"This study suggests that burning fat is less a driver of endurance than a compensatory mechanism to conserve glucose," says Michael Downes, a Salk senior scientist and co-senior author of the paper. "PPARD is suppressing all the points that are involved in sugar metabolism in the muscle so glucose can be redirected to the brain, thereby preserving brain function."
It looks like all it does is activate a dormant gene (so to speak) and that its function is to keep you from getting stupid when you're starving. (Lack of glucose to the brain causes brain fog.) Would be interesting to look at this in people on a ketogenic (carb-free) diet.
Trust me, Google also does forced, silent updates on 32bit machines, up to the limit of OS compatibility. And then whines when it hits an OS version wall.
Yep, very unusual for a blog site to NOT have an RSS feed... tho I imagine some people think that forces you to come tickle their hit counter. No, it means I forget they exist.
Sites that only rarely have posts are one of its good uses -- I don't have to think about or remember the odd site that updates once in a blue moon; it's right there in the New column as I scroll down the list.
Same here, tho I just use SeaMonkey as my RSS client. Keeps the hundreds of site subs out of my mailboxes, easy to trawl for fresh content without needing to first sort them out, and the posts I don't get to right away will keep without getting lost in tomorrow's 200 emails. If RSS is available, I never do an email subscription.
Yep... when cutting stone was all day for one stone, you instead hauled off the stone some distant ancestor had conveniently cut. Who knows how much got plowed up, carried off, or just buried? That was exactly my thought about Gobekli Tepe -- this wasn't one dude with nothing better to do for 50 years. There had to be a whole civilization here to support what from a survival standpoint, is wasted effort. So they were well past where everyday survival was an issue, and to where they could afford to support a class that produced nothing necessary for everyday life. (Eg. all those placed and carven rocks.)
And did they in turn build on top of someone else's dead civilization? We don't really know. We can't know much more than we do without scouring the habitable earth down to bedrock, which isn't terribly practical when we've probably built cities atop the best and deepest sites.
Was watching some video on Neanderthal tools, and how they didn't change over 300k years... and my thought was: what if they used a lot of wooden tools? could be fairly sophisticated, and yet nothing would survive. Had this thought after noticing that the odd symbols (patterns of dots, squiggles, etc.) found inside many paleo caves... occur only in the Neanderthal range, and look suspiciously like a numbering system and/or proto-alphabet.
Where did I park my time machine? I want to go look.:)
"...the distorted *tails* of the few storm-tossed fishermen..." --this is what happens when you're too long out with the mermaids!
I've started to think we've underestimated when civilization started... earlier today I was looking at pics of GÃbekli Tepe, and I'm thinkin'... this is no hunter-gatherer tribe; this is the work of settled people who are not beginners at it and don't have to follow migratory herds, either.
Here's an idea: Prepend a couple minutes of ads to your movies, and release them on torrent yourself, in several popular DRM-free formats and qualities. Charge your advertisers according to how many downloads each gets, and do your best to spread them far and wide. Everything becomes available for "free" for a minimally-invasive give-back (the ads) and it becomes not worth the bother to chase down actually-pirated content (which remains an incentive to keep your ads non-annoying), yet the content owner still gets paid.
Not like I want more ads in the world, just trying to come up with a win-win that won't annoy consumers into finding an alternative and doesn't require any new infrastructure or delivery method.
I suspect it's the other way around -- software today is buggier, but the OS it runs on is more forgiving, and far less likely to be taken down entirely by the software.
Legally, the first responsibility of a publicly-held company is to their *shareholders*. Who naturally want to see max profit NOW, and to hell with next quarter. If that means screwing over all your customers -- well, you shoulda stayed private.
For folks who like WinXP, PCLinuxOS "full monty" is a fairly close drop-in replacement.
Any KDE or LXDE desktop is functional enough, if not quite XP, but some are definitely closer than others. Run the "Live CD" version for a pretty good looksee.
Mint or Puppy aren't bad as simpler desktops.
If you actually like Win8/10, then you might like Gnome, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I've had zero luck getting Hackintosh/iATKOS to run, but count it as small loss since I can't stand MacOS anyway.
ReactOS is practically XP again but still too alpha for everyday use.
The president can order the National Security Agency to spy on anyone at any time for any reason, without a warrant. This is profoundly unconstitutional but absolutely lawful because it is expressly authorized by the FISA statute.
