I know, because I've gained and lost weight since I was a teenager.
After slowly regaining lost weight plus a few additional pounds over the past five years, I swelled up to a lifetime maximum of 240 pounds. The reason for the gain was simple - I was taking in more calories than I was expending. Poor portion control, dietary choices, and too much beer and a lack of any real exercise were the cause for my weight gain.
And those have always been the reasons whenever I've gained weight.
It's so simple - if calories consumed is greater than the calories expended, you gain weight. If you burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight until you reach an equilibrium.
I've dropped thirty pounds since the beginning of the year. I did the same way I've always done it - I ate less (and better) and exercised more.
It's never easy at the start, but if you give it 4 weeks you'll notice the difference when you dress in the mornings.
Self-control, positive reinforcement, and the personal decision to see it through are the keys to weight control, NOT government regulation.
Corporations are run by PEOPLE. PEOPLE make the decisions, both bad and good. Not all corporations are evil, just as not all people are evil. And corporations (like, for example, SourceForge, Inc.) make it possible for people to pool their energy to produce something of value and sell it for use by other people, thereby providing J-O-B-S that pay for our homes, our cars, our gasoline, our magna fetish, etc etc etc.
And you'd think the last one hundred years of failure of non-capitalist systems would have convinced people that corporations and the capitalism that makes them possible is what has made our current cushy self-involved lifestyles possible.
Sheesh!
Way back in a previous life, when I was a USAF Recruiter working out of the Reno, Nevada office on Moana Lane, I would occasionally get a UFO report from an excited member of the public. The recruiting office was the only number listed under U.S. Air Force in the Reno phone book because the nearest Air Force base was located across the Sierra Nevada mountains in Sacramento, California.
At first, I tried to explain that the local Air Force recruiting office wasn't the right place to report a UFO sighting, but then I realized what a gift these calls were.
From then on, whenever a UFO report came in, I got as excited as the caller, asking them for details, etc. Then I explained I wasn't the correct office to report UFOs to and then gave them the number to the Nevada Air National Guard's base operations office.
And I always told the caller to not take "no" as answer from whoever answered the phone.
From the Project Orion wikipedia page:
The smallest 4000 ton model planned for ground launch from Jackass Flats, Nevada had each blast add 30 mph (50 km/h) to the craft's velocity. A graphite based oil was to be sprayed on the pusher plate before each explosion to prevent ablation of the pusher plate. This sequence would be repeated thousands of times, like an atomic pogo stick.
Listen up boys and girls. . .
I too remember the bad old days before the Information Revolution. The first facsimile machine I used required a single page being mounted on a drum, a phone dialed (with a real rotary dial!), a person on the other end to pick up (in my case I was calling from Olympia, WA to NY, NY), and both parties to place their handsets on their respective machines before hitting the start button. . .
The WWW has changed the world and is destroying one of the greatest barriers to over-all well-being of mankind - the ability to share information any time with any one. With the exception of the few remaining totalitarian regimes, government can no longer change and shape information as a form of control. But I think the days of hold-back dictatorships like North Korea and Cuba are numbered and the numbers are dwindling. Because at the end of the day all anyone wants is the freedom to pursue their natural right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That's where we have to define what's "propaganda" and what's "public relations". I was enlisted for 23+ years and am no fan of military "journalism" (although there are some excellent military photo-journalists), which is really (and always has been) nothing more than public relations puff-pieces.
But the Department of Defense (and Departments of the Army, Air Force, and Navy) has the same right as any other government agency to produce public relations materials to educate the public on their mission and how they spend taxpayers dollars. As long as they don't blatantly lie and stay out of U.S. politics I don't consider it wrong, illegal, or harmful. Just (usually) boring, banal, and monotonous (as anyone stationed overseas and subjected to the Armed Forces Network will tell you).
. . . to place their propaganda on the internet (ahem, Huffington Post, DailyKos, etc, ad nauseum), then why can't the military use bloggers to post its point of view?
Slashdot Mirror
Heretic.
Prepare to be modded-down into -1 Troll hell.
If we throw something out of balance, Nature will find a way to adjust.
. . . of how small and feeble we are in comparison to Nature. . .
In almost every case, obesity is a choice.
I know, because I've gained and lost weight since I was a teenager.
After slowly regaining lost weight plus a few additional pounds over the past five years, I swelled up to a lifetime maximum of 240 pounds. The reason for the gain was simple - I was taking in more calories than I was expending. Poor portion control, dietary choices, and too much beer and a lack of any real exercise were the cause for my weight gain.
And those have always been the reasons whenever I've gained weight.
It's so simple - if calories consumed is greater than the calories expended, you gain weight. If you burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight until you reach an equilibrium.
I've dropped thirty pounds since the beginning of the year. I did the same way I've always done it - I ate less (and better) and exercised more.
