Re: fish: how will you know what the mercury levels are? (not saying "don't do it", just curious.) I do drink green tea, again I started doing it for health reasons and not liking it, but then a friend came back from 9 months in Beijing learning Mandarin with a couple of pots of green tea which were absolutely *delicious*. I drink a cup or two most days. The biggest health benefit there AFAIK inhibition of angiogenesis, which slows the growth of tumours as it prevents the growth factors they produce from causing new blood vessels to grow towards and around the tumour. There's stuff about antioxidents in the marketing material, I don't know yet whether that (the a/o hype) is real or junk science yet. There's a whiff of cosmetics advertising about some of that "neutralizes harmful free radicals" stuff. (Total tangent, if you want to understand the status of science in society today, pick up a copy of a major women's glossy like Cosmo and read every cosmetic ad, cover to cover. Now recoil in horror despair. Have a nice day:)
Calorific restriction has been demonstrated in mice but not, as far as I know, in monkeys.
Your comment about "diet experts" is pretty meaningless; firstly, what's your source (and whose definition of "expert" are they using?) Secondly, it's an appeal-to-authority argument.
Sorry, I don't know; does cheese contain protein? Is she allergic to other nuts? There's also Quorn which is widely available here in the UK (any typical supermarket will have a few Quorn lines). That's mycoprotein which I believe is a fungus of some sort. It's by far the closest in taste & texture to real meat of any of the meat-alike type stuff I've sampled, and I eat it on regular basis... I still love a good fry-up, so Quorn sausages are a must for me:)
There's a Wikipedia article, here. Hope this is of some use to you both, good luck!
Yeah, so what? What's your point? Don't eat poisonous stuff. I'm allergic to new-age hippy "it's more natural" crap. Though at the time of writing I see 17 replies, overwhelming negative, & the original post is modded 1 (insightful)... and now I just pissed off the couple of people who might have modded up. Fortunately my/. karma's not that big a deal for me;)
I've never made any particular effort to have a "balanced diet" - I eat what I want, I feel guilty when I eat too much chocolate or rice pudding, protein? carbs? vitamins? Never bothered me, and I don't seem to be ill or unwell. In fact in the early days when I "relapsed" many times was when I really noticed how unwell I felt for a day or two after eating meat, compared to how I felt when meat-free. The main difference being not having realised how semi-constipated I was most of the time.
And do you really want to spend the last ten years drooling from the side of your mouth, unable to speak or care for yourself, because you've been partially paralysed by a stroke?
If you're still thinking "hell, yeah, what the fuck!" I suggest you go speak to someone with personal experience of stroke. (Of course meat eating's a risk factor for a whole range of funky diseases; the biggies are of course cancer and heart disease. Believe me, you do not want to die from stomach or bowel cancer.
That said, (a) of course, do whatever you want; (b) bacon was far, far, far harder to stop eating than beefburgers or steak. The other problem is that I was forced to eat lots of hideously over-cooked vegetables as a child, with the result that I have a visceral (literally!) dislike of cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower etc - even the smell makes me gag - so unless I make an effort, I eat a lot of cheese and egg-based stuff.
Prion-free cows have already been invented; they're called vegetables. I've been veggie for about 10 years now (since reading a study in the Lancet or BMJ - I forget which - reporting a massive 40-year longitudinal study of a very large sample, 100,000 or so IIRC, showing vegetarians lived 10-15% longer (controlling for other factors like smoking, alcohol, social-economic status etc.)
Since then I've found other reasons not to eat meat, namely a feeling that the animals would probably prefer not to be eaten, the environmental stuff, yadda yadda. But I'm basically selfish:)
This was cool and all, when it happened, which was about a month ago - around the time that Opportunity reached Victoria Crater. (Y'all know that Oppy just arrived at VC, 'eh? Most amazing images of the entire mission? No? Heheheh, I have less of a life than youdo;p )
A similar process happens here in the UK every year. (That article's from 2001, but it's still current info.) There are various documents that are classified for 30, 50 or 100 years. Eventually everything gets turned over to historians, in theory at least. It'll be interesting to see how the digital age will affect this process in 25 years' time...
