Only problem... you can't play the version being offered with blizzard.
Everquest, Wow, and many other games have a flow and a golden age.
The flow comes from the timing and release of expansions. The golden age is a moment when everything is perfect.
For EQ it was probably the plane of time. After that things got weird and repetitive. But everything thru the plane of time was just incredible and part of a a big story that culminated there.
I never played wow but knowing this is a historical server-- the same thing is probably true.
Blizard doesn't offer the game this way. I.e. starting with the base game and then ever 6 to 12 months offering the next expansion and stopping right before things got silly or weird.
Summary is 20% loss after a little less than 3 years (like losing 5mpg to 10mpg in a gasoline car). Also, a substantial group losing 30% in 800 days. And with a dozen losing 40% in only 800 days.
And this is a pro electric car site using actual data.
I'm skeptical. My battery powered electric devices have shorter lifespans.
If it's as good as they say, I'd want an extended warranty from the manufacturer backing up the promise with a replacement battery.
90% is crazy talk. No battery lasts 20 years with 90% capacity.
I think the other person responding with 20% after 100k miles is more reasonable. But even that is high compared to figures I've seen discussed on some Tesla boards and may be a 'best case'.
This site shows 80% capacity after three years (900 days) with MANY data points near 60% capacity. http://www.hybridcars.com/stud...
I've heard that the range of an 8 year battery is degraded enough that most people won't be able to use the car except for short in town commutes. To that point, I've seen estimates of as little as 50% capacity at the 8 year mark on Tesla discussion boards.
But, I put the question mark there so people who had better facts (not just opinions) could respond with facts and give me correct or updated information.
The best way to get information on the internet is not to ask a question (you just get crickets). It is to make a statement. Then people will move heaven and earth and spend lots of time researching to contradict what you said.
I would love to own an electric car. But I know how fast batteries go bad on all my other devices so this is a big concern on such a big ticket item.
A) Many people DO keep gasoline cars going for 15 to 20 years.
therefore
B) a gas car CAN (it is POSSIBLE) keep going for 15 to 20 years.
Lots of people a) Get into accidents (Huge affect on "average" car life expectancy). b) Don't do proper maintenance c) Drive the car to death d) Choose not to repair it when a $2,000 repair could keep the car going another 100,000 miles.
so applying these factors to the tesla a) Get into accidents (Huge affect on "average" car life expectancy). (Yup) b) Don't do proper maintenance (Don't know) c) Drive the car to death (Yup!) d) Choose not to repair it when a $2,000 repair could keep the car going another 100,000 miles. (Probably).
So lighten up man. You intentionally misrepresented my post to make a weak point based on a lot of factors we have no clue about yet.
The brain has a lot of short cuts for speed (See a book called Brain Bugs.)
There is plenty of evidence that the brain is it. There is no supernatural or extra dimensional component to the brain.
I suspect that parts of the brain are procedural and deterministic but with shortcuts. Other parts are parallel and other parts are neural networks. There may be parts we dont' understand how to model yet too. But progress is faster now than in the past.
Every year I see more AI goalstones met and then declared to not be real AI.
Many of the notes, chords, colors, and expressions which elicit emotion are now known and can be automated. A computer can generate original 'sad' or 'inspiring' music without human input. And that's without much in the way of A.I. either.
speaking of flat tires, have you seen "Rubber"?
I feel like we are closing in faster on A.I. over the last 5 years than the prior 20 years. The brain is a collection of many subsystems integrated in the claustrum.
Brain injuries are especially instructive.
Functional but non concious A.I. is happening as we speak. Just under half the jobs in society can be automated over the next two decades. That is much faster than society can adapt.
"The man in the cowboy hat can be heard saying loudly, âoeNo way! No way, you motherfucker. You ainâ(TM)t doinâ(TM) that fucking shit, motherfucker.â" (As the crowd rushes to the guy in the pink shirt's aid and takes down the drunk redneck)
Personally, I suspect that drunk violent assholes attack gays (and often people they merely think are gay who are not actually gay) for two reasons. 1) They are drunk violent assholes. 2) They are struggling with homosexual desires and filled with fear, anger, and hatred as a result.
Jeremy Todd Addaway is a self described redneck who posted a video supporting gay rights after the gay marriage laws successfully passed in Alabama. So #notallrednecks
So I guess we are dealing with an overloaded word.
