It may be an acceptable cognitive load on the checker, but what it does that is unacceptable is increase the time taken to check out. My ex-roommate works a seasonal retail job for extra money, and at the place where he works, their checkouts are measured in seconds per item. He got dinged in his performance review one time for taking too long...
The moment the city goes live, they'll be shut down by the Federal Gov't because it is ILLEGAL for the government (federal or local) to compete with private enterprise.
Well, this would clearly be illegal, but what would NOT be illegal would be stringent enforcement of building codes and city laws on BellSouth. After all, I am sure that a damaged building violates any number of zoning, building safety, environmental, and other protections, maybe even to the tune of $1M per day...
Yes, because 100 people out of 6 billion contracting a non-contagious, non-human strain of avian flu by direct contact with infected birds constitutes a crisis. Riiiiight....
If your body processes food incorrectly, it still has to obtain its energy from somewhere. This "somewhere" would undoubtedly be from muscle mass. But, as I told another poster, I was not attempting to cover every angle of this issue. Certainly people with specific medical conditions have to consult with their doctors about weight loss plans because their situations may be different w/r/t maintaining body mass percentages. The underlying principle however still applies. Regardless of how one's body processes calories, if fewer calories are consumed (and processed) than are expended, the body will lose mass one way or another.
I also didn't originally want to go down the social road, but you are right that there are many underlying social issues in our country that contribute to the obesity epidemic. However, it _is_ possible to live on junkfood and maintain proper weight. One simply has to exercise stringent portion control and exercise like a maniac. Luckily, while junk food is high in fat, it is also high in everything else, so one only needs to mitigate the fat problem. Cholesterol is another issue as well with the high fat diet.
Changes certainly need to be made in the way we view health. Right now, our social system and our government act reactively to health issues. People wait until they have health problems to see a doctor. The government throws so much money at medical issues that are completely preventable. How much government money is spent treating people with hypertension, cardio-vascular disease, diabetes, and other ailments that are in most cases the direct result of bad diet and lack of exercise? How much cheaper would it be to spend more money on prevention programs now and save on health care later? Unfortunately, we lack the attitude of investment that we need to do it. We'll galavant around the world spending trillions of dollars installing our system of government in various locations so we can expand our culture of High Fructose Corn Syrup and XBox, but we won't spend $2 per student per day extra on giving them healthy food instead of pizza, hamburgers, and soda. Have you ever seen pictures of the shanty-towns in rural Africa that have Coca-Cola advertisements painted on the tin walls of the shacks?
I was apalled when I watched "Super Size Me" and saw how we are feeding our children in school these days. It's no wonder kids are growing up more violent and less focused when all we do is pump them up with corn syrup all day long. Seriously, I think the obesity/diet/lifestyle issue is probably the most important issue of our generation. Interestingly enough, I also think that health is the solution to the social security and medicare problems - in a very indirect yet plausible way.
As for the emotional concepts around eating, and speaking of corn syrup, food can be a very emotional topic. An influx of concentrated sugar has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. It is a powerful stimulant that causes very similar withdrawal symptoms, so yes indeed it is possible to be addicted to food (I speak from both past and current experience). As a former fat person, I still have many of the difficulties dealing with food addiction, and food as a comfort mechanism for stress, and constant weight cycling. I always gain 15lbs in the winter because I have a lot of difficulty controlling my food intake even after cycling season ends.
In any case, thanks for your well-wishes, and you can be sure those are reciprocal.
I think you're being a bit pedantic here. I think it was pretty straightforward to infer that I was talking about calories processed. Obviously, calories not processed do not enter into the thermodynamic model. Also, certainly there are cases where absorption rates differ, but I was not attempting to cover every angle in the general description of the model.
Also, it is not necessarily true that people who have had gastric bypass or other surgery need to eat "more" food. It is more preferable for them to eat the same amount of food but spread out over longer periods of time so as to allow the lower absorption rate to still allow the calories to be processed. The idea is to introduce calories at an equal-to or lesser rate than the body's ability to process them.
First of all, I agree that the BMI is completely useless, unscientific, and about the worst measure of health the government could have possibly come up with. I never ever use the BMI for anything. Bodyfat percentage is much more useful and indicative of overall health, along with blood pressure, resting heart rate (related to stroke volume and VO2), and other factors.
20% bodyfat is indeed pretty high for a Male, but it is not in the realm of unhealthy. Because you are on the borderline, I would consider this with your level of activity, your diet, your blood pressure, and other lifestyle factors such as whether you smoke or drink excessively. I think it is generally okay to have a higher bodyfat percentage as long as your blood pressure is normal and you get at least an hour of moderate aerobic exercise every day, and eat a diet that does not exceed 30% of calories from fat. Of course, IANAD, so see your physician with specific health concerns.
