You can tell me MSG is not bad for me and maybe it's not causing any long-term damage. But I know when I've eaten it and that it makes me feel bad.
When I eat it, I get a fuzzy dull headache and feel "hot" like I have a fever. If I get a lot, I feel bad like you feel when a bad cold is starting... a stiffness in the chest, etc. In fact, my ex-girlfriend reminds me of many days I would call her to cancel plans because I thought I was coming down with a bad cold. But the next day I would be fine.
I don't know what made me think of MSG, but I decided to cut it out. I had it out of my diet for more than 2 weeks and never had the symptoms. No headaches, no "hot flashes", etc. Then I ate soup at a chain restaurant. Within an hour the fuzzy headache was there and I had the hot feeling all afternoon... soon with the feeling like I was getting sick.
It happened again at Thanksgiving. Shortly after the meal I started to feel it. I managed to narrow it down to the green-bean casserole I ate. It was made with a common brand of cream of mushroom soup - that has MSG in it.
Maybe it's something else, or maybe it is all all in my head, but I know that if I avoid it, I feel much better and when I eat it, I feel bad. It's a simple choice for me.
There is lots of research going both ways. The food industry likes MSG because it makes crappy ingredients taste better, and there's lots of research to support that. There are people who feel it's a health risk (a drug more than an allergen) and there's research supporting it.
What I do know is how much better I feel simply cutting MSG and HFCS from my diet. Otherwise, I still eat a lot of crap and don't exercise. But, I feel much better... rarely have headaches, indigestion happens only a couple times a month, and the extreme fatigue I'm used to is gone. I feel like a new person. It's a simple change that is working well for me. I highly recommend it for anyone else who is always tired, has lots of headaches, and otherwise feels crappy all the time. I post about it often and have gotten lots of good feedback from people who have tried it with great success.
On the other hand, I know people who were raised on MSG and have no adverse reactions.
I agree with you. I guess I meant the kind of story it would be in... and I couldn't think of who wrote Bond. The poisoning in this manner was a definite message, with enought subtlety that it would be more La Carre than the Bond author.
Think of his question as a project in itself and assess the deliverables, etc. "How much detail would you like?" would have been a good way to find out what he's looking for. And that way, when you answer you're delivering what he wanted.
On the other hand, he should have asked you for more detail rather than accusing you of lying.
Some people like to ask open-ended questions to get you to stumble... like giving enough rope to hang yourself. The best way to fight this is to ask questions about what exactly they want to know and into what detail. Another trick is to look at you quietly after you've talking. Most people will be uncomfortable with the silence and will start talking again. In an interview, this is usually where the good stuff comes out. "Does that answer you question?" is a good way to difuse it, or "would you like more detail?"
He sounds like a jerk and you're probably better off not there anyway.
Try cutting out MSG and High Fructose Corn Syrup from your diet. I cut just those two things and found my never-ending daily fatigue has all but gone away.
I'm not saying it will work for you, but it's done wonders for me. Oh, and MSG "hides" as all kinds of things like textured proteins and autolyzed yeasts.
Anyway, I'm less tired all the time and I'm losing weight. I'm now trying to start exercising regularly... at least now I have the energy for it.
They were filled with people with hopes and dreams, making discoveries and learning new things just like people do today. Just because they didn't have computers to post on Slashdot or the wealth of scientific knowledge we have today doesn't mean they were "dark."
They weren't so dark because they were lit by the fires of burning heretics, witches, and anyone who espoused a knowledge or wisdom not sanctioned by the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Other than that, it was a peachy time to be a European.
This Israelites, believing a piece of land was promised to them by "God", exterminated, drove out, or enslaved all the people previously living on that land. The Canaanites should have known some bad shit was up when a band of former Egyptian slaves and a Pillar of Fire(tm) came over the hill.
Don't worry. They'll eventually go to total surveillance systems in all classrooms... to cover their asses. It's not the recording that's the problem. It's who posesses the recording that makes the difference.
I'd say it's more like having your TV facing a window and leaving the curtains open. You shouldn't have much right to complain that the neighbors are looking in the window at your TV. If you don't like it, move the TV or close the blinds... It's your light that's going out into the public. If you can't control it then you probably shouldn't be running it.
There are a lot of factors. One way to do it is to make a list of your priorities in life and then rank them. You can then do a simple "which best meets the top priority" or you can assign some kind of weighting and rank each choice on how it meets all your priorities. Only you can come up with the list of priorities and the value of each.
