"Midichlorians could be the critters that feed on Force in that higher order universe, and they have components that appear in the lower order universe that we see in the films."
So... maybe the Force, as used by Sith/Jedi, is really a midichlorian waste product?
True, but the thing had a diameter somewhere in the 200 to 500 kilometer range, depending on whose estimates you believe. So if you didn't happen to be able to approach it from the right side to start with (and I don't suppose it kindly lined itself up as the Rebels wished) then you might as well orbit til you get to where you need to be.
Besides... no braindead approach path, no kewl drama as we fly down the trench.
Lightsabre was named but not invented by Lucas. I first read of the concept in some 1950s SF novel (don't recall which one) -- a sword or knife with a "retractable" energy blade.
Poul Anderson postulated that hand weapons (glorified swords or the like) are a good idea for battles inside a starship: you don't want guns going off that could penetrate the hull or trash the controls courtesy of someone's bad aim or a ricochet in a firefight -- then you're ALL dead and it no longer matters who wins the fight. So -- something with only arm's reach penetration, even if it's an energy blade, is a lot more sensible inside a ship or starbase.
Same here. I don't like beans or broccoli, but every so often I want a can of beans for dinner, or broccoli for breakfast! And as you say, if you wait til it's a real craving, you probably waited too long. Balance over time is perfectly okay, doesn't need to be an everyday thing.
Don't eat byproducts (spine, tripe, lungs, etc.) and you miss out on most of the possible piggybackers. As to swine flu, it's only called that because the virus' evolution came thru pigs, not because you can catch it from pigs. Viruses tend to be species-specific, and most are short-lived outside of a live host.
The interior of a chunk of meat is sterile til exposed to air and the usual random bacteria, is what I was getting at. Doesn't matter if it's a whole side of beef or a small roast. And consider that you're exposed to bacteria all the time, and don't die:)
You can wash veggies, yeah, but tell me how you're going to get the inside of a head of cabbage clean if it's been sprayed with a manure slurry?
And then it's not so much cow manure that's the problem, but rather the 3rd-world custom of using human "night soil" as fertilizer.
I think I found some different review (this one doesn't look familiar) but... Taubes is still right; it's basic biochemistry.
And the 'problem' with diets that I hear over and over is, "while I was on a diet I lost a lot of weight, but as soon as I went back to eating like I used to, I gained it all back." No one seems to hear the "EATING LIKE I USED TO" (that made the person fat in the first place) part even as they say it!
You and I don't, but we grew up in the era of banks, and now credit cards. Some older people, and many people from 3rd world countries still don't trust the banks (often with good reason, in the old country). As a young Chinese friend of a friend says, if you're a perp and want a quick haul, you rob an old Chinaman, because they don't trust banks and they DO carry their life savings around with them.
Ironically, the NYTimes reviewer trashed the book for bad documentation. Anyway, I'll have to see if the library has it. Sounds like good ammunition against the Food Police. I've been waving around his NYT article for years, as probably the most balanced, and most grounded in biochemistry, of any I've seen.
My original field was biochemistry... I'm not entirely pulling this out of my ass, even if I don't have a cite handy.
Meat is generally sterile, until cut open. When it's not we call it an "abcess" and it's usually fairly obvious.;) Same with eggs, if not exposed to chicken shit (modern caging systems are in part designed to ensure they're not so exposed). Parasites can be present but smoe just get digested, and others are either uncommon or are in fact something we evolved with (frex, ascarids).
"Organic" veggies are rather more likely to be contaminated, due to manure being used as fertilizer.
The threshold for dogs to identify a scent can be as low as a few molecules. (I forget what it is for cocaine, but it's a very small number.) You gotta wonder how much "drug money" was just some poor slob carrying his life's savings, either through distrust of the banks (which is still common with foreigners) or being on his way to purchase something with cash.
Given that large cash transactions are now considered "probable cause", add in the positive from the drug-sniffing dog, and it may not matter how innocent you are.
Related thought: people who handle money all day long, like cashiers, may be exposed to enough cocaine that they could conceiveably test positive, or at least dog-sniff positive.
We can get nutrients from raw chicken, cow, or eggs. They're more digestible when cooked, but they're not INdigestible when raw, as grains and veggies are. (And remember, the main thing you get from uncooked fruit is... sugar water.)
