I've done research in the past, and concluded that if all of the money (when I say money, I mean all of the cash, and bank accounts from all countries, not an estimated value of property and such, converted into American dollars. It came to $630,000,000,000,000) on the planet was distributed evenly between all of the people on the planet (This was a few years ago, but I think the population I used was 7billion), each person would have about $9,000.
I could be off a good bit regarding the total money count converted into American dollars, this is an estimate, but per person it'd probably only mean a few hundred dollars each. Either way, it really puts into perspective the difference between the 1% and the rest of us (us = world population). There are so many poor people in the world that live off of around $5 a day.
Are you using KDE or Gnome? I'm only familiar with KDE, but In KDE, I don't experience the problems that you mention. There may be a conflict with the sceensaver vs power saving stuff. Maybe you've already looked into that, but check and see if the screensaver is enabled, if so, disable it and see how it goes.
Right, so we agree that antibiotics obviously cause weight gain in animals and humans. It's the reason why that was our subject, right? So the ted talks that I posted are not about "antibiotics make people/animals fat", but rather they are people that have done the science to conclude that the microbial life in our guts holds key developmental architecture for the rest of the body and mind. And if the wrong kind of bacteria become over populated in the guts, a variety of effects can be observed. One of these is weight gain.
So in short, it's possible (I'm not saying that I've done research in this field, just that my own personal experience leads me to believe) that if you kill (let's just say all for argument's sake) gut bacteria in a cow, and allow that cow to feed on naturally grown grass, then the bacteria in the guts will naturally redevelop. However if you force the cow to eat grains that contain different bacteria than the grass, then the bad bacteria can over populate, and cause abnormal growth.
Why? Mostly because it's something new, and do do basic stuff they'd be forced to either call me for every little thing, or look it up online. And as all us linux users know, when searching online for information on how to do something, you generally have to either already know what exactly you're looking up, or be willing to read a lot. During that 'read a lot' phase, you will generally end up learning about things that you weren't originally looking for. For me, just switching to linux forced me to learn about things I had no idea existed. I hear this from a lot of other users as well. However I'm running slackware. Some other distro, like ubuntu, may be a hell of a lot easier to deal with, but I wouldn't know. Slackware is all I've ever dealt with in the linux world.
I was just thinking "Why the hell are these people using a computer when all they're doing is email? Why not just send letters to friends and family?" when I read that, drink out the nose. Thanks a lot.
If that's true, then your only problem is that they're answering emails to nigerian princes. During your next visit, just tell them in great detail that those types of emails are never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to be real. Maybe check into their email interface and see if there's a way to filter keywords related to those types of emails so that they're never tempted.
It is at my house, like 3 or 4 years ago. Has been ever since. I'm happy to have windows at all the local businesses, because I do freelance IT work, and that's how the bills are paid. If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works (and doesn't work), and I'd be out a big fat sum of money.
But who the hell is using flash and/or silverlight at a bank? Of course this is why I don't do work for banks/doctors/lawyers, other than they're the ones that are hard to collect $ from.
Ok, sorry for the confusion, we may be talking about two different things. Maybe you can post some articles supporting your theory of why low dosage antibiotics increase growth rates in farm animals. I'm only pointing out that there is research-a-plenty that supports what I'm talking about - those three (although I provided 6 links total) are there because I'm lazy and didn't want to spend more time gathering others. Like you pointed out, there is a very limited number of antibiotics that are given to animals (I don't know that it's only 3, but I may be getting confused with de-wormers), but in humans there are many types. From personal experience, they can affect your gut bacteria to the extend that all sorts of things can occur, things that are hard to trace back to the antibiotics.
U.S. lawmakers called for a government-funded "war" to contain West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic...
"We need to declare a war on Ebola," Senator Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said...
It's good to see that word in a context that we can all agree on.
You have obviously never done any research in this area. Start here. Then go here. Also I put a good bit of information (complete with some more links of Ted.com talks) in this post
If you're still not convinced, go get you a good couple of doses of a strong series of antibiotics, see if you have any experience that resembles mine. After that you're on your own.
And to any medical doctors out there, you should inform your patients when you give them strong antibiotics about the concerns of stomach flora. Let them know that eating raw fruit, yogurt (kefir is better) and taking probiotics after completing their antibiotics is a wonderful idea.
There is loads of information regarding this. Don't trust me, go find the info yourself. But my point (and I'm assuming that ruir has the same point) is not that the food sits in the gut and causes the weight gain, but that improper digestion of foods leave the body in an improper shape.
