I use to run a two node BBS in the background on 486 DX/2 66 with 16 megs of ram, and access the internet or write papers, all with good old OS/2. Windows 3.1 with 16 megs of ram, such a waste.;)
Now, I STILL can't archive shit using pkzip or whatever in the background without my machine slowing down noticably.
What you are suggesting the submitter do is just accept that their lives are insignificant and forget about it. If everyone had that view, we would never have built any beautiful cities, there would have been no great art, and humans would be nothing animals, driven by base desire to satify their urge to eat, deficate, urinate, and procreate.
Further, this has NOTHING to do with schizophrenia which is the result of too much dopamine in the brain. There is superficially no difference between someone diagnosed with schizophrenia and someone who has taken too much cocaine or amphetamine. The first thing a doctor checks for when he meets someone who he believes to suffer from schizophrenia is whether or not they have used any stimulants or hallucinagens recently.
It has nothing to do with depression or sadness, this is a disorder that fundamentally affects how you perceive the world and how you think.
I generally don't argue with vegans as their religious devotion is too much for me to handle, but since I just drank down 6 raw egg yolks and had a nice 4 ounce piece of raw salmon, right after my weight lifting session where I lifeted a cumulative total of 3000 pounds, I am feeling pretty pumped.
However, assuming that cholesterol is needed by infants (which I see no evidence of),
Lets see, human milk is minium 15% cholesterol. No other species has a cholesterol concentration anywhere NEAR that amount... Your body is about efficiency. It doesn't make ANYTHING it doesn't need, and if it is abundant in the diet, your body stops making it over time. The classic example is vitamin c. Resources are too precious in nature to waste on something like that... Are you incapable of thinking?
The former is solved through B12-fortified foods, while the later is delt with by high Alpha-Linolenic Acid intakes and limiting the amount of Linoleic Acid ( or, in layman's terms -- limit the use of most fat and use some flaxseed/flaxseed oil each day. )
If you want to eat foods made by machines, go for it. I prefer to survive on food that is 100% natural, grown straight from the earth and brought to my hands.
As far as all your studies, I would certainly be interested in reading them. Unfortunately, you forgot the critical part! The actual journal name!
Tell me when I should drop dead of cholesterol deficiency, and I'll try.
Why don't you tell mewhere I said you would drop dead. THe human body is amazingly resilient, and can cope with deficiencies for a very, very long time. The simple fact people live as long as they do eating McDonald's every day is evidence of that.
The issue is what sort of quality of life do you have? If you are a woman, odds are you are going to experience some form of depression in your life and probably already experience depression during menstruation (production of the uteran wall requires a tremendous amount of cholesterol). You aren't going to have a large family, if any family at all.
Chances are you are not particularly attractive irrespective of your gender. You are probably thin, but beautiful you are not.
If you are a man, you lack any and all muscle definition. No one will be building sculptures of you. You don't have a powerful sex drive, and you likely have feminine features.
Either way, you also suffer from frequent bouts of constipation due to your excessive consumption of wheat opioid peptides. You probably don't notice that ALL "vegan" cheeses contain casein, a milk protein which is decomposed to an opioid peptide during digestion. They never tell you where it comes from either... MILK
See, buddy, I study diet and nutrition heavily, I know literally hundreds of vegans in my progressive city. Sadly, I have to shop at the same specialty stores as my diet is almost vegan except for the egg yolks and raw fish. I have never met one that in any way approaches an ideal human. Every female vegan I know looks at least 5 years older than she really is. None of the females have supple breasts or healthy hair. Every man looks like a pathetic weakling. A huge number of vegan chicks I know have been or are currently taking psychotropic medications.
You are right, there aren't any perfect statistics on this matter, but my own personal experiences confirm my research perfectly.
If that is the future you want for yourself, so be it. Personally, I don't care. There are way too many people on this planet as it is, perhaps vegans are destined to cull the herd through their own self destruction.
You can search for all of them on the national institute of health link I provided. The links to actual articles are not constant, and there are too many for actually link to. For many of them, you might only be able to find the capsule summary without becoming a member to that particular group.
Best bet is if you go to a university with a medical school, look them up there as they definitely have an account.
read my other post, thats why I make the distinction between oxylesterols and cholesterols that are technically different. I even cited an article about pigs being fed enormous quantities of egg sourced cholesterol with no change in blood serum levels. I personally consuming at least a half dozen egg yolks a day (5 times the USRDA maximum) and have a cholesterol level in the bottom 5% of Americans.
