You are correct that my planning wasn't that great, the other factor is even with ultralight gear previous injuries I had were causing me to lean heavily toward low pack weight even for food. I just wasn't strong enough. I may have exaggerated 1800, but no more than 2500 to be sure. When I was in town I probably had about 3000, but I found my stomach had shrunk by then and I couldn't even eat all that I imagined I wanted to.
I don't know. I do science work so the government can circumvent our privacy and kill people more efficiently, our grants are always flowing full-tap! You should switch disciplines!
I knew what hunger was before. The deal is you can only carry so much food between re-supply points, and it without a doubt is not a enough. Up to 4-5 days, all that food on your back plus the days water means not very much food a day. If you burn 5000 calories a day but consume 1800 for enough days, you will start to starve. Slowly, of course, and never completely in the case of a long distance hike. I literally just couldn't carry enough to sustain me or heal the small injuries I was getting from hiking for 18 hours a day. Someone starving who is not on the move is in a very different way because they would do much better with less available nutrition (not just calories but minerals and vitamins). Where you draw the border between hungry and starving is blurry. Headaches? Diziness? Losing ability to form sentences? Focusing eyes becoming difficult? Vivid day-dreams, dreams and cravings that never seem to end? I only suggest you try something similar before telling me what I "know of". Do you know of starvation? If not then how do you know I don't? No qualifiers, no explanations, just "no you don't", and anonymous coward as well. Tell us about your days in the bush, a 3rd world country, or when the food stamps ran out or get out of here man.
I tried to hike the Pacific Crest Trail once, it's the one that runs from Mexico to Canada through the Desert, then the Sierras. We had to make 15-25+ miles without water (because there was none any closer), and that often meant hiking until or into the dark. I found that my whole appreciation of a campfire was very different than a marshmallow toasting boy scout at those times. As suggested by the summary, I craved the fire to "extend" the ability to talk to my girlfriend when we weren't hiking or preparing to hike, which was the entire day or longer. I suspect it was less ghost story telling and more story telling period. When you spend all the daylight gathering, hunting, getting water, setting up shelter, and preparing food the campfire is sort of like the original dinner table because everyone is there sharing. Not all the tasks were done by all the people, so the ability to come together and talk, perhaps not about "work" (survival) may have been an idea that sprouted back then. As an aside, I never use the word starving any longer, I think I experienced true early starvation for the first time out there. Early human life must have been gritty when things weren't bountiful.
Listen Kommander, stop trying to Kompare the utilitarian five million buttons and menu options apprach into a Karbon14 copy of Apples Xcode. Your out of KTouch with the "Hello K World". Off to play Kolf and Kanagram K guys?. KAYYYYYYYYYYYY
Thats a crazy statement about the battery. That was a defective battery/unit. I had N4 for almost 2 years and it *never* had battery problems anything like you are describing. Not as good as the iphone though, that is definitely true.
He has a point though, about prevailing behavior. It's pretty easy to a license in my state, you never have to prove that you remember anything you once read. Honestly people DO mess up roundabouts, hell they even manage to mess up 4 way stops (the person who waves everyone else to "just go" because they don't even know when its their turn). I'm not sure its an excuse for driverless cars, but I believe he is right.
Yeah, but it's worse here lately than it should be compared to the rest of the civilized world. Admittedly, its a global problem and has been for a long time. It has not, however, been a problem since "humans began reproducing".
