Not even wrong. I know several Type 2 diabetics which are not fat. Like most of my mothers family, including my mother. I also know several other people who are diabetic and are not fat and in fact underweight. Terminal diabetes can have weight loss as a symptom. While being fat seems to be a cause for the onset of diabetes, it may as well be that the excess weight is just another effect of an yet unknown cause.
I personally think tomato and nectarines are great, but I stay away from whole grains.
As for work food: if you are not constipated, you can try eating bananas instead of bread, cakes or sandwiches.
To me bananas are the ultimate fast food. It is a heavy fruit that makes you feel full, about a third or less the calories of
bread or cakes and ludicrously cheap. Plus they are rich in potassium and magnesium, not to mention convenient.
Almonds, walnuts, peanuts or canned olives are also nice snacks, in moderation (just make sure they are not
salted). These have a lot of vegetable oil in them so they give you high energy for hours. Precede that with
an apple or some other light fruit you can eat with skin or is easy to skin with just your hands (e.g. orange) and you are all set.
I think beef jerky or smoked salmon would be nice snacks as well, if they were cheaper. These last a long
time, since they are smoked, some are even salt free. I eat these without bread like a native would have done.
Can be very healthy done properly since they are basically dry protein with little animal fat.
When I can I bring food from home to work. Usually something easy to eat with a fork, like canned tuna
or shredded meat and some salad. I guess a vegetarian could replace the animal foodstuff with beans and
soya (which also have protein and fat).
Dude, Clinton just said he did not have sex with that woman. In his mind oral sex wasn't sex, so in I suppose his mind he didn't lie either.
Clinton's net result? One dirty dress that had to go to the cleaners.
Bush's net result? Guys get sent to Gitmo without trial. Iraq gets invaded. More people die in Iraq since the USA went there than all the time Saddam was there. Now it seems the USA will run between its legs, like in Nam, and lets the whole place fall to pieces. Al-Qaeda is not the NVA, that's for sure. The place will probably turn into another Lebanon.
Its a no brainer. I do not care if his Bush's infringment is intentional or not. To me he commited a crime, a severe crime which cost people's lives. Homicide in the 1st degree or 2nd, still a crime. He should have been removed from power and be thankfull of not going to jail for it.
Bollocks. IMO Africa is a mish-mash because it is indeed racially and culturaly diverse. You see ethnic and linguistic diversity in Africa you do not see in Europe. Why? IMO Europe has suffered through more wars, invasions and bloodshed than Africa and this reduced diversity to a point de-facto viable nationalism showed up, leading people to live in macro-blocks and making wars so expensive and destructive, they essentially ceased to be. Africa has no such luxury. It also suffers from endemic health problems which cause immense pain and strife. I believe the only way to fix that would be to cut down the rainforests, drain the swamps and dam & filter the drinking water plagued with Malaria, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Hepatitis A as was done in Europe and the USA. But I suspect that would not fit with your world view.
It seems OSS is commoditizing development tools. Hence freeing resources previously used to purchase that. This simply means more people will be free to work in the segments which depend on that. Much like the Industry sector jobs replaced Agricultural menial jobs when improved farming methods meant less people were required to make enough food to sustain the population. Then Service jobs replaced Industry as it became increasingly automated. Then Computing Service jobs replaced some menial Service jobs (when was the last time you had to use a telefone operator, go to a bank cashier to withdraw money for shopping, or require the services of a human calculator?).
I believe the net effect is positive. By decreasing the cost of existing products the whole society takes a quantum leap forward in terms of prosperity and material wealth. Repetitive and harsh, dangerous jobs also tend to vanish.
As for the people spending time with online addiction or porn addiction: there has always been addiction and addicted people. They sold opium in Ancient Greece, and prostitution is just about the oldest business known. Heck even monkeys do it.
As for the people milking other people by selling over and over the same bugged 10 year old RDBMS with some extra spit and polish... Though shit. How about doing something else other than paying house maids, building contractors and foreign luxury car and boat manufacturers?
