What would really be nice is some kind of (SlashDot) moderation for YouTube comments.
I'm a pretty thick skinned guy, but its far too easy to wallow around in youtube comments and get a distorted view of the world. I'm all for free speech, but the level of racism (whether earnest or trolling) , eventually is wearing. The obvious solution is not to read, but its like a car accident on the road, sometimes I look when I shouldn't! I try my best not to read comments now, and have installed YouTube comment Snob. Not perfect but helps reduce the concentration of hate that appears in the comments. Also if someone does have a different world view to me, then I still get a chance to read it if they take time to write proper sentences.
Sony have been doing this for years. Especially in the hi-fi / av market. The don't like retailers discounting their "brand" because they feel it cheapens their image. So you would often get better value with other brands. Panasonic/Technics etc.
To get around it advertisers would put 'Phone for price' in flyers etc. For consumers, knowing which brands don't like discounting is a good indicator of how much you are paying for the badge/brand relative to the product.
I rarely order in food:) I (nowadays) avoid processed food and pre-prepared food as much as I possibly can because I'm a fat-tard, and catering industry likes to leverage our natural desire for fat , sugar and salt, in order to make their food more attractive. Last take-out was about 3 years ago!
GP like me, is British. We dont tip if we can help it:)
Only people I tip, - barber shop, - mechanic (to make them less likely to rip me off), and - restaurant if there is no service charge.(cash direct to serving staff - no Credit Card tip)
Even for standard browsing their network is poor. I'm on Virgin 30mbps service, and had snappier browsing on BeThere's ADSL where I could only get 3mbps, Also I seem to have more random outages with Virgin that with ADSL.
1. Top tier - good quality stuff - but generally overpriced when compared to similar class products from competitors. In UK , Sony have always resisted their stuff being "on sale" or "discounted". You pay extra just for that badge/brand.
2. Bottom Tier - Below average - cheaper stuff - usually made in same factory as other "cheaper" brands - and just "badged" with Sony , and trading off of their reputation in Tier 1. (A lot of other manufacturers do this though)
I personally avoid Tier 2 stuff from any manufacturer. For Tier 1 stuff , bargains are often had by looking at other brands.
eg. TV Sony do make some of the best LCDs at a certain price point, but I prefer Panasonic Plasma.
Their DVD/Bluray etc are always crippled by firmware that is years behind cheap Chinese players. in terms of media playback.
Its just a brand that , whist good at certain price points, does not represent value for money for me. But some of my less technical friends swear by it. At least one did until he saw my Panny Plasma in action..
> Many natural foods are quite unhealthy for you, or quite fattening. I try to limit my sweet intake, but once a week I get an organic cookie from Earth Faire (the local Whole Foods-a-like). It's all organic with real sugar, unbleached flour, etc... It's still a cookie though.
It's hardly "natural". I dont know of any cookie trees.
Thats part of the problem, the argument is not not artifical vs nature, but we should reduce consumption of refined - processed foods. eg sugar and fruit juice. Fruit Juice is natural - but we happily down two glasses of orange juice, but wouldn't eat 8 oranges. Basically eat more fibre.
We dont have that much HFCS here in the UK (no corn industry that I know of) but obesity is still on the rise here.
It's simply eating too much **calories** and doing less.
It is possible to eat more food (quantity) , and yet less calories, by just eating healthily. And you get the bonus of the body regulating its hunger levels properly.
there is no conspiracy or "something" we cont understand. Just eat less food that comes out of factories.
> and fat is much more likely to pass through you undigested if your body doesn't need the energy.
Tell that to obese people getting fatter:)
Fat is more likely to be burned as fuel if your body does need the energy. If you bod doesnt need it it will be stored for when it does. And it is stored with something like 97% efficiency. Eg if you are overeating generally (carbs + fat + protein ) then you body will start running off all the carbs you eat, and store 97% of the fat you eat. That is how carbs make us fat.
> And it's not just that suddenly mankind has started eating more.
It is that we've started eating more refined calories (but not necessarily more food). That and a general decline in activity.
Read the comments in the earlier links.
I was responding specifically to the claims in the YouTube link "The Bitter Truth About Sugar". The chap overstates the case for fructose. (conveniently NOT mentioning how much fructose is converted to fat via De Novo Lipogenesis -) Anyway...
There is no rocket science or mystery here - stop eating stuff that comes out of factories.
It is just eating too much (esp refined calories - junk food) and less general activity. not fructose in particular. It's happening in societies that do not have vast amounts of HFCS (eg UK where I'm from)
> but it's definitely something besides just eating too much.
The "something" is refined calories in general. People eat too much processed food with more concentrated calories. ITs Not fructose = poison/fat as suggested in the youtube link. and it was simply that point I was responding to. The guy did not adequately back himself up when challenged by other people knowledgeable in the area.
