If there are no other kids within 2 miles of your home, you don't live in a suburb. You live in a full on rural area. And, your idea of kids taking a train all over town is DOA in the US. Not because of suburbs, but because American parents have been terrorized by our government and media.
I specifically said Pizza and cereal is bad for you. Arguing against them is arguing against a strawman.
Fat and calories are not bad for you. That is part of the modern con job. Carbs on the other hand are sugar. Sugar in moderation is fine if you are going to burn it right away, but it is terrible to rely on it day to day. If you eat rice or pasta at home, you are going to get WAY more carbs than chicken nuggets.
The sad thing is that we live in one of the safest (THE safest?) times and places in history. We also have things like cell phones that can tell us exactly where our kids are.
The urban design excuse is a myth. My neighborhood, and every neighborhood is ~70 years old. The neighborhoods on 3 sides of mine are also ~70 years old. (The forth side is open hilly forested space with multi-acre lots, so it has a mix of > 70 and 5 year old homes.) There is a park that is 5 blocks away, smack dab in the middle of this neighborhood. Pretty much the only kids that use the park are toddlers who's mothers take them there. Suburban sprawl doesn't make it difficult for children to find playmates and a place to play. It is exactly the opposite. It gives them MORE places to play. The lack of neighborhood playmates comes from the recent trend of anti-sprawl. It is the jamming of houses together so tight that no one has a back yard. The fact that population density is so great that it is no longer safe for kids to play in the street. This combined with the fact that parents are terrified of letting their kids out of their sight, they can't go to the neighborhood parks.
I challenge you to play Fruit Ninja and Whack a Rabbid on the Kinect for a couple of hours without raising your heart rate. Sure you could just lose, but if you are actually playing the game, you are going to get a pretty serious workout.
The whole "outside" thing has become problematic because our culture has demonized and often criminalized youth being self sufficient. When I was in kindergarten in the 70's, my peers and I could walk home for lunch. By the time I graduated from high school in the late 80's, it was considered far to dangerous for 16, 17 and 18 year olds to leave the school for food. If they did, the police would pick them up, and if it happened too many times, the teen's parents could find themselves in court.
The majority of parents have been convinced that letting a child walk to the park and play without the parent sitting there the entire time is literally child abuse. This means that even when kids are allowed to be self sufficient enough to walk down to the park, there are no other kids their because they have all been locked up in "after school programs" or daycare.
I'm not. The kids are probably spending their time playing more popular games that don't involve exercise. They gave the kids their choice of run their course active games, or still popular inactive games. There study was designed for a few years ago. To do this study today, they would have needed to use a Kinect.
When my family of 3 goes to McDonald's, we either order 6 double cheeseburgers and 2 larger drinks for a total of $8. ($6 in food) or we order. Other times we will order a 20 piece chicken nugget pack at $5 and 2 double cheeseburgers at $2 for a total of $7 in food. When we eat pizza, we generally buy a large pizza from Little Ceasers at $5. So, cheap fast food for our family of 3 is $5-$8. This kind of ordering also makes the meals dramatically more healthy. The two real problems with fast food are the french fries and Cola since they are both just sugar.
Talking to my wife who does most of our grocery shopping, she confirms your price on vegetables with a nice verity of choices. If you go up to $1.50, the choices expand dramatically. On the chicken, you are too low though. $1.99 is going to be for cheap whole fryers. That means that almost a 3rd of the per pound price is going to be for inedible parts of the chicken, like bone. While having vegetables is certainly important, it isn't important to get every type of food in every meal. While I wouldn't suggest people eat no vegetables, your home cooked meal example is not significantly healthier than my meal at McDonald's example. They are close enough that how the meal at home is prepared could put it above or below the nutritional level of the McDonald's meal.
Price wise it is a wash. Unless you start looking at incredibly unhealthy foods like rice or pasta, the cost of cooking at home is close enough that the claim of home cooking being cheaper is a myth.
That being said, even at a wash in price, that leaves it as an issue of whether people want to make the effort to eat healthy. Unfortunately, the problem gets escalated by the fact that very few people are willing to have honest discussions about healthy diet, and even worse, healthy weight. For example, my "healthy weight" as defined by our government/insurance/medical industries is between approximately 3% and -15% body fat. Yep. That's right. Negative body fat. Our experts are telling people that they are obese at 8% body fat, and that the solution is to switch to a 90% sugar diet.
Yes, it is sad how retarded children are today. Even worse is that it is often illegal to raise your children correctly as the government often mandates retarding your child's development.
Around these parts, a pizza can always be purchased for $5, so you are already wrong. Rice and bread are terrible for you. If your going to eat them, you don't really have much room for complaining about pizza. When you stick to the healthy, meat and vegetables, your price goes up.
You are comparing expensive fast food to cheap eating in.
While I agree that diet will certainly effect your ability to think, and general energy levels, I am not convinced that things will play out like you think. What kids (and adults) are currently being taught are 'healthy' foods are so far out of whack that I don't see the wealthy coming out dramatically ahead.