Some ideas: Better commute: 10 points Paying off debts: 20 points Control over work: 15 points Enjoyable work environment: 15 points Staying in my house: 30 points Future Job Prospects: 20 points Opportunities for Advancement: 25 points
etc.
So now you have that raking of priorities. You can then assign the points from each priority to each job.. all or nothing, or distributed: Debts (Job 1): 15 Debts (Job 2): 5
It's not perfect, but it gives you an analytical way to consider the things that are not easily tangible such as salary1 vs. salary2. But also trust your gut. If you "feel" you're leaning towards one job when you "think" the other would be better, try to figure out what is leading your gut.
In any case, it's a good problem to have - to choose between two pretty good jobs. Make your pick and don't look back.
How about this: It's always bad when a non-accountable corporation that is a practical monopoly in the role of a public utility applies censorship to the people. The public has no recourse (I can't "vote" with my dollars to not have my packets go over Verizon's trunk lines.).
At least when a democratic government does censorship, the citizens, in theory, have a voice in stopping or changing the nature of that censorship.
I don't read "Knee-Jerk Talking Points Weekly". But I have been studying the Middle East and US involvement there quite actively since 1992 when I became an Arabic linguist in US Military Intelligence. So, while I'm not an expert, I feel like I have more than a cursory understanding of what's been going on over there.
The subsequent trials will end once he's executed. Thus the whole "more than 30 days" to complete the execution once the automatic appeals are exhausted. And that will happen before anything too embarrassing for the US will be put on the record.
At what point did the courts and civilians of any particular country suddenly become required to take the relatively insignificant matters of a foreign body into consideration for what happens within their own country?
It probably happens at the point when that foreign body has installed a government for you and has 150,000 military troops (and an unknown number of contractors/mercs) occupying your country and supporting that puppet government. My guess is that when the occupying power tells the puppet government to jump, it jumps. Because that puppet knows if he doesn't, he'll be replaced by another "more compliant" puppet.
When the US no longer has an occupation force in Iraq, I'll have a little more faith that the Iraqi government is working in its own name and for its own behalf.
Wrong! The best hope for getting Democrat candidates elected is to bus hordes of illegal immigrants to the polls to vote for them so the illegal immigrants won't fear losing their welfare or to actually have some policy besides gay marriage and "anti bush" anything to compete with.
Where do you come up with this?
Everywhere I've ever voted, you have to go to a specific place and you have your name checked off a list. If you're not on the list, at best you get to use a provisional ballot.
An "illegal" trying to vote would have to have their name on the list, or have someone else's name... and use it before that someone else has voted.
I now live in a state that has vote-by-mail. You only get a ballot if you're registered to vote, which means you have to have an address. It's not likely that "busloads" of illegals are hanging out here for 30 days just so they can register to vote and then vote (you have to register 30 days before the election).
I'm much more fearful of voting machines and counting machines with no audit trail and with no real verification of their source codes. Especially the ones provided by companies whose president says publicly that he'll do everything he can to ensure the election of one of the candidates.
What's totally amazing to me is that he was not tried for gassing the kurds or gassing the iranians. Amazing that nobody would be charged for those crimes.
It's not so amazing, actually. Those charges coming to trial would allow the presentation of evidence that would show the complicity of the US government in those actions. At that time, the US was playing a very active role in helping to ensure that Iraq did not lose the war with Iran.
The best thing for the US is for Saddam to go away, "justly condemned" before he can spill his guts about his relationship with the US pre-Kuwait. That would be very embarassing for a lot of people in the current administration.
Such is the great conceit of Americans, to think that the legal system of a foreign country timed a verdict so as to coincide with our mid-term elections.
I'd agree with you if the US wasn't still occupying that country. You're deluding yourself if you think the Iraqi government is working independently of the US.
From Reuters:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A court trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity could delay its verdict by a few days, the chief prosecutor said on Sunday, in a move that would shift the announcement until after U.S. midterm elections.
The U.S.-backed court had been due to deliver a verdict on November 5, two days before U.S. elections in which President George W. Bush's Republicans fear they could lose control of Congress.... News of the possible delay follows a week of public spats between U.S. officials and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Maliki's aides say he is furious at U.S. pressure on him ahead of the elections as the American public turns increasingly away from Bush's Iraq policy.
They were originally going to release their verdict in October. Of course, it must certainly be a coincidence that it was delayed to this weekend.
And you're right, it's the height of hubris and conceit for the US government to impose its will on foreign governments. But you're just being willfully ignornat if you don't see that it's going on in plain sight.
Actually.. I think disputing the charges should be done as a last resort, if you decide it is futile, and you will just surrender the domain (allow them to expire it).