Redneck 1) Someone who's neck is red from working outdoors, usually in blue color labor or farming. Usually lacks a college education. 2) Someone who may have a red or white neck and who may have a college education but who hates gays. 3) Someone who is conservative and from a rural area and hates gays. Perhaps because they have sexual attraction to the same sex. 3) Someone who is liberal or conservative and from a rural area and who has no problems with gays.
We've had wealthy, conservative, young assholes beat travel 30 miles to beat young gay men to death in my home town. In the worst incident, a couple decades ago the police were actually dumb enough to say, "they had no intention of solving the [gay] murder". Ultimately the murderer was sentenced to a 45 year prison term and his accomplices served shorter terms. They were not "rednecks".
That said... some redneck jokes
You might be a Redneck if...
A night on the town includes city jail.
All of your relatives' cars have "Tag Stolen" signs in the rear window.
All of your relatives would have to die to wipe out illiteracy.
All your tupperware is old butter containers.
All your wall decorations have horns on them.
All your wedding guests were seated on the same side of the church.
Any of your children are the result of a conjugal visit.
Counting sheep makes you more aroused than sleepy.
Coworkers start a petition over your coffee cup.
Directions to your house include "turn off the paved road."
Drying your clothes depends on the weather.
As a citizen of texas, I'm glad Paypay is doing this.
Sorry you guys are having to deal with that. You need to take action to get out the vote.
But companies moving away gets politician's attention quicker than voters these days.
I personally identify with the age discrimination issue. I've seen it happen to many people over my lifetime and knew it was waiting for me so I saved hard. It's very difficult to get to actual retirement age in many fields.
There is a peak for every non renewable resource at a certain cost.
Once alternatives are found for that non-renewable resource then demand for it at the higher prices will collapse.
There is plenty of gold available at $10,000 per oz. But we'll probably never mine it.
Alternative energy and electric cars are collapsing the maximum price of oil. There may be lots of oil available at $200 a barrel-- but we may never collect it.
Making or downloading a copy is generally not a criminal action. Distributing a copy is the criminal action. However downloading a copy does open you to civil lawsuits.
Currently, copyright enforcers focus on highly active people but there is always a chance you'll be sued for being unlucky for the one download you made ever in your life.
However, the copyright enforcers have some barriers to overcome.
1) The concept that "an i.p. is the same as a fingerprint" has been killed so they have to prove it was you that did the download. 2) They need to have evidence that the data is in your possession. 3) Which means they are going to engage in an expensive legal process to have a warrant served by sheriffs who enter your house and take your computing equipment. 4) But be aware that even if it wasn't you, the file isn't on your computer, etc. etc., you could still be out thousands of dollars in legal fees.
So they mostly focus on heavy downloaders since suing a single mom for something the teenage neighbor downloaded thru their unsecured wi-fi is bad publicity
No we can't all agree it's theft. It's copyright infringement.
Battery is not assault.
Kidnapping is not murder.
Copyright infringement is way down. The growing entertainment glut has more to do with falling sales in particular industries.
I'm retired and I *literally* can't keep up with the entertainment options that I'm interested in (much less the entire field of entertainment).
So I start by choosing the less expensive entertainment. And voila, a lot of the expensive entertainment is inexpensive by the time I get to it... if I ever get to it.
People who used to pirate terabytes of material a decade ago don't pirate, or pirate only a few items per year now, and never even used/watched 95% of the stuff they pirated back in the day.
We are not better off with the justice system once it was bought by corporations. That's why people have lost respect for the law. Every time the copyright on Disney's snow white is extended, it makes people respect copyright law less. Disney took something from the public domain, and then did not return their own creation to the public domain for other creators to use in the future.
Quitting cold turkey can give some people permanent incurable migraines.
Better to ease off it. Get down to a half a cup (or even a quarter cup) per day before you go cold turkey.
Given the (low) risk of a (horrible, drastic, life ruining) event, I'd be very cautious. I might even cut back by 50% every 3 days until I was down to a tablespoon.
But for a decade or two it can be extremely painful and people did die homeless and of exposure as a result of the industrial revolution. While the people after them got jobs, they got no training and thus had no employment. Close to 10,000 of them in england revolted and were put down by the army.