There is an entire process of breaking down excess cholesterol, but it doesn't work with oxylesterols. I didn't detail this in my other post.
Further, your point is true for all substances. Yeah, water is fatal at doses only 20 times greater than the average serving size (12 ounce glass)
Cholesterol is used in the production of ALL cell membranes. Think about it, LIPOPROTEIN. What do we know about lipids? they repel water. Cholesterol is used to provide structure to fat, and allow it to be used for something other than purely its energy potential. Due to the hydrophobic properties of lipids, cells can maintain their shape as the fat pushes the water away equally allowing the classic sphere to form. This is also why your brain has so much cholesterol. It is basically just water with tons of cells very lossely interconnected.
No, people do not need to consume cholesterol. Your body makes all the cholesterol it can ever use.
Provide your source. your body also makes Vitamins B1, B3, and B6 but you will be deficient if you do not eat enough of it. Further, that ability exists in infants from the moment they are born. Why would the need to consume cholesterol only apply to infants, in stark contradiction to many other vitamins and hormones including those I just mentioned? Or do you think cholesterol is in mother's milk out of some freak coincidence?
Cholesterol is only available from animal sources. If humans needed cholesterol to survive, strict vegetarians (vegans) would be dropping dead left and right.
The vast majority of vegans do not remain that way for extended periods of time. Further, when they do binge it is often on dairy products that contain substantial amounts of cholesterol. Cholesterol is used by your body to produce lipoproteins which comprise cell membranes. All cellular growth thus requires cholesterol. Where do vegans have major problems? Reproduction and muscle growth. The number of cases of low birth weight and spontaneous abortion are quite high amongst vegans. All the medical evidence clearly indicates veganism is dangerous.
Correlation is one thing. Causation is another.
Well, you must have a PhD in statistics! Thank you so much for that enlightening knowledge. Perhaps you are unaware, but the whole of medical knowledge is based on theories and the use of statistics to support them. causation, on the micro level, is almost impossible to prove. Science today is entirely based on probability.
Its good that you are taking an interest in your health and your diet. But learn nutrition from books and journals -- not from magazines, newspapers, and TV.
Ahh yes, can you name one newspaper article or television show that discusses anything I just mentioned, specially the points you selectively challenged and that I will shortly dismiss with numerous references to journals? No, I didn't think so. Fortunately for you, I actual DO read medical journals, and not just bullshit on slashdot. Have fun reading, of course you won't however... as this completely conflicts with your preconceived notions of proper diet (no serious student of medicine would give any credit to veganism)
low blood levels of cholesterol are linked with decreased immunity (1)Weverling-Rijnsburger, A.W. et al, Total cholesterol and risk of mortality in the oldest old. Lancet 1997 / 350 (9085) / 1119-1123.,
(2)Forette,B. et al, Cholesterol as risk factor for mortality in elderly women. Lancet 1989 / 1 (8643) / 868-870.
(3)Isles, C.G. et al, Plasma cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and cancer in the Renfrew and Paisley survey. Brit. Med. J. 1989 / 298 (6678) / 920-924.
(4)Rose, G. & M.J. Shipley, Plasma lipids and mortality : a source of error. Lancet 1980 / 1 (8167) / 523-526.
Low blood levels of cholesterol impair brain and liver function
(1)Xu, G. et al, Relationship between abnormal cholesterol synthesis and retarded learning in rats. Metabolism 1998 / 47 (7) / 878-882.
(2)Schoknecht, P.A. et al, Dietary cholesterol supplementation improves growth and behavioural response of pigs selected for genetically high and low serum cholesterol. Nutr.1994 / 124 (2) / pag.305-314.
(3)Hague, Z.U. et al, Importance of dietary cholesterol for the maturation of mouse brain myelin. Biosc. Biotech. Biochem. 1992 / 56 (8) / 1351-1354.
low cholesterol is associated with severe pathological behavior
(1)Golomb BA, et al, Low cholesterol and violent crime. J Psychiatr Res 2000 Jul-Oct;34(4-5):301-9.
(2)Hillbrand M, et al, Serum cholesterol concentrations and mood states in violent psychiat
Cholesterol has a lot to do with it, if you look at what happens to people suffering from congenital hypercholesterolemia.
