I learned Basic at the age of 8 on an apple. I moved onto DOS around 10 because I had to (every pc shipped with it). I jumped onto linux and bsd at the age of 14 and at 17 and 18 moved completely into *nix. I haven't looked back. I left IT, but friends and family know that I'll outperform, outfix and undercharge every IT shop in town. I will not, however compromise my passion for *nix by working at any computer shop ever again.
Hope that helps... I wasn't 6 like your son, but I was 8, and it was the first time a personal computer was in my vicinity... from then I got hooked.
A gentoo Linux command prompt livecd (not the graphical new one) and a FreeBSD (or netbsd if you like)
Teach him to work it at first. Teach him how to look up data online, how to use links at that command prompt. He will respect that machine and what it can do FAR more once he spends time building it:)
Get him reading Linux Kernel Internals and other things.
He'll come away with understanding but without becoming too embroiled in the corporate wars. (let him form his own decisions about it later, I may hate Microsoft, and always have, but at one time I did quite a bit of gaming on the sole windows machine I used to have, now I no longer need them and can use Wine and Cedega to do so if gaming becomes a necessity)
All in all you will get a technically aware child who will understand (hopefully) that something is far more precious if you build it yourself and put your own blood sweat and code than if you just throw away 299.99 bucks on it and expect to learn nothing and have it still work.
was to RELEASE the internet to the public and let them sort it out. Otherwise it would've remained a way for four star generals to download college dorm porn:)
Honestly though, if they had held onto it, it would've remained nothing, give them credit for handing it off to people who come up with new things, instead of the military, who come up with ways to kill innocent (and occasionally the guilty) people in this world.
We'll probably have to bend over and take it in the ass from Uncka' Boosh and Uncka MusicIndustry... but that's what we get for not being up in arms about this crap.
I'm sure several years down the road, we'll hear how "Emperor Bush has dissolved the Imperial Congress".
Man I wish more people had the guts and brains to walk away from being consumerists and learning to think before buying shit... the CON in consumer tells one something right? CON means against... we're acting against our own interest by acting on impulses and buying crap, only to take it home and play it and find out that the tracks from the radio were the ONLY halfway decent ones, and the others aren't worth the laserlight used to read them from the CD.
Because you and your puppetteers should learn that since you make CHEAP ASS cds, that scratch easilly, I will always rip them and reburn them. My entire favorite songs list fits on 3 cdrs... why should I carry around several cds I only like 2 or 3 tracks from, instead of just burning what I like??
Also, when did you fucktards get off on deciding that the copy for my own use is somehow taxable as illegal ??? eh? How about I drive down and beat every one of you into the mud, and sue you because I hurt my knuckle bashing your face in? Sound familiar? This is what you retards are doing to us and our rights out here in consumerville.
I haven't bought a CD in years and I don't plan to, you all release SHIT, and as SHIT I will treat it. I've bought only indies stuff, and when you illegalize or overtax CDS I will find a way... as will others. And eventually we'll probably get the pitchforks and torches and kill you all.
Honestly folks, its time for a revolution. So many of our rights are leaving out the backdoor and walking off a short pier, that we need to do something about it. Lets walk to the RIAA and MPAA HQ's and kick in the door and drag them out... and tax them for any inconvenience and injury we incur in doing so. Unlike the corporations with more "legal" rights than us, we ARE CITIZENS and we have those things called "INALIENABLE RIGHTS"... we still have them right??
And don't give up even when the going gets rough. The best part is finishing up a harder workout a month or two down the road and realizing that not only have you lost the weight, but you're stronger, faster, and you feel more alive and less prone to crashing on the couch devoid of energy. (Better in bed from what I've been told too, but don't let that be the ONLY motivation for being in shape;)
I don't have kids, and I doubt I can handle having them right now... mostly because I'm free spirited and could not handle the shackles marriage and kids would place on me.
As for your other question, my first motivation was looking back to my childhood which was half geek half jock (computer geek, but did karate, judo, soccer, swimming and played chess competitively) and realizing that I was in great shape as a child. I looked at myself and, after the shock wore off, I grabbed my brother, who is a runner and is in spectacular shape, and we took off jogging. What we were never taught in 7 years of consecutive gym class, as I'm sure everyone should recall the "mile run" and "fitness tests" which only worked for those who already knew how to run/jog/workout in middle and high school, I learned in one week from him. It is still not easy, and it is a battle of wills, but in one month I moved up from barely doing half a mile and falling over, to jogging 2 miles straight and having room to sprint the last quarter mile (some of my athletic abilities remained buried underneath the fat, but I felt at times as if I were going to drop and just give up... main thing: I didn't.)
