A normal car engine has one source of power, the combustion engine. A hybrid has two, the combustion engine and the battery propulsion.
So even though a Toyota Echo's combustion engine is rated at much higher horsepower and torque than that of the Toyota Prius, when you factor in the battery it makes a big difference.
Plus, the torque from a combustion engine is only available when the engine is revving. A battery engine's full torque is available right from the start. That makes comparisons between battery engines and combustion engines even more difficult.
As opposed to the federally employed police that have proven themselves to never be corrupt, never take bribes, never purposely arrest innocent people, never abuse their authority, and in all other ways act as exemplars.
Do you honestly think that every judge, cop, and attorney general is honest just because they're being paid by Uncle Sam instead of a corporate taskmaster that gets paid by Uncle Sam?
What's the difference? I don't think there is one. You can meet a dishonest businessman just as easily as you can meet an incompetent, prejudiced, or downright corrupt government official.
So let me get this straight: 20,000 people who prize individual freedom above all else will move into a state and then trample over the wishes of the previous populace to get their preferred form of government enacted.
I think you're lifting too much. Try spreading your workouts more. Trust me, you can go up to 10 days between workouts without losing strength (as long as you don't make a habit of it).
If I stall while lifting, I maintain my diet and make sure to sleep well but take a week or ten days off from lifting. When I come back, I usually have so much energy I feel like I could chew through the barbell. Plus, my poundages often increase.
I'd say give that a try once or twice, and see if it doesn't help your weight and your quest for 200 on the bench press.
If you exercise too much, or eat too little, or lower your protein intake too much, your body will start cutting out as much lean muscle mass as it can to reduce your metabollism. Once that happens, you have to eat a lot less to actually lose fat.
That's behind the famous 'balloon dieting' syndrome. Some woman uses slimfast and jazzercise to drop 50 pounds, but she actually loses 40 pounds of fat and 10 pounds of muscle. She goes back to her old 1900 calorie a day diet, but now her body only needs 1400 calories to maintain itself. One year later she's 50 pounds heavier again, but this time it will be even harder to lose the weight. If she had incorporated some resistance training and a diet with a reasonable protein level into her first diet, it might not have happened.
I got sick of regaining the fat I lost on each diet. I started making sure I ate the RDA of protein and lifted weights for an hour per week. An hour isn't much, but it's something even a lazy SOB like me can continue over the long term. It took me about half a year to build up enough muscle for it to affect my metabollism. Now I've been losing about half a pound per week, without trying, for about four months. The new muscles are nice too, but at this rate it will be about 700 years before I'm Mr. Universe material.
I installed everything in Red Hat 7.3. Why not? I have the space.
I wanted to grab a few of my CD tracks off of different CDs and make myself a personal CD. I went through all the menus, opened XMMs, KonCD, and a handful of other programs, and couldn't figure out how to do it. I searched through the help files with little result.
I know I could do it by command line. RTFM, whatever. But my wife and friends, who can make CDs on Windows like nobody's business, would have never taken the time and effort to go command line.
I said it above, I'll say it here... I would much rather run Debian. I agree with their philosophies, I like the variety of packages, I appreciate the work they put into the project.
But the last time I tried to install Woody, in June, I had three problems. It didn't configure scsi emulation so I could use my CD burner. Xfree86 would not start (I'm 99.44% I have the correct video driver installed). I could not get my RealTek ethernet card recognized.
The first problem was a trivial fix, I just read the man pages and got it working. I gave up on the other two after a few hours of fruitless work. Red Hat 7.3 took care of all three on its own during install.
I'm not saying Debian should be more user friendly. It's not commercial, they don't need to be user friendly. I am saying that until Debian is user friendly, a lot of people, even Linux users, just won't be able to get it working.
I'm not knocking Debian, I just couldn't get it working on my PC. I had XFree86 working with my older ATI video card, but I couldn't get my new Nvidia recognized. Setting up the scsi emulation for my CD-RW wasn't hard, so that worked fine. But I just could not manage to get the RTL8139 driver for my ethernet card working.
I'm sure half the Slashdot population considers those problems as having trivial fixes, but they weren't trivial for me. Red Hat 7.3 handled everything on the first try, I only had to handle the disk partitioning. So, Red Hat it is!
If you want to lift for full body mass, lift for full body mass. Pay no attention to the kids who do 100 sets of chest and bicep exercises for each 10 sets of back and leg work. A good gym will have a squat rack and/or a decent leg press, hamstring curls, leg extension machines, and calf raise stuff (even if it's just a step and some heavy dumbells).
