What is that dirty little skeleton doing with his right hand? Oh yeah... BTW, you are offensive. I add you to my fiends list.
Read one of my old journal entries on the subject.
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I wrote a old JE a few months back and have stumbled on what I think is the perfect balance. It doesn't go way overboard with the "eat anything you want" approach and it doesn't require that you do much other than avoid simple carbs. So far, it's worked wonders for me and my wife.
Weight loss wasn't even our original plan. We were trying to rid ourselves of some health problems that the "Anti-Candida" diet seemed to work on. But... as we played with the diet to make it more tolerable, we found that weight loss just started happening even though we hadn't changed how much we ate. We simply stopped eating simple carbs (white sugar, honey, maple syrup, pop/soda, white flour, white rice, etc...). It appears that a normal adult body will handle complex carbs much better (we still eat potatoes, brown and wild rice, whole wheat flour and deserts made with whole wheat flour, etc...) We've gotten around the sugar issue by using a Stevia powder for sweetining desserts and home made soft drinks (Stevia and Seltzer water are your friends).
It took a while to adjust, but we've pretty much decided on this as a way of life. My wife is back down to her high school weight as she approaches 40. I am also back to my high school weight. We were simply amazed by the major change just from a few simple shifts in what we eat. And the food we eat tastes so much better now.:)
Overall, my take on it is that the quality and source of your carbs is much more important in determining how your body reacts than the ammount. We have cut back on carbs, but this is no Atkins diet. We still eat beans and even a special brand of non-yeast bread quite a bit. We have home made pizza once a week, spaghetti once or twice a week (whole wheat pasta only) and eat a slice of home made bundt cake every day for breakfast. Our intake of things like corn chips has increased and we've still managed to lose weight. So I don't think fat is necessarily bad either. Again, your source and quality of fat is much more important than the amount.
"Windows is very stable and secure if you know even a modicum about what you're doing"
Blowing "facts" out of your ass again NineNine? No self respecting geek would consider Windows very stable and secure in any configuration. You are simply an anti-Linux zealot who believes that computers are only good for one thing; profit. You have no understanding of the concept that many of us work with computers because we LIKE to.
Now... there are plenty of folks out there who *think* they are geeks, but only know MS Windows. A real geek knows a little about every OS and a lot about the ones that work best for what they need.
If I'm going to have my in-laws or parents use a computer, I'm going to give them Windows and stick them behind a Linux box for security. If I'm going to run a server at home for fun (not profit) I'm going to use Linux or one of the BSDs. If I'm going to do pro-audio/DJ work, I'm going to use the best OS for that task: Mac OS. If I am going to run a mission critical app, it's going to be on a Unix or VMS box (sorry Windows just ain't there yet). And yes, buying into Windows 2K or XP is fucking expensive. At $199 for an upgrade, that's way more than an OS is worth. And $299 for the complete version? That's just ridiculous. Stick the horrid "OS is permanently married to the box) license that Windows XP has, and it's a completely losing proposition for me.
At my house, OS installs are constantly shifting from one box to another because... I LOVE this stuff. If you can't get that simply because of an inability to separate computers and profit motive, that's your own problem. The only other thing I'd use Windows for at this point is to play some games and even there W.I.N.E. is getting better all the time.
Yes. And MIDI has anything to do with audio???? What's your point? MIDI is NOT audio. MIDI is just note data that describes which key got pressed, how hard for how long and whichc controllers were used (foot pedal, mod wheel, pitch bender, etc...). Sorry... no digital audio transmitted over the MIDI at all. Just as a point of fact, pure 44.1 K 16-bit digital audio requires 10 Megabytes per minute, per track of bandwidth. USB just isn't going to handle more than a few channels and it's likely that DJs are going to want more than 44.1K at 16-bits.