You only have 60 days from the transaction date to dispute the charge. If you must wait, wait till close to that date then file with the credit card company in writing. Yout have to get this started.
The credit card company traditionally asks the company if what you say is true and takes their word for it... and denies you in round one. But at this point you can appeal. But if you don't file within 60 days, you have nothing and no recourse via the credit card company.
How can it be a free society when there is ubiquitous surveillance and police presence? How can people be free when they are afraid that any abberation in behavior will bring police action upon them?
You don't have arrest and prosecute to squash free speech and free assembly. You just have to have persistent police investigations and police "harassment".
Why would you even want to live in a society like that?
If you're a doit-yourselfer, or cheap, my sole journal entry here might be of interest.
You can install a small linux partition on a machine that will capture an image of the windows drive and will restore the image upon reboot. It was written for win98 and used tar/gz. Win2k/XP would need dd/gzip or some other imager like partimage, but the principle's the same.
Just make sure you turn off auto-updates otherwise your software will want to auto-update very time.
Nike doesn't often get good press, but they recently build a windfarm in Lakdaal, Belgium, where they have their main European distribution center. The windfarm provides 100% of the power needs of the facility, in addition to the power needs of some 8000 households.
I'm sure google will share/sell what they don't use.
Well, there's the datacenter they are building in The Dalles, OR. It's next to a defunct aluminum plant and will be powered by the nearby hydroelectric dam. It's awefully hard on the salmon but it's mostly renewable and fairly clean. The many cooling towers are already easily visible from the freeway.
My guess is the picked the location for the nearby/cheap power, low labor costs, cheap land, and relatively low corporate taxes in Oregon. Plus there's great windsurfing just 20 miles down the river.. and it's a pretty place.
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You can tell me MSG is not bad for me and maybe it's not causing any long-term damage. But I know when I've eaten it and that it makes me feel bad.
When I eat it, I get a fuzzy dull headache and feel "hot" like I have a fever. If I get a lot, I feel bad like you feel when a bad cold is starting... a stiffness in the chest, etc. In fact, my ex-girlfriend reminds me of many days I would call her to cancel plans because I thought I was coming down with a bad cold. But the next day I would be fine.
I don't know what made me think of MSG, but I decided to cut it out. I had it out of my diet for more than 2 weeks and never had the symptoms. No headaches, no "hot flashes", etc. Then I ate soup at a chain restaurant. Within an hour the fuzzy headache was there and I had the hot feeling all afternoon... soon with the feeling like I was getting sick.
It happened again at Thanksgiving. Shortly after the meal I started to feel it. I managed to narrow it down to the green-bean casserole I ate. It was made with a common brand of cream of mushroom soup - that has MSG in it.
Maybe it's something else, or maybe it is all all in my head, but I know that if I avoid it, I feel much better and when I eat it, I feel bad. It's a simple choice for me.
There is lots of research going both ways. The food industry likes MSG because it makes crappy ingredients taste better, and there's lots of research to support that. There are people who feel it's a health risk (a drug more than an allergen) and there's research supporting it.
What I do know is how much better I feel simply cutting MSG and HFCS from my diet. Otherwise, I still eat a lot of crap and don't exercise. But, I feel much better... rarely have headaches, indigestion happens only a couple times a month, and the extreme fatigue I'm used to is gone. I feel like a new person. It's a simple change that is working well for me. I highly recommend it for anyone else who is always tired, has lots of headaches, and otherwise feels crappy all the time. I post about it often and have gotten lots of good feedback from people who have tried it with great success.
On the other hand, I know people who were raised on MSG and have no adverse reactions.
I agree with you. I guess I meant the kind of story it would be in... and I couldn't think of who wrote Bond. The poisoning in this manner was a definite message, with enought subtlety that it would be more La Carre than the Bond author.
Alec Guinness's portrayal of Smiley - so superb!
Think of his question as a project in itself and assess the deliverables, etc. "How much detail would you like?" would have been a good way to find out what he's looking for. And that way, when you answer you're delivering what he wanted.
On the other hand, he should have asked you for more detail rather than accusing you of lying.
Some people like to ask open-ended questions to get you to stumble... like giving enough rope to hang yourself. The best way to fight this is to ask questions about what exactly they want to know and into what detail. Another trick is to look at you quietly after you've talking. Most people will be uncomfortable with the silence and will start talking again. In an interview, this is usually where the good stuff comes out. "Does that answer you question?" is a good way to difuse it, or "would you like more detail?"
He sounds like a jerk and you're probably better off not there anyway.
