I would counter that a lack of protein is almost unheard of in the developed world. There's a published figure of 56g per day for a 75kg man, but actual studies indicate that it can be even lower
The recommended amount is around 1g per pound of bodyweight, and 40% of your total calories.
Experience is overrated, old people are generally stuck in their ways, you only have to read the posts on here from experienced programmers telling everyone how awkard and difficult they are.
It makes sense that a company would target younger workers who are more cooperative and pliable, they have more potential than the old beard in a crusty sweater who wants to sit in his cube and grumble about how he's not allowed to write everything in machine code with ed.
Another issue is that the stuff inside steak that's "tasty", also happens to be bad for you if it's a significant portion of your diet. Saturated fats and high protein diets seem to cause long-term issues.
Lean steaks are also tasty. The 'dangers' of fat are vastly overrated, the body needs fats to function properly. You'll find that excessive carbohydrates will do you more harm than anything. And a lack of protein is more dangerous than too much. You can eat 200g of protein a day without ill effect, but eat less and you end up losing significant strength.
I just find that our country's meat-heavy diet is expensive and inefficient. We're depleting our fresh water aquifers at a rapid rate, trying to grow feed for our cattle. American's waists are expanding, in part from our high-calorie meat diet.
Americans are fat because of too many processed foods filled with starch and sugar. The general health of Americans would be better if they cut out the donuts, cokes cakes, breads etc. and replaced them with more natural foods like steak, chicken and lamb. You only have to look at the sagging arms of most Americans to see they're not eating too much protein!
Meat is not expensive or inefficient. There is enough land for everyone to have enough meat, no-one in America is starving. People probably eat less meat now than ever, so talk about depleting at rapid rates is sheer scaremongering.
Mice don't feel taunted by the universe, to figure out it's secrets.
Depressed people don't figure out the world's secrets, non-depressed people do. They don't change the world, or invent anything.
Mice don't get depressed because a loved one is dying of cancer
Neither do humans. Situation-based depression is not clinical depression. Clinical depression is not related to circumstances. But you wouldn't know that because you're an ignorant fuck.
Keep your chemical paradise, I'll take life for all it's worth.
If you had depression, you wouldn't want to take life for all its worth. You wouldn't know that because you've never had depression (being upset when your hampster died doesn't count). Compared to someone who's been clinically depressed for a decade, your life is a 'chemical paradise'.
I hate it when ignorant shit like this gets modded up, it's as if the world is endorsing the idiocy.
I mean, call me old-fashioned, but we are people exactly because we have the full spectrum of emotions, all of which have influenced our society and creativity.
People with depression don't have a full spectrum of emotions. Someone mod this ignorant fucker down.
Back to the OP, drugs that make people be content all the time are a great way of keeping those that take them where they are now (or as some might say, "in their right and proper places"), since they remove the motivation for trying to improve one's own life.
Parent is a troll. People with depression lack ANY motivation to improve their lives. Depression makes people stay 'in their place' not out of contentment, but out of complete apathy to do anything else.
But then you're speaking from complete ignorance, which gets you modded up on this site.
So you're saying that you intellectual 'elite' should be able to goof off during the day reading Slashdot and playing solitaire, whilst us underclasses should have to work eight hours solid?
To put it bluntly, a system which eliminates the paper and uses a fine spray of warm water to wash your anus for you means that it is easier and cheaper to design a sewage system or to get more capacity from the old one
You'll still need to use the paper to dry yourself off. And I doubt a 'fine spray' is going to do a lot when I splatter the bowl with last night's vindaloo. And I'd love to see what happens when the water's been cut off and comes back on again (when you get all the dirty water), and it sprays it all at your arse. And what about those small sloppy bits of shit that don't drop down?
and that you no longer need to wash your hands and then wipe them on a germ-laden towel.
You've invented a system for shaking off without touching your cock? You'd still need to wash your hands anyway after you wank off.
The cretin who posted below that if you need one of these toilets it is a dietary problem, is probably unaware of the number of people who suffer from things like IBS despite eating a carefully controlled diet (maybe one in 10 of the population) or the problems of hygiene in public restrooms.
