I love PTO, but people do abuse it. The upside to PTO is you're supposed to get more time. You have to give sick leave to cover reasonable worst-case sickness, like say a week and a half for the flu... 8 days? People who need more take vacation time, short term disability, then long term disability. So what happens here is we have 2 personal days, some 8 vacation days, and 6 sick days. Instead that could be 16 PTO days, which is better for those of us who don't get sick.
PTO and comp time are the bane of management, but are great for employees. PTO is great for management because it's easier to account for, but employees use it flexibly and so management has to adapt to someone calling in one morning just to say he really doesn't feel like coming in today and is taking a mental health day. Likewise comp time ends up with employees working 10 hour shifts and taking every Friday off, or working odd hours just because (even if there's not a real flex time schedule!), or staying 15 minutes extra every day to bank extra time off (that was always my favorite mode of abuse).
Then management starts asking people to voluntarily donate their excess leave to a sick employee, or one who wants a vacation...
Potatoes are effectively identical to refined sugar and white wheat grain. You actually have to refine them to make them healthy--you need to cook, then freeze, then reheat them to raise the resistant starch levels above 4% (you can get 23%-35% easy enough, 23% being the realistic number and 35% being reachable but not by intent). RS is essentially identical to non-soluble dietary fiber in its function. All other mass in the potato that's not in the skin is white, refined sugar; don't tell me it's different "because it's starch," because YOUR FUCKING SALIVA turns it into individual glucose molecules.
Funny, I don't think there were any soda trees around in prehistoric times. The modern diet of low-fiber, refined food with added sugar is nothing like the diets that we evolved on. Having fruit as part of a varied diet is not the same thing as chugging down multiple sodas a day.
Everything was low-fat, low-sugar, with no massive starch sources like pertaters?
Hoshi = 4,4 star point. Push from behind = you push to match, rather than to surpass; the following move can extend past you, so you're not in control. Power is applicable influence: if you approach a huge fucking wall, I can throw a stone behind yours and, even though that stone is easy to attack, because of the wall I can respond to attacks by trying to cut off your stone. This is bad, and so if you just earnestly attack my stone you'll put me in a good position; if you try to protect the stone I attacked, I can chase and make the stone I attacked with stronger, impossible to attack while you flounder for a good position. That's power: your approach has only allowed me to become stronger. With power like that I can wantonly stage ridiculous attacks, because there's a huge army backing me up.
And honestly, read K50 and K10-K15, and play on KGS for a while.
You can't eat a bunch of extra sugar, especially at the amounts Americans do, without consequences.
1) I can and have.
2) You can't lead a highly sedentary lifestyle without consequence. No diet will make you healthy. Contrastingly, you can be healthy with a fairly imperfect diet if you're active. Evolutionarily, we didn't have perfect diets harmonized in a medical clean room to evolve from; we ate whatever crap we could get, high amounts of fruit sugar, tons of meat, whatever, and we were healthy. Problem is we had to climb trees (Persimmon trees are 35ft tall! Apple trees aren't little shrubs! Berries are often close to the ground but a lot of food is up high) and chase after food that actively ran the fuck away.
The problem is that the people on both ends try to minimize how much money trickles in each direction
With trickle-up economics, this is a non-issue. The people making goods set the price, you either buy them or you don't, and if you have more money, you're willing to spend more.
This is the problem liberals (not really universally Democrats) have. They can't get their heads out of the Robin Hood concept and work out that people need jobs. Thus they figure, hey, the businesses and the fabulously wealthy individuals aren't of any consequence, take their money and give it to the poor so the poor can give it back to them!
The problem is when you raise taxes by, say, 20% on businesses, that's 20% less salary that can go out. Reduced salary means the market is now leaning on the crutch of wealth redistribution--welfare, reduced taxes on the working class, etc. If the market pushes salaries up, then unemployment simply goes up and you take the money you removed from businesses and funnel it into supporting labor power that is no longer being used for labor. Since that labor is now sitting idle when it could have been applied, you have destroyed wealth.
The other problem--specific to taxing the fabulously wealthy individuals--is that fabulously wealthy individuals are consumers with more money. They're at the bottom and their money trickles up; they just happen to have a lot of it and it trickles up to the private jet companies and caviar imports instead of to Value Food Market.
Republicans (not really a Conservative party anymore) have it half-right, but only. Rather than tax the living shit out of the businesses and the wealthy individual consumers, they're trying to stimulate business by lowering already disproportionate taxes. Can you imagine a 90% tax on a CEO making $30 million? He'd keep $3 million... but that's okay, since his last tax rate was 30% and he was keeping $20M... he'll just raise his salary to $200 million! Take home $20M, but the business just got hit with $170M on its expense sheet... well better start laying off workers!