I think you should preface that with lipoproteins that are low density, due to the cholesterol being oxidized by heat.
Cholesterol is one of the most necessary substances in your body, particularly the brain where lipoproteins are the largest component after water.
Lets not forget there is 10 times as much cholesterol in human breast milk than protein, and that low blood levels of cholesterol is one of the few (and possibily the only) predictor of suicidal depression.
This is actually a critical flaw in the modern medical establishment, particular in regards to cholesterol being given to infants. Not a single infant formula contains cholesterol, despite the copious amounts of the stuff in human milk. It is no wonder formula fed infants are dumber than average, the growth of their brain is severely restricted due to serious dietary deficiencies.
Cholesterol that is undamaged by heat or any other energy source is necessary for human survival, and is not at all dangerous.
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I thought about quoting parts of your post, but I will just reply to the general idea.
There is a finite amount of consumable resources on this planet. The driving force behind evolution itself has always been competition for scarce resources. In the primordial sea was filled glucose, the primitive single celled organisms that existed there could simply utilize that chemical energy indefinitely, until it ran out. Once that happened, you had life forms evolve to consume each other and interesting things began to happen. That was the norm until plants evolved and photosynthesis changed everything.
The point is technology is nothing more than advancement, albeit one that is ocurring due to human intelligence rather than random chance.
Further, you are missing that humans behaved like all animals for quite a while: they would do anything to survive. When the earliest towns were formed, they would grow bigger and bigger until two towns claimed the same land and they would have a war over who would get to use that land.
Technology as you know it came into being for this very reason. Either it made war LESS necessary, such as with irrigation, fertilizers, crop rotation, or if war happened it made your odds of victory greater (steel, bows and arrows, battle tactics like the phalanx formation). Ultimately, this is the purpose of all technology: to support a greater population, and to minimize the need or effects of war.
The problem is as I said there is always a finite supply of resources. Technology can merely delay the inevitable, as long as human instinct is unrestrained (ie the reproductive urge).
So, you are missing the third choice: kill your competitors or prevent them from ever being born. Ultimately this world will not be big enough for all of us. We can utilize restrictions on who can give birth, or we can wait until a critical day and battle over scarce resources.
And with Enterprise it's the Xindi, but you start to feel the redundancy. Trying to out-evil Cardassians or the Borg is going to prove challenging.
Well, you clearly haven't been watching the show. The Xindi are hardly the simplistic archetypes of evil here. If anything, the story since the introduction of the Xindi is more like the Illiad: neither is good or evil, but they are fighting because they have to.
Recent episodes have clearly established that the Xinid and the Earthlings will be friends someday.
Personally, I think this last season of Enterprise has been great. Season 2 was in many ways better than Season two of TNG. I mean, think back to the ridiculous conspiracy Season Finale of Season 2 in TNG and compare it to last year's entering of the "expanse" in Enterprise.
Enterprise is also dealing with many ethical issues that were previously not tackled by any major series because it seriously conflicts with popular morals.
We are talking about growing humans for the purpose of harvesting of organs, eugenics, utilization of psychological manipulation to extract information, and many other examples.
It is such a refreshing alternative to the feel good BS of TNG where there was almost NEVER any moral ambiguity and the good guys always win.
With Enterprise, especially in the past year, we don't know always who the good guys are... we are presented with people working to save their planet, all other moral concerns are ultimately secondary to that goal.
It really makes you think of what a Nazi-like authoritarian world we live in that even a few people using a little p2p network that gives them some degree of anonymity is a threat to the system, as it might help put them beyond the jackboot of authority.
If only freedom were so simple. You are free to sit here on slashdot and bullshit to your hearts content. None of that matters. Your emotional tyrade will be forgotten as quickly as it popped into your head.
Are you free to do anything meaningful in life? Build a great monument? Start a new kind of community?
Are you free to raise a large family on the average American salary? Would you even have the time to effectively raise the minimum 3 children necessary to mainain your curren population?
Are you free to devote your life to art instead of bureaucracy?
The freedom you are focusing on is, in the history of mankind, quite trivial. You don't want to contribute to the future and progress of human civilization. You dream no great dreams. You want the freedom to say anything you want! So grand a freedom!
