I eat what I need, I spend a lot of time outside doing stuff, whatever it is I'm exposing skin to sun and getting air that's not full of dead skin cells. People call me skinny, but apart from a touch of arthritis which comes with being ridiculously tall, I'm fit as a butcher's dog.
what's scary is that my wife seems to have developed a gluten intolerance, whatever that is, and when she cooks rice, she washes the starch off (I mean, what a criminal waste of good starch) leaving the gluten which is the ONLY OTHER COMPONENT OF RICE. I mean, the fuck??
WHO's own numbers, when you look right back to the dawn of vaccinations, recognise that the incidence of smallpox floored BEFORE the vaccines hit, the incidence of smallpox more than doubled in the 20 years after the vaccine hit, the same is happening with polio. Now we have a disease made famous by Steven Hawking and Mark Hamill (sufferer and ice bucket muppet respectively) that is essentially a lie perpetrated by the pro vaccine crowd but is in fact caused by the ORAL POLIO VACCINE. The same vaccine that is causing more polio outbreaks leading to more recorded cases of symptomatic post-vaccine infections in Pakistan the last YEAR than wild cases recorded GLOBALLY in the last TEN YEARS, is leaving victims post-infection with symptoms not "like" motor neurone disease, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease, AKA ALS, but "ACTUALLY" MND/LGD/ALS.
Don't believe me, go to the WHO's own website and look at THEIR reports on vaccine effectiveness. I'll be right here waiting for you.
Or you could just call me names, scream tinfoil hat denialist, point and yell "terrorist", or whatever. I don't fucking care anymore.
when the truth is that sugar is essential for all life on this planet. Every organism that expends energy does so by converting sugar. The lie is perpetuated firstly by those who would see us addicted to a substance originally developed as an insecticide, secondly by those who swallow the lie.
It's also been repeated down this page and I totally agree, that our increasingly sedentary lifestyle is killing us. As creatures originally designed to forage, we are not only losing our mental capacity to know what we should be foraging for (nuts, fruits, roots, leaves and berries) and hunting for (meat and fish - yes we are obligate omnivores, there are substances in meat we cannot obtain from vegetables), we are as a species becoming more and more dependent on prepackaged, bulk farmed, artificially stuffed meat-like and vegetable-like "product" that we've actually forgotten what real food feels like. As a result, we are missing out on vital nutrients that we have evolved to depend on hence we are becoming sick as a result of that combined with just pure fucking laziness. We should be going out and picking vegetables if only to get out in the sunshine and grab some rays so we can (some of us still can) make our own vitamin D instead of requiring supplement that *doesn't, for the most part, make it past the stomach*. If you spend most of your life behind a desk, you're likely to suffer symptoms of vitamin D deficiency such as rickets and osteomalacia for the simple reason that humans were NOT meant to spend their entire lives inside a clay box. Neither were they meant to wear sunscreen - which inhibits VitD production by blocking UV from reaching the skin. Note to self: research other possible triggers for skin cancer than solar exposure, pretty sure it would require a genetic predisposition...
We are great at abusing ourselves, what we're not so great at, as a collective, is realising just how shitty of a job we're doing of recognising that what most of us see as normal civilised behaviour is what's actually killing us.
yw. By the way, after a bit of hunting around, I found a wikix howto that describes the state of the Commons database (where the images are linked): as at March 2008, it stood just over 420GB. To borrow "Libraries of Congress" analogy, that's about 1,050 Johnny Fives.:)
that's current pages only at 42GB (as at Feb 2013). More than double for current pages with linked user and talk pages, the full history dumps for ENWiki runs (Feb 2013) to TEN Terabytes.
Wikipedia is several TB (that's just the text) (31GB 7z compressed/5TB expanded as at 2011) and still not sentient. It might be an amazing thing, but we're not quite at the point of removing all the zeroes yet, huh?
the base rate of inflation (AKA core inflation) is the amount of currency in circulation against a fixed amount of a nonvolatile commodity (gold). When the amount of currency in circulation goes up, for example after a bout of quantitative easing, the value of the commodity stays the same but the value of the currency goes down - resulting in a higher peg. That's your core inflation. The consumer price index is the core inflation measured against the marketable value of a given amount of a volatile such as sugar, coffee, oranges or oil. The CPI is ALWAYS higher than inflation since volatiles availability depends almost entirely on the input of human effort.
