How true... Those Boefang rigs are *almost* cheap enough to throw away when the Li battery discharges, but they work great and paying shipping on a new one gets old. They sell these things by the case because they are *cheap* but serviceable. Don't drop them or carry them out into the rain, but if you do, don't worry, you can afford to have a couple of spares.
Are Hams territorial about protecting their spectrum space from nuts like you? Yeppers.. We have a game called "fox hunting" which we play often to find and report the unlicensed we hear. But look at it like a community watch organization, where individuals are paying attention and reporting suspicious activity to the police. That's all we do.
Do we register? Yes, the FCC knows my name and address and I am required to identify my transmissions so they can trace them back to me. But your license plate on your car does the same thing. Are you covering up your license plates? No? Don't like the local police pulling you over all the time eh? Well, why do you think that cop behind you is typing into his computer all the time? He's running your plate, finding out if the car is stolen, if you have insurance and a current registration.
However, these guys are NOT on the ham bands. They are on the FRS bands for the most part. These bands have the same general range, the radios are cheaper and are easier to use than their Ham variants. Plus, the hams would be "up in arms" if they heard some local yahoo jawing it up on their spectrum who obviously wasn't a ham.
LOL, you don't think the military has figured out this frequency hopping problem yet and Homeland Security/FBI et.al. hasn't purchased the necessary hardware?
Me thinks you are bit naïve...
However, you ARE correct that you can effectively obscure the meaning of your communications w/o having to resort to encrypted transmissions. They may not be cool, but techniques used in WW1 and 2 that used unencrypted channels are still tactically viable and not hard to implement.
Perhaps, but I don't see where their actions provoked a state of terror in the public or was violence perpetrated against a noncombatant or bystander. At most this is trespassing, breaking and entering, refusing a lawful order and resisting arrest with a possible "while using a firearm" enhancer..
Look, to be fair, off the shelf radios with encryption are not easy to afford and are difficult to manage.
But that doesn't mean they don't have OPSEC here, it just means they don't encrypt the audio. There are other ways to obscure what you are saying enough that the listener may not be able to easily figure out what you are communicating. Using code names for things, altering numeric data in reversible ways all are easy to implement, don't require encrypted radios and provide a measure of OPSEC without the expense or logistical key distribution problems.
Besides, all the tactical information the government really needs would be observable even if they had encrypted radios. The problem is that once you hit that transmit key, it's like you are striking a match in a dark room and revealing your position no matter what you say. Tactically, knowing where things are is the most important, followed by knowing when they are communicating. Anything more is nice, but unnecessary if you are interested in making an armed assault.
It's *always* going to require some kind of change if someone wants to go from gaining weight to shedding weight. Eating too much or eating the wrong things for the wrong reasons is a bad habit.
I agree that what *really* needs to change is one's habits. Recognizing the phycology of over eating is great, but changing one's habits, one's lifestyle is the key to *any* effective change in one's weight gain or loss. Thus my suggestions that you alter your eating and exercise habits, and if you are addicted to food in some psychological way you take steps to counter it. (For instance, if you eat when you are stressed, or lonely, taking steps to reduce the triggers and instead of reaching for the chips, substitute them with carrot sticks or something.) In short, I am responsible for what I choose and even if I'm predisposed to choose badly or my habits of shoving chips in my mouth I am the one who must take steps to alter my habits.
Now, one must be very careful to make exceptions for medical reasons. I know a woman who lost a lot of her digestive tract to illness. She struggles to maintain her weight and obtain sufficient nutrients to stay healthy regardless of how much or what she eats. Such cases are extremely rare and generally obvious. Some may have autoimmune disorders that cause swelling and weight gain or are taking medications which make weight control difficult (such as steroids and diabetics), but these cases are generally medically obvious and require medical attention. However, just being fat and lazy out of habit is much more common and is about personal responsibility. You ultimately have control of your habits; if you want to change them, you can.
However... None of this is about the Calorie's use as a measuring tool but about personal responsibility. I still contend that using the Calorie as a measuring tool that gives you some idea about the relative affect of your eating choices is effective. It gives you valuable information and a way to compare two alternative choices in a form that is easy to measure and understand. But any attempt to adjust one's dietary habits, using any tools I can imagine, is going to require a change in one's habits and, for most of us, that means making some personal choices to change and this truth is not unique to the Calorie.
Oh boy... So now you resort to personal insults... OK (throwing up hands in the surrender pose), you win.
Look, resorting to personal insults is generally nonproductive and just shows that somebody isn't thinking rationally because they are angry. Calm down... It's not worth risking a stroke over.
Physical access trumps any lockdown you can do. Sure lock it down and block USB, but there are many ways to skin a cat. IF they want your source code, it's theirs... All you can do is deal with them in court and that is most easily done when armed with an NDA.