The problem with Republicans is they keep spending like Obama. More importantly, they keep spending like Reagan. So while they've got the whole "don't tax the fuck out of the job creators" thing right, they spend the country into unmanageable debt. Now the liberals are doing it with entitlement, and people have finally noticed and started to demand budget cuts. It's the moderates in the Democrat party and the crazy Tea Party Republicans that are the ones getting anything done now.
Every time you raise taxes, the economy bleeds wealth. Not just money, but actual productivity from labor.
Even if true, your advice was patently dangerous: "Those toxic chemicals will go away if you bike to work every day."
Don't eat like crap and expect a daily bike ride to take care of all associated problems. Exercise, skip all the added sugar, and eat wholesome food. That's the best bet if you are concerned about living long and healthy.
The impact of a moderate but reasonable amount of physical activity is bigger than the impact of cutting 40 ounces per day of Dr. Pepper out of your diet. The impact of high-intensity exercise--jogging, bicycling, whatnot--for half an hour a day will completely eliminate the impacts of 40 ounces per day of Dr. Pepper. Food in general contains generally recognized as safe levels of anything it does contain, including preservatives that by nature are toxic to cellular activity--those toxins are diluted when consumed, after all.
If you cut all that crap out, great, you'll be healthier; you'll still be a sickly little lump of shit, falling apart before you're even 50, with just about no physical activity. If you keep all that crap but stay reasonably active, you'll be a LOT healthier--these are people who one day get sick, become bedridden, then die a couple weeks later. So many people these days become sick over decades, culminating in a couple years or more where they're barely functional because their bodies are falling apart--people who eat healthy, who consume real fruit and whole wheat and avoid all that added sugar and evil carbonated water. The only way to eliminate that is physical activity; the impact is large.
People focus too much on diet. Diet is lazy, it's people thinking if they don't do something--don't eat certain foods, eat other foods instead--that it'll cure their ails. That's work insomuch as quitting smoking is work--an addiction to sugary, greasy foods, but not much else to talk about. People think a gastric bypass makes them healthy; it just makes them thinner.
This is coming from someone who took up bicycling to work because it took 45 minutes and a car commute took 42 minutes. An hour and a half a day, quite a lot. My food intake increased. In the morning I started eating bacon, eggs, baked beans, mushrooms (shiitake and portabello), baked beans, toast, biscuits, bludwurst, a half a tomato, all fried in a mix of butter and lard. I ate donuts when I felt like it too. Came home and ate a whole cornish hen stuffed with an entire box of stovetop stuffing...well, no, that took me 2 days to eat, so I ate half of that. Oh, with some spinach sauteed in butter (surprisingly good, and I hate vegetables--green ones, at least; there's so much else out there... red japanese sweet potatoes for example).
I lost about 10 pounds, started building muscle and losing consolidated fat. My fat stores migrated into the muscle cells themselves for quicker access. I stopped losing so much body temperature in the cold (I'd wear 2 coats and read a core temperature below 94F in the winter, which is below hypothermic). Even with an increased intake of loads of crap, I became a lot healthier. It was easier to wake up in the morning, easier to sleep, easier to stay awake--I felt like I had energy all the time. More focus, easier to think, better reflexes, everything. The machine was actually working.
This is, surprisingly, normal. Sedentary lifestyle is a bane. Nasty toxic food isn't good for you, but living on the couch is just a slow death and no magic diet is going to make you healthy that way. It's like eating whole wheat: you're not eliminating the bad stuff so much as you're taking in less bad.
Money trickles down. The job creators--businesses--provide a structure of resource management, which determines the best way to flow everything from marketing to human labor. Google's management, for example, has determined that a degree of creativity as an unbound entity is required--and that 20% of their human labor capital is an appropriate figure for this, overall nearly identical to what 3M built their business on. That's management harnessing the creativity of its entire human labor force. Management also does specifics (project management, business process management) up to generics (market approaches, divisioning, finance strategy, etc). All of this provides an environment in which the money moves from the business both downwards (to employees) and outwards (to other businesses, where it moves downwards).
Money trickles up. A business, like an organism, must be kept fed. Organisms eat sugar for energy, which itself is ultimately a product of heat (sunlight) and is used to provide heat. Businesses run essentially to collect money, which is expended to produce products and services in all means (human and physical resources), allowing the business to collect more money so that it can continue to exist. Businesses need consumers, and the ultimate consumer is the individual; a business supported by other businesses eventually finds its money comes from individuals, even so far as government contractors get money from the government, supported by the taxpayer.
