I think if we had food that was 100% nutritious in and of itself there would be demand. As it stands all the so called health food still requires you to eat lots of other things. And then there's the whole problem with knowing the composition of what you're eating - carbs, protein, fat, total calories, vitamins, etc... If there was a uniform mixture you could determine your serving size without even thinking just based on your height and weight. So easy...
Of course... if you're going to go as far as eating a uniform mixture of food just to live longer.. you might as well just drink blood and be a vampire.
Hey, if drinking blood is what it takes for me to get my people food, sign me up. I swear, if it ever came out, I'd eat it three meals a day and go out for a steak once a month. Hehe, we should start an online petition to have a company make People Food (TM). Or maybe that's how I'll get rich:P
Heh, computers are the #1 reason I go for 18 hours at a time without eating on occasion. I'll get so wrapped up in what I'm doing, that unless there's actual pain involved I'll just keep banging away at whatever I'm doing.
when I'm done, I feel like I just woke up. Kind of a strange experience.
There is some good reason to eat to help coping with society.
When you're hungry, psychologically you go into hunter-mode and grab everything you can. You will tend to make more impulse buys, mostly with food, but also with other goods. You won't negotiate as well, and you'll be more likely to grab the first thing you see that satisfies your desire, whether it's a cheeseburger or TV.
Always make sure you're satisfied before you go shopping, it'll save you money and make you buy better food, too.
Agreed, although I try to only eat until I'm not hungry rather than until I'm full.
The difficulty is that once I start eating, the food is either awful or delicious. If it's awful, I don't want to eat it but I have to because I'm hungry, but if it's good I actually want to taste it, and have to control myself to not overeat. Only problem is, the stuff that tastes good is either expensive or time-consuming
I'm jealous of my cat. He gets the same food all the time, and it's probably 10 times better for him than the crap I eat. He loves his food, won't eat anything else. I could put some turkey, or fish, or whatever in his dish, and he won't touch it. I wish there was such a thing as "people food". Man, would I be down for that. Open up a pouch, scarf it, and you're good for 8 hours. Mmmm.
I guess it depends. Does it only go 100 MPH because it runs out of power, or because the motor can't spin any faster? From the article talking about how the power was there even when it was almost topped out it sounds like the latter.
You've got somewhat of a point there, but then again, it doesn't have to be a couple hundred pounds of transmission.
Then again, we're talking about an electric motor here. You can do away with a lot of the parts in a normal transmission. Plus, you could make it a 3 speed and give it even more power right off the line.
Paying them do to what exactly? Pick up trash in the park? It's beneath them, just ask.
Granted, there are exceptions, I like to think of myself as one, but the exceptions will get out of their situation with or without help. The return on the investment is not worth it. For every 1 worthwhile person you help, you'll be throwing money at 20 no-hopes.
This car is a 1-speed with a top speed of 100MPH, so RPM limitations aren't really a worry. With a transmission, top speed could probably hit 200 pretty easy.
Oh, by the way, the lameness filter sucks a big fat wang. I really don't like it at all. Jesus, how many characters per line does this post need to have? What a stupid filter. Oh, and what use is a code tag if you can't put whitespace in it? Oh, and you also have a bug in it. There's no space between RP and M in the first graph.
Giving money to the poor is the wrong answer. I grew up around the poor, my friends and parents were the poor.
You gave money to my parents, welfare to be exact. They sat around the house all day and never looked for work. You gave them a choice, get a job, get a degree, or starve. They took the easiest choice. You gave money to my mother so she could get a teaching degree. She went for 3 1/2 years before deciding that she really didn't want to do it. You gave her money for a nursing degree. She managed to get her LPN, and then decided it just wasn't for her. My father managed to finish 2 semesters before deciding that a 40 was a much better way to spend the money.
My friends, at 16-20, had the same crap jobs that I did, except while I held the same job for a year before finding something better, they managed to stay employed for an average of a month before losing the job, staying unemployed for 2-3 months, and then finding something else that sucked equally bad, never attempting to find something better. They went to work tripping on acid and burned themselves on the frier, went to work drunk and got sent home, smoked pot while they were emptying the trash, lost track of time and stayed out there for a half hour, or just decided to just stay home and get high. Granted, I got drunk, high, and tripped too, but somehow I managed to realize that a job was more valuable than a buzz.
