I used to weigh 245 lbs and I would blame it on genetics or on a slow metabolism or this or that when in reality it was because I spent a lot of my time in front of a computer and consumed copious amounts of sugary food/water. I now weigh 168 lbs [only 5'9''] with a sub 10% body fat; I exercise regularly, I eat lots of vegitables and I keep my caloric intake at/around 2000 calories a day.
Buddhism may be one framework to handle this from but it is really just about personal responibility. Fat people need to stop making excuses up for themeselves and society needs to stop cuddling them; if you can't control it than you're no different than an alcoholic and should get help. Otherwise, get off the fat train or take it to the last stop which is your own death.
In the end, I don't care about a persons genetic predisposition; I have a genetic predisposition towards addiction thus I'm cognizant of my choices but if I wake up five years from now and I'm addicted to smack that's my own fault. Morbid obesity is no different.
It's not nearly as absurd as the people who are paying $1300 on ebay for an XBox 36 and the best I can tell it's not the package that comes with eight games it's just the bloody system. Were I my roommate [he ordered his from amazon, according to UPS his package should arrive today] I'd sell the unit, keep the games and then buy it for $400 after Christmas, but that's just me:)
This is incredibly off topic and I am very aware of that so mod as you please but it's entertainment not real science! Stop being so nit-picky...I know many of us who visit this site are immersed in the scientific method but the purpose of this show is not to rewrite scientific theories; it's to blow some shit up and entertain people for an hour while occasionally teaching you something.
The number of shows that discovery has that are fun and somewhat informational but stray from strict scientific method is astronomical; stop the grandstanding and enjoy the show folks;)
Ok, so did you watch that episode all the way through or did you just turn it off after they started to melt the car with the turbines used to produce heavy winds for movies?
The company that was insuring the DC10 [may have been a 727 don't remember which] refused to allow them to conduct the experiment because of fear of damaging the plane. The turbines that they ended up using were clearly not strong enough to do the job but they said ON THE SHOW that this had actually happened in I believe Brazil somewhere. There were quite disappointed that they couldn't do it but shit happens.
To be fair to you s20451 there's a chance that I saw this on one of their episodes where they revisit old myths because of viewer consternation but I can't say for sure.
I'm no F1 expert but one of my buddies is a huge car buff and I was browsing a book of his on F1 cars and the book made reference to some team putting a giant fan on the back of the car which sucked out all the air underneath thus creating some suction. These things gripped the road insanely well and if my memory serves me they believed that they could have driven one of them upside down; the racing authority outlawed it within a few years though.
I can't seem to find any references to this nonsense though so I could be mistaken or my memory could be faulty.
"I didn't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends NOW! Shit that's three-on-three with a half-court."
"Everybody wants to know what the kids was listening to. What kind of music was they listening to? Or what kind of movie they was watching. Who gives a fuck what they was watching? Whatever happened to crazy? What happened to crazy? What, you can't be crazy no more? Did we eliminate crazy from the dictionary? Fuck the records. Fuck the movies. CRAZY. When I was a kid, they used to seperate the crazy kids from everybody, When I wa a kid, the crazy kids went to school in a little-ass yellow bus and had classes at the end of the school and they used to get out of school at 1 PM just in case they went crazy that way they would only hurt the other crazy kids."
IANAL either but if a case were to go to court, for instance, as a class action suit than they'd probably give Sony something along the line of 5% of the blame. Generally that's how it's done...at least I think but I'm not bloodleeching, coc...err I mean lawyer.
Who cares? So you're telling me that the internet is a mecca for people who do not always have the most developed set of social skills? This is news how? People judge us based on our look/gender/race/age every single day and I'm a little surprised that we make such a big deal out of it. From reading the article, it is clear that many of the individuals that Miss Butts is interacting with are still in their pubscent stages and need to grow up a bit but how is that any different than your local mall? Are they rude, are they offensive, are they juvenile? Yep, and it'd probably do a lot of these guys some good to go interact with human beings in the flesh but there is nothing "unique" about this particular situation nor are the problems discussed in the article in any way unique to the internet.
