I find the carbohydrates vs. fats arguments silly. It's all about calories. It's simple: If you take in more than you burn per day, no matter what the source, you gain weight.
That being said, there's a big difference in carbohydrates. Avoid refined sugars (manufactured, like cake)if you need sweet foods and stay with the natural carbs found in sweet things like fruit and veggies.
Also stick with complex carbohydrates/starches, found in cereals, grain, bread, pasta, etc. They're healthy, and if you keep your diet in check, you'll lose weight and be feeding good stuff to your body.
Of course, a lot of the above doesn't apply if you go the weightlifting route, but that's an entirely different argument.
I'll second that. Don't do it only at work, though, as most people don't drink enough water period. Feeling hungry is oftentimes your body just wanting water. Drinking a big glass will often supress that feeling. (Still eat a healthy amount though, of course)
Well shit, sitting at the computer for 10 hours a day, you no doubt have been presented with countless FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITIES!!! to lose weight FAST!!
"Actually, 35 trillion is low," said Cody Christman, director of product engineering for Verio, an Internet service provider that now offers IPv6 technology to customers in several cities, including San Francisco and Washington. "It's much bigger than that. It's so big that there's not a word for the number."
Great! Because technology terms aren't confusing enough for most people as it is, we're resorting to making up words. Imagine a future Slashdot article:
"IPv6 will have eleventy billion addfroozles! It will be based on the fragtisticalweezle specification!"
You think dealing with clueless management types who just throw buzzwords around is bad *now*, wait until they get to make things up!
Former NCA member Greg Melick told the committee there was an easy way to eliminate the anonymity that protected criminals online.
"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.
The key word here is former. His comments and opinions are irrelevant.
Note: if you want to assume that there are obviously others in the NCA who share his ideas, you can just as easily assume he got fired because he has such outlandish ideas. We don't know, he doesn't work there, so it doesn't matter. They might as well have put quote from Ashcroft in there about TIA.
If you give these so called investigators the right to go through someone's email because they're "evil paedophiles" (please read some of the posts on paedophilia regarding this), what's to stop them from abusing this power?
Nothing.
I'm sorry, but that's the truth, once you start letting go of the freedom rope, they start to tug harder.
And by the way, investigators do get hampered, they're bound by rules and regulations. Cops can't just go searching your house without a reason, and what you're suggesting is that you let them search your private conversations without a reason... Does that make sense?
I think there's just a basic disagreement on whether it will be abused or not. I agree with defish, it seems this will only be used when people are already suspected of a crime. Like you said, police are allowed to obtain warrants and the such...with reasonable cause.
I read the proposal--aside from the ridiculous calls for abolition of all free email--as being similar to a warrant. I would hope similar regulations for investigating an email account would exist.
The article in question is discussing letting the police read your email and abolishing anonyminity. You're standing on the slippery slope, so yeah, you implied it.
No, he didn't, and no, the article doesn't. The article discusses making it easier for the police to track down suspected criminals. That's all. Not monitoring your e-mail constantly, just extracting whatever information they can about a suspect without jumping through miles of red tape. Whether these tactics will actually be useful is beside the point of your comment.
The parent didn't imply letting police into your home. This is like someone saying "I support metal detectors at the airport", and you replying "Oh, so you want the police to do a full cavity search every time you step into a public place?" He's asking for some level of accountability, and I agree. I'm sure there are *some* criminals dumb enough to make it possible to track them through free email services.
I'm as big a privacy advocate as the next regular (Slashdot) guy, but there's a point where concessions have to be made to let police do their jobs. This is a relatively minor one IMO.
"Increase your penis size, Mr. President! Usually we offer pills, but the political climate now IS A SPECIAL ONE-TIME DEAL. Increase your manhood a much better way: Destroy a country! LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!
RECEIVE FREE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WITH OFFER!!! Maybe."
