Both my parents are Type II diabetic... meaning it wasn't hereditary. Been there, seen that, hoping it skips a generation.
That's not to say my dietary habits are perfect; I have an aggressive sweet tooth and love fatty junk like cookies, chips, and ice cream (Breyer's Natural Vanilla!), but I'm very conscious of it. I'm within 15 pounds of my ideal 150 weight, and never more than 40 past it. In my twenties I had 5% body fat and a 43 pulse (from cycling and hiking). Contrast that with my father who even in his early twenties, according to my uncle, would binge on pastries and crap, starve himself for a day or two, then go right back to eating more junk. I grew up watching him stand in the kitchen eating peanut butter mixed with honey! He was always obese, not surprisingly.
I think another cliche applies here, in my case: "sins of the father". Trying not to repeat them....
That's an ancient cliche but very relevant. Eating too much rock dust would cause cancer. So too would anything else consumed in a quantity that creates an imbalance.
That "grid" you think is such a grand idea is yet another source of unbelievable waste. Do you have any idea how many equivalent barrels of petroleum have been lost to simple attenuation in that grid? Are you nuts? Apparently you don't and you are. *snigger*
Kendall is apparently one of the few people who can analyze chemical energy storage systems rationally; the sorry truth is that hydrogen GAS - its default phase at the surface of this planet - is one of the least energy-dense materials we have. It's complete lunacy to think it can ever be EFFICIENTLY used as a fuel or source of stored energy.
What Kendall said of the "hydrogen economy" is also sadly true of virtually every other form of stored chemical energy we have or can envision: it takes more energy to create the stored form than can be recovered later as useful work. That is just my own restatement of what Kendall said. This is true of petroleum (though Mother Nature paid down the energy cost for us over millions of years), biodiesel, hydrogen as a fuel, batteries, and all the rest. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and tidal generation are different, since they are not STORED chemical forms of energy, though even they are heavily dependent upon at least one form in order to be fully useful (to modern human society).
From where does the energy come to create the stored chemical fuels in the first place? We might possibly use solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and tidal systems, but if the creation is significantly dependent upon the use of the very fuels created then it's a losing game of slow energy starvation.
If that's going to be the case, then we'd best just start getting comfy with having and using a LOT less energy than we do now: no more street lights, no neon signs, no more endless numbers of "wall warts" sipping power 24/7, no stadiums lit up bright as day in the dead of night, no more computer screens running screensavers every idle minute, no more "security" lights appeasing fears, no more giant metal birds shooting across the sky... and no more two hour commutes in Lincoln Navigators or Hummers.
I've been suggesting for some time that the "petroleum age" has been an energy anomaly, and one that we have not exploited wisely; we still don't have a sustainable presence in space or on another planet, for instance. Once the petroleum runs truly scarce, we will no longer even have the means to establish that sustainable presence; the heavy industry necessary to accomplish it is utterly dependent upon limitless supplies of petroleum.
Wanna know the real reason why we haven't been visited by ET? Poor little ET's species wasn't any more disciplined than we have been, they had their own Peak Oil event on their planet, and got trapped on their little rock for lack of energy to finish the exodus.
I can dismember their claims in one fell swoop: the reason Godzilla looks that way and not exactly like a T. rex or cousin is simply because it was a T. Rex costume adapted for a man to wear in front of the cameras.
This is demonstrative why decent folks hate both lawyers and so-called intellectual property.
This is as it should be. Publishers and producers - middlemen all - never had any socially ethical right to all those "analog dollars" in the first place. The prospect that they might have to make do with "digital pennies" like the rest of us is a slight reversal of all that sickening concentration of wealth.
Errr... I should have been clearer: "... ethical shield that corporate law provides" should instead read "... ethical shield that corporate law and corporate hierarchy provides".
For the former, you might investigate Thom Hartmann's book "Unequal Protection". For the latter, consider the cliches about absolute power and corruption and the Peter Principle with a self-centric sinister twist: increasing ambition almost always leads to decreasing ethics. Those who get promoted or hired for the top ranks are usually the least ethical, as defined by the nature of the system. If we want better, we have to change the system, not waste time trying to find nonexistent better people within it. This is coincidentally just as true for the American electoral system and government, and why Obama will change nothing of any real and lasting significance. The only thing that will be recorded by history about this next Presidency will be that it marked the first time a non-Caucasian person performed the role.