That being said, know that I was a hard core gamer (and I played pretty much everything except for EQ 2 and WoW, and I still am, but I mostly play single player things where I can save or savestate (emulators) and just unplug and go do what I have to. I also liked Counterstrike because one could fire it up on a short break, shoot up a few rounds of terrorism/counterterrorism mayhem, and shutdown and go back to other things (it works in linux too and makes for GREAT lan parties). The only difference now, is that I know when to unplug and go take care of issues that require attention.
Besides, being that I'm a linux geek, despite getting almost every game to run in Wine and Cedega, I don't game as much as I used to, I find myself reading, studying, (and blowing off about 1 hour a day on/. and/.TFA's for kicks).
I think the main thing is feeling free, and feeling good, and knowing that I'm accomplishing something for myself at a very low cost (that being only time and effort). Plus, nobody can make a healthy diet and an exercise regimen illegal or declare it "unhealthy based on studies that show $X".
PS - my toughest challenge was cutting down on portion size at fast food places. I still hit Taco Bell occasionally (geek thing I guess) but I only get one thing off the menu... no sodas and no side dishes... and I leave full and feeling good. This, again, not only benefitted my wellness, but it has allowed my wallet to retain a sizeable chunk of change (3.99 meal suddenly becomes 1.99, and on days I eat at home or pack lunch at work, its even cheaper). I do keep a spreadsheet with what I eat, calorie count, fat calories, etc. I pretty much engineer my daily allowances to allow me to eat what I want and still not go over my allotment.
About 6 years ago, when I was in better shape, I put in some time on a truck unloading team. I was right out of high school.
I was in good shape, but my back was starting to feel strain. Most of it was because working "safe" vs working "fast" are two different things and they wanted us working fast. I started arriving half hour early, and doing stretches and a few dozen situps. Also, I paid attention to how I was lifting things, and though a bit slower at times, I didn't suffer any injuries and my back pain went away without pills. I was sore though, I haven't found a way around that, so anyone with advice, please add:)
Yes "most people" want to feel good, and think that the long term effects of quick fixes (such as taking Stacker2 or whatever to lose weight, versus actual exercise and balanced diet) will be the same as the short term that they can actually see.
I've been fat, so I can say all this with a greater measure of certainty than skinny geeks who have never been there.
Wait until you have man boobs (and I mean when your A cup girlfriend or female friends look at you and say "holy shit, yours are bigger than mine"), and look in the mirror, and look at pictures from high school, and if you don't worry, then reap what you sow:)
He looks like bruce lee, but while growing up HE was the fatass.
I agree that overworking is bad too, but exactly the point, most people DONT work out at all, don't jog, swim, etc. Then they eat fast food like it was handed to them by whatever god they worship as their only salvation.
Then, a year and 30 lbs later, they wonder "what happened?"
I know, I did that. I'm 10 lbs down this year alone and 20 to go. (I started at just around 215/220 last year when I left IT.)
Aiming for 160 lbs as a settling weight (for my 5'9" height) should be okay. The problem is that I was in good shape, and then I went into IT, worked my ass off, ate tons of junk food due to "no time" (I was lazy and stopped cooking my own meals at night, and you'd be amazed how quickly mc'donalds and burger king add up).
Then I quit IT and got into a different line of work (involves some labor, some driving and less stress, and somewhat more time off). Now I find the time to do everything, from gaming to dating and all that (okay very little dating, but I do get lucky occasionally).
The point is, staying fit isn't "a talent" or "genetics".
If one listens to those lazy bitches quoting "I'm genetically predisposed to...[name your malaise]" then, I'm prone to being fat, as is my brother, but with a healthy diet, and a bit of work, anyone can be in good shape. (And that helps one consume far less coffee trying to stay awake.) I'm not advertising any products, or taking any. And I do eat meat:) Just that we figured out it takes moderation and a bit of thinking.
As a side note: I can focus extremely well and suffer very little trouble in public speaking, despite having been "diagnosed" with ADHD and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and social anxiety. Oh, and I don't take any drugs for it. But I do take responsability for my actions... which leads into:
I think the main issue we should discuss is that people are inherently lazy, ignorant (and often stupid) cowards in our country and wanting someone else to do everything for them. I was using myself as an example because I'm that "radical" libertarian type who thinks that if you are too lazy to do it yourself, you should probably go plug into some machine to breathe and eat for you and die of heart failure and stop leeching off the rest of us when you go on life support. I don't say "lets kill them" I simply say "lets give them what they want, put them on a farm where they'll never see the sun again except in VR, and let them get as fat as they want, until the veins in their brain burst and they die, of their own doing."
Back when I actually gamed online, I recall that there was a character class... called THIEF!! They STOLE things... gold, items, equipment, you name it, if it wasn't bolted down, they stole it. From NPC's (non player bots) and PCS (player characters) alike.
Nowadays we have panzies who cry a river because their sword was stolen. I'm a hard core gamer (or was) but I've discovered that there is so much more I'd rather do than just play all day. This is the problem with most gamers. They do not know when to draw the line.