I think the big thing to happen to security in 2007 is Windows Vista. With increasing adoption, we will really get to see whether all the rewrites, new features, and bugfixes dramatically improve security... (Emphasis added)
You must have missed the memo. Gates' pet "rewrite the kernel as managed code" project lunacy was written off after three years' work back in 04. (the reset.) Mini-Microsoft said it was 12,000 man-years of work that was simply written off. I suppose it's a good thing (for Microsoft) that they retain the ability to recognise the writing on the wall and not subject the OS group devs to the deathmarch to end all deathmarches...
The Vista kernel currently pouring down the channel from Redmond to the OEMs is a point revision of the Windows Server 2003 kernel. (What's it show up as internally - 5.3 or 6.0? or something else? IIRC, W2K was 5.0, XP was 5.1, XP SP2 would presumably be 5.2 (?))
...infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men
Perhaps it's just me, but my first thought after reading the summary was that the best and brightest the world of cosmetics marketing has to offer are probably working on the advertising campaign right now. "New, from L'Oreal: toxoplasmosis, the only parasite derived from cat shit that's/guaranteed/ to make you MORE ATTRACTIVE to the opposite sex. Because you're worth it!"...
Given the crap they already get women to shell out fifty quid for a couple of ounces, parasite-infected cat shit would be a relatively easy sell.
No visible damage at all. I started with a 5 second zap, on the reasoning that when I've accidentally nuked a plate with a metallic glaze, it takes a couple of seconds before any discharges or sparks are visible. I then worked up in gradual steps. I was mildly surprised that paper and the plasticised cover didn't seem to heat up at all -- low water content I guess, I know almost nothing about RF absorbtion.
...give it seventeen years. Then check how you feel when someone born in 2006 is suddenly popping up in your favourite fora giving it all "this" with the well-constructed arguments and so forth. Believe me, kid, there's nothing like suddenly realising how old 37 really IS, to sober one up. It's ineffable, or more precisely, it's a moment that one has to experience personally to understand. I suddenly find all the stuff my parents tried to tell me coming out of my own mouth when I talk to my brother's kids... of course, they don't understand it any more than I did - or than you do.
I mean... I went to college in 1988 (and I was 19, not 18.) OK, suddenly my old school friends are breeding rug rats and swapping stories about mortgages and endowments and the best way to avoid the A303 around Taunton... *shudder!* I'm doomed, doomed I tell 'ee!! Arrrrrr.
I can think of a lot of ways to get a reader within ten inches of an RFIP passport (sports bag held on lap, get a one-day travelcard, sit on Piccadilly Line loop that runs out to Heathrow; go round and round for a few hours, getting up and moving your seat every second stop or so (perhaps get off one train and on the next one along). Not easy to target a specific individual but good enough to pull a few dozem good reads, I reckon.
Incidentally, the ten-inch range you mention -- presumably that using a standard reader/writer without any kind of high-power tranmitter or any other Handwavium-powered device to boost the range? I would guess that, inverse cube root law not withstanding, the range could be increased somewhat with applied effort.
I live in the UK and recently received one of the new so-called "biometric" passports. (Presumably that means there's some sort of representation of my photo on the chip, as I certainly didn't provide any other biometric data.) The chip's very visible. I gave in 30s in the microwave, then cut through the antennae tracks with a sharp kitchen knife for good measure.
I haven't tried using it yet, so if they let me out I'll let you all know how I get on...:)
the overwhelming majority of users will never study a single line of code. Yes, I know, what's your point? They all benefit from Free software and the work of the FS community, even if they never use it directly themselves. (Do you think Microsoft would have cared enough to fix the atrocious security blunders in IIS and SQL server, and now be making apparently sincere efforts to fix IE after leaving it gathering dust for five years if it weren't for the competition?) But that's beside the point, really. I'm just trying to explain my opinion; I regret that more people don't share it, but I regret much more that so many more people simply never think about it enough to generate an opinion of their own on what, to me, is one of the most profound issues of our time. In a century's time, the FSF will be seen as a much bigger deal than whether gays are allowed to register partnerships with the state in some way, or not -- just to pick one random example.
Most people do not have those requirements.
I realise my requirements are unusual and not shared with many others, but that doesn't make them invalid for myself (this is a fairly profound existential truth about existence, you know.)