Yeah, I remember the great design of TIE fighters from playing the PC game of the same name when I was a kid. Let me tell you, their paper-thin shields that withstood all of one laser hit were great. And don't give me that "but they were faster!" shit, they couldn't even outrun the Millenium Falcon.
But my favorite part of that game was when you messed up a mission and shot down an Imperial ship. The commander would say "Return to base immediately! The Emperor will have your head!" What great incentive.
IANAL so I don't claim to know about entrapment laws, but ever since the DMCA, isn't copyright violations for digital media a criminal act now?
Also, can't forget the obligatory sort-of related Simpsons quote:
Chief Wiggum: Yep..once a guy is in your house, anything you do to him is nice and legal. Homer: Oh, really? Hmm...oh Flanders, come into my kitchen please! Wiggum: Eh, sorry, doesn't work if you invite them in.
Oops, went to preview and deleted it somehow. Remember the guy who committed suicide over Everquest and his mother tried to sue?
On a sorta related note, did anyone else catch ESPN's Outside the Line feature on athletes and videogames? Curt Schilling mentioned he plays Everquest; he has a level 50 something character. I can't believe he has enough time to play that much EQ.
Yeah, some people get horribly addicted..remember the guy A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/ 1558246 I think he has a level 50 character. I'm amazed he has the time for that.
Apparently you weren't around in Nintendo's heyday! Hudson Hawk, Total Recall, Top Gun, Dick Tracy...and these are just some of the fine movie to videogames that I personally own.
Last time I watched X-Files regularly Was right when Mulder and Scully went somewhere in Africa and found a giant ship on the coast. I was hoping they'd mention that during the finale, since I remember it being a season finale and (apparently) a pretty big deal. What on Earth-Mars-whatever was the story behind that?
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I find the carbohydrates vs. fats arguments silly. It's all about calories. It's simple: If you take in more than you burn per day, no matter what the source, you gain weight.
That being said, there's a big difference in carbohydrates. Avoid refined sugars (manufactured, like cake)if you need sweet foods and stay with the natural carbs found in sweet things like fruit and veggies.
Also stick with complex carbohydrates/starches, found in cereals, grain, bread, pasta, etc. They're healthy, and if you keep your diet in check, you'll lose weight and be feeding good stuff to your body.
Of course, a lot of the above doesn't apply if you go the weightlifting route, but that's an entirely different argument.
I'll second that. Don't do it only at work, though, as most people don't drink enough water period. Feeling hungry is oftentimes your body just wanting water. Drinking a big glass will often supress that feeling. (Still eat a healthy amount though, of course)
Well shit, sitting at the computer for 10 hours a day, you no doubt have been presented with countless FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITIES!!! to lose weight FAST!!
"Actually, 35 trillion is low," said Cody Christman, director of product engineering for Verio, an Internet service provider that now offers IPv6 technology to customers in several cities, including San Francisco and Washington. "It's much bigger than that. It's so big that there's not a word for the number."
Great! Because technology terms aren't confusing enough for most people as it is, we're resorting to making up words. Imagine a future Slashdot article:
"IPv6 will have eleventy billion addfroozles! It will be based on the fragtisticalweezle specification!"
You think dealing with clueless management types who just throw buzzwords around is bad *now*, wait until they get to make things up!
Read the article again. Those suggestions were made by an ex-NCA member, Greg Melick. His opinions don't matter.
Now, if those implementations were tacked on to the current proposal, then I'd agree with you.
Why don't you show who that "he" is?
Former NCA member Greg Melick told the committee there was an easy way to eliminate the anonymity that protected criminals online.
"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.
The key word here is former. His comments and opinions are irrelevant.
Note: if you want to assume that there are obviously others in the NCA who share his ideas, you can just as easily assume he got fired because he has such outlandish ideas. We don't know, he doesn't work there, so it doesn't matter. They might as well have put quote from Ashcroft in there about TIA.
If you give these so called investigators the right to go through someone's email because they're "evil paedophiles" (please read some of the posts on paedophilia regarding this), what's to stop them from abusing this power?
