Why is it that CNN wouldn't ever show pictures of the injured of 9/11, yet as soon as theres a blown-apart Iraqi kid, it's all over the place?
Maybe I am missing something, but what does that have to do with the left wing?
Oh, I forgot, CNN has a terrible left leaning bias, is that it? It was really easy for me to forget that they were on the left while they were cheerleading for the war in Iraq. If CNN was really left leaning, they would have spent the entire time talking about why what we were doing was wrong.
CNN did show pictures of the injured after 9/11, and they were no where near anti-war.
Cry about the media bias all you want, It will not convince me that it exists until I find the things that they are saying to be to liberal more often than once a month.
Unless you aren't properly nourished to begin with, 30 minutes of cycling shouldn't deplete your blood glucose levels that much. That being said, I think I probably phrased the last part of my post poorly. There is a different kind of post workout feeling for different durations and intensities of workout. I don't really start to feel 'flat' (what they call glucose depleted state in endurance circles) until I have been running for 1:15-1:30 or biking for ~2:00 without replenishment. Flat is a somewhat difficult condition to explain, but you will know it when you get it... your legs feel heavy, it is harder to breath, actually it is kind of similar to the 4pm feeling, but without the hunger...
I completely agree that you should be able to adapt to the drain, that is what I have been working on so hard...:)
The protein vs. fat issue: the best way to handle that would be to increase you calorie intake almost as much as you deplete the glucose (I eat 5000 cal/day). The fat goes away long term, and the protein short term. ex: If you get completely depleted and keep going, that will cost you some muscle, but if you run slightly depleted often over many weeks, then the fat will go to boosting the levels.
...except mild hunger perhaps, if actually want to lose weight and get your body to convert fat into glucose instead of just eating more
Are you sure about that? IANAPhysiologist, but I am a 2 time marathoner/triathlete/weight lifter who has read a lot about exercise physiology and nutrition. I suspect that you would get tired as well. Even when at rest you body is consuming glucose, if there is some activity depleting glucose your body will feel sluggish as it doesn't have the glucose it needs as readily available. My (non-expert) opinion is that you would probably feel like you had just worked out, minus the elevated heart rate, breathing rate, tired muscles, and (maybe) the sweat...
Netflix, along with CleanFlix and the like are stupid distribution methods though. We've got digital media, we're GETTING to full broadband (very slowly, but surely) so why not use it?
It is far from stupid, they have more bandwidth (via USPS) than your broadband, they just have really high latency...
Actual hydrogen pipelines break and spill just like every other kind of pipeline ever built.
Yeah and pwer lines fall down in storms, what is your point?
We have no ideal method of energy transport now, and room temp super conductors would be great, but we don't know when we will ever get there, and even if we do how expensive to construct they will be. So why not use the best method we have available?
When I read this thing I was thinking that these 2 million people make a living by taking time from other people, and time is money... so basically they "earn" their incomes by taking a small amount of money from everyone. If they lost their jobs and went on welfare it would be exactly the same, and I would be happier too...
It is true that many die hard MTB'ers ride Single Speeds, but there's always a freewheel/coasting capability.
Nope, he is right there are fixed gear bikes, they are usually used in velodrome racing, but they do make fixed gear mountain bikes too. See these articles for some tech info.
I could imagine a fixed gear mountain bike being very good in the mud, I know people like them for snow...
I think you misunderstood me, I never said that people should not reproduce this way. In fact I was claiming that social skills are now of a greater relative importance and physical infertility was less of a reason to be excluded from the gene pool.
That is an interesting thought that I have pondered several times...
My conclusion was different though. The requirements for being 'fit' have changed, it is becoming less and less your physicality that makes you fit, and more and more your intelligence and interpersonal skills...
Personally, I have at least two genetic problems (psoriasis and oversized knee caps), but in today's society the psoriasis does not hinder me much, because of modern medicine, and the knee caps, well, they haven't kept me from doing marathons because of proper conditioning of the surrounding muscles... Now if there was a terrific collapse of civilization and we went back to the dark ages, my offspring would likely be worse off, but (without trying to sound too cocky) they are well equipped to do well in today's society because they are getting my intellect.
