The only concern any inspectors have is referred to as the parasite destruction guarantee, which is accomplished by 'freezing and storing seafood at -4F (-20C) or below for 7 days (total time), or freezing at -31F (-35C) or below until solid and storing at -31F (-35C) or below for 15 hours, or freezing at -31F (-35C) or below until solid and storing at -4F (-20C) or below for 24 hours' which is sufficient to kill parasites.
However be warned:
I have spoken with many in the seafood industry who supply ‘sushi grade’ fish for sushi and sashimi served at restaurants and they all give me the same answer they do not know of any regulations from either the FDA or any other agencies regarding 'sushi grade' seafood, which is why suppliers have set up their own micro and chemical parameters for their products.
So the FDA does say there is a level of frozen prep that will guarantee parasite death, but it isn't a requirement like USDA beef grades.
Would I wish to gamble that? Hell no. I don't care how good the tech is - I don't want nukes flying towards me no matter what.
I'm just saying where the tech is going is all. Let me put it another way.
Let's say someone in 1952 had looked at the transistor and said "it'll take millions of these to do any meaningful computation - doesn't this look like a waste of time?"
I think laser weaponry is similar. What if it becomes easy and cheap? It will someday. Too many people want it, too many people are working on it. What will that mean?
Laser targeting systems are orders of magnitude easier than ordinance. You don't have to allow for gravity, wind - anything. Line of sight, point and click. Given enough lasers and enough ammo I doubt a serious aggressor could lob enough ordinance - decoys included - to do anything other than waste their time and resources.
That was what I meant about *scale*. When these things become easy and cheap, when they become something that costs 1/100th of what we're spending, when you can put one on the back of a humvee and get 100 shots with it - we can bristle the coastlines with them. Hit the on button and nothing larger than a softball comes within 15 miles of the coast.
When that happens the ICBM will become a dinosaur. So will most bomber classes of aircraft. It'll be a new situation. It won't make war impossible, but it will make tactical nukes very very impractical. For everyone - military secrets are the most fleeting of all. Soon as we get this up and running, Russia and China will have it two weeks later. A perfect situation. They can't nuke us, and we can't nuke them.
we've been relying on MAD for so long, and sitting on enough nukes to destroy the world, for so long, wouldn't it be great to start a new era?
It's a hydra. Cut off one head, a new one will grow to replace it. I'm all for this - don't get me wrong - but this isn't going to make war or mass destruction obsolete.
It will take care of the nuke problem, and that is definitely a good thing. And as a side bonus it will also invalidate aircraft and that means aerial bombing in general. After all, if you can zap an inbound missile you can just as easily zap an airplane. Warfare (between technologically advanced societies anyway) would move back to the ground. Boats, tanks, landing craft.
Until someone figures out a way around the lasers that is. And I already know what that will most likely be. Asteroid manipulation.
Sure. Just nudge a decent sized asteroid towards your enemy's city/base/whatever. Too much mass for a laser to stop. Not hard to get plenty of kinetic energy out of the impact. Easily on the order of a nuke.
So warfare will move out into space. Ships with lasers burning holes in each other until only one is left, and that one will rain debris from orbit onto the loser.
The good news is that if WWIII is fought that way, at least our species will have a chance of survival. No radioactivity like with nukes. Maybe a miniature ice age while the dust settles but otherwise survivable.
Hard to believe that's a happy option, but compared to nuclear war it actually is.
It goes like this: No concievable missile shield could shoot down any significant number of incoming missiles. The Russians would always be able to overwhelm the defenses with shear numbers, making the system worthless.
Totally true, if you only have a few lasers. And that's all we have now at the moment. It's worth mentioning though that originally back in the 50's we only had a few transistors and they were the size of dixie cups.
Now I'm not saying that laser equipment will scale like that, but I am saying that it will scale to some degree. Maybe there is a Mitch Taylor-esque lab coat out there somewhere who is going to figure out something better. In fact I'm sure there is.