If money only trickled down, everyone poor would become rich and everyone fabulously wealthy would become poor. If money only trickled up, the fabulously wealthy would remain wealthy and nobody could make any money by getting an honest job.
They are all blind and aggressive. A simple response to the 3,3 invasion behind hoshi... just extend, and push back, then walk the third line. They continue to push from behind along the third line, depriving you of side territory... and thus you build too much influence, and they cannot hope to win.
This is the result. All they see is the great and important benefit of copyright protection--the large value of the corner and side territory. They push and push, taking more and more, allowing a wall to be built outside. But that wall unbalances the position much more than the small territory taken; too much power is given up, and now there is no way to approach, and the position may only grow. All attacks brought against the rest of the board have strong support; the media companies now have the freedom to abusively overplay, taking down anything that they can vaguely argue some form of claim to, and even things they can't at all, simply because of the power they have. Growth is stifled; with all that power there is attack, reduction, and that brings greater control of not just the center, but also of portions of the sides and other corners.
So much is lost by taking what both is valuable and can be taken without considering the costs.
It has to be metabolized first, and it's the by-products of metabolism that are the problem.
While fructose absorption and modification by the intestines and liver does differ from glucose initially, the majority of the fructose molecules are converted to glucose or metabolized into byproducts identical to those produced by glucose metabolism. Consumption of moderate amounts of fructose has also been linked to positive outcomes, including reducing appetite if consumed before a meal, lower blood sugar increases compared to glucose, and (again compared to glucose) delaying exhaustion if consumed during exercise.
Fructose from HFCS is supplied intentionally in Gatorade; from Dextrose in powdered Gatorade. It's done that way because Fructose is important for this particular use--consumption of Fructose improves performance during strenuous physical activity. The byproducts of Fructose metabolism are, unsurprisingly, carbon dioxide and water. This is because Fructose is metabolized by enzymatic conversion into Glycogen, which involves weakening the molecule--it's susceptible to similar molecular forces as Glucose, although it has its own resistances thanks to a different (pentagonal) molecular structure and thus facilities specifically for Fructose exist--and reacting it with other chemicals.
Molecular weakening is what occurs with catalysts and enzymes, applying physical pressure to a molecular structure by effectively stretching it, lowering the activation energy needed to induce a reaction; enzymes rely on physical molecular shape, while catalysts rely on any range of things--including susceptibility to things like pH (acid/alkali can support a reaction, for example acid lowers the temperature required to invert sucrose). Remember that pH is effectively a matter of charge--a low pH solution has lots of H+ ions, while a high pH indicates lots of OH- ions, and so charge interactions will occur.
Fat-soluble toxins get moved into the blood stream when consolidated fats are mobilized for energy, a cycle that occurs under extended periods of elevated metabolism (i.e. you start burning fat--you might burn and store at relative equillibrium, but you WILL burn some of your stored fat if you're on a bicycle for an hour).
Even if this is true, which I'd need to see the specific metabolic mechanism to verify, the idea that you can just eat a bunch of crap and burn it off with biking an hour to work a day is a dangerous and simplistic idea.
The mechanism exists; as I said, re-absorption is typical. Consider that Mercury is stored in fat--this is true and verifiable. Fat includes... well, your brain, unfortunately. Padding for other nerve tissue as well. It also includes consolidated fat. If your consolidated fat (beer gut) passes mercury compounds or ions into your body, they float around and wind up elsewhere--let's face it, mercury stored in your big fat ass is relatively harmless; your CNS is where you don't want it, and unfortunately it gets there eventually.
When you start tapping your stored resources, stuff comes out of those fat cells (it's storage, it's there for a reason--what is storage without retrieval?). Mercury migrates out with all the other stuff that's SUPPOSED to come out. If you're highly active at the moment, part of that mercury will be removed the same way as everything else--through the lymph system or kidneys. This is simply because your renal systems are running harder at the moment, and they remove oxides of mercury (but not elemental metal). Of course, that means that the mercury has to be oxidized, then excreted; much of it is re-absorbed into fat.
At a level of poisoning, this doesn't help, since it's going to speed up migration into the CNS as fast as it speeds up excretion if not faster. At a level below poisoning, there is no immediate concern, and thus this simply speeds up removal. With faster removal, less total bioa
If you consume, say, Botulinum, or a small amount of heavy metal (lead, mercury), and you're highly active, some of that will leave your system--if the dose is low enough to not kill you immediately. If you consume HFCS and you're highly active, you'll burn it off as energy. It's relatively harmless. Parabens and sorbates and all the other preservatives and extenders and weird salts and crap aren't that harmful, and they're metabolized away more quickly when your metabolism is higher.