You're also right about the human tendency, and this is true with any animal, to eat until full. It goes way back to not knowing when one would be able to eat again. There is no need to eat until full anymore, but it is simply in our nature. However, free will gives us the ability to overcome this and stick to the thermodynamic model of weight maintenance.
I work for a $30BLN company, and I can tell you hands down that while assholes certainly exist here, the vast majority of management and executive folks are really nice people. I've met a bunch of them and they seem to be just regular folks like you and me, just with the willingness to work 100 hours per week and travel all over heaven and creation constantly to make the gears keep turning. Yes, they do seem to have a component of "schmooze," but for the most part they are not that different from most of the other people I know. It takes a lot of cooperation and teamwork to keep the gears turning in a company this size, so there is little room for back stabbing.
We had a little incident last year where some of the middle management folks tried to cook the numbers to inflate their bonuses. They were summarily dismissed as soon as they were found out. Luckily it did not result in any criminal charges against the company, but their actions were not tolerated at all. Had they succeeded, the company would have mis-stated its earnings, which would have been BAD.
I know lots of Fat people... how can I not? I am an American. I am surrounded by fat people all the time. Hell, I used to BE a fat person, but after losing 70 lbs and becoming the poster-boy for weight loss, I've discovered that it all comes down to one thing:
If you consume fewer calories than you expend, you will lose weight. PERIOD. Of course, there are many ways to go about doing this, and the only sustainable way is to exercise to maintain muscle mass.
The whole idea behind long-term weight loss is to increase your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) by increasing your muscle mass, while at the same time decreasing your caloric intake to below your BMR. That's all it takes. The rate at which you lose weight will be proportional to the delta between your Daily Caloric Intake and your BMR - on average.
One pound of fat contains approximately 3600 calories. So, for example, you consume 200 fewer calories per day than you expend on average, you'll lose one pound of fat every 18 days. Of course, fat is not the only thing you can lose, so weight loss will vary somewhat.
Also, exercise adds to your daily caloric expenditure, which can accelerate weight loss significantly. One might expend 1800 calories by riding a bike 50 miles at a high rate of speed, or expend 800 calories by running 6 miles, or expend 400 calories shoveling snow for an hour.
In any case, what it all boils down to is being aware of the simple fact that you have to get your energy from somewhere, and if you do not get enough energy from the food you eat, your body will turn to its fat stores. It doesn't matter what excuse a fat person uses, whether that be, "It's my glands," or "It's my genes," or whatever. Thermodynamics is LAW, and excuses cannot break it.
This would actually probably DECREASE the octane "rating" of your fuel. Basically, the octane "rating" really has nothing to do with the amount of octane in your fuel. It used to be called the "Anti-Knock Index," but some marking buffoon decided to call it the "octane" rating instead because it sounded cooler. Anyway, the AKI is a measure of how easy it is to ignite your fuel. In an internal combustion engine, a mix of fuel and air is compressed at high speed during the compression stroke. As the pressure increases, so does the temperature. As the temperature rises, the fuel, if unstable, can ignite on its own (this is the entire principle behind the diesel engine) before the spark plug fires. This is called pre-ignition, a ping, a knock, or whatever. It usually happens when there is a higher concentration of fuel in the cylinder, such as during acceleration or climbing a hill. Most modern gas engines have a knock sensor that will tell the computer when the engine is pinging, and the computer will adjust the mixture to compensate if it can.
The reason the AKI of fuel drops 2 points above 5000 feet is because the air pressure is about half that of sea level, so the compression stroke doesn't generate enough pressure to pre-ignite the lower AKI fuels.
Your turbo car, however, can produce sea-level equivalent pressures, so you still need to use higher AKI fuel even at high altitude. Most car manufacturers will not specify an AKI above 91, since that is what is commonly available above 5000 feet.
Anyway, back to the point. Adding a bunch of Oxygen and Hydrogen to the mix will make it far easier to pre-ignite. Free hydrogen gas can be ignited by the incident light of a camera flash. H2 can be ignited easily by a discharge of just a few Joules of static electricity.
By the way kids, don't use this stuff in your air-cooled engine. These cars depends on a rich, cool combustion mix to keep from overheating... add O2 and H2 to the mix and you'll have a higher combustion temp and blow up your motor...
What's even more important that this is that, once a stock is delisted, the index funds MUST sell it. So, let's say for sake of example that 24.6% of SGI's stock is "institutional," and half of that institutional ownership is in index funds, then you have 12.3% of all outstanding shares that will be put on the sales block first thing Monday morning. IANAFA, but I think one might guess this would have a net downward effect on SGI stock price.
