You fallen for the trap that conservative == religious nut job. There are lots (I hope the non-vocal majority) of conservatives that don't want to blow up abortion clinics and force religion on people. The same way there are lots of liberals that don't think choice means allowing abortions 9 months into a pregnancy.
It's easy to label people with extreme views, but in reality most people are somewhere in the middle.
Nope, not at all. The sponsors feared people would quit buying their products so they pulled out and it was downhill from there. Some media outlets are trying to spin this as corp america being 'moral', but at the end of the day it was all about money.
I agree, and will do you one better and put nearly all the blame on the parents. My parents weren't rich and didn't have much education, but from a young age they pounded into me that education == better life. That plus a few ass whoopings when needed eventually got me to college.
I agree. If you listen to rap (and not just the pop stuff), you'll see it really is a reflection of an environment that the rappers grew up in. Seeing drugs and other crime every day while growing up has to have a negative impact on kids. You see people complain about violent video games all the time, what about kids growing up in a violent life? They often have only a single parent so they end up with very little supervision. Money is hard to come by so they gravitate to making it anyway they can...selling drugs is a popular choice, and a few make it in rap or sports. I don't see rap as perpetuating this problem, but reflecting it.
Apple RAM has actually gotten a little bit better too. If you go to Crucial and price out the ECC stuff you need it's not that much cheaper. I haven't done the complete system build yet, but from what I can tell the quad core 3ghz procs are super expensive even when buying OEM from pricewatch. I wonder if someone sat down and did the DIY quad core xeon with ECC ram, etc... how much cheaper it would be compared to what Apple is offering atm.
HDs OTOH, Apple still needs to get with the program:)
I agree completely. Forking b/c one person doesn't like another generally makes no sense. Then both forks end up solving the same problems and duplicating effort. In an ideal world forks would occur with the intent of merging the forks back together if the fork works out.
What are you talking about. I work in a company that has a lot of turnover b/c of the nature of the business. The amount of documentation we maintain on a per employee basis is huge. None one in this company is part of a union.
And yeah, there is no perfect world. Sometimes people don't like you and sometimes you happen to be working for one of those people. If they happen to own the company, then they should be allowed to term you at anytime they feel like it. It's the same thing that you can leave at anytime if you don't like your boss. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.
There has to be documentation rather than just pushing someone out the door.
Why? Other than firing someone b/c of the nondiscriminatory types of things (race/gender/etc...) why can't I fire someone for any reason I please? I would argue that making it hard to fire people means less people have jobs. As an owner in a company I would be much more apt to give questionable people chances if I knew it would be easy to get rid of them if they didn't work out.
Also, every state already has laws against the usual discriminatory things, we don't unions to enforce those rules.
First off, I agree that US car manufactures are also poorly run. Second, it's been my understanding that the Japanese and Euro manufactures who have moved here have gone to right to work states in order to be union free. I know the local Honda plant here doesn't have unions.
I agree they were/are poorly run. First order of business should have been to move factories out of the unionized north down south where Honda and Toyota make most of their cars. Of course I'm being sarcastic, but I see things like lack of additional safety features, lack of innovative design, same parts they've been using for 20 years, as mostly a cost issue. American car designers aren't any worse than those in Japan (heck, I bet a lot of Japans designs end up happening here), but they probably have to fit in budget constraints that are much tighter.
Unions were once a good thing. Back before there were employment laws. We now have so many employment laws, even in right to work states, that unions are for the most part not needed anymore.
If you work hard, you SHOULD BE entitled to the fruits of your labors.
It's called a paycheck. Unless I missed something these people were paid every week or 2 while they were working.
It's time to quintuple the minimum wage, and then bring back the unions. Bullshit like Circut City never happened back when 75% of workers were unionized. Now that only 10% of us are in unions, they have us by the balls. And it's idiots like you who think it's the UNIONS that are evil that allow this bullshit to happen! Grow a fucking brain, moron.
That's a great idea. Let unions milk another industry and run it into the ground like what happened to the automotive industry.
The American Dream is only possible because we have the freedom to work hard and do all the things that the American Dream requires. With freedom comes responsibility. This means keeping your skills updated, paying attention to what's going on around you, realizing that for the most part your situation is one that you caused, etc...
Anyone who watches any news at all knows CC has been having problems. People who work there should have even know before someone like me on the outside noticed. In the broader sense I expect more big retailers to soon start feeling the pinch of the housing ATM collapse.