Plastic is not only cheaper. It is indeed better at many applications which formerly used wood, metal, ceramics, glass or even leather:
It does not easily shatter like ceramics or glass.
It is more flexible than wood and some metals.
It does not chip or have wood grain which weakens the material.
It does not rust like some metals.
It is light weight.
Plastic is used on all sorts of applications, including bullet proof transparent shields where cost is the least concern.
In fact, some plastics are more expensive than glass.
The major fault I find in most plastics is the tendency to harden in time due to solar exposure and moisture. Something from which leather also suffers, but seemingly less so. Leather also seems softer and nicer on touch to me, but I guess that is a subjective feeling.
I have thrown all my Casio plastic watches away because they were out of style, but never had one fail on me for some 10 years each. The plastic wristbands actually lasted longer than the leatherbands I tried. I have tried using metallic bands, which either rip out my arm hairs (what can I say, I am a hairy guy) or the chains disintegrate into pieces.
I suspect the best wristband for me would be something made of artificial fibres. Metal looks nice and is ok for the main piece even if its heavier.
I still own a leather wallet though. I find those to last longer than the plastic equivalents. So called surfer wallets IMO suck. Never had one last more than 6 months. My leather wallet has lasted for over 4 years now.
Which is interesting, considering I used a TBC a couple of days ago, to cleanup the video signal from an old VHS camcorder recording I made, in order to convert it to digital. TBCs are used commonly across the analog video industry to correct video signals, even before digital was in use. Some high-end camcorders and VCRs even had them built-in. To me, it makes no sense to outlaw this device, since its non-infringing uses far outstrip the infringing uses.
To copy CSS encrypted DVDs you can use a CSS cracking program rather than a TBC. There are programs free as beer which do it and any PC comes with a DVD recorder these days. In fact, I know noone which copies CSS encypted DVDs using TBCs.
Only things missing for CPython to be perfect would be: brackets {} and instead of WhiteSpaceMatters, oh making it faster would also be nice (JIT would be ok).
The industry is a monopoly, based on so called copyright. If it is not a monopoly, please tell me which other legal supplier is there for e.g. Metallica than that RIAA cartel member. The whole way modern copyright was founded, i.e. the Berne convention, was to me little more than some sort of state social security scheme for presently unproductive old farts like Victor Hugo or, more recently, Sonny Bono. Unfortunately copyright is increasingly not even good for that. It is mostly used by rent-seeking corporations like Disney for profit, on creations made on work for hire by someone who is long dead.
You are not even wrong. Copyright could be abolished today without rewriting the constitution of the USA.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the USA merely states Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Since when is music a useful art or science? The fact is, when the constitution was written, music was not even intended to be covered by that article. It was meant for inventions, scientific and technical works. Also, the Constitution says Congress shall have the power to grant copyright, not that it is mandatory for copyright to exist.
Producing music and movies has indeed several costs. Which could be covered in ways other than the present scheme. There should not be a monopoly on distribution: for example, everyone could be allowed to produce copies as long as the author was compensated by a given fixed per copy fee. This is, from what I understand, similar to how licensing of music lyrics works. Or copyright could be simply abolished altogether. Musicians could for example, rely on touring for generating profit. But I guess having to actually work to earn money, instead of collecting rent would be too much for some people...
Perhaps if id Software made good games, rather than bloated slow single-player games (Doom 3 anyone?) which require a monster machine to play, the would sell more.
So the competition makes good multiplayer games which require a lower spec machine, and then they get surprised they sell less? Pirating is not a new phenomenon. If it is a big deal now, it is because their games suck.
If the CD was not manufactured by a monopoly and could be freely copied by free enterprise, the price would drop near the price of manufacturing, which is almost zero.
Ion trusters have been developed by the USA and USSR since the 1950s-1960s IIRC.
See Stuhlinger's proposals for getting to Mars for e.g.
Ion propulsion is too low thrust to solve the major problem IMO. The major problem IMO is getting off the Earth's surface into LEO for cheap. To do this, I believe the only reasonable alternatives, using presently known physics, are beamed propulsion, nuclear and space elevators/tethers.
