It was a practical, pragmatic choice: Google worked, *none* of the other search engines did. And it worked well, I remember specifically thinking that Google made the internet useful again to me, I could find information on the internet again. The only thing that amazes me is that there are some people who swear by other search engines (they must not have tried Google, in my opinion!).
I know that the other search engines started copying, to some degree, Google's way of doing things. In my last Pepsi challenge only Yahoo came close, but Google was still getting me the most relevant search results.
I guess it might deppend on how you look at it. In terms of marketshare, then yes, I would think Nintendo has to be concerned about making up lost ground with the Wii.
On the other hand, in terms of making cash, AFAIK MS is the only one with a money-losing gaming venture. In that sense, there was only one failure, and that was the XBOX (granted, MS has about as deep as pockets get, so I'm not sure how much it actually bothers them).
Sony, of course, was the one big winner with the PS2. However, as long as Nintendo continues to make money, and MS continues to lose money, I'm not sure I'd be ready to call them "trounced" in the race.
This seems to be primarily a food/cost issue within the US (since you're quoting pounds, this doesn't apply to you!):)
Farming/corporate subsidies within the US are the reason why American Coke doesn't use real sugar (it's cheaper to use processed corn), but Coke made in other countries does (also, sort of ironically, why Coke from other countries tastes beter as well).
I did hear an opinion that part of the problem with obesity in the US is the subsidy of fattening calories (and why junk food -- or at leat highly processed food -- is so cheap in this country and very attractive in poor areas).
Junk food and calories from high fructose sugar (mcdonald's, soda, et.) are heavily subsidized by the US goverment are are the cheapest calories you can get your hands on in this country.
We're not talking about choosing between a steak or crab dinner, etc. and a spinach salad at Whole Earth. We're talking about a full stomach for a small family on 10 bucks (can you beat a 99 cent burger?).
It might have more to do with the quality of package maintainers than the technology itself, but getting codecs or obscure packages installed from freshrpms, livna, etc. *often* left me with broken installs in Core. Fixing the problems meant uninstalling packages that I actually wanted to run, or picking between packages I wanted so as to not mix repositories.
Getting the same with Ubuntu has yet to be a problem, not to mention that getting all the weird repositories is done graphically, with less hassle than on RedHat. I say this as a former RedHat gushing fanboy too.
Again, it might happenstance, or it might have to do with how the two groups manage or coordinate (or don't!) the different package repositories.
Now, I'm sure there are exceptions but I think that it would be an interesting survey to compare people who work in dirty grimy environments with people who work in corporate America.
This has been done -- I saw a show (on PBS, not sure which program) where researchers in Germany compared people who lived in the city vs. people who lived in the country (at closer proximity of farm animals, their fecal matter of such, etc. etc.). They were trying to understand why allergies (and other glitches with the human immune system) are primarily a 1st world disease, and are, for the most part, unheard of in the 3rd world.
It was interesting, and the conclusions were that the human immune system, much like every else about our bodies, needs to be "exercised" at an early age for healthy development. The relatively "clean" enviroment of living in sterile enviroments appears to hamper the normal development of our immune system, leading to these diseases.
It seems that the show I saw on the German researcher (Erika Von Mutius) is the author of "hygiene hypothesis" we're discussing here, and is being tested by the linked article...
I just wanted to echo -- Guitar Hero is the only time my girlfriend asks to use my ps2 (ever!). She even started her own character. This is pretty amazing, as I've tried to get her interested in every other game I play and think is worth playing.
I'm beginning to suspect that "hardcore" is America's answer to the Japanese "super magic fun time" -- meaningless marketing-speak blabber. I wonder if a translation of whatever "hardcore" is supposed to mean sounds as goofy to them as their slogans do to us...
But yeah, you go Xbox, you're freakin' hardcore man. One tough hombre. HARDCORE.
by that logic, then why have summaries instead of just numbers you click on to read articles? "hmm, let's see if article AB765-RH is interesting, I wonder what it's about!"
I think he's got a legitimate gripe; the person who wrote the summary foolishly assumed that most or all readers would know who Peter Moore is. It'd work with Mother Theresa, but not with some exec no one has heard about (and unless they just decapitated their family and drank their blood, domintating world news for a week, it's probably a safe assumtion for *any* exec from any company). Geez, just use "MS Exec" (in addition or in lieu of "Peter Moore") would have been enough -- it's not much to ask for!
