I guess everyone's idea of 'polish' is different, but centi- is not an SI preferred prefix; the power of 3 prefixes are more convenient and more familiar to most of us.
There's a 10^2 prefix, too - hecto - but you don't hear that one too much for the same reason.
Wow... somebody jammed a ton of batteries (literally) and eight big@ss motors into a chassis to create a car that weighs 5300 lbs yet has a 'tiny cockpit'. Really, really cutting edge stuff.
I especially like the elegant solution of integrating power from 8 motors... just use 8 wheels! Really great solution there, just like something Bubba would have designed in the tinkerin' shop behind his barn.
CN: There's nothing new or special here.
Did the Berkeley analysis take into account Hispanics voting Republican because they have compatible values? It may explain the discrepancy that Berkeley claims to have uncovered.
Couldn't even be bothered to read the half-page summary, eh?
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I know, RIGHT? I can't imagine ANYTHING more EVIL. I think they had help from SATAN on this one!!!111!!
I can't imagine a bigger security vulnerability than an inability to copy/paste someone else's graphic! Dear God, whatever will we do!
Jesus, people, do we have to break everything just for the sake of breaking it? And do we have to bring in the melodrama? As someone mentioned above, the only reason Google *can* offer this is because of the DRM. Why do we have to immediately set to destroying every new toy we get with a hammer?
At some point all information will be digital, and if we don't ever let people have a way to make money from creating content, they'll STOP CREATING THE CONTENT. And then I guess we'll have gotten our way, huh?
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte, N.C., said the men found an unprotected Wi-Fi access point at a Lowe's home-improvement store parking lot in suburban Detroit, using wardriving tactics to steal credit card numbers from the retailer.
Seeing as how they were in the parking lot, I don't reckon they were using "wardriving tactics", eh? I think they were just plain hacking at that point, but I guess that doesn't sound scary enough.
It turns out... and this is going to sound a little "out there", but it turns out that there's more than one hour in a year. So you may want to divide by 365*24.
What the smell? Pascal's Wager doesn't "explain" anything. It's a reason that it's "safer" to believe but it's certainly no kind of explanation.
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Might want to crack a book, there. Turns out that the benefit of an Atkins type diet is NOT a result of restricted calories, according to newish studies. Even when Atkins dieters eat higher calories than non-Atkins dieters, they still lose weight.
but that doesn't contradict about 50 years of very well documented data showing a direct correlations between saturated fat and heart disease,
That data was regarding people on standard diets, not Atkins diets. I don't think it's sound to extrapolate like you did, especially in the face of new studies that show that your assertion is incorrect.
2) You store it. One gram of fat in becomes one gram of fat on your ass. One gram of carbohydrate or protein in becomes 1/2 gram of fat on your ass. There's no magic here; joules don't vanish.
Guess what! When you're in ketosis your body burns fat in an inefficient manner that only generates about 7 kcal/gram. No, the 2 calories don't vanish nor do they come out of your butt; they come out of your pee pee hole, also known as your "no no place" or simply your "dignity".
It's a hack based on the little bit of knowledge about the human body which we DO have.
The modern American diet is not based on any knowledge. It's based on, I'm going to go to the supermarket and purchase one of every product that modern science and marketing has crammed onto the shelf, and call it "balanced" and "moderation".
Lots of people on Atkins are idiots, but don't assume everybody is. I know full well how it works inside. In fact, I bet I know more about how Atkins works on my body, than 95% of Americans know about how the bagels and pasta diet works on their body.
The best scientists will admit that they can but barely scratch the surface of all there is to know about the human body, and you want to try to hack it?
Remember, our bodies are designed to go running about all day hunting, not sit on our asses moving just our fingers. Add onto that as balanced a diet as possible, including plenty of fruit, veggies, some meat, and some fat, without eating too much nor too little, and you've hit jackpot.
A "normal" modern diet _is_ a hack. Cavemen didn't have supermarkets.
Well that sounds logical... so a proper diet consists only of all the processed, fortified, chemical-laden food that's available on your grocer's shelf, EXCEPT whatever is in the Vitamin aisle. Makes sense.
It's no more unnatural for me to take a vitamin supplement than it is for someone sitting in Maine to be eating a peach in November. Modern food science is the only thing that makes either of these possible.
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the Atkins diet makes the body digest itself because of carbohydrate depravation.
If by "digesting itself" you mean "digesting its fat stores", then yes, you're correct. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's what fat is for.
There's a reason our bodies have a such mode as lipolysis; it was meant to be used once in a while.
Clogged arteries? Might want to crack a book... Atkins has been found to _improve_ cholesterol ratios.
The vitamin deficiencies, I have no answer to. We'll just have to hope that some day modern medicine will find a way to package multiple vitamins into some type of pill form.
Excellent point. TMI is the worst nuclear accident in US history and I believe the total death count was 0.6. (Statistical latent deaths from radiation exposure).
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Great! We were all *just* wondering whether you, personally, were part of abovementioned stir.
I guess everyone's idea of 'polish' is different, but centi- is not an SI preferred prefix; the power of 3 prefixes are more convenient and more familiar to most of us.
There's a 10^2 prefix, too - hecto - but you don't hear that one too much for the same reason.
Wow... somebody jammed a ton of batteries (literally) and eight big@ss motors into a chassis to create a car that weighs 5300 lbs yet has a 'tiny cockpit'. Really, really cutting edge stuff. I especially like the elegant solution of integrating power from 8 motors... just use 8 wheels! Really great solution there, just like something Bubba would have designed in the tinkerin' shop behind his barn. CN: There's nothing new or special here.