I personally prefer to build my body healthy than to let an interface make me think I'm healthy, because in the long run, being a fatass will kill you VERY unpleasantly. Most fat guys and girls aren't in the best of health. (Try bending over at 5'10" and 300+ lbs to pick up whatever you've spilled and you'll see what I mean.)
Most people are inherently lazy, so perhaps forcing them into a virtual world is a benefit. It will leave the REAL world open for those of us who like being outside in nature. (And yes I'd probably have a laptop with me, but I unplug a lot more than I used to nowadays.)
I love gaming, but I also like being able to know that I'm not just living for the benefit of having an alter ego, which once deleted, would leave me as a poor slob without any alternatives but to start over without a hope. (Hard core MMORPG beta testers will tell you how aggravating it is to build a character and have a server-wide character wipe at the next set of upgrades that invalidate half the items and skills youv'e "earned").
Oh, and when "thieves" loot items. Best choice is to kill them or get them killed. The reason "real life" is boring is because those with connections can usurp the law and use it to crush those without resources. In games, you can still appeal to the godlike Game Masters to change things for you if you're cheated. Removing thieves from a Dungeons and Dragons like world is like pulling someone's gums out, because you already got all their teeth in your pocket.
All of the IT companies I worked for (mind you not departments, since departments generally want to show that they are doing better than companies and departments at other companies) but all of the IT companies I've worked at were HAPPY to force users and clients into using IE to keep the spyware/virus/trojan cleaning business flowing in. Unethical? Doubtless. Profitable? Even moreso.
They were all Microsoft partners too, I am uncertain if that factor had any influence on their lack of ethics (I mean, look at how reliable and trustworthy M$ is... right?) but one of them was so flakey that I had to fight with them for 3 months to get my last (legitimate) paycheck after I had already jumped through all the NDA signing hoops to leave the place and ensure my last check would be timely... (it was anything but).
They all demand IE because "they support it" (i.e. they bill you a shitload to "fix" spyware, and if you use firefox AND finally get something, they won't touch it, heh, their financial loss either way, use firefox and help send their jobs to the trashcan, not india:) besides, maybe if everyone dumped microshit, we'd finally have IT jobs where we come up with NEW things instead of fixing the M$ trojan horse known as Windows).
Future versions seem to be completely Trusted Computing aware and will thus be hardware disabled for anything save microshit.
This leaves us at a little crossroads. Stay the hell away from M$ or get screwed much as we do with windows where the assholes break compatibility every year or three to squeeze MORE money for slower/shittier products each time.
Oh well, the majority of people are dumb and they are going to end up helping US have to pay for their stupidity too.
Nah, just kidding. I know that not all M$ partners are scum... but all of the ones I've worked for were. Blood thirsty leeches taking advantage of foolish people who didn't have anyone to tell them they could get better service, support.
That and since the last one I worked for wanted to claim ALL of my work and code for the past 10 years for his company, I have drawn quite a boundary. Not only am I now MICROSOFT_FREE but I also have removed it from the lives of those I care about (friends, family, etc).
And I do believe, my last company was a Gold partner, and the one before was an MSDN partner. I hated them both, but I had to pay the bills. I've changed vocations 5 months ago, so I have NO complaints any longer.
(The first one even was upset that I didn't uninstall linux and bsd off all my machines and install Server 2003 on all of my machines. AS IF I'd destroy a PERFECTLY FINE network to install that buggy, sluggish piece of shit they call New Technology!)
Most of us are logging on from work. And following links, whether we actually log in and post or not, that still counts as bieng a "windows user" as opposed to being at home and logging in from my *nix/*nux boxen. Big diff.
Most IT joints use windows because having "Microsoft Partner" on your shirt and car means you must know something about ripping others off of their hard earned money. It also means you are a FUD Spreading Professional. Linux has no claims against such marketing might. Linux can't even achieve such a small thing as "total virus compatibility" while Windows Vista has achieved "preemptive virus compatibility" with production ready viruses being released before its even out of beta.
Please don't become an apologist for Islamic terrorism.
"Perhaps you'd recall how NICE it would be if someone sold YOUR home to a bunch of foreigners, shot you, and moved them in."
This is exactly how most of the muslim countries were founded from 700 AD to 1700 AD.
I'm not apologizing, I'm simply saying that we're angering a hornet's nest. And just like those Muslim countries, they were kicked out of spain, portugal, etc. The moors were faced with what we face today. The native peoples of a region get upset when someone moves in on them. There are only two effective solutions. One is to leave them alone. The second is to genocide them all and replace them with our own. Russia did this with much of Moldova. It is now known as Moldavia, despite having been a part of Romania. I recall they did the same with Grozny but I have never visited the old USSR. Interesting tactic, used by quite a few imperialists in the past.
