I'm a huge low-carb fan, I've lost 65 pounds since March on a very low carb diet. Pizza has, usually, crust. And tomato sauce. The latter is at least a useful source of nutrients, but the crust is just a hunk of white flour. Essentially pure sugar, when you get down to it. That's why I called it crap food.
If you're eating 14" stuffed crust pizzas with added meat toppings, you are eating serious amounts of crap food. You're just lucky enough that your metabolism is capable of handling it.
Sports are an easy, reliable way to gain a group of people who - even if you're not really friends - will get your back. Alas, too often overlooked by the geek. You don't even have to play - while the "managers" as we called them weren't part of the core football team, they too would be protected, because these were the guys who came running with the cold water during time-outs. Being friends with the football team is useful.
There was a convenience store in a shitty neighborhood between my house and the main public library that would sell me porn when I was 14. I should have turned it into a profitable business but I wasn't forward-thinking enough at that age. My parents would never have questioned the frequency with which I went to the library, especially if I actually came home with something different every night.
In industrial/suburban/10-miles-west-of-the-action Jersey.
If you just want to get drunk cheaply, I suggest Louisiana. Even at a bar, you can put yourself onto another planet for less than $20. (Tropical Isle Hand Grenades, anyone?)
The really funny part is that the AG (a Democrat, oddly enough) is a great friend of the trial lawyers who accordingly campaigned on being a populist man-of-the-people type.
We already established you don't understand chemistry. Now I'm starting to suspect your greater problem is that you can't read, period. Salt water never appears in that report. Unsurprising, considering it's from Montana.
You really don't understand chemistry, do you? You can boil salt water or waste water for the water gas reaction. The molecules don't care.
As for coal, I thought you were trying to argue that we were going to run out of fuel. Now you're trying to tell me we shouldn't use the fuel we have, which is an entirely separate argument, and one which presupposes that we're not going to run out. Which is it?
So what? We'll move from cheaper fuels to more expensive fuels, sure, when we scale up the Fischer-Tropsch or cellulosic ethanol plants to supply global gasoline needs, but even when all the coal's gone we've got nuclear fission left, and that's just today's technology.
Only if you drink a nice hot cup of something else. I'm not much of a coffee drinker but it's hard to beat getting warmed up from the inside on a chilly winter morning.
Why on earth would you take such an awful passive-aggressive maneuver vs Bob? He's not a fucking moron, and when you go around trying to undermine him you are very likely to get eaten alive. Just because the existing technological solution is suboptimal does not mean that people don't trust Bob - he very likely got the job because he was the only person who understood computers well enough to make a functional solution.
I wasn't ever Bob. I have never worked in IT, or maintained any system that wasn't for my own personal use. But I've known a few Bobs, and every one of them was doing the best they could to deal with a situation that had grown too complex for their abilities and yet not complicated enough to justify paying someone to fix it properly. If you walk in and start asking the moon, you'd better be able to deliver it with zero downtime and zero retraining. Because otherwise, Bob's system is better.
There is a reason that the image macro of the highly demanding Asian father says "Can choose any career you want - engineer OR doctor!" However much the elites of society disdain more technical fields, they offer a very clear path for people to turn raw intelligence into a stable, successful life. Sure, there are a lot of people younger than me who have a lot more financial success than I do, but I didnt have anything to fall back on if I screwed up and it was worth it to me to do something secure. My children or grandchildren can go try to become the world-changing entrepreneurs.
Thanks for the personal experience. Yes, I am at massive risk of retinal detachment, a fact no ophthalmologist has ever failed to warn me about. And no, I never seriously considered LASIK, for the very good reason you mention.
If your point is that you don't understand how an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator works any better than the AC, mission accomplished, OK? It takes a lot of juice to defibrillate a heart. Piezo-driven current won't do it unless the device from which your piezos capture electricity is the speaker bank at a rock concert.
The problem is that it's really great for one set of patients - kids who have had their heart's natural pacemaker disrupted due to abnormalities that arose during development - but not much use in the larger population of patients who need pacemakers (generally elderly adults with bad hearts), because the adults so often get a combined pacemaker/defibrillator. And there's no way it can generate enough power to defibrillate someone.
Slightly off topic, but how good is the current generation of lenses? I'm really, really eager for this to work. I'm 37 and a severe myopic (-11 in contacts, -13.5 in glasses, in case you're wondering). Screw LASIK, I'm planning to get lens implants that correct me to 20/20 and give me youthful vision forever, probably whenever my inability to focus close starts to be really annoying. Right now I can get as close as about six inches, so it really hasn't started to affect my day to day life... but within fifteen years I'm definitely going to be in the market for these.
You're thinking about it backward. You put in as many business/first as you can sell. Then you fill the rest with cattle class, because people who care will shell out for business or first and people who don't, won't. People always say they'll pay more but almost never do.
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I'm a huge low-carb fan, I've lost 65 pounds since March on a very low carb diet. Pizza has, usually, crust. And tomato sauce. The latter is at least a useful source of nutrients, but the crust is just a hunk of white flour. Essentially pure sugar, when you get down to it. That's why I called it crap food.
