Biologically, it all becomes glucose when processed by the digestive system. Then, the body stores excess for needs as fat.
From strictly a weight regulation point of view; fats run 9 calories per gram and table sugar is 6 calories per gram. It becomes the same adipose in the end.
There are some interesting side issues when you get into the complications of the biological system overall. Such as habitual use of sugar substitutes can depress insulin production. Yeah, diet soda is more likely to give you diabetes than sugary soda. Cholesterol plaque seems to not form in diets that don't have any xanthine oxydase (byproduct of broiling or grilling fatty meat).
The best policy should be moderation in all things especially moderation. (yes, that is a quote) Add in physical activity to keep the metabolic rate high and to burn extra energy and you will have weight reduction.
AT&T Uverse, as of May 2016, installed data caps on all internet service contracts. To return to a cap free internet service; AT&T Uverse requires you to purchase a television package whether you are interested in their cable TV service or not.
I can see no reason to purchase a cable TV package at all unless you are addicted to professional sports. Personally, I can think of nothing more irrelevant to my life than a bunch of burly guys in spandex Capris pants trying to insert what looks like a leather suppository into someone's end zone. (Ed Howdershelt quote there...)
Having worked in Canada on a Visa; I have a good feeling for the differences between the U.S. and Canada. Canadian taxes take a larger bite out of the paycheck but, if you are a Canadian citizen, you actually get some value for the taxes. The U.S. federal government tends to squander way too much on pork barrel projects and let the infrastructure decay.
If you are not a citizen; it is extremely hard to get medical care in Canada anywhere but in an emergency room. At least in Ontario that is the case once your are more than 100km from a major border crossing. "Our quota is full with Ontario Health patients" is what you hear. If you are a foreign worker in Canada; your employer is required to carry health insurance on you. But, getting anything but emergency medical services is a study in frustration.
Most people in the U.S. NO LONGER have medical insurance through their employer. The ACA made insurance policies too expensive for any employers but the largest corporate giants.
The personal cost for a mediocre policy subsidized by an employer is now as high as purchasing an individual policy was before the ACA. Out of pocket cost went from $470 a month to $1450 a month for a $1500.00 deductible with 20% co-pay thereafter with implementation of the ACA. If you want health insurance that is less than $500 a month you get a $6000 deductible with 40% co-pay thereafter and you are limited to an "approved" list of doctors in your local area and have no converge outside of your local area.
You may get subsidized by the government or an employer but the payment to the insurance company is still at the ridiculous level.
Computerized medical records DO get locked out from access along with all other records in the system when flagged by accounting as past due. At least that is the default with two of the largest billing and records systems.
The Federal Communication Commission sets regulations for all public communications. If you do a proprietary wire system for your own proprietary use and run the wires through locations you own yourself; no, the FCC would not be involved. If you run your wires on public utility poles; the FCC regulates. Yep, there is a governmental oversight of companies using public hardware like underground utility trunks and overhead lines.
Um, having sold high end audio back in the day I can attest that the "laser" stylus did not use the laser for pickup from the grooves but to accurately automate tracking. A laser tracking tangential tone arm where there was no stylus pressure to track a tone arm actually did make a noticeable improvement in sound quality and a huge decrease in record wear.
But, dang, how many people in the late 70s or early 80s could pony up a grand and a half for a turntable. Not for a system; just the turntable.... thinking of the Thorens and Bang & Olufsen units.
Now that ELP unit cited, which isn't from the old days of vinyl, uses laser diffraction at a high sample rate to give a rather low loss digital signal for processing. http://elpj.com/
Not exactly analog but quite damned close.
I have to think that the price in current dollars of $15,000.00 is quite the equivalent to the $1500.00 for the laser tracking turntables of the late 1970s. (Inflation. I new Mercedes was $10K back then. Yes, inflation has been that bad.)
What is Hillary going to loose? The dogs of war? If she LOSES; it will be because enough people realize what an elitist lying sack she truly is. Anyway, Russia doesn't have to have a plot to "sow distrust" as the beltway denizens have been doing a bang up job for decades in creating distrust of the federal government.