In 5 years, we will look at freenet and it will be just like the internet as a whole if not worse: full of crap, full of self centered, naive losers products of our depraved, anti-social world, who are incapable of thinking about what they can contribute to a cause greater than themselves.
There are billions of people around the world starving, and you're talking about a thirst for knowledge and adventure? How about a thirst for water? Ever known that? Unfortunately, large swathes of Africa know it only too well, and their idea of adventure is getting shot at going to get a drink. Think about that next time you climb into your SUV sippin' a big gulp.
Yes, and those billions of people only came into this world because we gave advanced technology and medicine to inferior races. These races exist for the same reason lower animals exist: to consume and reproduce.
The mistake was giving them technology in the first place. All we have to do is blockade Africa and let the population decrease to its natural level via starvation and disease.
The other more useful solution would be to sterilize the existing inhabitants of the continent. Let them live out their days, but prevent all further reproduction. Once that is over, we will have a pristine continent free of the subhuman infestation. We can build huge nature preserves, and maybe even allow some pygmies to reproduce in their natural habitat.
It was a terrible mistake to attempt to bring civilization to the barbarians of the African continent. But it is one that is easily rectified. So why get all frustrated?
If we spent the money on the space program now, on people who actually need it to survive, we could actually do something good for our planet.
See, this is where you lack of understanding of nature is interfering with your ability to think about this rationally. The ecological problems our planet faces is due to the rapid population growth of the human species. We can either fight wars, let people starve to death, or carefully and intelligently manage population growth by sterilizing the inferior and restricting population growth to the superior. No one has a right to survival in nature, only the strong survive. It would be nice to have war take care of this for us, but today it is too dangerous. Eugenics is the next best choice.
The house of cards that is big business finance is starting to topple (e.g. Enron, WorldCom)
This happened already, it was called the Great Depression. Men like Adolf Hitler faught to fight the power of International Finance which then and now is controlled by a fanatical religious cult that refers to themselves as God's Chosen People.
We had the greatest war ever in the history of mankind over this very issue, and you think the failure of a few companies is at all relevant?
There are more of us than there are of them, so they need to use a range of dirty tricks to prevent us from removing them from power.
Yes, and that dirty trick is democracy, which is actively manipulated through disloyal forces that control the media.
You apparently are very much unaware of how education and media collude to control what and how you perceive the world, with the ultimate goal of conrolling what you do with your life.
In fact, what you say is so wrong that the simple reason mandatory education was ever implemented was specifically to better control the masses.
People are not innately consumers or internationalists or egalitarians. Only through relentless propaganda do people give into the international system of finance we have in place. Only then do they crave new material goods, or welcome endless hordes of foreign immigrants, or believe their system of society should be imposed on the entire world. Education is absolutely necessary to maintain our current system.
Also, I should say that your point of view is very representative of the ridiculous points of view found on American college campuses. Try and examine the world without parrotting the views of your teachers and your 5 million fellow rebel students.
Brooklyn doesn't have many parks, in fact the only parks you can realistically ride your bike for more than a minute is Prospect Park or Shore Road park, which is a narrow landscaped bike path along New York harbor.
Chances are he is riding in Prospect Park, and probably on the weekend when cars are banned from the Park's cross streets.
It really is rather safe on the weekends if it is nice, as there are tons of people in the open sections. I mean, he isn't going to be chilling in the nature preserve sections where its dense forest. The only real issue I suppose is Prospect Park is big... and I don't think I have ever seen anyone use a laptop in the park.
There's an early scene where the crew is coming out of hibernation and a computer screen is slowly scrolling text. One of the partygores said, "One hundred years from now and they still haven't done anything about how slow Windows boots up?"
Umm, that was in the Windows 3.0 days. It was pretty fast, faster than anything else at the time.
On my 386 with 2 megs of ram it started near instantly.
You are forgetting System Restore. As the default is set to 12% of your hard disk, I assure you the average Windows XP installation is at LEAST 2.5GB, and new systems is probably closer to 10-15
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I use to run a two node BBS in the background on 486 DX/2 66 with 16 megs of ram, and access the internet or write papers, all with good old OS/2. Windows 3.1 with 16 megs of ram, such a waste.
Now, I STILL can't archive shit using pkzip or whatever in the background without my machine slowing down noticably.
A very nihilistic perspective.
