I drink mostly water and milk, but probably 3-4 liters of water a day. Why?
Water has no calories. Many other beverages add calories to your diet, but they don't alter your hunger, so you'll eat just as much - in addition to those empty calories.
Water doesn't rot teeth. I just had four crowns in one quadrant at age 29, and each tooth had decay all the way around from drinking too much soda.
Water doesn't have caffeine. If aspirin upsets your stomach, chances are caffeine does, too. Feel a little bothered? Try cutting caffeine from your diet. Besides, do you know what caffeine does to you? (See what it does to spiders!) I mellowed out quite a bit after giving it up - and tend to think more clearly.
Nothing beats H2O for hydration purposes. In fact, caffeine makes you dehydrate faster.
While I program, I certainly don't meddle in the code for every application I use. I doubt I'd go to the trouble to find how to remove the ad from within the code. On the other hand, someone would doubtless come up with a simple patch to the software to remove the ads, and I would be likely to use it.
The question becomes: What percentage of the ads would remain? Depending on the nerd vs. non-nerd user ratio, you'll get different answers.
My favorite argument for the U.S. measurement system was the utility of the units - measurements of practical lengths based on things we have handy (like feet), practical volumes (like gallons (think "buckets")), and so on.
Take a look at the Planck units - oddly enough, they work out to be particularly meaningful (equivalencies here are approximate see the write-up for specifics):
new meter ("finger") = 1.616 cm
pace = 100 new meters = 5.3 feet
new mile = 1000 paces = U.S. mile
gallon = (U.S. gallon + British gallon) / 2
new gram = 3/4 oz (mass)
new minute =.9 minutes
and so on. Now the U.S. can skip over metric and go straight to Planck units. Brilliant!
186,000 miles per second - it's not just a good idea, it's the law!
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The question becomes: What percentage of the ads would remain? Depending on the nerd vs. non-nerd user ratio, you'll get different answers.
Take a look at the Planck units - oddly enough, they work out to be particularly meaningful (equivalencies here are approximate see the write-up for specifics):
- new meter ("finger") = 1.616 cm
- pace = 100 new meters = 5.3 feet
- new mile = 1000 paces = U.S. mile
- gallon = (U.S. gallon + British gallon) / 2
- new gram = 3/4 oz (mass)
- new minute =
.9 minutes
and so on. Now the U.S. can skip over metric and go straight to Planck units. Brilliant!186,000 miles per second - it's not just a good idea, it's the law!