Your list is a good example. Yes, Pizza and Cereal are terrible for you, but the idea that somehow your food being cooked in your own home magically makes it healthier than if it is cooked in a restaurant, shows how far off people can get in understanding food. There is also the fact that the population is been trained to think that an all sugar/no fat diet is somehow healthy. This will likely lead to those that can afford to feed their children healthy food, choosing foods that are unhealthy, while patting themselves on the back for being such great parents.
Your nice to your kids. About week after my son's 2rd birthday I formatted his hard drive and gave him a CD with Ubuntu on it. This is a big reason why I call people who claim Linux is 'Hard to install' aggressively ignorant. If a 2 year old can install it, even before they can read, any adult without mental handicaps should have no problem.
At $300 for a decent brand new machine, it makes sense to get a new machine for even small kids. Sure there are some people that just cannot afford it, but for most of us, spending $300 every couple of years on our kids isn't really that big of a burden.
Have you used T-Mobile? Their service is far and above better than AT&T and Verizon (who I would rate as poor for service). Their data speeds are very good also. Am I out of the loop and Verizon/AT&T offering 10MBit lines? T-Mobile gives me 2 MBit on bad days and as much as 5+ on good days. Is that now considered poor?
While I don't have any complaints about Sonic, they have been rolling this out for 3 or 4 years, and still are only supplying to customers in a very small area. I would love to switch back to Sonic with a gigabit connection, but won't be holding my breath waiting for it to reach across town. It may be another decade before they cover the city, if they ever do.
Not to mention that the vast majority of illness/injury are already self diagnosed and self treated. Can you imagine if every time you got a headache or your kid scratched themselves while playing, you rushed off to the doctor?
I am trying to be funny, but in the "funny because it's true" sort of way.
I get it completely. If you use the definition of "if the customer is not location-aware and can self-service on-demand, it is cloud", then cloud is old news. It has been widely available for decades, and has gone by many other names. The name 'cloud' is a direct misunderstanding of the network diagram image that indicated a part of the network that was you do not have control or understand of. The cloud represented something that your data could pass through, but that you could not see through.
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Unfortunately, if fear this is a trend that will get much worse before it gets better.
Exactly. And there are plenty of government employees that are willing use the force of government to enforce the retardation of our youth.
If there are no other kids within 2 miles of your home, you don't live in a suburb. You live in a full on rural area. And, your idea of kids taking a train all over town is DOA in the US. Not because of suburbs, but because American parents have been terrorized by our government and media.
Apparently. Around these parts, boneless chicken breast is closer to $3/lb.
I specifically said Pizza and cereal is bad for you. Arguing against them is arguing against a strawman.
Fat and calories are not bad for you. That is part of the modern con job. Carbs on the other hand are sugar. Sugar in moderation is fine if you are going to burn it right away, but it is terrible to rely on it day to day. If you eat rice or pasta at home, you are going to get WAY more carbs than chicken nuggets.
Rice is sugar. Do you really need it explained to you why eating a primarily sugar diet is bad for you?
You believe the Holy Spirit guides an international child molestation ring? Andy you remain loyal to this child molesting spirit?
The sad thing is that we live in one of the safest (THE safest?) times and places in history. We also have things like cell phones that can tell us exactly where our kids are.
The urban design excuse is a myth. My neighborhood, and every neighborhood is ~70 years old. The neighborhoods on 3 sides of mine are also ~70 years old. (The forth side is open hilly forested space with multi-acre lots, so it has a mix of > 70 and 5 year old homes.) There is a park that is 5 blocks away, smack dab in the middle of this neighborhood. Pretty much the only kids that use the park are toddlers who's mothers take them there. Suburban sprawl doesn't make it difficult for children to find playmates and a place to play. It is exactly the opposite. It gives them MORE places to play. The lack of neighborhood playmates comes from the recent trend of anti-sprawl. It is the jamming of houses together so tight that no one has a back yard. The fact that population density is so great that it is no longer safe for kids to play in the street. This combined with the fact that parents are terrified of letting their kids out of their sight, they can't go to the neighborhood parks.
I challenge you to play Fruit Ninja and Whack a Rabbid on the Kinect for a couple of hours without raising your heart rate. Sure you could just lose, but if you are actually playing the game, you are going to get a pretty serious workout.
The whole "outside" thing has become problematic because our culture has demonized and often criminalized youth being self sufficient. When I was in kindergarten in the 70's, my peers and I could walk home for lunch. By the time I graduated from high school in the late 80's, it was considered far to dangerous for 16, 17 and 18 year olds to leave the school for food. If they did, the police would pick them up, and if it happened too many times, the teen's parents could find themselves in court.
The majority of parents have been convinced that letting a child walk to the park and play without the parent sitting there the entire time is literally child abuse. This means that even when kids are allowed to be self sufficient enough to walk down to the park, there are no other kids their because they have all been locked up in "after school programs" or daycare.
I'm not. The kids are probably spending their time playing more popular games that don't involve exercise. They gave the kids their choice of run their course active games, or still popular inactive games. There study was designed for a few years ago. To do this study today, they would have needed to use a Kinect.
