There is no way to gain 15 pounds of muscle mass in 2 days. Not even with all the steroids in the world. You could do a 8-10 week cycle of anabolic steroids, combined with a heavy weight training regimen, and gain that much muscle, but you'd lose much of it after you tapered off the steroids. Alternatively, you could eat a healthy diet high in protein, follow a sensible weight training plan, and pack on 15 pounds of muscle in about 8-12 months, depending on your genetics.
Don't play with your health, it isn't worth it. Natural is the way to go... there are hundreds of these "GET HYUUUUGE NOW" sites on the internet, promising secret knowledge, and they are all scammers or steroid users.
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with CFLs to save money, but I wound up switching a lot of them back to the halogen or incandescent variety. The CFL bulbs are really only good for outside lights and closets... where you just need light, and you don't care about the quality. The CFL bulbs project light that makes things look a completely different color. I didn't paint my living room a certain shade of yellow to have it turn green because I wanted to save a few cents per month on electricity.
Nevertheless, I use them in the bathrooms, closets, and outside. I got rid of a few 100W incandescents outside and installed 17W CFLs, for basically the same amount of light.
Also, 3 of them burned out within a few months. The ones that didn't are still going strong, 2 years later. I don't know if I saved any money, because I still have a big box of CFLs I didn't use.
Like I said, why would you need to talk to the person to browse their music device over 802.11? People could be streaming from your device without your awareness as well.
There are hundreds of millions of people who commute by train every day around the world, many of them carrying iPods or similar non-networked media players. I don't see any problem for this device to have the range of several train cars. I can see it being a big hit for those commuters, if it is advertised properly (on trains, duh).
Also it should be marketed to people who workout in gyms. Many of those people are carrying iPods or whatever, and they're all in basically the same room for about an hour.
Then it can't be crippled with pointless DRM (you should be able to share any song). Fat chance of that, though.
"YOUR (and the rest of your type) closed mindedness is the precisely reason why so many people think Creationism is so wrong. Most of us who believe in Divine Intervention also accept Evolution (to some minor degree or major depending on your brand of Divine Intervention) as part of the chain of events, just believe we started some other way."
And that isn't any different than the fools who say "God did it 6000 years ago". You've just given a little ground, retreated further into the "nobody knows" of it. And that's what God is, the answer people give instead of "nobody knows", when "nobody knows" is too scary, or they don't want to undermine their own position as a knowledgeable authority figure (religious leaders, or parent-child relationships)
"If you're incapable of depression, and you're always happy, how do you know if you really are happy?"
A great question. Some people are depressed for no good reason, and medical treatments to make them feel better are welcome. On the other hand, in emotionally normal people, depression is a signal that something is going wrong in your life, and you need to change it.
Depression is just another emotion, not something that needs to be eliminated. I don't think eliminating it completely would be a good idea at all. I just had a vision of lines of people being marched to the gas chambers with big smiles on their face and not a care in the world.
He only does one character: the flippant hero asskicker guy -- the alpha male that every Stargate/Farscape nerd wants to be, but is not. Stargate and Farscape have more or less the same plots, characters, etc, so that's why he works on both shows.
The only way to make it seem like he's a different character is to "hold him back".
Uh, they've never tested it on a real **terrorist**. You don't understand that these people's minds are far, far different from an ordinary liar or criminal. They have no idea about what the biometrics data of a real religious fanatic terrorist would look like... it is likely not the same as a rational person who has been trained with biofeedback to defeat lie detectors.
Whether or not they replace existing security measures with this is not the point. The point is that it is useless, and this company is capitalizing on the current terrorist scare... as the very first person to post to this thread pointed out.
A real religious brainwashed terrorist is probably not nervous, which is what this procedure tests for... he is happy and joyous that he's about strike a blow against his enemies and spend eternity in paradise with his god.
Maybe I'm wrong; I can't really say what goes on in the mind of a mad bomber, but testing for nervousness might not be the best way to go. Here's a better test: Anyone who willingly takes a bite of bacon or pork chops can board the plane with no further hassles... everyone else is subject to screening and bag searches. Sucks for the vegetarians and peaceful Muslims, but almost everyone in the U.S. has no problem eating a small piece of bacon.
I'm sort of joking with that last comment, since this whole topic is kind of a joke. There's no real way to tell for sure what's going on in a person's *mind*. The GP poster mentioned that the false positive rate for this test is unacceptable and will likely always be so... basically the same problems with all lie detectors. If it has any use at all, it will be as a second, or third, line of defense.
"Let's be honest, many of the most ardently Leftist programs (particularly in Europe, but also in the USA) were funded by money that started somewhere in the KGB."
LMFAO. Cite your sources, or roll up that tinfoil hat you're wearing and gag yourself with it.