Likewise, rising productivity was a major factor in the decade long destruction of the lives of 25% of the population of u.s. citizens in the early 20th century.
However, for the long term, the club of rome predicted the collapse of the economy and mass death starting in 2030 in the "limits to growth".
And a lot of their other predictions were accurate or didn't go far enough.
Oh i get it. This is slashdot.
You didn't bother reading the actual article so you don't understand the context for my comment.
The article we discussed is based on BMI. And estimates at that.
Here: From the study.
Background
Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. We estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population distribution, and in the prevalences of a complete set of BMI categories for adults in all countries.
This despite the fact that problems with BMI have been known for decades.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/how-...Further, BMI does not take into account age, gender, or muscle mass. Nor does it distinguish between lean body mass and fat mass. As a result, some people, such as heavily muscled athletes, may have a high BMI even though they don't have a high percentage of body fat. In others, such as elderly people, BMI may appear normal even though muscle has been lost with aging.
Take for example, basketball player Michael Jordan: ''When he was in his prime, his BMI was 27-29, classifying him as overweight, yet his waist size was less than 30,'' says Michael Roizen, MD.
That's one reason some experts think waist circumference can be a better overall health measurement than BMI.
So they estimated trends based on something that doesn't take into account age, gender, or muscle mass.
It may not be true for slashdotters generally, but it's always been true for me. Despite low body fat and the ability to play ultimate frisbee or downhill skill 6 to 8 hours a day, I was always "obese" by BMI measures so I hold the measure in disdain.
At best, the study merits looking in deeper with measurements that are accurate and reliable.
Anyway.. of for a mini-vacation so we are probably done here.
The incidence (not survival) of every major cancer variety except bladder cancer went up from 1971 to 2003.
Rising pseudo-estrogens, declining nutrient levels in raw vegetables, declining nutrient values in various raw meats, and sharply declining nutrient values in processed foods contributed. Lack of adequate sleep was also a factor.
It's true for men too.
Several factors. 1) Cost cutting. You can compare the list of more expensive foods to cheaper foods and the more expensive foods are made of food while the cheaper foods are made of weird stuff. For example: Soy sauce can be "Soy + water + salt" or "soy and corn protein, caramel coloring, high fructose corn syrup, salt, yada yada yada". They make some franken food that looks like and sort of tastes like real food but which is much cheaper.
2) Burned out soil. While we raise the amount of fruits and vegetables we get out of a plot of soil- the nutrients are being leached out by over farming. We are losing topsoil in the U.S.
3) Use of anti-biotics, cages resulting in unhealthy bloated animals.
4) Water. Lots and lots of water. Ham and chicken can be as high as 32% water now. It's not really as cheap as it seems since the water boils off in cooking so a pound of chicken has the nutrition of 2/3 of a pound of chicken.
5) Non-GMO fruit and vegetables bred for high shelf life with higher cellulose content than fruit and vegetables used to have. For humans, cellulose is not a nutrient.
it doesn't matter so much once you hit the last 15 years of your life. it might make a difference of a year or two. but for kids, it can have a huge effect. Especially the psuedo-estrogens.
There are many studies showing minimum wage in the united states isn't tightly correlated to unemployment. Clearly, logically, it could be. $15 is probably about $3 higher than it should be adjusted for inflation but $8 was $4 lower than it should be adjusted for inflation.
The problem with using inflation indices is that causes everyone in both parties to start manipulating the inflation indicator. Our CPI has specifically had high inflation consumer items removed several times and replaced with lower inflation items to artificially understate inflation.
I know milk is up 33% in the last 3 years. A lot of food is up over 20% in the last 3 years. Yet, it's not showing up in CPI. So high inflation for poor people (who spend a lot on food) but low inflation indicator due to items which poor people don't buy often (like brand new cars).
Thousands of chinese noodle chefs making well below poverty wages spurred automation.
Of course $15 an hour is going to spur automation. Hopefully it will make what's happening come to a boil quickly instead of slowly so people will actually admit that hundreds of millions of (and likely 1 to 2 billion) humans will be put out of work by automation over the next 30 years.
And then we can get on to actually dealing a society which shares the wealth with those unable to work or do what we've always done (including with the luddites) and allow them to die homeless, starving, of exposure and the population will drop rapidly like it did with horses in america (52 million to under 3 million in 1 human generation).