It's never easy at the start, but if you give it 4 weeks you'll notice the difference when you dress in the mornings.
Self-control, positive reinforcement, and the personal decision to see it through are the keys to weight control, NOT government regulation.
Corporations are run by PEOPLE. PEOPLE make the decisions, both bad and good. Not all corporations are evil, just as not all people are evil. And corporations (like, for example, SourceForge, Inc.) make it possible for people to pool their energy to produce something of value and sell it for use by other people, thereby providing J-O-B-S that pay for our homes, our cars, our gasoline, our magna fetish, etc etc etc. And you'd think the last one hundred years of failure of non-capitalist systems would have convinced people that corporations and the capitalism that makes them possible is what has made our current cushy self-involved lifestyles possible. Sheesh!
. . . I had a sudden vision of millions of Microsoft customers' and users' heads-exploding like mine just did.
". . .only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell, assholes.
That's because the idiots think Washington is part of Seattle.
Ask his Smart Guy.
Every time we had to talk to the Army in regards to a technical issue, we were always referred to the "Smart Guy", usually a contractor.
I bet if you look in the Army's Table of Allowances you'll find Smart Guys right next to the beans and bullets.
. . . wouldn't know how to do that.
Although I think he's happier there with a 360-degree view of the Nevada mountains and valleys he grew up in. . .
Starts up fifteen minutes late, reads your e-mail, browses cnn.com, then takes the rest of the day off for "training."
Way back in a previous life, when I was a USAF Recruiter working out of the Reno, Nevada office on Moana Lane, I would occasionally get a UFO report from an excited member of the public. The recruiting office was the only number listed under U.S. Air Force in the Reno phone book because the nearest Air Force base was located across the Sierra Nevada mountains in Sacramento, California.
At first, I tried to explain that the local Air Force recruiting office wasn't the right place to report a UFO sighting, but then I realized what a gift these calls were.
From then on, whenever a UFO report came in, I got as excited as the caller, asking them for details, etc. Then I explained I wasn't the correct office to report UFOs to and then gave them the number to the Nevada Air National Guard's base operations office.
And I always told the caller to not take "no" as answer from whoever answered the phone.
Three middle-aged women talking non-stop about their kids, their husbands, their soon-to-be deceased parents, and did I mention their fucking kids?
Thank God for Mr. Sennheiser and his noise-canceling headphones.
Now, if I could just get rid of my co-workers, life would be perfect. . .
The FIRST thing I'd get rid of is my cell phone, followed by my credit and debit cards. Then I'd buy (with cash) a bus ticket to Winnemucca, Nevada.
It's real easy to disappear when you're in the middle of nowhere.
Just spend a summer in the Hunsruck, where the honey wagons spread the previous winter's manure collection on the fields.
Although, I have to admit, when it comes to stink, nothing beats an open sewer line in summertime Korea.
Listen up boys and girls. . . I too remember the bad old days before the Information Revolution. The first facsimile machine I used required a single page being mounted on a drum, a phone dialed (with a real rotary dial!), a person on the other end to pick up (in my case I was calling from Olympia, WA to NY, NY), and both parties to place their handsets on their respective machines before hitting the start button. . . The WWW has changed the world and is destroying one of the greatest barriers to over-all well-being of mankind - the ability to share information any time with any one. With the exception of the few remaining totalitarian regimes, government can no longer change and shape information as a form of control. But I think the days of hold-back dictatorships like North Korea and Cuba are numbered and the numbers are dwindling. Because at the end of the day all anyone wants is the freedom to pursue their natural right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That's it - thanks!
Wasn't this concept mentioned in one or more of the Stainless Steel Rat sci-fi novels?
Chicken meat raised in vats and referred to as "Chicken Little"?
It's been a long time since I read those books - can anyone confirm?
Where's the "haha" tag, or the "kdawsonfud" tag?
That's where we have to define what's "propaganda" and what's "public relations". I was enlisted for 23+ years and am no fan of military "journalism" (although there are some excellent military photo-journalists), which is really (and always has been) nothing more than public relations puff-pieces.
But the Department of Defense (and Departments of the Army, Air Force, and Navy) has the same right as any other government agency to produce public relations materials to educate the public on their mission and how they spend taxpayers dollars. As long as they don't blatantly lie and stay out of U.S. politics I don't consider it wrong, illegal, or harmful. Just (usually) boring, banal, and monotonous (as anyone stationed overseas and subjected to the Armed Forces Network will tell you).
. . . to place their propaganda on the internet (ahem, Huffington Post, DailyKos, etc, ad nauseum), then why can't the military use bloggers to post its point of view?
Seems like another double-standard to me.
WTF? 90% of us are just fine. It's the 10% of idiots on either side of any issue who won't STFU that are "polarized."