...so I hope they allow health benefits to cover prostate cancer testing for those at risk, instead of using the genetic marker to class it as a pre-existing condition or to refuse to insure you.
I'm sick and tired of the medical "profession". It has a lot in common with the oldest profession.
When it comes to data like email there should be a choice of providers, your data should be easy to back up and you should keep multiple backups preferably geographically spaced far apart.
I'm not too worried about email though. Many providers provide email and there's even a choice between free mail providers. I use pop to store it and web mail at my ISP to read sometimes.
Now usenet is another story. Find me another decent usenet reader/posting software that's free.
I hate relying on Google and it's been buggy as hell lately.
Piracy is a crime. People should pay for a commercial product. However "It is the same as stealing one off the shelf" is about the silliest thing you could say. When the act of installing software magically makes a boxed DVD disappear I'll have to go to the police and inform them that someone's put drugs in my food or drink.
Such maturity you display. Anyone who makes arguments that include crying onomatopoeia and tells their opponent to "run home to mommy" has some serious issues. How do you expect anyone to take you seriously acting like such a 3 year old ass clown?
Software shouldn't be replaced just because it's old. It should be replaced when something offers the users an advantage.
Nice rant. Unfortunately completely ruined by calling a coal mine a coldmine and making you sound completely uneducated and therefore unqualified to offer a sensible opinion, when you do in fact have something of a point.
That's a little judgemental. Depending on a person's income it could be quite a big issue. Imagine that amount meant the family didn't get groceries for the week, or someone couldn't go to the doctor.
I've never seen fat camp shows, actually. And I don't think its easy, but I think that if you really want to do it then you can, and whining about genetics is just that: whining. I think that if you're fat then you should either accept that you would rather be fat than altering your lifestyle or do it, instead of going on about "oh woe is me I'm genetically predisposed to being fat."
That's like saying "If you want to be an olympic athelete, you should quit whining about genetics and just do it instead of saying woe is me I can't run fast". It's not just "hard" - it's so hard that few have done it successfully in the long term.
am pre-disposed to being overweight. It runs in my family. But it isn't going to take me a "massive" change in lifestyle to fix that. I just have to cut down portions and be a little bit more active. Neither do I assume that anyone who is a normal weight is that way because they've taken responsibility.
Well go ahead and do that. See how far you get making minor changes if you're pre-disposed to being fat. I'm fat. The one time I lost weight I had to take extreme measures. No bread. Salads and lean meat. Excercise no less than an hour a day every day. I've since tried just cutting back or replacing a meal with a salad and got no where.
Now, while we're talking about denial, let's talk about the whole "I'm fat because of genetics and nothing I can do can fix that." If it was "I'm fat because its too much effort for too little reward," then I can appreciate that. But the fact of the matter is that you will be less attractive to people, and that has certain negative side effects. I'd rather put in the effort.
If its as easy as you say (or as hard but achievable) and you're fat clearly you wouldn't rather put in that effort. You'd have a lot more credibility if you'd lost the weight and were saying this. Meanwhile I don't subscribe to your magazine "fat and guilty".
When I was in school, I made straight A's. Everyone always assumed that I went home and spent every waking hour studying. I didn't. I was just naturally very good at the kind of things involved in schoolwork. Does that mean that people who weren't as naturally inclined as me should get a free pass for flunking out?
I also drove people crazy beating them in test scores etc. when I was young when they'd studied their butts off and I'd done no where near as much. It means these people are less naturally talented and while it's important to try to get a good score at school, in the long run they're probably not as suited as me to academic work. Some of these people however excelled at things I stank at: Things like textiles, woodwork and metalwork and art. No matter how hard I tried at these things I was struggling to pass. I really really wish I had those woodwork and metalwork skills now and perhaps if I find the day some time I'll give learning those skills a try as an adult. However I am not suited to being a tradesman or an artist. I'd starve if I had to work in the fashion industry. Blaming myself for that is just fucking stupid. Those people who weren't as good as me academically blaming themselves is also fucking stupid. They should do what they have to to make it through school and focus on other things which they are pre-disposed to being good at.