The "average" US diet seems really junk centric.
Simple solution , as post below, Eat as much natural food as possible, move around more.
Since I ditched processed foods, and started eating clean, I can eat my fill of mostly vegetables, eating more grams of food than I used to, and still lose weight. I eat 50% or more of vegetables (excluding staples), 25% staples, 25% protein. Top up fat with seeds and PB if protein is lean. Because my diet is pretty close to what my body has evolved on (or been "created for" ), then it can manage my appetite better.
I always though the average UK diet was bad until I visited US ( Denver and then Houston).
Most people on/. have better than average rigs. When you see Vista Home Basic running like an absolute dog in a 2G Celeron with 1G ram, it makes you think! I did a cleanup on such a machine, it was horrible. Running a bit better now, but I imagine XP would fly on it, but the owner would not be happy!
A friends laptop (running Vista) had a spare D: partition filling up with Windows updates. No prob - I'll just delete them. Nope: Disk Cleanup - Still there No permission to delete: Administrator rights - check. Take Ownership (recursive) - check. Change ACLS to full control - check. Tried GUI Tried DOS - 'takeown' and 'acls' Google'it - check.
I got a few deleted via the GUI, but just wasn't concentrating as much as I should have been:)
30 minutes later - I just gave up - it was meant to be a social call not a hacking session! May try via Team Viewer at some point - I hate sitting a other peoples computers when I'm not at home!
"Bing which Yahoo now uses." - though there is a reported agreement for Yahoo to eventually start using Bing, at present the search results are still different.
You think terrorist groups wont use profiling to their advantage? And yes I'd be offended if I was the particular shades of brown that gets searched more than others. Just as I was offended as a black youth growing up in London and repeatedly search on the street under SUS laws.
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What would really be nice is some kind of (SlashDot) moderation for YouTube comments.
I'm a pretty thick skinned guy, but its far too easy to wallow around in youtube comments and get a distorted view of the world. I'm all for free speech, but the level of racism (whether earnest or trolling) , eventually is wearing. The obvious solution is not to read, but its like a car accident on the road, sometimes I look when I shouldn't! I try my best not to read comments now, and have installed YouTube comment Snob.
Not perfect but helps reduce the concentration of hate that appears in the comments. Also if someone does have a different world view to me, then I still get a chance to read it if they take time to write proper sentences.
Sony have been doing this for years. Especially in the hi-fi / av market. The don't like retailers discounting their "brand" because they feel it cheapens their image. So you would often get better value with other brands. Panasonic/Technics etc.
To get around it advertisers would put 'Phone for price' in flyers etc.
For consumers, knowing which brands don't like discounting is a good indicator of how much you are paying for the badge/brand relative to the product.
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I rarely order in food :) I (nowadays) avoid processed food and pre-prepared food as much as I possibly can because I'm a fat-tard, and catering industry likes to leverage our natural desire for fat , sugar and salt, in order to make their food more attractive. Last take-out was about 3 years ago!
yes. I've tried bitching about my boss to my boss, and it has to be imperceptibly subtle to work, almost to the point of hypocrisy.
> your warning is both wrong and wrong-headed.
Aw come on - you only supplied that extra info in your rebuttal post. GP gave a fair warning based on info provided up to that point ?
GP like me, is British. We dont tip if we can help it :)
Only people I tip,
- barber shop,
- mechanic (to make them less likely to rip me off), and
- restaurant if there is no service charge.(cash direct to serving staff - no Credit Card tip)
Even for standard browsing their network is poor. I'm on Virgin 30mbps service, and had snappier browsing on BeThere's ADSL where I could only get 3mbps,
Also I seem to have more random outages with Virgin that with ADSL.
A useful link with the exact numbers http://abcde.co.uk/virginmedia/broadband-faq.php#q44
This is excluding p2p shaping - but still more readable than anything on Virgin's website.
> Sony doesn't make inferior or crappy product,
Sony have two tiers of products IMO
1. Top tier - good quality stuff - but generally overpriced when compared to similar class products from competitors. In UK , Sony have always resisted their stuff being "on sale" or "discounted". You pay extra just for that badge/brand.
2. Bottom Tier - Below average - cheaper stuff - usually made in same factory as other "cheaper" brands - and just "badged" with Sony , and trading off of their reputation in Tier 1. (A lot of other manufacturers do this though)
I personally avoid Tier 2 stuff from any manufacturer. For Tier 1 stuff , bargains are often had by looking at other brands.
eg. TV Sony do make some of the best LCDs at a certain price point, but I prefer Panasonic Plasma.