I wanna harness the slow water current of my leaky faucet to trickle-charge my laptop; can I do that? If that works, I'll move on to trying to harness my *other* leaky faucet.
Who deemed Real Life to be appropriate for children?
The reason that the Internet is 'dangerous' for children is because as parents and a society we have completely failed to teach them any degree of critical thinking skills.
I'd be more interested in reading TFA if its title correctly spelled the word "American". I find it amusing that alleged professional journalists, who produce an article describing the alleged ignorance of Americans and American politicians, can't even manage to correctly spell the nationality of their subjects IN THE TITLE nor proofread it before it goes to press on an internationally available Web site.
Where's the credibility? Journalists are part of that same cross-section of (American) idiots.
None of this matters: Darl McBride et al were still personally enriched by all this shenanigans, and they are all still alive and able to run off somewhere else and pull yet more shenanigans.
The bad CORPORATION was slapped, but its ORGANS still won and will get "transplanted" somewhere else. Until we get rid of the ethical shield that corporate law provides, people like this will still rule the roost.
Unless this book succeeds in helping explain the existence, mindset and motivations of someone like John Draper, and do so in a fashion that helps a person NOT remotely like him to value his existence, then what's the point of the book?
Dude, you have many more Slashdot foes than you have friends or fans; why is that, do you suppose? I had to laugh when you marked me as a foe due to comments in an article two days after your last comment in it, and comments to which you never even replied directly.
Armpit odor isn't actually generated by the human body itself: it's caused by bacteria feeding on "exudates". That's also true of bad breath. One of the most effective deodorants you can find is a triple antibiotic.
If that's true of the entire body in general, then simply eliminating - or substituting - the bacteria and other freeloaders might very well change this odor signature.
What I wanna know is why the idiot(s) who came up with this stinker of a name - Pacific Telesis Group - for Pacific Bell's holding company were able to not only keep their jobs but make out like bandits, to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars. That, of course, does not include the expense of re-signing the corporate vehicle fleet, changing stationery, and the like. Guess who got to foot the whole bill? (Forget about GOVERNMENT taxes: we're being "taxed" far worse as consumers by corporate excess and stupidity.)
There's just as much stupidity in evidence in product and DBA names as there is genius; for every brilliant one there's a hundred mediocre ones and more than a few really bad ones. Logo design suffers and benefits about the same. I think this story would have been far more enlightening if it had focused on the boneheaded rather than the brilliant.
I do support those "policies" you mention, and I agree that drug use should not be criminalized, but none of that legitimizes the OP's self-centered and delusional rationalizing. Hardcore drug use has a significant social cost, just as do alcoholism, heavy smoking, and non-genetic obesity. There's plenty of other non-chemically-aided behaviors that have social costs too, of course.
Where'd you get this deluded crap, from some Ford auto commercial?
As much as I detest having to waste my time playing parent and telling you what to do, I damned well do have the right - nay, the obligation - to do just that if your actions and behavior have an extended social cost that you have no intention of paying, if you even acknowledge that cost at all. In this specific instance, clearly you don't acknowledge that cost, because if you did you might have to swallow your self-centeredness and consider a little self-censorship for the sake of the rest of us.
That rampant delusional self-centeredness and lack of self-censorship and self-control is exactly why we all (Americans, at least) have to put up with thumping car stereos and so much more unpleasantness. As a culture this message of "you can do whatever the hell you feel like doing, whenever you feel like doing it" has been drummed into children and adults for nearly a century, by both government and especially by corporate interests. We're reaping the dubious rewards of all that indoctrination now. This twit's attitude and delusional thinking is just one small consequence.
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Both my parents are Type II diabetic... meaning it wasn't hereditary. Been there, seen that, hoping it skips a generation.