Since it is unlawful to fly a hobby drone over private property that is not your own why would it not be lawful to knock one out of the sky if it can safely be done?
Check FAA regs on hobby aircraft. No flights over others property without permission. No flying over 400 ft. Not within 2 miles of airport. Not over public areas where people congregate.
Licensed drones require licensed pilot who is trained on legal flight rules and can fly more places.
Joe nimrod breaks the law when he flies over your property. If a paparazzi enters your property trying to get photos you can shoot the trespasser. Why not shoot tech doing the same thing.
Why would someone own a computer with no ability to use shared cheap media? Seriously, until the cost of a thumb drive is measured in cents instead of dollars; the optical media is here to stay. It comes down to being able to share data in a durable format.
It isn't mud slinging to point out that an average Joe who did what Hillary perpetrated would be prosecuted and jailed by now, A> Use of private email for official business is against federal regulations. B> Erasing official emails in violation of data retention requirements is a violation of federal regulations. C> Using private emails to circumvent security requirements of official email servers is against federal regulations.
Face it, if Hillary were not part of the privileged elite; she would have been in jail a year ago.
This sounds like an algorithm for champerty kind of like a FICO score for real property mortgages. The rub is that that champerty is unlawful in many states. Champerty is so rare in the U.S. that the term only comes up in legal dictionaries. http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=171 Basically, champerty is a term for "investing" in someone else's lawsuit with the expectation of a big payday when they win. A third party taking a fiscal interest in a lawsuit is different from a legal professional contracting for a "contingency fee". Way back when; the ruling class would take a champerty share in a case then pressure the judges to rule to their profit. (You really don't want to know why I know this term.)
Entropy losses increase the heat output of a heat pump higher than the cooling effect. The energy put in to pump the heat out comes out as heat too. Add the paving over in the cities that increases the radiant heating of the air in a city; you can measure several degrees hotter air in a city than an equivalent forest or field in the same general area. Cities create thermals that have a local effect on cloud cover as well. i.e. Hot times in the city are less likely to get cooling rain.
Humans have systematically usurped the apex predator slot in so many ecologies. The really weird thing is that once humanity made it to the top; we get a movement to prevent hunting for game management. So many species have overpopulated to the point where ecological collapse is quite possible.
Two miles down in a salt dome is where it belongs. Trust me, you don't want the weapons waste sitting where it can blow in the wind or sitting in decaying buildings that were closed up in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell.
Perception is NOT reality. After decades of cleaning up Uncle Sugar's waste; it gets tiresome dealing with the resistance on the part of the general public to putting hazardous waste into a safe condition.
The engineer who wrote the procedure wrote "kitty litter" when he should have used the actual specification of "sintered diatomacious clay" - aka, the cheap old kitty litter with no additives.
The way I heard it, someone in procurement read "kitty litter" and ordered "recycled cellulose kitty litter with chlorophyll to reduce odor". The kitty litter outgassed chlorine in the sealed drums. The waste out-gases hydrogen. Back in WWII, the Germans filled torpedoes with a mix of hydrogen and chlorine and it was known as "blasting gas". Big boom and hydrochloric acid as the end product. (Anecdote from a worker at WIPP)
Anyway, the take away lesson is to specify exactly what you want and don't rely on jargon. The actual cleanup of the tunnel and the ventilation system probably won't be that expensive but the multi billion dollar budget is 90% for studying the problem and deciding how to proceed. HEPA Ventilation, containment, and respirators for certain.
Nothing from nuclear power generation goes to New Mexico. That site is dedicated to storage of all the waste and crap from the weapons program.
DOE has yet to take custody of any spent fuel from any of the commercial nuclear power plants even though the Atomic Energy Act of 1972 required the DOE to take custody of all used fuel by fiscal year 1998.
No greater fidelity between Bluetooth 1 and Bluetooth 2. Range of Xmtr is the thing. Bluetooth 1 is supposed to be good for 20 feet and Bluetooth 2 for 300 feet. Maybe in a rural field with zero emf in the area for those ranges. Bluetooth one is good if you are sitting on the transmitter. Bluetooth 2 may go half way across an office cubicle.