Space elevators/tethers have basic material constraints which I doubt will be solved any time soon. Nuclear propulsion is possible but politically impractical. So that leaves beamed propulsion using, for example, lasers or microwaves.
You can't make gas from a nuclear reactor, wind turbine, solar panel, or big pile of bird poo.
Actually, you can. Sorta. Using the Fischer-Tropsch process from coal or natural gas + water you can manufacture diesel and gasoline. Natural gas (CH4) can be extracted from bird poo.:-)
You can also manufacture CH4 via the Sabatier Process from H2 (can be extracted via electrolysis which requires electricity and water) and CO2 (can be scooped from the atmosphere).
Copyrights and patents can be abolished by the state at will. The USA abolished certain aerospace patents in WWII and forced cross licensing of others at reasonable terms in order to muster enough production. Certain 3rd world countries right now are ignoring big pharma patents. If there would be no reasonable alternative, do not for a second doubt a state would be willing to ignore some monopoly's copyrights. As for Microsoft avoiding the fine, good luck. The EU could simply retain all Microsoft income in the EU until the fines are paid.
IBM wins most of their money from services. They provide the customer with a complete package. Software and hardware are simply means of providing the customer with what they want.
I suspect replicating the functionality of the software would not be the major problem. The major problem would be getting access to recent satellite photos of that detail level. The are usually either copyrighted by companies which sell them for a bundle, or state secrets coming from the NRO.
Closest open source program is probably... NASA's World Wind.
Some reactor types (e.g. the Canadian CANDU) do not need enriched fuel. LWR reactors do however.
Uranium enrichment basically requires lots of electricity. Electricity which can be produced by nuclear fission as well. As the French did at Tricastin.
What the article neglects is that fuel cost is an almost insignificant problem for nuclear power generation. Most of the cost is in building the actual power plant and the concrete containment building. It takes years before a reactor is finished and generating power. This also means the cost of nuclear power is very sensitive to construction delays, or loan rates. When you see environmentalists mention CO2 generation from nuclear reactors, they usually are accounting for the CO2 emmitted by the concrete (any concrete will emit CO2... perhaps by that measure we should chop down all the forests and go back to using plain wood for building construction).
Some new 3rd generation designs are supposedly faster and hence cheap to build because they use less parts. On one note, the Koreans actually manage to build their nuclear reactors much faster than the USA using the same technology and I have not heard of accidents yet, so perhaps the delays are due to socio-political problems. Dunno.
Which Yahoo Group? I have had seborrhaic dermatitis and pimples since I was a teenager and have lost track of how many dermatologists I have been to.
The pimples mostly vanished by reducing my salt intake, no thanks to the dermatologists, so I am willing to try changing my diet yet again if it would decrease the dermatitis.
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Not even wrong. I know several Type 2 diabetics which are not fat. Like most of my mothers family, including my mother. I also know several other people who are diabetic and are not fat and in fact underweight. Terminal diabetes can have weight loss as a symptom. While being fat seems to be a cause for the onset of diabetes, it may as well be that the excess weight is just another effect of an yet unknown cause.
I personally think tomato and nectarines are great, but I stay away from whole grains.
As for work food: if you are not constipated, you can try eating bananas instead of bread, cakes or sandwiches. To me bananas are the ultimate fast food. It is a heavy fruit that makes you feel full, about a third or less the calories of bread or cakes and ludicrously cheap. Plus they are rich in potassium and magnesium, not to mention convenient.
Almonds, walnuts, peanuts or canned olives are also nice snacks, in moderation (just make sure they are not salted). These have a lot of vegetable oil in them so they give you high energy for hours. Precede that with an apple or some other light fruit you can eat with skin or is easy to skin with just your hands (e.g. orange) and you are all set.
I think beef jerky or smoked salmon would be nice snacks as well, if they were cheaper. These last a long time, since they are smoked, some are even salt free. I eat these without bread like a native would have done. Can be very healthy done properly since they are basically dry protein with little animal fat.