What ticks me off is people who refuse to take personal control for what they stuff in their mouths and try to blame *something* ANYTHING other than their choices of what they chew on, then complain bitterly about being overweight....
99 times out of 100, YOU are ultimately in control of this and Calories is effective enough as a measuring tool to work just fine, thank you. For that 1% who are reading this and *really* cannot make this simple system work, you seriously need professional help and I'm sorry if I don't sound understanding enough, but chance are this 1% is NOT you.
Now for medical studies and scientific understanding this system may be unusable. However, it's still an effective tool for everyday use...
And when you consider that a Mazda Miata genuinely has more horsepower than these cars ever had, the concept of having the look of a DeLorean, the body of a DeLorean, but NOT the original engine they came with...well, that sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
They also handle like dogshit by the standards of the day, let alone modern standards. Absolutely the only reason to buy one is if you saw BTTF too many times.
Tapping on his head... "McFly... Think McFly.... "
Look, NASA is (or was in the past) engaged in a dangerous business called manned space flight, where you can die in horrible ways from a nearly endless list of causes, but it has a history of great success punctuated by some breathtakingly stupid failures. It seems NASA has to keep learning the lessons of Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger and Columbia. There will be more, they will be caused by stupid mistakes made by people who should know better. I'm not so sure NASA, or more to the point the people who work there, have really learned the lesson of Apollo 1.
But it's really the history of the human condition. We routinely get complacent with the risks we face every day and take stupid chances as a result. NASA is made up of humans, who suffer from the same flaws as the people who made the errors that got us Apollo 1. Mistakes will be made in the future, unnecessary risks will be taken and people will die as a result. I just hope the organization can keep these things to a minimum...
Keep your failures private... That's what we learned from the Russkies.... Unfortunately we have that pesky constitution so it's really hard to keep secrets like that.
For the bulk of us, it IS that simple. Eat less Calories (not necessarily less) and exercise more, lather rinse and repeat until it's effective.
In fact, it may be simpler than that... Sometimes a quick lifestyle change, using smaller plates, eating slower (just chew your food more), drinking water instead of soda can do all that's necessary... No Calorie counting or portion control discipline required. If that doesn't work, then 99.9% of the time, putting yourself on a Calorie limited diet and increasing physical activity will work. For the few instances where it doesn't, I suggest you see a doctor and obtain their advice on how to proceed because you are weird and there likely is some medical issue you need to deal with.
If you try to introduce a system that varies the net affect of the same portion of the same food that was cooked longer/shorter, few people will be able to actually make use of it or keep track of all the detailed variances. The Calorie may be imperfect as a measuring tool, but it's effective in conveying information about what might be a bad food choice for somebody concerned about their weight. Which is the point here isn't it? If you propose a system where 8 oz of Prime Rib has X energy when rare and Y energy when well done, most won't bother with the detail, average the two numbers and use that anyway.
Yea, and you know how I did it? By eating less and switching the mix of what I eat from foods with HIGH calories to foods with LOWER calories. It's a constant game of adjustments, but to be fair, I'm not obsessed with maintaining my weight. I'm really only interested in being healthy.
The Calorie may not tell you DIRECTLY what you need to know, but neither does your gas gauge in your car. The Calorie just gives you a basic idea of the relative energy in something you eat compared to something else you may choose to consume. Much like the gas gauge just tells you it's not time to worry (when it's showing near full) or it IS time to worry about finding a gas station (when it's approaching empty). What you REALLY want to know is how much gas is in the tank and more importantly, how far can you get down the road before the car stops running.
Yea, but you better have the NDA's in place, even if they are working locally. Not that an NDA will keep them from dropping your source onto a USB thumb drive and taking it home....
Do what the Suits want, as much as you don't like it... They sign your paycheck.
LOL, yea we had those kind of issues too. Good luck, it's never easy and if the problem has been let go very long, it can be a LOT of work to get things back in order. I almost just gutted the lab over the Winter holiday break once, roll everything out into the hall and bring it back in one piece at a time.... Sometimes it's just easier to just rip it all apart and reassemble..
Still, the fact is the Calorie with it's inherent limitations and provisos is simple and easy for the consumer to understand and it works well enough. There isn't going to be any system that really captures the individual diversity between humans anyway, so saying "eat less Calories and loose weight" is usually good enough.
Any system that goes into enough detail to distinguish between a rare and well done slice of meat is likely to be too complicated for everyday consumer use. The Calorie is hard enough for many..
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How true... Those Boefang rigs are *almost* cheap enough to throw away when the Li battery discharges, but they work great and paying shipping on a new one gets old. They sell these things by the case because they are *cheap* but serviceable. Don't drop them or carry them out into the rain, but if you do, don't worry, you can afford to have a couple of spares.
Boy do you have your lines crossed...