If you're eating 14" stuffed crust pizzas with added meat toppings, you are eating serious amounts of crap food. You're just lucky enough that your metabolism is capable of handling it.
IOW, you're a natural ectomorph. Nothing wrong with that, but obesity isn't your issue. You're therefore not really the target market.
You want what works, or you want me to lie to you with sugary words?
Sports are an easy, reliable way to gain a group of people who - even if you're not really friends - will get your back. Alas, too often overlooked by the geek. You don't even have to play - while the "managers" as we called them weren't part of the core football team, they too would be protected, because these were the guys who came running with the cold water during time-outs. Being friends with the football team is useful.
Pharma does a lot more than that. Try reading something like this, which is a blog by an actual medicinal chemist.
There was a convenience store in a shitty neighborhood between my house and the main public library that would sell me porn when I was 14. I should have turned it into a profitable business but I wasn't forward-thinking enough at that age. My parents would never have questioned the frequency with which I went to the library, especially if I actually came home with something different every night.
The millimeter-wave scanners do not use ionizing radiation.
In industrial/suburban/10-miles-west-of-the-action Jersey.
If you just want to get drunk cheaply, I suggest Louisiana. Even at a bar, you can put yourself onto another planet for less than $20. (Tropical Isle Hand Grenades, anyone?)
The really funny part is that the AG (a Democrat, oddly enough) is a great friend of the trial lawyers who accordingly campaigned on being a populist man-of-the-people type.
We already established you don't understand chemistry. Now I'm starting to suspect your greater problem is that you can't read, period. Salt water never appears in that report. Unsurprising, considering it's from Montana.
You really don't understand chemistry, do you? You can boil salt water or waste water for the water gas reaction. The molecules don't care.
As for coal, I thought you were trying to argue that we were going to run out of fuel. Now you're trying to tell me we shouldn't use the fuel we have, which is an entirely separate argument, and one which presupposes that we're not going to run out. Which is it?
Fischer-Tropsch. I didn't mention it just to be a show-off. Coal + water = hydrocarbons. Guess what the United States has plenty of? Coal and water.
So what? We'll move from cheaper fuels to more expensive fuels, sure, when we scale up the Fischer-Tropsch or cellulosic ethanol plants to supply global gasoline needs, but even when all the coal's gone we've got nuclear fission left, and that's just today's technology.
Only if you drink a nice hot cup of something else. I'm not much of a coffee drinker but it's hard to beat getting warmed up from the inside on a chilly winter morning.
Why on earth would you take such an awful passive-aggressive maneuver vs Bob? He's not a fucking moron, and when you go around trying to undermine him you are very likely to get eaten alive. Just because the existing technological solution is suboptimal does not mean that people don't trust Bob - he very likely got the job because he was the only person who understood computers well enough to make a functional solution.
I wasn't ever Bob. I have never worked in IT, or maintained any system that wasn't for my own personal use. But I've known a few Bobs, and every one of them was doing the best they could to deal with a situation that had grown too complex for their abilities and yet not complicated enough to justify paying someone to fix it properly. If you walk in and start asking the moon, you'd better be able to deliver it with zero downtime and zero retraining. Because otherwise, Bob's system is better.
There is a reason that the image macro of the highly demanding Asian father says "Can choose any career you want - engineer OR doctor!" However much the elites of society disdain more technical fields, they offer a very clear path for people to turn raw intelligence into a stable, successful life. Sure, there are a lot of people younger than me who have a lot more financial success than I do, but I didnt have anything to fall back on if I screwed up and it was worth it to me to do something secure. My children or grandchildren can go try to become the world-changing entrepreneurs.
Thanks for the personal experience. Yes, I am at massive risk of retinal detachment, a fact no ophthalmologist has ever failed to warn me about. And no, I never seriously considered LASIK, for the very good reason you mention.
If your point is that you don't understand how an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator works any better than the AC, mission accomplished, OK? It takes a lot of juice to defibrillate a heart. Piezo-driven current won't do it unless the device from which your piezos capture electricity is the speaker bank at a rock concert.
We're not talking about external defibrillators. Try to keep up. You still need a lot of juice.
The problem is that it's really great for one set of patients - kids who have had their heart's natural pacemaker disrupted due to abnormalities that arose during development - but not much use in the larger population of patients who need pacemakers (generally elderly adults with bad hearts), because the adults so often get a combined pacemaker/defibrillator. And there's no way it can generate enough power to defibrillate someone.
Slightly off topic, but how good is the current generation of lenses? I'm really, really eager for this to work. I'm 37 and a severe myopic (-11 in contacts, -13.5 in glasses, in case you're wondering). Screw LASIK, I'm planning to get lens implants that correct me to 20/20 and give me youthful vision forever, probably whenever my inability to focus close starts to be really annoying. Right now I can get as close as about six inches, so it really hasn't started to affect my day to day life... but within fifteen years I'm definitely going to be in the market for these.
You should be looking at "Economy Plus" seats. They're what you want.
You're thinking about it backward. You put in as many business/first as you can sell. Then you fill the rest with cattle class, because people who care will shell out for business or first and people who don't, won't. People always say they'll pay more but almost never do.