I play my DS at home all the time. There are many games for it that don't have comparable games on any of the consoles. The brain games or even the Castlevanias come to mind as games that have no counter parts on any of the consoles.
If search engines start using semantic tags to prioritize their results then people will start semantically tagging their data. Time is a finite resource and people need incentives to spend their time tagging their site semantically. This has little or nothing to do with a particular economic system.
I know how to archive email off line. So how do I now get it backed up? I am now responsible for doing my own backups? The issue that IT has limited boxes to 100MB and given no method to go over that limit either with offline folders which still get backed up the in the corporate strategy or with bigger email boxes.
My company hasn't flat out blocked web mail yet, but I'm sure they are on the way. IM was blocked awhile ago and a coworker got an email today from IT that she shouldn't check gmail anymore (she would just leave it up all day, which would let gmail do it's auto-refresh). The problem I have is that here at work we have 100MB of email space that gets backed up. On gmail I have 3-4gb. So while this one person got the email to quit using gmail the rest of the office is continuing to use gmail not just for personal mails, but also for work. Gmail is better than the IT solution, and users are smart enough to realize this. So as long as we have draconian, I know what's best for you IT people, we'll have users who do what they have to to get the job done.
Here's an idea! How about IT look to the users as customers and treat them that way.
Wikipedia has lots of links to actual research papers showing the advantages to HIIT when it comes to fat loss. Since you seem to have a hard time using a quick search I'll even post them.
One study concludes: In conclusion, this study showed that moderate-intensity aerobic training that improves the maximal aerobic power does not change anaerobic capacity and that adequate high-intensity intermittent training may improve both anaerobic and aerobic energy supplying systems significantly, probably through imposing intensive stimuli on both systems.
Another study also concludes: These findings show that high intensity interval exercise produces improvements in body composition, fitness, and acute RMR compared to low intensity steady state training.
Sadly, I can't find the original study I read which talked about glycogen stores and HIIT. If you like to run marathons, then go for it. If you want to burn fat and achieve an athletic look HIIT is the more effective method.
Another study here. Page with a summary of a lot of studies here.
I think it's pretty clear that people who are still doing steady state for fat loss are missing out.
Google HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and looked at the article linked. Sprinting burns more calories while doing the exercise and leads to an increased caloric usage for up to 48 hours after exercising. It also depletes a different glycogen store which leads to sprinting targeting fat more than steady state running (again read the article I originally linked or google HIIT).
If you don't want to read my link or google HIIT just trust me when I say I've switched people from steady state running to HIIT and they drop lbs like they never have. It really is that good. The only downside is that it's hard as hell. Someone needs to get their GPP up before even trying.
There is even some newer research that is pointing to people who run a lot for distance can actually gain fat in their legs. It's the bodies way of adapting and storing energy close to where it's needed.
I need food that is convient- that I don't need a fork and knife to eat.
Eating good isn't that hard. Just a matter of cheap, good, convenient - pick 2. I'm busy working also and end up spending more on food than probably anything else I regularly buy. My health is important to me though, and I don't like wasting the 3-4 times/week I'm in the gym by eating crappy food.
The other option I used to do is pick a day like Sun. and cook meals for the whole week. You basically make you're own TV dinners for the entire week and then you get to eat cheap and good. Surprising how little a big pack of chick breasts cost...
Good point. 5 miles day on salads is a recipe for disaster. Even if you're trying to lose weight you don't want to put yourself into that high of a caloric deficit. A better idea is just start eating healthier foods. No more fast food, cookies, chips, etc... Instead eat lots of veggies, unprocessed meats, unprocessed carbs, and some good fats. You'd be surprised how much of the good food you can eat before you hit your calorie target.
Also, 5 miles/day isn't required to lose weight. In fact, if losing weight is your primary goal sprints are far more effective both in weight loss and time (although taking someone who truly is sedentary and moving them straight to sprints is dumb too). Add in some resistance training and you're on the path to looking and feeling healthy.
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You fallen for the trap that conservative == religious nut job. There are lots (I hope the non-vocal majority) of conservatives that don't want to blow up abortion clinics and force religion on people. The same way there are lots of liberals that don't think choice means allowing abortions 9 months into a pregnancy.
It's easy to label people with extreme views, but in reality most people are somewhere in the middle.