It's one thing to hear slashdotters lament the sometimes shoddy journalistic practices in this website, it's quite another to hear people defending shoddy journalistic practices.
It's not supposed to be a popularity contest -- it's about who did what.
So I disagree with you: Linus coded and manages a kernel, a project that due to timing got the most visibility. Somehow though, he gets credit for an OS and a movement where credit for managing a kernel is due.
Stallman actually got the whole ball rolling.
IMHO, if Linus had never been born I'd still be sitting right now in front a GNU OS that'd be running a different kernel coded by someone else -- the need for that last remaining bit was pressing and there are many who can competently code an OS kernel.
If Stallman had never been born, Linux (the kernel) would not have come to existence and no one would have heard of Linus Torvalds. Not without the copyleft GNU license, and all the groundwork that went into creating a 100% free OS. Ironically, this was born out a "live free or die" philosophy for which Stallman is derided even among free software advocates.
I'll go even farther and say that IMO Stallman has every right to demand that the OS that is called "linux" be rightfully called "GNU OS" -- it's a more accurate description, and it actually gives credit where credit is due.
I honestly think that, unfortunately and like many before him, Stallman will be long dead before the history books actually give him the credit he deserves.
your comment brought back memories -- I was 10 in 1984, too young to know what was happening in the "real world", but I do have vague memories of picking up new 2600 cartridges at the mall for ridiculous amounts (1 dollar bins, etc.), the $49.99 "new" 2600 (I remember a jingle of "Under 50 bucks! 50 Bucks!"), and then the NES.
For me it was a continuous experience -- I didn't realize I was buying from an old library of games (it was so vast there always seemed to be new 2600 games I could pick up).
It seems that Sony is betting the farm on the PS3 -- it does appear like it's do or die for them.
However, despite the obscene gobs of money MS makes, AFAIK their only source of profit is still their OS + Office, which is also precarious.
So, how about: Sony's PS3 struggles for profitability and leaves the company in shaky ground, shell of its former self.
MS is forced to abandom yet another money losing venture (XBox 360 still-born in Japan, insufficient sales in the rest of the world to justify more console subsidies), while at the same time squeezed by declining revenues from alternative OS and Office suites (the only places were the company makes money) as people realize they can do everything they ever wanted to do with a computer and MS (with their pricing and substandard execution) doesn't have to be part of it. MS is left a shell of its former self.
Nintendo buys whatever little pieces of Sony and MS that are worth owning, and MS is left scrambling to find a way to make money by becoming a marketing firm (the one thing they seem good at). Nintendo ends up owing the living room, singing "Wheee" all the way to the bank.
This is just idle speculation, right? I just like this version more:)
One of the nicest things about my job is that I work with someone who reminds me of that character: tall, lanky, slightly nutty, crazy white hair, absolutely brilliant and to top it all off a genuinely nice guy (our alpha geek, and also one of the most modest people there).
At any rate, I can't put my finger on exactly why, but Dr. Brown in that series has always been the most likeable scientist persona in movies for me. That's the one name that jumped to mind when I saw the question.
There are also the current real estate bubbles around the globe.
I have to agree, and when I saw the summary I reacted. IMHO we haven't learned a single thing. We went from one sure-fire, get-rich quick, get in now or you might not be able to afford to get in later, frenzy to another: real estate (variable interest, interest only loans! Reverse mortgages! Rent covers 1/2 of a mortgage payment on the same dwelling but it's still somehow a long-term investment!)
I often lament just how little we learned on the heels of the internet stock bubble.
I originally shared your concerns -- using the new controller seemed like it might turn out to be a workout.
After seeing more clips of the games (esp. Red Steel), I have to say I'm a heck of a lot less concerned. If someone were to offer to spend time teaching me how to paint, for instance, the last thing I'd be worried about is how tiring it might to hold and manipulate a brush for hours at a time.
Maybe a better analogy might be an orchestra conductor moving his stick around in terms of movement. And if you can be 60 and still conduct for a couple of hours, I'm sure most of us can handle the little bit of extra movement vs. a standard controller.
The way I see it now, as long as one is having fun, and the motion required isn't exactly jumping jacks I think that exhaustion will not be an issue.
In fact, I now actually wonder if, given human biomechanics and all, manipulating a "stick" in a more natural way might actually mean less sore fingers, wrists, etc., that it might turn out to actually be less tiring... (maybe a stretch).