Nothing.
I'm sorry, but that's the truth, once you start letting go of the freedom rope, they start to tug harder.
And by the way, investigators do get hampered, they're bound by rules and regulations. Cops can't just go searching your house without a reason, and what you're suggesting is that you let them search your private conversations without a reason... Does that make sense?
I think there's just a basic disagreement on whether it will be abused or not. I agree with defish, it seems this will only be used when people are already suspected of a crime. Like you said, police are allowed to obtain warrants and the such...with reasonable cause.
I read the proposal--aside from the ridiculous calls for abolition of all free email--as being similar to a warrant. I would hope similar regulations for investigating an email account would exist.
The article in question is discussing letting the police read your email and abolishing anonyminity. You're standing on the slippery slope, so yeah, you implied it.
No, he didn't, and no, the article doesn't. The article discusses making it easier for the police to track down suspected criminals. That's all. Not monitoring your e-mail constantly, just extracting whatever information they can about a suspect without jumping through miles of red tape. Whether these tactics will actually be useful is beside the point of your comment.
The parent didn't imply letting police into your home. This is like someone saying "I support metal detectors at the airport", and you replying "Oh, so you want the police to do a full cavity search every time you step into a public place?" He's asking for some level of accountability, and I agree. I'm sure there are *some* criminals dumb enough to make it possible to track them through free email services.
I'm as big a privacy advocate as the next regular (Slashdot) guy, but there's a point where concessions have to be made to let police do their jobs. This is a relatively minor one IMO.
You forgot one..
1.Inkblot
2.????? (Unknown mechanism in brain to determine password)
3.Password!
"Increase your penis size, Mr. President! Usually we offer pills, but the political climate now IS A SPECIAL ONE-TIME DEAL. Increase your manhood a much better way: Destroy a country! LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!
RECEIVE FREE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WITH OFFER!!! Maybe."
Yeah, I remember the great design of TIE fighters from playing the PC game of the same name when I was a kid. Let me tell you, their paper-thin shields that withstood all of one laser hit were great. And don't give me that "but they were faster!" shit, they couldn't even outrun the Millenium Falcon.
But my favorite part of that game was when you messed up a mission and shot down an Imperial ship. The commander would say "Return to base immediately! The Emperor will have your head!" What great incentive.
Following this trend , let's just do what Britain used to do and outsource our prisoners!
IANAL so I don't claim to know about entrapment laws, but ever since the DMCA, isn't copyright violations for digital media a criminal act now?
Also, can't forget the obligatory sort-of related Simpsons quote:
Chief Wiggum: Yep..once a guy is in your house, anything you do to him is nice and legal.
Homer: Oh, really? Hmm...oh Flanders, come into my kitchen please!
Wiggum: Eh, sorry, doesn't work if you invite them in.
Ohhh Batman, yeah, I bought that too. Ducktales was pretty good actually, at least when I was six.
IIRC, Goonies 2 became a stupid light gun game like Duck Hunt, which made absolutely no sense.
Oh, and here's another beaut I owned that I forgot: Friday the 13th!
Oops, went to preview and deleted it somehow. Remember the guy who committed suicide over Everquest and his mother tried to sue?
On a sorta related note, did anyone else catch ESPN's Outside the Line feature on athletes and videogames? Curt Schilling mentioned he plays Everquest; he has a level 50 something character. I can't believe he has enough time to play that much EQ.
Yeah, some people get horribly addicted..remember the guy A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/ 1558246 I think he has a level 50 character. I'm amazed he has the time for that.
Apparently you weren't around in Nintendo's heyday! Hudson Hawk, Total Recall, Top Gun, Dick Tracy...and these are just some of the fine movie to videogames that I personally own.
Last time I watched X-Files regularly Was right when Mulder and Scully went somewhere in Africa and found a giant ship on the coast. I was hoping they'd mention that during the finale, since I remember it being a season finale and (apparently) a pretty big deal. What on Earth-Mars-whatever was the story behind that?