And these animal products are all perfectly safe to eat raw. Unsafe animal products are mainly the result of external contamination, not an inherent problem.
And since you asked, yes I do eat raw eggs (yolks) and raw beef.
Veggies are just a method of getting melted butter to your mouth:) Seriously, I think if you listen to what your instincts want, they'll tend to steer you right. Veggies need butter to taste good; fats work as a vitamin transport mechanism; everything is in agreement.
(And every first-year biochem student is saying, "No shit, sherlock!")
While our lifestyle has become more sedentary (the computer era hasn't helped!) all the "healthy eating" of the past couple decades is, in my observation, the REAL culprit in the obesity "epidemic".
Me, I eat the old-fashioned way -- red meat first and foremost, then pretty much whatever I want, but my diet is mainly protein and fat. I weigh the same at 54 as I did at 24 (even tho I sit on my ass more now than I did then). I don't think this is coincidence.
They also neglected to note that fat-starved animals become highly motivated by food. Satiated animals can't be arsed to fill their guts constantly, since they just don't feel as hungry.
That's one of the reasons why if you're trying to lose weight, a low-fat diet is about the worst thing you can do, because you'll feel hungry ALL the time, and want to eat ALL the time. Not exactly the desired goal!
As to which fats are "good" or "bad" for us, every generation of research has negated what came before. 20 years ago butter was bad and margarine was good. Latest findings are exactly the other way around. Make up our minds!!
Misstated, but... raw carrots taste fine but you get almost no nutrition from them, since other than those cells crushed by mastication, the nutrients remain locked inside the cell walls, behind a cellulose barrier that is only digestable by herbivores with a long gut or multiple stomachs.
Cooking breaks down the cell walls, and voila, nutrients!
But we didn't evolve on cooked foods. We evolved eating raw foods, which means our macronutrients need to be those available to our systems without cooking or processing.
That's basically how I eat when left to my own devices -- mainly meat (beef) in the morning, and carbs in a chunk later in the day. At 54 I still weigh the same as I did in college (probably could stand to lose 5 lbs, but I look skinny to most people).
Lowfat diet will cause dogs to think of nothing but their stomach (trash robbing, etc.) no matter how many calories they're getting. As I say above, I doubt rats are that different.
Starving animals (which includes those on an abnormally low-fat or low-protein diet) will ALWAYS perform better on tests that involve finding food, because it becomes their primary motivator. Properly-fed animals are not nearly as interested in nor motivated by food.
This is why when training uses a food motivator, some animals have to be starved before they will respond at all.
[I am a pro dog trainer. This is part of why I am against using food rewards.]
Great example of conflict of interest... add in that somewhere around half our prisons are now run by for-profit corporations that get paid about $25k per warm body BY THE STATE (out of YOUR TAX DOLLARS) and it's clear that it's in their best interests if as many people are criminals and prison-bound as possible. To maximize profits, lobby for laws that everyone will break!!
Also, my hosting provider does it automagically -- I register a domain and 5 minutes later it's ready to go. So while the principle sounds good, it's not entirely feasible, unless absolutely no one uses a host that is also a registrar that does this instantly-working-domain thing with no customer intervention whatever. (BTW this is one reason I love my provider -- saves me a lot of nuisance.)
There are plenty of privately-owned, privately-occupied cabins on Forest Service land. By your argument, anyone can break into them any time, because they are "public". The same would apply to a privately-owned vehicle on a public street.
If a passing slashdot editor can interpret the info that way -- passing employers are likely to make the same mistake, which may hurt U.S. students' chances of being hired.
In my observation, after a while tired bees do get up and fly away. But it doubtless helps the worst cases if they could get refueled immediately.
OTOH, considering how many thousands of bees there are in the average hive, helping out one or two bees may be a good Buddist act but it doesn't really do much for the hive as a whole.
Did you see the post about the bee carrying off another tired bee? Wonder if it was really a bee, or one of the wasps that prey on bees (they'll carry 'em off like that).
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"Midichlorians could be the critters that feed on Force in that higher order universe, and they have components that appear in the lower order universe that we see in the films."
So ... maybe the Force, as used by Sith/Jedi, is really a midichlorian waste product?