It's likely to be violent. The luddites were put down by the army. But there were less than 20,000 of them. This is going to affect close to 40% of the population.
And we'll have plenty of resources, building housing will be dirt cheap (esp with large 3d printing machines)... so it really will be about greed on the part of those who do have jobs. Countries like Norway will have less civil unrest at first but may be flooded with refugees and collapse under the pressure.
I'm not advocating this-- I'm saying open your eyes. Either we go to a post capitalist society, provide free automated college level and free skills (electrician, painting, plumbgin, etc.) education at all times, food, housing, or it's going to be a miserable bloody mess.
Robots and automated systems costing UNDER $20,000 are already replacing large numbers human employees and generally all the saved money doesn't yet go to lower prices or higher return on capital (i.e. stock returns*) but instead goes to increased executive pay, massive political donations, and plush marble and granite corporate headquarters.
$15 minimum wage will speed penetration up slightly (in most cases the jobs are paying $10 to $12 anyway) but the penetration is going to happen regardless unless you got wages down below $390 per month.
Slashdot Mirror
Ain't cognitive dissonance grand?
Only problem...
you can't play the version being offered with blizzard.
Everquest, Wow, and many other games have a flow and a golden age.
The flow comes from the timing and release of expansions.
The golden age is a moment when everything is perfect.
For EQ it was probably the plane of time. After that things got weird and repetitive. But everything thru the plane of time was just incredible and part of a a big story that culminated there.
I never played wow but knowing this is a historical server-- the same thing is probably true.
Blizard doesn't offer the game this way. I.e. starting with the base game and then ever 6 to 12 months offering the next expansion and stopping right before things got silly or weird.
Well I saw lower figures but also found this while discussing this post.
http://www.hybridcars.com/stud...
Summary is 20% loss after a little less than 3 years (like losing 5mpg to 10mpg in a gasoline car).
Also, a substantial group losing 30% in 800 days.
And with a dozen losing 40% in only 800 days.
And this is a pro electric car site using actual data.
I'm skeptical. My battery powered electric devices have shorter lifespans.
If it's as good as they say, I'd want an extended warranty from the manufacturer backing up the promise with a replacement battery.
90% is crazy talk. No battery lasts 20 years with 90% capacity.
I think the other person responding with 20% after 100k miles is more reasonable. But even that is high compared to figures I've seen discussed on some Tesla boards and may be a 'best case'.
This site shows 80% capacity after three years (900 days) with MANY data points near 60% capacity.
http://www.hybridcars.com/stud...
I've heard that the range of an 8 year battery is degraded enough that most people won't be able to use the car except for short in town commutes. To that point, I've seen estimates of as little as 50% capacity at the 8 year mark on Tesla discussion boards.
But, I put the question mark there so people who had better facts (not just opinions) could respond with facts and give me correct or updated information.
The best way to get information on the internet is not to ask a question (you just get crickets). It is to make a statement. Then people will move heaven and earth and spend lots of time researching to contradict what you said.
I would love to own an electric car. But I know how fast batteries go bad on all my other devices so this is a big concern on such a big ticket item.
A) Many people DO keep gasoline cars going for 15 to 20 years.
therefore
B) a gas car CAN (it is POSSIBLE) keep going for 15 to 20 years.
Lots of people
a) Get into accidents (Huge affect on "average" car life expectancy).
b) Don't do proper maintenance
c) Drive the car to death
d) Choose not to repair it when a $2,000 repair could keep the car going another 100,000 miles.
so applying these factors to the tesla
a) Get into accidents (Huge affect on "average" car life expectancy). (Yup)
b) Don't do proper maintenance (Don't know)
c) Drive the car to death (Yup!)
d) Choose not to repair it when a $2,000 repair could keep the car going another 100,000 miles. (Probably).
So lighten up man. You intentionally misrepresented my post to make a weak point based on a lot of factors we have no clue about yet.
My one question is durability?
I mean, 8 years and your battery is almost a brick right?
A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.
OTH, maybe battery prices will drop by 90% over the next 8 years. In which case, no problem.
The brain has a lot of short cuts for speed (See a book called Brain Bugs.)
There is plenty of evidence that the brain is it. There is no supernatural or extra dimensional component to the brain.
