In fact, people who don't eat processed foods are extremely rare, even indigenous tribes devoid of modern technology process their food.
When people say to avoid processed food, they're not talking about some tribeswoman grinding it up with a mortar and pestle. They're talking about things like Cheez Whiz, which despite what you may think, is not a healthy food source.
Words you don't recognize, or even things that aren't "natural" aren't inherently bad, in fact most of them are fine to consume.
I'm sorry, but "most" isn't good enough. When you're talking about things that people stuff into their bodies, they damned well better all be fine to consume.
1.3l gourd - Bolivian jungle hut. Pours thick resembling orange pancake batter. Zero carbonation. Slimy head containing flecks of grass and dust. No detectable hops. Aroma of sweet potatoes, saliva, cloves, sweat socks, motor oil, goat dung, citrus, tannins, new car interior. Mouth feel of soggy grape nuts, drywall joint compound. Finishes slightly bitter with hints of grass, anchovies, turpentine. Overall, an excellent brew, blows away the macrobrews; would buy again.
A lot of these island disputes would go away if these "economic exclusion zones" were redefined from "N km from the shore" to "minimum(N, sqrt(area of island)) km from shore". It would make more sense, as well.
Car engines may be more than 20% efficient in the best case, but in real world operation including idle and jack rabbit starts, probably not. That's why they introduced hybrids: you pay extra for some batteries in order to keep the engine closer to its theoretical maximum efficiency.
IIRC, the electricity to power a car is well under half the cost of gas per mile, especially if you meter it at off-peak hours. So it would still come out ahead. The car costs more to buy mainly because of the batteries, which is the cost that we were analyzing in the first place.
The limited range is probably the main show stopper for electric cars right now.
I suggest that you turn in your geek card until you've completed remedial studies in the laws of thermodynamics.
Q: What do you think is coming out of those gargantuan cooling towers? A: It's most of the energy originally available in the fuel.
Note that a decent residential furnace is not subject to the same thermodynamic constraints associated with electricity generation, and can use over 90% of the fuel energy to actually heat the house.
Y'know, we're having this argument based on the complete assumption that he was blasting through traffic.
It's not an assumption. It's a statistical certainty. Do the math.
Interstate highways in this country connect major cities. There is no way to avoid urban areas. The whole country isn't Montana. Even if it were, there are trucks *everywhere*.
The total range of braking distances for 60-0 from the best cars to the crappiest varies by well under 2X. The laws of physics say that going twice the speed limit makes your braking distance increase by 4X. And that's *after* reaction time, which is impacted by little things like having almost no sleep in 24 fucking hours.
Just give it up already. Stop defending this narcissistic asshole.
Why? Because in the real world, SHIT HAPPENS. Maybe he's wedged between the truck and a slow RV. Maybe there's a piece of loose tire tread in the lane. Maybe a deer is starting to cross the road. Maybe there's a pothole. Maybe the driver just dozed off. Behind the semi, you CAN'T see any of that, especially not at a "fair distance".
Driving that fast depends on shit NOT happening, which is pure luck.
but you obviously just cannot understand how safe driving really works.
I know one thing: Safe driving on public highways in the USA means not driving at 150mph. If you somehow feel that isn't the case, then you are deluded.
With Linux, it is always chasing a moving target that has many attractive features, but each fighting with each other and against the user.
That's been the continual story of personal computing since the 1970s. *Somebody* has to go through the pain of integrating new capabilities into common use.
Road rules are developed for the lowest common denominator
That's correct, the road is filled with behaviors like you mentioned.
And those things were all there to deal with during this stunt. Except this idiot had to deal with those things using half the reaction time, four times the kinetic energy, a car full of bootleg gas tanks, and no sleep for more than 24 hours.
If you can't see what's wrong with that, you're not qualified to drive on public roads yourself.
I said *in front of* the 18 wheeler. You can't see around a big truck. This idiot also averaged 100 mph. that means that he had to move far faster than that for a large fraction of the time.
The highways are filled with trucks, even in the boondocks and at odd hours. That means he had to pass countless trucks while going at speeds like 130 mph, not 100.
For Christ sake, I can't believe the replies I'm getting from people who try to justify this idiotic behavior. The amount of ignorance and stupidity out there is just mind boggling.
There is no way in hell that he could control for a grandpa driving a minivan full of grandkids from pulling into the left lane from ahead of an 18-wheeler, while this joker is bearing down at 130 mph.
But I'd bet you'd blame the grandpa because he wasn't expecting the car 100 feet behind him in the mirror was a reckless jackass trying to pull off some idiotic stunt.