Well there's "good" bacteria and "bad" bacteria in our guts. Once an imbalance occurs, it's hard to manage. If you have no bacteria at all in your gut, and you eat certain food(s), you can die.
Hence the claim low level antibiotics would kill gut bacterias in a way that you end up fat is scientific utter nonsense.
Maybe we're talking about two different things. Low-levels of antibiotics will probably not "kill all the gut bacteria and make you fat", but the way doctors are prescribing them (start off at low-level antibiotics, get no results, then go to higher-level antibiotics) can certainly kill a shit-load of good gut bacteria (as well as bad gut bacteria). Once that happens, you will begin noticing problems in your gut, although most will never connect the dots. I'm speaking from experience, if that makes me an asshat, then there's nothing that I can do about it.
I'm no doctor, and this is off-topic, so take this as you will. But I had the same type of situation, to many antibiotics for a sinus infection, resulted in a bunch of stomach problems - getting backed up all the time, allergic to wheat suddenly, all that. It took me about 4 years to really understand what happened, because doctors weren't able to do anything but tell me "You're allergic to wheat, go on a glutten-free diet."
What I did do eventually is go on a 5-day fast. I know it may sound crazy. But what happens is that all of the bacteria in your guts sorta goes away and you're left with a nice feeling. The most important factor in the whole fast, is breaking the fast. Introduce probiotics this way:
Drink kefir
eat raw fruit
drink vegetable broths
drink raw milk if you can find it - plain yogurt will do good too
There are other probiotics that you can find, check out what looks good to you. It's very important that you re-introduce food into your system slowly, or you're go into shock, or worse. After I did this, I have no more stomach problems, and no more wheat allergy. Of course you may want to consult a doctor before doing this.
Ruir is correct. Antibiotics do kill gut bacteria, resulting in food not getting processed, rotten food remaining in the system, building up and making the animal fat and heavy. This makes the animal tired all of the time, resulting in the animal doing less, and getting, well, fatter (same thing happens in humans - ever seen anyone with a big bloated belly, skinny legs, lazy, unhappy...). There is no such thing as a "low dose of antibiotics" for animals, because antibiotics are meant to kill bacteria. And when you give an animal an antibiotic based on a time frame, rather than a sickness, you can bet that the only bacteria that's even there to kill is in the stomach.
This whole idea of giving animals regular treatments of antibiotics is why we have a lot of the problems that we have in the food market today. See, animals have an extraordinary ability to eat correctly on their own, even medicate themselves with various types of grass (that they do not normally eat, think of dogs or cats eating grass) at times. Cows that are grass-fed, have their horns, and allowed to graze where they want are very healthy, almost always. Anyone really interested in this stuff should look up Rudolf Steiner's talks made into a book called "Agriculture". Fascinating stuff.
Wow, you and I did the same exact thing. Start your own freelance IT company, that's what I did. You'd be surprised at how much money you can make, and how nice the clients can be.
But if you're afraid to do your job, it's because you have a problem with confidence in your own skills. Blaming management for such fears just takes the incompetence you exhibit to a whole new level of blame-gaming.
Very well said. As I read this summary, I was wondering where this type of "fear" doesn't exist, in any workplace. As a business owner, I have the same sort of concerns, but I dare not fear the result of what the client/management/whatever wants. The best thing that one can do in such a situation, where this type of "fear" exists, is to discuss the things with management prior to doing the work. If they listen, then there's nothing to fear. If they don't listen, it's time to get a new job. Of course I say that sitting here at my house in America. In Asia I know that there's probably a more competitive job market, and it may not be so easy to just quit your job. But when you start to look for a new job, it tends to lessen the worries while at the shitty job. Just one man's opinion.
Yeah, when you brows posts at -1 (as they recommend when modding) you will see a lot of trolls and BS of the like. The best practice is to focus on modding up, rather than down, because most here brows at +2 or higher. It's better to not miss the good informative posts, rather than not see the trolls. At least that's my opinion.
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I've done research in the past, and concluded that if all of the money (when I say money, I mean all of the cash, and bank accounts from all countries, not an estimated value of property and such, converted into American dollars. It came to $630,000,000,000,000) on the planet was distributed evenly between all of the people on the planet (This was a few years ago, but I think the population I used was 7billion), each person would have about $9,000.
I could be off a good bit regarding the total money count converted into American dollars, this is an estimate, but per person it'd probably only mean a few hundred dollars each. Either way, it really puts into perspective the difference between the 1% and the rest of us (us = world population). There are so many poor people in the world that live off of around $5 a day.