What you are suggesting the submitter do is just accept that their lives are insignificant and forget about it. If everyone had that view, we would never have built any beautiful cities, there would have been no great art, and humans would be nothing animals, driven by base desire to satify their urge to eat, deficate, urinate, and procreate.
Further, this has NOTHING to do with schizophrenia which is the result of too much dopamine in the brain. There is superficially no difference between someone diagnosed with schizophrenia and someone who has taken too much cocaine or amphetamine. The first thing a doctor checks for when he meets someone who he believes to suffer from schizophrenia is whether or not they have used any stimulants or hallucinagens recently.
It has nothing to do with depression or sadness, this is a disorder that fundamentally affects how you perceive the world and how you think.
I generally don't argue with vegans as their religious devotion is too much for me to handle, but since I just drank down 6 raw egg yolks and had a nice 4 ounce piece of raw salmon, right after my weight lifting session where I lifeted a cumulative total of 3000 pounds, I am feeling pretty pumped.
However, assuming that cholesterol is needed by infants (which I see no evidence of),
Lets see, human milk is minium 15% cholesterol. No other species has a cholesterol concentration anywhere NEAR that amount... Your body is about efficiency. It doesn't make ANYTHING it doesn't need, and if it is abundant in the diet, your body stops making it over time. The classic example is vitamin c. Resources are too precious in nature to waste on something like that... Are you incapable of thinking?
The former is solved through B12-fortified foods, while the later is delt with by high Alpha-Linolenic Acid intakes and limiting the amount of Linoleic Acid ( or, in layman's terms -- limit the use of most fat and use some flaxseed/flaxseed oil each day. )
If you want to eat foods made by machines, go for it. I prefer to survive on food that is 100% natural, grown straight from the earth and brought to my hands.
As far as all your studies, I would certainly be interested in reading them. Unfortunately, you forgot the critical part! The actual journal name!
Tell me when I should drop dead of cholesterol deficiency, and I'll try.
Why don't you tell mewhere I said you would drop dead. THe human body is amazingly resilient, and can cope with deficiencies for a very, very long time. The simple fact people live as long as they do eating McDonald's every day is evidence of that.
The issue is what sort of quality of life do you have? If you are a woman, odds are you are going to experience some form of depression in your life and probably already experience depression during menstruation (production of the uteran wall requires a tremendous amount of cholesterol). You aren't going to have a large family, if any family at all.
Chances are you are not particularly attractive irrespective of your gender. You are probably thin, but beautiful you are not.
If you are a man, you lack any and all muscle definition. No one will be building sculptures of you. You don't have a powerful sex drive, and you likely have feminine features.
Either way, you also suffer from frequent bouts of constipation due to your excessive consumption of wheat opioid peptides. You probably don't notice that ALL "vegan" cheeses contain casein, a milk protein which is decomposed to an opioid peptide during digestion. They never tell you where it comes from either... MILK
See, buddy, I study diet and nutrition heavily, I know literally hundreds of vegans in my progressive city. Sadly, I have to shop at the same specialty stores as my diet is almost vegan except for the egg yolks and raw fish. I have never met one that in any way approaches an ideal human. Every female vegan I know looks at least 5 years older than she really is. None of the females have supple breasts or healthy hair. Every man looks like a pathetic weakling. A huge number of vegan chicks I know have been or are currently taking psychotropic medications.
You are right, there aren't any perfect statistics on this matter, but my own personal experiences confirm my research perfectly.
If that is the future you want for yourself, so be it. Personally, I don't care. There are way too many people on this planet as it is, perhaps vegans are destined to cull the herd through their own self destruction.
If you are still young however, think about it.
You can search for all of them on the national institute of health link I provided. The links to actual articles are not constant, and there are too many for actually link to. For many of them, you might only be able to find the capsule summary without becoming a member to that particular group.
Best bet is if you go to a university with a medical school, look them up there as they definitely have an account.
Check out this site
read my other post, thats why I make the distinction between oxylesterols and cholesterols that are technically different. I even cited an article about pigs being fed enormous quantities of egg sourced cholesterol with no change in blood serum levels. I personally consuming at least a half dozen egg yolks a day (5 times the USRDA maximum) and have a cholesterol level in the bottom 5% of Americans.
There is an entire process of breaking down excess cholesterol, but it doesn't work with oxylesterols. I didn't detail this in my other post.