Likewise making the focus of your life your weight if you're pre-disposed to being overweight is a recipe for being a miserable poorly adjusted individual. Do what you have to so you don't end up the next bed bound sad case, realise you're going to be somewhat overweight, and realise that doesn't make you hideous. Don't make excuses for people who tell you you are hideous because you don't look great with your clothes off.
You're making a huge assumption that I'm somehow condemning fat people. I'm not. I'm saying that ultimately it comes down to a choice. That choice can be effected by genetics: "I have to spend x amount of time because of my genetics to lose weight, and thats not worth it to me.
I'm suggesting that perhaps losing weight is not as easy as you're making out it is. Explain why 90% of people who lose weight put that weight plus more on within 5 years. Are you seriously telling me all these people are just fat and lazy and should take some responsibility? You've been watching too many reality tv fat camp shows.
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're overweight because you're pre-disposed to it? That while a massive change of lifestyle may allow you to lose weight, you may not be able to afford to maintain that lifestyle, nor might you like living that life? How about instead of denying it you come to grips with the fact that not everyone at "normal" weight is that way because they've taken responsibility for it. Lots of thin people do no exercise and eat unhealthily. Have a look in the mirror and accept who and what you are right now. THAT is taking responsibility. If you want to try to make changes go for it, but using words like "own fault" and agreeing with prats that others "whine about genetics" doesn't make you better, or healthier, and certainly doesn't make you more responsible for your own choices. It just makes you a guilt victim who wants to spread the guilt around.
Your implication that 3-5 years of campus life means a hill of beans to the 50-60 years you're likely to spend afterwards suggests to me that you're a recent graduate, if even that.
Must be good to be able to see the future, and know how long you're going to live. Stats are just stats. Any given day might be your last. If you're sacrificing your youth - few would argue against those being your best years - in the hope of something better down the track with no regard to how you're living now, I'd not call that wise, and I don't think you should be giving such advice.
For the parent social interaction is important. It's his life and he should work out what trade offs he wants to make in the full knowledge that there are consequences for those trade offs. Anything less is self-imposed slavery.
As a programmer I've been waiting for this. I was actually disappointed that Vista would support 32-bit CPUs
You know those end users who keep calling you a propeller-head and space cadet and generally tease or ridicule you? This is why. They just want their stuff to work and not to have to re-learn things every 5 mins.
I don't know who killed JFK and 40 years later it's too late for it to make a difference if there was some kind of weird cover up with most people who might have been involved retired or dead.
However you have to understand that anything that involves sex is infinitely harder to cover up than anything involving murder. In the case of sex you have a bunch of oversexed people wanting to boast about their antics, and in the second you have someone dead who can't speak for themselves and all witnesses in fear of their lives as they might be next. Sex mysteries or sex secrets are far rarer than murder mysteries.
Now, let's be honest here... I have yet to see a single person on Slashdot ever suggest running a file-sharing service from their desktop at work. So exactly why is a university a different story?
Because at work you get paid to perform a duty.
At university you pay them to be educated and spend the formative years of your young adulthood in a social environment before being forced into the work treadmill.
Your argument is at best useful against university staff who are sharing files.
Once again how the fuck is misinformation and poor analogy like this allowed to get away with being modded +5
Congratulations. You've just fallen into the lovely trap of feeling guilty about being overweight because society tells you you must. Would you prefer a whip to whip yourself, dangerous unnecessary surgery, or an eating disorder to go with that?
describes the multitude of summer camp romances in my youth...
You should have known those cheap realdoll knockoffs would puncture easily.
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Two things:
1) It's not just about playing on low IQ or gullibility, it's also about playing on desperation. Why do you think there's so much spam to do with Viagra etc. Desperate people will often give something a go even though they know it's not going to work, especially when you're only talking a small percentage of their disposable income.
2) Even smart people have bad days and make dumb decisions.
I'm not condoning this behaviour. I've never bought anything based on spam. However I'd hesitate to claim every purchase I've ever made is a good one. How about you?
Every consider that this liar I mean lawyer wasn't letting on what she really knew to start with? A smart Ivy League educated lawyer could possibly be smart enough to play dumb. If so it certainly worked on some level since it impressed you enough to mention it here.