Are you using KDE or Gnome? I'm only familiar with KDE, but In KDE, I don't experience the problems that you mention. There may be a conflict with the sceensaver vs power saving stuff. Maybe you've already looked into that, but check and see if the screensaver is enabled, if so, disable it and see how it goes.
Oh, ok. Then how about I rephrase the question (even if just for you).
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Right, so we agree that antibiotics obviously cause weight gain in animals and humans. It's the reason why that was our subject, right? So the ted talks that I posted are not about "antibiotics make people/animals fat", but rather they are people that have done the science to conclude that the microbial life in our guts holds key developmental architecture for the rest of the body and mind. And if the wrong kind of bacteria become over populated in the guts, a variety of effects can be observed. One of these is weight gain.
So in short, it's possible (I'm not saying that I've done research in this field, just that my own personal experience leads me to believe) that if you kill (let's just say all for argument's sake) gut bacteria in a cow, and allow that cow to feed on naturally grown grass, then the bacteria in the guts will naturally redevelop. However if you force the cow to eat grains that contain different bacteria than the grass, then the bad bacteria can over populate, and cause abnormal growth.
Most people don't care for your hobby. They just want to use the goddamn computer.
I did mention that these people are my clients, so I don't understand your point.
Why? Mostly because it's something new, and do do basic stuff they'd be forced to either call me for every little thing, or look it up online. And as all us linux users know, when searching online for information on how to do something, you generally have to either already know what exactly you're looking up, or be willing to read a lot. During that 'read a lot' phase, you will generally end up learning about things that you weren't originally looking for. For me, just switching to linux forced me to learn about things I had no idea existed. I hear this from a lot of other users as well. However I'm running slackware. Some other distro, like ubuntu, may be a hell of a lot easier to deal with, but I wouldn't know. Slackware is all I've ever dealt with in the linux world.
May I suggest an Etch-A-Sketch?
I was just thinking "Why the hell are these people using a computer when all they're doing is email? Why not just send letters to friends and family?" when I read that, drink out the nose. Thanks a lot.
If that's true, then your only problem is that they're answering emails to nigerian princes. During your next visit, just tell them in great detail that those types of emails are never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to be real. Maybe check into their email interface and see if there's a way to filter keywords related to those types of emails so that they're never tempted.
Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?
It is at my house, like 3 or 4 years ago. Has been ever since. I'm happy to have windows at all the local businesses, because I do freelance IT work, and that's how the bills are paid. If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works (and doesn't work), and I'd be out a big fat sum of money.
But who the hell is using flash and/or silverlight at a bank? Of course this is why I don't do work for banks/doctors/lawyers, other than they're the ones that are hard to collect $ from.
Ok, sorry for the confusion, we may be talking about two different things. Maybe you can post some articles supporting your theory of why low dosage antibiotics increase growth rates in farm animals. I'm only pointing out that there is research-a-plenty that supports what I'm talking about - those three (although I provided 6 links total) are there because I'm lazy and didn't want to spend more time gathering others. Like you pointed out, there is a very limited number of antibiotics that are given to animals (I don't know that it's only 3, but I may be getting confused with de-wormers), but in humans there are many types. From personal experience, they can affect your gut bacteria to the extend that all sorts of things can occur, things that are hard to trace back to the antibiotics.
Is the robot creepy or cute? yes. Does Matt start every sentence with "So..."? Yes. Drives me nuts? yes.
U.S. lawmakers called for a government-funded "war" to contain West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic...
"We need to declare a war on Ebola," Senator Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said...
It's good to see that word in a context that we can all agree on.
You have obviously never done any research in this area. Start here. Then go here. Also I put a good bit of information (complete with some more links of Ted.com talks) in this post
If you're still not convinced, go get you a good couple of doses of a strong series of antibiotics, see if you have any experience that resembles mine. After that you're on your own.
And to any medical doctors out there, you should inform your patients when you give them strong antibiotics about the concerns of stomach flora. Let them know that eating raw fruit, yogurt (kefir is better) and taking probiotics after completing their antibiotics is a wonderful idea.
US is next?
What do you mean next?
Any google search will provide any info that you'd be interested in reading. Here are some pages that you may want to read:
gut-and-weight-loss-connection
A Hidden Trigger of Obesity: Intestinal Bugs
New Study Reveals Bacteria Could Prevent Obesity and Weight Gain
There is loads of information regarding this. Don't trust me, go find the info yourself. But my point (and I'm assuming that ruir has the same point) is not that the food sits in the gut and causes the weight gain, but that improper digestion of foods leave the body in an improper shape.