I suspect that parts of the brain are procedural and deterministic but with shortcuts. Other parts are parallel and other parts are neural networks. There may be parts we dont' understand how to model yet too. But progress is faster now than in the past.
Every year I see more AI goalstones met and then declared to not be real AI.
A.I. can elicit emotion easily.
Many of the notes, chords, colors, and expressions which elicit emotion are now known and can be automated. A computer can generate original 'sad' or 'inspiring' music without human input. And that's without much in the way of A.I. either.
speaking of flat tires, have you seen "Rubber"?
I feel like we are closing in faster on A.I. over the last 5 years than the prior 20 years. The brain is a collection of many subsystems integrated in the claustrum.
Brain injuries are especially instructive.
Functional but non concious A.I. is happening as we speak. Just under half the jobs in society can be automated over the next two decades. That is much faster than society can adapt.
Government oppression is just as dangerous (and can result in the death of millions of people).
Terrorist attacks become cheaper and potentially deadlier with each passing year.
At some point, something's going to give. It's likely to be group guilt by association (as in WW2).
I'm still for strong encryption now.
Call me back when we lose a city tho.
Good point. It's wrong to stereotype rednecks generally.
Except if a defining trait of rednecks is that they are violent against gay and trans people when drunk.
like this particular guy..
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2...
I love the crowd's reaction in this case. :) :)
"The man in the cowboy hat can be heard saying loudly, âoeNo way! No way, you motherfucker. You ainâ(TM)t doinâ(TM) that fucking shit, motherfucker.â" (As the crowd rushes to the guy in the pink shirt's aid and takes down the drunk redneck)
Personally, I suspect that drunk violent assholes attack gays (and often people they merely think are gay who are not actually gay) for two reasons.
1) They are drunk violent assholes.
2) They are struggling with homosexual desires and filled with fear, anger, and hatred as a result.
Jeremy Todd Addaway is a self described redneck who posted a video supporting gay rights after the gay marriage laws successfully passed in Alabama. So #notallrednecks
So I guess we are dealing with an overloaded word.
Redneck
1) Someone who's neck is red from working outdoors, usually in blue color labor or farming. Usually lacks a college education.
2) Someone who may have a red or white neck and who may have a college education but who hates gays.
3) Someone who is conservative and from a rural area and hates gays. Perhaps because they have sexual attraction to the same sex.
3) Someone who is liberal or conservative and from a rural area and who has no problems with gays.
We've had wealthy, conservative, young assholes beat travel 30 miles to beat young gay men to death in my home town. In the worst incident, a couple decades ago the police were actually dumb enough to say, "they had no intention of solving the [gay] murder". Ultimately the murderer was sentenced to a 45 year prison term and his accomplices served shorter terms. They were not "rednecks".
That said... some redneck jokes
You might be a Redneck if ...
A night on the town includes city jail.
All of your relatives' cars have "Tag Stolen" signs in the rear window.
All of your relatives would have to die to wipe out illiteracy.
All your tupperware is old butter containers.
All your wall decorations have horns on them.
All your wedding guests were seated on the same side of the church.
Any of your children are the result of a conjugal visit.
Counting sheep makes you more aroused than sleepy.
Coworkers start a petition over your coffee cup.
Directions to your house include "turn off the paved road."
Drying your clothes depends on the weather.
As a citizen of texas, I'm glad Paypay is doing this.
Sorry you guys are having to deal with that. You need to take action to get out the vote.
But companies moving away gets politician's attention quicker than voters these days.
I personally identify with the age discrimination issue. I've seen it happen to many people over my lifetime and knew it was waiting for me so I saved hard. It's very difficult to get to actual retirement age in many fields.
There is a peak for every non renewable resource at a certain cost.
Once alternatives are found for that non-renewable resource then demand for it at the higher prices will collapse.
There is plenty of gold available at $10,000 per oz. But we'll probably never mine it.
Alternative energy and electric cars are collapsing the maximum price of oil. There may be lots of oil available at $200 a barrel-- but we may never collect it.
Making or downloading a copy is generally not a criminal action. Distributing a copy is the criminal action.
However downloading a copy does open you to civil lawsuits.
http://blogs.findlaw.com/blott...
Currently, copyright enforcers focus on highly active people but there is always a chance you'll be sued for being unlucky for the one download you made ever in your life.