Try cutting out MSG and High Fructose Corn Syrup from your diet. I cut just those two things and found my never-ending daily fatigue has all but gone away.
I'm not saying it will work for you, but it's done wonders for me. Oh, and MSG "hides" as all kinds of things like textured proteins and autolyzed yeasts.
Anyway, I'm less tired all the time and I'm losing weight. I'm now trying to start exercising regularly... at least now I have the energy for it.
I don't know. The methodology sounds much more "George Smiley" than "James Bond".
The Dark Ages weren't all that dark.
They were filled with people with hopes and dreams, making discoveries and learning new things just like people do today. Just because they didn't have computers to post on Slashdot or the wealth of scientific knowledge we have today doesn't mean they were "dark."
They weren't so dark because they were lit by the fires of burning heretics, witches, and anyone who espoused a knowledge or wisdom not sanctioned by the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Other than that, it was a peachy time to be a European.
This Israelites, believing a piece of land was promised to them by "God", exterminated, drove out, or enslaved all the people previously living on that land. The Canaanites should have known some bad shit was up when a band of former Egyptian slaves and a Pillar of Fire(tm) came over the hill.
Sort of set a precedence, I suppose.
Don't worry. They'll eventually go to total surveillance systems in all classrooms... to cover their asses. It's not the recording that's the problem. It's who posesses the recording that makes the difference.
I'd say it's more like having your TV facing a window and leaving the curtains open. You shouldn't have much right to complain that the neighbors are looking in the window at your TV. If you don't like it, move the TV or close the blinds... It's your light that's going out into the public. If you can't control it then you probably shouldn't be running it.
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Week 52: Realize that engineers are just coders working in meat-space. Switch major to Business. If you can't beat'em, join'em.
There are a lot of factors. One way to do it is to make a list of your priorities in life and then rank them. You can then do a simple "which best meets the top priority" or you can assign some kind of weighting and rank each choice on how it meets all your priorities. Only you can come up with the list of priorities and the value of each.
Some ideas:
Better commute: 10 points
Paying off debts: 20 points
Control over work: 15 points
Enjoyable work environment: 15 points
Staying in my house: 30 points
Future Job Prospects: 20 points
Opportunities for Advancement: 25 points
etc.
So now you have that raking of priorities. You can then assign the points from each priority to each job.. all or nothing, or distributed:
Debts (Job 1): 15
Debts (Job 2): 5
It's not perfect, but it gives you an analytical way to consider the things that are not easily tangible such as salary1 vs. salary2. But also trust your gut. If you "feel" you're leaning towards one job when you "think" the other would be better, try to figure out what is leading your gut.
In any case, it's a good problem to have - to choose between two pretty good jobs. Make your pick and don't look back.
simply parrot the line 'all censorship is bad'
How about this: It's always bad when a non-accountable corporation that is a practical monopoly in the role of a public utility applies censorship to the people. The public has no recourse (I can't "vote" with my dollars to not have my packets go over Verizon's trunk lines.).
At least when a democratic government does censorship, the citizens, in theory, have a voice in stopping or changing the nature of that censorship.
I don't read "Knee-Jerk Talking Points Weekly". But I have been studying the Middle East and US involvement there quite actively since 1992 when I became an Arabic linguist in US Military Intelligence. So, while I'm not an expert, I feel like I have more than a cursory understanding of what's been going on over there.
The subsequent trials will end once he's executed. Thus the whole "more than 30 days" to complete the execution once the automatic appeals are exhausted. And that will happen before anything too embarrassing for the US will be put on the record.
At what point did the courts and civilians of any particular country suddenly become required to take the relatively insignificant matters of a foreign body into consideration for what happens within their own country?
It probably happens at the point when that foreign body has installed a government for you and has 150,000 military troops (and an unknown number of contractors/mercs) occupying your country and supporting that puppet government. My guess is that when the occupying power tells the puppet government to jump, it jumps. Because that puppet knows if he doesn't, he'll be replaced by another "more compliant" puppet.
When the US no longer has an occupation force in Iraq, I'll have a little more faith that the Iraqi government is working in its own name and for its own behalf.
Wrong! The best hope for getting Democrat candidates elected is to bus hordes of illegal immigrants to the polls to vote for them so the illegal immigrants won't fear losing their welfare or to actually have some policy besides gay marriage and "anti bush" anything to compete with.
Where do you come up with this?
Everywhere I've ever voted, you have to go to a specific place and you have your name checked off a list. If you're not on the list, at best you get to use a provisional ballot.
An "illegal" trying to vote would have to have their name on the list, or have someone else's name... and use it before that someone else has voted.