Are Hams territorial about protecting their spectrum space from nuts like you? Yeppers.. We have a game called "fox hunting" which we play often to find and report the unlicensed we hear. But look at it like a community watch organization, where individuals are paying attention and reporting suspicious activity to the police. That's all we do.
Do we register? Yes, the FCC knows my name and address and I am required to identify my transmissions so they can trace them back to me. But your license plate on your car does the same thing. Are you covering up your license plates? No? Don't like the local police pulling you over all the time eh? Well, why do you think that cop behind you is typing into his computer all the time? He's running your plate, finding out if the car is stolen, if you have insurance and a current registration.
However, these guys are NOT on the ham bands. They are on the FRS bands for the most part. These bands have the same general range, the radios are cheaper and are easier to use than their Ham variants. Plus, the hams would be "up in arms" if they heard some local yahoo jawing it up on their spectrum who obviously wasn't a ham.
LOL, you don't think the military has figured out this frequency hopping problem yet and Homeland Security/FBI et.al. hasn't purchased the necessary hardware?
Me thinks you are bit naïve...
However, you ARE correct that you can effectively obscure the meaning of your communications w/o having to resort to encrypted transmissions. They may not be cool, but techniques used in WW1 and 2 that used unencrypted channels are still tactically viable and not hard to implement.
Perhaps, but I don't see where their actions provoked a state of terror in the public or was violence perpetrated against a noncombatant or bystander. At most this is trespassing, breaking and entering, refusing a lawful order and resisting arrest with a possible "while using a firearm" enhancer..
Look, to be fair, off the shelf radios with encryption are not easy to afford and are difficult to manage.
But that doesn't mean they don't have OPSEC here, it just means they don't encrypt the audio. There are other ways to obscure what you are saying enough that the listener may not be able to easily figure out what you are communicating. Using code names for things, altering numeric data in reversible ways all are easy to implement, don't require encrypted radios and provide a measure of OPSEC without the expense or logistical key distribution problems.
Besides, all the tactical information the government really needs would be observable even if they had encrypted radios. The problem is that once you hit that transmit key, it's like you are striking a match in a dark room and revealing your position no matter what you say. Tactically, knowing where things are is the most important, followed by knowing when they are communicating. Anything more is nice, but unnecessary if you are interested in making an armed assault.
They are great throw away radios that perform fairly well... Use it until it breaks then toss it out as they are not worth the cost to repair.
OH... Here I read that to mean 3,000 $1.00 AR15's and I was going to ask where I could get $10 worth for my gun collection...
The owner's an idiot and will spend many times the wiring diagram's cost trying to maintain this thing, but that's his call.
Oh well, smile and keep at it until he runs out of cash or you can find another job I guess... Good luck!
It's *always* going to require some kind of change if someone wants to go from gaining weight to shedding weight. Eating too much or eating the wrong things for the wrong reasons is a bad habit.
I agree that what *really* needs to change is one's habits. Recognizing the phycology of over eating is great, but changing one's habits, one's lifestyle is the key to *any* effective change in one's weight gain or loss. Thus my suggestions that you alter your eating and exercise habits, and if you are addicted to food in some psychological way you take steps to counter it. (For instance, if you eat when you are stressed, or lonely, taking steps to reduce the triggers and instead of reaching for the chips, substitute them with carrot sticks or something.) In short, I am responsible for what I choose and even if I'm predisposed to choose badly or my habits of shoving chips in my mouth I am the one who must take steps to alter my habits.
Now, one must be very careful to make exceptions for medical reasons. I know a woman who lost a lot of her digestive tract to illness. She struggles to maintain her weight and obtain sufficient nutrients to stay healthy regardless of how much or what she eats. Such cases are extremely rare and generally obvious. Some may have autoimmune disorders that cause swelling and weight gain or are taking medications which make weight control difficult (such as steroids and diabetics), but these cases are generally medically obvious and require medical attention. However, just being fat and lazy out of habit is much more common and is about personal responsibility. You ultimately have control of your habits; if you want to change them, you can.
However... None of this is about the Calorie's use as a measuring tool but about personal responsibility. I still contend that using the Calorie as a measuring tool that gives you some idea about the relative affect of your eating choices is effective. It gives you valuable information and a way to compare two alternative choices in a form that is easy to measure and understand. But any attempt to adjust one's dietary habits, using any tools I can imagine, is going to require a change in one's habits and, for most of us, that means making some personal choices to change and this truth is not unique to the Calorie.
Oh boy... So now you resort to personal insults... OK (throwing up hands in the surrender pose), you win.
Look, resorting to personal insults is generally nonproductive and just shows that somebody isn't thinking rationally because they are angry. Calm down... It's not worth risking a stroke over.
Physical access trumps any lockdown you can do. Sure lock it down and block USB, but there are many ways to skin a cat. IF they want your source code, it's theirs... All you can do is deal with them in court and that is most easily done when armed with an NDA.