It's a simple formula: calories in - calories burned = fat stored.
I see this argument all the time to justify treating fat people like shit because it must be their fault. Lets get some facts straight here.
1) You assuming 100% effiency burning those calories.
2) Conservation of mass/energy is only true when you assume a closed system. Last time I looked the human body couldn't survive as a closed system. You need air to breath for starters. Also colories does not equal weight. Water has no calories and isn't weightless.
3) Different people have very different hunger drives and there does appear to be some genetic basis for this. Would you have the self control to stop eating if you felt starved even though you'd only eaten a large meal half an hour ago? Now imagine this is how it is after EVERY large meal. Do you really think you wouldn't cave in occassionally?
4) Medical conditions make it very difficult for some people to excercise. It's hard to excercise if you're arthritic and in agony with every movement for example. It only takes some extreme pain in one foot and in one arm before excercise becomes a difficult proposition.
5) It's much harder on your body to excercise if you're already overweight. It tends to drain energy. Getting started can be very hard. If life gets in the way and you have to stop for a few weeks, you're almost back to square one fitness wise.
6) Not everyone is fit and healthy with no commitments. Try telling a single mother who's taken on 3 jobs that she needs to find the time to fit in excercise.
Open your friggen eyes and look around you. There are people who eat excessively and still don't gain weight, and there are those that eat next to nothing and don't lose weight.
Sorry but RMS would only go to court 1 day. On that day he'd piss off the judge, end up in contempt, refuse to apologise because he believes he's correct, and wind up in jail. If you really do need to idolize people, make it people with social skills.
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...so I hope they allow health benefits to cover prostate cancer testing for those at risk, instead of using the genetic marker to class it as a pre-existing condition or to refuse to insure you.
I'm sick and tired of the medical "profession". It has a lot in common with the oldest profession.
That's the problem with monopolies period.
When it comes to data like email there should be a choice of providers, your data should be easy to back up and you should keep multiple backups preferably geographically spaced far apart.
I'm not too worried about email though. Many providers provide email and there's even a choice between free mail providers. I use pop to store it and web mail at my ISP to read sometimes.
Now usenet is another story. Find me another decent usenet reader/posting software that's free.
I hate relying on Google and it's been buggy as hell lately.
Piracy is a crime. People should pay for a commercial product. However "It is the same as stealing one off the shelf" is about the silliest thing you could say. When the act of installing software magically makes a boxed DVD disappear I'll have to go to the police and inform them that someone's put drugs in my food or drink.
Such maturity you display. Anyone who makes arguments that include crying onomatopoeia and tells their opponent to "run home to mommy" has some serious issues. How do you expect anyone to take you seriously acting like such a 3 year old ass clown?
Software shouldn't be replaced just because it's old. It should be replaced when something offers the users an advantage.
Idiot.
Must be a rich kid. If I'd asked for 100K pocket money as a kid I'd get a clip around the ear :-)
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Nice rant. Unfortunately completely ruined by calling a coal mine a coldmine and making you sound completely uneducated and therefore unqualified to offer a sensible opinion, when you do in fact have something of a point.
That's a solid relationship you have there.
That's a little judgemental. Depending on a person's income it could be quite a big issue. Imagine that amount meant the family didn't get groceries for the week, or someone couldn't go to the doctor.
I've never seen fat camp shows, actually. And I don't think its easy, but I think that if you really want to do it then you can, and whining about genetics is just that: whining. I think that if you're fat then you should either accept that you would rather be fat than altering your lifestyle or do it, instead of going on about "oh woe is me I'm genetically predisposed to being fat."
That's like saying "If you want to be an olympic athelete, you should quit whining about genetics and just do it instead of saying woe is me I can't run fast". It's not just "hard" - it's so hard that few have done it successfully in the long term.
am pre-disposed to being overweight. It runs in my family. But it isn't going to take me a "massive" change in lifestyle to fix that. I just have to cut down portions and be a little bit more active. Neither do I assume that anyone who is a normal weight is that way because they've taken responsibility.
