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  1. Now I exercise 3 to 5 times a week, almost never eat anything but a home cooked meal, watch my calories, and still struggle to stay under 200lbs and feel hungry and miserable most of the time.

    If you're struggling not to put on weight AND you're feeling hungry most of the time, something doesn't make sense.

    The most likely explanation is that your idea of "hungry" needs to be revised.

  2. Re:Regarding your guess... on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Is this the same as your guess that Trump supporters are racist and fascist and Trump would not win?

    Well he was two thirds right at least.

  3. Re: Underfunded... on Amazon and eBay Sellers' VAT Fraud Rife Despite Crackdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    making their total tax burden very high indeed.

    We also get the NHS, free schooling up to 18, an old age pension and benefits to stop us dying of cold or hunger if we lose our jobs.

    Oddly, these aren't free.

  4. It was introduced in the UK after WWII to fund war reparations

    No it wasn't. It was introduced in 1973 as one of the conditions for the UK joining the EU. There is no connection to war reparations, which were paid by the Axis powers who lost the war, not the Allied powers. The UK had to pay the US off for war loans, but that is a different thing entirely.

    Anyway, the main feature of VAT is that, likes any sales tax, it is a regressive tax, impacting the poor more than the rich. Whether that is a good or bad thing depends on your political viewpoint.

  5. NASCAR is pretty pissed off because the governor has proposed a law to ban automatic cars from stick-shift parking spaces.

    As a non-American, I'm not sure if this is a joke.

  6. Re:The cast on Ron Glass, Firefly's Shepherd Book, Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    But Adam Baldwin's going to have a hard time getting acting work again.

    Why, is he dead too?

  7. Re:It's the reason for change on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been calling it fake news before it was cool.

    *adjusts hipster glasses*

    I stopped wearing hipster glasses when they became too mainstream.

  8. Who'd have thought that calling literally all white people racist would make them stop caring about not appearing racist? That the really, really racist ones would be emboldened by the attacks meant to emasculate them?

    Yeah, if we just left the poor little racists alone, there'd be no racism.

  9. Re:Incentivized vs fake? on Amazon Makes Good On Its Promise To Delete 'Incentivized' Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anything about her doing this bother you, from a moral or ethical standpoint?

    Yes, but she is a 19 year old adult, so she makes her own decisions. I can think of about a zillion other things she could be doing that would bother me more.

    That is a pretty weak defence. First, you are entitled to have views about the ethics of other people and second, yes, what she's doing is not as bad as murdering babies, but it is still fraud.

  10. Re: Chinese usually dont pay on Faraday Future's Factory Construction Paused; Shipping Timelines at Risk (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just a wig, it's a fictional masterpiece, War and Hairpiece, if you will.

  11. Re:Second to announce being first. on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. The Russians will not be pleased by this development.

    I think that will count as an extra bonus for the Finns rather than a concern.

  12. Re:The priesthood has spoken on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You openly admitted here recently that you spent years fighting in online forums against creationists.

    I'm struggling to see why this is a bad thing.

  13. Re: Automation is slavery redux on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Yes, the only alternative to 100% unfettered libertarian-capitalism is the fucking Khmer Rouge.

    It's not like the US or Europe or Japan has any governments or anything.

  14. Re:Yes, eventually on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And 200 years ago, some wisehead would have told you that plowing an acre with a steam plow is not "plowing".

    No, if they'd never seen a steam plough they might not have thought it possible, but if they saw it plough a field with their own eyes, they'd definitely say it was ploughing.

    Whereas growing some lettuces in a greenhouse is only farming in the sense that my cat playing with a rubber ball is professional tennis.

  15. Re:Define "Fully" automated on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can I perhaps guess you haven't worked on a real farm for a full week? Every single manual task is designed to be the limit for a healthy person, for example grain is hefted in 50 kg (112 lb) sacks. How many 50 kg sacks can you shift in a day? great cos that is your job. Those neat little straw bales are about 15 kg (33lb), you need to stack 40 of those so the hydraulic clamp can pick them up. Now there are some reasonably cruisy bits, sitting in a tractor listening to the radio while ploughing or whatever. That is of course the easiest job to automate.

    People pay good money to go to the gym to shift heavy weights around. As long as there were reasonable health and safety precautions, I can imagine people happily volunteering to do a few hours of manual labour outside in the fresh air instead.

    And if you're not a weightlifter type, half a day walking around herding sheep or whatever is more fun that slogging it out on an indoor treadmill.

  16. Re: Sure, why not? on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Best. Mod. Evar.

  17. Re:I can do you one better on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I can steal one by hitting people with a Nokia phone and it isn't limited to one brand of cars.

    That's a different level of crime though.

    It's like saying that PIN numbers on bank cards are useless because someone could always kidnap and torture the information out of you.

  18. Re: And the show goes on on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    I don't understand what your issue is. You can be a gay vegetarian immigrant atheist and still be right wing.

    As a right winger you don't agree with left wing policies, pretty obviously.

  19. Re:Very serious on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    countries that don't have freedom of speech, such as the UK

    The UK doesn't have absolute freedom of speech. But then, neither does any other country.

  20. Re: Is this surprising? on Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is the McDonalds of the mobile world

    I'm guessing you don't work in Marketing somehow.

  21. Because high quality champagne doesn't go as far, and the poor are practical.

    If someone gave me a good chunk of 6 billion dollars I'd soon stop being practical.

  22. They will if I am working on it at an airport. Also I don't want to look like a contentious douche-bag.

    Slap a Linux sticker over the cute little Apple logo.

  23. Re: Value for money on Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To the scale you are suggesting? Unlikely

    It's hardly inconceivable that someone could have spent a couple of hundred a year at the iTunes store and ended up with $1000 worth of music over a few years.

  24. Re: Value for money on Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Go into the iTunes folder, navigate the sub-folders and then see if they can be copied or not. If not, you're SOL, but if yeah, it can be copied into the music folder of your Android phone or SD card.

    So, your answer to the question "can I move my music from my iPhone to an Android phone" is essentially "either yes or no, but I don't know which".

    Cheers.

  25. Re:Strange on Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Being better than Italy for corruption is about like being better than North Korea for freedom of expression.