MP3 (Motion Picture Experts Group Layer 3 Codec) was copyrighted by the Fraunhoffer Institute in Germany (Fraunhoffer-Gesselshaft - https://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html ). Way back in the early 1990s, the code for the codec was released free to persons wanting MP3 decoding. The encoder required a nominal fee. By 2000, most music encoders paid for the licensing and the mp3 codec became a de-facto standard for compression. The successor, AAC encoding, is less lossy at 128 which was the iPod and iTunes default. 320 MP3 is less lossy than AAC but takes up more storage space. ----------
My main objection to Bluetooth Stereo is the latency. Bluetooth stereo noticeably lags to an irritating amount. The lag with Bluetooth is not as bad when doing a mono earphone and mike; but it is still there. Bluetooth installed in automobiles often has an echo effect due to the latency. Bluetooth was one of those technologies, along with firewire, that really didn't deliver what it claimed. 300 feet my tochis. You are lucky to go across a decent size room with a set of bluetooth headphones and they drop out if you turn your back to the transmitter. Forget a bluetooth microphone being understandable if you are more than five feet from the transmission point. If you are using headphones so you get the volume turned up and others are listening on the speakers; the echo effect due to the latency will drive you buggy. Analog RF modulation still beats bluetooth (digital) for short distance wireless. Bluetooth works acceptably for low ambient noise levels as a mono earpiece and mike with a cellular phone in the pocket. Any background noise or RF interference; you need a wired headset to be understood,
It is rather ironic that the "drug problem" popped up around the time government organizations were getting ready to lay off all the extra police that were hired to enforce prohibition.
No, you don't have to buy a gun to see the results of a background check. You just pay a nominal fee and the check is run. More if a fingerprint match check is run. Some states do the check via the DMV. Some states require you go to law enforcement to get the check done. An FBI background with fingerprint check runs around $50. A NICS check on a name and social security number runs $10 to $25 depending on where you live. Firearms dealers pay a lot less per check as that is part of their licensing to sell firearms. You could consider the FFL fees as paying a big chunk of the NICS check fees.
I do work that requires a clearance. Some employers want to do it themselves. Others want you to attach a criminal background check done in the previous 40 days to a pre-employment package. The guys that want you to pay for your own background reimburse once you pass certificaton checks but you are out the money if you can't pass the re-cert tests.
One big downfall of the NICS background checks are that a person has to enter the data into the system. The fruit-loop that shot up the church in Charleston South Carolina had a felony conviction that would have blocked him from purchasing a firearm. But, the court clerks hadn't entered his felony conviction into the database and he passed the NICS check.
Passing laws to increase the onerous hoops to jump through will just piss off people and provide no more protection.
The quirky thing is that when the federal government tries to do something about economic and social issues, more people seem to get locked into a poverty level income than before. Almost as if the plan is to have a significant block of voters dependent on federal largess to survive.
Apples and oranges. VLC is a client for playing video and audio files. What you want is a DLNA server and DLNA client software. Many "Smart Televisions" have DLNA clients built in to play streaming video but the DLNA standards are not implemented in a standard manner and it still takes experimentation to find compatible software with the hardware you have.
Is FireTV set up to be a generic DLNA streaming client? I don't know. Probably not. Manufacturers want things proprietary so you have to buy THEIR stuff.
Actually, a human genetic material chimera has been discussed for decades. The issue has been so hashed over the concept is firmly ingrained in pop culture. The link to an advert for a Scott Sigler book written years ago to illustrate the pop culture take on human chimera fears.
I'm surprised the link doesn't include advertisements for genuine tin foil hats for $99.99. None of that faux protective fake aluminum foil shit.
To quote Vincent Price in "The Raven" - It must be some insidious form of mind control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvngX_-K-NI
Can you hack a computer, change the driver software to insert malicious code into the monitor firmware; possibly. Would that give you anything useful? Well, if you could hack the camera in a laptop or a wifi enabled nannycam; you could compromise data by transmitting via modified flicker rate. The question is why you would want to use such convoluted crazy measures when, if you can insert code into the computer, you don't just copy whatever you want and install a key logger.
