There actually are such special offers that sound like you could save a lot, but are actually more expensive per unit/gallon/inch/whatever
The supermarkets I visit here in the UK actually tell you the cost per unit of weight or volume anyway.. a simple comparison is all that's needed. I am content with this.
Yeah I hate how there are virtually no wholemeal pizzas ready made, it makes no sense. Pizza would be a pretty healthy food otherwise.
With the red meat thing it makes me wonder if it wasn't stuff that people were eating alongside the red meat. Here in the UK steak and chips (ie fries) or with potato is very common.
Not saying that it definitely isn't the case that red meat is bad, and I generally eat more chicken than other types of meat at the moment, but so many of the studies in the last 50 years have been trying to vilify fat while ignoring the fact that as we've gone "low fat" and "diet" everywhere, people are just getting fatter. It's pretty much the white flour, corn and potato based foods, as well as "diet" drinks with artificial sweeteners that damage your liver (which makes you more likely to store fat, similar to drinking) that people ingest these days that causes them to get fat and results in so many health problems.
The only category of fat that seems proven to be definitely bad from the studies I saw when looking into all this are trans-fats. I think people would be much healthier eating red meat than the rest of that processed crap.. I mean our bodies have evolved to process meat, but not refined foods with a high glycemic index.
White bread isn't so much of a big deal if you can't snack in between meals, but high GI foods like that tend to cause large spikes and dips in your blood sugar that make you feel "hungry" more often. If your body is used to having to just eat into its fat reserves when you need energy instead of just snacking each time you feel a bit peckish, it's not so bad. Regular exercise has a similar effect of getting your body used to quickly switching to burning fat when it needs energy.
Moderation sure, there's also the fact that you're still growing and generally more active as a kid. I would still eat pasty or cookies or whatever if I've been out exercising and need a quick energy boost. But most people I know just eat stuff like that as some kind of means of entertainment, same as many people regard "drinking" as a valid activity in its own right. I don't have a problem with the occasional treat or occasional drink (say if someone is getting married), but incorporating that stuff into your daily routine is just a bad idea if you actually care about your body.
I used to feel like that, but I started watching youtube a lot a few months ago for random tutorials and Parkour videos. For certain things, quality really doesn't matter.
For music, TV shows and movies, hell yes I want decent quality - though I'm generally happy with DVD quality for TV series, and only bust out the blu-rays for big action movies.
The whole tone of the summary is aggravating me. Obviously everything in The Onion is a joke. These guys burning the Quran clearly are not joking. It's moronic to even compare the two.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
What Rackspace is doing has absolutely no relevance to the 1st Amendment. The first amendment is to do with the relationship between the government and its citizens, not private corporations and their customers.
Why should they "let it slide" that these guys are breaking their terms of service by publicising hateful and immature behaviour on their website?
Note that nobody is stopping these guys from actually burning the Quran - they are free to do it. But if the owners of Rackspace consider the website offensive, they have no obligation to publish it. Do you think you would manage to get an advert into a newspaper if it contained pornographic photographs or racist language?
The phone thing isn't a good analogy, but if they were using their phone to regularly phone up Mosques and verbally abuse those on the other end, then I think the phone company would be well within their rights to disconnect them.
A better analogy would be these guys putting up offensive posters on a bulletin board - posters which violate the terms of service that they agreed to before they were allowed to post.
I generally dislike religion, and I dislike Islam more than every other religion apart from Scientology, but I still think it's retarded to be burning Qurans. It serves no purpose but to give people an excuse to escalate hostilities. This is just one group of religious extremists walking up to another group of religious extremists and slapping them in the face because they're itching for a fight.
Even if it isn't us affecting the climate, we should still be aiming for efficient use of our finite resources.. I'd be much more pleased to find out that we'd cracked cold fusion and people were switching to electric SUVs.
I don't really mind about the saturated fat, the links between that and negative health effects seem to be pretty tenuous - ie people are still biased towards trying to prove how bad they are after 60 years, but the whole cholesterol issue still seems a mess to me - I'm not even convinced that modifying various types of cholesterol levels has an effect on heart disease either - it might just be that we are modifying the symptoms rather than the underlying cause of heart disease. It certainly doesn't seem to be as simple as "saturated fat, bad" like everyone thinks. There haven't been many studies into the effects of carbs on heart disease AFAIK, and there seems to be nothing on protein either.. fats have been victimised for a long time and everyone regards them as bad, when in fact avoiding them is a large part of what is making everyone so hungry and so frickin fat these days.
But yes, white bread is incredibly bad and I generally only eat wholemeal unless I'm exercising and need energy quick. I just didn't want to go on a low GI rant again xD
Sorry, but did you just not even use capitals or punctuation in a post that's complaining about grammar? Not to mention using an unnecessary capital in the parenthesis.