When my family of 3 goes to McDonald's, we either order 6 double cheeseburgers and 2 larger drinks for a total of $8. ($6 in food) or we order. Other times we will order a 20 piece chicken nugget pack at $5 and 2 double cheeseburgers at $2 for a total of $7 in food. When we eat pizza, we generally buy a large pizza from Little Ceasers at $5. So, cheap fast food for our family of 3 is $5-$8. This kind of ordering also makes the meals dramatically more healthy. The two real problems with fast food are the french fries and Cola since they are both just sugar.
Talking to my wife who does most of our grocery shopping, she confirms your price on vegetables with a nice verity of choices. If you go up to $1.50, the choices expand dramatically. On the chicken, you are too low though. $1.99 is going to be for cheap whole fryers. That means that almost a 3rd of the per pound price is going to be for inedible parts of the chicken, like bone. While having vegetables is certainly important, it isn't important to get every type of food in every meal. While I wouldn't suggest people eat no vegetables, your home cooked meal example is not significantly healthier than my meal at McDonald's example. They are close enough that how the meal at home is prepared could put it above or below the nutritional level of the McDonald's meal.
Price wise it is a wash. Unless you start looking at incredibly unhealthy foods like rice or pasta, the cost of cooking at home is close enough that the claim of home cooking being cheaper is a myth.
That being said, even at a wash in price, that leaves it as an issue of whether people want to make the effort to eat healthy. Unfortunately, the problem gets escalated by the fact that very few people are willing to have honest discussions about healthy diet, and even worse, healthy weight. For example, my "healthy weight" as defined by our government/insurance/medical industries is between approximately 3% and -15% body fat. Yep. That's right. Negative body fat. Our experts are telling people that they are obese at 8% body fat, and that the solution is to switch to a 90% sugar diet.
Yes, it is sad how retarded children are today. Even worse is that it is often illegal to raise your children correctly as the government often mandates retarding your child's development.
Around these parts, a pizza can always be purchased for $5, so you are already wrong. Rice and bread are terrible for you. If your going to eat them, you don't really have much room for complaining about pizza. When you stick to the healthy, meat and vegetables, your price goes up.
You are comparing expensive fast food to cheap eating in.
While I agree that diet will certainly effect your ability to think, and general energy levels, I am not convinced that things will play out like you think. What kids (and adults) are currently being taught are 'healthy' foods are so far out of whack that I don't see the wealthy coming out dramatically ahead.
Your list is a good example. Yes, Pizza and Cereal are terrible for you, but the idea that somehow your food being cooked in your own home magically makes it healthier than if it is cooked in a restaurant, shows how far off people can get in understanding food. There is also the fact that the population is been trained to think that an all sugar/no fat diet is somehow healthy. This will likely lead to those that can afford to feed their children healthy food, choosing foods that are unhealthy, while patting themselves on the back for being such great parents.
Yes. For good or bad, the whole point of hate crime laws are enforcing thoughtcrime.
I live in CA, so the electricity cost of running a P4 is more expensive than just buying a new computer.
Your nice to your kids. About week after my son's 2rd birthday I formatted his hard drive and gave him a CD with Ubuntu on it. This is a big reason why I call people who claim Linux is 'Hard to install' aggressively ignorant. If a 2 year old can install it, even before they can read, any adult without mental handicaps should have no problem.
For the same reason that they use any other tools like crayons, pencils, light switches, books, etc.....
I realize that we live in an age of aggressive ignorance, but usually people at least pretend that they are not doing it on purpose.
At $300 for a decent brand new machine, it makes sense to get a new machine for even small kids. Sure there are some people that just cannot afford it, but for most of us, spending $300 every couple of years on our kids isn't really that big of a burden.
Have you used T-Mobile? Their service is far and above better than AT&T and Verizon (who I would rate as poor for service). Their data speeds are very good also. Am I out of the loop and Verizon/AT&T offering 10MBit lines? T-Mobile gives me 2 MBit on bad days and as much as 5+ on good days. Is that now considered poor?
While I don't have any complaints about Sonic, they have been rolling this out for 3 or 4 years, and still are only supplying to customers in a very small area. I would love to switch back to Sonic with a gigabit connection, but won't be holding my breath waiting for it to reach across town. It may be another decade before they cover the city, if they ever do.
Not to mention that the vast majority of illness/injury are already self diagnosed and self treated. Can you imagine if every time you got a headache or your kid scratched themselves while playing, you rushed off to the doctor?
I am trying to be funny, but in the "funny because it's true" sort of way.
I get it completely. If you use the definition of "if the customer is not location-aware and can self-service on-demand, it is cloud", then cloud is old news. It has been widely available for decades, and has gone by many other names. The name 'cloud' is a direct misunderstanding of the network diagram image that indicated a part of the network that was you do not have control or understand of. The cloud represented something that your data could pass through, but that you could not see through.
I like to go with the original definition. If you know what is being done with your data, it isn't a 'cloud'.