"Also consider the "little things" that aren't so little when they regard you personally. Take breast implants. They require periodic checkups to make sure everything is going just right (ie. you're not about to be killed or made deathly ill byt them)."
This is Slashdot. All the breasts here are created through natural processes, fueled by Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
If I were you, I'd pop a Xanax, go for a jog or a bike ride... then go out tonight to a place people meet and get yourself laid. Turn off your computer for a few days. Shut off the cerebral part of your brain for a while and simply enjoy life, enjoy being alive. Take a yoga class and spend some time connecting with your body and breath. Find someplace to volunteer. There are still plenty of beautiful, unspoiled places on Earth. Find one and travel there.
It sounds like you're driving yourself crazy -- dare I say MISERABLE -- with worry. You can't solve any of these problems, and ranting on Slashdot isn't helping you any. Do something about state of your life right now, rather than preoccupy yourself some future you can't control or accurately predict. The future will take care of itself, as it always has.
Yeah, if the baby is Caucasian and healthy, and the mother wasn't on drugs or alcohol, there wasn't any abuse in foster homes... etc, then there's a chance of adoption. People will rarely adpot a child that's a different race or has any kind of developmental problems. Many potential adopters want to know the genetic history of the mother... was she tall, attractive, did she get good grades in school, etc, and will reject the baby based on that.
So if you were born to a black crack whore, your chances of getting adopted are just about zero.
"It's the customers job to educate him/herself, and the salesmans job is to sell. If grandma and grampa huckleberry bought a $5000 Vaio just to check their e-mail, because the salesman made up some techincal jibba-jabba, then it's on them. If he managed to sell them an extended warranty and a set of monster cables to hook it all up, then thats a job well done."
You're an amoral scumbag. What are you doing on/.? You should be the CEO of some corporation, looting the pension fund to pay for cocaine and hookers.
I've been defrauded too many times through various scams... I did a cost/benefit analysis and decided it wasn't worth it. It's not a nationalistic thing, just pure economics. BTW PayPal's seller protection policy only applies to transactions between US, UK, and Canadian parties.
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Every buyer with any brains at all figures out sniping is the way to go. I have been a seller for over 5 years, and I make more money on my auctions when I have them end on a Sunday afternoon. More people are home, near their computers, and ready to snipe at that time. I don't ship internationally (too much fraud), so time zones aren't really an issue.
I often get no bids at all up until the last 30 minutes of an auction, when 10 or 20 can suddenly come in.
I've had very bad experiences with T-Mobile. Last week I called to INQUIRE about their prepaid plan, and a couple days later, I found they had switched me over to it without my permission. After three calls, I managed to get them to switch back to my old plan. However, my mobile email no longer works, and the CSR I spoke to told me I never had mobile email for the past 2 years. She actually claimed I had imagined sending and receiving all those emails from my phone. Another CSR believed me, and claimed he could fix the problem, but he was unable to.
So... after 5 years with T-Mobile, I am ditching them due to the morons I spoke to. The only other GSM game in town seems to be Cingular. They have mobile email, but it's only MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc.
I'm a member of a local running group so I know dozens of runners and people who work at running/multisport stores. We talk shoes all the time. Part of the reason for GOING to the group is so you can talk shoes without boring the tits off of people. Anyway, not a single one wears Nikes, and not a single one has ever said anything positive about Nikes. A lot of people wear the Nike Dri-Fit clothes which are actually quite good.
The shoes have a reputation for being cheaply made gimmicky crap (Air Shox, etc.) Whether that reputation is deserved or not, I don't know. New Balance, Asics, Mizuno, and Brooks seem to be the most popular brands. If you want shoes made in the USA by non-sweatshop workers, New Balance is pretty much your only choice.
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I'd rather have some sort of ACTIVE vision system, that did not depend on the passive availability of ambient light. Like millimiter wave radar or something.
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That 8'11" man probably had circulation issues as well, and that can cause problems with slow healing and lack of sensation in the lower extremities. Who knows what such a massive overdose of human growth hormone could damage the immune system as well. I wouldn't be so sure that the length of his nerves had anything to do with it.
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"Who cares about the sense of touch in your feet?"
Anyone who is a runner knows how important this is. While running, hundreds of times per second you have to adjust your balance and the complicated forces generated by your dozens of various leg muscles, or else you will sprain something or simply trip and fall down. You can't see the surface directly beneath your foot. All you can do is feel it. Without any feeling in the toes or the sole of your foot, you would find running a hazardous activity that is next to impossible. There are some people who can run with double prostheses, but I daresay they have adapted to get the terrain information from whatever nerves are left at the termination of their natural appendages.
