Wow, you are right. Life would be a black joyless void of suffering if we drank water when we were thirsty. (OK, reflex sarcasm satisfied).
We aren't talking about "now and then" we are talking about habitual daily consumption of empty calories from sweetened drinks.
Apple pie is +/- 350 calories per slice. Depends on how big the slice is of course. Add a scoop of ice cream and you are near 600 calories. An occasional piece of pie is a fine thing. A slice with every meal, day in, day out not so good.
I'm thinking of one of my co-workers who drank 2 or 3 mid-sized bottles of soda (20 oz?) during the workday plus a tall cup (32 oz?) with lunch. He was packing in about 1000 calories just in soft drinks every day. He was asked (not by me, I've learned better) why he didn't drink water. He acted all hurt and defensive, like he was being criticized for his choices, and as though his obesity was somehow his fault. He liked sugary drinks and he felt entitled to drink them. It just didn't occur to him that there was any negative consequences to his choices, or that if there were any it would be his fault.
You put a low price on an item, but had no real intention of selling at that price. A customer wanted to purchase the items at the price you offered, but at that point you refused to sell.
I think the rule used to be up to 1/8 black (Octoroon) is still black. This may not be current practice. I think almost all "black" Americans are actually mixed race. (Notwithstanding recent immigrants). Maybe it's a "self-identification" thing? Not sure why it should matter.
Too true. People believe, because they were taught to believe, from an early age by people they trust. The vast majority of Christians (insert religion of your choice here) are Christian by an accident of birth. They are Christian because they had Christian parents. Had they been born in Mumbai, to Hindu parents, they would be Hindus.
If you want a good laugh ask a Christian why they believe in God and Jesus and the Holy spirit, but not in Zeus or Odin or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. If you get anything other than circular logic or "because" let me know.
I must be doing facebook all wrong. I don't ever recall seeing ads. If I could get my sister in law to stop posting "It's not the breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away" type crap twice a day it wouldn't be too bad.
Must be a different Lotus Notes than the one I had to use back in the 90s. That one had a an actively user-hostile interface. It actually looked for ways to break your heart and spirit and make you cry. It was forged from pure evil. Shat from the very buttocks of Satan. Well, anyhow, it wasn't very good.
Work has recently added Lync to our standard MS environment. It's far from perfect, but we now have integrated everything. I do mean everything. We get IM/VOIP telephony/email/shared calendar/book rooms and meetings/desktop sharing/n-way calls/webcam video conferencing/etc, all in one package.
Is there any open source equivalent that has all these features? Because that is what MS is bringing to the fight.
"I practically got a proctological exam just crossing over into Canada this summer"
That's probably because of the guns. Too many Americans "forget" they have a Desert Eagle in the glove box, even after the customs guy asks them 3 times.
"Most" - You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
"Try to remember that most people don't use their cars to commute 15 minutes to work and back home every day." That's right, most people commute about 25 minutes or less. Still not a problem for an electric car.
"Try to remember that most people don't live within 5 miles of everything they need to get to. " Most people live in cities, and have the things they need within 5 miles.
"Try to remember that most people don't want to live in a huge city packed in like cattle." I don't know if they "want" to live in cities (neither do you), but most people do live in cities. In the USA 80% of people live in urban areas.
To be fair, not all Sleep Apnea is due to obesity. However, about 60 or 70 % of adult Sleep Apnea is weight related.Alcohol consumption and smoking apparently also play a role.
You could argue that it is a self-inflicted condition for most people.Since most people can't lose weight and keep it off long term I guess you are stuck with the mask. Do you sound like Darth Vader when you wear it?
You nailed it. My neighbor drives a big dodge pickup with a hemi. Drives it 60 miles every day to work round trip. Gets 15 mpg tops. Bitches constantly about the price of gas. Why not drive a commuter car with double the gas mileage and save $2k a year? Because once a year he hauls his boat to the lake and once a year he hauls it back. (Honestly I think he just likes driving a big ass truck, and the boat is an excuse.)
"There's an awfully lot of overhead behind polling stations" - Not so much. Around here polling stations are some folding tables in a church hall or school gym. We use paper ballots and cardboard ballot boxes. Total cost = pennies per voter.
How quickly memory fades. It was regarded as a dumb-ass conflation of micro-circuit and chip. An IC should be called a chip. Just chip, no micro- in front. Micro-chip implies that there are much larger full sized chips, which is nonsense. Also a "micro" was a microprocessor, so a micro chip might be an 8085 or Z80, but not all chips were micros.
Then as now, nerds were sticklers for precision in language.
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Wow, you are right. Life would be a black joyless void of suffering if we drank water when we were thirsty. (OK, reflex sarcasm satisfied).
We aren't talking about "now and then" we are talking about habitual daily consumption of empty calories from sweetened drinks.
Apple pie is +/- 350 calories per slice. Depends on how big the slice is of course. Add a scoop of ice cream and you are near 600 calories. An occasional piece of pie is a fine thing. A slice with every meal, day in, day out not so good.