I know how the poor are. They are NOT worth investing in. Any of the poor that are worth it will manage to get out of their situation by themselves. If you dump a pile of cash on them, they will buy drugs, get drunk, decide it's time to get married and start a family now that they have 3K in the bank, and generally undo everything you've done to help them.
Well, when the parents are drunken losers that let the neighbors walk all over them and get into fights over who's better than who and can't even manage to shave their armpits or brush their teeth, are the children wrong?
Well, first off, I and people like me would have already jumped ship from Verisign without intarweb vigilantes deciding what website they would allow me to view. Secondly, I and people like me would also ditch an ISP that blocked access to sites immedately, and you and people like you would be the suicides-by-cop you see when a small group of fanatics decides they're going to seceed from the union.
Meh... don't forget about the 50K of javascript you'll find on a lot of sites so they can accomplish ridiculous little things like rollovers that change the text colors, mouse down events that replicate buttons (poorly) by changing the border color and shifting text down and to the right, font size changes, glow effects, and generating the page. Most of it can be done with CSS (as long as the browser supports it [WHY DON'T THEY?]) or PHP/Ruby/Perl/Whatever.
And then there's the ridiculous drop down menus... DROP DOWN MENUS ARE NOT FOR NAVIGATION! They should be used to perform special functions, and don't belong on web pages. Blech.
Good idea. It would be great if everyone, before becoming a bona-fide adult, had to survive a year on their own subsistence farming project. Impractical I know, but hey, it's not hard, it just takes a lot of work... one of the real requirements for being an adult.
I'm not an O/S zealot either for MS or Linux, but I've got to say I'm doubtful about their ability to pull this off. Many USB drivers still require a reboot in Windows, not to mention the problems Windows has with file locking and DLLs. I'd have to see it to believe it short of showing up in the next major version of Windows.
Eat sierra you alpha-hole! I watched your mom do it in an x-ray-rated movie directly from the charlie-oscar-romeo-november-hotel-oscar-lima-echo .
Hey, you're right!
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Exactly. It's a way to bring the entire average as a whole down.
I think if we had food that was 100% nutritious in and of itself there would be demand. As it stands all the so called health food still requires you to eat lots of other things. And then there's the whole problem with knowing the composition of what you're eating - carbs, protein, fat, total calories, vitamins, etc... If there was a uniform mixture you could determine your serving size without even thinking just based on your height and weight. So easy...
Of course... if you're going to go as far as eating a uniform mixture of food just to live longer.. you might as well just drink blood and be a vampire.
Hey, if drinking blood is what it takes for me to get my people food, sign me up. I swear, if it ever came out, I'd eat it three meals a day and go out for a steak once a month. Hehe, we should start an online petition to have a company make People Food (TM). Or maybe that's how I'll get rich :P
Heh, computers are the #1 reason I go for 18 hours at a time without eating on occasion. I'll get so wrapped up in what I'm doing, that unless there's actual pain involved I'll just keep banging away at whatever I'm doing.
when I'm done, I feel like I just woke up. Kind of a strange experience.There is some good reason to eat to help coping with society.
When you're hungry, psychologically you go into hunter-mode and grab everything you can. You will tend to make more impulse buys, mostly with food, but also with other goods. You won't negotiate as well, and you'll be more likely to grab the first thing you see that satisfies your desire, whether it's a cheeseburger or TV.
Always make sure you're satisfied before you go shopping, it'll save you money and make you buy better food, too.
Agreed, although I try to only eat until I'm not hungry rather than until I'm full.
The difficulty is that once I start eating, the food is either awful or delicious. If it's awful, I don't want to eat it but I have to because I'm hungry, but if it's good I actually want to taste it, and have to control myself to not overeat. Only problem is, the stuff that tastes good is either expensive or time-consuming
I'm jealous of my cat. He gets the same food all the time, and it's probably 10 times better for him than the crap I eat. He loves his food, won't eat anything else. I could put some turkey, or fish, or whatever in his dish, and he won't touch it. I wish there was such a thing as "people food". Man, would I be down for that. Open up a pouch, scarf it, and you're good for 8 hours. Mmmm.
I guess it depends. Does it only go 100 MPH because it runs out of power, or because the motor can't spin any faster? From the article talking about how the power was there even when it was almost topped out it sounds like the latter.
You've got somewhat of a point there, but then again, it doesn't have to be a couple hundred pounds of transmission.