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There is no way to gain 15 pounds of muscle mass in 2 days. Not even with all the steroids in the world. You could do a 8-10 week cycle of anabolic steroids, combined with a heavy weight training regimen, and gain that much muscle, but you'd lose much of it after you tapered off the steroids. Alternatively, you could eat a healthy diet high in protein, follow a sensible weight training plan, and pack on 15 pounds of muscle in about 8-12 months, depending on your genetics.
Don't play with your health, it isn't worth it. Natural is the way to go... there are hundreds of these "GET HYUUUUGE NOW" sites on the internet, promising secret knowledge, and they are all scammers or steroid users.
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with CFLs to save money, but I wound up switching a lot of them back to the halogen or incandescent variety. The CFL bulbs are really only good for outside lights and closets... where you just need light, and you don't care about the quality. The CFL bulbs project light that makes things look a completely different color. I didn't paint my living room a certain shade of yellow to have it turn green because I wanted to save a few cents per month on electricity.
Nevertheless, I use them in the bathrooms, closets, and outside. I got rid of a few 100W incandescents outside and installed 17W CFLs, for basically the same amount of light.
Also, 3 of them burned out within a few months. The ones that didn't are still going strong, 2 years later. I don't know if I saved any money, because I still have a big box of CFLs I didn't use.
"Like it or not, there is a rather large contigent of the Islamic world that wants to destroy a rather large proportion of the western world."
If my "rather large contingent", you mean "extremely small group of fringe militants", I might agree with your statement.
Like I said, why would you need to talk to the person to browse their music device over 802.11? People could be streaming from your device without your awareness as well.
I thought the whole idea was they could browse the contents of other people's music players without actually talking to them...
There are hundreds of millions of people who commute by train every day around the world, many of them carrying iPods or similar non-networked media players. I don't see any problem for this device to have the range of several train cars. I can see it being a big hit for those commuters, if it is advertised properly (on trains, duh).
Also it should be marketed to people who workout in gyms. Many of those people are carrying iPods or whatever, and they're all in basically the same room for about an hour.
Then it can't be crippled with pointless DRM (you should be able to share any song). Fat chance of that, though.
If you're a man who can tell which woman is going to turn crazy on you after you sleep with her, you're the only one.
"YOUR (and the rest of your type) closed mindedness is the precisely reason why so many people think Creationism is so wrong. Most of us who believe in Divine Intervention also accept Evolution (to some minor degree or major depending on your brand of Divine Intervention) as part of the chain of events, just believe we started some other way."
And that isn't any different than the fools who say "God did it 6000 years ago". You've just given a little ground, retreated further into the "nobody knows" of it. And that's what God is, the answer people give instead of "nobody knows", when "nobody knows" is too scary, or they don't want to undermine their own position as a knowledgeable authority figure (religious leaders, or parent-child relationships)
"If you're incapable of depression, and you're always happy, how do you know if you really are happy?"
A great question. Some people are depressed for no good reason, and medical treatments to make them feel better are welcome. On the other hand, in emotionally normal people, depression is a signal that something is going wrong in your life, and you need to change it.
Depression is just another emotion, not something that needs to be eliminated. I don't think eliminating it completely would be a good idea at all. I just had a vision of lines of people being marched to the gas chambers with big smiles on their face and not a care in the world.
He only does one character: the flippant hero asskicker guy -- the alpha male that every Stargate/Farscape nerd wants to be, but is not. Stargate and Farscape have more or less the same plots, characters, etc, so that's why he works on both shows.
The only way to make it seem like he's a different character is to "hold him back".
"Here is what I have noticed. The people in power are the most likely ones to lie since they have more to lose."
And the people who are not in power lie, because they have more to gain.
Face it, they are all liars.
Uh, they've never tested it on a real **terrorist**. You don't understand that these people's minds are far, far different from an ordinary liar or criminal. They have no idea about what the biometrics data of a real religious fanatic terrorist would look like... it is likely not the same as a rational person who has been trained with biofeedback to defeat lie detectors.
Whether or not they replace existing security measures with this is not the point. The point is that it is useless, and this company is capitalizing on the current terrorist scare... as the very first person to post to this thread pointed out.
So, it is time for you to STFU. Buh-bye!
A real religious brainwashed terrorist is probably not nervous, which is what this procedure tests for... he is happy and joyous that he's about strike a blow against his enemies and spend eternity in paradise with his god.
Maybe I'm wrong; I can't really say what goes on in the mind of a mad bomber, but testing for nervousness might not be the best way to go. Here's a better test: Anyone who willingly takes a bite of bacon or pork chops can board the plane with no further hassles... everyone else is subject to screening and bag searches. Sucks for the vegetarians and peaceful Muslims, but almost everyone in the U.S. has no problem eating a small piece of bacon.