I'm thinking of one of my co-workers who drank 2 or 3 mid-sized bottles of soda (20 oz?) during the workday plus a tall cup (32 oz?) with lunch. He was packing in about 1000 calories just in soft drinks every day. He was asked (not by me, I've learned better) why he didn't drink water. He acted all hurt and defensive, like he was being criticized for his choices, and as though his obesity was somehow his fault. He liked sugary drinks and he felt entitled to drink them. It just didn't occur to him that there was any negative consequences to his choices, or that if there were any it would be his fault.
I know this is going to sound crazy, but instead of drinking diet soda or regular sugar sweetened soda, why not drink water?
I'm curious. Where do you live, that you can buy a house for $80k? Around here $80k might not qualify as the down-payment on a house.
or the "War on Terror" or the "War on Poverty".
You put a low price on an item, but had no real intention of selling at that price. A customer wanted to purchase the items at the price you offered, but at that point you refused to sell.
How is this even legal?
I think the rule used to be up to 1/8 black (Octoroon) is still black. This may not be current practice. I think almost all "black" Americans are actually mixed race. (Notwithstanding recent immigrants). Maybe it's a "self-identification" thing? Not sure why it should matter.
Too true. People believe, because they were taught to believe, from an early age by people they trust. The vast majority of Christians (insert religion of your choice here) are Christian by an accident of birth. They are Christian because they had Christian parents. Had they been born in Mumbai, to Hindu parents, they would be Hindus.
If you want a good laugh ask a Christian why they believe in God and Jesus and the Holy spirit, but not in Zeus or Odin or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. If you get anything other than circular logic or "because" let me know.
I must be doing facebook all wrong. I don't ever recall seeing ads. If I could get my sister in law to stop posting "It's not the breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away" type crap twice a day it wouldn't be too bad.
Must be a different Lotus Notes than the one I had to use back in the 90s. That one had a an actively user-hostile interface. It actually looked for ways to break your heart and spirit and make you cry. It was forged from pure evil. Shat from the very buttocks of Satan. Well, anyhow, it wasn't very good.
Work has recently added Lync to our standard MS environment. It's far from perfect, but we now have integrated everything. I do mean everything. We get IM/VOIP telephony/email/shared calendar/book rooms and meetings/desktop sharing/n-way calls/webcam video conferencing/etc, all in one package.
Is there any open source equivalent that has all these features? Because that is what MS is bringing to the fight.
Sorry. Wrong.
Nuclear has by far the lowest deathprint.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." - Obi Wan Kenobi
Every time I see that quote I have to add "Do or do not. There is no try."
"I practically got a proctological exam just crossing over into Canada this summer"
That's probably because of the guns. Too many Americans "forget" they have a Desert Eagle in the glove box, even after the customs guy asks them 3 times.
There is a "No True Scotsman" joke in here somewhere, but I just can't seem to find it.
"Most" - You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
"Try to remember that most people don't use their cars to commute 15 minutes to work and back home every day." That's right, most people commute about 25 minutes or less. Still not a problem for an electric car.
"Try to remember that most people don't live within 5 miles of everything they need to get to. " Most people live in cities, and have the things they need within 5 miles.
"Try to remember that most people don't want to live in a huge city packed in like cattle." I don't know if they "want" to live in cities (neither do you), but most people do live in cities. In the USA 80% of people live in urban areas.
To be fair, not all Sleep Apnea is due to obesity. However, about 60 or 70 % of adult Sleep Apnea is weight related.Alcohol consumption and smoking apparently also play a role.
You could argue that it is a self-inflicted condition for most people.Since most people can't lose weight and keep it off long term I guess you are stuck with the mask. Do you sound like Darth Vader when you wear it?
You nailed it. My neighbor drives a big dodge pickup with a hemi. Drives it 60 miles every day to work round trip. Gets 15 mpg tops. Bitches constantly about the price of gas. Why not drive a commuter car with double the gas mileage and save $2k a year? Because once a year he hauls his boat to the lake and once a year he hauls it back. (Honestly I think he just likes driving a big ass truck, and the boat is an excuse.)
For the nocturnal badgers. Vicious. Kill you as soon as look at you.
Can we give the ribbon thing a rest? It has been out for 7 years, you should have figured it out by now.
"There's an awfully lot of overhead behind polling stations" - Not so much. Around here polling stations are some folding tables in a church hall or school gym. We use paper ballots and cardboard ballot boxes. Total cost = pennies per voter.
"Why" "is" "Paradigm" "in" "quotes"? Secular? WTF is secular decline? Is that as opposed to ecclesiastical decline?
WTF do Giraffes have to do with the second law of thermodynamics. That is what we were discussing.
"What's wrong with microchip?"
How quickly memory fades. It was regarded as a dumb-ass conflation of micro-circuit and chip. An IC should be called a chip. Just chip, no micro- in front. Micro-chip implies that there are much larger full sized chips, which is nonsense. Also a "micro" was a microprocessor, so a micro chip might be an 8085 or Z80, but not all chips were micros.
Then as now, nerds were sticklers for precision in language.
pendant - a hanging ornament. I can't tell if you are being subversively sarcastic or just can't spell pedant.
Are we still annoyed at people who say "Microchip" or have we gotten over it? I remember when it was a suitable target for nerd rage.