Well go ahead and do that. See how far you get making minor changes if you're pre-disposed to being fat. I'm fat. The one time I lost weight I had to take extreme measures. No bread. Salads and lean meat. Excercise no less than an hour a day every day. I've since tried just cutting back or replacing a meal with a salad and got no where.
Now, while we're talking about denial, let's talk about the whole "I'm fat because of genetics and nothing I can do can fix that." If it was "I'm fat because its too much effort for too little reward," then I can appreciate that. But the fact of the matter is that you will be less attractive to people, and that has certain negative side effects. I'd rather put in the effort.
If its as easy as you say (or as hard but achievable) and you're fat clearly you wouldn't rather put in that effort. You'd have a lot more credibility if you'd lost the weight and were saying this. Meanwhile I don't subscribe to your magazine "fat and guilty".
When I was in school, I made straight A's. Everyone always assumed that I went home and spent every waking hour studying. I didn't. I was just naturally very good at the kind of things involved in schoolwork. Does that mean that people who weren't as naturally inclined as me should get a free pass for flunking out?
I also drove people crazy beating them in test scores etc. when I was young when they'd studied their butts off and I'd done no where near as much. It means these people are less naturally talented and while it's important to try to get a good score at school, in the long run they're probably not as suited as me to academic work. Some of these people however excelled at things I stank at: Things like textiles, woodwork and metalwork and art. No matter how hard I tried at these things I was struggling to pass. I really really wish I had those woodwork and metalwork skills now and perhaps if I find the day some time I'll give learning those skills a try as an adult. However I am not suited to being a tradesman or an artist. I'd starve if I had to work in the fashion industry. Blaming myself for that is just fucking stupid. Those people who weren't as good as me academically blaming themselves is also fucking stupid. They should do what they have to to make it through school and focus on other things which they are pre-disposed to being good at.
Likewise making the focus of your life your weight if you're pre-disposed to being overweight is a recipe for being a miserable poorly adjusted individual. Do what you have to so you don't end up the next bed bound sad case, realise you're going to be somewhat overweight, and realise that doesn't make you hideous. Don't make excuses for people who tell you you are hideous because you don't look great with your clothes off.
You're making a huge assumption that I'm somehow condemning fat people. I'm not. I'm saying that ultimately it comes down to a choice. That choice can be effected by genetics: "I have to spend x amount of time because of my genetics to lose weight, and thats not worth it to me.
I'm suggesting that perhaps losing weight is not as easy as you're making out it is. Explain why 90% of people who lose weight put that weight plus more on within 5 years. Are you seriously telling me all these people are just fat and lazy and should take some responsibility? You've been watching too many reality tv fat camp shows.
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're overweight because you're pre-disposed to it? That while a massive change of lifestyle may allow you to lose weight, you may not be able to afford to maintain that lifestyle, nor might you like living that life? How about instead of denying it you come to grips with the fact that not everyone at "normal" weight is that way because they've taken responsibility for it. Lots of thin people do no exercise and eat unhealthily. Have a look in the mirror and accept who and what you are right now. THAT is taking responsibility. If you want to try to make changes go for it, but using words like "own fault" and agreeing with prats that others "whine about genetics" doesn't make you better, or healthier, and certainly doesn't make you more responsible for your own choices. It just makes you a guilt victim who wants to spread the guilt around.
Your implication that 3-5 years of campus life means a hill of beans to the 50-60 years you're likely to spend afterwards suggests to me that you're a recent graduate, if even that.
Must be good to be able to see the future, and know how long you're going to live. Stats are just stats. Any given day might be your last. If you're sacrificing your youth - few would argue against those being your best years - in the hope of something better down the track with no regard to how you're living now, I'd not call that wise, and I don't think you should be giving such advice.
For the parent social interaction is important. It's his life and he should work out what trade offs he wants to make in the full knowledge that there are consequences for those trade offs. Anything less is self-imposed slavery.
I see this all the time. Unless you're playing very good chess it doesn't matter what the strongest engine is.
As a programmer I've been waiting for this. I was actually disappointed that Vista would support 32-bit CPUs
You know those end users who keep calling you a propeller-head and space cadet and generally tease or ridicule you? This is why. They just want their stuff to work and not to have to re-learn things every 5 mins.