I'll be the first to admit that ten years ago, I was one of those obnoxious pubscent kids who didn't know how to talk to a girl who was shocked/impressed/intimidated by the idea of playing a video game with a girl but I can happily say that I've outgrown that stage. Let'em outgrow it, surround yourself by people who don't care and stop whining about life is fair; it's not fair that I have to pay for drinks at a bar but I deal with it.
Yes and its effects seem to mimic those of the hormone "Estrogen"...strange I tell you, STRANGE! Oops I just set my tinfoil hat on fire in the microwave!
I like Canada being gone. I mean those god damn canukes don't even use all that land! We could cut all the trees down and raise lots of genetically engineered cattle that have anti-freeze in their blood to exist in the colder climate or hell maybe with climate change it'll be warmer up there so we can really start industrializing the great waste known as "forests". Think of all the possibilities...moreover G.W. would have a huge base of poor people to recruit for his crusades against foreign dictators. It might just be the manpower he needs to finally start that war with Iran that we all know he wants so bad...good times had by all!
I think we ought to use Mr. Thompson for own ends. Seeing as he is so keen to sue people, maybe we should sign his email address up with every major spammer across the world and see how he reacts. I bet he'd have his legal dogs of war on their asses by the end of the week, maybe if we got really lucky the spammer and JT would use all their energies trying to eradicate each other leaving the rest of the world in peace. Oops, I hope JT doesn't decide to sue me for writing this!
I would argue that the disjuncture is occuring with Origin and not with EA, afterall EA is the parent company and Origin was bought by that company. Business is not always honkey-dorey; a corporation does not care about individual workers because that is not where their responibility lies. It is with the share-holders, the people who invest dollars in to the company. Just how it works, not a perfect system but free-market economies are successful...just gotta take the good with the bad.
It's not EA's responibility to adapt to Origin, it's the other way around...my two cents at least.
It's an interesting read but there isn't enough data there to come to anything conclusive. I believe that you could attribute these fluctuations to a variety of different things that have nothing to do with the plane contrails...the ole correlation-causation antinomy.
I'll not be surprised if many people disagree with me on this one but I agree with the anti-booth babe sentiment. It makes people involved in the game industry look like a bunch of pubscent teenage males still wondering what it'll be like to actually have sex. Moreover the herds of dudes waiting in line to have a picture taken with aformentioned booth babes makes every gamer look even worse. They add nothing to these conventions and only remove credibility from the gaming industry.
Besides a porn convention, can anyone name another type of convention that does that sort of shit? The only other convention type thing I've been to was the Winter Meetings for MLB and I garentee you there were no booth babes there.
To be fair to Vivendi, you must take in to the account that most fan projects never make it as far as this one did. As a large corporation, it was probably on their radar but why pay the legal hounds when 9 out of 10 of these things end up folding on their own. I would have loved to see the game released but they paid for that intellectual property and they have to perserve the brand name. KQIX could have released and been a terrible product; no matter why Vivendi did their name would be tied to that product.
It's easy to get angry at Vivendi but the people who worked on this project new the risk they were taking and Vivendi has all the power. If you want to call them vile, do so for how they treat customers/employees but not because they killed a project that could have adverse affects on their brand.
Go watch some more south park and then try coming up with some original humor or at least quote the sources that you blatantly steal from.
McDonalds soon followed up this announcement with the introduction of the fecal burger; it's slogan is "dum dum dum dum dum, I'm hating it" Episode 712 "All About The Mormons" Dum dum dum dum dum....
It's declared to be a bold new strategy; tell everyone that they don't want one, and do everything in your power to make no one want one, and people will buy it. Episode 506 "Cartmanland"; It's cartman's amusement park god dammit!
I remember the first time that I casually dropped "fuck" in a conversation that my mother overheard...her reaction was hilarious. She gave me this look and started to lecture me and I just laughed at her...ahhh to be in 8th grade again. Then again, I also would swear in my classes; teachers never got on my case though it's just a matter of employing your vernacular properly.
I still get a reaction when I drop "cunt" in front of my mom though; that word brings me pleasure like none other [no pun intended or sick joke intended]. She gives me this look like "What did you just say" and I just smile and say that the person I was referring to deserve it:)
To be fair, I never dropped "cunt" while I still lived at home; I suppose it's the freedom of not being supported by your parents anymore...
