Another observation I can't decide to classify as a Pro or a Con:
Pro/Con: Eating any candy/sugar/cake gives you the most god-awful sugar rush!
The raging hunger that follows the crash is definitely a con:)
Re:Low carb diet leads to mystery skin blisters?
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Your symptoms sound similar to what a few low-carbers experience. Basically, what happens is that on a high carbohydrate diet, in addition to the bacteria colonizing your gut, yeast take up residence there too. When you go on a low-carb diet, the yeast start to die and the toxins released as they die produce a skin rash.
Google for 'Candida' and 'low carb'.
Do you have any understanding of what a ketone is? Taken organic chemistry? Ketones are bad news, whatever the source, because of their effects on the pH of the solution (blood).
Maybe, you should go learn the difference between organic chemistry and bio-chemistry. Here, let me help you get started
"Simply put, ketosis is evolution's answer to the thrifty gene. We may have evolved to efficiently store fat for times of famine, says Veech, but we also evolved ketosis to efficiently live off that fat when necessary. Rather than being poison, which is how the press often refers to ketones, they make the body run more efficiently and provide a backup fuel source for the brain. Veech calls ketones ''magic'' and has shown that both the heart and brain run 25 percent more efficiently on ketones than on blood sugar."
That's the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard. If you're in dialysis someday with kidney failure, you'll realize that your health is far more important than social perception.
I don't see how this comment could be moderated 'insightful'! Insightful, my ass. What a troll.
FYI: The low-carbohydrate diet has been around since the 1880's. Google for 'Banting diet'.
Now, if this diet was causing renal failure, don't you think someone would have noticed by now?
Well, you've heard wrong. The Atkins diet is not 'extremely harsh' on kidneys and has been around in one form or another since the 1880's. (Google on 'Banting Diet' for more information). With people on this diet for over a 100 years, you can be sure that if there were any side effects, there would be a lot more information on it than the hearsay nonsense you are spouting.
If you paid more than $6,000 in federal taxes, you're already paying more than your fair share.
Please go back to school and learn the difference between fair and equal.
Thank you.
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Re:No one took your time in the first place.
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But successful farming takes a LOT of work, even just for subsistence. I don't have any figures to support my assertion, so flame away, but I'd guess it takes more work than the ratrace you gave up.
Not really. Sucessful farming takes just about as much work as we put in now. The main problem with farming is the risk. One year of poor weather and boom - there goes your lunch (and dinner...).
BTW, my grandparents were farmers and I helped out on the farm, so I feel qualified to comment.
First: have a gander over here.
See?, there's no way to be sure that the data in the hidden form element you're getting back is the same stuff you sent. Which means you have to check the data thus <quote>sucking up RAM and processor power</quote>
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As for databases being slower than file access, have you ever heard of In Memory Databases?
Sheesh. Talk about arrogant, closed-minded recipe followers!
Second, it will take less than a week for someone to figure out how to access the new BIOS and make linux bootable
A Week? I seriously doubt that, given the experience of the Tivo Series 2 purchasers once Tivo started using a signed kernel.
What will end up happening is the community will discover a bug enabling access, MS will fix the bug in a later rev and after that, anyone who wants to access the bios will have to flash the older buggy bios and go from there.
What I can't understand is why is everyone focussing exclusively on CO2.
If you subscribe to New Scientist magazine, last week's print issue had an unqualified blurb (not available on the web site, sorry) stating that scientists were puzzling over a 50% rise in water vapour in the upper atmosphere. If I remember correctly, water vapour is a green house gas too. And a 50% increase is substantial.
Another bit that I found interesting is the article on the oldest ice core. I quote:
If the layers in the Dome Concordia core are intact, it will give ice researchers their first information about climate changes before that time. A period between ice ages known as Stage 11, which occurred about 450,000 years ago, is of particular interest because the Earth's orbit at that time is believed to have been very similar to its orbit today.
So, the Earth's orbit has an impact on climate too, does it? So why this exclusive focus on CO2?
There's your videophone right there. Of course I've been too chicken to try it out (30 day free trial), but I've ordered the audio only option. If it's any good, bye bye baby bell.
Don't know about 98, but in W2K, you can start a command prompt, hit F7 then hit enter. Repeat 5 or 6 times -> BSOD. Don't know if this has been fixed in a service pack.
We bought a bunch of these Miracle Blade 3 things... damn these suckers are sharp (and stay sharp, great for tough steak/cinderblocks), if you can help me find my left index finger that would help though. Very happy with the set, we even got a second one for free accidently.
Let me get this straight: you got a second left index finger for free ?
Ah, this is where all the junk mail that Bed Bath and Beyond keeps sending you comes in handy. Combine one of their 20% off coupons with another of their $5.00 off coupons and presto: Roomba for $155. While that is a lot of money too, it is comparable to what you would pay for a regular vacuum cleaner.