However the USA has its own problems. We're throwing our jobs overseas, but we've got homeless people here, we've got a relatively high poverty index if the census were taken correctly. Down where I live, unemployment is viewed as "people collecting unemployment pay" or reporting to the employment commission. I, myself have never reported or collected, though I've been unemployed for several periods. I usually have enough savings to make up for it... But I pity people with high college loans to pay who went to college wanting to "integrate" into society, only to find themselves working at salaries shittier than burger king, but with more abuses (IT in the states is among the highest abusive career lines).
I sympathize with you, but I think that if people are always waiting for someone else to make the first move, then perhaps this is the single reason for oppression. The only ones willing to make the first move are the oppressors. True of Iraq, true of USSR, true of China, true of the USA.
I won't voice much on India vs Pakistan because both of said nations seem to have a very ingrained hatred of each other and I haven't managed to visit there yet to form my own views of the natives.
Pretty soon India will get its ass handed to it as well in the commerce thing. Everyone does. Until we have a true communism with an impartial godlike being ruling over it with no interest in personal gain other than to enforce the limits on income.
Unlimited growth is something only corporate lackeys would believe in. Everything else in nature obeys its habitat and doesn't outgrow it, when that DOES happen, the habitat is generally abandoned or destroyed. Corporations function against every rule of nature. They rape every resources available and move on. This will soon have to change. There aren't enough countries left to blow up before the gig is up.
PS - the war in afghanistan and iraq were meant to completely destabilize the region, providing for extremely cheap labor when the region begins to stabilize. Oil was just a cherry on top.
And in all honesty, in high school, at least it was a challenge. Most places used novell or somesuch unix based OS. Nowadays all you'd have to do is crank a vbscript or spend a few days writing a decent worm.
If I were to crack again, I'd have to do it to a precise target. Widespread destruction is both stupid, pointless, expensive, and nobody notices that it only ever affects shoddy OS's. Microsoft being the prime suspect, target and liability to any network their crap is installed on.
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Micr$hit has only one advantage. Easy to install software for idiots (double click, no security checks whatsoever, and the ones in place are easilly ignored by illegitimate software/viruses/trojans/rootkit installers).
Compatibility isn't as much of an issue lately, since my linux installers actually do a BETTER hardware detection than WinXP SP2 did. Granted I like recompiling my kernel for kicks, but an autodetect initrd kernel still runs admirably. I prefer most of my drivers built into it, but modules are fine, and with a transparent interface for lsmod, insmod and modprobe one could argue that it could all look very plug and playable).
Now I live in the US. I have noticed a nasty trend for big business to consolidate, invalidating nearly 30 years of hard work to break up the baby bells and other huge monopolies that did nothing good for the customer. (the infrastructure was paid for by the gov't not the baby bells... they were just handed it by the US gov't to take care of and resell). This is also done by posting their "raising national spendable income" like microsoft did. Few people noticed that M$ also fired 1/3'd of their support staff. Hmm... profits indeed eh?
The way you talk, you must be from Israel. Perhaps you'd recall how NICE it would be if someone sold YOUR home to a bunch of foreigners, shot you, and moved them in. That's basically what was done to those people. That they want to kill you and take it back is no different than the american settlers genociding the natives, and the natives wanting retribution.
For the record, I'm neither racist nor an arab, and I would not have minded if we had been honest saying that we were going to annex iraq and afghanistan for their oil. The fact that we are lied to and the mainstream eats it up as the "true mission" is what makes me SICK.
These people sell our jobs to foreign countries (try getting a decent intro level job after college in any tech field, and be ready to get paid less than a burger flipper, while your school debt mounts higher and higher). That idiot Bush, cut school funding but then answers that the "answer to outsourcing is education"... how the fuck?!
I think he meant the people that question WHY the terrorists are such a big threat.
Am I the only person who notices that the ONLY times terrorists strike public sites outside of the warzones are when support for the war drops?
Could it be that the governments are doing this to scare the fools and sheep back in line when they start dissenting? It seems entirely too convenient that terrorists would kill the very people who disagree with the attacks on their homeland.
The communists did this too, as do most authoritarian governments (which the christian fascist / aka republican movement, is).
Read 1984 for a good insight by a guy who actually lived in those periods of fear of communism, etc. The only SAD thing about that book, is that "doublethink" is practiced by most people today to ignore that they need to be involved. "someone else will change things, I can keep swilling beer and getting fatter on my couch... if I get fat enough, I'll hopefully not die on my way to buy Stacker2 pills. Oh, and Long live corporate america, who sells our livelihood to foreign enemies to keep their costs down."
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I learned Basic at the age of 8 on an apple. I moved onto DOS around 10 because I had to (every pc shipped with it). I jumped onto linux and bsd at the age of 14 and at 17 and 18 moved completely into *nix. I haven't looked back. I left IT, but friends and family know that I'll outperform, outfix and undercharge every IT shop in town. I will not, however compromise my passion for *nix by working at any computer shop ever again.