But that is just FUCKING RETARDED... yet another blatant attempt to sacrifice FreeBSDs roots to pander to corporate morons who buy and implement software based on retarded, post-modern looking logos...
Funny, I inverview those all the time! I've never had one tell me they won't work here because they don't get an office. They also don't usually assume they know more than I do. You know, they're not usually arrogant pricks like this guy apparently is...
A real IP address is 32 digits. It is neither useful nor correct to express an IP address in any base other than binary except for the purpose of being aesthetically pleasing in documentation. Functionally speaking, when handling IP addresses, it is only appropriate to use the 32 digit number. This becomes readily apparent when considering that a netmask can be an arbitrary length and does not necessarily occur on byte boundaries. Network numbers are obtained by bit-wise operations, not byte-wise operations, so therefore one can conclude that the functionally correct representation of an IP address is through use of 32 individual digits.
I don't see how any of this gets around the fact that no State has the right to tax interstate commerce. Call it whatever kind of tax you want to; Sales, Use, Excise, whatever, it is still a tax on interstate commerce and a State has no right to collect it.
Oh my God! Could it be?? Global warming without SUVs?? Gosh, no, it can't be. Global warming is caused by SUVs. Everyone knows that. Therefore, we can conclude that there must be rich oil republican life on mars. What other specie could cause such global devastation on Mars? We need a global punitive treaty against rich oil republicans right now! Kyoto must immediately extend to Mars. If not, we'll have a real calamity on our hands!! Everyone run for your lives!!
"In the US it would seem you go to work because nothing else matters. Marriage, health, sanity etc etc are all less important than having a job."
This is a falsehood. I would challenge you to find one single American who would give up their family or health for their job. You watch too much TV... Family is much more important to Americans than the press would have you believe. Why do you think they reacted with such astonishment that family values and morals were the most important issues in the 2004 US election?
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"and incorporated perverted misconceptions of these ideas he fancied into his whole sick, concocted philosophy."
Finally, someone who understands socialism for what it really is...
It may be an acceptable cognitive load on the checker, but what it does that is unacceptable is increase the time taken to check out. My ex-roommate works a seasonal retail job for extra money, and at the place where he works, their checkouts are measured in seconds per item. He got dinged in his performance review one time for taking too long...
Customers don't want to wait..
The moment the city goes live, they'll be shut down by the Federal Gov't because it is ILLEGAL for the government (federal or local) to compete with private enterprise.
Well, this would clearly be illegal, but what would NOT be illegal would be stringent enforcement of building codes and city laws on BellSouth. After all, I am sure that a damaged building violates any number of zoning, building safety, environmental, and other protections, maybe even to the tune of $1M per day...
Yes, because 100 people out of 6 billion contracting a non-contagious, non-human strain of avian flu by direct contact with infected birds constitutes a crisis. Riiiiight....
If your body processes food incorrectly, it still has to obtain its energy from somewhere. This "somewhere" would undoubtedly be from muscle mass. But, as I told another poster, I was not attempting to cover every angle of this issue. Certainly people with specific medical conditions have to consult with their doctors about weight loss plans because their situations may be different w/r/t maintaining body mass percentages. The underlying principle however still applies. Regardless of how one's body processes calories, if fewer calories are consumed (and processed) than are expended, the body will lose mass one way or another.
I also didn't originally want to go down the social road, but you are right that there are many underlying social issues in our country that contribute to the obesity epidemic. However, it _is_ possible to live on junkfood and maintain proper weight. One simply has to exercise stringent portion control and exercise like a maniac. Luckily, while junk food is high in fat, it is also high in everything else, so one only needs to mitigate the fat problem. Cholesterol is another issue as well with the high fat diet.
Changes certainly need to be made in the way we view health. Right now, our social system and our government act reactively to health issues. People wait until they have health problems to see a doctor. The government throws so much money at medical issues that are completely preventable. How much government money is spent treating people with hypertension, cardio-vascular disease, diabetes, and other ailments that are in most cases the direct result of bad diet and lack of exercise? How much cheaper would it be to spend more money on prevention programs now and save on health care later? Unfortunately, we lack the attitude of investment that we need to do it. We'll galavant around the world spending trillions of dollars installing our system of government in various locations so we can expand our culture of High Fructose Corn Syrup and XBox, but we won't spend $2 per student per day extra on giving them healthy food instead of pizza, hamburgers, and soda. Have you ever seen pictures of the shanty-towns in rural Africa that have Coca-Cola advertisements painted on the tin walls of the shacks?