However, the copyright enforcers have some barriers to overcome.
1) The concept that "an i.p. is the same as a fingerprint" has been killed so they have to prove it was you that did the download.
2) They need to have evidence that the data is in your possession.
3) Which means they are going to engage in an expensive legal process to have a warrant served by sheriffs who enter your house and take your computing equipment.
4) But be aware that even if it wasn't you, the file isn't on your computer, etc. etc., you could still be out thousands of dollars in legal fees.
So they mostly focus on heavy downloaders since suing a single mom for something the teenage neighbor downloaded thru their unsecured wi-fi is bad publicity
No we can't all agree it's theft. It's copyright infringement.
Battery is not assault.
Kidnapping is not murder.
Copyright infringement is way down. The growing entertainment glut has more to do with falling sales in particular industries.
I'm retired and I *literally* can't keep up with the entertainment options that I'm interested in (much less the entire field of entertainment).
So I start by choosing the less expensive entertainment. And voila, a lot of the expensive entertainment is inexpensive by the time I get to it... if I ever get to it.
People who used to pirate terabytes of material a decade ago don't pirate, or pirate only a few items per year now, and never even used/watched 95% of the stuff they pirated back in the day.
We are not better off with the justice system once it was bought by corporations. That's why people have lost respect for the law. Every time the copyright on Disney's snow white is extended, it makes people respect copyright law less. Disney took something from the public domain, and then did not return their own creation to the public domain for other creators to use in the future.
That's wrong.
Not advisable to quit caffeine cold turkey.
Quitting cold turkey can give some people permanent incurable migraines.
Better to ease off it. Get down to a half a cup (or even a quarter cup) per day before you go cold turkey.
Given the (low) risk of a (horrible, drastic, life ruining) event, I'd be very cautious. I might even cut back by 50% every 3 days until I was down to a tablespoon.
You are probably right for the long term.
But for a decade or two it can be extremely painful and people did die homeless and of exposure as a result of the industrial revolution. While the people after them got jobs, they got no training and thus had no employment. Close to 10,000 of them in england revolted and were put down by the army.
Likewise, rising productivity was a major factor in the decade long destruction of the lives of 25% of the population of u.s. citizens in the early 20th century.
However, for the long term, the club of rome predicted the collapse of the economy and mass death starting in 2030 in the "limits to growth".
And a lot of their other predictions were accurate or didn't go far enough.
The book is hosted here:
http://collections.dartmouth.e...
The predictions updated thru 2010 are here:
http://www.thwink.org/sustain/...
Even if you don't believe in the club of rome and the limits to growth, a lot of wealthy and powerful people do believe and that effects you.
Oh i get it. This is slashdot. You didn't bother reading the actual article so you don't understand the context for my comment. The article we discussed is based on BMI. And estimates at that. Here: From the study. Background Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. We estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population distribution, and in the prevalences of a complete set of BMI categories for adults in all countries. This despite the fact that problems with BMI have been known for decades. http://www.webmd.com/diet/how-... Further, BMI does not take into account age, gender, or muscle mass. Nor does it distinguish between lean body mass and fat mass. As a result, some people, such as heavily muscled athletes, may have a high BMI even though they don't have a high percentage of body fat. In others, such as elderly people, BMI may appear normal even though muscle has been lost with aging. Take for example, basketball player Michael Jordan: ''When he was in his prime, his BMI was 27-29, classifying him as overweight, yet his waist size was less than 30,'' says Michael Roizen, MD. That's one reason some experts think waist circumference can be a better overall health measurement than BMI. So they estimated trends based on something that doesn't take into account age, gender, or muscle mass. It may not be true for slashdotters generally, but it's always been true for me. Despite low body fat and the ability to play ultimate frisbee or downhill skill 6 to 8 hours a day, I was always "obese" by BMI measures so I hold the measure in disdain. At best, the study merits looking in deeper with measurements that are accurate and reliable. Anyway.. of for a mini-vacation so we are probably done here.
Cancer incidents, among children, in the 1st world, has been rising since the 1970s.
Here's a nice graph for UK.
http://healthandenvironmentblo...
The incidence (not survival) of every major cancer variety except bladder cancer went up from 1971 to 2003.