I don't know if it's nationwide, but my local Goodwill outlet is in cahoots with a major computer manufacturer in a recycling program. They specifically state that unlike other donated items, they'll take any computer equipment in any condition, working or not.
So you're just trying get the most advantage of your current temporary situation, then plan to freeload off of taxpayers or group plan participants at a later date when your risks go up. I suspected so.
Certainly, a system based on real free markets(which we didn't have) would be superior to Obamacare.
That's because a real free market for health insurance plan is a logical impossibility unless you're willing to totally exclude any coverage for any preexisting condition. No insurance company is going to willingly cover someone that they know that they'll make a loss on. No sale means no market.
You can try to simulate a market with a bunch of government regulation, like Obamacare, but it's messy. Most countries take the simpler route and get rid of that layer of middlemen.
Whereas you have a financial bias to remain in your (most likely) cherry picked low risk group, which is only made possible by the total denial individual coverage to large fractions of the population. Well, sooner or later you won't be in a low risk demographic, and you might not be able to qualify for individual coverage at all, for any price. Just what were you planning to do then?
That's why I originally said that it was modern-day feudalism. If anyone in your family has a preexisting condition, you're stuck with your lord employer.
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Trace amounts of hydrogenated oil are harmless, but large quantities are probably not a good idea.
Gee, and guess what a lot of "processed foods" contain?
Large quantities of hydrogenated oils.
Foods you pick off of the vine contain these things.
In general, they contain trace amounts of bad things, and a large number of essential things.
Processed foods, OTOH, tend to include large amounts of bad things and omit many of the essential things you'd find growing on a vine.
The key is in the amounts, not whether they or not they can be detected in one food or another.
In fact, people who don't eat processed foods are extremely rare, even indigenous tribes devoid of modern technology process their food.
When people say to avoid processed food, they're not talking about some tribeswoman grinding it up with a mortar and pestle. They're talking about things like Cheez Whiz, which despite what you may think, is not a healthy food source.
Words you don't recognize, or even things that aren't "natural" aren't inherently bad, in fact most of them are fine to consume.
I'm sorry, but "most" isn't good enough. When you're talking about things that people stuff into their bodies, they damned well better all be fine to consume.
In before the first derpling herps up a comparison to American beer. Herp herp derp.
Manioc "Primitive Yam" Sweet Potato Ale
Brewed by The Original Tsimane Tribe Brewing Co.
63 overall, 99 style.
Ratings: 14 Weighted Avg: 3.43 Est Calories: 345 ABV: 4.0%
4.5 AROMA: 8/10 APPEARANCE 9/10 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 7/10 OVERALL 17/20
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1.3l gourd - Bolivian jungle hut. Pours thick resembling orange pancake batter. Zero carbonation. Slimy head containing flecks of grass and dust. No detectable hops. Aroma of sweet potatoes, saliva, cloves, sweat socks, motor oil, goat dung, citrus, tannins, new car interior. Mouth feel of soggy grape nuts, drywall joint compound. Finishes slightly bitter with hints of grass, anchovies, turpentine. Overall, an excellent brew, blows away the macrobrews; would buy again.
A lot of these island disputes would go away if these "economic exclusion zones" were redefined from "N km from the shore" to "minimum(N, sqrt(area of island)) km from shore". It would make more sense, as well.
Car engines may be more than 20% efficient in the best case, but in real world operation including idle and jack rabbit starts, probably not. That's why they introduced hybrids: you pay extra for some batteries in order to keep the engine closer to its theoretical maximum efficiency.
IIRC, the electricity to power a car is well under half the cost of gas per mile, especially if you meter it at off-peak hours. So it would still come out ahead. The car costs more to buy mainly because of the batteries, which is the cost that we were analyzing in the first place.
The limited range is probably the main show stopper for electric cars right now.
OK, Lets use an Enerdel 12s block. 3000 cycles by 1300 watt-hours gets us 3.9 million watt-hour-cycles.
The cost is $711. So 3.9 million w-hr-cycles / $711 is 5485 w-hr-cycles per dollar. What is the w-hr-cycles of gasoline again?
That's an interesting question:
Gasoline gives us only one cycle.
$ units
You have: (114000 btu / gal) / (3$ / gal)
You want: W hr / $
* 11136.701
Sounds bad... but car engines are only about 20% efficient and electric cars are more like 80% efficient.
If we normalize that way, the gas car is 2227, and the batteries are 4388.
Looks like the batteries win, even with current temporary lull in gas prices.
this is true, but there is no 4K media yet
Nonsense.
My TRS-80 was displaying images exceeding 6K back in 1978.
I suggest that you turn in your geek card until you've completed remedial studies in the laws of thermodynamics.