I'm sort of joking with that last comment, since this whole topic is kind of a joke. There's no real way to tell for sure what's going on in a person's *mind*. The GP poster mentioned that the false positive rate for this test is unacceptable and will likely always be so... basically the same problems with all lie detectors. If it has any use at all, it will be as a second, or third, line of defense.
"Let's be honest, many of the most ardently Leftist programs (particularly in Europe, but also in the USA) were funded by money that started somewhere in the KGB."
LMFAO. Cite your sources, or roll up that tinfoil hat you're wearing and gag yourself with it.
"Also consider the "little things" that aren't so little when they regard you personally. Take breast implants. They require periodic checkups to make sure everything is going just right (ie. you're not about to be killed or made deathly ill byt them)."
This is Slashdot. All the breasts here are created through natural processes, fueled by Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
If I were you, I'd pop a Xanax, go for a jog or a bike ride... then go out tonight to a place people meet and get yourself laid. Turn off your computer for a few days. Shut off the cerebral part of your brain for a while and simply enjoy life, enjoy being alive. Take a yoga class and spend some time connecting with your body and breath. Find someplace to volunteer. There are still plenty of beautiful, unspoiled places on Earth. Find one and travel there.
It sounds like you're driving yourself crazy -- dare I say MISERABLE -- with worry. You can't solve any of these problems, and ranting on Slashdot isn't helping you any. Do something about state of your life right now, rather than preoccupy yourself some future you can't control or accurately predict. The future will take care of itself, as it always has.
Yeah, if the baby is Caucasian and healthy, and the mother wasn't on drugs or alcohol, there wasn't any abuse in foster homes... etc, then there's a chance of adoption. People will rarely adpot a child that's a different race or has any kind of developmental problems. Many potential adopters want to know the genetic history of the mother... was she tall, attractive, did she get good grades in school, etc, and will reject the baby based on that.
So if you were born to a black crack whore, your chances of getting adopted are just about zero.
You're an amoral scumbag. What are you doing on /.? You should be the CEO of some corporation, looting the pension fund to pay for cocaine and hookers.
I've been defrauded too many times through various scams... I did a cost/benefit analysis and decided it wasn't worth it. It's not a nationalistic thing, just pure economics. BTW PayPal's seller protection policy only applies to transactions between US, UK, and Canadian parties.
Every buyer with any brains at all figures out sniping is the way to go. I have been a seller for over 5 years, and I make more money on my auctions when I have them end on a Sunday afternoon. More people are home, near their computers, and ready to snipe at that time. I don't ship internationally (too much fraud), so time zones aren't really an issue.
I often get no bids at all up until the last 30 minutes of an auction, when 10 or 20 can suddenly come in.
I've had very bad experiences with T-Mobile. Last week I called to INQUIRE about their prepaid plan, and a couple days later, I found they had switched me over to it without my permission. After three calls, I managed to get them to switch back to my old plan. However, my mobile email no longer works, and the CSR I spoke to told me I never had mobile email for the past 2 years. She actually claimed I had imagined sending and receiving all those emails from my phone. Another CSR believed me, and claimed he could fix the problem, but he was unable to.
So... after 5 years with T-Mobile, I am ditching them due to the morons I spoke to. The only other GSM game in town seems to be Cingular. They have mobile email, but it's only MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc.
I'm a member of a local running group so I know dozens of runners and people who work at running/multisport stores. We talk shoes all the time. Part of the reason for GOING to the group is so you can talk shoes without boring the tits off of people. Anyway, not a single one wears Nikes, and not a single one has ever said anything positive about Nikes. A lot of people wear the Nike Dri-Fit clothes which are actually quite good.
The shoes have a reputation for being cheaply made gimmicky crap (Air Shox, etc.) Whether that reputation is deserved or not, I don't know. New Balance, Asics, Mizuno, and Brooks seem to be the most popular brands. If you want shoes made in the USA by non-sweatshop workers, New Balance is pretty much your only choice.
I'd rather have some sort of ACTIVE vision system, that did not depend on the passive availability of ambient light. Like millimiter wave radar or something.
That 8'11" man probably had circulation issues as well, and that can cause problems with slow healing and lack of sensation in the lower extremities. Who knows what such a massive overdose of human growth hormone could damage the immune system as well. I wouldn't be so sure that the length of his nerves had anything to do with it.
"Who cares about the sense of touch in your feet?"
Anyone who is a runner knows how important this is. While running, hundreds of times per second you have to adjust your balance and the complicated forces generated by your dozens of various leg muscles, or else you will sprain something or simply trip and fall down. You can't see the surface directly beneath your foot. All you can do is feel it. Without any feeling in the toes or the sole of your foot, you would find running a hazardous activity that is next to impossible. There are some people who can run with double prostheses, but I daresay they have adapted to get the terrain information from whatever nerves are left at the termination of their natural appendages.