We're just now getting to the point where lasers are becoming battlefield possibilities. These are essentially laser flint lock rifles. But - enough R&D and eventually we'll move up to six shooters, gatling guns, full auto machine guns, Phalanx anti missile gun points... All it takes is successive small improvements, and you can't get those without the original flint lock gun. As they say, the rest is details.
Put a few hundred planes in the air that have increased effectiveness laser systems with millisecond reload and a few hundred shot capability and suddenly you might have that workable shield.
As it is today, maybe the scenario plays out the way you suggest. But that's only if the tech stands still and never improves. And it's a sure bet that it won't.
This stuff needs to be put in the walls of the homes out in hurricane alley. Tactical considerations are nice of course, but in your day-to-day those people could probably use it more. Especially since every so often 2x4s doing 250+ mph are thrown at their homes.
First thing I thought when I read the blurb. "Wouldn't this be a cherry target for hackers?"
Think about it. An entire API that can halt the whole damn system, pre-emptively appropriate the screen and audio resources, and interact with the user?
How about an application that notices whenever the tcp/ip stack sends out a DNS query to www.somebank.com and puts it's app on the screen over top of your browser? It's a spoof so it looks just like your banking webpage. "Please enter your name and password." Bingo - instant password grabber.
Brilliant notion Apple.
Here's a tip for the future. Whenever you think something is a good idea, imagine what the black hat hacker implications are. Always ask: What if this fell into enemy hands?
back in my day's of phreaking, it was the challenge of the hack.
Exactly. It's one thing to place hackers against software companies or the ??AA's protection scheme of the day. But those are chump change. This ups the ante. This would be hackers against other hackers. Far better sport.
The person who does this need not be a superhero or a villain. Just bored and looking for a few laughs. I have to admit, if I were younger...I might be tempted. Botnets are a sweet target. It would be fun breaking one.
He needn't be like Batman. He would probably be more like the Joker.
"Some people just want to see the world burn."
Just imagine a storm of "format c:" commands sent through a botnet. That'd cut down on your spam problem pretty quick, wouldn't it?
I think it's more likely that my hypothetical teenager would be doing this for reasons that would be tough to describe as "good". A half a million formatted PCs aren't going to get this guy a hero label by any stretch.
Although a greater good would come from it. Imagine how concerned about security your average Joe would be if every time he hooked his machine up to the net it would get formatted. He'd demand action, right now!
No no no! You've missed my point. *I* won't be the one to do any of this. I am not Mr. I-am-going-to-fix-it. Holy crap no! I have a career and a family. I'm way too old for lulz. I'm just saying human nature being what it is, someone eventually will.
And when that someone does, then it'll become a thing. Others will follow. Cowboy justice for anyone who can't secure their systems. It won't happen in a single stroke. One botnet will get hit. Others will get the idea and hit other botnets. It'll become the next new internet game. Used to be cracking DVD protections was enough sport to keep these guys busy. Now it's on to bigger game, so back up your data files everyone.
What I'm saying is that right now, there is a teenaged kid somewhere. Probably in the Netherlands or some other hacker friendly country where if you do something like this you get a couple of years of community service. It's snowing, he's bored, and all the women are wearing parkas so there is nothing to do. And he keeps having to reconfigure his mail server. Whitelists, blacklists, pattern matching...it's pissing him off.
Then he's gonna have an idea.
A couple of weeks later some botnet is going to be completely in the hands of someone who has bigger ideas than spam. He's gonna nuke them. The whole thing.
Honestly I really am surprised it hasn't happened yet. Botnets are a beautiful hack target.
I'm not debating the morality of any of it - just noting that the skill sets are the same. If you can break commercial software, breaking botnets is certainly within your ability. Both require patience, insight, and some skill with a disassembler.
And some day some uberhacker (white hat or black hat - don't care which) is going to get fed up with all this spam. And do something...epic.
If we want vigilante justice to become more acceptable in these situations, then it's best to be 'nice' about it.