I don't know who killed JFK and 40 years later it's too late for it to make a difference if there was some kind of weird cover up with most people who might have been involved retired or dead.
However you have to understand that anything that involves sex is infinitely harder to cover up than anything involving murder. In the case of sex you have a bunch of oversexed people wanting to boast about their antics, and in the second you have someone dead who can't speak for themselves and all witnesses in fear of their lives as they might be next. Sex mysteries or sex secrets are far rarer than murder mysteries.
Now, let's be honest here ... I have yet to see a single person on Slashdot ever suggest running a file-sharing service from their desktop at work. So exactly why is a university a different story?
Because at work you get paid to perform a duty.
At university you pay them to be educated and spend the formative years of your young adulthood in a social environment before being forced into the work treadmill.
Your argument is at best useful against university staff who are sharing files.
Once again how the fuck is misinformation and poor analogy like this allowed to get away with being modded +5
Outrageous. If you're away for the weekend and don't respond to a complaint you're charged to be allowed continued access.
Fuck 'em. Don't reconnect and sue them for defamation. Of course you'll have to wave goodbye to your degree too.
Congratulations. You've just fallen into the lovely trap of feeling guilty about being overweight because society tells you you must. Would you prefer a whip to whip yourself, dangerous unnecessary surgery, or an eating disorder to go with that?
Except that HTML is text and images, and images can be encoded as text.
describes the multitude of summer camp romances in my youth...
You should have known those cheap realdoll knockoffs would puncture easily.
Two things:
1) It's not just about playing on low IQ or gullibility, it's also about playing on desperation. Why do you think there's so much spam to do with Viagra etc. Desperate people will often give something a go even though they know it's not going to work, especially when you're only talking a small percentage of their disposable income.
2) Even smart people have bad days and make dumb decisions.
I'm not condoning this behaviour. I've never bought anything based on spam. However I'd hesitate to claim every purchase I've ever made is a good one. How about you?
Every consider that this liar I mean lawyer wasn't letting on what she really knew to start with? A smart Ivy League educated lawyer could possibly be smart enough to play dumb. If so it certainly worked on some level since it impressed you enough to mention it here.
It's a simple formula: calories in - calories burned = fat stored.
I see this argument all the time to justify treating fat people like shit because it must be their fault. Lets get some facts straight here.
1) You assuming 100% effiency burning those calories.
2) Conservation of mass/energy is only true when you assume a closed system. Last time I looked the human body couldn't survive as a closed system. You need air to breath for starters. Also colories does not equal weight. Water has no calories and isn't weightless.
3) Different people have very different hunger drives and there does appear to be some genetic basis for this. Would you have the self control to stop eating if you felt starved even though you'd only eaten a large meal half an hour ago? Now imagine this is how it is after EVERY large meal. Do you really think you wouldn't cave in occassionally?
4) Medical conditions make it very difficult for some people to excercise. It's hard to excercise if you're arthritic and in agony with every movement for example. It only takes some extreme pain in one foot and in one arm before excercise becomes a difficult proposition.
5) It's much harder on your body to excercise if you're already overweight. It tends to drain energy. Getting started can be very hard. If life gets in the way and you have to stop for a few weeks, you're almost back to square one fitness wise.
6) Not everyone is fit and healthy with no commitments. Try telling a single mother who's taken on 3 jobs that she needs to find the time to fit in excercise.
Open your friggen eyes and look around you. There are people who eat excessively and still don't gain weight, and there are those that eat next to nothing and don't lose weight.
Man, we should bring this guy to the U.S. It would give our reporters the chance to meet a real journalist.
Perhaps, but what's the bet it would be in a jail cell.
Have you ever heard of de-barking a dog?
It's not that hard to cut or damage vocal chords.
Even I'd be surprised if it went that far (just as I'd be surprised if they really did start cutting off hands) but it's not physically impossible.
Sorry but RMS would only go to court 1 day. On that day he'd piss off the judge, end up in contempt, refuse to apologise because he believes he's correct, and wind up in jail. If you really do need to idolize people, make it people with social skills.