All electronic surveillance today, whether ordered by the president or authorized by a court, is done remotely by accessing the computers of every telephone and computer service provider in the United States. The NSA has 24/7/365 access to all the mainframe computers of all the telephone and computer service providers in America.
The service providers are required by law to permit this access and are prohibited by law from complaining about it publicly, challenging it in court or revealing any of its details. In passing these prohibitions, Congress violated the First Amendment, which prohibits it from infringing upon the freedom of speech." ==============
"...mass-mobilization warfare, violent and transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic epidemics. Hundreds of millions perished in their wake, and by the time these crises had passed, the gap between rich and poor had shrunk."...by the time the catastrophe was over, the wealth was gone. So naturally the gap had shrunk.
Same here. In fact what happened is that if Amazon was going to ding me for shipping, I promptly went off to eBay, located the same item (usually from the same seller!!) offered with free shipping, and after a few iterations stopped bothering with Amazon entirely.
So yeah... stop trying to make your profit on shipping, make the threshold realistic for smaller purchases, and you'll get me back.
When I was a kid we used to hunt for discarded TVs and break off the nipple with a rock so we could extract the 'gun' to use as toy spaceships. (Color CRTs made for much more interesting toys.)
The high-speed rail was also funded by a state bond measure (which I voted against, back when I still lived there). What it got from fed money I don't know. Regardless, CA is always whining about no money for critical stuff, then spending it wildly on stuff no one needs... not the best way to get my sympathy as a taxpayer.
Per aerial view, it doesn't look like the dam is really in danger -- the washed-out part is a good ways from the dam proper. What might be getting undercut or supersaturated due the breach and suddenly slump is another matter, but assuming it was built from the local rocky ground, probably not a big risk.
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From TFA:
"This study suggests that burning fat is less a driver of endurance than a compensatory mechanism to conserve glucose," says Michael Downes, a Salk senior scientist and co-senior author of the paper. "PPARD is suppressing all the points that are involved in sugar metabolism in the muscle so glucose can be redirected to the brain, thereby preserving brain function."
It looks like all it does is activate a dormant gene (so to speak) and that its function is to keep you from getting stupid when you're starving. (Lack of glucose to the brain causes brain fog.) Would be interesting to look at this in people on a ketogenic (carb-free) diet.
Trust me, Google also does forced, silent updates on 32bit machines, up to the limit of OS compatibility. And then whines when it hits an OS version wall.
Fucking Google is all one word.
Yep, very unusual for a blog site to NOT have an RSS feed... tho I imagine some people think that forces you to come tickle their hit counter. No, it means I forget they exist.
Sites that only rarely have posts are one of its good uses -- I don't have to think about or remember the odd site that updates once in a blue moon; it's right there in the New column as I scroll down the list.
Same here, tho I just use SeaMonkey as my RSS client. Keeps the hundreds of site subs out of my mailboxes, easy to trawl for fresh content without needing to first sort them out, and the posts I don't get to right away will keep without getting lost in tomorrow's 200 emails. If RSS is available, I never do an email subscription.
Yep... when cutting stone was all day for one stone, you instead hauled off the stone some distant ancestor had conveniently cut. Who knows how much got plowed up, carried off, or just buried? That was exactly my thought about Gobekli Tepe -- this wasn't one dude with nothing better to do for 50 years. There had to be a whole civilization here to support what from a survival standpoint, is wasted effort. So they were well past where everyday survival was an issue, and to where they could afford to support a class that produced nothing necessary for everyday life. (Eg. all those placed and carven rocks.)
And did they in turn build on top of someone else's dead civilization? We don't really know. We can't know much more than we do without scouring the habitable earth down to bedrock, which isn't terribly practical when we've probably built cities atop the best and deepest sites.
Was watching some video on Neanderthal tools, and how they didn't change over 300k years... and my thought was: what if they used a lot of wooden tools? could be fairly sophisticated, and yet nothing would survive. Had this thought after noticing that the odd symbols (patterns of dots, squiggles, etc.) found inside many paleo caves ... occur only in the Neanderthal range, and look suspiciously like a numbering system and/or proto-alphabet.
Where did I park my time machine? I want to go look. :)
"...the distorted *tails* of the few storm-tossed fishermen..." --this is what happens when you're too long out with the mermaids!
I've started to think we've underestimated when civilization started... earlier today I was looking at pics of GÃbekli Tepe, and I'm thinkin' ... this is no hunter-gatherer tribe; this is the work of settled people who are not beginners at it and don't have to follow migratory herds, either.