"Choose to look like you might be doing something illegal" is one heck of a slippery slope. The problem here is that police can seize cash from you without valid cause. You are right its not a mexico like thing where they are taking $100 off random Canadians. However, you might want to think twice about that 10,000 you have to buy a classic car/motorcycle. And that is what they (the government of the Canada) are saying. That anyone should have to go through such a crazy process to get there money back (prove you aren't a terrorist or drug dealer? isn't the deal here supposed to be they have to prove you are one first?) is a sign that the laws are amiss in favor of the ever-growing local police. The ones that seem less friendly than ever no matter how innocent you are. I'd also like to point out that "This unlawful seizure has only happened in a handful of cases over the last decade" as you mentioned is not necessarily true. Please cite statistics, I believe there have been only a handful of PUBLIC cases, but that's because not everyone is interested in a media circus, guilty or not. How do you know who is guilty and who's not? By if they fight to get the money back? What if it costs more to fight it (say if you... lived in Canada)? Once again, cites please. Lastly, even if this is more PR than reality as far as travelers go, it's a good idea to warn people about US LEOs. We seem to have a very large amount of people in prison compared to any other comparable nation. Is it because we are inherently worse than them? I doubt it.
Bingo on processing though. I've seen some (sorry, this was years ago) pretty interesting studies done in the 20s-30s showing what happened when processed food was introduced to large populations and it looked pretty damning. I have yet to see any evidence that eating the more processed version of ANY grain is as good as an unprocessed version. Sugar, the ultimate refined already a junk food naturally, is probably one of the worst. The problem is how it can end up giving you type 2 diabetes, and how you basically cant get type 2 diabetes without it. Diabetes effects every cell in the body.
Or thought of another way, the problem is that we don't have enough labor protections to get even a guaranteed 2 weeks if you're full time. Let alone that 3 weeks to a month it takes to really mellow out. Sometimes I see more Europeans at my favorite state forest than Americans, let a lone Floridians. We just don't have a culture of recreation and relaxation in the same sense they do, and its very hard to convince some people there really is no point working people to the bone.
And not ONLY binge drinking is bad for you. We define a binge in the US as more than 5 drinks. But we call moderation 1-3 depending on gender and weight. Drinking 5 beers a night if you are a skinny woman is very likely to have detrimental effects, albeit not dramatic ones.
American Heart Association stance on trans fats: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/... .
They are just used because they are cheap and highly shelf stable. Are they on the same realm as smoking? Not quite, but people "like you" were probably the last to admit smoking was bad.
It's hardly any better on a motorcycle (or as a pedestrian). A lot of people never rode bikes or motorbikes *seriously*. They may have taken the huffy for a spin down the block as a kid, but never as an actual commuting tool. So, they don't take seriously the position distracted drivers put them in. I'd rather have someone drunk, or speeding behind me than someone using a fucking laptop, tablet, or cell phone as a cyclist of any stripe. Pedestrians get treated with disrespect and their right of ways get violated regularly too. Maybe if the police actually did pull people over and just *educate* them on these issues instead of being a force used mostly to extract money from the people we could make some progress. Or perhaps if getting and keeping a drivers license in most states wasn't one notch easier than simply turning 16. Like in Germany where a decent % don't make it every time. But alas, I think for some they think driving poorly is some kind of inalienable right.
""Nadella shot back a supportive, equally optimistic response, promising that Microsoft will thrive in "the mobile-first, cloud-first world."""
I'd be pretty surprised if Microsoft was able to worm its way into mobile on anything like the scale it had/has with desktops. Cloud stuff? Perhaps...
It is generally safer to go with the flow of traffic than to obstruct it. In some areas (even just some roads or bridges in an area) enforcement is either difficult or lax. The main bridge between Tampa and St. Pete comes to mind where I live. Far right: 75-80, far left: 90+. Now, I'm not saying no one ever gets a ticket, but those are the speeds they go, and I wouldn't feel very comfortable doing the 65mph limit even in the far right some times, people will then follow way too closely and pass aggressively. It might not be your fault legally buy better to just avoid an accident right? Yes we all know the force in accidents increase exponentially as speed goes up, but that's not the whole story. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm way more scared of the texter or talker than the 10 over guy who's not doing anything aggressive.
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Video, not audio surveillance. The convenience store probably is NOT recording sound.