File this one under more "big brother is hypnotizing us with television flicker"
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Biologically, it all becomes glucose when processed by the digestive system. Then, the body stores excess for needs as fat.
From strictly a weight regulation point of view; fats run 9 calories per gram and table sugar is 6 calories per gram. It becomes the same adipose in the end.
There are some interesting side issues when you get into the complications of the biological system overall. Such as habitual use of sugar substitutes can depress insulin production. Yeah, diet soda is more likely to give you diabetes than sugary soda. Cholesterol plaque seems to not form in diets that don't have any xanthine oxydase (byproduct of broiling or grilling fatty meat).
The best policy should be moderation in all things especially moderation. (yes, that is a quote) Add in physical activity to keep the metabolic rate high and to burn extra energy and you will have weight reduction.
AT&T Uverse, as of May 2016, installed data caps on all internet service contracts. To return to a cap free internet service; AT&T Uverse requires you to purchase a television package whether you are interested in their cable TV service or not.
I can see no reason to purchase a cable TV package at all unless you are addicted to professional sports. Personally, I can think of nothing more irrelevant to my life than a bunch of burly guys in spandex Capris pants trying to insert what looks like a leather suppository into someone's end zone. (Ed Howdershelt quote there...)
Having worked in Canada on a Visa; I have a good feeling for the differences between the U.S. and Canada. Canadian taxes take a larger bite out of the paycheck but, if you are a Canadian citizen, you actually get some value for the taxes. The U.S. federal government tends to squander way too much on pork barrel projects and let the infrastructure decay.
If you are not a citizen; it is extremely hard to get medical care in Canada anywhere but in an emergency room. At least in Ontario that is the case once your are more than 100km from a major border crossing. "Our quota is full with Ontario Health patients" is what you hear. If you are a foreign worker in Canada; your employer is required to carry health insurance on you. But, getting anything but emergency medical services is a study in frustration.
Most people in the U.S. NO LONGER have medical insurance through their employer. The ACA made insurance policies too expensive for any employers but the largest corporate giants.
The personal cost for a mediocre policy subsidized by an employer is now as high as purchasing an individual policy was before the ACA. Out of pocket cost went from $470 a month to $1450 a month for a $1500.00 deductible with 20% co-pay thereafter with implementation of the ACA. If you want health insurance that is less than $500 a month you get a $6000 deductible with 40% co-pay thereafter and you are limited to an "approved" list of doctors in your local area and have no converge outside of your local area.
You may get subsidized by the government or an employer but the payment to the insurance company is still at the ridiculous level.
Computerized medical records DO get locked out from access along with all other records in the system when flagged by accounting as past due. At least that is the default with two of the largest billing and records systems.
The Federal Communication Commission sets regulations for all public communications. If you do a proprietary wire system for your own proprietary use and run the wires through locations you own yourself; no, the FCC would not be involved. If you run your wires on public utility poles; the FCC regulates. Yep, there is a governmental oversight of companies using public hardware like underground utility trunks and overhead lines.
Um, having sold high end audio back in the day I can attest that the "laser" stylus did not use the laser for pickup from the grooves but to accurately automate tracking. A laser tracking tangential tone arm where there was no stylus pressure to track a tone arm actually did make a noticeable improvement in sound quality and a huge decrease in record wear. ... thinking of the Thorens and Bang & Olufsen units.
But, dang, how many people in the late 70s or early 80s could pony up a grand and a half for a turntable. Not for a system; just the turntable.
Now that ELP unit cited, which isn't from the old days of vinyl, uses laser diffraction at a high sample rate to give a rather low loss digital signal for processing. http://elpj.com/
Not exactly analog but quite damned close.
I have to think that the price in current dollars of $15,000.00 is quite the equivalent to the $1500.00 for the laser tracking turntables of the late 1970s. (Inflation. I new Mercedes was $10K back then. Yes, inflation has been that bad.)
What is Hillary going to loose? The dogs of war? If she LOSES; it will be because enough people realize what an elitist lying sack she truly is.
Anyway, Russia doesn't have to have a plot to "sow distrust" as the beltway denizens have been doing a bang up job for decades in creating distrust of the federal government.