Ever read Frank Herbert's The White Plague? It's about a scientist on a trip to Ireland who loses his family in an IRA bombing. He goes nuts and engineers a virus to kill every woman on the planet, figuring "if it has to happen to me, then I'm going to share my misery with the world."
Where am I going with this?
We have some pretty epic hackers on the planet. Guys who can disassemble code by looking at it. Guys who don't give one billionth of a crap about legality. Doubt me? Go check your local torrent tracker. There are groups of people out there who break commercial software all the time. They do it for breakfast.
How much harder could hacker-originated code like botnets be?
Eventually you're going to get some hacker who has simply had enough. And he's going to form the internet version of the Lincoln County Regulators, go rogue, figure out every botnet they can get their hands on, and wipe every single PC they can right through the bot's command channel.
It's not IF, it's WHEN.
Remember - you heard it here first. This is going to happen. Some holier-than-thou uberhacker is going to figure "fuck 'em if they can't handle basic security - they're fucking up MY INTERNET" and lay waste to them all, nuke-it-from-orbit style.
And I agree with Jon - they're hurting America. Remember when people would ask you what your stand was on a given issue? People don't really do that anymore, do they? They ask (in one form or another) what side you're on. And that's a huge difference.
Political discourse used to be a discussion of issues. Each individual and separate. Political discussions used to be like a trip to the salad bar. Now it's two choices A or B.
Take Kral_Blbec above, who got downmodded to oblivion. I said something that ran contrary to some position of his. He therefore assumed I must be from the other party. "Your beloved leader doesn't seem..." To people like him who are so heavily polarized, it seems impossible to partially disagree with his party. You're either one of us, or one of them. You can't get these types of people to actually think about anything. They just recite their set sound bites and want their side to win. It's infuriating.
It's entirely possible to make up your mind on every individual issue on your own. And these talking heads are slowly robbing us of this.
It's depressing how low political discourse has sunk just in the span of my lifetime.
Except this isn't slander, it's parody. It appears you have the same blind spot Mr. Beck has.
But I will agree with you on Fox. Anyone has a right to stand up on a soapbox and say whatever they wish to. If anyone is actually looking to curtail their first amendment rights, then they are in the wrong. If anyone actually is doing so.
BTW if you're really looking for egregious crimes against the first amendment, W takes the cake.
And I'd also add: Don't be such a pussy - anything you dish out you should fully be able to take. I'd love to hear an explanation on why it's fair when you do it and unfair when it's done to you.
And on top of that: If you love 'Murica as much as you say you do, then you should at least learn how she works. We're actually pretty proud of the First Amendment. Too bad you're not.
That being said, losing the 20 has already been a life changer. I don't have to sit down to tie my shoes. I move better, get winded less easily. It makes me want to lose 20 more.
And I'll probably live longer too. Important because I'm a father now. No guarantees of course, but eliminating cardiac factors is probably a good idea.
Of course everything in life is a trade off. Me? I have a diet. I'm losing weight. I can move better, breathe easier, and probably live longer. I'm in my 40's but still enjoy sports. And the 20 pounds makes a big difference already. For me, that's worth not having the rice with the kung pao for a while.
Oh, another thing. Read the South Beach Diet. It's not like you have to give up the white rice with your kung pao for the rest of your life. Just realize that it's what the problem is. Eat your kung pao all you like. But when the pounds start coming back on - stop it! Switch back to lean foods until you're back to your target weight. Then you can give yourself a treat every so often. A couple of Ho-Hos every so often is actually ok. Just not every day.
The only thing South Beach does is let you know what you're doing with what you eat, and what you can do about it to stay healthy. Me? I'm a lifer. I'll *always* be doing this. I see those people at the shopping store riding around in the motorized carts because they're too fat to walk around the store and think HOLY CRAP I don't want to be that person. Not for reasons of vanity either. That would *have* to suck.
A little preventative maintenance and you can miss that fate entirely. So why not? We already run malware scanners and disk defragmenters because we like the boost to performance. Why not take the same approach with the machine you use the most?