Hope that helps... I wasn't 6 like your son, but I was 8, and it was the first time a personal computer was in my vicinity... from then I got hooked.
A gentoo Linux command prompt livecd (not the graphical new one) and a FreeBSD (or netbsd if you like)
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Teach him to work it at first. Teach him how to look up data online, how to use links at that command prompt. He will respect that machine and what it can do FAR more once he spends time building it
Get him reading Linux Kernel Internals and other things.
He'll come away with understanding but without becoming too embroiled in the corporate wars. (let him form his own decisions about it later, I may hate Microsoft, and always have, but at one time I did quite a bit of gaming on the sole windows machine I used to have, now I no longer need them and can use Wine and Cedega to do so if gaming becomes a necessity)
All in all you will get a technically aware child who will understand (hopefully) that something is far more precious if you build it yourself and put your own blood sweat and code than if you just throw away 299.99 bucks on it and expect to learn nothing and have it still work.
was to RELEASE the internet to the public and let them sort it out. Otherwise it would've remained a way for four star generals to download college dorm porn :)
Honestly though, if they had held onto it, it would've remained nothing, give them credit for handing it off to people who come up with new things, instead of the military, who come up with ways to kill innocent (and occasionally the guilty) people in this world.
We'll probably have to bend over and take it in the ass from Uncka' Boosh and Uncka MusicIndustry... but that's what we get for not being up in arms about this crap.
I'm sure several years down the road, we'll hear how "Emperor Bush has dissolved the Imperial Congress".
Man I wish more people had the guts and brains to walk away from being consumerists and learning to think before buying shit... the CON in consumer tells one something right? CON means against... we're acting against our own interest by acting on impulses and buying crap, only to take it home and play it and find out that the tracks from the radio were the ONLY halfway decent ones, and the others aren't worth the laserlight used to read them from the CD.
Because you and your puppetteers should learn that since you make CHEAP ASS cds, that scratch easilly, I will always rip them and reburn them. My entire favorite songs list fits on 3 cdrs... why should I carry around several cds I only like 2 or 3 tracks from, instead of just burning what I like??
Also, when did you fucktards get off on deciding that the copy for my own use is somehow taxable as illegal ??? eh? How about I drive down and beat every one of you into the mud, and sue you because I hurt my knuckle bashing your face in? Sound familiar? This is what you retards are doing to us and our rights out here in consumerville.
I haven't bought a CD in years and I don't plan to, you all release SHIT, and as SHIT I will treat it. I've bought only indies stuff, and when you illegalize or overtax CDS I will find a way... as will others. And eventually we'll probably get the pitchforks and torches and kill you all.
Honestly folks, its time for a revolution. So many of our rights are leaving out the backdoor and walking off a short pier, that we need to do something about it. Lets walk to the RIAA and MPAA HQ's and kick in the door and drag them out... and tax them for any inconvenience and injury we incur in doing so. Unlike the corporations with more "legal" rights than us, we ARE CITIZENS and we have those things called "INALIENABLE RIGHTS"... we still have them right??
And don't give up even when the going gets rough. The best part is finishing up a harder workout a month or two down the road and realizing that not only have you lost the weight, but you're stronger, faster, and you feel more alive and less prone to crashing on the couch devoid of energy. (Better in bed from what I've been told too, but don't let that be the ONLY motivation for being in shape ;)
/. and /.TFA's for kicks).
I don't have kids, and I doubt I can handle having them right now... mostly because I'm free spirited and could not handle the shackles marriage and kids would place on me.
As for your other question, my first motivation was looking back to my childhood which was half geek half jock (computer geek, but did karate, judo, soccer, swimming and played chess competitively) and realizing that I was in great shape as a child. I looked at myself and, after the shock wore off, I grabbed my brother, who is a runner and is in spectacular shape, and we took off jogging. What we were never taught in 7 years of consecutive gym class, as I'm sure everyone should recall the "mile run" and "fitness tests" which only worked for those who already knew how to run/jog/workout in middle and high school, I learned in one week from him. It is still not easy, and it is a battle of wills, but in one month I moved up from barely doing half a mile and falling over, to jogging 2 miles straight and having room to sprint the last quarter mile (some of my athletic abilities remained buried underneath the fat, but I felt at times as if I were going to drop and just give up... main thing: I didn't.)
That being said, know that I was a hard core gamer (and I played pretty much everything except for EQ 2 and WoW, and I still am, but I mostly play single player things where I can save or savestate (emulators) and just unplug and go do what I have to. I also liked Counterstrike because one could fire it up on a short break, shoot up a few rounds of terrorism/counterterrorism mayhem, and shutdown and go back to other things (it works in linux too and makes for GREAT lan parties). The only difference now, is that I know when to unplug and go take care of issues that require attention.
