Why do I get the impression that eating your daily quota of McDonalds in the US is some sort of legal requirement?
No one I know who has ever tried to lose weight would go into a fast food shop in the first place. It's like an alcoholic not visiting pubs.
Saving a couple of hundred calories by having a revolting-tasting diet drink instead of a slightly-less-revolting tasting normal drink seems beside the point to me.
Just don't have the shit-burger and shit-fries to start with.
I go to McDonalds somewhat often, and typically I order a spicy chicken sandwich off of the dollar menu with instructions to go light on the mayo (otherwise they glob it on there) and add mustard and a slice of tomato and a small fry with no salt.
I don't think you can customise your orders at McDonalds here in the UK, although I am not prepared to test this out, as it would involve going into a McDonalds sober.
I find the consistency regular soda to be unpleasantly syrupy.
Drinks like normal coke and pepsi have one function only: to make you feel slightly better when you're hungover. Some sugar and liquid for when you can't face eating anything, but still have to get up and go to work. Otherwise, I just don't see the point.
And "diet" drinks baffle me entirely. If you want a tasteless cold drink, ask for a glass of water.
Germany actually pays its neighbors to take it when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining as the price of electricity between utility companies goes negative.
The obvious solution is to nationalise the utility companies and reduce the artificial inter-company trading then. But, I know, socialism.
The EV might be ok for the american suburbs where everyone has a big house with a garage, but for for european ones where almost everyone live in apartments where you park your car either in the stress or on some parking lots.
Geez, I couldn't live like that. Just not having a place for my outdoor grill and smoker....or a place to set up my burners and pots for a crawfish boil (or do some home brewing) out back would drive me crazy.
I'd miss cooking out and having a bunch of friends over on the weekends.
I honestly can't tell whether you're mocking the OP's generalisation or trying to confirm it.
In reality, plenty of people in the US live in apartments, and plenty of people in Yurp have houses with garages.
I think the really important thing to take away is that in some universe, all/.ers are married to perfect 10 wealthy supermodels who think geeks are the coolest thing ever, and also happen to own beer breweries.
Android is going become extinct, and windows phone is the future!
Personally, I'm still hoping for an old skool retro MS-DOS 3.0 phone powered by a car battery and approximately the size and weight of a manual typewriter.
I would say that wanting to work at an advertising company like google because it's cool is a far more sensible reason than because you think you're going to change the world.
12 years into my career and I've never been fired it laid off. Maybe you need to rethink how good you think you are?
If you never fail, you aren't trying ambitious enough projects, or you're sandbagging. If you're not occasionally pissing off managers, you're not doing your job as a senior engineer. Sometimes you get a petty manager who only wants minions and finds an excuse to remove you. *shrug* If you're good, you move to a better job.
I do interesting project the right way, and I target aggressive schedules. I tell managers when they're full of shit. If that's not right for a company, I'll be leaving eventually, one way or another. Why work at a crap company?
As is usual on slashdot, you are generalising from your own situation.
The truth is that, for most people, a job is just something that lets you eat and pay your bills, and the concept of "interesting" is just a handy bonus rather than a necessity.
Well now, this should end up a wonderful thread full of angsty "geniuses" whining about how they can totally identify with the Termites because no one "gets" them.
It's the geek equivalent of teenage girls moaning about how hard it is to be beautiful, and how they wish they could be plain like their friends, who have really great personalities.
" the very very obscure chance that the girl might be discovered to be still alive after all "
Jesus, I know some don't read the article, but this is full fucking ludicrous.
But even forgetting how awful that sounds, why would even think that ALL biochemical information has been destroyed by vitrification? Cell membranes being ruptured is incompatible with life, but it is a far cry from all info lost.
What they should do is encase the brain in amber, as the Jurassic Park documentary showed that this will allow bringing back to life even if it's hundreds of millions of years in the future.
Those cryonically preserved today will almost certainly never be revivable, but that doesn't mean that nothing will come of the technology. For example, freezing of transplant organs to keep them viable longer may be entirely possible. Freezing a person in order to preserve them may also someday be possible.
No one is saying there shouldn't be research into this. That doesn't mean you should accept money from desperate people when you know they will never be brought back to life.
No, hope is a belief that the world and everything in it has potential energy, and that under the right circumstances that can be converted into "kinetic" energy (i.e., the force of change).
We are stardust, we are golden, something something something about a garden.
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I wonder why it's not more popular.
As a wild guess, because it can't be trademarked.
It also happens to give me a wicked case of the shits.
So it is definitely a diet aid.
No one I know who has ever tried to lose weight would go into a fast food shop in the first place. It's like an alcoholic not visiting pubs.
Saving a couple of hundred calories by having a revolting-tasting diet drink instead of a slightly-less-revolting tasting normal drink seems beside the point to me.
Just don't have the shit-burger and shit-fries to start with.
I go to McDonalds somewhat often, and typically I order a spicy chicken sandwich off of the dollar menu with instructions to go light on the mayo (otherwise they glob it on there) and add mustard and a slice of tomato and a small fry with no salt.