First off, my quick story. I'm a programmer and I gained some weight. I asked on a martial arts forum, "Hey, what's the best way to dump some weight I've picked up?" As a chorus they responded South Beach Diet. So I tried it. Two months, twenty pounds. Still going. I'm not going to say it's easy, but it is easy enough. It's a great diet, makes good sense, and you're *never* hungry.
I bought a jogging machine and ran on the damn thing for three months without losing a pound. All I did was torque my foot. I started this diet and quit jogging on the same day - 20 pounds. Really, weight loss is far more about nutrition than activity. The calories going into you are far easier to deal with on the outside before you put them in your mouth rather than trying to blast them off your gut by exercise.
It's all about insulin and sugar crashes. Let's say you eat a typical programmer's snack. A couple of doughnuts and a coke. What happens next?
The doughnuts are covered in sugar which goes directly into the bloodstream. The coke is HFCS which is sugar, it goes directly into the bloodstream. The flour in the doughnuts are carbohydrates which are chains of easily accessible sugar moledules. They convert to sugar and go directly into the bloodstream. So in the course of a couple of minutes suddenly your blood sugar skyrockets.
Your pancreas will record this as an emergency. Your body knows that high blood sugar is potentially fatal. Diabetics who don't get their shot can die, your body knows this, and responds in a crisis mode. "Quick! Make as much insulin as you can or we're going to die!" So you begin making insulin like mad trying to keep up with the emergency.
So what is insulin? In short, it acts like a key that opens up cells and moves nutrition into them. So now your blood has a pile of sugar in it (nutrition/energy) and an equally large pile of insulin to move it into cells. And seeing as how you're not running the Boston marathon at the moment, you don't actually need that much mobile food in your blood. So your body does the next best thing and stores it. As fat.
That's only the first half of the problem. The second part is what happens next once the doughnuts and coke are dealt with.
Your pancreas will overrespond to the emergency. It's not really built to make a ton of insulin at a moment's notice. You'll notice that doughnuts don't grow on trees. Nothing in nature hits your body like it. So since it's evolutionarily speaking something new and unexpected, it can't really deal with it effectively. It will typically produce too much insulin. What does that do?
If your blood sugar was at X, and your body makes too much insulin (let's call it X + E, E for 'extra'), then what will happen is the doughnuts sugar will be moved into fat by X, and whatever sugar/nutrition you had in your bloodstream from before you ate the doughnuts will also be stored as fat. And now your blood sugar level will be just where it was from before you ate the doughnuts, minus E. In other words you will have lower blood sugar than before you started!
And what does your body do when you have low blood sugar? Make you hungry. You are nutrition deficient - go eat something.
And the cycle continues.
How to break the cycle? LAY OFF THE SUGAR AND CARBS. Avoid them. Once you stop spiking your body with these gigantic whopping doses of sugar and eat lean meat, vegetables, and the like you'll lose weight. Because you won't be sugar crashing all the time. It's not that you have to diet, you will simply not want to eat like you did before. Portion control happens all by itself.
For the science minded, here is an experiment you can try. Go to your local Chinese food place for dinner. What's the joke with Chinese food? Fifteen minutes later you're
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AFAIK CoS isn't kidnapping unwilling people and forcing them to become members, so it's kind of Darwinian in principle.
No, but as soon as you join they can kidnap you.
The US Department of Justice can't even successfully hit them with an antitrust suit. Microsoft settled, and then laughed off the settlement. Or else we'd have those APIs at the very least, wouldn't we?
It is slightly more userfriendlier(ish) than Google.
How is that even possible? Google is a plain white web page with a text box and a logo.
From the Sushi Faq:
The only concern any inspectors have is referred to as the parasite destruction guarantee, which is accomplished by 'freezing and storing seafood at -4F (-20C) or below for 7 days (total time), or freezing at -31F (-35C) or below until solid and storing at -31F (-35C) or below for 15 hours, or freezing at -31F (-35C) or below until solid and storing at -4F (-20C) or below for 24 hours' which is sufficient to kill parasites.