Rising pseudo-estrogens, declining nutrient levels in raw vegetables, declining nutrient values in various raw meats, and sharply declining nutrient values in processed foods contributed. Lack of adequate sleep was also a factor.
It's true for men too.
Several factors.
1) Cost cutting. You can compare the list of more expensive foods to cheaper foods and the more expensive foods are made of food while the cheaper foods are made of weird stuff. For example: Soy sauce can be "Soy + water + salt" or "soy and corn protein, caramel coloring, high fructose corn syrup, salt, yada yada yada". They make some franken food that looks like and sort of tastes like real food but which is much cheaper.
2) Burned out soil. While we raise the amount of fruits and vegetables we get out of a plot of soil- the nutrients are being leached out by over farming. We are losing topsoil in the U.S.
3) Use of anti-biotics, cages resulting in unhealthy bloated animals.
4) Water. Lots and lots of water. Ham and chicken can be as high as 32% water now. It's not really as cheap as it seems since the water boils off in cooking so a pound of chicken has the nutrition of 2/3 of a pound of chicken.
5) Non-GMO fruit and vegetables bred for high shelf life with higher cellulose content than fruit and vegetables used to have. For humans, cellulose is not a nutrient.
it doesn't matter so much once you hit the last 15 years of your life. it might make a difference of a year or two. but for kids, it can have a huge effect. Especially the psuedo-estrogens.
If your BMI is over 29.9, they don't care if it's fat or muscle. You are obese.
The only way to really judge obesity is with a density test.
% body fat is a much better method than BMI.
At their peak physical condition, actors Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone were technically âoeobeseâ per the BMI measure.
You could use me as an anatomy model. You can see individual fibers of the muscles on my body move independently.
I'm technically obese.
Just saying- we have a lot of fit people these days who are classified as obese.
A gallon of milk costs $6 in Texas now.
A half gallon costs between $2.68 and $3.85.
You can get milk cheaper at $1.75 a half gallon but it goes bad in 7 days so you have to drink it quickly.
There are many studies showing minimum wage in the united states isn't tightly correlated to unemployment. Clearly, logically, it could be. $15 is probably about $3 higher than it should be adjusted for inflation but $8 was $4 lower than it should be adjusted for inflation.
The problem with using inflation indices is that causes everyone in both parties to start manipulating the inflation indicator. Our CPI has specifically had high inflation consumer items removed several times and replaced with lower inflation items to artificially understate inflation.
I know milk is up 33% in the last 3 years. A lot of food is up over 20% in the last 3 years. Yet, it's not showing up in CPI. So high inflation for poor people (who spend a lot on food) but low inflation indicator due to items which poor people don't buy often (like brand new cars).
I don't understand your response to my comment. Care to explain?
Thousands of chinese noodle chefs making well below poverty wages spurred automation.
Of course $15 an hour is going to spur automation. Hopefully it will make what's happening come to a boil quickly instead of slowly so people will actually admit that hundreds of millions of (and likely 1 to 2 billion) humans will be put out of work by automation over the next 30 years.
And then we can get on to actually dealing a society which shares the wealth with those unable to work or do what we've always done (including with the luddites) and allow them to die homeless, starving, of exposure and the population will drop rapidly like it did with horses in america (52 million to under 3 million in 1 human generation).
It's likely to be violent. The luddites were put down by the army. But there were less than 20,000 of them. This is going to affect close to 40% of the population.
And we'll have plenty of resources, building housing will be dirt cheap (esp with large 3d printing machines)... so it really will be about greed on the part of those who do have jobs. Countries like Norway will have less civil unrest at first but may be flooded with refugees and collapse under the pressure.
I'm not advocating this-- I'm saying open your eyes. Either we go to a post capitalist society, provide free automated college level and free skills (electrician, painting, plumbgin, etc.) education at all times, food, housing, or it's going to be a miserable bloody mess.
Robots and automated systems costing UNDER $20,000 are already replacing large numbers human employees and generally all the saved money doesn't yet go to lower prices or higher return on capital (i.e. stock returns*) but instead goes to increased executive pay, massive political donations, and plush marble and granite corporate headquarters.
$15 minimum wage will speed penetration up slightly (in most cases the jobs are paying $10 to $12 anyway) but the penetration is going to happen regardless unless you got wages down below $390 per month.