Would be much easier to take you seriously, if you weren't an AC and hadn't just "quoted" reddit.
But anyway, I have a problem with certain statements here: The English language, as opposed to the German, makes no difference between a change in eating habits and a temporary measure, often extreme, with the sole goal to reduce weight.
So me eating less is, in fact a diet change. In that you are right. However, it is not an extreme temporary measure with the sole goal of reducing weight. So we'll need to make sure not to be talking about two completely different things when using the word diet.
Also I don't like it when people use the term fat. We're living in the photoshop age where a lot of people have come to expect unattainable (for most) figures as the norm and a sign of a healthy body when they are often, in fact, malnourished.
Now tastes differ and if someone prefers 'em skinny, hey, that's a-okay with me. The problem starts where the definition of fat that is based on taste is equated with the definition of fat that is based on health. The former is very subjective and doesn't take into account any biological factors the person in question has no power over. It also doesn't take into account any science whatsoever.
For one, it does not say that at all and two, this article very much fits what I've experienced.
Since you're not going to believe ANY of my conclusions anyway, I'm not going to waste my time writing them down.
Let's just say I'm losing weight now steadily and all I did was I started to chew my food thoroughly... and I mean thoroughly. I counted 60 to 100 chews per bite.
I immediately started eating way less food because there is now a point, pretty soon, where I find the thought of eating more becomes uncomfortable. I stop eating automatically now.
So on one side, eating less actually is a viable option IF you eat less because you feel sated. If you eat less just because the scale says so, you WILL get cravings and your body WILL go into starvation mode and you definitely WILL NOT permanently lose weight.
You have the same issue I keep running into. Again and again, I'm getting more misanthropic and think "We really should stop these people from voting". I went so far as to suggest that indenture should be a thing since some people are actively arguing for concepts that would, in effect, lead to it.
And with every great idea I run into this roadblock of "who is going to decide whether...". I can tell you my life would be so much easier if I could just be like Trump and his ilk and just think myself wise and knowledgeable enough to decide these matters.
Alas, I'm a fair man to the detriment of myself way too often...
We live "near" two nuclear plants and a temporary storage and research facility in Switzerland. All households around here have these pills in storage. So far no major problems occurred with that. I expect in Belgium it'll be similar. In the US I couldn't say, although my prejudices are screaming at me to go all out;).
I'm not sure why you're trying to attack me by questioning my intelligence when you didn't even have the common decency to point out what it is that you find idiotic and at least a reason why.
Don't you feel like a bit of an idiot for, indirectly, calling someone names who did nothing else than stating a bit of personal experience?
They have all the access they need. They can read every single goddamn bit on that drive.
This is like me writing a letter in Swiss German and them not finding anybody to translate. How am I responsible for translating it for them when I know it would be used against me?
Encryption is exactly that. Whether it's automated or not, it's just a translation of information into another "language". If Mr. FBI can't read it, then that's tough luck for him, isn't it?
Actually, yes it's hard. I've been failing at it since primary school.
I expect as much as I've killed my social status in the past by adhering to my principles and my sense of how it should be, it could very well happen that one day I'll go out guns blazing, literally.
Conforming is for lower ranks of the pack. Betas can have it hard: They don't have a drive to lead yet will not bow to you unless you prove yourself worthy. Wanna take a guess how many worthy leaders I've met in my time?
I thought you have a right to refuse to give evidence if said evidence could be used against you? How can this apply to testimony but not an encryption password?
You are not wrong in that the pioneers should not be hindered. Problem is that you cannot equate materialistic success with pioneering: In a pioneer, the rest of us profit from his or her success without any taxation being involved.
Microsoft revolutionized the PC marked, Apple the smartphone market and Bell revolutionized telecommunication. Whether they actually invented the necessary technology or not, I think we can all agree that it was them who got the avalanches going.
So back then yes, we could have done without even taxing them. Nowadays? All of these things are merely iterations of existing tech. That, in my opinion, is quite another matter. Also not to forget people who made their capital through sheer luck or inheritance. And worst of all those people who amass money by having a lot and then moving pseudo property this way and that without creating any gain for anybody but themselves.