Fat-soluble toxins get moved into the blood stream when consolidated fats are mobilized for energy, a cycle that occurs under extended periods of elevated metabolism (i.e. you start burning fat--you might burn and store at relative equillibrium, but you WILL burn some of your stored fat if you're on a bicycle for an hour). They get re-absorbed, but part of those toxins gets excreted in sweat or picked up by the kidneys and excreted by urine. Simply drinking enough water to piss out the salts won't get rid of those; that actually works on non-fat-soluble toxins, of course, since those just float around in the blood. Such toxins typically do not bioaccumulate anyway, so if they don't kill you they're harmless--even if you don't drink excess water, they'll be gone in a day or so; you can scarcely speed this up by chugging, although it does move things along a little.
Sitting on your ass is a primary component of the high rate of diabeetus in this country. Wake up, brush teeth, sit down, consume breakfast. Walk outside, open car door, sit down. Walk a few dozen feet, enter work building, walk a few more feet, enter elevator, stand. Arrive at top floor, walk about 100 feet to your desk, sit. Eight hours later, walk a few feet, ride the elevator down, get in the car, sit. Get out of car, walk a dozen feet or so to the house, sit. Watch TV. Walk a couple dozen feet, shower. Walk a few more feet. Sleep.
Congratulations! You've met your daily exercise quota of walking 1/10 of 1 mile today! Make sure you eat a big bowl of pasta and a massive serving of fatty meat, and finish it off with some sugary donuts, so that you get the 5000 calories you need to upkeep your body under such strenuous exercise!
More risk and harder to maintain, more expensive, etc. An emergency nuclear power shutdown could take longer to repair than it would for everyone to die. Resupply involves a long delay.
The problem is energy. We're going about this wrong, putting people on mars first. It's totally irresponsible and poorly thought out.
Stage 1 is to launch solar arrays. Photovoltaics break down; but in a vacuum they'll last forever. Put the arrays up, have the near arrays tight-beam concentrated energy to far collectors. Have the far collectors tight-beam energy (laser, non-ionizing gamma) at a collector on the planet. You can even use a black body sterling collector hooked up to geothermal cooling, because hell it's -135C there (or 35C when warm). Ionosphere and atmospheric effects are minimal on Mars, for some strange reason.
Energy means heat. Heat means life. Plants collect sunlight to excite an electron off a chlorine atom in a complex molecule, which then provides activation energy to bind water to carbon and split off oxygen from CO2. Simultaneously in day and exclusively at night, plants absorb oxygen and combine it with the bound sugars to release heat, supplying activation energy for cellular processes. Other organisms consume the plants, or other organisms, gaining access to compounds created in this manner; eventually they break things down into sugars or fatty acids, which then get oxygenated to produce combustion, releasing heat and powering cellular processes.
Energy can power artificial and natural respirators. Plants, animals, scrubbers and synthesizers. This keeps you alive.
just get a Netflix local data center box that caches not just what's been watched in the past 3 months, but also caches anything that it feels like suggesting you watch, and any related things (watch Star Trek? Cache all the Star Trek movies, cache the first three episodes of each season of EVERY star trek series, cache the season you're watching starting going forward from which episode you're on).
They didn't know about any of the stuff I admitted to; I broke down on standard questions and they pressured me until I admitted something, then started branching off that.
Thing is they got like 40 times as much information out of me. They got a short novel that they couldn't find on their own--apparently my interesting activities were fairly extensive. I had never considered. And yet they still couldn't account for a great deal of my actual life--social connections, activities, etc.
It's a diagnostic tool. It shows when someone is sailing along smoothly. If you ask someone a topic they're not comfortable about, it causes blips. This hotspots topics of interest. Lies are interesting--but that's not all. Why do people lie? Are they uncertain? Do they have something to hide? Something they desperately want to hide? When you hit these these things, different shit happens.
I text a lot, and FB chat some, but I have t-mobile so my SMS isn't actually stored. I do a lot of stuff I don't talk extensively about; and I'm more interested in raw information than gossiping about or accounting for my daily life and my contacts. I'm also very anti-social; I had friends for a short time, but they always wanted to go out and do things and I hate sitting idly at the mall with a bunch of people bullshitting and doing absolutely nothing productive, so I stopped talking to them. The combination effect is that, although I'm incredibly sloppy and care little about what I put out there, there's nothing "out there" that accounts for me in any sensible way.
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I love PTO, but people do abuse it. The upside to PTO is you're supposed to get more time. You have to give sick leave to cover reasonable worst-case sickness, like say a week and a half for the flu... 8 days? People who need more take vacation time, short term disability, then long term disability. So what happens here is we have 2 personal days, some 8 vacation days, and 6 sick days. Instead that could be 16 PTO days, which is better for those of us who don't get sick.