Now, are you going to put a name to your comment? Or am I going to continue to make your AC arse look stupid?
strictly speaking, above the waist is frowned upon (depends on circumstances, a short diving tackle might end up above the waist but a semi-experienced referee can spot the difference between a short tackle and a deliberate mid-high intended to knock the wind out of you) but above the shoulder is right out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/s... is apparently a good video describing rules and good technique, but not having Realplayer installed I can't comment.
Rugby Union rules of tackling and a wordy description of good technique here: http://www.talkrugbyunion.co.u... (no speshul plugins or magical decoder rings required).
the government isn't responsible for inflation, that's down to (in the US) the Federal Reserve.
See, they dictate just how much currency is in circulation, measured against the availability on the open market of a nonvolatile commodity (let's call it "gold") which is where the total money worth of the currency against the total amount of "gold" available, gives you the Peg. When the Peg goes up, the amount of gold doesn't go down (which is what you're expecting here, supply against demand etc., but remember the commodity is nonvolatile, ergo basically useless - you can't eat it and it's not that particularly great mechanically), the amount of currency in circulation goes up - lowering its value against "gold", resulting in the perceived rise in the price of "gold" and the resulting pegged value of the currency is able to buy less and less. The value of your "gold" hasn't changed and neither has the quantity in free circulation. An ounce of gold in 1928 would buy you a sack of salt or it would buy you five Dollars in currency. Today, that ounce of gold would buy you $1200 in currency or a sack of salt. The value of your currency has changed - it's gone down (against your fixed commodity hence against anything else you might want to buy - like your sack of salt that went for five bucks 80-someodd years ago but now is going for 240 times that), and the quantity in circulation has gone up not to cover the shortfall, but to drive currency value down, perpetuating the lie that when a bank seizes assets it's because it's earned them. Frankly it hasn't, it's stolen them by manipulating the buying value of the currency against a fixed commodity.
no, because putting that kind of direct pressure on the spine can kill you. Think about it, a professional rugby player can weigh up to 280 pounds, that hitting you sideways in the ribcage at 30mph (a full sprint for a rugby player and pretty much as quick as Usain Bolt over the first 40 of a 100 sprint) is going to break some ribs. Smacking into your spine at that speed is going to snap you in half. Hitting your thighs? You're talking about the thickest, strongest bone in the body surrounded by the thickest, strongest muscles. The rule for high tackling is clearly there for good reason (anywhere above the shoulder is a red card, no arguments), techniques concentrate on making sure that your shoulder hits your opponent in the thigh, but no higher than the plate of the hip.
the old music distribution model (physical media) is dead. The only thing that's keeping the cartels from going under is litigation against Grandma and six year old Emily downloading the latest Spongebob Sings Sinatra, who then have to settle over what might have been considered a thousand-times-exaggerated valuation of a single track thirty years ago.
they're not selling music any more, they're selling sex.
Miley Cyrus: prancing around the stage in her underwear. People talk about Jennifer Lopez, they're talking about her arse, not "Love Don't Cost A Thing". Billie Piper: Or, how a twenty-something brings out the paedophiles by imitating Britney Spears gyrating suggestively through a school hallway. Madonna: "Hung Up"? Not a great cover of a not-great-to-begin-with ABBA track, it's an excuse for a fifty-something to run around on stage at the VMA in her knickers.
Katy Perry, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj - the list goes on. In 2009, 160 of the 174 songs that featured in the Billboard music chart for that year contained explicit sexual content. It's not a recent thing, either. Tom Jones, The Beatles, Elvis, Oasis, The Proclaimers: throughout their careers, women and schoolgirls have been throwing soiled underwear and serious marriage proposals at them from the mosh pits of the world, and often as not screaming so loud during the performances that you could not hear what was being played.
right around the same time movable type was developed for polyphonic sheet music. Gutenberg invented the metal movable type press a century earlier. The Sumerians had clay movable type three millennia before that.
my good sound system is connected through my laptop. Don't laugh, it's good enough for me when I can listen to an orchestral piece and hear the C8 triangle as well as the deepest rumbling C1 on a pipe organ. I said hear, not feel it vibrating through my arse. Sounds even better through my headphones (dunno what make they are, they're badged "Angle & Curve" and were a freebie with a mobile phone about 5 years ago).