I was fat growing up. I was chubby at age 5. I weighed 140 pounds in the sixth grade. My parents gave me unlimited access to candy, ice cream, cookies, and soda... how was I to know what it would do to me? So I never really had a point where I was thin and I noticed that I was getting pudgy.
I'm losing fat now by eating 3 normal meals a day with no desserts and drinking only water. It's slow, but it's also something I can maintain without going crazy. I'm probably not the only person who never hit the "Oh damn I'm getting fat" stage because I grew up used to carrying the extra weight.
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it's okay... you can dare to be stupid!
Take some wooden nickels
Look for Mr. Goodbar...
dammit man, you'll have this stuck in my head all day!
I'm all in favor of what you said, and I'm a big capitalist advocate.
People may not give you this impression, but there's a big difference between being pro-big business and pro capitalism. I'm pro capitalism. Take the government out of as much of business as possible. (I won't say all, although some would.)
The current problem is simple: the government can pass laws drastically effecting businesses. So, a corrupt businessman can attempt to buy favorable legislation, or just trick legislators into passing laws that help him. Honest businesses lose out, and eventually get forced out of business. Look at the big businesses now... how many stories of unfair treatment, pork barrel funding, and tax evasion do you hear? Well, guess what... they have no choice! If you play fair, you get put out of business. Congratulations, US Congress has done a masterful job over the last fifty years of making sure the honest businessman gets burned!
So, take the US government out of the equation. Make it illegal to give tax rebates in certain industries/geographic areas, or on any level other than the national level. Eliminate the EPA and OSHA or else make abso-fucking-lutely sure that enforcement is consistent across the board and nobody gets pampered treatment. No free use of government land - pay a market price for leasing. No free use of resources from government land - auction it off to the highest bidder, with the minimum bid being 5% below market. Level the playing field, and watch the honest businesses that do the best job of providing what the customer needs excel.
I'm not logically opposed to OSHA or the EPA, but I've seen incredible double standards of enforcement, even in my simple college summer jobs.
you're right, but it's not that simple
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the problem is, if you implement an environmental regulation against a steel manufacturer in Chicago, and the manufacturer in Abudabe has less strict (or less strictly enforced) standards, your Chicago manufacturer is going to get pushed out of business by the Abudabean steel's cheaper prices.
So doing the right thing only guarantees that the less environmentally friendly company stays in business. Result = you lose your company, your employees lose their jobs, and the environmental damage you prevented in your country is perpetuated somewhere else.
The solution? Simple. Tax imports for all items from nations that don't adhere to your nation's environmental standards. Or, give your own companies that are environmentally compliant tax rebates (same net result either way). You can't have free trade between two nations without identical environmental standards (or labor standards, for that matter). The nation with less strict rules will steal all the business.
I disagree on this. I think government would benefit and costs would cut if they moved towards a more diversified environment. But I think the damage done from mandatory switching and quota-based changes would vastly exceed the benefits.
Instead, it should be done on a case by case basis, as Open Source (or Mac, or Solaris, or *BSD) alternatives are evaluated and adopted or rejected based upon their ability to fulfill the needs.
You can't profess to having savings, efficiency, and competition as your standard and then turn around and mandate certain behaviors with no regards to what your IT infrastructure would best benefit with.
If/When Linux can fulfill every requirement on the desktop that Microsoft provides, economics will make people switch. How difficult is that to understand?
is that one guy spends $300 on pesticides for $1000 of crop and the other spends $3 on pesticides for $800 crop. In that case, yield is better for the organic farmer.
I have no idea if that is the case. I just wanted to illustrate that the lack of completeness in the statistics could swing the argument either way.
I worked for a union in New Jersey
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Where the janitors earned $15.00 an hour to push a broom. I know intelligent people with college degrees who work longer hours at tough jobs for less money. Nurses, teachers, human resources, data entry... a big chunk of people employed in those sectors don't make that much money.
I worked for a union in rural Pennsylvania, and the low seniority guys were earning $9.50 an hour to not push a broom. The high seniority fellows that earned $13+/hour drove the equipment, while six or seven of the newer guys took turns using two shovels.
I'm not saying unions are all bad, and I'm definitely not saying this country would be better off without them. But believe it or not, some unions abuse employers just as badly as some employers used to abuse their workers.
The line is, "Duck Dodgers, we are facing a crisis. There is a severe shortage of the shaving cream atom." Or alternatively, it's sometimes a shortage of the "yo-yo polish atom."
Illudium-Pew-36 is Marvin the Martian's invention to blow up the earth because it obstructs his view of Venus. Never mess up your Looney Tunes!
I don't mean to insult you, but that's naive.