Nope, not at all. The sponsors feared people would quit buying their products so they pulled out and it was downhill from there. Some media outlets are trying to spin this as corp america being 'moral', but at the end of the day it was all about money.
I agree, and will do you one better and put nearly all the blame on the parents. My parents weren't rich and didn't have much education, but from a young age they pounded into me that education == better life. That plus a few ass whoopings when needed eventually got me to college.
I agree. If you listen to rap (and not just the pop stuff), you'll see it really is a reflection of an environment that the rappers grew up in. Seeing drugs and other crime every day while growing up has to have a negative impact on kids. You see people complain about violent video games all the time, what about kids growing up in a violent life? They often have only a single parent so they end up with very little supervision. Money is hard to come by so they gravitate to making it anyway they can...selling drugs is a popular choice, and a few make it in rap or sports. I don't see rap as perpetuating this problem, but reflecting it.
Apple RAM has actually gotten a little bit better too. If you go to Crucial and price out the ECC stuff you need it's not that much cheaper. I haven't done the complete system build yet, but from what I can tell the quad core 3ghz procs are super expensive even when buying OEM from pricewatch. I wonder if someone sat down and did the DIY quad core xeon with ECC ram, etc... how much cheaper it would be compared to what Apple is offering atm.
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HDs OTOH, Apple still needs to get with the program
I agree completely. Forking b/c one person doesn't like another generally makes no sense. Then both forks end up solving the same problems and duplicating effort. In an ideal world forks would occur with the intent of merging the forks back together if the fork works out.
What are you talking about. I work in a company that has a lot of turnover b/c of the nature of the business. The amount of documentation we maintain on a per employee basis is huge. None one in this company is part of a union.
And yeah, there is no perfect world. Sometimes people don't like you and sometimes you happen to be working for one of those people. If they happen to own the company, then they should be allowed to term you at anytime they feel like it. It's the same thing that you can leave at anytime if you don't like your boss. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.
There has to be documentation rather than just pushing someone out the door.
Why? Other than firing someone b/c of the nondiscriminatory types of things (race/gender/etc...) why can't I fire someone for any reason I please? I would argue that making it hard to fire people means less people have jobs. As an owner in a company I would be much more apt to give questionable people chances if I knew it would be easy to get rid of them if they didn't work out.
Also, every state already has laws against the usual discriminatory things, we don't unions to enforce those rules.
First off, I agree that US car manufactures are also poorly run. Second, it's been my understanding that the Japanese and Euro manufactures who have moved here have gone to right to work states in order to be union free. I know the local Honda plant here doesn't have unions.
I agree they were/are poorly run. First order of business should have been to move factories out of the unionized north down south where Honda and Toyota make most of their cars. Of course I'm being sarcastic, but I see things like lack of additional safety features, lack of innovative design, same parts they've been using for 20 years, as mostly a cost issue. American car designers aren't any worse than those in Japan (heck, I bet a lot of Japans designs end up happening here), but they probably have to fit in budget constraints that are much tighter.
Unions were once a good thing. Back before there were employment laws. We now have so many employment laws, even in right to work states, that unions are for the most part not needed anymore.
I was going to write a response to the GP until I saw how you summed it up perfectly. Well said!
If you work hard, you SHOULD BE entitled to the fruits of your labors.
It's called a paycheck. Unless I missed something these people were paid every week or 2 while they were working.
It's time to quintuple the minimum wage, and then bring back the unions. Bullshit like Circut City never happened back when 75% of workers were unionized. Now that only 10% of us are in unions, they have us by the balls. And it's idiots like you who think it's the UNIONS that are evil that allow this bullshit to happen! Grow a fucking brain, moron.
That's a great idea. Let unions milk another industry and run it into the ground like what happened to the automotive industry.
The American Dream is only possible because we have the freedom to work hard and do all the things that the American Dream requires. With freedom comes responsibility. This means keeping your skills updated, paying attention to what's going on around you, realizing that for the most part your situation is one that you caused, etc...
Anyone who watches any news at all knows CC has been having problems. People who work there should have even know before someone like me on the outside noticed. In the broader sense I expect more big retailers to soon start feeling the pinch of the housing ATM collapse.
Springs for the the MacPro but won't buy an UPS? WTF?
