-1. XKCD writes comic and STARTS a meme instead of referencing one 0. News article on li-ion batteries 1. TSA begins to crack down on enforcing no li-ion batteries in *carry on* baggage 2. Airlines now have a regulation that forces consumers to pay for a checked bag 3. Profit
Personal griping anecdote follows: I flew recently, from MEM to SNA and from SNA to SDF with just my backpack. It had the liquids (in a seperate bag, that hotel shampoo and my Irish Spring are dangerous), nicer shoes, a suit, a 1000 page hardback, a 300 page paperback, my laptop, and some salty snacks. I had to give it a pretty good shove to get it stowed in an approved location because the under seat space was a hair too small and the overhead was full up with rolly suitcases.
The bitching about air travel and the TSA has gone well beyond a few loud, pissed off customers. Its par now to find most people unhappy with flying.
Me, I've learned to cope. I get a thrill out of finding holes in games with poorly written rules. Both the airlines and the TSA have placed an arbitrary set of rules in front of me. I get a kick out of walking around the airport barefoot, I get a thrill out of understanding basic science and knowing what I can do to ruin a flight thats far worse than what the TSA can stop*, I'm enough of a nerd to watch the system grind away**, and at the end of it I get to sit in a rare-metal and epoxy tube and travel at hundreds of miles an hour.
I was going somewhere with this. Post probably isn't worth my karma mod, but oh well. Lets discuss a little.
*point of the article plus my feet are bare, therefore my well worn hiking boots are emanating their scent freely from their place in my pack **think about all the people that are involved just to get me on a plane, clerks, air crew, stewardesses, ground crew, security goons. Shit no wonder it costs so much to fly
Hardly. It ensures that since an engineer at IBM had the idea on the company dime, that IBM gets first crack at implementing that idea
A patent does not automatically mean that IBM won't license the technology. A patent does not mean that IBM won't just say "we recorded this for posterity, do what you want with it". A patent does not mean that IBM will give two flaming shits about a cheap remote that Tweets.
Metadata my ass, thats just more for them to get wrong. A simple checksum would be more than adequate it wouldnt let them enter or generate bad numbers in the first place.
Shoehorning a piece of software into an "open source" angle really doesn't do any justice to open source or the software you're writing about.
Instead of writing about open source software, write about good software that happens to be open source. If there is really good software where we know something about the code, like this Apollo software, then write about that. Discuss the collaborative development the engineers did, talk about the open source clone over at Google Code, but calling this "like opensource but only for NASA" is a massive distraction.
Thats because they are honest folk, with strong ethics and a healthy dose of religion. They know that those sex workers bust their humps and deserve an honest paycheck for their services. Not like the heathens in other parts of the world that just mooch off the free porn.
Utah-ians take their porn like their church. They go in all the way. The moochers who get porn for free are like people who only go to church on Sunday, they just don't have their hearts or their wallets in it.
Then I read about how bad it is for your heart. So I cut it out dramatically. Then a couple years later, I read about how it isn't very bad at all...
In that case the problem isn't really the science, the problem is panic and making drastic decisions based on limited information.
The overall best advice for health has been moderation, its been that way for centuries:
- don't do too much hard work or you'll burn out and get injured
- don't sit around and do nothing, you need to move and use your body
- don't eat a lot of one thing, variety is good
- recognize things with negative effects and limit their use, if you ingest something that you react badly to, don't ingest it. More on this later
- remember that your body changes gradually. Pushing it too hard too fast, even in a healthy direction, is bad
- its YOUR body you have to take responsibility for it and understand what you do to it. If you don't entirely understand advice, ask more questions and do a bit of research and find out for yourself.
Identifying things with negative effects is what really gets people. Smoking is bad, your body coughing and having nic fits is a sign of distress. Having a few drinks and relaxing and laughing is good, being hungover is your body telling you "that was dumb, we're OK now but don't do it again".
Overeating and being dog tired isn't normal. Its OK once in a while, but usually you should be able to eat. Take a few minutes to let it all settle down, then have energy to go do stuff.
I guess the overall answer is to take unsolicited advice or to take drastic all-or-nothing actions with a GRAIN OF SALT (long setup on that one). Anyone suggesting that you radically alter your life in a short time span, is either taking urgent action to keep you from dying or full of shit and trying to gain power over you. I have a good relationship with my doctor and put him in the first category and most others in the latter. Even then, I make sure that the actions my doctor advises are backed up not just by the latest research, but solid foundations and long term common sense.
Welcome to science, things change based on new information.
We get a hypothesis, test it, and if it tests out we have a generally accepted theory. That theory is subject to change, someone reads its comes up with a new hypothesis and runs some more tests.
I can't answer your question specifically, but what probably happened was that the ideal range was determined based on information available at the time. Now there is new info.
There's an even chance that this will either shift the ideal range of BMI or place more emphasis on factors other than BMI. Maybe both.
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-1. XKCD writes comic and STARTS a meme instead of referencing one
0. News article on li-ion batteries
1. TSA begins to crack down on enforcing no li-ion batteries in *carry on* baggage
2. Airlines now have a regulation that forces consumers to pay for a checked bag
3. Profit
Personal griping anecdote follows:
I flew recently, from MEM to SNA and from SNA to SDF with just my backpack. It had the liquids (in a seperate bag, that hotel shampoo and my Irish Spring are dangerous), nicer shoes, a suit, a 1000 page hardback, a 300 page paperback, my laptop, and some salty snacks. I had to give it a pretty good shove to get it stowed in an approved location because the under seat space was a hair too small and the overhead was full up with rolly suitcases.