Then again, we're talking about an electric motor here. You can do away with a lot of the parts in a normal transmission. Plus, you could make it a 3 speed and give it even more power right off the line.
Paying them do to what exactly? Pick up trash in the park? It's beneath them, just ask.
Granted, there are exceptions, I like to think of myself as one, but the exceptions will get out of their situation with or without help. The return on the investment is not worth it. For every 1 worthwhile person you help, you'll be throwing money at 20 no-hopes.
No, I'm an informed observer who witnessed what I'm talking about instead of being a bleeding-heart that gives liberals a bad name.
You should look up the definition of the word bigot, I don't think you know what it means.
Meh, make it a 2 speed instead of a 1 speed and it'll smoke the 1/4 too.
If you mean like this:
Then no.
If you mean like this:
Then yes.
This car is a 1-speed with a top speed of 100MPH, so RPM limitations aren't really a worry. With a transmission, top speed could probably hit 200 pretty easy.
Oh, by the way, the lameness filter sucks a big fat wang. I really don't like it at all. Jesus, how many characters per line does this post need to have? What a stupid filter. Oh, and what use is a code tag if you can't put whitespace in it? Oh, and you also have a bug in it. There's no space between RP and M in the first graph.
OK, I'll bite.
Giving money to the poor is the wrong answer. I grew up around the poor, my friends and parents were the poor.
You gave money to my parents, welfare to be exact. They sat around the house all day and never looked for work. You gave them a choice, get a job, get a degree, or starve. They took the easiest choice. You gave money to my mother so she could get a teaching degree. She went for 3 1/2 years before deciding that she really didn't want to do it. You gave her money for a nursing degree. She managed to get her LPN, and then decided it just wasn't for her. My father managed to finish 2 semesters before deciding that a 40 was a much better way to spend the money.
My friends, at 16-20, had the same crap jobs that I did, except while I held the same job for a year before finding something better, they managed to stay employed for an average of a month before losing the job, staying unemployed for 2-3 months, and then finding something else that sucked equally bad, never attempting to find something better. They went to work tripping on acid and burned themselves on the frier, went to work drunk and got sent home, smoked pot while they were emptying the trash, lost track of time and stayed out there for a half hour, or just decided to just stay home and get high. Granted, I got drunk, high, and tripped too, but somehow I managed to realize that a job was more valuable than a buzz.
I know how the poor are. They are NOT worth investing in. Any of the poor that are worth it will manage to get out of their situation by themselves. If you dump a pile of cash on them, they will buy drugs, get drunk, decide it's time to get married and start a family now that they have 3K in the bank, and generally undo everything you've done to help them.
I'm not sure why I'm amazed, being that this is Slashdot and all, but you've managed to be wrong on every single thing you've said.
Congrats!
Cut taxes then cut spending, not cut taxes then increase spending.
I think you need to think more. Or less. Whatever, you're just plain wrong on about 7,000 levels.
Well, when the parents are drunken losers that let the neighbors walk all over them and get into fights over who's better than who and can't even manage to shave their armpits or brush their teeth, are the children wrong?
Well, first off, I and people like me would have already jumped ship from Verisign without intarweb vigilantes deciding what website they would allow me to view. Secondly, I and people like me would also ditch an ISP that blocked access to sites immedately, and you and people like you would be the suicides-by-cop you see when a small group of fanatics decides they're going to seceed from the union.
I still love this game :P
And then there's the ridiculous drop down menus... DROP DOWN MENUS ARE NOT FOR NAVIGATION! They should be used to perform special functions, and don't belong on web pages. Blech.
Good idea. It would be great if everyone, before becoming a bona-fide adult, had to survive a year on their own subsistence farming project. Impractical I know, but hey, it's not hard, it just takes a lot of work... one of the real requirements for being an adult.
Do you have a link for info on this?
I'm not an O/S zealot either for MS or Linux, but I've got to say I'm doubtful about their ability to pull this off. Many USB drivers still require a reboot in Windows, not to mention the problems Windows has with file locking and DLLs. I'd have to see it to believe it short of showing up in the next major version of Windows.
Wrong. Gentoo has a very nice package for qmail.
Eat sierra you alpha-hole! I watched your mom do it in an x-ray-rated movie directly from the charlie-oscar-romeo-november-hotel-oscar-lima-echo .
Hey, you're right!