However be warned:
I have spoken with many in the seafood industry who supply ‘sushi grade’ fish for sushi and sashimi served at restaurants and they all give me the same answer they do not know of any regulations from either the FDA or any other agencies regarding 'sushi grade' seafood, which is why suppliers have set up their own micro and chemical parameters for their products.
So the FDA does say there is a level of frozen prep that will guarantee parasite death, but it isn't a requirement like USDA beef grades.
'From what was shared, it appears to be in the early stages of development,' a Microsoft spokeswoman said.
Thanks for the advice but it's not a problem - I never buy any software from Google until the third release.
Would I wish to gamble that? Hell no. I don't care how good the tech is - I don't want nukes flying towards me no matter what.
I'm just saying where the tech is going is all. Let me put it another way.
Let's say someone in 1952 had looked at the transistor and said "it'll take millions of these to do any meaningful computation - doesn't this look like a waste of time?"
I think laser weaponry is similar. What if it becomes easy and cheap? It will someday. Too many people want it, too many people are working on it. What will that mean?
Laser targeting systems are orders of magnitude easier than ordinance. You don't have to allow for gravity, wind - anything. Line of sight, point and click. Given enough lasers and enough ammo I doubt a serious aggressor could lob enough ordinance - decoys included - to do anything other than waste their time and resources.
That was what I meant about *scale*. When these things become easy and cheap, when they become something that costs 1/100th of what we're spending, when you can put one on the back of a humvee and get 100 shots with it - we can bristle the coastlines with them. Hit the on button and nothing larger than a softball comes within 15 miles of the coast.
When that happens the ICBM will become a dinosaur. So will most bomber classes of aircraft. It'll be a new situation. It won't make war impossible, but it will make tactical nukes very very impractical. For everyone - military secrets are the most fleeting of all. Soon as we get this up and running, Russia and China will have it two weeks later. A perfect situation. They can't nuke us, and we can't nuke them.
we've been relying on MAD for so long, and sitting on enough nukes to destroy the world, for so long, wouldn't it be great to start a new era?
It's a hydra. Cut off one head, a new one will grow to replace it. I'm all for this - don't get me wrong - but this isn't going to make war or mass destruction obsolete.
It will take care of the nuke problem, and that is definitely a good thing. And as a side bonus it will also invalidate aircraft and that means aerial bombing in general. After all, if you can zap an inbound missile you can just as easily zap an airplane. Warfare (between technologically advanced societies anyway) would move back to the ground. Boats, tanks, landing craft.
Until someone figures out a way around the lasers that is. And I already know what that will most likely be. Asteroid manipulation.
Sure. Just nudge a decent sized asteroid towards your enemy's city/base/whatever. Too much mass for a laser to stop. Not hard to get plenty of kinetic energy out of the impact. Easily on the order of a nuke.
So warfare will move out into space. Ships with lasers burning holes in each other until only one is left, and that one will rain debris from orbit onto the loser.
The good news is that if WWIII is fought that way, at least our species will have a chance of survival. No radioactivity like with nukes. Maybe a miniature ice age while the dust settles but otherwise survivable.
Hard to believe that's a happy option, but compared to nuclear war it actually is.
It goes like this: No concievable missile shield could shoot down any significant number of incoming missiles. The Russians would always be able to overwhelm the defenses with shear numbers, making the system worthless.
Totally true, if you only have a few lasers. And that's all we have now at the moment. It's worth mentioning though that originally back in the 50's we only had a few transistors and they were the size of dixie cups.
Now I'm not saying that laser equipment will scale like that, but I am saying that it will scale to some degree. Maybe there is a Mitch Taylor-esque lab coat out there somewhere who is going to figure out something better. In fact I'm sure there is.