Since it is unlawful to fly a hobby drone over private property that is not your own why would it not be lawful to knock one out of the sky if it can safely be done?
Check FAA regs on hobby aircraft. No flights over others property without permission. No flying over 400 ft. Not within 2 miles of airport. Not over public areas where people congregate.
Licensed drones require licensed pilot who is trained on legal flight rules and can fly more places.
Joe nimrod breaks the law when he flies over your property. If a paparazzi enters your property trying to get photos you can shoot the trespasser. Why not shoot tech doing the same thing.
Why would someone own a computer with no ability to use shared cheap media? Seriously, until the cost of a thumb drive is measured in cents instead of dollars; the optical media is here to stay. It comes down to being able to share data in a durable format.
It isn't mud slinging to point out that an average Joe who did what Hillary perpetrated would be prosecuted and jailed by now,
A> Use of private email for official business is against federal regulations.
B> Erasing official emails in violation of data retention requirements is a violation of federal regulations.
C> Using private emails to circumvent security requirements of official email servers is against federal regulations.
Face it, if Hillary were not part of the privileged elite; she would have been in jail a year ago.
This sounds like an algorithm for champerty kind of like a FICO score for real property mortgages. The rub is that that champerty is unlawful in many states. Champerty is so rare in the U.S. that the term only comes up in legal dictionaries. http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=171 Basically, champerty is a term for "investing" in someone else's lawsuit with the expectation of a big payday when they win. A third party taking a fiscal interest in a lawsuit is different from a legal professional contracting for a "contingency fee". Way back when; the ruling class would take a champerty share in a case then pressure the judges to rule to their profit. (You really don't want to know why I know this term.)
Entropy losses increase the heat output of a heat pump higher than the cooling effect. The energy put in to pump the heat out comes out as heat too.
Add the paving over in the cities that increases the radiant heating of the air in a city; you can measure several degrees hotter air in a city than an equivalent forest or field in the same general area. Cities create thermals that have a local effect on cloud cover as well. i.e. Hot times in the city are less likely to get cooling rain.
Humans have systematically usurped the apex predator slot in so many ecologies. The really weird thing is that once humanity made it to the top; we get a movement to prevent hunting for game management. So many species have overpopulated to the point where ecological collapse is quite possible.
Two miles down in a salt dome is where it belongs. Trust me, you don't want the weapons waste sitting where it can blow in the wind or sitting in decaying buildings that were closed up in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell.
Perception is NOT reality. After decades of cleaning up Uncle Sugar's waste; it gets tiresome dealing with the resistance on the part of the general public to putting hazardous waste into a safe condition.
The engineer who wrote the procedure wrote "kitty litter" when he should have used the actual specification of "sintered diatomacious clay" - aka, the cheap old kitty litter with no additives.
The way I heard it, someone in procurement read "kitty litter" and ordered "recycled cellulose kitty litter with chlorophyll to reduce odor". The kitty litter outgassed chlorine in the sealed drums. The waste out-gases hydrogen. Back in WWII, the Germans filled torpedoes with a mix of hydrogen and chlorine and it was known as "blasting gas". Big boom and hydrochloric acid as the end product. (Anecdote from a worker at WIPP)
Anyway, the take away lesson is to specify exactly what you want and don't rely on jargon. The actual cleanup of the tunnel and the ventilation system probably won't be that expensive but the multi billion dollar budget is 90% for studying the problem and deciding how to proceed. HEPA Ventilation, containment, and respirators for certain.
Nothing from nuclear power generation goes to New Mexico. That site is dedicated to storage of all the waste and crap from the weapons program.
DOE has yet to take custody of any spent fuel from any of the commercial nuclear power plants even though the Atomic Energy Act of 1972 required the DOE to take custody of all used fuel by fiscal year 1998.
No greater fidelity between Bluetooth 1 and Bluetooth 2. Range of Xmtr is the thing. Bluetooth 1 is supposed to be good for 20 feet and Bluetooth 2 for 300 feet. Maybe in a rural field with zero emf in the area for those ranges. Bluetooth one is good if you are sitting on the transmitter. Bluetooth 2 may go half way across an office cubicle.