We use Websense at my work; my understanding is someone has to update the websense server to block websites. Someone noticed you going to WorldofWarcraft.com and blocked it; my solution was just to get access around the proxy:)
Although I agree with the general sentiment of your statement, I think you're coping out by saying that you're a pacifist. If this is important to you, do something about it. You needn't be violent to be a part of the solution and that implication is short-sighted on your part; had you said I'm lazy that would be fine.
That being said, the Evangelical Christians are a real threat to this country; I would argue it is every bit as dangerous as Islamic Fundamentalists although some may call that statement flamebait. The fuckers are setting up schools to teach young politicians how to use the bible to make lawmaker-type decisions. If that isn't the most absurd, dangerous and stupidest thing I've ever heard than I'll run around naked for a week. And yes, I think I'm employing the user of hyperbole here;)
The only people I know who go to burning man are either nerds who like to blow shit up or hippies who like to smoke shit up. I have yet to meet someone in the middle ground who attends burning man, but I'm sure they're out there;)
Actually, it really isn't a big deal and here's why; regardless of what occurs there will still be life on this planet. Human beings are not the center of the Universe; we're not even the center of this planet though we act that way.
Human beings don't matter, so even if the oceans rise by sixty meters there will be a new paradigm of life that will survive. Personally, I'm not going to trip about something that is much bigger and more powerful than me. I'm going to go along getting the most out life; translation interacting with other human beings and savouring just how amazing this little fluke called conciousness is.
Our time will come to an end here; maybe it'll be in my lifetime maybe it won't. Global Warming is happening; it's going to cause drastic changes to the ecosystem. We can't even begin to fathom the impact of these changes; the law of unintended consequence always holds. Life is dynamic, not static so why trip? Personally, I don't see the point in it.
Regarding religious freedom, I completely agree. As long as your religion doesn't encroach on the beliefs of others nor does it try to crush other religions; go to it. As soon as you cross that line, which I would argue evangelical christianity has, you are no better than fundamentalist Islam.
Religion + Extremists = Recipie for Chaos and Disaster...
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I used to weigh 245 lbs and I would blame it on genetics or on a slow metabolism or this or that when in reality it was because I spent a lot of my time in front of a computer and consumed copious amounts of sugary food/water. I now weigh 168 lbs [only 5'9''] with a sub 10% body fat; I exercise regularly, I eat lots of vegitables and I keep my caloric intake at/around 2000 calories a day.
Buddhism may be one framework to handle this from but it is really just about personal responibility. Fat people need to stop making excuses up for themeselves and society needs to stop cuddling them; if you can't control it than you're no different than an alcoholic and should get help. Otherwise, get off the fat train or take it to the last stop which is your own death.
In the end, I don't care about a persons genetic predisposition; I have a genetic predisposition towards addiction thus I'm cognizant of my choices but if I wake up five years from now and I'm addicted to smack that's my own fault. Morbid obesity is no different.
Aye, mine has yet to crash! Madden 2006 is the worst game EVER.
Kameo is fucking sweet.
It's not nearly as absurd as the people who are paying $1300 on ebay for an XBox 36 and the best I can tell it's not the package that comes with eight games it's just the bloody system. Were I my roommate [he ordered his from amazon, according to UPS his package should arrive today] I'd sell the unit, keep the games and then buy it for $400 after Christmas, but that's just me :)
I prefer the religious saying, "DEATH TO ALL ZEALOTS!"
This is incredibly off topic and I am very aware of that so mod as you please but it's entertainment not real science! Stop being so nit-picky...I know many of us who visit this site are immersed in the scientific method but the purpose of this show is not to rewrite scientific theories; it's to blow some shit up and entertain people for an hour while occasionally teaching you something.
;)
The number of shows that discovery has that are fun and somewhat informational but stray from strict scientific method is astronomical; stop the grandstanding and enjoy the show folks
Ok, so did you watch that episode all the way through or did you just turn it off after they started to melt the car with the turbines used to produce heavy winds for movies?
The company that was insuring the DC10 [may have been a 727 don't remember which] refused to allow them to conduct the experiment because of fear of damaging the plane. The turbines that they ended up using were clearly not strong enough to do the job but they said ON THE SHOW that this had actually happened in I believe Brazil somewhere. There were quite disappointed that they couldn't do it but shit happens.