We're just now getting to the point where lasers are becoming battlefield possibilities. These are essentially laser flint lock rifles. But - enough R&D and eventually we'll move up to six shooters, gatling guns, full auto machine guns, Phalanx anti missile gun points... All it takes is successive small improvements, and you can't get those without the original flint lock gun. As they say, the rest is details.
Put a few hundred planes in the air that have increased effectiveness laser systems with millisecond reload and a few hundred shot capability and suddenly you might have that workable shield.
As it is today, maybe the scenario plays out the way you suggest. But that's only if the tech stands still and never improves. And it's a sure bet that it won't.
I assure you - the Cleveland Browns would still suck if they played by NBA rules. They could fuck up a game of Calvinball.
This stuff needs to be put in the walls of the homes out in hurricane alley. Tactical considerations are nice of course, but in your day-to-day those people could probably use it more. Especially since every so often 2x4s doing 250+ mph are thrown at their homes.
Hackers.
First thing I thought when I read the blurb. "Wouldn't this be a cherry target for hackers?"
Think about it. An entire API that can halt the whole damn system, pre-emptively appropriate the screen and audio resources, and interact with the user?
How about an application that notices whenever the tcp/ip stack sends out a DNS query to www.somebank.com and puts it's app on the screen over top of your browser? It's a spoof so it looks just like your banking webpage. "Please enter your name and password." Bingo - instant password grabber.
Brilliant notion Apple.
Here's a tip for the future. Whenever you think something is a good idea, imagine what the black hat hacker implications are. Always ask: What if this fell into enemy hands?
Why then is Microsoft trying to clone everything apple is doing?
Because that is their business model.
Excel to Lotus, Explorer to Netscape, C# to Java, Xbox to Playstation...the list goes on and on. It's what MS does.
It's nothing personal against Apple. That's just what they do.
But only because I'm spoiled since I've seen the Flaming Tuba.
No, Lame. Fraunhofer is patent encumbered.
back in my day's of phreaking, it was the challenge of the hack.
Exactly. It's one thing to place hackers against software companies or the ??AA's protection scheme of the day. But those are chump change. This ups the ante. This would be hackers against other hackers. Far better sport.
The person who does this need not be a superhero or a villain. Just bored and looking for a few laughs. I have to admit, if I were younger...I might be tempted. Botnets are a sweet target. It would be fun breaking one.
He needn't be like Batman. He would probably be more like the Joker.
"Some people just want to see the world burn."
Just imagine a storm of "format c:" commands sent through a botnet. That'd cut down on your spam problem pretty quick, wouldn't it?
I think it's more likely that my hypothetical teenager would be doing this for reasons that would be tough to describe as "good". A half a million formatted PCs aren't going to get this guy a hero label by any stretch.
Although a greater good would come from it. Imagine how concerned about security your average Joe would be if every time he hooked his machine up to the net it would get formatted. He'd demand action, right now!
No no no! You've missed my point. *I* won't be the one to do any of this. I am not Mr. I-am-going-to-fix-it. Holy crap no! I have a career and a family. I'm way too old for lulz. I'm just saying human nature being what it is, someone eventually will.
And when that someone does, then it'll become a thing. Others will follow. Cowboy justice for anyone who can't secure their systems. It won't happen in a single stroke. One botnet will get hit. Others will get the idea and hit other botnets. It'll become the next new internet game. Used to be cracking DVD protections was enough sport to keep these guys busy. Now it's on to bigger game, so back up your data files everyone.
What I'm saying is that right now, there is a teenaged kid somewhere. Probably in the Netherlands or some other hacker friendly country where if you do something like this you get a couple of years of community service. It's snowing, he's bored, and all the women are wearing parkas so there is nothing to do. And he keeps having to reconfigure his mail server. Whitelists, blacklists, pattern matching...it's pissing him off.
Then he's gonna have an idea.
A couple of weeks later some botnet is going to be completely in the hands of someone who has bigger ideas than spam. He's gonna nuke them. The whole thing.
Honestly I really am surprised it hasn't happened yet. Botnets are a beautiful hack target.