You had almost convinced me that I was missing something for a while there xD So many people don't realise that even the tiniest of masses has its own gravitational pull.. if the universe consisted only of 2 stationary atoms a trillion light years apart, I presume they would be veeeeeeeeeeery slightly attracted to one another and, given an infinite amount of time to work with, they would eventually collide..
What happens as you increase the mass of the feather until it weighs more than the moon? Does G magically change to be the gravitational pull of the feather once its mass becomes larger, or is it possible that the equations you learned in high school are only useful approximations of what is going on?
I have no doubt that slashdotters can be stupid, so I'll not hold it against you that you don't think beyond what your high school teachers tell you..
You have to consider that the object itself is exerting a gravitational pull though. Every mass in the universe could be said to be gravitationally attracted to every other mass, just the inverse square law makes the attraction rather weak in most cases. Place two suns in close proximity and they will accelerate towards each other a hell of a lot more quickly than two billiard balls placed the same distance apart..
That's what they tell you in high school, but you're forgetting the gravitational pull of the objects themselves. *sigh* Had this same conversation on slashdot a couple of years ago. I didn't even study Physics past "advanced higher" high school level, but it's pretty obvious. Do you think the moon would accelerate towards the earth at the same rate as an elephant if you dropped them both from 50 metres (in a vacuum of course)?
Uh.. heavier objects do fall faster (as they exert a gravitational pull of their own which will give them a very very very slight increase in acceleration over a lighter object when both are falling towards earth - of course the difference is negligible when compared to the gravitational pull of the earth so you can ignore it in most cases). I don't see what religion has to do with race so that doesn't make sense. Why doesn't it make sense that man descended from apes? It makes more sense than men being created by magic IMO.
I didn't, I thought that the key was to look confident by sticking your arms in the air, which I get extremely embarrassed about. This whole torso and neck thing is right up my spinal alley.
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The name "believer" doesn't tip you off that you're believing in something that has no provable basis in fact, ie a superstition?
There actually are such special offers that sound like you could save a lot, but are actually more expensive per unit/gallon/inch/whatever
The supermarkets I visit here in the UK actually tell you the cost per unit of weight or volume anyway.. a simple comparison is all that's needed. I am content with this.
You're just one of them trying to lull us into a false sense of security!
Yeah I hate how there are virtually no wholemeal pizzas ready made, it makes no sense. Pizza would be a pretty healthy food otherwise.
With the red meat thing it makes me wonder if it wasn't stuff that people were eating alongside the red meat. Here in the UK steak and chips (ie fries) or with potato is very common.
Not saying that it definitely isn't the case that red meat is bad, and I generally eat more chicken than other types of meat at the moment, but so many of the studies in the last 50 years have been trying to vilify fat while ignoring the fact that as we've gone "low fat" and "diet" everywhere, people are just getting fatter. It's pretty much the white flour, corn and potato based foods, as well as "diet" drinks with artificial sweeteners that damage your liver (which makes you more likely to store fat, similar to drinking) that people ingest these days that causes them to get fat and results in so many health problems.
The only category of fat that seems proven to be definitely bad from the studies I saw when looking into all this are trans-fats. I think people would be much healthier eating red meat than the rest of that processed crap.. I mean our bodies have evolved to process meat, but not refined foods with a high glycemic index.
White bread isn't so much of a big deal if you can't snack in between meals, but high GI foods like that tend to cause large spikes and dips in your blood sugar that make you feel "hungry" more often. If your body is used to having to just eat into its fat reserves when you need energy instead of just snacking each time you feel a bit peckish, it's not so bad. Regular exercise has a similar effect of getting your body used to quickly switching to burning fat when it needs energy.
Moderation sure, there's also the fact that you're still growing and generally more active as a kid. I would still eat pasty or cookies or whatever if I've been out exercising and need a quick energy boost. But most people I know just eat stuff like that as some kind of means of entertainment, same as many people regard "drinking" as a valid activity in its own right. I don't have a problem with the occasional treat or occasional drink (say if someone is getting married), but incorporating that stuff into your daily routine is just a bad idea if you actually care about your body.
I used to feel like that, but I started watching youtube a lot a few months ago for random tutorials and Parkour videos. For certain things, quality really doesn't matter.
For music, TV shows and movies, hell yes I want decent quality - though I'm generally happy with DVD quality for TV series, and only bust out the blu-rays for big action movies.
What "government pressure"?
The whole tone of the summary is aggravating me. Obviously everything in The Onion is a joke. These guys burning the Quran clearly are not joking. It's moronic to even compare the two.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
What Rackspace is doing has absolutely no relevance to the 1st Amendment. The first amendment is to do with the relationship between the government and its citizens, not private corporations and their customers.
Why should they "let it slide" that these guys are breaking their terms of service by publicising hateful and immature behaviour on their website?