MP3 (Motion Picture Experts Group Layer 3 Codec) was copyrighted by the Fraunhoffer Institute in Germany (Fraunhoffer-Gesselshaft - https://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html ). Way back in the early 1990s, the code for the codec was released free to persons wanting MP3 decoding. The encoder required a nominal fee. By 2000, most music encoders paid for the licensing and the mp3 codec became a de-facto standard for compression. The successor, AAC encoding, is less lossy at 128 which was the iPod and iTunes default. 320 MP3 is less lossy than AAC but takes up more storage space.
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My main objection to Bluetooth Stereo is the latency. Bluetooth stereo noticeably lags to an irritating amount. The lag with Bluetooth is not as bad when doing a mono earphone and mike; but it is still there. Bluetooth installed in automobiles often has an echo effect due to the latency. Bluetooth was one of those technologies, along with firewire, that really didn't deliver what it claimed. 300 feet my tochis. You are lucky to go across a decent size room with a set of bluetooth headphones and they drop out if you turn your back to the transmitter. Forget a bluetooth microphone being understandable if you are more than five feet from the transmission point. If you are using headphones so you get the volume turned up and others are listening on the speakers; the echo effect due to the latency will drive you buggy. Analog RF modulation still beats bluetooth (digital) for short distance wireless. Bluetooth works acceptably for low ambient noise levels as a mono earpiece and mike with a cellular phone in the pocket. Any background noise or RF interference; you need a wired headset to be understood,
It is rather ironic that the "drug problem" popped up around the time government organizations were getting ready to lay off all the extra police that were hired to enforce prohibition.
No, you don't have to buy a gun to see the results of a background check. You just pay a nominal fee and the check is run. More if a fingerprint match check is run. Some states do the check via the DMV. Some states require you go to law enforcement to get the check done. An FBI background with fingerprint check runs around $50. A NICS check on a name and social security number runs $10 to $25 depending on where you live. Firearms dealers pay a lot less per check as that is part of their licensing to sell firearms. You could consider the FFL fees as paying a big chunk of the NICS check fees.
I do work that requires a clearance. Some employers want to do it themselves. Others want you to attach a criminal background check done in the previous 40 days to a pre-employment package. The guys that want you to pay for your own background reimburse once you pass certificaton checks but you are out the money if you can't pass the re-cert tests.
One big downfall of the NICS background checks are that a person has to enter the data into the system. The fruit-loop that shot up the church in Charleston South Carolina had a felony conviction that would have blocked him from purchasing a firearm. But, the court clerks hadn't entered his felony conviction into the database and he passed the NICS check.
Passing laws to increase the onerous hoops to jump through will just piss off people and provide no more protection.
The quirky thing is that when the federal government tries to do something about economic and social issues, more people seem to get locked into a poverty level income than before. Almost as if the plan is to have a significant block of voters dependent on federal largess to survive.
Apples and oranges. VLC is a client for playing video and audio files. What you want is a DLNA server and DLNA client software.
Many "Smart Televisions" have DLNA clients built in to play streaming video but the DLNA standards are not implemented in a standard manner and it still takes experimentation to find compatible software with the hardware you have.
Is FireTV set up to be a generic DLNA streaming client? I don't know. Probably not. Manufacturers want things proprietary so you have to buy THEIR stuff.
Actually, a human genetic material chimera has been discussed for decades. The issue has been so hashed over the concept is firmly ingrained in pop culture. The link to an advert for a Scott Sigler book written years ago to illustrate the pop culture take on human chimera fears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRY9eWlmBWM
I'm surprised the link doesn't include advertisements for genuine tin foil hats for $99.99. None of that faux protective fake aluminum foil shit.
To quote Vincent Price in "The Raven" - It must be some insidious form of mind control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvngX_-K-NI
Can you hack a computer, change the driver software to insert malicious code into the monitor firmware; possibly. Would that give you anything useful? Well, if you could hack the camera in a laptop or a wifi enabled nannycam; you could compromise data by transmitting via modified flicker rate. The question is why you would want to use such convoluted crazy measures when, if you can insert code into the computer, you don't just copy whatever you want and install a key logger.
File this one under more "big brother is hypnotizing us with television flicker"