Did the Berkeley analysis take into account Hispanics voting Republican because they have compatible values? It may explain the discrepancy that Berkeley claims to have uncovered.
Couldn't even be bothered to read the half-page summary, eh?
I know, RIGHT? I can't imagine ANYTHING more EVIL. I think they had help from SATAN on this one!!!111!!
I can't imagine a bigger security vulnerability than an inability to copy/paste someone else's graphic! Dear God, whatever will we do!
Jesus, people, do we have to break everything just for the sake of breaking it? And do we have to bring in the melodrama? As someone mentioned above, the only reason Google *can* offer this is because of the DRM. Why do we have to immediately set to destroying every new toy we get with a hammer?
At some point all information will be digital, and if we don't ever let people have a way to make money from creating content, they'll STOP CREATING THE CONTENT. And then I guess we'll have gotten our way, huh?
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte, N.C., said the men found an unprotected Wi-Fi access point at a Lowe's home-improvement store parking lot in suburban Detroit, using wardriving tactics to steal credit card numbers from the retailer.
Seeing as how they were in the parking lot, I don't reckon they were using "wardriving tactics", eh? I think they were just plain hacking at that point, but I guess that doesn't sound scary enough.
The features are in beta, they're free for evaluation, and they're very upfront about the fact that they'll charge for it later.
What's the problem? If you're not interested just pretend you never saw it. Voila!
It turns out... and this is going to sound a little "out there", but it turns out that there's more than one hour in a year. So you may want to divide by 365*24.
One other solution to this would be to try really, really hard not to drop it. This actually kind of applies to *anything* with a hard drive in it.
It's during a time when the theatre would otherwise be idle... assuming the licensing fees weren't too high, it's found money.
Silcon is too much of a light switch. There is human ear ramping of sound, it is there, it is not.
Plz gain the slightest concept of how an amplifier works. THX
probabistically explained by Pascal's Wager.
What the smell? Pascal's Wager doesn't "explain" anything. It's a reason that it's "safer" to believe but it's certainly no kind of explanation.
Might want to crack a book, there. Turns out that the benefit of an Atkins type diet is NOT a result of restricted calories, according to newish studies. Even when Atkins dieters eat higher calories than non-Atkins dieters, they still lose weight.
but that doesn't contradict about 50 years of very well documented data showing a direct correlations between saturated fat and heart disease,
That data was regarding people on standard diets, not Atkins diets. I don't think it's sound to extrapolate like you did, especially in the face of new studies that show that your assertion is incorrect.
2) You store it. One gram of fat in becomes one gram of fat on your ass. One gram of carbohydrate or protein in becomes 1/2 gram of fat on your ass. There's no magic here; joules don't vanish.
Guess what! When you're in ketosis your body burns fat in an inefficient manner that only generates about 7 kcal/gram. No, the 2 calories don't vanish nor do they come out of your butt; they come out of your pee pee hole, also known as your "no no place" or simply your "dignity".
I just had some steak tartare last night. I know it's finely diced, not ground, but there was well more than 1/4 cup of it, and I feel just fine.
It's a hack based on the little bit of knowledge about the human body which we DO have.
The modern American diet is not based on any knowledge. It's based on, I'm going to go to the supermarket and purchase one of every product that modern science and marketing has crammed onto the shelf, and call it "balanced" and "moderation".
Lots of people on Atkins are idiots, but don't assume everybody is. I know full well how it works inside. In fact, I bet I know more about how Atkins works on my body, than 95% of Americans know about how the bagels and pasta diet works on their body.
Mostly it makes people sick, and all the meat drives their cholesterol levels up. (Didn't know that, did you?)
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Huh, no, I didn't. Apparently neither did the people who participated in this NEJM study that shows just the opposite.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/348/21/
Major peer reviewed studies in respected medical journals have totally disproven every single thing you just said.
On a more specific note, if ketosis is junk science, why do ketones show up in my piss when I don't eat carbs?
The best scientists will admit that they can but barely scratch the surface of all there is to know about the human body, and you want to try to hack it?
Remember, our bodies are designed to go running about all day hunting, not sit on our asses moving just our fingers. Add onto that as balanced a diet as possible, including plenty of fruit, veggies, some meat, and some fat, without eating too much nor too little, and you've hit jackpot.
A "normal" modern diet _is_ a hack. Cavemen didn't have supermarkets.
Well that sounds logical... so a proper diet consists only of all the processed, fortified, chemical-laden food that's available on your grocer's shelf, EXCEPT whatever is in the Vitamin aisle. Makes sense. It's no more unnatural for me to take a vitamin supplement than it is for someone sitting in Maine to be eating a peach in November. Modern food science is the only thing that makes either of these possible.
the Atkins diet makes the body digest itself because of carbohydrate depravation.
If by "digesting itself" you mean "digesting its fat stores", then yes, you're correct. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's what fat is for.
There's a reason our bodies have a such mode as lipolysis; it was meant to be used once in a while.
Clogged arteries? Might want to crack a book... Atkins has been found to _improve_ cholesterol ratios.
The vitamin deficiencies, I have no answer to. We'll just have to hope that some day modern medicine will find a way to package multiple vitamins into some type of pill form.
The diet made him slip and fall and hit his head? Interesting. Did the diet actually put the ice there, or did it come up behind him and shove him?
Excellent point. TMI is the worst nuclear accident in US history and I believe the total death count was 0.6. (Statistical latent deaths from radiation exposure).
Bzzzzt! No, I'm sorry. You hang a _right_ at the retahded kid selling fireworks.
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