I was apalled when I watched "Super Size Me" and saw how we are feeding our children in school these days. It's no wonder kids are growing up more violent and less focused when all we do is pump them up with corn syrup all day long. Seriously, I think the obesity/diet/lifestyle issue is probably the most important issue of our generation. Interestingly enough, I also think that health is the solution to the social security and medicare problems - in a very indirect yet plausible way.
As for the emotional concepts around eating, and speaking of corn syrup, food can be a very emotional topic. An influx of concentrated sugar has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. It is a powerful stimulant that causes very similar withdrawal symptoms, so yes indeed it is possible to be addicted to food (I speak from both past and current experience). As a former fat person, I still have many of the difficulties dealing with food addiction, and food as a comfort mechanism for stress, and constant weight cycling. I always gain 15lbs in the winter because I have a lot of difficulty controlling my food intake even after cycling season ends.
In any case, thanks for your well-wishes, and you can be sure those are reciprocal.
I think you're being a bit pedantic here. I think it was pretty straightforward to infer that I was talking about calories processed. Obviously, calories not processed do not enter into the thermodynamic model. Also, certainly there are cases where absorption rates differ, but I was not attempting to cover every angle in the general description of the model.
Also, it is not necessarily true that people who have had gastric bypass or other surgery need to eat "more" food. It is more preferable for them to eat the same amount of food but spread out over longer periods of time so as to allow the lower absorption rate to still allow the calories to be processed. The idea is to introduce calories at an equal-to or lesser rate than the body's ability to process them.
First of all, I agree that the BMI is completely useless, unscientific, and about the worst measure of health the government could have possibly come up with. I never ever use the BMI for anything. Bodyfat percentage is much more useful and indicative of overall health, along with blood pressure, resting heart rate (related to stroke volume and VO2), and other factors.
20% bodyfat is indeed pretty high for a Male, but it is not in the realm of unhealthy. Because you are on the borderline, I would consider this with your level of activity, your diet, your blood pressure, and other lifestyle factors such as whether you smoke or drink excessively. I think it is generally okay to have a higher bodyfat percentage as long as your blood pressure is normal and you get at least an hour of moderate aerobic exercise every day, and eat a diet that does not exceed 30% of calories from fat. Of course, IANAD, so see your physician with specific health concerns.
You're also right about the human tendency, and this is true with any animal, to eat until full. It goes way back to not knowing when one would be able to eat again. There is no need to eat until full anymore, but it is simply in our nature. However, free will gives us the ability to overcome this and stick to the thermodynamic model of weight maintenance.
I work for a $30BLN company, and I can tell you hands down that while assholes certainly exist here, the vast majority of management and executive folks are really nice people. I've met a bunch of them and they seem to be just regular folks like you and me, just with the willingness to work 100 hours per week and travel all over heaven and creation constantly to make the gears keep turning. Yes, they do seem to have a component of "schmooze," but for the most part they are not that different from most of the other people I know. It takes a lot of cooperation and teamwork to keep the gears turning in a company this size, so there is little room for back stabbing.
We had a little incident last year where some of the middle management folks tried to cook the numbers to inflate their bonuses. They were summarily dismissed as soon as they were found out. Luckily it did not result in any criminal charges against the company, but their actions were not tolerated at all. Had they succeeded, the company would have mis-stated its earnings, which would have been BAD.
Yo mama so stupid it took her 2 hours to watch 60 Minutes!
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I'll be looking for your email in about 3 weeks
I know lots of Fat people... how can I not? I am an American. I am surrounded by fat people all the time. Hell, I used to BE a fat person, but after losing 70 lbs and becoming the poster-boy for weight loss, I've discovered that it all comes down to one thing:
If you consume fewer calories than you expend, you will lose weight. PERIOD. Of course, there are many ways to go about doing this, and the only sustainable way is to exercise to maintain muscle mass.
The whole idea behind long-term weight loss is to increase your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) by increasing your muscle mass, while at the same time decreasing your caloric intake to below your BMR. That's all it takes. The rate at which you lose weight will be proportional to the delta between your Daily Caloric Intake and your BMR - on average.
One pound of fat contains approximately 3600 calories. So, for example, you consume 200 fewer calories per day than you expend on average, you'll lose one pound of fat every 18 days. Of course, fat is not the only thing you can lose, so weight loss will vary somewhat.
Also, exercise adds to your daily caloric expenditure, which can accelerate weight loss significantly. One might expend 1800 calories by riding a bike 50 miles at a high rate of speed, or expend 800 calories by running 6 miles, or expend 400 calories shoveling snow for an hour.