What about other people [...] ? What about them? I'm not speaking for anyone except myself. They seem to be expressing their own opinions pretty fluently in other comments on this story:)
You seem to be simply restating what I said. I'm saying that 3D drivers, say, are less important to me than freedom. You and everyone else is free to disagree, of course, and the vast majority does so, which I think is a shame.
Achieving goals other than those that are politically defined. You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Good question. No, new extrusions of lava below sea-level don't have a significant affect on global sea level. Consider the volume of the oceans - I always find memories of 1970s TV programmes for school helpful for this, as I picture a huge heap of 1m x 1m cubes of water but that's just me:) - and then think about the volume of material displaced by volcanic eruptions. Look at it another way -- humanity probably (to a first approximation, in a hand-wavy sense) displaces a similar volume of sea water itself through construction of sea defences, ports, bridges and other large-scale civil engineering works. (By the way, on a complete tangent, check out the gigantic suspension bridge being built in China, I think it's in the Yangtse delta, at the moment! Tres cool. But I digress).
There sure as hell isn't any reason to panic over this piece of drek reporting. That may well be the case, but I hope you're not dismissing the research results from the last fifty years of climatology en masse on that basis though.
I'm sure that'll be a great comfort to the inhabitants of the US Eastern Seaboard in 50 years' time when the Greenland ice sheet starts to really let go and you realise you're looking down the wrong end of a 6m sea level rise. Ever seen a city built off-shore in 6m (~20 feet) of water? No? There's a very good reason for that...
Good, sensible questions from someone starting from a base knowledge of nil. May I politely suggest Wikipedia as a good source for some introductory background reading?
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Re: fish: how will you know what the mercury levels are? (not saying "don't do it", just curious.) I do drink green tea, again I started doing it for health reasons and not liking it, but then a friend came back from 9 months in Beijing learning Mandarin with a couple of pots of green tea which were absolutely *delicious*. I drink a cup or two most days. The biggest health benefit there AFAIK inhibition of angiogenesis, which slows the growth of tumours as it prevents the growth factors they produce from causing new blood vessels to grow towards and around the tumour. There's stuff about antioxidents in the marketing material, I don't know yet whether that (the a/o hype) is real or junk science yet. There's a whiff of cosmetics advertising about some of that "neutralizes harmful free radicals" stuff. (Total tangent, if you want to understand the status of science in society today, pick up a copy of a major women's glossy like Cosmo and read every cosmetic ad, cover to cover. Now recoil in horror despair. Have a nice day :)
Your comment about "diet experts" is pretty meaningless; firstly, what's your source (and whose definition of "expert" are they using?) Secondly, it's an appeal-to-authority argument.
There's a Wikipedia article, here. Hope this is of some use to you both, good luck!
Yeah, so what? What's your point? Don't eat poisonous stuff. I'm allergic to new-age hippy "it's more natural" crap. Though at the time of writing I see 17 replies, overwhelming negative, & the original post is modded 1 (insightful)... and now I just pissed off the couple of people who might have modded up. Fortunately my /. karma's not that big a deal for me ;)
I've never made any particular effort to have a "balanced diet" - I eat what I want, I feel guilty when I eat too much chocolate or rice pudding, protein? carbs? vitamins? Never bothered me, and I don't seem to be ill or unwell. In fact in the early days when I "relapsed" many times was when I really noticed how unwell I felt for a day or two after eating meat, compared to how I felt when meat-free. The main difference being not having realised how semi-constipated I was most of the time.
If you're still thinking "hell, yeah, what the fuck!" I suggest you go speak to someone with personal experience of stroke. (Of course meat eating's a risk factor for a whole range of funky diseases; the biggies are of course cancer and heart disease. Believe me, you do not want to die from stomach or bowel cancer.
That said, (a) of course, do whatever you want; (b) bacon was far, far, far harder to stop eating than beefburgers or steak. The other problem is that I was forced to eat lots of hideously over-cooked vegetables as a child, with the result that I have a visceral (literally!) dislike of cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower etc - even the smell makes me gag - so unless I make an effort, I eat a lot of cheese and egg-based stuff.
