Want to hear a great example of how back-asswards the whole system has become?
The guy who invented the electric guitar was denied a patent because it was basically just a telephone in a guitar. Now *that* is protecting intellectual property. Exact opposite of your "USA Technologires" example, and the way the system was meant to be used.
Ever planned a wedding yourself? I kinda doubt it. The spreadsheets the book ships with are actually pretty useful for handling guest lists, rsvp tracking, all of the piddly little shit that slips through cracks if you can't afford to have a pro do it. Not a bad book at all.
Awesome! It's about time we set up a base somewhere we don't have to wait for months to get results from launches. But is that any cheaper than maintaining the supply chain to a base (food, air, parts)? Logistics, anyone?
I agree, both as a classically (among others) trained guitarist and as a programmer. To put it in terms more/.ers can understand: Glen Gould is a hacker--he just hacks a piano instead of a computer. There are virtuosos in both groups.
That said, I can't wait for the day when computers can hack music. I mean, just from a novelty point of view, I'd like to be able to tell a program, "If Jimi Hendrix had been a classical guitarist, what would Dove Son Quei Fieri Occhi have sounded like?" and let the computer extrapolate. Come on, that would be fun.
Alcohol can only be metabolized in the liver, where it's turned into an "aldehyde" of some sort or another. Has nothing to do with what your stomach/intestines are doing.
when alcohol is in your system, no other calories are being burned
Bullshit. Every time your heart beats, every time you take a breath, every little movement you make requires calories. Converting the damn alcohol takes calories! When "no other calories are being burned," that means you're dead, so your gut is the least of your worries.
Generally, because "lifting light weights to tone" is the lazy man's way of avoiding a good workout. Don't get pissed, there are lots of definitions of "toned," mine is the guys that do light weights for 4-5 sets of 15-20 reps. You need to use weights heavy enough to challenge the muscles, otherwise you're only working on muscle endurance, not strength. Stronger is not proportional to bigger. Toning sucks. Believe me, lift heavier weights, say the most you can do for 3 sets, 8-10 reps (and even that's a lot, in my book), and you will look better nekkid.
I'd love to mod you down, but I'm 99% sure his problem isn't eating too much. VERY few people (especially those on diets) eat too much-- for most of us, it takes 2000-3000 calories per day just to keep us where we are right now. The problem is eating the wrong stuff. The goal is to replace fat with muscle (since muscle is metabolically more active than fat) and you need a LOT of calories to build muscle, specifically, lots of protein and "good" fat (olive oil, etc.).
Go to www.menshealth.com and buy a book called "The Testosterone Advantage Plan." It's a lot of hard work, including hours at the gym and nitpicky food-weight counting, but once you get over the initial suckiness of a complete lifestyle change, your whole outlook will, too. I can't wait to out from behind this desk and go hit the gym tonight.
Basically, don't eat less because you'll just be hungry all the time and you'll binge. Eat the same amount you currently do, but make sure it's things like chicken breasts, beef jerky, cottage cheese, anything high in protein. When you suck down carbs in the form of fruits and vegetables, make sure they're nutrient dense, i.e. spinach, broccoli, or tomatoes instead of iceburg lettuce. And no sugar other than what you get from "good" foods. Articial sweetener (high-fructose corn syrup in particular) was sent by the devil.
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So do something about it. I have 3 little brothers, and 2 of them are into computers (the other does construction). So I supervised and suggested while they built a crappy box out of spare parts, installed Red Hat 9 on it, and printed out the "Software building how-to" (among a few others). They are now learning, and having fun with it. Are they learning anything useful? Maybe, maybe not. "./configure && make && make install" isn't all that enlightening, but at least it's not an rpm, so they can say "I built that." They know what a "kernel" is, they know what "source code" is, and they know what a user-based operating system is really like. Have kids? Same story.
Oh, one important thing, though. After you finish doing that, go outside and play a game of touch football. We don't want a generation of Simpon's comic-book guys.
I agree, but this argument won't hold for much longer. Now that kids are growing up with the computers and learning about them in school, we'll soon be reaching a technicalogical (I know, but I like that better than "technological") equiilibrium of sorts. The "new users" will have the know-how ingrained into them and will feel confident enough to say, "Fuck the bloat, I'm installing Mozilla (or Opera, or Lynx, or...)." They'll grow up knowing about computers just like kids in the sixties knew about cars.
I reread my post, and it is a bit hard to tell. No sarcasm, I was agreeing. And (apparently, poorly) trying to make an additional point. I guess I'm so used to being facetious it comes out in eveything I say. Sigh.
Oh, christ, which war was it where you got your sense of humor shot off? My great-grandmother died with it, and my grandmother's going down right now. Odds are, my mom will get it too. Is it sad? Absolutely. Would a cure be a good thing? Of course. Do I still care about these people and wish they were better? Yup.
That said, the jokes are still hilarious. Some things will always be funny, this is one of them.
Hot damn, the light of reason! Scrapping the project after the design & planning phase would have been an even huger waste of money (not to mention morale) than just to finish building it.
Not to mention all of those sailors need a place to sleep.
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Nope. He's a businessman. Go with a Ferengi.
Want to hear a great example of how back-asswards the whole system has become?
The guy who invented the electric guitar was denied a patent because it was basically just a telephone in a guitar. Now *that* is protecting intellectual property. Exact opposite of your "USA Technologires" example, and the way the system was meant to be used.