PTO and comp time are the bane of management, but are great for employees. PTO is great for management because it's easier to account for, but employees use it flexibly and so management has to adapt to someone calling in one morning just to say he really doesn't feel like coming in today and is taking a mental health day. Likewise comp time ends up with employees working 10 hour shifts and taking every Friday off, or working odd hours just because (even if there's not a real flex time schedule!), or staying 15 minutes extra every day to bank extra time off (that was always my favorite mode of abuse).
Then management starts asking people to voluntarily donate their excess leave to a sick employee, or one who wants a vacation...
I've known people to not get promotions specifically on the grounds that they used too much of their sick time. Not more than they had but too much.
LAWSUIT.
Potatoes are effectively identical to refined sugar and white wheat grain. You actually have to refine them to make them healthy--you need to cook, then freeze, then reheat them to raise the resistant starch levels above 4% (you can get 23%-35% easy enough, 23% being the realistic number and 35% being reachable but not by intent). RS is essentially identical to non-soluble dietary fiber in its function. All other mass in the potato that's not in the skin is white, refined sugar; don't tell me it's different "because it's starch," because YOUR FUCKING SALIVA turns it into individual glucose molecules.
Funny, I don't think there were any soda trees around in prehistoric times. The modern diet of low-fiber, refined food with added sugar is nothing like the diets that we evolved on. Having fruit as part of a varied diet is not the same thing as chugging down multiple sodas a day.
Everything was low-fat, low-sugar, with no massive starch sources like pertaters?
Hoshi = 4,4 star point. Push from behind = you push to match, rather than to surpass; the following move can extend past you, so you're not in control. Power is applicable influence: if you approach a huge fucking wall, I can throw a stone behind yours and, even though that stone is easy to attack, because of the wall I can respond to attacks by trying to cut off your stone. This is bad, and so if you just earnestly attack my stone you'll put me in a good position; if you try to protect the stone I attacked, I can chase and make the stone I attacked with stronger, impossible to attack while you flounder for a good position. That's power: your approach has only allowed me to become stronger. With power like that I can wantonly stage ridiculous attacks, because there's a huge army backing me up.
And honestly, read K50 and K10-K15, and play on KGS for a while.
You can't eat a bunch of extra sugar, especially at the amounts Americans do, without consequences.
1) I can and have.
2) You can't lead a highly sedentary lifestyle without consequence. No diet will make you healthy. Contrastingly, you can be healthy with a fairly imperfect diet if you're active. Evolutionarily, we didn't have perfect diets harmonized in a medical clean room to evolve from; we ate whatever crap we could get, high amounts of fruit sugar, tons of meat, whatever, and we were healthy. Problem is we had to climb trees (Persimmon trees are 35ft tall! Apple trees aren't little shrubs! Berries are often close to the ground but a lot of food is up high) and chase after food that actively ran the fuck away.
The problem is that the people on both ends try to minimize how much money trickles in each direction
With trickle-up economics, this is a non-issue. The people making goods set the price, you either buy them or you don't, and if you have more money, you're willing to spend more.
This is the problem liberals (not really universally Democrats) have. They can't get their heads out of the Robin Hood concept and work out that people need jobs. Thus they figure, hey, the businesses and the fabulously wealthy individuals aren't of any consequence, take their money and give it to the poor so the poor can give it back to them!
The problem is when you raise taxes by, say, 20% on businesses, that's 20% less salary that can go out. Reduced salary means the market is now leaning on the crutch of wealth redistribution--welfare, reduced taxes on the working class, etc. If the market pushes salaries up, then unemployment simply goes up and you take the money you removed from businesses and funnel it into supporting labor power that is no longer being used for labor. Since that labor is now sitting idle when it could have been applied, you have destroyed wealth.
The other problem--specific to taxing the fabulously wealthy individuals--is that fabulously wealthy individuals are consumers with more money. They're at the bottom and their money trickles up; they just happen to have a lot of it and it trickles up to the private jet companies and caviar imports instead of to Value Food Market.
Republicans (not really a Conservative party anymore) have it half-right, but only. Rather than tax the living shit out of the businesses and the wealthy individual consumers, they're trying to stimulate business by lowering already disproportionate taxes. Can you imagine a 90% tax on a CEO making $30 million? He'd keep $3 million... but that's okay, since his last tax rate was 30% and he was keeping $20M ... he'll just raise his salary to $200 million! Take home $20M, but the business just got hit with $170M on its expense sheet... well better start laying off workers!