A Prius has about the same surface area as one of these solar racers
Huh? I was on the (now defunct due to budget problems) University of Illinois Solar Racing Team. Almost all of the entries in the competition are about the length and width of a full size 9 passanger van, a far cry from a Prius...
But when bias creeps into something that claims to be unbiased news, we should be much more worried. Tom Brokaw and other "big three" anchors don't need to openly bash conservatives; they can cloak their views as being legitimate news, which is much more dangerous in the end.
In re-reading it, I supose that you do not say explicitly that Brokaw claims to be unbiased, but there is a definate (intentional or otherwise) implication of it...
I am sorry, but fox news claims to be fair and balanced, when anyone with 2 open eyes can tell they are far from it.
Also, I have never heard CNN claiming to be fair or balanced (unbiased), they leave that decision to their viewers.
I am not saying that CNN is unbiased, but it is funny that you would mention an anchor who doesn't bash conservatives, and does not claim a lack of bias, over the entire channel that is biased and claims to be balanced. I am sorry, but hipocrisy really gets my goat!
The problem with "living wage" and minimum wage laws is that they force employers to become welfare agencies by paying people money they did not earn: a handout, not an honest living.
I am all for people making an honest living, but... What do you propose we do about people who can't earn enough to get by?
If we allow them to starve, then the vast majority of the poor would turn to crime, rather than starve, and then the government would have to have move police to protect those who do make an honest living, and more prisons to house our criminals (poor), all costing the 'honest' more in taxes.
I would love it if we didn't need minimum wage laws, but we need consider what would happen without them, instead of just saying that they are bad and should be done away with.
There would be no record if no willful disclosure of information had ever taken place...
Also, the last time I applied for a credit card I was informed that a condition of the application was obtaining a credit report. I would have been within my rights to say no, and they would have been equally within their rights to say no card for you...
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If you're greedy, you vote democrat - that's how you get entitlements that you're not entitled to, and tax refunds where you never paid any taxes, and government subsidies for things that don't deserve to be subsidized.
Nope, the vast majority of the people you descirbed don't vote.
The democratic voters are those who care more about others than the republicans do...
Besides, you gave yourself away with your rant about unions and government workers losing their jobs.
That wasn't me... Check names before you make accusations...
Like I said (regardless if you entered into the agreement willfully or not), many different private organizations have your information (emphasis mine)
what do you mean regardless!?! That is the entire point. If you simply disregard any points I make rather than countering them, then you can't be reasoned with.
The point is that one is free to not be involved with any of the entities you mentioned, if they choose so. One is not free from the government, regardless of what they choose.
Private businesses turn over delinquent accounts to a third party collector all the time. What's the difference?
Are you serious? Private businesses to not answer to the citizenry in the first place, so there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to turn over accounts for collection. Besides, anyone who has a delinquent account with a private entity entered in to the relationship of their own free will, they chose that situation. Where a tax relationship is entered into by birth, there is no choice in the matter, one is not free to avoid that relationship as they are one with a private entity.
I personally am very worried about all of the work being done on the people's dime (taxes) by people with no responsibility to anyone, or anything but profit (private corps). I want accountability, I want freedom of information. If someone fucks up, I want them to answer to me (citizen), not to some CEO who doesn't have much incentive to care unless they will loose money over the incident.
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Why is it that CNN wouldn't ever show pictures of the injured of 9/11, yet as soon as theres a blown-apart Iraqi kid, it's all over the place?
Maybe I am missing something, but what does that have to do with the left wing?
Oh, I forgot, CNN has a terrible left leaning bias, is that it? It was really easy for me to forget that they were on the left while they were cheerleading for the war in Iraq. If CNN was really left leaning, they would have spent the entire time talking about why what we were doing was wrong.
CNN did show pictures of the injured after 9/11, and they were no where near anti-war.
Cry about the media bias all you want, It will not convince me that it exists until I find the things that they are saying to be to liberal more often than once a month.