To be fair to you s20451 there's a chance that I saw this on one of their episodes where they revisit old myths because of viewer consternation but I can't say for sure.
I'm no F1 expert but one of my buddies is a huge car buff and I was browsing a book of his on F1 cars and the book made reference to some team putting a giant fan on the back of the car which sucked out all the air underneath thus creating some suction. These things gripped the road insanely well and if my memory serves me they believed that they could have driven one of them upside down; the racing authority outlawed it within a few years though.
I can't seem to find any references to this nonsense though so I could be mistaken or my memory could be faulty.
"I didn't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends NOW! Shit that's three-on-three with
a half-court."
"Everybody wants to know what the kids was listening to. What kind of music was they listening to? Or what kind of movie they was watching. Who gives a fuck what they was watching? Whatever happened to crazy? What happened to crazy? What, you can't be crazy no more? Did we eliminate crazy from the dictionary? Fuck the records. Fuck the movies. CRAZY. When I was a kid, they used to seperate the crazy kids from everybody, When I wa a kid, the crazy kids went to school in a little-ass yellow bus and had classes at the end of the school and they used to get out of school at 1 PM just in case they went crazy that way they would only hurt the other crazy kids."
IANAL either but if a case were to go to court, for instance, as a class action suit than they'd probably give Sony something along the line of 5% of the blame. Generally that's how it's done...at least I think but I'm not bloodleeching, coc...err I mean lawyer.
Who cares? So you're telling me that the internet is a mecca for people who do not always have the most developed set of social skills? This is news how? People judge us based on our look/gender/race/age every single day and I'm a little surprised that we make such a big deal out of it. From reading the article, it is clear that many of the individuals that Miss Butts is interacting with are still in their pubscent stages and need to grow up a bit but how is that any different than your local mall? Are they rude, are they offensive, are they juvenile? Yep, and it'd probably do a lot of these guys some good to go interact with human beings in the flesh but there is nothing "unique" about this particular situation nor are the problems discussed in the article in any way unique to the internet.
I'll be the first to admit that ten years ago, I was one of those obnoxious pubscent kids who didn't know how to talk to a girl who was shocked/impressed/intimidated by the idea of playing a video game with a girl but I can happily say that I've outgrown that stage. Let'em outgrow it, surround yourself by people who don't care and stop whining about life is fair; it's not fair that I have to pay for drinks at a bar but I deal with it.
Yes and its effects seem to mimic those of the hormone "Estrogen"...strange I tell you, STRANGE!
Oops I just set my tinfoil hat on fire in the microwave!
I like Canada being gone. I mean those god damn canukes don't even use all that land! We could cut all the trees down and raise lots of genetically engineered cattle that have anti-freeze in their blood to exist in the colder climate or hell maybe with climate change it'll be warmer up there so we can really start industrializing the great waste known as "forests". Think of all the possibilities...moreover G.W. would have a huge base of poor people to recruit for his crusades against foreign dictators. It might just be the manpower he needs to finally start that war with Iran that we all know he wants so bad...good times had by all!
I always have wanted to teach myself reactor science & atomic theory!
I think we ought to use Mr. Thompson for own ends. Seeing as he is so keen to sue people, maybe we should sign his email address up with every major spammer across the world and see how he reacts. I bet he'd have his legal dogs of war on their asses by the end of the week, maybe if we got really lucky the spammer and JT would use all their energies trying to eradicate each other leaving the rest of the world in peace. Oops, I hope JT doesn't decide to sue me for writing this!
I would argue that the disjuncture is occuring with Origin and not with EA, afterall EA is the parent company and Origin was bought by that company. Business is not always honkey-dorey; a corporation does not care about individual workers because that is not where their responibility lies. It is with the share-holders, the people who invest dollars in to the company. Just how it works, not a perfect system but free-market economies are successful...just gotta take the good with the bad.
It's not EA's responibility to adapt to Origin, it's the other way around...my two cents at least.
It's an interesting read but there isn't enough data there to come to anything conclusive. I believe that you could attribute these fluctuations to a variety of different things that have nothing to do with the plane contrails...the ole correlation-causation antinomy.