The problem with Republicans is they keep spending like Obama. More importantly, they keep spending like Reagan. So while they've got the whole "don't tax the fuck out of the job creators" thing right, they spend the country into unmanageable debt. Now the liberals are doing it with entitlement, and people have finally noticed and started to demand budget cuts. It's the moderates in the Democrat party and the crazy Tea Party Republicans that are the ones getting anything done now.
Every time you raise taxes, the economy bleeds wealth. Not just money, but actual productivity from labor.
perforated colon? How big was that black inmate's cock? Jesus christ.
You missed the intermediary stages: Fructose consumption as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Good resource.
Even if true, your advice was patently dangerous: "Those toxic chemicals will go away if you bike to work every day."
Don't eat like crap and expect a daily bike ride to take care of all associated problems. Exercise, skip all the added sugar, and eat wholesome food. That's the best bet if you are concerned about living long and healthy.
The impact of a moderate but reasonable amount of physical activity is bigger than the impact of cutting 40 ounces per day of Dr. Pepper out of your diet. The impact of high-intensity exercise--jogging, bicycling, whatnot--for half an hour a day will completely eliminate the impacts of 40 ounces per day of Dr. Pepper. Food in general contains generally recognized as safe levels of anything it does contain, including preservatives that by nature are toxic to cellular activity--those toxins are diluted when consumed, after all.
If you cut all that crap out, great, you'll be healthier; you'll still be a sickly little lump of shit, falling apart before you're even 50, with just about no physical activity. If you keep all that crap but stay reasonably active, you'll be a LOT healthier--these are people who one day get sick, become bedridden, then die a couple weeks later. So many people these days become sick over decades, culminating in a couple years or more where they're barely functional because their bodies are falling apart--people who eat healthy, who consume real fruit and whole wheat and avoid all that added sugar and evil carbonated water. The only way to eliminate that is physical activity; the impact is large.
People focus too much on diet. Diet is lazy, it's people thinking if they don't do something--don't eat certain foods, eat other foods instead--that it'll cure their ails. That's work insomuch as quitting smoking is work--an addiction to sugary, greasy foods, but not much else to talk about. People think a gastric bypass makes them healthy; it just makes them thinner.
This is coming from someone who took up bicycling to work because it took 45 minutes and a car commute took 42 minutes. An hour and a half a day, quite a lot. My food intake increased. In the morning I started eating bacon, eggs, baked beans, mushrooms (shiitake and portabello), baked beans, toast, biscuits, bludwurst, a half a tomato, all fried in a mix of butter and lard. I ate donuts when I felt like it too. Came home and ate a whole cornish hen stuffed with an entire box of stovetop stuffing...well, no, that took me 2 days to eat, so I ate half of that. Oh, with some spinach sauteed in butter (surprisingly good, and I hate vegetables--green ones, at least; there's so much else out there... red japanese sweet potatoes for example).
I lost about 10 pounds, started building muscle and losing consolidated fat. My fat stores migrated into the muscle cells themselves for quicker access. I stopped losing so much body temperature in the cold (I'd wear 2 coats and read a core temperature below 94F in the winter, which is below hypothermic). Even with an increased intake of loads of crap, I became a lot healthier. It was easier to wake up in the morning, easier to sleep, easier to stay awake--I felt like I had energy all the time. More focus, easier to think, better reflexes, everything. The machine was actually working.
This is, surprisingly, normal. Sedentary lifestyle is a bane. Nasty toxic food isn't good for you, but living on the couch is just a slow death and no magic diet is going to make you healthy that way. It's like eating whole wheat: you're not eliminating the bad stuff so much as you're taking in less bad.
Money trickles down. The job creators--businesses--provide a structure of resource management, which determines the best way to flow everything from marketing to human labor. Google's management, for example, has determined that a degree of creativity as an unbound entity is required--and that 20% of their human labor capital is an appropriate figure for this, overall nearly identical to what 3M built their business on. That's management harnessing the creativity of its entire human labor force. Management also does specifics (project management, business process management) up to generics (market approaches, divisioning, finance strategy, etc). All of this provides an environment in which the money moves from the business both downwards (to employees) and outwards (to other businesses, where it moves downwards).
Money trickles up. A business, like an organism, must be kept fed. Organisms eat sugar for energy, which itself is ultimately a product of heat (sunlight) and is used to provide heat. Businesses run essentially to collect money, which is expended to produce products and services in all means (human and physical resources), allowing the business to collect more money so that it can continue to exist. Businesses need consumers, and the ultimate consumer is the individual; a business supported by other businesses eventually finds its money comes from individuals, even so far as government contractors get money from the government, supported by the taxpayer.
If money only trickled down, everyone poor would become rich and everyone fabulously wealthy would become poor. If money only trickled up, the fabulously wealthy would remain wealthy and nobody could make any money by getting an honest job.