There's also a few good Ted talks related to this concept:
Jeroen Raes (not sure why I can't find this on ted.com)
Heribert Watzka
Jonathan Eisen
If you don't drop all of the weight at once, I think the problem is maneuvering with all that weight still on board. I could be wrong.
I know essentially nothing of the subject but that won't stop me from giving my opinion.
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Here's some relevant info regarding gut bacteria:
gut bacteria that helps prevent allergies
How gut bacteria can make you fat (or thin)
Hence the claim low level antibiotics would kill gut bacterias in a way that you end up fat is scientific utter nonsense.
Maybe we're talking about two different things. Low-levels of antibiotics will probably not "kill all the gut bacteria and make you fat", but the way doctors are prescribing them (start off at low-level antibiotics, get no results, then go to higher-level antibiotics) can certainly kill a shit-load of good gut bacteria (as well as bad gut bacteria). Once that happens, you will begin noticing problems in your gut, although most will never connect the dots. I'm speaking from experience, if that makes me an asshat, then there's nothing that I can do about it.
I'm no doctor, and this is off-topic, so take this as you will. But I had the same type of situation, to many antibiotics for a sinus infection, resulted in a bunch of stomach problems - getting backed up all the time, allergic to wheat suddenly, all that. It took me about 4 years to really understand what happened, because doctors weren't able to do anything but tell me "You're allergic to wheat, go on a glutten-free diet."
What I did do eventually is go on a 5-day fast. I know it may sound crazy. But what happens is that all of the bacteria in your guts sorta goes away and you're left with a nice feeling. The most important factor in the whole fast, is breaking the fast. Introduce probiotics this way:
Drink kefir
eat raw fruit
drink vegetable broths
drink raw milk if you can find it - plain yogurt will do good too
There are other probiotics that you can find, check out what looks good to you. It's very important that you re-introduce food into your system slowly, or you're go into shock, or worse. After I did this, I have no more stomach problems, and no more wheat allergy. Of course you may want to consult a doctor before doing this.
Ruir is correct. Antibiotics do kill gut bacteria, resulting in food not getting processed, rotten food remaining in the system, building up and making the animal fat and heavy. This makes the animal tired all of the time, resulting in the animal doing less, and getting, well, fatter (same thing happens in humans - ever seen anyone with a big bloated belly, skinny legs, lazy, unhappy...). There is no such thing as a "low dose of antibiotics" for animals, because antibiotics are meant to kill bacteria. And when you give an animal an antibiotic based on a time frame, rather than a sickness, you can bet that the only bacteria that's even there to kill is in the stomach.
This whole idea of giving animals regular treatments of antibiotics is why we have a lot of the problems that we have in the food market today. See, animals have an extraordinary ability to eat correctly on their own, even medicate themselves with various types of grass (that they do not normally eat, think of dogs or cats eating grass) at times. Cows that are grass-fed, have their horns, and allowed to graze where they want are very healthy, almost always. Anyone really interested in this stuff should look up Rudolf Steiner's talks made into a book called "Agriculture". Fascinating stuff.
Wow, you and I did the same exact thing. Start your own freelance IT company, that's what I did. You'd be surprised at how much money you can make, and how nice the clients can be.
I would love to have at least one of those fearful devs to handle documentation.
Could you elaborate a bit on that? Because it kinda sounds like you're a tyrant. Why would anyone welcome fear, without being a tyrant?
But if you're afraid to do your job, it's because you have a problem with confidence in your own skills. Blaming management for such fears just takes the incompetence you exhibit to a whole new level of blame-gaming.
Very well said. As I read this summary, I was wondering where this type of "fear" doesn't exist, in any workplace. As a business owner, I have the same sort of concerns, but I dare not fear the result of what the client/management/whatever wants. The best thing that one can do in such a situation, where this type of "fear" exists, is to discuss the things with management prior to doing the work. If they listen, then there's nothing to fear. If they don't listen, it's time to get a new job. Of course I say that sitting here at my house in America. In Asia I know that there's probably a more competitive job market, and it may not be so easy to just quit your job. But when you start to look for a new job, it tends to lessen the worries while at the shitty job. Just one man's opinion.
Yeah, when you brows posts at -1 (as they recommend when modding) you will see a lot of trolls and BS of the like. The best practice is to focus on modding up, rather than down, because most here brows at +2 or higher. It's better to not miss the good informative posts, rather than not see the trolls. At least that's my opinion.