I'm not debating the morality of any of it - just noting that the skill sets are the same. If you can break commercial software, breaking botnets is certainly within your ability. Both require patience, insight, and some skill with a disassembler.
And some day some uberhacker (white hat or black hat - don't care which) is going to get fed up with all this spam. And do something...epic.
If we want vigilante justice to become more acceptable in these situations, then it's best to be 'nice' about it.
Ever read Frank Herbert's The White Plague? It's about a scientist on a trip to Ireland who loses his family in an IRA bombing. He goes nuts and engineers a virus to kill every woman on the planet, figuring "if it has to happen to me, then I'm going to share my misery with the world."
Where am I going with this?
We have some pretty epic hackers on the planet. Guys who can disassemble code by looking at it. Guys who don't give one billionth of a crap about legality. Doubt me? Go check your local torrent tracker. There are groups of people out there who break commercial software all the time. They do it for breakfast.
How much harder could hacker-originated code like botnets be?
Eventually you're going to get some hacker who has simply had enough. And he's going to form the internet version of the Lincoln County Regulators, go rogue, figure out every botnet they can get their hands on, and wipe every single PC they can right through the bot's command channel.
It's not IF, it's WHEN.
Remember - you heard it here first. This is going to happen. Some holier-than-thou uberhacker is going to figure "fuck 'em if they can't handle basic security - they're fucking up MY INTERNET" and lay waste to them all, nuke-it-from-orbit style.
I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened yet.
I consider neither of them to be journalists in any useful sense of the word.
Exactly it. As Jon Stewart noted, they're theater and not news.
And I agree with Jon - they're hurting America. Remember when people would ask you what your stand was on a given issue? People don't really do that anymore, do they? They ask (in one form or another) what side you're on. And that's a huge difference.
Political discourse used to be a discussion of issues. Each individual and separate. Political discussions used to be like a trip to the salad bar. Now it's two choices A or B.
Take Kral_Blbec above, who got downmodded to oblivion. I said something that ran contrary to some position of his. He therefore assumed I must be from the other party. "Your beloved leader doesn't seem..." To people like him who are so heavily polarized, it seems impossible to partially disagree with his party. You're either one of us, or one of them. You can't get these types of people to actually think about anything. They just recite their set sound bites and want their side to win. It's infuriating.
It's entirely possible to make up your mind on every individual issue on your own. And these talking heads are slowly robbing us of this.
It's depressing how low political discourse has sunk just in the span of my lifetime.
Except this isn't slander, it's parody. It appears you have the same blind spot Mr. Beck has.
But I will agree with you on Fox. Anyone has a right to stand up on a soapbox and say whatever they wish to. If anyone is actually looking to curtail their first amendment rights, then they are in the wrong. If anyone actually is doing so.
BTW if you're really looking for egregious crimes against the first amendment, W takes the cake.
And I'd also add: Don't be such a pussy - anything you dish out you should fully be able to take. I'd love to hear an explanation on why it's fair when you do it and unfair when it's done to you.
And on top of that: If you love 'Murica as much as you say you do, then you should at least learn how she works. We're actually pretty proud of the First Amendment. Too bad you're not.
This experiment also demonstrates why it's silly to worry about weight loss at all.
Well, there are a few reasons to worry about it.
That being said, losing the 20 has already been a life changer. I don't have to sit down to tie my shoes. I move better, get winded less easily. It makes me want to lose 20 more.
And I'll probably live longer too. Important because I'm a father now. No guarantees of course, but eliminating cardiac factors is probably a good idea.
Of course everything in life is a trade off. Me? I have a diet. I'm losing weight. I can move better, breathe easier, and probably live longer. I'm in my 40's but still enjoy sports. And the 20 pounds makes a big difference already. For me, that's worth not having the rice with the kung pao for a while.