That's not to say my dietary habits are perfect; I have an aggressive sweet tooth and love fatty junk like cookies, chips, and ice cream (Breyer's Natural Vanilla!), but I'm very conscious of it. I'm within 15 pounds of my ideal 150 weight, and never more than 40 past it. In my twenties I had 5% body fat and a 43 pulse (from cycling and hiking). Contrast that with my father who even in his early twenties, according to my uncle, would binge on pastries and crap, starve himself for a day or two, then go right back to eating more junk. I grew up watching him stand in the kitchen eating peanut butter mixed with honey! He was always obese, not surprisingly.
I think another cliche applies here, in my case: "sins of the father". Trying not to repeat them....
That's an ancient cliche but very relevant. Eating too much rock dust would cause cancer. So too would anything else consumed in a quantity that creates an imbalance.
No doubt somebody is thinking of the children... longingly, wistfully, achingly thinking of them.
Of course the only appropriate response to Rule 34 is... 42.
That "grid" you think is such a grand idea is yet another source of unbelievable waste. Do you have any idea how many equivalent barrels of petroleum have been lost to simple attenuation in that grid? Are you nuts? Apparently you don't and you are. *snigger*
Kendall is apparently one of the few people who can analyze chemical energy storage systems rationally; the sorry truth is that hydrogen GAS - its default phase at the surface of this planet - is one of the least energy-dense materials we have. It's complete lunacy to think it can ever be EFFICIENTLY used as a fuel or source of stored energy.
What Kendall said of the "hydrogen economy" is also sadly true of virtually every other form of stored chemical energy we have or can envision: it takes more energy to create the stored form than can be recovered later as useful work. That is just my own restatement of what Kendall said. This is true of petroleum (though Mother Nature paid down the energy cost for us over millions of years), biodiesel, hydrogen as a fuel, batteries, and all the rest. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and tidal generation are different, since they are not STORED chemical forms of energy, though even they are heavily dependent upon at least one form in order to be fully useful (to modern human society).
From where does the energy come to create the stored chemical fuels in the first place? We might possibly use solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and tidal systems, but if the creation is significantly dependent upon the use of the very fuels created then it's a losing game of slow energy starvation.
If that's going to be the case, then we'd best just start getting comfy with having and using a LOT less energy than we do now: no more street lights, no neon signs, no more endless numbers of "wall warts" sipping power 24/7, no stadiums lit up bright as day in the dead of night, no more computer screens running screensavers every idle minute, no more "security" lights appeasing fears, no more giant metal birds shooting across the sky... and no more two hour commutes in Lincoln Navigators or Hummers.
I've been suggesting for some time that the "petroleum age" has been an energy anomaly, and one that we have not exploited wisely; we still don't have a sustainable presence in space or on another planet, for instance. Once the petroleum runs truly scarce, we will no longer even have the means to establish that sustainable presence; the heavy industry necessary to accomplish it is utterly dependent upon limitless supplies of petroleum.
Wanna know the real reason why we haven't been visited by ET? Poor little ET's species wasn't any more disciplined than we have been, they had their own Peak Oil event on their planet, and got trapped on their little rock for lack of energy to finish the exodus.
How dare you suggest the possibility of corporate paranoia in the upper echelons of HP! Such a thing could never happen! Hell would freeze over first.
Damn, where's that chilly draft coming from...?
... but seriously it's something else entirely that causes movement on my erector.
I can dismember their claims in one fell swoop: the reason Godzilla looks that way and not exactly like a T. rex or cousin is simply because it was a T. Rex costume adapted for a man to wear in front of the cameras.
This is demonstrative why decent folks hate both lawyers and so-called intellectual property.
This is as it should be. Publishers and producers - middlemen all - never had any socially ethical right to all those "analog dollars" in the first place. The prospect that they might have to make do with "digital pennies" like the rest of us is a slight reversal of all that sickening concentration of wealth.
Errr... I should have been clearer: "... ethical shield that corporate law provides" should instead read "... ethical shield that corporate law and corporate hierarchy provides".
For the former, you might investigate Thom Hartmann's book "Unequal Protection". For the latter, consider the cliches about absolute power and corruption and the Peter Principle with a self-centric sinister twist: increasing ambition almost always leads to decreasing ethics. Those who get promoted or hired for the top ranks are usually the least ethical, as defined by the nature of the system. If we want better, we have to change the system, not waste time trying to find nonexistent better people within it. This is coincidentally just as true for the American electoral system and government, and why Obama will change nothing of any real and lasting significance. The only thing that will be recorded by history about this next Presidency will be that it marked the first time a non-Caucasian person performed the role.