True, but the thing had a diameter somewhere in the 200 to 500 kilometer range, depending on whose estimates you believe. So if you didn't happen to be able to approach it from the right side to start with (and I don't suppose it kindly lined itself up as the Rebels wished) then you might as well orbit til you get to where you need to be.
Besides... no braindead approach path, no kewl drama as we fly down the trench.
Lightsabre was named but not invented by Lucas. I first read of the concept in some 1950s SF novel (don't recall which one) -- a sword or knife with a "retractable" energy blade.
Poul Anderson postulated that hand weapons (glorified swords or the like) are a good idea for battles inside a starship: you don't want guns going off that could penetrate the hull or trash the controls courtesy of someone's bad aim or a ricochet in a firefight -- then you're ALL dead and it no longer matters who wins the fight. So -- something with only arm's reach penetration, even if it's an energy blade, is a lot more sensible inside a ship or starbase.
Same here. I don't like beans or broccoli, but every so often I want a can of beans for dinner, or broccoli for breakfast! And as you say, if you wait til it's a real craving, you probably waited too long. Balance over time is perfectly okay, doesn't need to be an everyday thing.
Don't eat byproducts (spine, tripe, lungs, etc.) and you miss out on most of the possible piggybackers. As to swine flu, it's only called that because the virus' evolution came thru pigs, not because you can catch it from pigs. Viruses tend to be species-specific, and most are short-lived outside of a live host.
The interior of a chunk of meat is sterile til exposed to air and the usual random bacteria, is what I was getting at. Doesn't matter if it's a whole side of beef or a small roast. And consider that you're exposed to bacteria all the time, and don't die :)
You can wash veggies, yeah, but tell me how you're going to get the inside of a head of cabbage clean if it's been sprayed with a manure slurry?
And then it's not so much cow manure that's the problem, but rather the 3rd-world custom of using human "night soil" as fertilizer.
I think I found some different review (this one doesn't look familiar) but... Taubes is still right; it's basic biochemistry.
And the 'problem' with diets that I hear over and over is, "while I was on a diet I lost a lot of weight, but as soon as I went back to eating like I used to, I gained it all back." No one seems to hear the "EATING LIKE I USED TO" (that made the person fat in the first place) part even as they say it!
You and I don't, but we grew up in the era of banks, and now credit cards. Some older people, and many people from 3rd world countries still don't trust the banks (often with good reason, in the old country). As a young Chinese friend of a friend says, if you're a perp and want a quick haul, you rob an old Chinaman, because they don't trust banks and they DO carry their life savings around with them.
Ironically, the NYTimes reviewer trashed the book for bad documentation. Anyway, I'll have to see if the library has it. Sounds like good ammunition against the Food Police. I've been waving around his NYT article for years, as probably the most balanced, and most grounded in biochemistry, of any I've seen.
My original field was biochemistry... I'm not entirely pulling this out of my ass, even if I don't have a cite handy.
Meat is generally sterile, until cut open. When it's not we call it an "abcess" and it's usually fairly obvious. ;) Same with eggs, if not exposed to chicken shit (modern caging systems are in part designed to ensure they're not so exposed). Parasites can be present but smoe just get digested, and others are either uncommon or are in fact something we evolved with (frex, ascarids).
"Organic" veggies are rather more likely to be contaminated, due to manure being used as fertilizer.
That's pretty much what I do, too.
And if I crave something I just eat it, rather than nibble everything in the house and finally still eat whatever-I-craved in the end.
The threshold for dogs to identify a scent can be as low as a few molecules. (I forget what it is for cocaine, but it's a very small number.) You gotta wonder how much "drug money" was just some poor slob carrying his life's savings, either through distrust of the banks (which is still common with foreigners) or being on his way to purchase something with cash.
Example: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp
Given that large cash transactions are now considered "probable cause", add in the positive from the drug-sniffing dog, and it may not matter how innocent you are.
Related thought: people who handle money all day long, like cashiers, may be exposed to enough cocaine that they could conceiveably test positive, or at least dog-sniff positive.
We can get nutrients from raw chicken, cow, or eggs. They're more digestible when cooked, but they're not INdigestible when raw, as grains and veggies are. (And remember, the main thing you get from uncooked fruit is... sugar water.)