They are all blind and aggressive. A simple response to the 3,3 invasion behind hoshi... just extend, and push back, then walk the third line. They continue to push from behind along the third line, depriving you of side territory... and thus you build too much influence, and they cannot hope to win.
This is the result. All they see is the great and important benefit of copyright protection--the large value of the corner and side territory. They push and push, taking more and more, allowing a wall to be built outside. But that wall unbalances the position much more than the small territory taken; too much power is given up, and now there is no way to approach, and the position may only grow. All attacks brought against the rest of the board have strong support; the media companies now have the freedom to abusively overplay, taking down anything that they can vaguely argue some form of claim to, and even things they can't at all, simply because of the power they have. Growth is stifled; with all that power there is attack, reduction, and that brings greater control of not just the center, but also of portions of the sides and other corners.
So much is lost by taking what both is valuable and can be taken without considering the costs.
My junk doesn't have any kind of screw either.
It has to be metabolized first, and it's the by-products of metabolism that are the problem.
While fructose absorption and modification by the intestines and liver does differ from glucose initially, the majority of the fructose molecules are converted to glucose or metabolized into byproducts identical to those produced by glucose metabolism. Consumption of moderate amounts of fructose has also been linked to positive outcomes, including reducing appetite if consumed before a meal, lower blood sugar increases compared to glucose, and (again compared to glucose) delaying exhaustion if consumed during exercise.
Fructose from HFCS is supplied intentionally in Gatorade; from Dextrose in powdered Gatorade. It's done that way because Fructose is important for this particular use--consumption of Fructose improves performance during strenuous physical activity. The byproducts of Fructose metabolism are, unsurprisingly, carbon dioxide and water. This is because Fructose is metabolized by enzymatic conversion into Glycogen, which involves weakening the molecule--it's susceptible to similar molecular forces as Glucose, although it has its own resistances thanks to a different (pentagonal) molecular structure and thus facilities specifically for Fructose exist--and reacting it with other chemicals.
Molecular weakening is what occurs with catalysts and enzymes, applying physical pressure to a molecular structure by effectively stretching it, lowering the activation energy needed to induce a reaction; enzymes rely on physical molecular shape, while catalysts rely on any range of things--including susceptibility to things like pH (acid/alkali can support a reaction, for example acid lowers the temperature required to invert sucrose). Remember that pH is effectively a matter of charge--a low pH solution has lots of H+ ions, while a high pH indicates lots of OH- ions, and so charge interactions will occur.
Fat-soluble toxins get moved into the blood stream when consolidated fats are mobilized for energy, a cycle that occurs under extended periods of elevated metabolism (i.e. you start burning fat--you might burn and store at relative equillibrium, but you WILL burn some of your stored fat if you're on a bicycle for an hour).
Even if this is true, which I'd need to see the specific metabolic mechanism to verify, the idea that you can just eat a bunch of crap and burn it off with biking an hour to work a day is a dangerous and simplistic idea.
The mechanism exists; as I said, re-absorption is typical. Consider that Mercury is stored in fat--this is true and verifiable. Fat includes... well, your brain, unfortunately. Padding for other nerve tissue as well. It also includes consolidated fat. If your consolidated fat (beer gut) passes mercury compounds or ions into your body, they float around and wind up elsewhere--let's face it, mercury stored in your big fat ass is relatively harmless; your CNS is where you don't want it, and unfortunately it gets there eventually.
When you start tapping your stored resources, stuff comes out of those fat cells (it's storage, it's there for a reason--what is storage without retrieval?). Mercury migrates out with all the other stuff that's SUPPOSED to come out. If you're highly active at the moment, part of that mercury will be removed the same way as everything else--through the lymph system or kidneys. This is simply because your renal systems are running harder at the moment, and they remove oxides of mercury (but not elemental metal). Of course, that means that the mercury has to be oxidized, then excreted; much of it is re-absorbed into fat.
At a level of poisoning, this doesn't help, since it's going to speed up migration into the CNS as fast as it speeds up excretion if not faster. At a level below poisoning, there is no immediate concern, and thus this simply speeds up removal. With faster removal, less total bioa
Funny enough it's called a "Swimming robot" but all I see is "toy boat with autopilot." A submarine and a steam ship are both swimming robots, too...
If you consume, say, Botulinum, or a small amount of heavy metal (lead, mercury), and you're highly active, some of that will leave your system--if the dose is low enough to not kill you immediately. If you consume HFCS and you're highly active, you'll burn it off as energy. It's relatively harmless. Parabens and sorbates and all the other preservatives and extenders and weird salts and crap aren't that harmful, and they're metabolized away more quickly when your metabolism is higher.