I'll admit one thing -- I can't wait to try it out for myself to see what it's really like!
I'm sure you're right -- I'm posting a day after, now that I've gotten to see some of the Wii in action. It does look pretty playable.
Besides, my earlier comment did strike as pretty darn lazy after I thought about it more. It wouldn't occurr to me to complain about how much I have to move my hands if someone were to teach me how to paint, for instance. Unless the controller weighs 10 lbs. I'm sure you're right and it won't be much of a issue.
the more I hear/see regarding the new Nintendo controller the more excited I get about playing with one myself. However, the one thing that I am now wondering is if it'll be comfortbale to hold and manipulate over an hour (or several hour) long gaming session.
I have to believe that Nintendo play tested the heck out of their new controller -- but still the thought of jamming it upwards everytime I want to throw a punch in (say) Mike Tyson's Punch Out seems tiring:(
I am excited to hear about biodiesel -- good luck with the open source (Biodiesel Howto Wiki?) documentation.
Do you operate a small fueling station? Or how do you distribute your biodiesel? May I also ask where you are? (I'm in N. California -- I know of one biodiesel facility here, which is what got me originally curious about this process).
Also, are you price competitive with regular diesel?
Just this past weekend I started thinking about working in a local biodiesel facility that is hiring (I'm a mech. eng. -- so I guess they want engineers to keep the facility running).
I wouldn't mind hearing more about this industry "from an insider"
It'd be nice to get a paycheck + do something that I feel is worthwhile in a bigger sense.
Something more general would be of almost no value to a beginner.
A book that tells you how to edit menus on Gnome won't be of any use if you're using Fedora Core 2 for instance - in fact I bet there's little else more frustrating than following directions that mysteriously don't work for you.
That's one great thing about Ubuntu also, the forums contain pertanent information. It's been 100 times easier to find fixes, software, explanations, walkthroughs that work on Ubuntu than it's been for Fedora Core. I do wonder what's going to happen when Ubuntu has many flavors floating around -- if they'll end up with online documentation of greatly reduced value (like Red Hat).
AFAIK Henry Ford applied the already existing idea of the production line to the already existing idea of the automobile, but he was among the first to do so (not even *the* first). To his credit, he did, apparently, fine tune his automobile production line.
The interesting thing is how many of us assume that he invented either idea. Not that I blame you, I also walked around with this impression for years until I actually looked it up. I just wonder about the source of these communal impressions and assumptions.
I do remember that, depending on the source, the inventor of the first automobile was either German, British or French -- it seems to come down to how you define the first modern internal combustion engine.
Mass production seems just as foggy, but I read one source that credited a French musket maker with the idea of interchangeable parts -- sort of the father of mass production (he did predate Eli Whitney with this idea however, whom I've also read as credited with mass production).
I have a Bathroom Reader's Guide (so, take it with a grain of salt I suppose), which claims that there is a long-standing paradox between low stomach cancer rates in Mexico and consumption of irritating hot peppers (Mexico has a per-capita rate of consumption of 1 jalapeno pepper per person per day, highest in the world).
Again, according to the bathroom reader's guide, it was theorized that the cancer-fighting characteristics of capsaicin offsets whatever damage the peppers do to our intestinal tract.
Right now all I could find on the internet was this article (which credits antioxidants as the possible source of the cancer-fighting effects of chilli peppers):
From the article: It may be that protective factors in chiles -- such as antioxidants -- compensate for any potential harm from capsaicin. Or possibly the hot-pepper eaters in Mexico City have other practices that decrease their risk of stomach cancer -- such as high consumption of fruits and vegetables and low consumption of smoked meat and fish, pickled foods, alcohol and cigarettes.
From the same article, it seems that your wife might also be getting other benefits:
And there's evidence that chiles may have a number of beneficial health effects, such as protecting against blood clots and helping to lower blood cholesterol and blood pressure.
"northern Kentucky" was changed to "southern Missouri" for some regions' airings of the episode, and completely different locations for other regions, so the mystery (or joke) continues.
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I'm sorry but that's crazy.
It was a practical, pragmatic choice: Google worked, *none* of the other search engines did. And it worked well, I remember specifically thinking that Google made the internet useful again to me, I could find information on the internet again. The only thing that amazes me is that there are some people who swear by other search engines (they must not have tried Google, in my opinion!).