And these animal products are all perfectly safe to eat raw. Unsafe animal products are mainly the result of external contamination, not an inherent problem.
And since you asked, yes I do eat raw eggs (yolks) and raw beef.
Veggies are just a method of getting melted butter to your mouth :) Seriously, I think if you listen to what your instincts want, they'll tend to steer you right. Veggies need butter to taste good; fats work as a vitamin transport mechanism; everything is in agreement.
I haven't seen the one you reference but a good general article by this same Gary Taubes: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=print
(And every first-year biochem student is saying, "No shit, sherlock!")
While our lifestyle has become more sedentary (the computer era hasn't helped!) all the "healthy eating" of the past couple decades is, in my observation, the REAL culprit in the obesity "epidemic".
Me, I eat the old-fashioned way -- red meat first and foremost, then pretty much whatever I want, but my diet is mainly protein and fat. I weigh the same at 54 as I did at 24 (even tho I sit on my ass more now than I did then). I don't think this is coincidence.
They also neglected to note that fat-starved animals become highly motivated by food. Satiated animals can't be arsed to fill their guts constantly, since they just don't feel as hungry.
That's one of the reasons why if you're trying to lose weight, a low-fat diet is about the worst thing you can do, because you'll feel hungry ALL the time, and want to eat ALL the time. Not exactly the desired goal!
As to which fats are "good" or "bad" for us, every generation of research has negated what came before. 20 years ago butter was bad and margarine was good. Latest findings are exactly the other way around. Make up our minds!!
Misstated, but ... raw carrots taste fine but you get almost no nutrition from them, since other than those cells crushed by mastication, the nutrients remain locked inside the cell walls, behind a cellulose barrier that is only digestable by herbivores with a long gut or multiple stomachs.
Cooking breaks down the cell walls, and voila, nutrients!
But we didn't evolve on cooked foods. We evolved eating raw foods, which means our macronutrients need to be those available to our systems without cooking or processing.
That's basically how I eat when left to my own devices -- mainly meat (beef) in the morning, and carbs in a chunk later in the day. At 54 I still weigh the same as I did in college (probably could stand to lose 5 lbs, but I look skinny to most people).
Lowfat diet will cause dogs to think of nothing but their stomach (trash robbing, etc.) no matter how many calories they're getting. As I say above, I doubt rats are that different.
Starving animals (which includes those on an abnormally low-fat or low-protein diet) will ALWAYS perform better on tests that involve finding food, because it becomes their primary motivator. Properly-fed animals are not nearly as interested in nor motivated by food.
This is why when training uses a food motivator, some animals have to be starved before they will respond at all.
[I am a pro dog trainer. This is part of why I am against using food rewards.]
Here's a different thought: That being the case, maybe it's the very concept of narcotics enforcement that's at fault??
Great example of conflict of interest... add in that somewhere around half our prisons are now run by for-profit corporations that get paid about $25k per warm body BY THE STATE (out of YOUR TAX DOLLARS) and it's clear that it's in their best interests if as many people are criminals and prison-bound as possible. To maximize profits, lobby for laws that everyone will break!!
Also, my hosting provider does it automagically -- I register a domain and 5 minutes later it's ready to go. So while the principle sounds good, it's not entirely feasible, unless absolutely no one uses a host that is also a registrar that does this instantly-working-domain thing with no customer intervention whatever. (BTW this is one reason I love my provider -- saves me a lot of nuisance.)
Pair of tits or a pair of buns? :)
There are plenty of privately-owned, privately-occupied cabins on Forest Service land. By your argument, anyone can break into them any time, because they are "public". The same would apply to a privately-owned vehicle on a public street.
If a passing slashdot editor can interpret the info that way -- passing employers are likely to make the same mistake, which may hurt U.S. students' chances of being hired.
Now that we've got THAT cleared up :)
In my observation, after a while tired bees do get up and fly away. But it doubtless helps the worst cases if they could get refueled immediately.
OTOH, considering how many thousands of bees there are in the average hive, helping out one or two bees may be a good Buddist act but it doesn't really do much for the hive as a whole.
Did you see the post about the bee carrying off another tired bee? Wonder if it was really a bee, or one of the wasps that prey on bees (they'll carry 'em off like that).