Here's an idea: Prepend a couple minutes of ads to your movies, and release them on torrent yourself, in several popular DRM-free formats and qualities. Charge your advertisers according to how many downloads each gets, and do your best to spread them far and wide. Everything becomes available for "free" for a minimally-invasive give-back (the ads) and it becomes not worth the bother to chase down actually-pirated content (which remains an incentive to keep your ads non-annoying), yet the content owner still gets paid.
Not like I want more ads in the world, just trying to come up with a win-win that won't annoy consumers into finding an alternative and doesn't require any new infrastructure or delivery method.
I suspect it's the other way around -- software today is buggier, but the OS it runs on is more forgiving, and far less likely to be taken down entirely by the software.
....don't I as employer have the right to know what I'm paying for?
If you don't like it, buy your own health insurance.
Yep... I've described Gnome's current incarnation as everything I hate about MacOS, Win8/10, and smartphones, all in one handy package!!
As someone else put it, I want a desktop, not an appliance.
Legally, the first responsibility of a publicly-held company is to their *shareholders*. Who naturally want to see max profit NOW, and to hell with next quarter. If that means screwing over all your customers -- well, you shoulda stayed private.
For folks who like WinXP, PCLinuxOS "full monty" is a fairly close drop-in replacement.
Any KDE or LXDE desktop is functional enough, if not quite XP, but some are definitely closer than others. Run the "Live CD" version for a pretty good looksee.
Mint or Puppy aren't bad as simpler desktops.
If you actually like Win8/10, then you might like Gnome, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I've had zero luck getting Hackintosh/iATKOS to run, but count it as small loss since I can't stand MacOS anyway.
ReactOS is practically XP again but still too alpha for everyday use.
I'm wondering... after the batteries are removed, how long can a big capacitor power the mic and memory?
Judge Napolitano on the debacle:
http://jewishworldreview.com/0...
===========
"Here is the back story.
The president can order the National Security Agency to spy on anyone at any time for any reason, without a warrant. This is profoundly unconstitutional but absolutely lawful because it is expressly authorized by the FISA statute.
All electronic surveillance today, whether ordered by the president or authorized by a court, is done remotely by accessing the computers of every telephone and computer service provider in the United States. The NSA has 24/7/365 access to all the mainframe computers of all the telephone and computer service providers in America.
The service providers are required by law to permit this access and are prohibited by law from complaining about it publicly, challenging it in court or revealing any of its details. In passing these prohibitions, Congress violated the First Amendment, which prohibits it from infringing upon the freedom of speech."
==============
Just watched this depressing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The salient point is in the last five minutes.
But hardly surprising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, the usual IQ map shows Australia after colonization. Aboriginal IQ averages around 60. :(
What does this do to freeware??
"...mass-mobilization warfare, violent and transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic epidemics. Hundreds of millions perished in their wake, and by the time these crises had passed, the gap between rich and poor had shrunk." ...by the time the catastrophe was over, the wealth was gone. So naturally the gap had shrunk.
Same here. In fact what happened is that if Amazon was going to ding me for shipping, I promptly went off to eBay, located the same item (usually from the same seller!!) offered with free shipping, and after a few iterations stopped bothering with Amazon entirely.
So yeah... stop trying to make your profit on shipping, make the threshold realistic for smaller purchases, and you'll get me back.
I smell a setup for a lawsuit, with the goal being a nice six figure settlement.
Some folks do that for a living.
Sunglasses and gloves, I'd think :)
You've probably seen this but anyway... apparently adapters exist. First up from a search for "c64 to vga adapter":
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/v...
When I was a kid we used to hunt for discarded TVs and break off the nipple with a rock so we could extract the 'gun' to use as toy spaceships. (Color CRTs made for much more interesting toys.)
I vaguely recall a study way back when that looked at stray radiation vs the computer case: Metal is helpful as shielding; plastic is not. D'oh!
The high-speed rail was also funded by a state bond measure (which I voted against, back when I still lived there). What it got from fed money I don't know. Regardless, CA is always whining about no money for critical stuff, then spending it wildly on stuff no one needs... not the best way to get my sympathy as a taxpayer.
Per aerial view, it doesn't look like the dam is really in danger -- the washed-out part is a good ways from the dam proper. What might be getting undercut or supersaturated due the breach and suddenly slump is another matter, but assuming it was built from the local rocky ground, probably not a big risk.
When I need to switch phones, I move my SIM card from one to the other. But yeah, I know the type.