I know that the other search engines started copying, to some degree, Google's way of doing things. In my last Pepsi challenge only Yahoo came close, but Google was still getting me the most relevant search results.
I guess it might deppend on how you look at it. In terms of marketshare, then yes, I would think Nintendo has to be concerned about making up lost ground with the Wii.
On the other hand, in terms of making cash, AFAIK MS is the only one with a money-losing gaming venture. In that sense, there was only one failure, and that was the XBOX (granted, MS has about as deep as pockets get, so I'm not sure how much it actually bothers them).
Sony, of course, was the one big winner with the PS2. However, as long as Nintendo continues to make money, and MS continues to lose money, I'm not sure I'd be ready to call them "trounced" in the race.
This seems to be primarily a food/cost issue within the US (since you're quoting pounds, this doesn't apply to you!) :)
Farming/corporate subsidies within the US are the reason why American Coke doesn't use real sugar (it's cheaper to use processed corn), but Coke made in other countries does (also, sort of ironically, why Coke from other countries tastes beter as well).
I did hear an opinion that part of the problem with obesity in the US is the subsidy of fattening calories (and why junk food -- or at leat highly processed food -- is so cheap in this country and very attractive in poor areas).
Junk food and calories from high fructose sugar (mcdonald's, soda, et.) are heavily subsidized by the US goverment are are the cheapest calories you can get your hands on in this country.
We're not talking about choosing between a steak or crab dinner, etc. and a spinach salad at Whole Earth. We're talking about a full stomach for a small family on 10 bucks (can you beat a 99 cent burger?).
It might have more to do with the quality of package maintainers than the technology itself, but getting codecs or obscure packages installed from freshrpms, livna, etc. *often* left me with broken installs in Core. Fixing the problems meant uninstalling packages that I actually wanted to run, or picking between packages I wanted so as to not mix repositories.
Getting the same with Ubuntu has yet to be a problem, not to mention that getting all the weird repositories is done graphically, with less hassle than on RedHat. I say this as a former RedHat gushing fanboy too.
Again, it might happenstance, or it might have to do with how the two groups manage or coordinate (or don't!) the different package repositories.
Now, I'm sure there are exceptions but I think that it would be an interesting survey to compare people who work in dirty grimy environments with people who work in corporate America.
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This has been done -- I saw a show (on PBS, not sure which program) where researchers in Germany compared people who lived in the city vs. people who lived in the country (at closer proximity of farm animals, their fecal matter of such, etc. etc.). They were trying to understand why allergies (and other glitches with the human immune system) are primarily a 1st world disease, and are, for the most part, unheard of in the 3rd world.
It was interesting, and the conclusions were that the human immune system, much like every else about our bodies, needs to be "exercised" at an early age for healthy development. The relatively "clean" enviroment of living in sterile enviroments appears to hamper the normal development of our immune system, leading to these diseases.
Ah, some quick searching:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_
It seems that the show I saw on the German researcher (Erika Von Mutius) is the author of "hygiene hypothesis" we're discussing here, and is being tested by the linked article
I just wanted to echo -- Guitar Hero is the only time my girlfriend asks to use my ps2 (ever!). She even started her own character. This is pretty amazing, as I've tried to get her interested in every other game I play and think is worth playing.
I'm beginning to suspect that "hardcore" is America's answer to the Japanese "super magic fun time" -- meaningless marketing-speak blabber. I wonder if a translation of whatever "hardcore" is supposed to mean sounds as goofy to them as their slogans do to us ...
But yeah, you go Xbox, you're freakin' hardcore man. One tough hombre. HARDCORE.
Does sound silly, huh?
by that logic, then why have summaries instead of just numbers you click on to read articles? "hmm, let's see if article AB765-RH is interesting, I wonder what it's about!"
I think he's got a legitimate gripe; the person who wrote the summary foolishly assumed that most or all readers would know who Peter Moore is. It'd work with Mother Theresa, but not with some exec no one has heard about (and unless they just decapitated their family and drank their blood, domintating world news for a week, it's probably a safe assumtion for *any* exec from any company). Geez, just use "MS Exec" (in addition or in lieu of "Peter Moore") would have been enough -- it's not much to ask for!
It's one thing to hear slashdotters lament the sometimes shoddy journalistic practices in this website, it's quite another to hear people defending shoddy journalistic practices.