Folks! We've got another big one for you. It seems that while those tree hugging environmentalist wackos have been touting solar energy as being "clean, safe and renewable", the sun has been taking pot shots at the Earth. How's that for "clean, safe and renewable"? Let's face it. These windbags want us to believe their lies about the sun being nice and friendly and we should all hold hands and sing songs. But now the truth is coming out. The sun is a dangerous form of energy! In fact (exec pull-statistics-out-of-ass module), in all 175 nuke plants around the world, there is only one, that's right folks, one plant that ever had any problems! And that's a plant that was government run in the old USSR. 100% of all the plants run by Enron have been 100% efficient, 100% reliable and 100% safe! Now, I don't know about you, but I would far rather have a small controllable nuclear incident in some little town in the midwest rather than the sun shooting some giant supercharged gases at my home. It's a credit to my listeners that you know where to go to get th real facts. Excelence in Broadcasting. That's what we're all about!(kill -9 Bloviate... uloading Limbaugh module)
Hehehe... where to start with this one... hehehehehe...;P
Way to go dude. I love the way you slipped that spoiler in there. Completely caught me off guard. Of course since I have no plans to go see the movie, it doesn't mean jack to me.:)
This is about the best post I've read all this year. While, I can "geek" with the best of them, I get fed up with the people out there who give us a bad name by claiming that people should learn to do everything for themselves. You know what I mean... that STUPID "self responsibility" kick a lot of people are on. It just isn't practical. For example, I HATE dealing with money. I'd reather leave it up to my bank to take care of that stuff for me. If it was up to me, my finances would be a wreck and I'd be in a bad mood 100% of the time (money just pisses me off in general). So bravo to this AC! I hope more people get the message.
But the question is WHY are they scared to leave their employers? The answer... because their employers have power over them. Based on what you were saying earlier, the folks in Iraq should have been able to depose Hussein by simply ignoring his threats. Sorry, but employers have a power over employees that cannot be denied. To think otherwise is to fall for the illusion of freedom that many societies put forth.
I imagine you'll need gigabit ethernet or multiple NICs in bonded mode. Then you have the performance of each individual system to take into account. Especially if one of the systems is heavily used. I would recommend getting one BIG HONKIN' SERVER and putting it in a central location. Give it gigbit and let everything else connect to it at 100. Then, make sure it has a hardware RAID controller. Use SAMBA for the cross platform connectivity you desire, and viola! protected data with redundancy and high speed performance. If you go with remote display (RDP with Windows Terminal Server or X with *nix) then you have an even better appraoch as all the data will exist on the secure RAID box.
I get what you mean though... it's a nice idea, but it would be costly to implement vs. what I suggested above.
When I went to see a presentation on HP's SAN solutions last year, I was very impressed with the ideas they had. One big hardware box with multiple disks that are controlled by the hardware. They are then presented to any systems over a fiber link as any number of drives you wish for any OS. Finally, their "snapshot" ability was pretty impressive. (Also called Business Copy) All they would do is quiesce the data bus, then create a bunch of pointers to the original data. As data is altered on the "copy" (just the pointers, not a real copy), the real data is then copied to the "copy" with changes put in place. I imagein something similar could be accomplished with CVS...
Five exabytes of data is a meaningless figure if you consider that probably 52% of that was pr0n. The other 35% was source code (non-human readable data). And the remaining 13% was made up of spam, web logs, and e-mail to grandmaw.
But if this is the case, then why are so many people afraid to walk out on their jobs. There are so many people who are unhappy with where they work, and yet they continue to do so day in and day out. All they do is gripe about it surreptitiously to each other. The option for employees to just walk out over something that bothers them is outweighed by the need to earn a living. Therefore any resistance to a comapny's opression is quashed. The attitude that most people have is, "Yeah. I don't like that my employer does X, but I need to keep food on the table. So more power to ya dude if you're going to walk out". The only reason this happens is because people are afriad of the consequences. Which means that the employers still hold all the power. The individual doesn't really count at all. Same with government. We could all stop paying our taxes tomorrow and claim "sovereign citizenship". That's not going to keep the government from locking us up for tax evasion. On top of that, you'll have a hard time convincing people to not pay their taxes. Again... no real freedom at all. Only the illusion of one.
If you don't want to follow their rules after work, don't work for them.
This is the typical argument thrown up for this kind of debate. However, what it fails to take into account is the undeniable truth (to pilfer a phrase from that bloatball Rush Limbaugh) is that the individual is and should be more imporatant than a government or a corporation. The logic above silently states that it is the employer who holds all the power. There is no freedom on the part of the employee other than the possibility of employment (which may not be a realistic option) elsewhere. So in situations where someone disagrees with their company's policies or practices, and there are no employment opportunities at another company, they are trapped. I'm not really going to say that I feel one way or another about it, but what I will say is that it certainly indicates that there is no such thing as freedom in our world today. There is the illusion of freedom, but when you really come down to the core, there is no freedom at all. Why, for example, must we work for anyone at all? The answer, to make a living wage. Why do we need a living wage? The answer, to keep a roof over our heads and food in our bellies. Why do we need those things? The answer, to keep from dying. So, in the end, you are held hostage by your employer in exchange for your life. When people realize this, it tends to get them down. But it's the reality. Wake up people.