Can only call others on the same network? That's the kiss of death since there are already other vendors who allow you to call POTS phones. Example:
Packet 8: $19.95/mo with unlimited US calling or $5.95/mo with 8cents/min
Voice Pulse : $34.99/mo unlimited, $7.99/mo with 4cents/min
Vonage : $39.99/mo unlimited, $29.99/mo with 500 long distance minutes.
The only restriction with the first two of these services right now is the inability to call 911, but they are working on it. Vonage already has the ability to call 911 and it won't be long before the others start offering it too.
2) Discs usually have mandatory, can't-fast-forward-through-them FBI warnings at the beginning of disks. By jove, when I buy a movie, I want to see a MOVIE, not some goddammed threatening legalese from the MPAA!
This is where all the research you did before buying pays off and you flash the DVD player with firmware that enables UOP (which allows you to fast forward through all that nonsense).
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but on the other hand you've got a distribution named "Slackware", hardly the name your tech-savvy CTO wants to represent a core part of their enterprise solution.
You mean exactly like the minature, soft, distribution being sold by a nameless vendor based in Redmond?
Well, I was going to put in a link to the global warming theories, but decided against it since the global cooling theories do not get that much visibility:)
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Pro/Con: Eating any candy/sugar/cake gives you the most god-awful sugar rush! :)
The raging hunger that follows the crash is definitely a con
Your symptoms sound similar to what a few low-carbers experience. Basically, what happens is that on a high carbohydrate diet, in addition to the bacteria colonizing your gut, yeast take up residence there too. When you go on a low-carb diet, the yeast start to die and the toxins released as they die produce a skin rash.
Google for 'Candida' and 'low carb'.
Maybe, you should go learn the difference between organic chemistry and bio-chemistry. Here, let me help you get started
I don't see how this comment could be moderated 'insightful'!
Insightful, my ass. What a troll.
FYI: The low-carbohydrate diet has been around since the 1880's. Google for 'Banting diet'.
Now, if this diet was causing renal failure, don't you think someone would have noticed by now?
But what do I know, this is ./ after all :)
Thank you.
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BTW, my grandparents were farmers and I helped out on the farm, so I feel qualified to comment.
See?, there's no way to be sure that the data in the hidden form element you're getting back is the same stuff you sent. Which means you have to check the data thus <quote>sucking up RAM and processor power</quote>
. As for databases being slower than file access, have you ever heard of In Memory Databases?
Sheesh. Talk about arrogant, closed-minded recipe followers!
A Week?
I seriously doubt that, given the experience of the Tivo Series 2 purchasers once Tivo started using a signed kernel.
What will end up happening is the community will discover a bug enabling access, MS will fix the bug in a later rev and after that, anyone who wants to access the bios will have to flash the older buggy bios and go from there.
Something like whats happened in the Tivo world.
If you subscribe to New Scientist magazine, last week's print issue had an unqualified blurb (not available on the web site, sorry) stating that scientists were puzzling over a 50% rise in water vapour in the upper atmosphere. If I remember correctly, water vapour is a green house gas too. And a 50% increase is substantial.
Another bit that I found interesting is the article on the oldest ice core. I quote:
So, the Earth's orbit has an impact on climate too, does it? So why this exclusive focus on CO2?I'm surprised these haven't been mentioned yet!
There's your videophone right there. Of course I've been too chicken to try it out (30 day free trial), but I've ordered the audio only option. If it's any good, bye bye baby bell.
Don't know about 98, but in W2K, you can start a command prompt, hit F7 then hit enter. Repeat 5 or 6 times -> BSOD. Don't know if this has been fixed in a service pack.
Let me get this straight: you got a second left index finger for free ?
Ah, this is where all the junk mail that Bed Bath and Beyond keeps sending you comes in handy. Combine one of their 20% off coupons with another of their $5.00 off coupons and presto: Roomba for $155. While that is a lot of money too, it is comparable to what you would pay for a regular vacuum cleaner.
Packet 8: $19.95/mo with unlimited US calling or $5.95/mo with 8cents/min
Voice Pulse : $34.99/mo unlimited, $7.99/mo with 4cents/min
Vonage : $39.99/mo unlimited, $29.99/mo with 500 long distance minutes.
The only restriction with the first two of these services right now is the inability to call 911, but they are working on it. Vonage already has the ability to call 911 and it won't be long before the others start offering it too.
Not in 32 Meg, but a Slackware edition runs in 100 Meg...
Well, after they drive the 4 miles to get to the stationary bicycles, once they get there, they find it hard to walk.
Something like this eh?
This is where all the research you did before buying pays off and you flash the DVD player with firmware that enables UOP (which allows you to fast forward through all that nonsense).
You mean exactly like the minature, soft, distribution being sold by a nameless vendor based in Redmond?
*rimshot* :)
Well, I was going to put in a link to the global warming theories, but decided against it since the global cooling theories do not get that much visibility :)
I wonder how many new species we will see before and after the earth slides into an ice age?