When I can I bring food from home to work. Usually something easy to eat with a fork, like canned tuna or shredded meat and some salad. I guess a vegetarian could replace the animal foodstuff with beans and soya (which also have protein and fat).
Clinton's net result? One dirty dress that had to go to the cleaners.
Bush's net result? Guys get sent to Gitmo without trial. Iraq gets invaded. More people die in Iraq since the USA went there than all the time Saddam was there. Now it seems the USA will run between its legs, like in Nam, and lets the whole place fall to pieces. Al-Qaeda is not the NVA, that's for sure. The place will probably turn into another Lebanon.
Its a no brainer. I do not care if his Bush's infringment is intentional or not. To me he commited a crime, a severe crime which cost people's lives. Homicide in the 1st degree or 2nd, still a crime. He should have been removed from power and be thankfull of not going to jail for it.
Bollocks. IMO Africa is a mish-mash because it is indeed racially and culturaly diverse. You see ethnic and linguistic diversity in Africa you do not see in Europe. Why? IMO Europe has suffered through more wars, invasions and bloodshed than Africa and this reduced diversity to a point de-facto viable nationalism showed up, leading people to live in macro-blocks and making wars so expensive and destructive, they essentially ceased to be. Africa has no such luxury. It also suffers from endemic health problems which cause immense pain and strife. I believe the only way to fix that would be to cut down the rainforests, drain the swamps and dam & filter the drinking water plagued with Malaria, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Hepatitis A as was done in Europe and the USA. But I suspect that would not fit with your world view.
I believe the net effect is positive. By decreasing the cost of existing products the whole society takes a quantum leap forward in terms of prosperity and material wealth. Repetitive and harsh, dangerous jobs also tend to vanish.
As for the people spending time with online addiction or porn addiction: there has always been addiction and addicted people. They sold opium in Ancient Greece, and prostitution is just about the oldest business known. Heck even monkeys do it.
As for the people milking other people by selling over and over the same bugged 10 year old RDBMS with some extra spit and polish... Though shit. How about doing something else other than paying house maids, building contractors and foreign luxury car and boat manufacturers?
AFAIK beer has been produced for quite some time before that.
Try googling for "beam fusion" "inertial confinement fusion" and stuff like that.
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It does not easily shatter like ceramics or glass.
It is more flexible than wood and some metals.
It does not chip or have wood grain which weakens the material.
It does not rust like some metals.
It is light weight.
Plastic is used on all sorts of applications, including bullet proof transparent shields where cost is the least concern.
In fact, some plastics are more expensive than glass.
The major fault I find in most plastics is the tendency to harden in time due to solar exposure and moisture. Something from which leather also suffers, but seemingly less so. Leather also seems softer and nicer on touch to me, but I guess that is a subjective feeling.
I have thrown all my Casio plastic watches away because they were out of style, but never had one fail on me for some 10 years each. The plastic wristbands actually lasted longer than the leatherbands I tried. I have tried using metallic bands, which either rip out my arm hairs (what can I say, I am a hairy guy) or the chains disintegrate into pieces.
I suspect the best wristband for me would be something made of artificial fibres. Metal looks nice and is ok for the main piece even if its heavier.
I still own a leather wallet though. I find those to last longer than the plastic equivalents. So called surfer wallets IMO suck. Never had one last more than 6 months. My leather wallet has lasted for over 4 years now.
Yeah. All that lost studio revenue... what will the cocaine, pot, luxury car, and booze makers do?
It seems to me the judge outlawed using a TBC.
Which is interesting, considering I used a TBC a couple of days ago, to cleanup the video signal from an old VHS camcorder recording I made, in order to convert it to digital. TBCs are used commonly across the analog video industry to correct video signals, even before digital was in use. Some high-end camcorders and VCRs even had them built-in. To me, it makes no sense to outlaw this device, since its non-infringing uses far outstrip the infringing uses.
To copy CSS encrypted DVDs you can use a CSS cracking program rather than a TBC. There are programs free as beer which do it and any PC comes with a DVD recorder these days. In fact, I know noone which copies CSS encypted DVDs using TBCs.
From what I heard, try Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising.