Even people with explosive diahorrea don't need sophisticated cleaning systems to wipe their arses. Thick handfuls of paper is the most effective method. As for public restrooms, what condition do you think the $1000 toilets will be in? It's bad enough using the rough toilet paper, now imagine a thirty year old Electro-Bog that hasn't been maintained or cleaned, ever, firing water at you.
And if you are worried about interruption of the electrical supply, just fit a UPS.
The costs rise even further... I think with the impending energy crisis, a john that needs electricity can't be very helpful.
Books are to heavy. An book working exactly like todays books, but at 1/3rd the weigth would be an improvement.
Books are incredibly light actually. Maybe you should hit the weights now and again? If they were lighter and smaller they'd just get damaged more easily. Thinner pages would rip and be transparent.
Books can't scale their font. Being able to select a bigger font if you have poor vision would be an improvement. Books don't work in the dark. A backligth would be an improvement.
Then it's a good thing we have glasses and electricity. Even medieval people had candles. Reading backlit screens in the dark fucks your eyes up anyway.
Books can't read themselves aloud to you. Would be nice when you're driving
You can get books on tape. Welcome to the 1970s.
Books are, very bad at storing sound. *describing* the sound a bird make in a bird-book is infinitely inferior to being able to play the sound.
No, it isn't. Maybe if you're illiterate.
Your bookshelf can't tell you what that book where that you so enjoyed last christmas.
If you enjoyed it that much you'd have remembered what it is.
Books are hard to backup. There is no practical way of preventing losing your book-collection in say a fire.
How do you backup your expensive ebook reader when it's burnt to a crisp.
That said, I'd pay extra for a heated toilet seat, even without the retractable bidet and ass blow dryer. IMHO, that is more than an incremental improvement.
Wouldn't it be easier to get heating in your house?
Seriously though, there are some things whose design has absolutely been optimized to a point where it would take a revolution in technology to make any changes worth while. Think about things like the doorknob
Actually the doorknob was made obsolete decades ago by the door handle.
I don't spread every page of my newspaper out across the kitchen table when I read it. Why should I do the same for my web pages?
I don't fold my newspaper in half so I can only read half the page at once, so why should I do the same for my web pages?
Not maximising means you're just left with blank space, wasting your monitor. If you have a 20" monitor and only have your window taking up 3/4 of it you may as well have a 15" monitor.
My right to record accesses to my search engine never stops - its an inherent right of humanity. They do not have a right to tell me I cannot record what happens on MY OWN SERVERS.
bECAUSE i DON'T HAVE TO REMEBER TO HIT IT AGAIN WHEN i SEND AND EMAIL OR POST ON SLASHDOT.
I would have thought that when the letters came up in capitals it might be a reminder to turn it off? Keyboards should not be built to cater to the mentally disabled.
Okay... If the task requires a field to be in all caps why didn't the programmer just convert what every was entered in that field in all caps??? It isn't that hard to convert a string in to all up case. In most programing languages it is a built in function.
How is this any easier than simply pressing 'caps lock'.
I use caps lock all the time, all you idiots can go fuck yourselves. I don't particular see the use of the backquote key, but I don't start a campaign to get rid of it.
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The recommended amount is around 1g per pound of bodyweight, and 40% of your total calories.
In England they're called 'bingo wings', as they're usually found on retired women who play bingo.
Experience is overrated, old people are generally stuck in their ways, you only have to read the posts on here from experienced programmers telling everyone how awkard and difficult they are.
It makes sense that a company would target younger workers who are more cooperative and pliable, they have more potential than the old beard in a crusty sweater who wants to sit in his cube and grumble about how he's not allowed to write everything in machine code with ed.
Then why does free range meat taste better than meat from animals locked up in a shed?
The best parts of the animal are the joints and limbs, i.e. the bits that do the work. The cuts that don't do anything (i.e the skirt) are the worst.
And to the poster below: Alton Brown is a TV chef. Has he ever even had a restaurant?
Lean steaks are also tasty. The 'dangers' of fat are vastly overrated, the body needs fats to function properly. You'll find that excessive carbohydrates will do you more harm than anything. And a lack of protein is more dangerous than too much. You can eat 200g of protein a day without ill effect, but eat less and you end up losing significant strength.