I'll not be surprised if many people disagree with me on this one but I agree with the anti-booth babe sentiment. It makes people involved in the game industry look like a bunch of pubscent teenage males still wondering what it'll be like to actually have sex. Moreover the herds of dudes waiting in line to have a picture taken with aformentioned booth babes makes every gamer look even worse. They add nothing to these conventions and only remove credibility from the gaming industry.
Besides a porn convention, can anyone name another type of convention that does that sort of shit? The only other convention type thing I've been to was the Winter Meetings for MLB and I garentee you there were no booth babes there.
To be fair to Vivendi, you must take in to the account that most fan projects never make it as far as this one did. As a large corporation, it was probably on their radar but why pay the legal hounds when 9 out of 10 of these things end up folding on their own. I would have loved to see the game released but they paid for that intellectual property and they have to perserve the brand name. KQIX could have released and been a terrible product; no matter why Vivendi did their name would be tied to that product.
It's easy to get angry at Vivendi but the people who worked on this project new the risk they were taking and Vivendi has all the power. If you want to call them vile, do so for how they treat customers/employees but not because they killed a project that could have adverse affects on their brand.
Go watch some more south park and then try coming up with some original humor or at least quote the sources that you blatantly steal from.
McDonalds soon followed up this announcement with the introduction of the fecal burger; it's slogan is "dum dum dum dum dum, I'm hating it" Episode 712 "All About The Mormons"
Dum dum dum dum dum....
It's declared to be a bold new strategy; tell everyone that they don't want one, and do everything in your power to make no one want one, and people will buy it. Episode 506 "Cartmanland"; It's cartman's amusement park god dammit!
I remember the first time that I casually dropped "fuck" in a conversation that my mother overheard...her reaction was hilarious. She gave me this look and started to lecture me and I just laughed at her...ahhh to be in 8th grade again. Then again, I also would swear in my classes; teachers never got on my case though it's just a matter of employing your vernacular properly.
:)
I still get a reaction when I drop "cunt" in front of my mom though; that word brings me pleasure like none other [no pun intended or sick joke intended]. She gives me this look like "What did you just say" and I just smile and say that the person I was referring to deserve it
To be fair, I never dropped "cunt" while I still lived at home; I suppose it's the freedom of not being supported by your parents anymore...
We use Websense at my work; my understanding is someone has to update the websense server to block websites. Someone noticed you going to WorldofWarcraft.com and blocked it; my solution was just to get access around the proxy :)
Although I agree with the general sentiment of your statement, I think you're coping out by saying that you're a pacifist. If this is important to you, do something about it. You needn't be violent to be a part of the solution and that implication is short-sighted on your part; had you said I'm lazy that would be fine.
;)
That being said, the Evangelical Christians are a real threat to this country; I would argue it is every bit as dangerous as Islamic Fundamentalists although some may call that statement flamebait. The fuckers are setting up schools to teach young politicians how to use the bible to make lawmaker-type decisions. If that isn't the most absurd, dangerous and stupidest thing I've ever heard than I'll run around naked for a week. And yes, I think I'm employing the user of hyperbole here
The only people I know who go to burning man are either nerds who like to blow shit up or hippies who like to smoke shit up. I have yet to meet someone in the middle ground who attends burning man, but I'm sure they're out there ;)
Actually, it really isn't a big deal and here's why; regardless of what occurs there will still be life on this planet. Human beings are not the center of the Universe; we're not even the center of this planet though we act that way.
Human beings don't matter, so even if the oceans rise by sixty meters there will be a new paradigm of life that will survive. Personally, I'm not going to trip about something that is much bigger and more powerful than me. I'm going to go along getting the most out life; translation interacting with other human beings and savouring just how amazing this little fluke called conciousness is.
Our time will come to an end here; maybe it'll be in my lifetime maybe it won't. Global Warming is happening; it's going to cause drastic changes to the ecosystem. We can't even begin to fathom the impact of these changes; the law of unintended consequence always holds. Life is dynamic, not static so why trip? Personally, I don't see the point in it.
Regarding religious freedom, I completely agree. As long as your religion doesn't encroach on the beliefs of others nor does it try to crush other religions; go to it. As soon as you cross that line, which I would argue evangelical christianity has, you are no better than fundamentalist Islam.
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Religion + Extremists = Recipie for Chaos and Disaster