Besides, being that I'm a linux geek, despite getting almost every game to run in Wine and Cedega, I don't game as much as I used to, I find myself reading, studying, (and blowing off about 1 hour a day on
I think the main thing is feeling free, and feeling good, and knowing that I'm accomplishing something for myself at a very low cost (that being only time and effort). Plus, nobody can make a healthy diet and an exercise regimen illegal or declare it "unhealthy based on studies that show $X".
PS - my toughest challenge was cutting down on portion size at fast food places. I still hit Taco Bell occasionally (geek thing I guess) but I only get one thing off the menu... no sodas and no side dishes... and I leave full and feeling good. This, again, not only benefitted my wellness, but it has allowed my wallet to retain a sizeable chunk of change (3.99 meal suddenly becomes 1.99, and on days I eat at home or pack lunch at work, its even cheaper). I do keep a spreadsheet with what I eat, calorie count, fat calories, etc. I pretty much engineer my daily allowances to allow me to eat what I want and still not go over my allotment.
Oops, forgot, that's the kernel menuconfig :)
Disregard my previous post's header... he's a kernel kompiler, not a gentoo user (though the two are almost mutually inclusive).
Everyone who needs this bit of code say Y.
It is probably safe to say N.
If you wish to build this comment as a module, please say M.
About 6 years ago, when I was in better shape, I put in some time on a truck unloading team. I was right out of high school.
:)
I was in good shape, but my back was starting to feel strain. Most of it was because working "safe" vs working "fast" are two different things and they wanted us working fast. I started arriving half hour early, and doing stretches and a few dozen situps. Also, I paid attention to how I was lifting things, and though a bit slower at times, I didn't suffer any injuries and my back pain went away without pills. I was sore though, I haven't found a way around that, so anyone with advice, please add
Yes "most people" want to feel good, and think that the long term effects of quick fixes (such as taking Stacker2 or whatever to lose weight, versus actual exercise and balanced diet) will be the same as the short term that they can actually see.
:)
I've been fat, so I can say all this with a greater measure of certainty than skinny geeks who have never been there.
Wait until you have man boobs (and I mean when your A cup girlfriend or female friends look at you and say "holy shit, yours are bigger than mine"), and look in the mirror, and look at pictures from high school, and if you don't worry, then reap what you sow
He looks like bruce lee, but while growing up HE was the fatass.
:) Just that we figured out it takes moderation and a bit of thinking.
I agree that overworking is bad too, but exactly the point, most people DONT work out at all, don't jog, swim, etc. Then they eat fast food like it was handed to them by whatever god they worship as their only salvation.
Then, a year and 30 lbs later, they wonder "what happened?"
I know, I did that. I'm 10 lbs down this year alone and 20 to go. (I started at just around 215/220 last year when I left IT.)
Aiming for 160 lbs as a settling weight (for my 5'9" height) should be okay. The problem is that I was in good shape, and then I went into IT, worked my ass off, ate tons of junk food due to "no time" (I was lazy and stopped cooking my own meals at night, and you'd be amazed how quickly mc'donalds and burger king add up).
Then I quit IT and got into a different line of work (involves some labor, some driving and less stress, and somewhat more time off). Now I find the time to do everything, from gaming to dating and all that (okay very little dating, but I do get lucky occasionally).
The point is, staying fit isn't "a talent" or "genetics".
If one listens to those lazy bitches quoting "I'm genetically predisposed to...[name your malaise]" then, I'm prone to being fat, as is my brother, but with a healthy diet, and a bit of work, anyone can be in good shape. (And that helps one consume far less coffee trying to stay awake.) I'm not advertising any products, or taking any. And I do eat meat
As a side note: I can focus extremely well and suffer very little trouble in public speaking, despite having been "diagnosed" with ADHD and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and social anxiety. Oh, and I don't take any drugs for it. But I do take responsability for my actions... which leads into:
I think the main issue we should discuss is that people are inherently lazy, ignorant (and often stupid) cowards in our country and wanting someone else to do everything for them. I was using myself as an example because I'm that "radical" libertarian type who thinks that if you are too lazy to do it yourself, you should probably go plug into some machine to breathe and eat for you and die of heart failure and stop leeching off the rest of us when you go on life support. I don't say "lets kill them" I simply say "lets give them what they want, put them on a farm where they'll never see the sun again except in VR, and let them get as fat as they want, until the veins in their brain burst and they die, of their own doing."
Back when I actually gamed online, I recall that there was a character class... called THIEF!! They STOLE things... gold, items, equipment, you name it, if it wasn't bolted down, they stole it. From NPC's (non player bots) and PCS (player characters) alike.
Nowadays we have panzies who cry a river because their sword was stolen. I'm a hard core gamer (or was) but I've discovered that there is so much more I'd rather do than just play all day. This is the problem with most gamers. They do not know when to draw the line.
I personally prefer to build my body healthy than to let an interface make me think I'm healthy, because in the long run, being a fatass will kill you VERY unpleasantly. Most fat guys and girls aren't in the best of health. (Try bending over at 5'10" and 300+ lbs to pick up whatever you've spilled and you'll see what I mean.)