Unless you aren't properly nourished to begin with, 30 minutes of cycling shouldn't deplete your blood glucose levels that much. That being said, I think I probably phrased the last part of my post poorly. There is a different kind of post workout feeling for different durations and intensities of workout. I don't really start to feel 'flat' (what they call glucose depleted state in endurance circles) until I have been running for 1:15-1:30 or biking for ~2:00 without replenishment. Flat is a somewhat difficult condition to explain, but you will know it when you get it... your legs feel heavy, it is harder to breath, actually it is kind of similar to the 4pm feeling, but without the hunger...
:)
I completely agree that you should be able to adapt to the drain, that is what I have been working on so hard...
The protein vs. fat issue: the best way to handle that would be to increase you calorie intake almost as much as you deplete the glucose (I eat 5000 cal/day). The fat goes away long term, and the protein short term. ex: If you get completely depleted and keep going, that will cost you some muscle, but if you run slightly depleted often over many weeks, then the fat will go to boosting the levels.
...except mild hunger perhaps, if actually want to lose weight and get your body to convert fat into glucose instead of just eating more
Are you sure about that? IANAPhysiologist, but I am a 2 time marathoner/triathlete/weight lifter who has read a lot about exercise physiology and nutrition. I suspect that you would get tired as well. Even when at rest you body is consuming glucose, if there is some activity depleting glucose your body will feel sluggish as it doesn't have the glucose it needs as readily available. My (non-expert) opinion is that you would probably feel like you had just worked out, minus the elevated heart rate, breathing rate, tired muscles, and (maybe) the sweat...
Netflix, along with CleanFlix and the like are stupid distribution methods though. We've got digital media, we're GETTING to full broadband (very slowly, but surely) so why not use it?
/. a while back...
It is far from stupid, they have more bandwidth (via USPS) than your broadband, they just have really high latency...
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Actual hydrogen pipelines break and spill just like every other kind of pipeline ever built.
Yeah and pwer lines fall down in storms, what is your point?
We have no ideal method of energy transport now, and room temp super conductors would be great, but we don't know when we will ever get there, and even if we do how expensive to construct they will be. So why not use the best method we have available?
Hydrogen pipelines are nearly lossless, also hydrogen allows you to timeshift your production and use of electricity.
Hydrogen fuel cells are being oversold by many people, but this is one thing that they would be great for.
I know that, and I would rather have that than telemarketers...
I agree, completely...
When I read this thing I was thinking that these 2 million people make a living by taking time from other people, and time is money... so basically they "earn" their incomes by taking a small amount of money from everyone. If they lost their jobs and went on welfare it would be exactly the same, and I would be happier too...
It's not about getting them all - - it's about nailing a few and scaring the rest.
True, but doing the math and circulating the results (likelyhood of being busted) could work to offset the scare factor...
"yeah, they are sueing people, but the odds of them getting me are tiny..."
Reading Slashdot Constantly Can Lead To Blindness!
I have heard that other websites are much more likely to lead to vision impairing behavior...
It is true that many die hard MTB'ers ride Single Speeds, but there's always a freewheel/coasting capability.
Nope, he is right there are fixed gear bikes, they are usually used in velodrome racing, but they do make fixed gear mountain bikes too. See these articles for some tech info.
I could imagine a fixed gear mountain bike being very good in the mud, I know people like them for snow...
But I don't get down like that, I'm a roadie...
I think you misunderstood me, I never said that people should not reproduce this way. In fact I was claiming that social skills are now of a greater relative importance and physical infertility was less of a reason to be excluded from the gene pool.
It was never really survival of the fittest, it has always been reproduciton of the fittest...
It is just that now it is social skills that make you fit rather than physical ones. Darwinism still applies...
That is an interesting thought that I have pondered several times...
My conclusion was different though. The requirements for being 'fit' have changed, it is becoming less and less your physicality that makes you fit, and more and more your intelligence and interpersonal skills...