oh, wow. 1. No media is "perfect". 2. Compact discs are as easily damaged as vinyl, cassette tape wraps around capstans and flash-based mp3 players are subject to bitflip/bitrot, DRM fuckery and the ability or lack thereof of the player to actually decode the media. 3. Ditto for tapes and CDs, even hard drives take up space and tend to suck power even when apparently idle. 4. Depends on the needle. Ruby needles tend to be very hard wearing, ceramics offer better fidelity and diamond is the go-to for budget gear. Also arm balance plays a huge part. 5. "non-portable"? I can link you a portable record player right now. Here ya go: http://www.thevinylfactory.com... there's also the Crosley Cruiser and a slew of others all of which available from halfway decent electronics stores like Maplin. 6. Ever hear of the analogue hole?? 7. It does often come with a paper inlay with track information on it, though. Or are you so used to a quarter inch high cover art in iTunes? 8. Funny, 'cos that's how the BBC Radiophonic Workshop have been doing it for the last 93 years. 9. Funny, 'cos Laserdisc is based on the same wobble groove technology as vinyl, unlike Compact Disc which uses pits and lands. Ergo, video and archival data is a viable use for vinyl. 10. Citations needed, I'm not gonna just take your word for it.
fucker nearly had me pitching my speakers out with the trash before I found that out... I really did think the popping and clipping was a blown stack until I had a flash of inspiration and played through the Quad Maximus test tones...
there's that word: "consumers". We stopped being a viewing audience to an artistic performance of drama a long time ago and became comsumers of whatever dreck the cartels could think to throw together. Proof being in the endless reboots we're seeing now (Robocop, Total Recall, Spiderman, The Crow, Annie, Escape From New York, Batman, Ghostbusters, Hitman, All Quiet On The Western Front, Mad Max, Pet Sematary, Point Break, An American Werewolf~, Barbarella, Dirty Dancing, Starship Troopers, The Neverending Story, Wargames, Time Bandits, Akira, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, the George Lucas 3D Smellovision Edition of Star Wars Episode 3.14159...). Where's the original stuff? I wouldn't mind seeing a movie based on a Payne Harrison thriller, for a random example (I have loads, Thunder of Erebus and Storming Intrepid are right up there in the realms of "Where's the fucking movie already!?")
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eg aspartame/sucralose/MSG/anything else that actually provides zero or negative nutritional value.
I eat what I need, I spend a lot of time outside doing stuff, whatever it is I'm exposing skin to sun and getting air that's not full of dead skin cells. People call me skinny, but apart from a touch of arthritis which comes with being ridiculously tall, I'm fit as a butcher's dog.
what's scary is that my wife seems to have developed a gluten intolerance, whatever that is, and when she cooks rice, she washes the starch off (I mean, what a criminal waste of good starch) leaving the gluten which is the ONLY OTHER COMPONENT OF RICE. I mean, the fuck??
^^100% true, I swear.
so what's wrong with that, exactly?
WHO's own numbers, when you look right back to the dawn of vaccinations, recognise that the incidence of smallpox floored BEFORE the vaccines hit, the incidence of smallpox more than doubled in the 20 years after the vaccine hit, the same is happening with polio. Now we have a disease made famous by Steven Hawking and Mark Hamill (sufferer and ice bucket muppet respectively) that is essentially a lie perpetrated by the pro vaccine crowd but is in fact caused by the ORAL POLIO VACCINE. The same vaccine that is causing more polio outbreaks leading to more recorded cases of symptomatic post-vaccine infections in Pakistan the last YEAR than wild cases recorded GLOBALLY in the last TEN YEARS, is leaving victims post-infection with symptoms not "like" motor neurone disease, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease, AKA ALS, but "ACTUALLY" MND/LGD/ALS.
Don't believe me, go to the WHO's own website and look at THEIR reports on vaccine effectiveness. I'll be right here waiting for you.
Or you could just call me names, scream tinfoil hat denialist, point and yell "terrorist", or whatever. I don't fucking care anymore.
when the truth is that sugar is essential for all life on this planet. Every organism that expends energy does so by converting sugar. The lie is perpetuated firstly by those who would see us addicted to a substance originally developed as an insecticide, secondly by those who swallow the lie.
It's also been repeated down this page and I totally agree, that our increasingly sedentary lifestyle is killing us. As creatures originally designed to forage, we are not only losing our mental capacity to know what we should be foraging for (nuts, fruits, roots, leaves and berries) and hunting for (meat and fish - yes we are obligate omnivores, there are substances in meat we cannot obtain from vegetables), we are as a species becoming more and more dependent on prepackaged, bulk farmed, artificially stuffed meat-like and vegetable-like "product" that we've actually forgotten what real food feels like. As a result, we are missing out on vital nutrients that we have evolved to depend on hence we are becoming sick as a result of that combined with just pure fucking laziness. We should be going out and picking vegetables if only to get out in the sunshine and grab some rays so we can (some of us still can) make our own vitamin D instead of requiring supplement that *doesn't, for the most part, make it past the stomach*. If you spend most of your life behind a desk, you're likely to suffer symptoms of vitamin D deficiency such as rickets and osteomalacia for the simple reason that humans were NOT meant to spend their entire lives inside a clay box. Neither were they meant to wear sunscreen - which inhibits VitD production by blocking UV from reaching the skin. Note to self: research other possible triggers for skin cancer than solar exposure, pretty sure it would require a genetic predisposition...