Most people are inherently lazy, so perhaps forcing them into a virtual world is a benefit. It will leave the REAL world open for those of us who like being outside in nature. (And yes I'd probably have a laptop with me, but I unplug a lot more than I used to nowadays.)
I love gaming, but I also like being able to know that I'm not just living for the benefit of having an alter ego, which once deleted, would leave me as a poor slob without any alternatives but to start over without a hope. (Hard core MMORPG beta testers will tell you how aggravating it is to build a character and have a server-wide character wipe at the next set of upgrades that invalidate half the items and skills youv'e "earned").
Oh, and when "thieves" loot items. Best choice is to kill them or get them killed. The reason "real life" is boring is because those with connections can usurp the law and use it to crush those without resources. In games, you can still appeal to the godlike Game Masters to change things for you if you're cheated. Removing thieves from a Dungeons and Dragons like world is like pulling someone's gums out, because you already got all their teeth in your pocket.
All of the IT companies I worked for (mind you not departments, since departments generally want to show that they are doing better than companies and departments at other companies) but all of the IT companies I've worked at were HAPPY to force users and clients into using IE to keep the spyware/virus/trojan cleaning business flowing in. Unethical? Doubtless. Profitable? Even moreso.
They were all Microsoft partners too, I am uncertain if that factor had any influence on their lack of ethics (I mean, look at how reliable and trustworthy M$ is... right?) but one of them was so flakey that I had to fight with them for 3 months to get my last (legitimate) paycheck after I had already jumped through all the NDA signing hoops to leave the place and ensure my last check would be timely... (it was anything but).
You my friend are a rare gem, I salute you!
They all demand IE because "they support it" (i.e. they bill you a shitload to "fix" spyware, and if you use firefox AND finally get something, they won't touch it, heh, their financial loss either way, use firefox and help send their jobs to the trashcan, not india :) besides, maybe if everyone dumped microshit, we'd finally have IT jobs where we come up with NEW things instead of fixing the M$ trojan horse known as Windows).
easy work, I have an ftp server.
Future versions seem to be completely Trusted Computing aware and will thus be hardware disabled for anything save microshit.
This leaves us at a little crossroads. Stay the hell away from M$ or get screwed much as we do with windows where the assholes break compatibility every year or three to squeeze MORE money for slower/shittier products each time.
Oh well, the majority of people are dumb and they are going to end up helping US have to pay for their stupidity too.
(nt)
AAHAHAHAHAHHA.
About time.
I've been suspecting this, without evidence of course, since the case started.
Give it up to the shrewd chess players... which SCO are not.
Nah, just kidding. I know that not all M$ partners are scum... but all of the ones I've worked for were. Blood thirsty leeches taking advantage of foolish people who didn't have anyone to tell them they could get better service, support.
That and since the last one I worked for wanted to claim ALL of my work and code for the past 10 years for his company, I have drawn quite a boundary. Not only am I now MICROSOFT_FREE but I also have removed it from the lives of those I care about (friends, family, etc).
And I do believe, my last company was a Gold partner, and the one before was an MSDN partner. I hated them both, but I had to pay the bills. I've changed vocations 5 months ago, so I have NO complaints any longer.
(The first one even was upset that I didn't uninstall linux and bsd off all my machines and install Server 2003 on all of my machines. AS IF I'd destroy a PERFECTLY FINE network to install that buggy, sluggish piece of shit they call New Technology!)
Most of us are logging on from work. And following links, whether we actually log in and post or not, that still counts as bieng a "windows user" as opposed to being at home and logging in from my *nix/*nux boxen. Big diff.
Most IT joints use windows because having "Microsoft Partner" on your shirt and car means you must know something about ripping others off of their hard earned money. It also means you are a FUD Spreading Professional. Linux has no claims against such marketing might. Linux can't even achieve such a small thing as "total virus compatibility" while Windows Vista has achieved "preemptive virus compatibility" with production ready viruses being released before its even out of beta.
Please don't become an apologist for Islamic terrorism.
"Perhaps you'd recall how NICE it would be if someone sold YOUR home to a bunch of foreigners, shot you, and moved them in."
This is exactly how most of the muslim countries were founded from 700 AD to 1700 AD.
I'm not apologizing, I'm simply saying that we're angering a hornet's nest. And just like those Muslim countries, they were kicked out of spain, portugal, etc. The moors were faced with what we face today. The native peoples of a region get upset when someone moves in on them. There are only two effective solutions. One is to leave them alone. The second is to genocide them all and replace them with our own. Russia did this with much of Moldova. It is now known as Moldavia, despite having been a part of Romania. I recall they did the same with Grozny but I have never visited the old USSR. Interesting tactic, used by quite a few imperialists in the past.