I wanna harness the slow water current of my leaky faucet to trickle-charge my laptop; can I do that? If that works, I'll move on to trying to harness my *other* leaky faucet.
I think you're mistaken to think so, but do tell?
Who deemed Real Life to be appropriate for children?
The reason that the Internet is 'dangerous' for children is because as parents and a society we have completely failed to teach them any degree of critical thinking skills.
I'd be more interested in reading TFA if its title correctly spelled the word "American". I find it amusing that alleged professional journalists, who produce an article describing the alleged ignorance of Americans and American politicians, can't even manage to correctly spell the nationality of their subjects IN THE TITLE nor proofread it before it goes to press on an internationally available Web site.
Where's the credibility? Journalists are part of that same cross-section of (American) idiots.
None of this matters: Darl McBride et al were still personally enriched by all this shenanigans, and they are all still alive and able to run off somewhere else and pull yet more shenanigans.
The bad CORPORATION was slapped, but its ORGANS still won and will get "transplanted" somewhere else. Until we get rid of the ethical shield that corporate law provides, people like this will still rule the roost.
Unless this book succeeds in helping explain the existence, mindset and motivations of someone like John Draper, and do so in a fashion that helps a person NOT remotely like him to value his existence, then what's the point of the book?
I felt a great disturbance in the Flash, rather.
Dude, you have many more Slashdot foes than you have friends or fans; why is that, do you suppose? I had to laugh when you marked me as a foe due to comments in an article two days after your last comment in it, and comments to which you never even replied directly.
Yeah, forgot to mention the sponge bath with rubbing alcohol....
Armpit odor isn't actually generated by the human body itself: it's caused by bacteria feeding on "exudates". That's also true of bad breath. One of the most effective deodorants you can find is a triple antibiotic.
If that's true of the entire body in general, then simply eliminating - or substituting - the bacteria and other freeloaders might very well change this odor signature.
Maybe so, but I'm put off by the idea of twins having the same odor.
Actually, it might; we can already make that case for Christianity. ;-)
What I wanna know is why the idiot(s) who came up with this stinker of a name - Pacific Telesis Group - for Pacific Bell's holding company were able to not only keep their jobs but make out like bandits, to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars. That, of course, does not include the expense of re-signing the corporate vehicle fleet, changing stationery, and the like. Guess who got to foot the whole bill? (Forget about GOVERNMENT taxes: we're being "taxed" far worse as consumers by corporate excess and stupidity.)
There's just as much stupidity in evidence in product and DBA names as there is genius; for every brilliant one there's a hundred mediocre ones and more than a few really bad ones. Logo design suffers and benefits about the same. I think this story would have been far more enlightening if it had focused on the boneheaded rather than the brilliant.
I do support those "policies" you mention, and I agree that drug use should not be criminalized, but none of that legitimizes the OP's self-centered and delusional rationalizing. Hardcore drug use has a significant social cost, just as do alcoholism, heavy smoking, and non-genetic obesity. There's plenty of other non-chemically-aided behaviors that have social costs too, of course.
Where'd you get this deluded crap, from some Ford auto commercial?
As much as I detest having to waste my time playing parent and telling you what to do, I damned well do have the right - nay, the obligation - to do just that if your actions and behavior have an extended social cost that you have no intention of paying, if you even acknowledge that cost at all. In this specific instance, clearly you don't acknowledge that cost, because if you did you might have to swallow your self-centeredness and consider a little self-censorship for the sake of the rest of us.
That rampant delusional self-centeredness and lack of self-censorship and self-control is exactly why we all (Americans, at least) have to put up with thumping car stereos and so much more unpleasantness. As a culture this message of "you can do whatever the hell you feel like doing, whenever you feel like doing it" has been drummed into children and adults for nearly a century, by both government and especially by corporate interests. We're reaping the dubious rewards of all that indoctrination now. This twit's attitude and delusional thinking is just one small consequence.
Fuck the We, it's all about Me, huh?