We are great at abusing ourselves, what we're not so great at, as a collective, is realising just how shitty of a job we're doing of recognising that what most of us see as normal civilised behaviour is what's actually killing us.
yw. By the way, after a bit of hunting around, I found a wikix howto that describes the state of the Commons database (where the images are linked): as at March 2008, it stood just over 420GB. To borrow "Libraries of Congress" analogy, that's about 1,050 Johnny Fives. :)
that's current pages only at 42GB (as at Feb 2013). More than double for current pages with linked user and talk pages, the full history dumps for ENWiki runs (Feb 2013) to TEN Terabytes.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki...
So no, that does NOT include images or any other language.
Wikipedia is several TB (that's just the text) (31GB 7z compressed/5TB expanded as at 2011) and still not sentient. It might be an amazing thing, but we're not quite at the point of removing all the zeroes yet, huh?
the base rate of inflation (AKA core inflation) is the amount of currency in circulation against a fixed amount of a nonvolatile commodity (gold). When the amount of currency in circulation goes up, for example after a bout of quantitative easing, the value of the commodity stays the same but the value of the currency goes down - resulting in a higher peg. That's your core inflation. The consumer price index is the core inflation measured against the marketable value of a given amount of a volatile such as sugar, coffee, oranges or oil. The CPI is ALWAYS higher than inflation since volatiles availability depends almost entirely on the input of human effort.
Now, are you going to put a name to your comment? Or am I going to continue to make your AC arse look stupid?
strictly speaking, above the waist is frowned upon (depends on circumstances, a short diving tackle might end up above the waist but a semi-experienced referee can spot the difference between a short tackle and a deliberate mid-high intended to knock the wind out of you) but above the shoulder is right out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/s... is apparently a good video describing rules and good technique, but not having Realplayer installed I can't comment.
Rugby Union rules of tackling and a wordy description of good technique here: http://www.talkrugbyunion.co.u... (no speshul plugins or magical decoder rings required).
ah yes, way back when apparently you could cram a sentient AI into 400MB and have enough room left for the entire contents of a city library....
I might have misread, though I stand by it in terms of format shifting.
the government isn't responsible for inflation, that's down to (in the US) the Federal Reserve.
See, they dictate just how much currency is in circulation, measured against the availability on the open market of a nonvolatile commodity (let's call it "gold") which is where the total money worth of the currency against the total amount of "gold" available, gives you the Peg. When the Peg goes up, the amount of gold doesn't go down (which is what you're expecting here, supply against demand etc., but remember the commodity is nonvolatile, ergo basically useless - you can't eat it and it's not that particularly great mechanically), the amount of currency in circulation goes up - lowering its value against "gold", resulting in the perceived rise in the price of "gold" and the resulting pegged value of the currency is able to buy less and less. The value of your "gold" hasn't changed and neither has the quantity in free circulation. An ounce of gold in 1928 would buy you a sack of salt or it would buy you five Dollars in currency. Today, that ounce of gold would buy you $1200 in currency or a sack of salt. The value of your currency has changed - it's gone down (against your fixed commodity hence against anything else you might want to buy - like your sack of salt that went for five bucks 80-someodd years ago but now is going for 240 times that), and the quantity in circulation has gone up not to cover the shortfall, but to drive currency value down, perpetuating the lie that when a bank seizes assets it's because it's earned them. Frankly it hasn't, it's stolen them by manipulating the buying value of the currency against a fixed commodity.