That's the problem with the corporate world today. They do so many things that affect your private life. If I work for a company and I have a personal problem with the boss, a company policy, etc... I should be able to freely voice those opinions on my own time with no effect on either my personal life, or my employment status with them. Giving a company that much control is just plain scary. That's one of the reasons I opted out of working in the music business. I found out that many music production houses could claim any work I do at home as their intellectual property. I'm not a fucking lawyer, so I shouldn't need to sit down and figure out the legal aspects of what I do at home. I should just be able to do as I damn well please and my employer has the right to sod off.
Letting companies get away with this kind of thing goes beyond just making this a free speech issue. It's an issue abot real freedom in general. The corporations are slowly making slaves of their employees and many of us are blindly marching in step with our captors. Fuck the business and profit of your employer when they aren't paying you for your time. If they want us to follow their rules outside of work hours, then they should damn well pay us to follow those rules. No pay. No play.
I've seen a few of the trolls post stuff from time to time about the whole planet X thing. It's interesting because while there are many reasons NOT to believe it, there are just as many to believe it. Come to think of it, the only reasons not to believe it are all derived from NASA's silence on the matter. But if you are a conspiracy nut, silence says a lot more than not. I suppose the only thing that's called for here is blind faith.
I supposed definition 4 applies to the SCO fee troll... Hehehe... I love it when an a-hole like that opens his mouth just a little farther than he should.
The oil folks realize that it's not going to be their main source of income forever. So they are diversifying by trying to get the utilities deregulated and getting their fingers into gas and electric since those may be where the money is in the future. The oil people are simply changing their business model and becoming the "energy people". That's why California had all the energy problems. It had little to do with the previous governor and everything to do with the "energy people".
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What is that dirty little skeleton doing with his right hand? Oh yeah... BTW, you are offensive. I add you to my fiends list.
I wrote a old JE a few months back and have stumbled on what I think is the perfect balance. It doesn't go way overboard with the "eat anything you want" approach and it doesn't require that you do much other than avoid simple carbs. So far, it's worked wonders for me and my wife.
:)
Weight loss wasn't even our original plan. We were trying to rid ourselves of some health problems that the "Anti-Candida" diet seemed to work on. But... as we played with the diet to make it more tolerable, we found that weight loss just started happening even though we hadn't changed how much we ate. We simply stopped eating simple carbs (white sugar, honey, maple syrup, pop/soda, white flour, white rice, etc...). It appears that a normal adult body will handle complex carbs much better (we still eat potatoes, brown and wild rice, whole wheat flour and deserts made with whole wheat flour, etc...) We've gotten around the sugar issue by using a Stevia powder for sweetining desserts and home made soft drinks (Stevia and Seltzer water are your friends).
It took a while to adjust, but we've pretty much decided on this as a way of life. My wife is back down to her high school weight as she approaches 40. I am also back to my high school weight. We were simply amazed by the major change just from a few simple shifts in what we eat. And the food we eat tastes so much better now.
Overall, my take on it is that the quality and source of your carbs is much more important in determining how your body reacts than the ammount. We have cut back on carbs, but this is no Atkins diet. We still eat beans and even a special brand of non-yeast bread quite a bit. We have home made pizza once a week, spaghetti once or twice a week (whole wheat pasta only) and eat a slice of home made bundt cake every day for breakfast. Our intake of things like corn chips has increased and we've still managed to lose weight. So I don't think fat is necessarily bad either. Again, your source and quality of fat is much more important than the amount.
Blowing "facts" out of your ass again NineNine? No self respecting geek would consider Windows very stable and secure in any configuration. You are simply an anti-Linux zealot who believes that computers are only good for one thing; profit. You have no understanding of the concept that many of us work with computers because we LIKE to.
Now... there are plenty of folks out there who *think* they are geeks, but only know MS Windows. A real geek knows a little about every OS and a lot about the ones that work best for what they need.
If I'm going to have my in-laws or parents use a computer, I'm going to give them Windows and stick them behind a Linux box for security. If I'm going to run a server at home for fun (not profit) I'm going to use Linux or one of the BSDs. If I'm going to do pro-audio/DJ work, I'm going to use the best OS for that task: Mac OS. If I am going to run a mission critical app, it's going to be on a Unix or VMS box (sorry Windows just ain't there yet). And yes, buying into Windows 2K or XP is fucking expensive. At $199 for an upgrade, that's way more than an OS is worth. And $299 for the complete version? That's just ridiculous. Stick the horrid "OS is permanently married to the box) license that Windows XP has, and it's a completely losing proposition for me.