Capitalism has produced certain very questionable, and accepted, mechanisms that just need to go because they have ballooned into monsters.
Like any system, capitalism needs to be protected from people finding loopholes and abusing the concept.
I love your line of "either earn your living or go die quietly somewhere away from me" because it's exactly what people with this kind of thinking expect. But it's much more likely that people pushed into corners will throw off shackles of social conventions and fight like lions because at the end of the day, humans are survivors.
If you're likely going to die either way, you'll take the route that offers the better chance of survival.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
There is a reason so many people in South Africa live self-imprisoned behind walls topped with barbed wire, able to walk free only with armed escorts.
Unless you're willing to gas all the poor (and manage it before they rally and fight back none the less), you will always need to have some kind of welfare system in place. You pay either way... you can pay with money, freedom or your life.
Eh, if that's the way he thinks that's his prerogative. Personally, I look around and see a whole lot of average and only very few exceptional specimens. Without proper genetic manipulation, the mind yet triumphs over the body, value-wise.
Teaching objectiveness and proper thought processes is valuable no matter the genes the child carries. I would have adopted as well, only my wife wanted to experience pregnancy and there actually aren't that many adoptable children in this country it seems.
At what price? And anyway, that's not the point. I'm not saying I want the best. I'm saying I don't have a problem with not being the biological father, especially considering my known flaws.
I can only agree. We had to use donor sperm for my wife to get pregnant as my little swimmers are lazy bums. I must say there are quite a few defects in my body that I'm only too happy not to pass along.
I'm not sure that has much to do with cities. Quite a few presidential candidates raise some eyebrows and I don't see Hillary being declared persona non grata.
I'm starting to think Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a better alternative here.
Frankly, I'm more inclined to blame our collective bowing to our one god (the economy) far more than any political side anywhere. "Wesayso knows best" does not lead to a healthy population. Now there's a kids' show many an adult could learn from.
I'm not sure which specs I missed, but range alone puts Tesla way outside the competitions league.
I don't want an Isetta like car that goes 50 miles on one charge! I CAN work around lower range and I can work around diminished refueling availability but not when range drops below 200!
That being said, from what I've seen of Model 3's non-existent dashboard, I'll pass. Perhaps used Model S will someday become affordable.
Since the Model 3 is supposed to have a landscape touchpad, I don't think the last link actually depicts the Model 3.
And for me not having instruments in my field of vision is quite the dealbreaker. Flicking your eyes down is way faster than having to move your head to the side (since I'm pretty much blind on my right eye, this is what I'd have to do).
Too bad. OTOH, I just bought a used Mazda CX-9 which I hope to be driving up to another ten years, so it's not a car for me anyway.
This right here is why we can't compete with the major cloud providers. We have one real datacenter with two more "datacenters" in which we have less than 30 hypervisor hosts.
And you keep asking me why we can't compete with their prices, when Google just up and opens 12 new datacenters, probably with 10k servers each.
When we license an addition five TB of storage, Google just goes and builds a new multi-PB environment.
And you keep asking me why storage is so expensive, when you insist on bending over backwards and tacking it from IBM without lube.
I actually wanted to do that... until I noticed that my board and CPU do not provide vt-d support... which makes gaming in the vm a tad useless.
I must congratulate Microsoft here... I've been trying to switch to Linux and going back once ever two years or so for the last, oh, almost twenty years.
Now the only thing stopping me is, in fact, my hardware. However, you can bet your hiney that when the next upgrade comes around, windows will be locked down tighter than Guantanamo.
It sure does seem like it. Although my paranoid subconscious keeps telling me to wait for the other shoe to drop. I'm starting to wonder whether your working environment might resemble your dedication to customers.
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Would be much easier to take you seriously, if you weren't an AC and hadn't just "quoted" reddit.
But anyway, I have a problem with certain statements here: The English language, as opposed to the German, makes no difference between a change in eating habits and a temporary measure, often extreme, with the sole goal to reduce weight.