In any case, what it all boils down to is being aware of the simple fact that you have to get your energy from somewhere, and if you do not get enough energy from the food you eat, your body will turn to its fat stores. It doesn't matter what excuse a fat person uses, whether that be, "It's my glands," or "It's my genes," or whatever. Thermodynamics is LAW, and excuses cannot break it.
America's fatness has nothing to do with genes. It's all about TV, Corn Syrup, and McDonalds.
I read that as "Lamer," not "Lemur." and for some reason it made perfect sense up until I realized they were talking about an animal...
This would actually probably DECREASE the octane "rating" of your fuel. Basically, the octane "rating" really has nothing to do with the amount of octane in your fuel. It used to be called the "Anti-Knock Index," but some marking buffoon decided to call it the "octane" rating instead because it sounded cooler. Anyway, the AKI is a measure of how easy it is to ignite your fuel. In an internal combustion engine, a mix of fuel and air is compressed at high speed during the compression stroke. As the pressure increases, so does the temperature. As the temperature rises, the fuel, if unstable, can ignite on its own (this is the entire principle behind the diesel engine) before the spark plug fires. This is called pre-ignition, a ping, a knock, or whatever. It usually happens when there is a higher concentration of fuel in the cylinder, such as during acceleration or climbing a hill. Most modern gas engines have a knock sensor that will tell the computer when the engine is pinging, and the computer will adjust the mixture to compensate if it can.
The reason the AKI of fuel drops 2 points above 5000 feet is because the air pressure is about half that of sea level, so the compression stroke doesn't generate enough pressure to pre-ignite the lower AKI fuels.
Your turbo car, however, can produce sea-level equivalent pressures, so you still need to use higher AKI fuel even at high altitude. Most car manufacturers will not specify an AKI above 91, since that is what is commonly available above 5000 feet.
Anyway, back to the point. Adding a bunch of Oxygen and Hydrogen to the mix will make it far easier to pre-ignite. Free hydrogen gas can be ignited by the incident light of a camera flash. H2 can be ignited easily by a discharge of just a few Joules of static electricity.
By the way kids, don't use this stuff in your air-cooled engine. These cars depends on a rich, cool combustion mix to keep from overheating... add O2 and H2 to the mix and you'll have a higher combustion temp and blow up your motor...
What's even more important that this is that, once a stock is delisted, the index funds MUST sell it. So, let's say for sake of example that 24.6% of SGI's stock is "institutional," and half of that institutional ownership is in index funds, then you have 12.3% of all outstanding shares that will be put on the sales block first thing Monday morning. IANAFA, but I think one might guess this would have a net downward effect on SGI stock price.
But that is just FUCKING RETARDED... yet another blatant attempt to sacrifice FreeBSDs roots to pander to corporate morons who buy and implement software based on retarded, post-modern looking logos...
Yes, email me off list and we'll talk about it...
Funny, I inverview those all the time! I've never had one tell me they won't work here because they don't get an office. They also don't usually assume they know more than I do. You know, they're not usually arrogant pricks like this guy apparently is...
A real IP address is 32 digits. It is neither useful nor correct to express an IP address in any base other than binary except for the purpose of being aesthetically pleasing in documentation. Functionally speaking, when handling IP addresses, it is only appropriate to use the 32 digit number. This becomes readily apparent when considering that a netmask can be an arbitrary length and does not necessarily occur on byte boundaries. Network numbers are obtained by bit-wise operations, not byte-wise operations, so therefore one can conclude that the functionally correct representation of an IP address is through use of 32 individual digits.
I don't see how any of this gets around the fact that no State has the right to tax interstate commerce. Call it whatever kind of tax you want to; Sales, Use, Excise, whatever, it is still a tax on interstate commerce and a State has no right to collect it.
I see humor is still completely lost on the slashbot crowd...
That's not the defense OJ used. Everyone knows he used the "Chewbacca defense"
Oh my God! Could it be?? Global warming without SUVs?? Gosh, no, it can't be. Global warming is caused by SUVs. Everyone knows that. Therefore, we can conclude that there must be rich oil republican life on mars. What other specie could cause such global devastation on Mars? We need a global punitive treaty against rich oil republicans right now! Kyoto must immediately extend to Mars. If not, we'll have a real calamity on our hands!! Everyone run for your lives!!
All of these little competing applications will disappear in short order...
"In the US it would seem you go to work because nothing else matters. Marriage, health, sanity etc etc are all less important than having a job."
This is a falsehood. I would challenge you to find one single American who would give up their family or health for their job. You watch too much TV... Family is much more important to Americans than the press would have you believe. Why do you think they reacted with such astonishment that family values and morals were the most important issues in the 2004 US election?