Oh, another thing. Read the South Beach Diet. It's not like you have to give up the white rice with your kung pao for the rest of your life. Just realize that it's what the problem is. Eat your kung pao all you like. But when the pounds start coming back on - stop it! Switch back to lean foods until you're back to your target weight. Then you can give yourself a treat every so often. A couple of Ho-Hos every so often is actually ok. Just not every day.
The only thing South Beach does is let you know what you're doing with what you eat, and what you can do about it to stay healthy. Me? I'm a lifer. I'll *always* be doing this. I see those people at the shopping store riding around in the motorized carts because they're too fat to walk around the store and think HOLY CRAP I don't want to be that person. Not for reasons of vanity either. That would *have* to suck.
A little preventative maintenance and you can miss that fate entirely. So why not? We already run malware scanners and disk defragmenters because we like the boost to performance. Why not take the same approach with the machine you use the most?
First off, my quick story. I'm a programmer and I gained some weight. I asked on a martial arts forum, "Hey, what's the best way to dump some weight I've picked up?" As a chorus they responded South Beach Diet. So I tried it. Two months, twenty pounds. Still going. I'm not going to say it's easy, but it is easy enough. It's a great diet, makes good sense, and you're *never* hungry.
I bought a jogging machine and ran on the damn thing for three months without losing a pound. All I did was torque my foot. I started this diet and quit jogging on the same day - 20 pounds. Really, weight loss is far more about nutrition than activity. The calories going into you are far easier to deal with on the outside before you put them in your mouth rather than trying to blast them off your gut by exercise.
Here's how Dr. Agaston says weight gain works.
It's all about insulin and sugar crashes. Let's say you eat a typical programmer's snack. A couple of doughnuts and a coke. What happens next?
The doughnuts are covered in sugar which goes directly into the bloodstream. The coke is HFCS which is sugar, it goes directly into the bloodstream. The flour in the doughnuts are carbohydrates which are chains of easily accessible sugar moledules. They convert to sugar and go directly into the bloodstream. So in the course of a couple of minutes suddenly your blood sugar skyrockets.
Your pancreas will record this as an emergency. Your body knows that high blood sugar is potentially fatal. Diabetics who don't get their shot can die, your body knows this, and responds in a crisis mode. "Quick! Make as much insulin as you can or we're going to die!" So you begin making insulin like mad trying to keep up with the emergency.
So what is insulin? In short, it acts like a key that opens up cells and moves nutrition into them. So now your blood has a pile of sugar in it (nutrition/energy) and an equally large pile of insulin to move it into cells. And seeing as how you're not running the Boston marathon at the moment, you don't actually need that much mobile food in your blood. So your body does the next best thing and stores it. As fat.
That's only the first half of the problem. The second part is what happens next once the doughnuts and coke are dealt with.
Your pancreas will overrespond to the emergency. It's not really built to make a ton of insulin at a moment's notice. You'll notice that doughnuts don't grow on trees. Nothing in nature hits your body like it. So since it's evolutionarily speaking something new and unexpected, it can't really deal with it effectively. It will typically produce too much insulin. What does that do?
If your blood sugar was at X, and your body makes too much insulin (let's call it X + E, E for 'extra'), then what will happen is the doughnuts sugar will be moved into fat by X, and whatever sugar/nutrition you had in your bloodstream from before you ate the doughnuts will also be stored as fat. And now your blood sugar level will be just where it was from before you ate the doughnuts, minus E. In other words you will have lower blood sugar than before you started!
And what does your body do when you have low blood sugar? Make you hungry. You are nutrition deficient - go eat something.
And the cycle continues.
How to break the cycle? LAY OFF THE SUGAR AND CARBS. Avoid them. Once you stop spiking your body with these gigantic whopping doses of sugar and eat lean meat, vegetables, and the like you'll lose weight. Because you won't be sugar crashing all the time. It's not that you have to diet, you will simply not want to eat like you did before. Portion control happens all by itself.
For the science minded, here is an experiment you can try. Go to your local Chinese food place for dinner. What's the joke with Chinese food? Fifteen minutes later you're
Thanks for that link. It is fantastic.