At my house, OS installs are constantly shifting from one box to another because... I LOVE this stuff. If you can't get that simply because of an inability to separate computers and profit motive, that's your own problem. The only other thing I'd use Windows for at this point is to play some games and even there W.I.N.E. is getting better all the time.
Wake up NineNine, you are on the losing team.
Great points. I think most American listeners are largely clueless as to what constitutes a great DJ these days.
Yes. And MIDI has anything to do with audio???? What's your point? MIDI is NOT audio. MIDI is just note data that describes which key got pressed, how hard for how long and whichc controllers were used (foot pedal, mod wheel, pitch bender, etc...). Sorry... no digital audio transmitted over the MIDI at all. Just as a point of fact, pure 44.1 K 16-bit digital audio requires 10 Megabytes per minute, per track of bandwidth. USB just isn't going to handle more than a few channels and it's likely that DJs are going to want more than 44.1K at 16-bits.
Yet another clueless anti-linux troll. Nothing to see here. Move along, people.
Don't believe the hype. Fox "News" is not a news source. It's infotainment. O'Reilly is ultimate proof.
(Bloviate Mode On... loading Limbaugh module):
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Folks! We've got another big one for you. It seems that while those tree hugging environmentalist wackos have been touting solar energy as being "clean, safe and renewable", the sun has been taking pot shots at the Earth. How's that for "clean, safe and renewable"? Let's face it. These windbags want us to believe their lies about the sun being nice and friendly and we should all hold hands and sing songs. But now the truth is coming out. The sun is a dangerous form of energy! In fact (exec pull-statistics-out-of-ass module), in all 175 nuke plants around the world, there is only one, that's right folks, one plant that ever had any problems! And that's a plant that was government run in the old USSR. 100% of all the plants run by Enron have been 100% efficient, 100% reliable and 100% safe! Now, I don't know about you, but I would far rather have a small controllable nuclear incident in some little town in the midwest rather than the sun shooting some giant supercharged gases at my home. It's a credit to my listeners that you know where to go to get th real facts. Excelence in Broadcasting. That's what we're all about!(kill -9 Bloviate... uloading Limbaugh module)
Hehehe... where to start with this one... hehehehehe...
Way to go dude. I love the way you slipped that spoiler in there. Completely caught me off guard. Of course since I have no plans to go see the movie, it doesn't mean jack to me. :)
Hey man... that's deep.
This is about the best post I've read all this year. While, I can "geek" with the best of them, I get fed up with the people out there who give us a bad name by claiming that people should learn to do everything for themselves. You know what I mean... that STUPID "self responsibility" kick a lot of people are on. It just isn't practical. For example, I HATE dealing with money. I'd reather leave it up to my bank to take care of that stuff for me. If it was up to me, my finances would be a wreck and I'd be in a bad mood 100% of the time (money just pisses me off in general). So bravo to this AC! I hope more people get the message.
You are quite right. Of course I probably should have said it like Jerry Lewis would have back in the day:
;P
"Hey Laaaady!!!! Viola!!!!"
But the question is WHY are they scared to leave their employers? The answer... because their employers have power over them. Based on what you were saying earlier, the folks in Iraq should have been able to depose Hussein by simply ignoring his threats. Sorry, but employers have a power over employees that cannot be denied. To think otherwise is to fall for the illusion of freedom that many societies put forth.
I imagine you'll need gigabit ethernet or multiple NICs in bonded mode. Then you have the performance of each individual system to take into account. Especially if one of the systems is heavily used. I would recommend getting one BIG HONKIN' SERVER and putting it in a central location. Give it gigbit and let everything else connect to it at 100. Then, make sure it has a hardware RAID controller. Use SAMBA for the cross platform connectivity you desire, and viola! protected data with redundancy and high speed performance. If you go with remote display (RDP with Windows Terminal Server or X with *nix) then you have an even better appraoch as all the data will exist on the secure RAID box.
I get what you mean though... it's a nice idea, but it would be costly to implement vs. what I suggested above.