Amazing.
It's not supposed to be a popularity contest -- it's about who did what.
So I disagree with you: Linus coded and manages a kernel, a project that due to timing got the most visibility. Somehow though, he gets credit for an OS and a movement where credit for managing a kernel is due.
Stallman actually got the whole ball rolling.
IMHO, if Linus had never been born I'd still be sitting right now in front a GNU OS that'd be running a different kernel coded by someone else -- the need for that last remaining bit was pressing and there are many who can competently code an OS kernel.
If Stallman had never been born, Linux (the kernel) would not have come to existence and no one would have heard of Linus Torvalds. Not without the copyleft GNU license, and all the groundwork that went into creating a 100% free OS. Ironically, this was born out a "live free or die" philosophy for which Stallman is derided even among free software advocates.
I'll go even farther and say that IMO Stallman has every right to demand that the OS that is called "linux" be rightfully called "GNU OS" -- it's a more accurate description, and it actually gives credit where credit is due.
I honestly think that, unfortunately and like many before him, Stallman will be long dead before the history books actually give him the credit he deserves.
your comment brought back memories -- I was 10 in 1984, too young to know what was happening in the "real world", but I do have vague memories of picking up new 2600 cartridges at the mall for ridiculous amounts (1 dollar bins, etc.), the $49.99 "new" 2600 (I remember a jingle of "Under 50 bucks! 50 Bucks!"), and then the NES.
For me it was a continuous experience -- I didn't realize I was buying from an old library of games (it was so vast there always seemed to be new 2600 games I could pick up).
It seems that Sony is betting the farm on the PS3 -- it does appear like it's do or die for them.
:)
However, despite the obscene gobs of money MS makes, AFAIK their only source of profit is still their OS + Office, which is also precarious.
So, how about: Sony's PS3 struggles for profitability and leaves the company in shaky ground, shell of its former self.
MS is forced to abandom yet another money losing venture (XBox 360 still-born in Japan, insufficient sales in the rest of the world to justify more console subsidies), while at the same time squeezed by declining revenues from alternative OS and Office suites (the only places were the company makes money) as people realize they can do everything they ever wanted to do with a computer and MS (with their pricing and substandard execution) doesn't have to be part of it. MS is left a shell of its former self.
Nintendo buys whatever little pieces of Sony and MS that are worth owning, and MS is left scrambling to find a way to make money by becoming a marketing firm (the one thing they seem good at). Nintendo ends up owing the living room, singing "Wheee" all the way to the bank.
This is just idle speculation, right? I just like this version more
Dr. Brown definitely gets my vote as well!
One of the nicest things about my job is that I work with someone who reminds me of that character: tall, lanky, slightly nutty, crazy white hair, absolutely brilliant and to top it all off a genuinely nice guy (our alpha geek, and also one of the most modest people there).
At any rate, I can't put my finger on exactly why, but Dr. Brown in that series has always been the most likeable scientist persona in movies for me. That's the one name that jumped to mind when I saw the question.
There are also the current real estate bubbles around the globe.
I have to agree, and when I saw the summary I reacted. IMHO we haven't learned a single thing. We went from one sure-fire, get-rich quick, get in now or you might not be able to afford to get in later, frenzy to another: real estate (variable interest, interest only loans! Reverse mortgages! Rent covers 1/2 of a mortgage payment on the same dwelling but it's still somehow a long-term investment!)
I often lament just how little we learned on the heels of the internet stock bubble.
I originally shared your concerns -- using the new controller seemed like it might turn out to be a workout.
... (maybe a stretch).
After seeing more clips of the games (esp. Red Steel), I have to say I'm a heck of a lot less concerned. If someone were to offer to spend time teaching me how to paint, for instance, the last thing I'd be worried about is how tiring it might to hold and manipulate a brush for hours at a time.
Maybe a better analogy might be an orchestra conductor moving his stick around in terms of movement. And if you can be 60 and still conduct for a couple of hours, I'm sure most of us can handle the little bit of extra movement vs. a standard controller.
The way I see it now, as long as one is having fun, and the motion required isn't exactly jumping jacks I think that exhaustion will not be an issue.
In fact, I now actually wonder if, given human biomechanics and all, manipulating a "stick" in a more natural way might actually mean less sore fingers, wrists, etc., that it might turn out to actually be less tiring
I'll admit one thing -- I can't wait to try it out for myself to see what it's really like!