Note that nobody is stopping these guys from actually burning the Quran - they are free to do it. But if the owners of Rackspace consider the website offensive, they have no obligation to publish it. Do you think you would manage to get an advert into a newspaper if it contained pornographic photographs or racist language?
The phone thing isn't a good analogy, but if they were using their phone to regularly phone up Mosques and verbally abuse those on the other end, then I think the phone company would be well within their rights to disconnect them.
A better analogy would be these guys putting up offensive posters on a bulletin board - posters which violate the terms of service that they agreed to before they were allowed to post.
I generally dislike religion, and I dislike Islam more than every other religion apart from Scientology, but I still think it's retarded to be burning Qurans. It serves no purpose but to give people an excuse to escalate hostilities. This is just one group of religious extremists walking up to another group of religious extremists and slapping them in the face because they're itching for a fight.
If by "all" you mean:
then yes, your subject says it all.
Even if it isn't us affecting the climate, we should still be aiming for efficient use of our finite resources.. I'd be much more pleased to find out that we'd cracked cold fusion and people were switching to electric SUVs.
I don't really mind about the saturated fat, the links between that and negative health effects seem to be pretty tenuous - ie people are still biased towards trying to prove how bad they are after 60 years, but the whole cholesterol issue still seems a mess to me - I'm not even convinced that modifying various types of cholesterol levels has an effect on heart disease either - it might just be that we are modifying the symptoms rather than the underlying cause of heart disease. It certainly doesn't seem to be as simple as "saturated fat, bad" like everyone thinks. There haven't been many studies into the effects of carbs on heart disease AFAIK, and there seems to be nothing on protein either.. fats have been victimised for a long time and everyone regards them as bad, when in fact avoiding them is a large part of what is making everyone so hungry and so frickin fat these days.
But yes, white bread is incredibly bad and I generally only eat wholemeal unless I'm exercising and need energy quick. I just didn't want to go on a low GI rant again xD
Just like then, you can get pizzas, hot dogs, hamburgers, pastries, sweets and pop
Makes you wonder, why are kids so fat these days when they have quality dining like this available?
Actually the first three are relatively healthy, but the last three.. welcome to obe-city.
So this must be fake, but if they'd instead said it's accelerating faster, it would be true - right? Because that's what you want to hear.
Sorry, but did you just not even use capitals or punctuation in a post that's complaining about grammar? Not to mention using an unnecessary capital in the parenthesis.
You had almost convinced me that I was missing something for a while there xD So many people don't realise that even the tiniest of masses has its own gravitational pull.. if the universe consisted only of 2 stationary atoms a trillion light years apart, I presume they would be veeeeeeeeeeery slightly attracted to one another and, given an infinite amount of time to work with, they would eventually collide..
A=F/M2
And what happened to
A=F/M1
?
What happens as you increase the mass of the feather until it weighs more than the moon? Does G magically change to be the gravitational pull of the feather once its mass becomes larger, or is it possible that the equations you learned in high school are only useful approximations of what is going on?
I have no doubt that slashdotters can be stupid, so I'll not hold it against you that you don't think beyond what your high school teachers tell you..
You have to consider that the object itself is exerting a gravitational pull though. Every mass in the universe could be said to be gravitationally attracted to every other mass, just the inverse square law makes the attraction rather weak in most cases. Place two suns in close proximity and they will accelerate towards each other a hell of a lot more quickly than two billiard balls placed the same distance apart..
That's what they tell you in high school, but you're forgetting the gravitational pull of the objects themselves. *sigh* Had this same conversation on slashdot a couple of years ago. I didn't even study Physics past "advanced higher" high school level, but it's pretty obvious. Do you think the moon would accelerate towards the earth at the same rate as an elephant if you dropped them both from 50 metres (in a vacuum of course)?
Perhaps Common sense in this scenario would have been to simply ASK women what they find attractive in [anything]
I'd love to see the results for this compared to experimental results.. I suspect they will be quite different.
Uh.. heavier objects do fall faster (as they exert a gravitational pull of their own which will give them a very very very slight increase in acceleration over a lighter object when both are falling towards earth - of course the difference is negligible when compared to the gravitational pull of the earth so you can ignore it in most cases). I don't see what religion has to do with race so that doesn't make sense. Why doesn't it make sense that man descended from apes? It makes more sense than men being created by magic IMO.
I didn't, I thought that the key was to look confident by sticking your arms in the air, which I get extremely embarrassed about. This whole torso and neck thing is right up my spinal alley.
Android Jay: "So you like robotic animals, huh?"
Gynoid Justice: "Sure."
Android Jay: "That's cool. Even robotic snakes?"
Gynoid Justice: "Well, you can't exclude a robot just 'cause they're not cuddly. Of course I like robotic snakes."
Android Jay: "How 'bout robotic trouser snakes?"
Gynoid Justice: "Ooh, what's a robotic trouser snake?