What ticks me off is people who refuse to take personal control for what they stuff in their mouths and try to blame *something* ANYTHING other than their choices of what they chew on, then complain bitterly about being overweight....
99 times out of 100, YOU are ultimately in control of this and Calories is effective enough as a measuring tool to work just fine, thank you. For that 1% who are reading this and *really* cannot make this simple system work, you seriously need professional help and I'm sorry if I don't sound understanding enough, but chance are this 1% is NOT you.
Now for medical studies and scientific understanding this system may be unusable. However, it's still an effective tool for everyday use...
And when you consider that a Mazda Miata genuinely has more horsepower than these cars ever had, the concept of having the look of a DeLorean, the body of a DeLorean, but NOT the original engine they came with...well, that sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
They also handle like dogshit by the standards of the day, let alone modern standards. Absolutely the only reason to buy one is if you saw BTTF too many times.
Tapping on his head... "McFly... Think McFly.... "
I'll settle for one that starts and runs when I turn the key.. That Marty guy's car was a mess....
But do they start and get you to 88 MPH when you want it to?
What about Apollo 13 and two shuttles?
Look, NASA is (or was in the past) engaged in a dangerous business called manned space flight, where you can die in horrible ways from a nearly endless list of causes, but it has a history of great success punctuated by some breathtakingly stupid failures. It seems NASA has to keep learning the lessons of Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger and Columbia. There will be more, they will be caused by stupid mistakes made by people who should know better. I'm not so sure NASA, or more to the point the people who work there, have really learned the lesson of Apollo 1.
But it's really the history of the human condition. We routinely get complacent with the risks we face every day and take stupid chances as a result. NASA is made up of humans, who suffer from the same flaws as the people who made the errors that got us Apollo 1. Mistakes will be made in the future, unnecessary risks will be taken and people will die as a result. I just hope the organization can keep these things to a minimum...
Keep your failures private... That's what we learned from the Russkies.... Unfortunately we have that pesky constitution so it's really hard to keep secrets like that.
It's NOT that simple.
For the bulk of us, it IS that simple. Eat less Calories (not necessarily less) and exercise more, lather rinse and repeat until it's effective.
In fact, it may be simpler than that... Sometimes a quick lifestyle change, using smaller plates, eating slower (just chew your food more), drinking water instead of soda can do all that's necessary... No Calorie counting or portion control discipline required. If that doesn't work, then 99.9% of the time, putting yourself on a Calorie limited diet and increasing physical activity will work. For the few instances where it doesn't, I suggest you see a doctor and obtain their advice on how to proceed because you are weird and there likely is some medical issue you need to deal with.
If you try to introduce a system that varies the net affect of the same portion of the same food that was cooked longer/shorter, few people will be able to actually make use of it or keep track of all the detailed variances. The Calorie may be imperfect as a measuring tool, but it's effective in conveying information about what might be a bad food choice for somebody concerned about their weight. Which is the point here isn't it? If you propose a system where 8 oz of Prime Rib has X energy when rare and Y energy when well done, most won't bother with the detail, average the two numbers and use that anyway.
Yea, and you know how I did it? By eating less and switching the mix of what I eat from foods with HIGH calories to foods with LOWER calories. It's a constant game of adjustments, but to be fair, I'm not obsessed with maintaining my weight. I'm really only interested in being healthy.
If nobody kept the original circuit design laying around, just set fire to boat then drill holes in bottom to put out the flames and Abandon Ship!
Of course you could keep taking the owner's money for years too....
The Calorie may not tell you DIRECTLY what you need to know, but neither does your gas gauge in your car. The Calorie just gives you a basic idea of the relative energy in something you eat compared to something else you may choose to consume. Much like the gas gauge just tells you it's not time to worry (when it's showing near full) or it IS time to worry about finding a gas station (when it's approaching empty). What you REALLY want to know is how much gas is in the tank and more importantly, how far can you get down the road before the car stops running.
Yea, but you better have the NDA's in place, even if they are working locally. Not that an NDA will keep them from dropping your source onto a USB thumb drive and taking it home....
Do what the Suits want, as much as you don't like it... They sign your paycheck.
LOL, yea we had those kind of issues too. Good luck, it's never easy and if the problem has been let go very long, it can be a LOT of work to get things back in order. I almost just gutted the lab over the Winter holiday break once, roll everything out into the hall and bring it back in one piece at a time.... Sometimes it's just easier to just rip it all apart and reassemble..
Still, the fact is the Calorie with it's inherent limitations and provisos is simple and easy for the consumer to understand and it works well enough. There isn't going to be any system that really captures the individual diversity between humans anyway, so saying "eat less Calories and loose weight" is usually good enough.
Any system that goes into enough detail to distinguish between a rare and well done slice of meat is likely to be too complicated for everyday consumer use. The Calorie is hard enough for many..