I don't think you can customise your orders at McDonalds here in the UK, although I am not prepared to test this out, as it would involve going into a McDonalds sober.
I find the consistency regular soda to be unpleasantly syrupy.
Drinks like normal coke and pepsi have one function only: to make you feel slightly better when you're hungover. Some sugar and liquid for when you can't face eating anything, but still have to get up and go to work. Otherwise, I just don't see the point.
And "diet" drinks baffle me entirely. If you want a tasteless cold drink, ask for a glass of water.
Drinking 119+ litres of _water_ every day is going to have negative effects
On the plus side, you'll be dead so you won't notice them.
If you are thirsty, try tap water.
Or, if you're not a child, beer.
Audi Creates Fuel of the Future using just Carbon Dioxide and Water and Incredible Amounts of Energy
I seriously doubt anyone here thought they just mixed up Carbon Dioxide and Water in a beer barrel and had instant diesel on tap.
Germany actually pays its neighbors to take it when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining as the price of electricity between utility companies goes negative.
The obvious solution is to nationalise the utility companies and reduce the artificial inter-company trading then. But, I know, socialism.
It's only bad if you are trying to make money. If you just want clean energy, it's excellent. For-profit generation seems to be the real issue.
Most governments in Europe are believers in the free market religion, so that anything that doesn't generate profit is bad.
Geez, I couldn't live like that. Just not having a place for my outdoor grill and smoker....or a place to set up my burners and pots for a crawfish boil (or do some home brewing) out back would drive me crazy.
I'd miss cooking out and having a bunch of friends over on the weekends.
I honestly can't tell whether you're mocking the OP's generalisation or trying to confirm it.
In reality, plenty of people in the US live in apartments, and plenty of people in Yurp have houses with garages.
I think the really important thing to take away is that in some universe, all /.ers are married to perfect 10 wealthy supermodels who think geeks are the coolest thing ever, and also happen to own beer breweries.
In that universe, you wouldn't be you.
A bunch of teenagers dressed provocatively trying to marry a band member. It would drive them nuts, as it did me.
Because they didn't want to marry you instead?
Android is going become extinct, and windows phone is the future!
Personally, I'm still hoping for an old skool retro MS-DOS 3.0 phone powered by a car battery and approximately the size and weight of a manual typewriter.
I would say that wanting to work at an advertising company like google because it's cool is a far more sensible reason than because you think you're going to change the world.
Well, it's not entirely pointless, as you can still use the pre-loaded apps and use usb to sync your music and movies to it.
And you can make phone calls!!
Only old people make phone calls.
When I first saw it, I assumed that it meant people born in or after 2000.
All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?
Wanking off to the plays of Aristophanes probably. I for one collect jokes. Here's one:
If Euripides his trousers, then Eumenides his trousers
Ha, Ha Ha, HAHAHAHAHAHA
No, it's if Euripides trousers, then Eumenides trousers.
The "des" ending is pronounced "dese" as in "these".
12 years into my career and I've never been fired it laid off. Maybe you need to rethink how good you think you are?
If you never fail, you aren't trying ambitious enough projects, or you're sandbagging. If you're not occasionally pissing off managers, you're not doing your job as a senior engineer. Sometimes you get a petty manager who only wants minions and finds an excuse to remove you. *shrug* If you're good, you move to a better job.
I do interesting project the right way, and I target aggressive schedules. I tell managers when they're full of shit. If that's not right for a company, I'll be leaving eventually, one way or another. Why work at a crap company?
As is usual on slashdot, you are generalising from your own situation.
The truth is that, for most people, a job is just something that lets you eat and pay your bills, and the concept of "interesting" is just a handy bonus rather than a necessity.
Well now, this should end up a wonderful thread full of angsty "geniuses" whining about how they can totally identify with the Termites because no one "gets" them.
It's the geek equivalent of teenage girls moaning about how hard it is to be beautiful, and how they wish they could be plain like their friends, who have really great personalities.
" the very very obscure chance that the girl might be discovered to be still alive after all "
Jesus, I know some don't read the article, but this is full fucking ludicrous.
But even forgetting how awful that sounds, why would even think that ALL biochemical information has been destroyed by vitrification? Cell membranes being ruptured is incompatible with life, but it is a far cry from all info lost.
What they should do is encase the brain in amber, as the Jurassic Park documentary showed that this will allow bringing back to life even if it's hundreds of millions of years in the future.
Those cryonically preserved today will almost certainly never be revivable, but that doesn't mean that nothing will come of the technology. For example, freezing of transplant organs to keep them viable longer may be entirely possible. Freezing a person in order to preserve them may also someday be possible.
No one is saying there shouldn't be research into this. That doesn't mean you should accept money from desperate people when you know they will never be brought back to life.
It's like discussing "love" where to one person it means the feeling of communal happiness at a music concert, and to someone else fucking a weasel.
No, hope is a belief that the world and everything in it has potential energy, and that under the right circumstances that can be converted into "kinetic" energy (i.e., the force of change).
We are stardust, we are golden, something something something about a garden.
Why do people still spend money on this?
Because there are cynical con men who are prepared to accept it.