You are correct that my planning wasn't that great, the other factor is even with ultralight gear previous injuries I had were causing me to lean heavily toward low pack weight even for food. I just wasn't strong enough. I may have exaggerated 1800, but no more than 2500 to be sure. When I was in town I probably had about 3000, but I found my stomach had shrunk by then and I couldn't even eat all that I imagined I wanted to.
Where I was unless you liked rattlesnake I doubt there was much, but I'm definitely no expert and was far from my home.
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I don't know. I do science work so the government can circumvent our privacy and kill people more efficiently, our grants are always flowing full-tap! You should switch disciplines!
I knew what hunger was before. The deal is you can only carry so much food between re-supply points, and it without a doubt is not a enough. Up to 4-5 days, all that food on your back plus the days water means not very much food a day. If you burn 5000 calories a day but consume 1800 for enough days, you will start to starve. Slowly, of course, and never completely in the case of a long distance hike. I literally just couldn't carry enough to sustain me or heal the small injuries I was getting from hiking for 18 hours a day. Someone starving who is not on the move is in a very different way because they would do much better with less available nutrition (not just calories but minerals and vitamins). Where you draw the border between hungry and starving is blurry. Headaches? Diziness? Losing ability to form sentences? Focusing eyes becoming difficult? Vivid day-dreams, dreams and cravings that never seem to end? I only suggest you try something similar before telling me what I "know of". Do you know of starvation? If not then how do you know I don't? No qualifiers, no explanations, just "no you don't", and anonymous coward as well. Tell us about your days in the bush, a 3rd world country, or when the food stamps ran out or get out of here man.
I tried to hike the Pacific Crest Trail once, it's the one that runs from Mexico to Canada through the Desert, then the Sierras. We had to make 15-25+ miles without water (because there was none any closer), and that often meant hiking until or into the dark. I found that my whole appreciation of a campfire was very different than a marshmallow toasting boy scout at those times. As suggested by the summary, I craved the fire to "extend" the ability to talk to my girlfriend when we weren't hiking or preparing to hike, which was the entire day or longer. I suspect it was less ghost story telling and more story telling period. When you spend all the daylight gathering, hunting, getting water, setting up shelter, and preparing food the campfire is sort of like the original dinner table because everyone is there sharing. Not all the tasks were done by all the people, so the ability to come together and talk, perhaps not about "work" (survival) may have been an idea that sprouted back then. As an aside, I never use the word starving any longer, I think I experienced true early starvation for the first time out there. Early human life must have been gritty when things weren't bountiful.
Listen Kommander, stop trying to Kompare the utilitarian five million buttons and menu options apprach into a Karbon14 copy of Apples Xcode. Your out of KTouch with the "Hello K World". Off to play Kolf and Kanagram K guys?. KAYYYYYYYYYYYY
Thats a crazy statement about the battery. That was a defective battery/unit. I had N4 for almost 2 years and it *never* had battery problems anything like you are describing. Not as good as the iphone though, that is definitely true.
He has a point though, about prevailing behavior. It's pretty easy to a license in my state, you never have to prove that you remember anything you once read. Honestly people DO mess up roundabouts, hell they even manage to mess up 4 way stops (the person who waves everyone else to "just go" because they don't even know when its their turn). I'm not sure its an excuse for driverless cars, but I believe he is right.
Wrong. http://www.newyorker.com/magaz....
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
Yeah, but it's worse here lately than it should be compared to the rest of the civilized world. Admittedly, its a global problem and has been for a long time. It has not, however, been a problem since "humans began reproducing".