Fat-soluble toxins get moved into the blood stream when consolidated fats are mobilized for energy, a cycle that occurs under extended periods of elevated metabolism (i.e. you start burning fat--you might burn and store at relative equillibrium, but you WILL burn some of your stored fat if you're on a bicycle for an hour). They get re-absorbed, but part of those toxins gets excreted in sweat or picked up by the kidneys and excreted by urine. Simply drinking enough water to piss out the salts won't get rid of those; that actually works on non-fat-soluble toxins, of course, since those just float around in the blood. Such toxins typically do not bioaccumulate anyway, so if they don't kill you they're harmless--even if you don't drink excess water, they'll be gone in a day or so; you can scarcely speed this up by chugging, although it does move things along a little.
Sitting on your ass is a primary component of the high rate of diabeetus in this country. Wake up, brush teeth, sit down, consume breakfast. Walk outside, open car door, sit down. Walk a few dozen feet, enter work building, walk a few more feet, enter elevator, stand. Arrive at top floor, walk about 100 feet to your desk, sit. Eight hours later, walk a few feet, ride the elevator down, get in the car, sit. Get out of car, walk a dozen feet or so to the house, sit. Watch TV. Walk a couple dozen feet, shower. Walk a few more feet. Sleep.
Congratulations! You've met your daily exercise quota of walking 1/10 of 1 mile today! Make sure you eat a big bowl of pasta and a massive serving of fatty meat, and finish it off with some sugary donuts, so that you get the 5000 calories you need to upkeep your body under such strenuous exercise!
More risk and harder to maintain, more expensive, etc. An emergency nuclear power shutdown could take longer to repair than it would for everyone to die. Resupply involves a long delay.
LOL!!! All the Suds care about is class warfare.
The problem is energy. We're going about this wrong, putting people on mars first. It's totally irresponsible and poorly thought out.
Stage 1 is to launch solar arrays. Photovoltaics break down; but in a vacuum they'll last forever. Put the arrays up, have the near arrays tight-beam concentrated energy to far collectors. Have the far collectors tight-beam energy (laser, non-ionizing gamma) at a collector on the planet. You can even use a black body sterling collector hooked up to geothermal cooling, because hell it's -135C there (or 35C when warm). Ionosphere and atmospheric effects are minimal on Mars, for some strange reason.
Energy means heat. Heat means life. Plants collect sunlight to excite an electron off a chlorine atom in a complex molecule, which then provides activation energy to bind water to carbon and split off oxygen from CO2. Simultaneously in day and exclusively at night, plants absorb oxygen and combine it with the bound sugars to release heat, supplying activation energy for cellular processes. Other organisms consume the plants, or other organisms, gaining access to compounds created in this manner; eventually they break things down into sugars or fatty acids, which then get oxygenated to produce combustion, releasing heat and powering cellular processes.
Energy can power artificial and natural respirators. Plants, animals, scrubbers and synthesizers. This keeps you alive.
just get a Netflix local data center box that caches not just what's been watched in the past 3 months, but also caches anything that it feels like suggesting you watch, and any related things (watch Star Trek? Cache all the Star Trek movies, cache the first three episodes of each season of EVERY star trek series, cache the season you're watching starting going forward from which episode you're on).
We've already specified they are going to die.
That seems to be current official policy, given the rate of clearance denials recently. Even Social Security is denying just about everyone.
They didn't know about any of the stuff I admitted to; I broke down on standard questions and they pressured me until I admitted something, then started branching off that.
Thing is they got like 40 times as much information out of me. They got a short novel that they couldn't find on their own--apparently my interesting activities were fairly extensive. I had never considered. And yet they still couldn't account for a great deal of my actual life--social connections, activities, etc.
It's a diagnostic tool. It shows when someone is sailing along smoothly. If you ask someone a topic they're not comfortable about, it causes blips. This hotspots topics of interest. Lies are interesting--but that's not all. Why do people lie? Are they uncertain? Do they have something to hide? Something they desperately want to hide? When you hit these these things, different shit happens.
I text a lot, and FB chat some, but I have t-mobile so my SMS isn't actually stored. I do a lot of stuff I don't talk extensively about; and I'm more interested in raw information than gossiping about or accounting for my daily life and my contacts. I'm also very anti-social; I had friends for a short time, but they always wanted to go out and do things and I hate sitting idly at the mall with a bunch of people bullshitting and doing absolutely nothing productive, so I stopped talking to them. The combination effect is that, although I'm incredibly sloppy and care little about what I put out there, there's nothing "out there" that accounts for me in any sensible way.