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I'm not much of a software engineer, and I'm sure there are thousands of more talented programmers here on slashdot. But I don't think any will contradict what I have to say. You point out the problem well - as long as any one company dominates the market, the consumer is at risk. But your solution is completely impractical.
Porting programs between similar architectures is at best time consuming and tedious and at worst a colossal commitment of time and effort. If you want to move a program from Debian to Redhat, you've got to make sure that the program can run using the kernel, compiler, libraries, modules, graphics libraries, and helper programs in that distribution. If you have to change any one of those factors to get it to work - which often happens - it's a colossal headache, because you have to go back and check the dependencies for every other program that relies upon the helper. Then you have to check every program that relies upon the ones you changed. Then the ones they changed. Etc...
Don't forget, building a correct program is no simple task. I've had the best programmers at my job - some pretty bright people - spend days tracking down tiny errors. It happens to everyone, and it happens in porting as often as it does in the software creation. Also, it's not trivial to set up test environments for every single distribution. If you have several projects at work, and each one must support three architectures, and their tests cannot significantly overlap... that's quite a few machines to maintain.
Until money falls from the sky, programmers that spend countless hours getting something to work are not going to have the time or inclination to double their workload - and that's an optimistic minimum estimate of what true portability requires.
Let the UnitedLinux format become a universally compliant standard, so that any abusive distributions can be easily supplanted.
Somebody had to say it. I feel the exact same way.... if the new stuff sucks, I'll ignore it. If it doesn't, I'll enjoy it. How can I lose?
God knows there's a lot of films that would be well served with minor tweaking. Somebody comes along with the resources and the inclination to redo some pieces of his past work, and suddenly everyone's crying for his blood! Why?
Believe it or not, Ayn Rand advocated a 7 year limit on intellectual copyrights for the exact same reason... it stifles innovation and lets people rest on their laurels for too long.
Objectivist philosophy has its flaws... but sometimes she wasn't totally off her rocker.
create a shortcut to the open office executable and drop it into your SendTo folder. WHen you want to opena document, right click on it, select SendTo, and click Shortcut to Open Office. Viola...
Of course, you may have to slog through a lot of paperwork and whining to get admin privileges long enough to set it up. But once it's in place, it speeds things up immensely.
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ye' canna' change the laws of physics
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Jim!
A normal car engine has one source of power, the combustion engine. A hybrid has two, the combustion engine and the battery propulsion.
So even though a Toyota Echo's combustion engine is rated at much higher horsepower and torque than that of the Toyota Prius, when you factor in the battery it makes a big difference.
Plus, the torque from a combustion engine is only available when the engine is revving. A battery engine's full torque is available right from the start. That makes comparisons between battery engines and combustion engines even more difficult.
Have we met?
As opposed to the federally employed police that have proven themselves to never be corrupt, never take bribes, never purposely arrest innocent people, never abuse their authority, and in all other ways act as exemplars.
Do you honestly think that every judge, cop, and attorney general is honest just because they're being paid by Uncle Sam instead of a corporate taskmaster that gets paid by Uncle Sam?
What's the difference? I don't think there is one. You can meet a dishonest businessman just as easily as you can meet an incompetent, prejudiced, or downright corrupt government official.
So let me get this straight:
20,000 people who prize individual freedom above all else will move into a state and then trample over the wishes of the previous populace to get their preferred form of government enacted.
Did I miss something?
I think you're lifting too much. Try spreading your workouts more. Trust me, you can go up to 10 days between workouts without losing strength (as long as you don't make a habit of it). If I stall while lifting, I maintain my diet and make sure to sleep well but take a week or ten days off from lifting. When I come back, I usually have so much energy I feel like I could chew through the barbell. Plus, my poundages often increase. I'd say give that a try once or twice, and see if it doesn't help your weight and your quest for 200 on the bench press.
If you exercise too much, or eat too little, or lower your protein intake too much, your body will start cutting out as much lean muscle mass as it can to reduce your metabollism. Once that happens, you have to eat a lot less to actually lose fat.
That's behind the famous 'balloon dieting' syndrome. Some woman uses slimfast and jazzercise to drop 50 pounds, but she actually loses 40 pounds of fat and 10 pounds of muscle. She goes back to her old 1900 calorie a day diet, but now her body only needs 1400 calories to maintain itself. One year later she's 50 pounds heavier again, but this time it will be even harder to lose the weight. If she had incorporated some resistance training and a diet with a reasonable protein level into her first diet, it might not have happened.