So me eating less is, in fact a diet change. In that you are right. However, it is not an extreme temporary measure with the sole goal of reducing weight. So we'll need to make sure not to be talking about two completely different things when using the word diet.
Also I don't like it when people use the term fat. We're living in the photoshop age where a lot of people have come to expect unattainable (for most) figures as the norm and a sign of a healthy body when they are often, in fact, malnourished.
Now tastes differ and if someone prefers 'em skinny, hey, that's a-okay with me. The problem starts where the definition of fat that is based on taste is equated with the definition of fat that is based on health. The former is very subjective and doesn't take into account any biological factors the person in question has no power over. It also doesn't take into account any science whatsoever.
For one, it does not say that at all and two, this article very much fits what I've experienced.
Since you're not going to believe ANY of my conclusions anyway, I'm not going to waste my time writing them down.
Let's just say I'm losing weight now steadily and all I did was I started to chew my food thoroughly... and I mean thoroughly. I counted 60 to 100 chews per bite.
I immediately started eating way less food because there is now a point, pretty soon, where I find the thought of eating more becomes uncomfortable. I stop eating automatically now.
So on one side, eating less actually is a viable option IF you eat less because you feel sated. If you eat less just because the scale says so, you WILL get cravings and your body WILL go into starvation mode and you definitely WILL NOT permanently lose weight.
You have the same issue I keep running into. Again and again, I'm getting more misanthropic and think "We really should stop these people from voting". I went so far as to suggest that indenture should be a thing since some people are actively arguing for concepts that would, in effect, lead to it.
And with every great idea I run into this roadblock of "who is going to decide whether...". I can tell you my life would be so much easier if I could just be like Trump and his ilk and just think myself wise and knowledgeable enough to decide these matters.
Alas, I'm a fair man to the detriment of myself way too often...
Now if only I was better at saving cash...
We live "near" two nuclear plants and a temporary storage and research facility in Switzerland. All households around here have these pills in storage. So far no major problems occurred with that. I expect in Belgium it'll be similar. In the US I couldn't say, although my prejudices are screaming at me to go all out ;).
I'm not sure why you're trying to attack me by questioning my intelligence when you didn't even have the common decency to point out what it is that you find idiotic and at least a reason why.
Don't you feel like a bit of an idiot for, indirectly, calling someone names who did nothing else than stating a bit of personal experience?
Alive and kicking, right here in Switzerland ;).
They have all the access they need. They can read every single goddamn bit on that drive.
This is like me writing a letter in Swiss German and them not finding anybody to translate. How am I responsible for translating it for them when I know it would be used against me?
Encryption is exactly that. Whether it's automated or not, it's just a translation of information into another "language". If Mr. FBI can't read it, then that's tough luck for him, isn't it?
Actually, yes it's hard. I've been failing at it since primary school.
I expect as much as I've killed my social status in the past by adhering to my principles and my sense of how it should be, it could very well happen that one day I'll go out guns blazing, literally.
Conforming is for lower ranks of the pack. Betas can have it hard: They don't have a drive to lead yet will not bow to you unless you prove yourself worthy. Wanna take a guess how many worthy leaders I've met in my time?
I thought you have a right to refuse to give evidence if said evidence could be used against you? How can this apply to testimony but not an encryption password?
You are not wrong in that the pioneers should not be hindered. Problem is that you cannot equate materialistic success with pioneering: In a pioneer, the rest of us profit from his or her success without any taxation being involved.
Microsoft revolutionized the PC marked, Apple the smartphone market and Bell revolutionized telecommunication. Whether they actually invented the necessary technology or not, I think we can all agree that it was them who got the avalanches going.
So back then yes, we could have done without even taxing them. Nowadays? All of these things are merely iterations of existing tech. That, in my opinion, is quite another matter. Also not to forget people who made their capital through sheer luck or inheritance. And worst of all those people who amass money by having a lot and then moving pseudo property this way and that without creating any gain for anybody but themselves.