I now live in a state that has vote-by-mail. You only get a ballot if you're registered to vote, which means you have to have an address. It's not likely that "busloads" of illegals are hanging out here for 30 days just so they can register to vote and then vote (you have to register 30 days before the election).
I'm much more fearful of voting machines and counting machines with no audit trail and with no real verification of their source codes. Especially the ones provided by companies whose president says publicly that he'll do everything he can to ensure the election of one of the candidates.
What's totally amazing to me is that he was not tried for gassing the kurds or gassing the iranians. Amazing that nobody would be charged for those crimes.
It's not so amazing, actually. Those charges coming to trial would allow the presentation of evidence that would show the complicity of the US government in those actions. At that time, the US was playing a very active role in helping to ensure that Iraq did not lose the war with Iran.
The best thing for the US is for Saddam to go away, "justly condemned" before he can spill his guts about his relationship with the US pre-Kuwait. That would be very embarassing for a lot of people in the current administration.
Such is the great conceit of Americans, to think that the legal system of a foreign country timed a verdict so as to coincide with our mid-term elections.
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I'd agree with you if the US wasn't still occupying that country. You're deluding yourself if you think the Iraqi government is working independently of the US.
From Reuters:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A court trying
Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity could delay its verdict by a few days, the chief prosecutor said on Sunday, in a move that would shift the announcement until after U.S. midterm elections.
The U.S.-backed court had been due to deliver a verdict on November 5, two days before U.S. elections in which
President George W. Bush's Republicans fear they could lose control of Congress.
News of the possible delay follows a week of public spats between U.S. officials and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Maliki's aides say he is furious at U.S. pressure on him ahead of the elections as the American public turns increasingly away from Bush's Iraq policy.
They were originally going to release their verdict in October. Of course, it must certainly be a coincidence that it was delayed to this weekend.
And you're right, it's the height of hubris and conceit for the US government to impose its will on foreign governments. But you're just being willfully ignornat if you don't see that it's going on in plain sight.
Not East Germany. Wall is to keep Mexicans out, not Americans in.
And it's probably only about 3 meter walk for the "soldiers" pointing their guns at the Mexican side to switch and point them at the American side.
Actually.. I think disputing the charges should be done as a last resort, if you decide it is futile, and you will just surrender the domain (allow them to expire it).
You only have 60 days from the transaction date to dispute the charge. If you must wait, wait till close to that date then file with the credit card company in writing. Yout have to get this started.
The credit card company traditionally asks the company if what you say is true and takes their word for it... and denies you in round one. But at this point you can appeal. But if you don't file within 60 days, you have nothing and no recourse via the credit card company.
How can it be a free society when there is ubiquitous surveillance and police presence? How can people be free when they are afraid that any abberation in behavior will bring police action upon them?
You don't have arrest and prosecute to squash free speech and free assembly. You just have to have persistent police investigations and police "harassment".
Why would you even want to live in a society like that?
I don't have a bed to get out of. The question is meaningless.
I don't have any teeth. The question is meaningless.
Yes.
So, even a question requiring a yes or no can have a null/non-sequitor answer.
Or.. you didn't define bed. Does a couch count? A futon? A straw matress on the floor? What if I wasn't in bed before the day started?
There's only one question I can think of that only has one answer: "Are you alive?"
If you're a doit-yourselfer, or cheap, my sole journal entry here might be of interest.
You can install a small linux partition on a machine that will capture an image of the windows drive and will restore the image upon reboot. It was written for win98 and used tar/gz. Win2k/XP would need dd/gzip or some other imager like partimage, but the principle's the same.
Just make sure you turn off auto-updates otherwise your software will want to auto-update very time.
http://slashdot.org/~hazem/journal/
I've heard zenworks can do this easier but not cheaper...
Don't worry... we have a congressional page program for any kid that wants to be molested.
Nike doesn't often get good press, but they recently build a windfarm in Lakdaal, Belgium, where they have their main European distribution center. The windfarm provides 100% of the power needs of the facility, in addition to the power needs of some 8000 households.
I'm sure google will share/sell what they don't use.
Well, there's the datacenter they are building in The Dalles, OR. It's next to a defunct aluminum plant and will be powered by the nearby hydroelectric dam. It's awefully hard on the salmon but it's mostly renewable and fairly clean. The many cooling towers are already easily visible from the freeway.
My guess is the picked the location for the nearby/cheap power, low labor costs, cheap land, and relatively low corporate taxes in Oregon. Plus there's great windsurfing just 20 miles down the river.. and it's a pretty place.