I got sick of regaining the fat I lost on each diet. I started making sure I ate the RDA of protein and lifted weights for an hour per week. An hour isn't much, but it's something even a lazy SOB like me can continue over the long term. It took me about half a year to build up enough muscle for it to affect my metabollism. Now I've been losing about half a pound per week, without trying, for about four months. The new muscles are nice too, but at this rate it will be about 700 years before I'm Mr. Universe material.
I thought that windows Media Player supported mp3s.
If I'm wrong, sorry. If I'm right... that's a lot of licenses to pay.
I installed everything in Red Hat 7.3. Why not? I have the space.
I wanted to grab a few of my CD tracks off of different CDs and make myself a personal CD. I went through all the menus, opened XMMs, KonCD, and a handful of other programs, and couldn't figure out how to do it. I searched through the help files with little result.
I know I could do it by command line. RTFM, whatever. But my wife and friends, who can make CDs on Windows like nobody's business, would have never taken the time and effort to go command line.
I said it above, I'll say it here...
I would much rather run Debian. I agree with their philosophies, I like the variety of packages, I appreciate the work they put into the project.
But the last time I tried to install Woody, in June, I had three problems. It didn't configure scsi emulation so I could use my CD burner. Xfree86 would not start (I'm 99.44% I have the correct video driver installed). I could not get my RealTek ethernet card recognized.
The first problem was a trivial fix, I just read the man pages and got it working. I gave up on the other two after a few hours of fruitless work. Red Hat 7.3 took care of all three on its own during install.
I'm not saying Debian should be more user friendly. It's not commercial, they don't need to be user friendly. I am saying that until Debian is user friendly, a lot of people, even Linux users, just won't be able to get it working.
I'm not knocking Debian, I just couldn't get it working on my PC. I had XFree86 working with my older ATI video card, but I couldn't get my new Nvidia recognized. Setting up the scsi emulation for my CD-RW wasn't hard, so that worked fine. But I just could not manage to get the RTL8139 driver for my ethernet card working.
I'm sure half the Slashdot population considers those problems as having trivial fixes, but they weren't trivial for me. Red Hat 7.3 handled everything on the first try, I only had to handle the disk partitioning. So, Red Hat it is!
If you want to lift for full body mass, lift for full body mass. Pay no attention to the kids who do 100 sets of chest and bicep exercises for each 10 sets of back and leg work. A good gym will have a squat rack and/or a decent leg press, hamstring curls, leg extension machines, and calf raise stuff (even if it's just a step and some heavy dumbells).
I was fat growing up. I was chubby at age 5. I weighed 140 pounds in the sixth grade. My parents gave me unlimited access to candy, ice cream, cookies, and soda... how was I to know what it would do to me? So I never really had a point where I was thin and I noticed that I was getting pudgy.
I'm losing fat now by eating 3 normal meals a day with no desserts and drinking only water. It's slow, but it's also something I can maintain without going crazy. I'm probably not the only person who never hit the "Oh damn I'm getting fat" stage because I grew up used to carrying the extra weight.
it's okay... you can dare to be stupid!
Take some wooden nickels
Look for Mr. Goodbar...
dammit man, you'll have this stuck in my head all day!
I'm all in favor of what you said, and I'm a big capitalist advocate.
People may not give you this impression, but there's a big difference between being pro-big business and pro capitalism. I'm pro capitalism. Take the government out of as much of business as possible. (I won't say all, although some would.)
The current problem is simple: the government can pass laws drastically effecting businesses. So, a corrupt businessman can attempt to buy favorable legislation, or just trick legislators into passing laws that help him. Honest businesses lose out, and eventually get forced out of business. Look at the big businesses now... how many stories of unfair treatment, pork barrel funding, and tax evasion do you hear? Well, guess what... they have no choice! If you play fair, you get put out of business. Congratulations, US Congress has done a masterful job over the last fifty years of making sure the honest businessman gets burned!
So, take the US government out of the equation. Make it illegal to give tax rebates in certain industries/geographic areas, or on any level other than the national level. Eliminate the EPA and OSHA or else make abso-fucking-lutely sure that enforcement is consistent across the board and nobody gets pampered treatment. No free use of government land - pay a market price for leasing. No free use of resources from government land - auction it off to the highest bidder, with the minimum bid being 5% below market. Level the playing field, and watch the honest businesses that do the best job of providing what the customer needs excel.
I'm not logically opposed to OSHA or the EPA, but I've seen incredible double standards of enforcement, even in my simple college summer jobs.
the problem is, if you implement an environmental regulation against a steel manufacturer in Chicago, and the manufacturer in Abudabe has less strict (or less strictly enforced) standards, your Chicago manufacturer is going to get pushed out of business by the Abudabean steel's cheaper prices.