Capitalism has produced certain very questionable, and accepted, mechanisms that just need to go because they have ballooned into monsters.
Like any system, capitalism needs to be protected from people finding loopholes and abusing the concept.
"And if we have one Newton for every one thousand people hanging around doing useless shit, as a species we would profit massively."
Even one Newton per 100 Million seems like a good deal to me.
I love your line of "either earn your living or go die quietly somewhere away from me" because it's exactly what people with this kind of thinking expect. But it's much more likely that people pushed into corners will throw off shackles of social conventions and fight like lions because at the end of the day, humans are survivors.
If you're likely going to die either way, you'll take the route that offers the better chance of survival.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
There is a reason so many people in South Africa live self-imprisoned behind walls topped with barbed wire, able to walk free only with armed escorts.
Unless you're willing to gas all the poor (and manage it before they rally and fight back none the less), you will always need to have some kind of welfare system in place. You pay either way... you can pay with money, freedom or your life.
Even if I did run the numbers, I doubt I'd accept that conclusion...
Eh, if that's the way he thinks that's his prerogative. Personally, I look around and see a whole lot of average and only very few exceptional specimens. Without proper genetic manipulation, the mind yet triumphs over the body, value-wise.
Teaching objectiveness and proper thought processes is valuable no matter the genes the child carries. I would have adopted as well, only my wife wanted to experience pregnancy and there actually aren't that many adoptable children in this country it seems.
At what price? And anyway, that's not the point. I'm not saying I want the best. I'm saying I don't have a problem with not being the biological father, especially considering my known flaws.
I can only agree. We had to use donor sperm for my wife to get pregnant as my little swimmers are lazy bums. I must say there are quite a few defects in my body that I'm only too happy not to pass along.
I'm not sure that has much to do with cities. Quite a few presidential candidates raise some eyebrows and I don't see Hillary being declared persona non grata.
I'm starting to think Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a better alternative here.
Frankly, I'm more inclined to blame our collective bowing to our one god (the economy) far more than any political side anywhere. "Wesayso knows best" does not lead to a healthy population. Now there's a kids' show many an adult could learn from.
I'm not sure which specs I missed, but range alone puts Tesla way outside the competitions league.
I don't want an Isetta like car that goes 50 miles on one charge! I CAN work around lower range and I can work around diminished refueling availability but not when range drops below 200!
That being said, from what I've seen of Model 3's non-existent dashboard, I'll pass. Perhaps used Model S will someday become affordable.
Since the Model 3 is supposed to have a landscape touchpad, I don't think the last link actually depicts the Model 3.
And for me not having instruments in my field of vision is quite the dealbreaker. Flicking your eyes down is way faster than having to move your head to the side (since I'm pretty much blind on my right eye, this is what I'd have to do).
Too bad. OTOH, I just bought a used Mazda CX-9 which I hope to be driving up to another ten years, so it's not a car for me anyway.
Okay... I don't know how that pertains to my post but sure, whatever.
Dear boss,
This right here is why we can't compete with the major cloud providers. We have one real datacenter with two more "datacenters" in which we have less than 30 hypervisor hosts.
And you keep asking me why we can't compete with their prices, when Google just up and opens 12 new datacenters, probably with 10k servers each.
When we license an addition five TB of storage, Google just goes and builds a new multi-PB environment.
And you keep asking me why storage is so expensive, when you insist on bending over backwards and tacking it from IBM without lube.
I actually wanted to do that... until I noticed that my board and CPU do not provide vt-d support... which makes gaming in the vm a tad useless.
I must congratulate Microsoft here... I've been trying to switch to Linux and going back once ever two years or so for the last, oh, almost twenty years.
Now the only thing stopping me is, in fact, my hardware. However, you can bet your hiney that when the next upgrade comes around, windows will be locked down tighter than Guantanamo.
It sure does seem like it. Although my paranoid subconscious keeps telling me to wait for the other shoe to drop.
I'm starting to wonder whether your working environment might resemble your dedication to customers.
Doesn't work for me. Can't click on radio buttons nor the continue button.