still ahead :-)
Yeah, we make fun of them, but we pay for them too.
Ouch
Many of those who *live* in the cities here are lower-class/middle-class
I'm confused! How do you assume those of us in european cities live? We don't all live in castles you know. I'm pretty sure that the actual class mix in european cities is quite similar to an american city of similar size. As a londoner I probably share more with a new yorker than I do a devon farmer.
Anyway, should e-mail not work please post any replies to:
GOTW
Flat 366A
Buckingham Palace
The mall
St. James's
LONDON
SW1A 1AA
UK
I'm a cycle messenger by trade. I have a very high carb, high excercise diet routine. The atkins diet does seem to work from what I hear from people ... work inasmuch as they lose weight. But is it healthy? People I know who have done atkinds have been close to delerium at points while following the diet. I know that some would consider my lucky to be doing the amount of excercise where I don't have to worry about it, but the brain needs some carbohydrate for concentration and such. A more apt solution would be a better balance between work and life for the office workers, if people have time to prepare and enjoy good food then they will eat better and have less problems with it. So many people just work work work and eat crap to fuel it and develop a problem with it while they aren't even looking.