"Spam doubles but no-one cares because everyone's using IM" -- they have got to be kidding. Not a chance in hell.
Since then I've found other reasons not to eat meat, namely a feeling that the animals would probably prefer not to be eaten, the environmental stuff, yadda yadda. But I'm basically selfish :)
This was cool and all, when it happened, which was about a month ago - around the time that Opportunity reached Victoria Crater. (Y'all know that Oppy just arrived at VC, 'eh? Most amazing images of the entire mission? No? Heheheh, I have less of a life than youdo ;p )
A similar process happens here in the UK every year. (That article's from 2001, but it's still current info.) There are various documents that are classified for 30, 50 or 100 years. Eventually everything gets turned over to historians, in theory at least. It'll be interesting to see how the digital age will affect this process in 25 years' time...
You must have missed the memo. Gates' pet "rewrite the kernel as managed code" project lunacy was written off after three years' work back in 04. (the reset.) Mini-Microsoft said it was 12,000 man-years of work that was simply written off. I suppose it's a good thing (for Microsoft) that they retain the ability to recognise the writing on the wall and not subject the OS group devs to the deathmarch to end all deathmarches...
The Vista kernel currently pouring down the channel from Redmond to the OEMs is a point revision of the Windows Server 2003 kernel. (What's it show up as internally - 5.3 or 6.0? or something else? IIRC, W2K was 5.0, XP was 5.1, XP SP2 would presumably be 5.2 (?))
...infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to menPerhaps it's just me, but my first thought after reading the summary was that the best and brightest the world of cosmetics marketing has to offer are probably working on the advertising campaign right now. "New, from L'Oreal: toxoplasmosis, the only parasite derived from cat shit that's /guaranteed/ to make you MORE ATTRACTIVE to the opposite sex. Because you're worth it!"...
Given the crap they already get women to shell out fifty quid for a couple of ounces, parasite-infected cat shit would be a relatively easy sell.
Definitions of 'portable':
Definitions of portable on the Web:
No visible damage at all. I started with a 5 second zap, on the reasoning that when I've accidentally nuked a plate with a metallic glaze, it takes a couple of seconds before any discharges or sparks are visible. I then worked up in gradual steps. I was mildly surprised that paper and the plasticised cover didn't seem to heat up at all -- low water content I guess, I know almost nothing about RF absorbtion.
I mean... I went to college in 1988 (and I was 19, not 18.) OK, suddenly my old school friends are breeding rug rats and swapping stories about mortgages and endowments and the best way to avoid the A303 around Taunton... *shudder!* I'm doomed, doomed I tell 'ee!! Arrrrrr.
Incidentally, the ten-inch range you mention -- presumably that using a standard reader/writer without any kind of high-power tranmitter or any other Handwavium-powered device to boost the range? I would guess that, inverse cube root law not withstanding, the range could be increased somewhat with applied effort.
I haven't tried using it yet, so if they let me out I'll let you all know how I get on... :)
Good question. No, new extrusions of lava below sea-level don't have a significant affect on global sea level. Consider the volume of the oceans - I always find memories of 1970s TV programmes for school helpful for this, as I picture a huge heap of 1m x 1m cubes of water but that's just me :) - and then think about the volume of material displaced by volcanic eruptions. Look at it another way -- humanity probably (to a first approximation, in a hand-wavy sense) displaces a similar volume of sea water itself through construction of sea defences, ports, bridges and other large-scale civil engineering works. (By the way, on a complete tangent, check out the gigantic suspension bridge being built in China, I think it's in the Yangtse delta, at the moment! Tres cool. But I digress).
I'm sure that'll be a great comfort to the inhabitants of the US Eastern Seaboard in 50 years' time when the Greenland ice sheet starts to really let go and you realise you're looking down the wrong end of a 6m sea level rise. Ever seen a city built off-shore in 6m (~20 feet) of water? No? There's a very good reason for that...
Good, sensible questions from someone starting from a base knowledge of nil. May I politely suggest Wikipedia as a good source for some introductory background reading?
Quite right. Here's a single chart that's worth more than a thousand ignorant and misinformed climate-change trolls. May I now post my regular link to RealClimate.org for the benefit of any sceptics out there who really do have an interest in what the actual science actually says.