The bitching about air travel and the TSA has gone well beyond a few loud, pissed off customers. Its par now to find most people unhappy with flying.
Me, I've learned to cope. I get a thrill out of finding holes in games with poorly written rules. Both the airlines and the TSA have placed an arbitrary set of rules in front of me. I get a kick out of walking around the airport barefoot, I get a thrill out of understanding basic science and knowing what I can do to ruin a flight thats far worse than what the TSA can stop*, I'm enough of a nerd to watch the system grind away**, and at the end of it I get to sit in a rare-metal and epoxy tube and travel at hundreds of miles an hour.
I was going somewhere with this. Post probably isn't worth my karma mod, but oh well. Lets discuss a little.
*point of the article plus my feet are bare, therefore my well worn hiking boots are emanating their scent freely from their place in my pack
**think about all the people that are involved just to get me on a plane, clerks, air crew, stewardesses, ground crew, security goons. Shit no wonder it costs so much to fly
I wish I lived someplace civilized with a decent private rail system.
Blocks? I'd rather see it rank 4chan higher.
Think SideWiki on Scientology.org by Anonymous
According to the summary Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.
... Lotus Symphony (IBM's OO.o variant) ...
Hardly. It ensures that since an engineer at IBM had the idea on the company dime, that IBM gets first crack at implementing that idea
A patent does not automatically mean that IBM won't license the technology. A patent does not mean that IBM won't just say "we recorded this for posterity, do what you want with it". A patent does not mean that IBM will give two flaming shits about a cheap remote that Tweets.
Easier fix. Don't use MSN.
Metadata my ass, thats just more for them to get wrong. A simple checksum would be more than adequate it wouldnt let them enter or generate bad numbers in the first place.
If they hire Michael Bay public interest in the space programme would be at levels we've not seen since Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia.
Can you cite your sources?
No evangelizing would have to include a lot of the articles though.
PS - Caught a mistake, I hope I'm not crucified for misspelling Evangelist.
I'm not trolling, I'm _evangilizing_ . Time to wreck my karma with a mess of '-1 Evangilist' mods.
Fictional?!?!?!?
Well then I guess its time to go polish up the old resume.
"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?!?!?!?!", Conan The Librarian
Close - http://thebunnysystem.com/?stripID=742&month=7&year=2009&nav=1
Shoehorning a piece of software into an "open source" angle really doesn't do any justice to open source or the software you're writing about.
Instead of writing about open source software, write about good software that happens to be open source. If there is really good software where we know something about the code, like this Apollo software, then write about that. Discuss the collaborative development the engineers did, talk about the open source clone over at Google Code, but calling this "like opensource but only for NASA" is a massive distraction.
Too obscure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
datacenter that they're building in lake Superior's salt mines.
Salt Lake, salt mine, either way its a smart move to build an NSA outpost with access to a lot of salt.
-1 Unfunny is not the same as "I don't get it"
Thats because they are honest folk, with strong ethics and a healthy dose of religion. They know that those sex workers bust their humps and deserve an honest paycheck for their services. Not like the heathens in other parts of the world that just mooch off the free porn.
Utah-ians take their porn like their church. They go in all the way. The moochers who get porn for free are like people who only go to church on Sunday, they just don't have their hearts or their wallets in it.
I didn't know any of the ASCII porn sites were still online.
3.86102159 sq mi HERE, 10 sq km THERE. Vice versa for the non-Americans.
Is that the one you throw people down with the high school physics problem?
Then I read about how bad it is for your heart. So I cut it out dramatically. Then a couple years later, I read about how it isn't very bad at all...
In that case the problem isn't really the science, the problem is panic and making drastic decisions based on limited information.
The overall best advice for health has been moderation, its been that way for centuries:
- don't do too much hard work or you'll burn out and get injured
- don't sit around and do nothing, you need to move and use your body
- don't eat a lot of one thing, variety is good
- recognize things with negative effects and limit their use, if you ingest something that you react badly to, don't ingest it. More on this later
- remember that your body changes gradually. Pushing it too hard too fast, even in a healthy direction, is bad
- its YOUR body you have to take responsibility for it and understand what you do to it. If you don't entirely understand advice, ask more questions and do a bit of research and find out for yourself.
Identifying things with negative effects is what really gets people. Smoking is bad, your body coughing and having nic fits is a sign of distress. Having a few drinks and relaxing and laughing is good, being hungover is your body telling you "that was dumb, we're OK now but don't do it again".
Overeating and being dog tired isn't normal. Its OK once in a while, but usually you should be able to eat. Take a few minutes to let it all settle down, then have energy to go do stuff.
I guess the overall answer is to take unsolicited advice or to take drastic all-or-nothing actions with a GRAIN OF SALT (long setup on that one). Anyone suggesting that you radically alter your life in a short time span, is either taking urgent action to keep you from dying or full of shit and trying to gain power over you. I have a good relationship with my doctor and put him in the first category and most others in the latter. Even then, I make sure that the actions my doctor advises are backed up not just by the latest research, but solid foundations and long term common sense.
Welcome to science, things change based on new information.
We get a hypothesis, test it, and if it tests out we have a generally accepted theory. That theory is subject to change, someone reads its comes up with a new hypothesis and runs some more tests.
I can't answer your question specifically, but what probably happened was that the ideal range was determined based on information available at the time. Now there is new info.
There's an even chance that this will either shift the ideal range of BMI or place more emphasis on factors other than BMI. Maybe both.
Ah, my bad. Summary said MST, assumed they were in AZ which doesn't observe daylight savings.
Posted: Friday June 19, @03:34PM (I'm in EDT)
Story was posted to the front page about an hour and a half AFTER the 11AM live broadcast. Whoops.