"Choose to look like you might be doing something illegal" is one heck of a slippery slope. The problem here is that police can seize cash from you without valid cause. You are right its not a mexico like thing where they are taking $100 off random Canadians. However, you might want to think twice about that 10,000 you have to buy a classic car/motorcycle. And that is what they (the government of the Canada) are saying. That anyone should have to go through such a crazy process to get there money back (prove you aren't a terrorist or drug dealer? isn't the deal here supposed to be they have to prove you are one first?) is a sign that the laws are amiss in favor of the ever-growing local police. The ones that seem less friendly than ever no matter how innocent you are. I'd also like to point out that "This unlawful seizure has only happened in a handful of cases over the last decade" as you mentioned is not necessarily true. Please cite statistics, I believe there have been only a handful of PUBLIC cases, but that's because not everyone is interested in a media circus, guilty or not. How do you know who is guilty and who's not? By if they fight to get the money back? What if it costs more to fight it (say if you... lived in Canada)? Once again, cites please. Lastly, even if this is more PR than reality as far as travelers go, it's a good idea to warn people about US LEOs. We seem to have a very large amount of people in prison compared to any other comparable nation. Is it because we are inherently worse than them? I doubt it.
Bingo on processing though. I've seen some (sorry, this was years ago) pretty interesting studies done in the 20s-30s showing what happened when processed food was introduced to large populations and it looked pretty damning. I have yet to see any evidence that eating the more processed version of ANY grain is as good as an unprocessed version. Sugar, the ultimate refined already a junk food naturally, is probably one of the worst. The problem is how it can end up giving you type 2 diabetes, and how you basically cant get type 2 diabetes without it. Diabetes effects every cell in the body.
Or thought of another way, the problem is that we don't have enough labor protections to get even a guaranteed 2 weeks if you're full time. Let alone that 3 weeks to a month it takes to really mellow out. Sometimes I see more Europeans at my favorite state forest than Americans, let a lone Floridians. We just don't have a culture of recreation and relaxation in the same sense they do, and its very hard to convince some people there really is no point working people to the bone.
And not ONLY binge drinking is bad for you. We define a binge in the US as more than 5 drinks. But we call moderation 1-3 depending on gender and weight. Drinking 5 beers a night if you are a skinny woman is very likely to have detrimental effects, albeit not dramatic ones.
American Heart Association stance on trans fats: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/... . They are just used because they are cheap and highly shelf stable. Are they on the same realm as smoking? Not quite, but people "like you" were probably the last to admit smoking was bad.
Replying to undo accidental mod. Completely agree.
It's hardly any better on a motorcycle (or as a pedestrian). A lot of people never rode bikes or motorbikes *seriously*. They may have taken the huffy for a spin down the block as a kid, but never as an actual commuting tool. So, they don't take seriously the position distracted drivers put them in. I'd rather have someone drunk, or speeding behind me than someone using a fucking laptop, tablet, or cell phone as a cyclist of any stripe. Pedestrians get treated with disrespect and their right of ways get violated regularly too. Maybe if the police actually did pull people over and just *educate* them on these issues instead of being a force used mostly to extract money from the people we could make some progress. Or perhaps if getting and keeping a drivers license in most states wasn't one notch easier than simply turning 16. Like in Germany where a decent % don't make it every time. But alas, I think for some they think driving poorly is some kind of inalienable right.
There are cynics everywhere...
Indeed, they do seem to be a large presence in the cloud. But still, mobile?
""Nadella shot back a supportive, equally optimistic response, promising that Microsoft will thrive in "the mobile-first, cloud-first world."""
I'd be pretty surprised if Microsoft was able to worm its way into mobile on anything like the scale it had/has with desktops. Cloud stuff? Perhaps...
Thank you for correcting me, I stand by my point however.
It is generally safer to go with the flow of traffic than to obstruct it. In some areas (even just some roads or bridges in an area) enforcement is either difficult or lax. The main bridge between Tampa and St. Pete comes to mind where I live. Far right: 75-80, far left: 90+. Now, I'm not saying no one ever gets a ticket, but those are the speeds they go, and I wouldn't feel very comfortable doing the 65mph limit even in the far right some times, people will then follow way too closely and pass aggressively. It might not be your fault legally buy better to just avoid an accident right? Yes we all know the force in accidents increase exponentially as speed goes up, but that's not the whole story. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm way more scared of the texter or talker than the 10 over guy who's not doing anything aggressive.