However the USA has its own problems. We're throwing our jobs overseas, but we've got homeless people here, we've got a relatively high poverty index if the census were taken correctly. Down where I live, unemployment is viewed as "people collecting unemployment pay" or reporting to the employment commission. I, myself have never reported or collected, though I've been unemployed for several periods. I usually have enough savings to make up for it... But I pity people with high college loans to pay who went to college wanting to "integrate" into society, only to find themselves working at salaries shittier than burger king, but with more abuses (IT in the states is among the highest abusive career lines).
I sympathize with you, but I think that if people are always waiting for someone else to make the first move, then perhaps this is the single reason for oppression. The only ones willing to make the first move are the oppressors. True of Iraq, true of USSR, true of China, true of the USA.
I won't voice much on India vs Pakistan because both of said nations seem to have a very ingrained hatred of each other and I haven't managed to visit there yet to form my own views of the natives.
Pretty soon India will get its ass handed to it as well in the commerce thing. Everyone does. Until we have a true communism with an impartial godlike being ruling over it with no interest in personal gain other than to enforce the limits on income.
Unlimited growth is something only corporate lackeys would believe in. Everything else in nature obeys its habitat and doesn't outgrow it, when that DOES happen, the habitat is generally abandoned or destroyed. Corporations function against every rule of nature. They rape every resources available and move on. This will soon have to change. There aren't enough countries left to blow up before the gig is up.
PS - the war in afghanistan and iraq were meant to completely destabilize the region, providing for extremely cheap labor when the region begins to stabilize. Oil was just a cherry on top.
And in all honesty, in high school, at least it was a challenge. Most places used novell or somesuch unix based OS. Nowadays all you'd have to do is crank a vbscript or spend a few days writing a decent worm.
If I were to crack again, I'd have to do it to a precise target. Widespread destruction is both stupid, pointless, expensive, and nobody notices that it only ever affects shoddy OS's. Microsoft being the prime suspect, target and liability to any network their crap is installed on.
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Micr$hit has only one advantage. Easy to install software for idiots (double click, no security checks whatsoever, and the ones in place are easilly ignored by illegitimate software/viruses/trojans/rootkit installers).
Compatibility isn't as much of an issue lately, since my linux installers actually do a BETTER hardware detection than WinXP SP2 did. Granted I like recompiling my kernel for kicks, but an autodetect initrd kernel still runs admirably. I prefer most of my drivers built into it, but modules are fine, and with a transparent interface for lsmod, insmod and modprobe one could argue that it could all look very plug and playable).
I lived in both.
Now I live in the US. I have noticed a nasty trend for big business to consolidate, invalidating nearly 30 years of hard work to break up the baby bells and other huge monopolies that did nothing good for the customer. (the infrastructure was paid for by the gov't not the baby bells... they were just handed it by the US gov't to take care of and resell). This is also done by posting their "raising national spendable income" like microsoft did. Few people noticed that M$ also fired 1/3'd of their support staff. Hmm... profits indeed eh?
The way you talk, you must be from Israel. Perhaps you'd recall how NICE it would be if someone sold YOUR home to a bunch of foreigners, shot you, and moved them in. That's basically what was done to those people. That they want to kill you and take it back is no different than the american settlers genociding the natives, and the natives wanting retribution.
For the record, I'm neither racist nor an arab, and I would not have minded if we had been honest saying that we were going to annex iraq and afghanistan for their oil. The fact that we are lied to and the mainstream eats it up as the "true mission" is what makes me SICK.
These people sell our jobs to foreign countries (try getting a decent intro level job after college in any tech field, and be ready to get paid less than a burger flipper, while your school debt mounts higher and higher). That idiot Bush, cut school funding but then answers that the "answer to outsourcing is education"... how the fuck?!
"free thinkers"
I think he meant the people that question WHY the terrorists are such a big threat.
Am I the only person who notices that the ONLY times terrorists strike public sites outside of the warzones are when support for the war drops?
Could it be that the governments are doing this to scare the fools and sheep back in line when they start dissenting? It seems entirely too convenient that terrorists would kill the very people who disagree with the attacks on their homeland.
The communists did this too, as do most authoritarian governments (which the christian fascist / aka republican movement, is).
Read 1984 for a good insight by a guy who actually lived in those periods of fear of communism, etc. The only SAD thing about that book, is that "doublethink" is practiced by most people today to ignore that they need to be involved. "someone else will change things, I can keep swilling beer and getting fatter on my couch... if I get fat enough, I'll hopefully not die on my way to buy Stacker2 pills. Oh, and Long live corporate america, who sells our livelihood to foreign enemies to keep their costs down."
Does this mean George Bush and the Republican Party learned how to turn on their PCs??
:)
Has someone turned off Net Nanny and let Dubyah online??
DAMMIT people?!
Not enough that the Republicans terrorize both the free and nonfree world, but now Dubyah's gonna terrorize his ISP too.