I play my DS at home all the time. There are many games for it that don't have comparable games on any of the consoles. The brain games or even the Castlevanias come to mind as games that have no counter parts on any of the consoles.
And the common good does what in this case?
If search engines start using semantic tags to prioritize their results then people will start semantically tagging their data. Time is a finite resource and people need incentives to spend their time tagging their site semantically. This has little or nothing to do with a particular economic system.
I know how to archive email off line. So how do I now get it backed up? I am now responsible for doing my own backups? The issue that IT has limited boxes to 100MB and given no method to go over that limit either with offline folders which still get backed up the in the corporate strategy or with bigger email boxes.
My company hasn't flat out blocked web mail yet, but I'm sure they are on the way. IM was blocked awhile ago and a coworker got an email today from IT that she shouldn't check gmail anymore (she would just leave it up all day, which would let gmail do it's auto-refresh). The problem I have is that here at work we have 100MB of email space that gets backed up. On gmail I have 3-4gb. So while this one person got the email to quit using gmail the rest of the office is continuing to use gmail not just for personal mails, but also for work. Gmail is better than the IT solution, and users are smart enough to realize this. So as long as we have draconian, I know what's best for you IT people, we'll have users who do what they have to to get the job done.
Here's an idea! How about IT look to the users as customers and treat them that way.
One more link to a guy who knows what he is talking about. Not only does he clearly lay it all out, but has tons of sources at the end. Unless your goal is to run marathons, HIIT is superior in all ways to endurance running. Even then HIIT has been shown to increase your VO2Max such that mixing HIIT in with your endurance training is probably a good thing.
Wikipedia has lots of links to actual research papers showing the advantages to HIIT when it comes to fat loss. Since you seem to have a hard time using a quick search I'll even post them.
One study concludes:
In conclusion, this study showed that moderate-intensity aerobic training that improves the maximal aerobic power does not change anaerobic capacity and that adequate high-intensity intermittent training may improve both anaerobic and aerobic energy supplying systems significantly, probably through imposing intensive stimuli on both systems.
Another study also concludes:
These findings show that high intensity interval exercise produces improvements in body composition, fitness, and acute RMR compared to low intensity steady state training.
Sadly, I can't find the original study I read which talked about glycogen stores and HIIT. If you like to run marathons, then go for it. If you want to burn fat and achieve an athletic look HIIT is the more effective method.
Another study here. Page with a summary of a lot of studies here.
I think it's pretty clear that people who are still doing steady state for fat loss are missing out.
Google HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and looked at the article linked. Sprinting burns more calories while doing the exercise and leads to an increased caloric usage for up to 48 hours after exercising. It also depletes a different glycogen store which leads to sprinting targeting fat more than steady state running (again read the article I originally linked or google HIIT).
If you don't want to read my link or google HIIT just trust me when I say I've switched people from steady state running to HIIT and they drop lbs like they never have. It really is that good. The only downside is that it's hard as hell. Someone needs to get their GPP up before even trying.
There is even some newer research that is pointing to people who run a lot for distance can actually gain fat in their legs. It's the bodies way of adapting and storing energy close to where it's needed.
Nope...sprinting burns many more calories. Google HIIT
Problem is that most people half-ass it in the gym the way they do through life.
I need food that is convient- that I don't need a fork and knife to eat.
Eating good isn't that hard. Just a matter of cheap, good, convenient - pick 2. I'm busy working also and end up spending more on food than probably anything else I regularly buy. My health is important to me though, and I don't like wasting the 3-4 times/week I'm in the gym by eating crappy food.
The other option I used to do is pick a day like Sun. and cook meals for the whole week. You basically make you're own TV dinners for the entire week and then you get to eat cheap and good. Surprising how little a big pack of chick breasts cost...
Good point. 5 miles day on salads is a recipe for disaster. Even if you're trying to lose weight you don't want to put yourself into that high of a caloric deficit. A better idea is just start eating healthier foods. No more fast food, cookies, chips, etc... Instead eat lots of veggies, unprocessed meats, unprocessed carbs, and some good fats. You'd be surprised how much of the good food you can eat before you hit your calorie target.
Also, 5 miles/day isn't required to lose weight. In fact, if losing weight is your primary goal sprints are far more effective both in weight loss and time (although taking someone who truly is sedentary and moving them straight to sprints is dumb too). Add in some resistance training and you're on the path to looking and feeling healthy.