Personally, I have at least two genetic problems (psoriasis and oversized knee caps), but in today's society the psoriasis does not hinder me much, because of modern medicine, and the knee caps, well, they haven't kept me from doing marathons because of proper conditioning of the surrounding muscles... Now if there was a terrific collapse of civilization and we went back to the dark ages, my offspring would likely be worse off, but (without trying to sound too cocky) they are well equipped to do well in today's society because they are getting my intellect.
A Prius has about the same surface area as one of these solar racers
Huh? I was on the (now defunct due to budget problems) University of Illinois Solar Racing Team. Almost all of the entries in the competition are about the length and width of a full size 9 passanger van, a far cry from a Prius...
But when bias creeps into something that claims to be unbiased news, we should be much more worried. Tom Brokaw and other "big three" anchors don't need to openly bash conservatives; they can cloak their views as being legitimate news, which is much more dangerous in the end.
In re-reading it, I supose that you do not say explicitly that Brokaw claims to be unbiased, but there is a definate (intentional or otherwise) implication of it...
I don't think I have, Brokaw doesn't claim to be unbiased. You were claiming that he does.
Fox is the only 'News' organization I have seen trumpeting their own lack of bias.
I am sorry, but fox news claims to be fair and balanced, when anyone with 2 open eyes can tell they are far from it.
Also, I have never heard CNN claiming to be fair or balanced (unbiased), they leave that decision to their viewers.
I am not saying that CNN is unbiased, but it is funny that you would mention an anchor who doesn't bash conservatives, and does not claim a lack of bias, over the entire channel that is biased and claims to be balanced. I am sorry, but hipocrisy really gets my goat!
This means that either the Administration is ignorant, arrogant, or capable of miscalculating remedial details. All of these things are bad...
Not only are all of these things bad, but they have already been proven, so what makes you think that they wouldn't provide further evidence of them?
Yellowstone National Park
IMHO the geekiest stuff to see while you are there would be the hydrothermal features.
The problem with "living wage" and minimum wage laws is that they force employers to become welfare agencies by paying people money they did not earn: a handout, not an honest living.
I am all for people making an honest living, but... What do you propose we do about people who can't earn enough to get by?
If we allow them to starve, then the vast majority of the poor would turn to crime, rather than starve, and then the government would have to have move police to protect those who do make an honest living, and more prisons to house our criminals (poor), all costing the 'honest' more in taxes.
I would love it if we didn't need minimum wage laws, but we need consider what would happen without them, instead of just saying that they are bad and should be done away with.
There would be no record if no willful disclosure of information had ever taken place...
Also, the last time I applied for a credit card I was informed that a condition of the application was obtaining a credit report. I would have been within my rights to say no, and they would have been equally within their rights to say no card for you...
If you're greedy, you vote democrat - that's how you get entitlements that you're not entitled to, and tax refunds where you never paid any taxes, and government subsidies for things that don't deserve to be subsidized.
Nope, the vast majority of the people you descirbed don't vote.
The democratic voters are those who care more about others than the republicans do...
Besides, you gave yourself away with your rant about unions and government workers losing their jobs.
That wasn't me... Check names before you make accusations...
Like I said (regardless if you entered into the agreement willfully or not), many different private organizations have your information (emphasis mine)
what do you mean regardless!?! That is the entire point. If you simply disregard any points I make rather than countering them, then you can't be reasoned with.
The point is that one is free to not be involved with any of the entities you mentioned, if they choose so. One is not free from the government, regardless of what they choose.
Private businesses turn over delinquent accounts to a third party collector all the time. What's the difference?
Are you serious? Private businesses to not answer to the citizenry in the first place, so there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to turn over accounts for collection. Besides, anyone who has a delinquent account with a private entity entered in to the relationship of their own free will, they chose that situation. Where a tax relationship is entered into by birth, there is no choice in the matter, one is not free to avoid that relationship as they are one with a private entity.
I personally am very worried about all of the work being done on the people's dime (taxes) by people with no responsibility to anyone, or anything but profit (private corps). I want accountability, I want freedom of information. If someone fucks up, I want them to answer to me (citizen), not to some CEO who doesn't have much incentive to care unless they will loose money over the incident.