Only things missing for CPython to be perfect would be: brackets {} and instead of WhiteSpaceMatters, oh making it faster would also be nice (JIT would be ok).
You are not even wrong. Copyright could be abolished today without rewriting the constitution of the USA.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the USA merely states Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Since when is music a useful art or science? The fact is, when the constitution was written, music was not even intended to be covered by that article. It was meant for inventions, scientific and technical works. Also, the Constitution says Congress shall have the power to grant copyright, not that it is mandatory for copyright to exist.
Producing music and movies has indeed several costs. Which could be covered in ways other than the present scheme. There should not be a monopoly on distribution: for example, everyone could be allowed to produce copies as long as the author was compensated by a given fixed per copy fee. This is, from what I understand, similar to how licensing of music lyrics works. Or copyright could be simply abolished altogether. Musicians could for example, rely on touring for generating profit. But I guess having to actually work to earn money, instead of collecting rent would be too much for some people...
So the competition makes good multiplayer games which require a lower spec machine, and then they get surprised they sell less? Pirating is not a new phenomenon. If it is a big deal now, it is because their games suck.
If the CD was not manufactured by a monopoly and could be freely copied by free enterprise, the price would drop near the price of manufacturing, which is almost zero.
The problem is, often the fine print is in legalese, which no mortal person without a law degree can decipher.
Ion propulsion is too low thrust to solve the major problem IMO. The major problem IMO is getting off the Earth's surface into LEO for cheap. To do this, I believe the only reasonable alternatives, using presently known physics, are beamed propulsion, nuclear and space elevators/tethers.
Space elevators/tethers have basic material constraints which I doubt will be solved any time soon. Nuclear propulsion is possible but politically impractical. So that leaves beamed propulsion using, for example, lasers or microwaves.
You can't make gas from a nuclear reactor, wind turbine, solar panel, or big pile of bird poo.
Actually, you can. Sorta. Using the Fischer-Tropsch process from coal or natural gas + water you can manufacture diesel and gasoline. Natural gas (CH4) can be extracted from bird poo. :-)
You can also manufacture CH4 via the Sabatier Process from H2 (can be extracted via electrolysis which requires electricity and water) and CO2 (can be scooped from the atmosphere).
Then there is Thermal Depolymerization.
The problem with any of these is, doing them is extremely energy and resource intensive: i.e. expensive.
Copyrights and patents can be abolished by the state at will. The USA abolished certain aerospace patents in WWII and forced cross licensing of others at reasonable terms in order to muster enough production. Certain 3rd world countries right now are ignoring big pharma patents. If there would be no reasonable alternative, do not for a second doubt a state would be willing to ignore some monopoly's copyrights. As for Microsoft avoiding the fine, good luck. The EU could simply retain all Microsoft income in the EU until the fines are paid.
IBM wins most of their money from services. They provide the customer with a complete package. Software and hardware are simply means of providing the customer with what they want.
Fallacy. Electricity may be generated from hydro, nuclear or wind power, among others, not just coal.
Closest open source program is probably... NASA's World Wind.
Proctologist. It requires training and when you have a problem like that, you usually are not willing to travel all the way to India to get a fix.
What the article neglects is that fuel cost is an almost insignificant problem for nuclear power generation. Most of the cost is in building the actual power plant and the concrete containment building. It takes years before a reactor is finished and generating power. This also means the cost of nuclear power is very sensitive to construction delays, or loan rates. When you see environmentalists mention CO2 generation from nuclear reactors, they usually are accounting for the CO2 emmitted by the concrete (any concrete will emit CO2... perhaps by that measure we should chop down all the forests and go back to using plain wood for building construction).
Some new 3rd generation designs are supposedly faster and hence cheap to build because they use less parts. On one note, the Koreans actually manage to build their nuclear reactors much faster than the USA using the same technology and I have not heard of accidents yet, so perhaps the delays are due to socio-political problems. Dunno.
The pimples mostly vanished by reducing my salt intake, no thanks to the dermatologists, so I am willing to try changing my diet yet again if it would decrease the dermatitis.
I am happy you got better.