Further, your point is true for all substances. Yeah, water is fatal at doses only 20 times greater than the average serving size (12 ounce glass)
Cholesterol is used in the production of ALL cell membranes. Think about it, LIPOPROTEIN. What do we know about lipids? they repel water. Cholesterol is used to provide structure to fat, and allow it to be used for something other than purely its energy potential. Due to the hydrophobic properties of lipids, cells can maintain their shape as the fat pushes the water away equally allowing the classic sphere to form. This is also why your brain has so much cholesterol. It is basically just water with tons of cells very lossely interconnected.
No, people do not need to consume cholesterol. Your body makes all the cholesterol it can ever use.
,
,B. et al, Cholesterol as risk factor for mortality in elderly women. Lancet 1989 / 1 (8643) / 868-870.
Provide your source. your body also makes Vitamins B1, B3, and B6 but you will be deficient if you do not eat enough of it. Further, that ability exists in infants from the moment they are born. Why would the need to consume cholesterol only apply to infants, in stark contradiction to many other vitamins and hormones including those I just mentioned? Or do you think cholesterol is in mother's milk out of some freak coincidence?
Cholesterol is only available from animal sources. If humans needed cholesterol to survive, strict vegetarians (vegans) would be dropping dead left and right.
The vast majority of vegans do not remain that way for extended periods of time. Further, when they do binge it is often on dairy products that contain substantial amounts of cholesterol. Cholesterol is used by your body to produce lipoproteins which comprise cell membranes. All cellular growth thus requires cholesterol. Where do vegans have major problems? Reproduction and muscle growth. The number of cases of low birth weight and spontaneous abortion are quite high amongst vegans. All the medical evidence clearly indicates veganism is dangerous.
Correlation is one thing. Causation is another.
Well, you must have a PhD in statistics! Thank you so much for that enlightening knowledge. Perhaps you are unaware, but the whole of medical knowledge is based on theories and the use of statistics to support them. causation, on the micro level, is almost impossible to prove. Science today is entirely based on probability.
Its good that you are taking an interest in your health and your diet. But learn nutrition from books and journals -- not from magazines, newspapers, and TV.
Ahh yes, can you name one newspaper article or television show that discusses anything I just mentioned, specially the points you selectively challenged and that I will shortly dismiss with numerous references to journals? No, I didn't think so. Fortunately for you, I actual DO read medical journals, and not just bullshit on slashdot. Have fun reading, of course you won't however... as this completely conflicts with your preconceived notions of proper diet (no serious student of medicine would give any credit to veganism)
The following citations can be found on the National Library of Medicine
low blood levels of cholesterol are linked with decreased immunity
(1)Weverling-Rijnsburger, A.W. et al, Total cholesterol and risk of mortality in the oldest old. Lancet 1997 / 350 (9085) / 1119-1123.
(2)Forette
(3)Isles, C.G. et al, Plasma cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and cancer in the Renfrew and Paisley survey. Brit. Med. J. 1989 / 298 (6678) / 920-924.
(4)Rose, G. & M.J. Shipley, Plasma lipids and mortality : a source of error. Lancet 1980 / 1 (8167) / 523-526.
Low blood levels of cholesterol impair brain and liver function
(1)Xu, G. et al, Relationship between abnormal cholesterol synthesis and retarded learning in rats. Metabolism 1998 / 47 (7) / 878-882.
(2)Schoknecht, P.A. et al, Dietary cholesterol supplementation improves growth and behavioural response of pigs selected for genetically high and low serum cholesterol. Nutr.1994 / 124 (2) / pag.305-314.
(3)Hague, Z.U. et al, Importance of dietary cholesterol for the maturation of mouse brain myelin. Biosc. Biotech. Biochem. 1992 / 56 (8) / 1351-1354.
low cholesterol is associated with severe pathological behavior
(1)Golomb BA, et al, Low cholesterol and violent crime. J Psychiatr Res 2000 Jul-Oct;34(4-5):301-9.
(2)Hillbrand M, et al, Serum cholesterol concentrations and mood states in violent psychiat
Cholesterol has a lot to do with it, if you look at what happens to people suffering from congenital hypercholesterolemia.
I think you should preface that with lipoproteins that are low density, due to the cholesterol being oxidized by heat.