I'm sure you're right -- I'm posting a day after, now that I've gotten to see some of the Wii in action. It does look pretty playable.
Besides, my earlier comment did strike as pretty darn lazy after I thought about it more. It wouldn't occurr to me to complain about how much I have to move my hands if someone were to teach me how to paint, for instance. Unless the controller weighs 10 lbs. I'm sure you're right and it won't be much of a issue.
cool thanks for the links!
... :)
Occasionally reading slashdot is totally worthwhile
the more I hear/see regarding the new Nintendo controller the more excited I get about playing with one myself. However, the one thing that I am now wondering is if it'll be comfortbale to hold and manipulate over an hour (or several hour) long gaming session.
:(
I have to believe that Nintendo play tested the heck out of their new controller -- but still the thought of jamming it upwards everytime I want to throw a punch in (say) Mike Tyson's Punch Out seems tiring
Thanks for the reply!
I am excited to hear about biodiesel -- good luck with the open source (Biodiesel Howto Wiki?) documentation.
Do you operate a small fueling station? Or how do you distribute your biodiesel? May I also ask where you are? (I'm in N. California -- I know of one biodiesel facility here, which is what got me originally curious about this process).
Also, are you price competitive with regular diesel?
Interesting -- do you mind if I ask what you do?
Just this past weekend I started thinking about working in a local biodiesel facility that is hiring (I'm a mech. eng. -- so I guess they want engineers to keep the facility running).
I wouldn't mind hearing more about this industry "from an insider"
It'd be nice to get a paycheck + do something that I feel is worthwhile in a bigger sense.
Something more general would be of almost no value to a beginner.
A book that tells you how to edit menus on Gnome won't be of any use if you're using Fedora Core 2 for instance - in fact I bet there's little else more frustrating than following directions that mysteriously don't work for you.
That's one great thing about Ubuntu also, the forums contain pertanent information. It's been 100 times easier to find fixes, software, explanations, walkthroughs that work on Ubuntu than it's been for Fedora Core. I do wonder what's going to happen when Ubuntu has many flavors floating around -- if they'll end up with online documentation of greatly reduced value (like Red Hat).
AFAIK Henry Ford applied the already existing idea of the production line to the already existing idea of the automobile, but he was among the first to do so (not even *the* first). To his credit, he did, apparently, fine tune his automobile production line.
The interesting thing is how many of us assume that he invented either idea. Not that I blame you, I also walked around with this impression for years until I actually looked it up. I just wonder about the source of these communal impressions and assumptions.
I do remember that, depending on the source, the inventor of the first automobile was either German, British or French -- it seems to come down to how you define the first modern internal combustion engine.
Mass production seems just as foggy, but I read one source that credited a French musket maker with the idea of interchangeable parts -- sort of the father of mass production (he did predate Eli Whitney with this idea however, whom I've also read as credited with mass production).
I have a Bathroom Reader's Guide (so, take it with a grain of salt I suppose), which claims that there is a long-standing paradox between low stomach cancer rates in Mexico and consumption of irritating hot peppers (Mexico has a per-capita rate of consumption of 1 jalapeno pepper per person per day, highest in the world).
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Again, according to the bathroom reader's guide, it was theorized that the cancer-fighting characteristics of capsaicin offsets whatever damage the peppers do to our intestinal tract.
Right now all I could find on the internet was this article (which credits antioxidants as the possible source of the cancer-fighting effects of chilli peppers):
http://www.cosmicchile.com/xdpy/kb/chile-lovers.h
From the article:
It may be that protective factors in chiles -- such as antioxidants -- compensate for any potential harm from capsaicin. Or possibly the hot-pepper eaters in Mexico City have other practices that decrease their risk of stomach cancer -- such as high consumption of fruits and vegetables and low consumption of smoked meat and fish, pickled foods, alcohol and cigarettes.
From the same article, it seems that your wife might also be getting other benefits:
And there's evidence that chiles may have a number of beneficial health effects, such as protecting against blood clots and helping to lower blood cholesterol and blood pressure.
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=30
"northern Kentucky" was changed to "southern Missouri" for some regions' airings of the episode, and completely different locations for other regions, so the mystery (or joke) continues.
I guess you can only read one sentence at a time?
;)
When you finish reading the rest of my first post, get back to me