Their DVD/Bluray etc are always crippled by firmware that is years behind cheap Chinese players. in terms of media playback.
Its just a brand that , whist good at certain price points, does not represent value for money for me. But some of my less technical friends swear by it. At least one did until he saw my Panny Plasma in action..
> Many natural foods are quite unhealthy for you, or quite fattening. I try to limit my sweet intake, but once a week I get an organic cookie from Earth Faire (the local Whole Foods-a-like). It's all organic with real sugar, unbleached flour, etc... It's still a cookie though.
It's hardly "natural". I dont know of any cookie trees.
Thats part of the problem, the argument is not not artifical vs nature, but we should reduce consumption of refined - processed foods. eg sugar and fruit juice. Fruit Juice is natural - but we happily down two glasses of orange juice, but wouldn't eat 8 oranges.
Basically eat more fibre.
We dont have that much HFCS here in the UK (no corn industry that I know of) but obesity is still on the rise here.
It's simply eating too much **calories** and doing less.
It is possible to eat more food (quantity) , and yet less calories, by just eating healthily. And you get the bonus of the body regulating its hunger levels properly.
there is no conspiracy or "something" we cont understand. Just eat less food that comes out of factories.
> and fat is much more likely to pass through you undigested if your body doesn't need the energy.
Tell that to obese people getting fatter :)
Fat is more likely to be burned as fuel if your body does need the energy. If you bod doesnt need it it will be stored for when it does.
And it is stored with something like 97% efficiency. Eg if you are overeating generally (carbs + fat + protein ) then you body will start running off all the carbs you eat, and store 97% of the fat you eat. That is how carbs make us fat.
> And it's not just that suddenly mankind has started eating more.
It is that we've started eating more refined calories (but not necessarily more food). That and a general decline in activity.
Read the comments in the earlier links.
I was responding specifically to the claims in the YouTube link "The Bitter Truth About Sugar". The chap overstates the case for fructose.
(conveniently NOT mentioning how much fructose is converted to fat via De Novo Lipogenesis -) Anyway...
There is no rocket science or mystery here - stop eating stuff that comes out of factories.
It is just eating too much (esp refined calories - junk food) and less general activity. not fructose in particular.
It's happening in societies that do not have vast amounts of HFCS (eg UK where I'm from)
> but it's definitely something besides just eating too much.
The "something" is refined calories in general. People eat too much processed food with more concentrated calories. ITs Not fructose = poison/fat as suggested in the youtube link. and it was simply that point I was responding to. The guy did not adequately back himself up when challenged by other people knowledgeable in the area.
The "average" US diet seems really junk centric.
Simple solution , as post below, Eat as much natural food as possible, move around more.
Since I ditched processed foods, and started eating clean, I can eat my fill of mostly vegetables, eating more grams of food than I used to, and still lose weight.
I eat 50% or more of vegetables (excluding staples), 25% staples, 25% protein. Top up fat with seeds and PB if protein is lean.
Because my diet is pretty close to what my body has evolved on (or been "created for" ), then it can manage my appetite better.
I always though the average UK diet was bad until I visited US ( Denver and then Houston).
Suggest anyone that watches that lecture also read independent critique.
A couple of links for starters:
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/ including comments and response from Dr. Lustig
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-the-fructose-alarmism-debate/
Most people on /. have better than average rigs. When you see Vista Home Basic running like an absolute dog in a 2G Celeron with 1G ram, it makes you think! I did a cleanup on such a machine, it was horrible. Running a bit better now, but I imagine XP would fly on it, but the owner would not be happy!
A friends laptop (running Vista) had a spare D: partition filling up with Windows updates. No prob - I'll just delete them.
Nope:
Disk Cleanup - Still there
No permission to delete:
Administrator rights - check.
Take Ownership (recursive) - check.
Change ACLS to full control - check.
Tried GUI
Tried DOS - 'takeown' and 'acls'
Google'it - check.
I got a few deleted via the GUI, but just wasn't concentrating as much as I should have been :)
30 minutes later - I just gave up - it was meant to be a social call not a hacking session!
May try via Team Viewer at some point - I hate sitting a other peoples computers when I'm not at home!
If on XP , install http://executor.dk/ , a good Menu app.
In settings , set 'Hot Key also Hides...' for expected hotkey behaviour..
"Bing which Yahoo now uses." - though there is a reported agreement for Yahoo to eventually start using Bing, at present the search results are still different.
You think terrorist groups wont use profiling to their advantage? And yes I'd be offended if I was the particular shades of brown that gets searched more than others.
Just as I was offended as a black youth growing up in London and repeatedly search on the street under SUS laws.
Ditto chocolate.
Most ISPs like to sell speed and hope that you dont use it much.
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