Cholesterol is one of the most necessary substances in your body, particularly the brain where lipoproteins are the largest component after water.
Lets not forget there is 10 times as much cholesterol in human breast milk than protein, and that low blood levels of cholesterol is one of the few (and possibily the only) predictor of suicidal depression.
This is actually a critical flaw in the modern medical establishment, particular in regards to cholesterol being given to infants. Not a single infant formula contains cholesterol, despite the copious amounts of the stuff in human milk. It is no wonder formula fed infants are dumber than average, the growth of their brain is severely restricted due to serious dietary deficiencies.
Cholesterol that is undamaged by heat or any other energy source is necessary for human survival, and is not at all dangerous.
I thought about quoting parts of your post, but I will just reply to the general idea.
There is a finite amount of consumable resources on this planet. The driving force behind evolution itself has always been competition for scarce resources. In the primordial sea was filled glucose, the primitive single celled organisms that existed there could simply utilize that chemical energy indefinitely, until it ran out. Once that happened, you had life forms evolve to consume each other and interesting things began to happen. That was the norm until plants evolved and photosynthesis changed everything.
The point is technology is nothing more than advancement, albeit one that is ocurring due to human intelligence rather than random chance.
Further, you are missing that humans behaved like all animals for quite a while: they would do anything to survive. When the earliest towns were formed, they would grow bigger and bigger until two towns claimed the same land and they would have a war over who would get to use that land.
Technology as you know it came into being for this very reason. Either it made war LESS necessary, such as with irrigation, fertilizers, crop rotation, or if war happened it made your odds of victory greater (steel, bows and arrows, battle tactics like the phalanx formation). Ultimately, this is the purpose of all technology: to support a greater population, and to minimize the need or effects of war.
The problem is as I said there is always a finite supply of resources. Technology can merely delay the inevitable, as long as human instinct is unrestrained (ie the reproductive urge).
So, you are missing the third choice: kill your competitors or prevent them from ever being born. Ultimately this world will not be big enough for all of us. We can utilize restrictions on who can give birth, or we can wait until a critical day and battle over scarce resources.
And with Enterprise it's the Xindi, but you start to feel the redundancy. Trying to out-evil Cardassians or the Borg is going to prove challenging.
Well, you clearly haven't been watching the show. The Xindi are hardly the simplistic archetypes of evil here. If anything, the story since the introduction of the Xindi is more like the Illiad: neither is good or evil, but they are fighting because they have to.
Recent episodes have clearly established that the Xinid and the Earthlings will be friends someday.
Personally, I think this last season of Enterprise has been great. Season 2 was in many ways better than Season two of TNG. I mean, think back to the ridiculous conspiracy Season Finale of Season 2 in TNG and compare it to last year's entering of the "expanse" in Enterprise.
Enterprise is also dealing with many ethical issues that were previously not tackled by any major series because it seriously conflicts with popular morals.
We are talking about growing humans for the purpose of harvesting of organs, eugenics, utilization of psychological manipulation to extract information, and many other examples.
It is such a refreshing alternative to the feel good BS of TNG where there was almost NEVER any moral ambiguity and the good guys always win.
With Enterprise, especially in the past year, we don't know always who the good guys are... we are presented with people working to save their planet, all other moral concerns are ultimately secondary to that goal.
It really makes you think of what a Nazi-like authoritarian world we live in that even a few people using a little p2p network that gives them some degree of anonymity is a threat to the system, as it might help put them beyond the jackboot of authority.
If only freedom were so simple. You are free to sit here on slashdot and bullshit to your hearts content. None of that matters. Your emotional tyrade will be forgotten as quickly as it popped into your head.
Are you free to do anything meaningful in life? Build a great monument? Start a new kind of community?
Are you free to raise a large family on the average American salary? Would you even have the time to effectively raise the minimum 3 children necessary to mainain your curren population?
Are you free to devote your life to art instead of bureaucracy?
The freedom you are focusing on is, in the history of mankind, quite trivial. You don't want to contribute to the future and progress of human civilization. You dream no great dreams. You want the freedom to say anything you want! So grand a freedom!
In 5 years, we will look at freenet and it will be just like the internet as a whole if not worse: full of crap, full of self centered, naive losers products of our depraved, anti-social world, who are incapable of thinking about what they can contribute to a cause greater than themselves.