So doing the right thing only guarantees that the less environmentally friendly company stays in business. Result = you lose your company, your employees lose their jobs, and the environmental damage you prevented in your country is perpetuated somewhere else.
The solution? Simple. Tax imports for all items from nations that don't adhere to your nation's environmental standards. Or, give your own companies that are environmentally compliant tax rebates (same net result either way). You can't have free trade between two nations without identical environmental standards (or labor standards, for that matter). The nation with less strict rules will steal all the business.
I disagree on this. I think government would benefit and costs would cut if they moved towards a more diversified environment. But I think the damage done from mandatory switching and quota-based changes would vastly exceed the benefits.
Instead, it should be done on a case by case basis, as Open Source (or Mac, or Solaris, or *BSD) alternatives are evaluated and adopted or rejected based upon their ability to fulfill the needs.
You can't profess to having savings, efficiency, and competition as your standard and then turn around and mandate certain behaviors with no regards to what your IT infrastructure would best benefit with.
If/When Linux can fulfill every requirement on the desktop that Microsoft provides, economics will make people switch. How difficult is that to understand?
But I have to say... how libertarian of you! I don't know if that's what you intended, but that's how it came out.
is that one guy spends $300 on pesticides for $1000 of crop and the other spends $3 on pesticides for $800 crop. In that case, yield is better for the organic farmer.
I have no idea if that is the case. I just wanted to illustrate that the lack of completeness in the statistics could swing the argument either way.
Where the janitors earned $15.00 an hour to push a broom. I know intelligent people with college degrees who work longer hours at tough jobs for less money. Nurses, teachers, human resources, data entry... a big chunk of people employed in those sectors don't make that much money.
I worked for a union in rural Pennsylvania, and the low seniority guys were earning $9.50 an hour to not push a broom. The high seniority fellows that earned $13+/hour drove the equipment, while six or seven of the newer guys took turns using two shovels.
I'm not saying unions are all bad, and I'm definitely not saying this country would be better off without them. But believe it or not, some unions abuse employers just as badly as some employers used to abuse their workers.
The line is, "Duck Dodgers, we are facing a crisis. There is a severe shortage of the shaving cream atom." Or alternatively, it's sometimes a shortage of the "yo-yo polish atom." Illudium-Pew-36 is Marvin the Martian's invention to blow up the earth because it obstructs his view of Venus. Never mess up your Looney Tunes!
I'm not much of a software engineer, and I'm sure there are thousands of more talented programmers here on slashdot. But I don't think any will contradict what I have to say. You point out the problem well - as long as any one company dominates the market, the consumer is at risk. But your solution is completely impractical.
Porting programs between similar architectures is at best time consuming and tedious and at worst a colossal commitment of time and effort. If you want to move a program from Debian to Redhat, you've got to make sure that the program can run using the kernel, compiler, libraries, modules, graphics libraries, and helper programs in that distribution. If you have to change any one of those factors to get it to work - which often happens - it's a colossal headache, because you have to go back and check the dependencies for every other program that relies upon the helper. Then you have to check every program that relies upon the ones you changed. Then the ones they changed. Etc...
Don't forget, building a correct program is no simple task. I've had the best programmers at my job - some pretty bright people - spend days tracking down tiny errors. It happens to everyone, and it happens in porting as often as it does in the software creation. Also, it's not trivial to set up test environments for every single distribution. If you have several projects at work, and each one must support three architectures, and their tests cannot significantly overlap... that's quite a few machines to maintain.
Until money falls from the sky, programmers that spend countless hours getting something to work are not going to have the time or inclination to double their workload - and that's an optimistic minimum estimate of what true portability requires.
Let the UnitedLinux format become a universally compliant standard, so that any abusive distributions can be easily supplanted.
Somebody had to say it. I feel the exact same way.... if the new stuff sucks, I'll ignore it. If it doesn't, I'll enjoy it. How can I lose?
God knows there's a lot of films that would be well served with minor tweaking. Somebody comes along with the resources and the inclination to redo some pieces of his past work, and suddenly everyone's crying for his blood! Why?
Believe it or not, Ayn Rand advocated a 7 year limit on intellectual copyrights for the exact same reason... it stifles innovation and lets people rest on their laurels for too long.
Objectivist philosophy has its flaws... but sometimes she wasn't totally off her rocker.
create a shortcut to the open office executable and drop it into your SendTo folder. WHen you want to opena document, right click on it, select SendTo, and click Shortcut to Open Office. Viola...
Of course, you may have to slog through a lot of paperwork and whining to get admin privileges long enough to set it up. But once it's in place, it speeds things up immensely.