When I went to see a presentation on HP's SAN solutions last year, I was very impressed with the ideas they had. One big hardware box with multiple disks that are controlled by the hardware. They are then presented to any systems over a fiber link as any number of drives you wish for any OS. Finally, their "snapshot" ability was pretty impressive. (Also called Business Copy) All they would do is quiesce the data bus, then create a bunch of pointers to the original data. As data is altered on the "copy" (just the pointers, not a real copy), the real data is then copied to the "copy" with changes put in place. I imagein something similar could be accomplished with CVS...
Five exabytes of data is a meaningless figure if you consider that probably 52% of that was pr0n. The other 35% was source code (non-human readable data). And the remaining 13% was made up of spam, web logs, and e-mail to grandmaw.
But if this is the case, then why are so many people afraid to walk out on their jobs. There are so many people who are unhappy with where they work, and yet they continue to do so day in and day out. All they do is gripe about it surreptitiously to each other. The option for employees to just walk out over something that bothers them is outweighed by the need to earn a living. Therefore any resistance to a comapny's opression is quashed. The attitude that most people have is, "Yeah. I don't like that my employer does X, but I need to keep food on the table. So more power to ya dude if you're going to walk out". The only reason this happens is because people are afriad of the consequences. Which means that the employers still hold all the power. The individual doesn't really count at all. Same with government. We could all stop paying our taxes tomorrow and claim "sovereign citizenship". That's not going to keep the government from locking us up for tax evasion. On top of that, you'll have a hard time convincing people to not pay their taxes. Again... no real freedom at all. Only the illusion of one.
This is the typical argument thrown up for this kind of debate. However, what it fails to take into account is the undeniable truth (to pilfer a phrase from that bloatball Rush Limbaugh) is that the individual is and should be more imporatant than a government or a corporation. The logic above silently states that it is the employer who holds all the power. There is no freedom on the part of the employee other than the possibility of employment (which may not be a realistic option) elsewhere. So in situations where someone disagrees with their company's policies or practices, and there are no employment opportunities at another company, they are trapped. I'm not really going to say that I feel one way or another about it, but what I will say is that it certainly indicates that there is no such thing as freedom in our world today. There is the illusion of freedom, but when you really come down to the core, there is no freedom at all. Why, for example, must we work for anyone at all? The answer, to make a living wage. Why do we need a living wage? The answer, to keep a roof over our heads and food in our bellies. Why do we need those things? The answer, to keep from dying. So, in the end, you are held hostage by your employer in exchange for your life. When people realize this, it tends to get them down. But it's the reality. Wake up people.
That's the problem with the corporate world today. They do so many things that affect your private life. If I work for a company and I have a personal problem with the boss, a company policy, etc... I should be able to freely voice those opinions on my own time with no effect on either my personal life, or my employment status with them. Giving a company that much control is just plain scary. That's one of the reasons I opted out of working in the music business. I found out that many music production houses could claim any work I do at home as their intellectual property. I'm not a fucking lawyer, so I shouldn't need to sit down and figure out the legal aspects of what I do at home. I should just be able to do as I damn well please and my employer has the right to sod off.
Letting companies get away with this kind of thing goes beyond just making this a free speech issue. It's an issue abot real freedom in general. The corporations are slowly making slaves of their employees and many of us are blindly marching in step with our captors. Fuck the business and profit of your employer when they aren't paying you for your time. If they want us to follow their rules outside of work hours, then they should damn well pay us to follow those rules. No pay. No play.
Pretty good resource there. I've never found that in all two times I've looked up any Planet X info. Thanks. That clarifies things greatly.
I've seen a few of the trolls post stuff from time to time about the whole planet X thing. It's interesting because while there are many reasons NOT to believe it, there are just as many to believe it. Come to think of it, the only reasons not to believe it are all derived from NASA's silence on the matter. But if you are a conspiracy nut, silence says a lot more than not. I suppose the only thing that's called for here is blind faith.
Just thought I'd let you know you fucking cuntflap.
I thought they said "Antelope Sized Handhelds with Windows to Debut". "Way to innovate" is what I thought... But oh well, I was wrong. ;P
I supposed definition 4 applies to the SCO fee troll... Hehehe... I love it when an a-hole like that opens his mouth just a little farther than he should.
The oil folks realize that it's not going to be their main source of income forever. So they are diversifying by trying to get the utilities deregulated and getting their fingers into gas and electric since those may be where the money is in the future. The oil people are simply changing their business model and becoming the "energy people". That's why California had all the energy problems. It had little to do with the previous governor and everything to do with the "energy people".
A little Aussie ingenuity goes a long way.