There are billions of people around the world starving, and you're talking about a thirst for knowledge and adventure? How about a thirst for water? Ever known that? Unfortunately, large swathes of Africa know it only too well, and their idea of adventure is getting shot at going to get a drink. Think about that next time you climb into your SUV sippin' a big gulp.
Yes, and those billions of people only came into this world because we gave advanced technology and medicine to inferior races. These races exist for the same reason lower animals exist: to consume and reproduce.
The mistake was giving them technology in the first place. All we have to do is blockade Africa and let the population decrease to its natural level via starvation and disease.
The other more useful solution would be to sterilize the existing inhabitants of the continent. Let them live out their days, but prevent all further reproduction. Once that is over, we will have a pristine continent free of the subhuman infestation. We can build huge nature preserves, and maybe even allow some pygmies to reproduce in their natural habitat.
It was a terrible mistake to attempt to bring civilization to the barbarians of the African continent. But it is one that is easily rectified. So why get all frustrated?
If we spent the money on the space program now, on people who actually need it to survive, we could actually do something good for our planet.
See, this is where you lack of understanding of nature is interfering with your ability to think about this rationally. The ecological problems our planet faces is due to the rapid population growth of the human species. We can either fight wars, let people starve to death, or carefully and intelligently manage population growth by sterilizing the inferior and restricting population growth to the superior. No one has a right to survival in nature, only the strong survive. It would be nice to have war take care of this for us, but today it is too dangerous. Eugenics is the next best choice.
The house of cards that is big business finance is starting to topple (e.g. Enron, WorldCom)
This happened already, it was called the Great Depression. Men like Adolf Hitler faught to fight the power of International Finance which then and now is controlled by a fanatical religious cult that refers to themselves as God's Chosen People.
We had the greatest war ever in the history of mankind over this very issue, and you think the failure of a few companies is at all relevant?
There are more of us than there are of them, so they need to use a range of dirty tricks to prevent us from removing them from power.
Yes, and that dirty trick is democracy, which is actively manipulated through disloyal forces that control the media.
You apparently are very much unaware of how education and media collude to control what and how you perceive the world, with the ultimate goal of conrolling what you do with your life.
In fact, what you say is so wrong that the simple reason mandatory education was ever implemented was specifically to better control the masses.
People are not innately consumers or internationalists or egalitarians. Only through relentless propaganda do people give into the international system of finance we have in place. Only then do they crave new material goods, or welcome endless hordes of foreign immigrants, or believe their system of society should be imposed on the entire world. Education is absolutely necessary to maintain our current system.
Also, I should say that your point of view is very representative of the ridiculous points of view found on American college campuses. Try and examine the world without parrotting the views of your teachers and your 5 million fellow rebel students.
Not to belittle your point which is well put, but I don't know about you... but I remember learning that in HIGH SCHOOL biology class 10 years ago.
A beautiful blonde female of French decent would cost you $1000 per hour in New York.
In Montreal, it will run you $150.
That is the real bargain.
Just out of curiosity, I haven't really found a suitable alternative to the old Norton Con. What exactly do you use?
I simply don't see how a laptop would be unable to play such a DVD but a desktop would not..
Brooklyn doesn't have many parks, in fact the only parks you can realistically ride your bike for more than a minute is Prospect Park or Shore Road park, which is a narrow landscaped bike path along New York harbor.
Chances are he is riding in Prospect Park, and probably on the weekend when cars are banned from the Park's cross streets.
It really is rather safe on the weekends if it is nice, as there are tons of people in the open sections. I mean, he isn't going to be chilling in the nature preserve sections where its dense forest. The only real issue I suppose is Prospect Park is big... and I don't think I have ever seen anyone use a laptop in the park.
Btw, I go running there all the time.
There's an early scene where the crew is coming out of hibernation and a computer screen is slowly scrolling text. One of the partygores said, "One hundred years from now and they still haven't done anything about how slow Windows boots up?"
Umm, that was in the Windows 3.0 days. It was pretty fast, faster than anything else at the time.
On my 386 with 2 megs of ram it started near instantly.
so I don't know where you get 2.5GB from
You are forgetting System Restore. As the default is set to 12% of your hard disk, I assure you the average Windows XP installation is at LEAST 2.5GB, and new systems is probably closer to 10-15
And they are made in Dresden, a city with so much history that has known so much suffering in the last 60 years.
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