Americans are fat because of too many processed foods filled with starch and sugar. The general health of Americans would be better if they cut out the donuts, cokes cakes, breads etc. and replaced them with more natural foods like steak, chicken and lamb. You only have to look at the sagging arms of most Americans to see they're not eating too much protein!
Meat is not expensive or inefficient. There is enough land for everyone to have enough meat, no-one in America is starving. People probably eat less meat now than ever, so talk about depleting at rapid rates is sheer scaremongering.
Tofu isn't meat, it has the consistency and taste of jelly.
Depressed people don't figure out the world's secrets, non-depressed people do. They don't change the world, or invent anything.
Neither do humans. Situation-based depression is not clinical depression. Clinical depression is not related to circumstances. But you wouldn't know that because you're an ignorant fuck.
If you had depression, you wouldn't want to take life for all its worth. You wouldn't know that because you've never had depression (being upset when your hampster died doesn't count). Compared to someone who's been clinically depressed for a decade, your life is a 'chemical paradise'.
I hate it when ignorant shit like this gets modded up, it's as if the world is endorsing the idiocy.
People with depression don't have a full spectrum of emotions. Someone mod this ignorant fucker down.
Parent is a troll. People with depression lack ANY motivation to improve their lives. Depression makes people stay 'in their place' not out of contentment, but out of complete apathy to do anything else.
But then you're speaking from complete ignorance, which gets you modded up on this site.
So you're saying that you intellectual 'elite' should be able to goof off during the day reading Slashdot and playing solitaire, whilst us underclasses should have to work eight hours solid?
And people wonder why geeks are unpopular.
You'll still need to use the paper to dry yourself off. And I doubt a 'fine spray' is going to do a lot when I splatter the bowl with last night's vindaloo. And I'd love to see what happens when the water's been cut off and comes back on again (when you get all the dirty water), and it sprays it all at your arse. And what about those small sloppy bits of shit that don't drop down?
You've invented a system for shaking off without touching your cock? You'd still need to wash your hands anyway after you wank off.
Even people with explosive diahorrea don't need sophisticated cleaning systems to wipe their arses. Thick handfuls of paper is the most effective method. As for public restrooms, what condition do you think the $1000 toilets will be in? It's bad enough using the rough toilet paper, now imagine a thirty year old Electro-Bog that hasn't been maintained or cleaned, ever, firing water at you.
The costs rise even further... I think with the impending energy crisis, a john that needs electricity can't be very helpful.
Books are incredibly light actually. Maybe you should hit the weights now and again? If they were lighter and smaller they'd just get damaged more easily. Thinner pages would rip and be transparent.
Then it's a good thing we have glasses and electricity. Even medieval people had candles. Reading backlit screens in the dark fucks your eyes up anyway.
You can get books on tape. Welcome to the 1970s.
No, it isn't. Maybe if you're illiterate.
If you enjoyed it that much you'd have remembered what it is.
How do you backup your expensive ebook reader when it's burnt to a crisp.
Wouldn't it be easier to get heating in your house?
Actually the doorknob was made obsolete decades ago by the door handle.
Would you care?
Two hours overtime at work and you can fit that in easy.
I don't fold my newspaper in half so I can only read half the page at once, so why should I do the same for my web pages?
Not maximising means you're just left with blank space, wasting your monitor. If you have a 20" monitor and only have your window taking up 3/4 of it you may as well have a 15" monitor.
My right to record accesses to my search engine never stops - its an inherent right of humanity. They do not have a right to tell me I cannot record what happens on MY OWN SERVERS.
What about 'b ball' or 'sawker'?
You mean like 'movie', or any of the hundreds of other childish American words?
I find that in most cases it's more appropriate to smack the programmer.
When you're paying $1000 for a flight, $10 worth of vodka isn't that much.
Not just Vista, by then Linux will have 5% marketshare.
How is this any easier than simply pressing 'caps lock'.
I use caps lock all the time, all you idiots can go fuck yourselves. I don't particular see the use of the backquote key, but I don't start a campaign to get rid of it.