Or a Unabomber-style Unabomb
The coolest part is that they got the OSDL and the ODSL!
A new country. Maybe Midlakistan or possibly Wasalakeistan. Borderdisputelakistan? I smell a poll....
Do you guys say "Pee see em see eye aye" or "pecumsiuh"? I've heard both, just curious.
Ever planned a wedding yourself? I kinda doubt it. The spreadsheets the book ships with are actually pretty useful for handling guest lists, rsvp tracking, all of the piddly little shit that slips through cracks if you can't afford to have a pro do it. Not a bad book at all.
Awesome! It's about time we set up a base somewhere we don't have to wait for months to get results from launches. But is that any cheaper than maintaining the supply chain to a base (food, air, parts)? Logistics, anyone?
They can't be that bad for the environment, I mean those little Cadmium Cream Eggs are SO GOOD around Easter-time.
Yeah, a diagram would've been been nice for the lazy,but no, a mugshot of the old geezer is all there was.
I agree, both as a classically (among others) trained guitarist and as a programmer. To put it in terms more /.ers can understand: Glen Gould is a hacker--he just hacks a piano instead of a computer. There are virtuosos in both groups.
That said, I can't wait for the day when computers can hack music. I mean, just from a novelty point of view, I'd like to be able to tell a program, "If Jimi Hendrix had been a classical guitarist, what would Dove Son Quei Fieri Occhi have sounded like?" and let the computer extrapolate. Come on, that would be fun.
The only problem with this is people who can't register as donors, like people with communicable diseases, etc. Otherwise, it's an awesome idea.
You obviously need to go dowload Sense of Humor 4.0 and ISF (Irony, Sarcasm, and Facetiousness) 2.0.
Generally, because "lifting light weights to tone" is the lazy man's way of avoiding a good workout. Don't get pissed, there are lots of definitions of "toned," mine is the guys that do light weights for 4-5 sets of 15-20 reps. You need to use weights heavy enough to challenge the muscles, otherwise you're only working on muscle endurance, not strength. Stronger is not proportional to bigger. Toning sucks. Believe me, lift heavier weights, say the most you can do for 3 sets, 8-10 reps (and even that's a lot, in my book), and you will look better nekkid.
I'd love to mod you down, but I'm 99% sure his problem isn't eating too much. VERY few people (especially those on diets) eat too much-- for most of us, it takes 2000-3000 calories per day just to keep us where we are right now. The problem is eating the wrong stuff. The goal is to replace fat with muscle (since muscle is metabolically more active than fat) and you need a LOT of calories to build muscle, specifically, lots of protein and "good" fat (olive oil, etc.).
Go to www.menshealth.com and buy a book called "The Testosterone Advantage Plan." It's a lot of hard work, including hours at the gym and nitpicky food-weight counting, but once you get over the initial suckiness of a complete lifestyle change, your whole outlook will, too. I can't wait to out from behind this desk and go hit the gym tonight.
Basically, don't eat less because you'll just be hungry all the time and you'll binge. Eat the same amount you currently do, but make sure it's things like chicken breasts, beef jerky, cottage cheese, anything high in protein. When you suck down carbs in the form of fruits and vegetables, make sure they're nutrient dense, i.e. spinach, broccoli, or tomatoes instead of iceburg lettuce. And no sugar other than what you get from "good" foods. Articial sweetener (high-fructose corn syrup in particular) was sent by the devil.
That's "niggeranians." Get it right.
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So do something about it. I have 3 little brothers, and 2 of them are into computers (the other does construction). So I supervised and suggested while they built a crappy box out of spare parts, installed Red Hat 9 on it, and printed out the "Software building how-to" (among a few others). They are now learning, and having fun with it. Are they learning anything useful? Maybe, maybe not. "./configure && make && make install" isn't all that enlightening, but at least it's not an rpm, so they can say "I built that." They know what a "kernel" is, they know what "source code" is, and they know what a user-based operating system is really like. Have kids? Same story.
Oh, one important thing, though. After you finish doing that, go outside and play a game of touch football. We don't want a generation of Simpon's comic-book guys.
I agree, but this argument won't hold for much longer. Now that kids are growing up with the computers and learning about them in school, we'll soon be reaching a technicalogical (I know, but I like that better than "technological") equiilibrium of sorts. The "new users" will have the know-how ingrained into them and will feel confident enough to say, "Fuck the bloat, I'm installing Mozilla (or Opera, or Lynx, or...)." They'll grow up knowing about computers just like kids in the sixties knew about cars.
...also found the words "unlimited," "free," and "useful" to be confusing.
I'm sure those 18000 would tell you that some paycheck is better than no paycheck.
I reread my post, and it is a bit hard to tell. No sarcasm, I was agreeing. And (apparently, poorly) trying to make an additional point. I guess I'm so used to being facetious it comes out in eveything I say. Sigh.
Oh, christ, which war was it where you got your sense of humor shot off? My great-grandmother died with it, and my grandmother's going down right now. Odds are, my mom will get it too. Is it sad? Absolutely. Would a cure be a good thing? Of course. Do I still care about these people and wish they were better? Yup.
That said, the jokes are still hilarious. Some things will always be funny, this is one of them.
Hot damn, the light of reason! Scrapping the project after the design & planning phase would have been an even huger waste of money (not to mention morale) than just to finish building it.
Not to mention all of those sailors need a place to sleep.