I was so upset when Tandy closed up shop in England, they had the best gear in - not to mention the Battery Club which kept me in PP3s for a decade.
argue it with the NFL's lawyers, I'm not here to do your defence for you.
no, because putting that kind of direct pressure on the spine can kill you. Think about it, a professional rugby player can weigh up to 280 pounds, that hitting you sideways in the ribcage at 30mph (a full sprint for a rugby player and pretty much as quick as Usain Bolt over the first 40 of a 100 sprint) is going to break some ribs. Smacking into your spine at that speed is going to snap you in half. Hitting your thighs? You're talking about the thickest, strongest bone in the body surrounded by the thickest, strongest muscles. The rule for high tackling is clearly there for good reason (anywhere above the shoulder is a red card, no arguments), techniques concentrate on making sure that your shoulder hits your opponent in the thigh, but no higher than the plate of the hip.
dunno, but it's still blocked by Virgin Media in the UK... so I'd say that's a lot of FUD.
the old music distribution model (physical media) is dead. The only thing that's keeping the cartels from going under is litigation against Grandma and six year old Emily downloading the latest Spongebob Sings Sinatra, who then have to settle over what might have been considered a thousand-times-exaggerated valuation of a single track thirty years ago.
they're not selling music any more, they're selling sex.
Miley Cyrus: prancing around the stage in her underwear.
People talk about Jennifer Lopez, they're talking about her arse, not "Love Don't Cost A Thing".
Billie Piper: Or, how a twenty-something brings out the paedophiles by imitating Britney Spears gyrating suggestively through a school hallway.
Madonna: "Hung Up"? Not a great cover of a not-great-to-begin-with ABBA track, it's an excuse for a fifty-something to run around on stage at the VMA in her knickers.
Katy Perry, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj - the list goes on. In 2009, 160 of the 174 songs that featured in the Billboard music chart for that year contained explicit sexual content. It's not a recent thing, either. Tom Jones, The Beatles, Elvis, Oasis, The Proclaimers: throughout their careers, women and schoolgirls have been throwing soiled underwear and serious marriage proposals at them from the mosh pits of the world, and often as not screaming so loud during the performances that you could not hear what was being played.
right around the same time movable type was developed for polyphonic sheet music. Gutenberg invented the metal movable type press a century earlier. The Sumerians had clay movable type three millennia before that.
my good sound system is connected through my laptop. Don't laugh, it's good enough for me when I can listen to an orchestral piece and hear the C8 triangle as well as the deepest rumbling C1 on a pipe organ. I said hear, not feel it vibrating through my arse. Sounds even better through my headphones (dunno what make they are, they're badged "Angle & Curve" and were a freebie with a mobile phone about 5 years ago).
oh, wow.
1. No media is "perfect".
2. Compact discs are as easily damaged as vinyl, cassette tape wraps around capstans and flash-based mp3 players are subject to bitflip/bitrot, DRM fuckery and the ability or lack thereof of the player to actually decode the media.
3. Ditto for tapes and CDs, even hard drives take up space and tend to suck power even when apparently idle.
4. Depends on the needle. Ruby needles tend to be very hard wearing, ceramics offer better fidelity and diamond is the go-to for budget gear. Also arm balance plays a huge part.
5. "non-portable"? I can link you a portable record player right now. Here ya go: http://www.thevinylfactory.com... there's also the Crosley Cruiser and a slew of others all of which available from halfway decent electronics stores like Maplin.
6. Ever hear of the analogue hole??
7. It does often come with a paper inlay with track information on it, though. Or are you so used to a quarter inch high cover art in iTunes?
8. Funny, 'cos that's how the BBC Radiophonic Workshop have been doing it for the last 93 years.
9. Funny, 'cos Laserdisc is based on the same wobble groove technology as vinyl, unlike Compact Disc which uses pits and lands. Ergo, video and archival data is a viable use for vinyl.
10. Citations needed, I'm not gonna just take your word for it.
fucker nearly had me pitching my speakers out with the trash before I found that out... I really did think the popping and clipping was a blown stack until I had a flash of inspiration and played through the Quad Maximus test tones...
last music I torrented was the JS Bach discography. That was a good few years ago. That bitch owns the ballroom.
I hear repeated often that most if not all Western music is at least in part directly influenced by his music.
there's that word: "consumers". We stopped being a viewing audience to an artistic performance of drama a long time ago and became comsumers of whatever dreck the cartels could think to throw together. Proof being in the endless reboots we're seeing now (Robocop, Total Recall, Spiderman, The Crow, Annie, Escape From New York, Batman, Ghostbusters, Hitman, All Quiet On The Western Front, Mad Max, Pet Sematary, Point Break, An American Werewolf~, Barbarella, Dirty Dancing, Starship Troopers, The Neverending Story, Wargames, Time Bandits, Akira, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, the George Lucas 3D Smellovision Edition of Star Wars Episode 3.14159...). Where's the original stuff? I wouldn't mind seeing a movie based on a Payne Harrison thriller, for a random example (I have loads, Thunder of Erebus and Storming Intrepid are right up there in the realms of "Where's the fucking movie already!?")