Q: What do you think is coming out of those gargantuan cooling towers? A: It's most of the energy originally available in the fuel.
Note that a decent residential furnace is not subject to the same thermodynamic constraints associated with electricity generation, and can use over 90% of the fuel energy to actually heat the house.
In the winter, incandescent's are 100% efficient. Funny that.
No, they're generally 30% to 40% efficient. Most of the energy is lost before it leaves the power plant.
Y'know, we're having this argument based on the complete assumption that he was blasting through traffic.
It's not an assumption. It's a statistical certainty. Do the math.
Interstate highways in this country connect major cities. There is no way to avoid urban areas. The whole country isn't Montana. Even if it were, there are trucks *everywhere*.
The total range of braking distances for 60-0 from the best cars to the crappiest varies by well under 2X. The laws of physics say that going twice the speed limit makes your braking distance increase by 4X. And that's *after* reaction time, which is impacted by little things like having almost no sleep in 24 fucking hours.
Just give it up already. Stop defending this narcissistic asshole.
But if he's in front why would he get over?
Why? Because in the real world, SHIT HAPPENS. Maybe he's wedged between the truck and a slow RV. Maybe there's a piece of loose tire tread in the lane. Maybe a deer is starting to cross the road. Maybe there's a pothole. Maybe the driver just dozed off. Behind the semi, you CAN'T see any of that, especially not at a "fair distance".
Driving that fast depends on shit NOT happening, which is pure luck.
but you obviously just cannot understand how safe driving really works.
I know one thing: Safe driving on public highways in the USA means not driving at 150mph. If you somehow feel that isn't the case, then you are deluded.
With Linux, it is always chasing a moving target that has many attractive features, but each fighting with each other and against the user.
That's been the continual story of personal computing since the 1970s. *Somebody* has to go through the pain of integrating new capabilities into common use.
Road rules are developed for the lowest common denominator
That's correct, the road is filled with behaviors like you mentioned.
And those things were all there to deal with during this stunt. Except this idiot had to deal with those things using half the reaction time, four times the kinetic energy, a car full of bootleg gas tanks, and no sleep for more than 24 hours.
If you can't see what's wrong with that, you're not qualified to drive on public roads yourself.
I said *in front of* the 18 wheeler. You can't see around a big truck. This idiot also averaged 100 mph. that means that he had to move far faster than that for a large fraction of the time.
The highways are filled with trucks, even in the boondocks and at odd hours. That means he had to pass countless trucks while going at speeds like 130 mph, not 100.
For Christ sake, I can't believe the replies I'm getting from people who try to justify this idiotic behavior. The amount of ignorance and stupidity out there is just mind boggling.
There is no way in hell that he could control for a grandpa driving a minivan full of grandkids from pulling into the left lane from ahead of an 18-wheeler, while this joker is bearing down at 130 mph.
But I'd bet you'd blame the grandpa because he wasn't expecting the car 100 feet behind him in the mirror was a reckless jackass trying to pull off some idiotic stunt.
If those people were able to rig the game in their favour, sure. But I guess you're too simple to think of issues like that.
Oh I see. If you find a revolver with seven chambers, then you're a genius!
Driving 150 MPH in a 75 MPH zone in not a goddamned "gray area", Einstein.
I presume that you also consider 5 out of 6 people who play Russian roulette to be "geniuses" as well.
Looks like you're a shoo-in for the Nobel prize in physics.
I don't know if it's nationwide, but my local Goodwill outlet is in cahoots with a major computer manufacturer in a recycling program. They specifically state that unlike other donated items, they'll take any computer equipment in any condition, working or not.
So you're just trying get the most advantage of your current temporary situation, then plan to freeload off of taxpayers or group plan participants at a later date when your risks go up. I suspected so.
Certainly, a system based on real free markets(which we didn't have) would be superior to Obamacare.
That's because a real free market for health insurance plan is a logical impossibility unless you're willing to totally exclude any coverage for any preexisting condition. No insurance company is going to willingly cover someone that they know that they'll make a loss on. No sale means no market.
You can try to simulate a market with a bunch of government regulation, like Obamacare, but it's messy. Most countries take the simpler route and get rid of that layer of middlemen.
Whereas you have a financial bias to remain in your (most likely) cherry picked low risk group, which is only made possible by the total denial individual coverage to large fractions of the population. Well, sooner or later you won't be in a low risk demographic, and you might not be able to qualify for individual coverage at all, for any price. Just what were you planning to do then?
That depends on which state you live in.
That's why I originally said that it was modern-day feudalism. If anyone in your family has a preexisting condition, you're stuck with your lord employer.