If anything was actually that private to me that I care who sees it, why would I be sharing it on Facebook..? Facebook is designed for sharing, not privacy. Even for "private" conversations I still go through 3rd party servers, and I honestly don't care if that helps make adverts more relevant to me or not.
Paying definitely does not guarantee "privacy and usability". The only way to be truly private would be to do something like set up your own forum for you and your friends.
I had passed by that point in life where food intake has to be reduced, or it causes weight gain. Since there wasn't a nice signpost along the road saying it, I didn't catch on until I was about 20 pounds overweight
Heh, that's exactly the same amount of weight I lost by starting to exercise etc a couple of years ago, and since then I started experimenting with diet just for the health benefits since I was already noticing real benefits in mood and energy levels from the exercise alone.
Yeah it sounds like your nose may have been getting inflamed too from the poor eating.. since the snoring would probably be a result of constricted airways and dry mouth is a sign of breathing through your mouth.
I started working out to increase my muscle mass last year as well, I've put on probably around 11 pounds of muscle this year I think, though I don't really want to be any heavier than I am now (177lbs, 6'1"). Definitely take it easy when it comes to "ramping up". Doing lower intensity exercise for a longer amount of time is just as good, or even better - especially when first starting out, until your body toughens up. You can build muscle really very quickly if you eat plenty of protein, but it takes much longer for tendons and ligaments to toughen up to be able to safely transfer the forces your muscles generate.. a 30 minute walk every day is all you really need to feel healthy and relaxed anyway:)
I almost knackered my knee a month ago from overdoing it with my Parkour training - thankfully it seems good to go again now that I've given it a few weeks of rest and mild exercise. I'm now going to focus much more on warming up before each session, and do more leg stretching than I was before to keep everything flexible. That will definitely reduce risk of injuries. I've actually been gradually improving my warmups and stretches every few weeks when I realise a new part of me is hurting - hopefully I'm aware of most of the trouble points by now!
Making as much money as possible isn't inherently bad...it's all in how you go about it.
"Making as much money as possible" will only be possible through being "bad".
Being nice will ensure happy customers, happy employees, not breaking any laws etc, but it doesn't guarantee the highest profits.
What if you're a nice company that already has a monopoly on your market? What if you've branched out into every market in the world and have a monopoly on everything that is sold anywhere? To make more profit you then have to start being a douche by raising costs on the customer's side, cutting down on employee benefits, or start breaking laws (environmental as someone mentioned above, or dodging taxes etc).
"Making as much money as ethically acceptable" isn't quite so profitable, but it is nicer.
What times do you eat? And what do you eat? The first day I noticed that I actually felt okay even when getting up early for work was when I had had hardly anything to eat the night before. Since then I happened upon eating "low GI" food, and I no longer feel like I've been hit by a bus in the mornings.
My blood sugar issues may be completely unrelated of course, but I suspect the majority of people would be feeling better overall if they got off the sugar train like I have - I've noticed many unexpected health improvements like my dry skin becoming normal, my often blocked/allergic nose issues disappearing, my sleep patterns and energy levels becoming "normal".. it's awesome.
I'm not Apple fan, but putting Flash on an iPhone4 is like going to a nice dinner party, getting wasted, jumping up on the table, dropping trou, and depositing a huge steamer right in the salad bowl.
You mean it lets you skip the salad and get straight to the good stuff?
It's just NASTY.
Ah, you kids and your crazy wicked sick gnarly talk..
Okay, how about we try a more objective approach since you can't judge this sensibly for yourself.. 1/3rd of your comments have been moderated down, often as "flamebait". I clicked on one of them and it starts with "shut up".
Yeah, it's clearly me that "likes to argue" here *rolleyes* I'm not going to waste any more time trying to help you understand why people think you're a jerk.
I'm not trying to look smug, I'm trying to give helpful advice that may actually result in you being able to maintain healthy relationships with other humans.
Try reading your last few posts before calling anyone else an asshole..
Perhaps if you were a little more polite, people would be less inclined to point out your mistakes.
The first and last things people say are the bits that are more likely to be noticed, it's called the "Primacy Effect" and the "Recency Effect". You started off by incorrectly saying Vitamin D production is "drawing energy directly from the sun". This is what set the tone of your post, and it is incorrect, hence why people mentally discard the rest of what you said.
In the late 1980s, ecologist Thomas Ray, who is now at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, got wind of Core Wars and saw its potential for studying evolution. He built Tierra, a computerised world populated by self-replicating programs that could make errors as they reproduced.
When the cloned programs filled the memory space available to them, they began overwriting existing copies. Then things changed. The original program was 80 lines long, but after some time Ray saw a 79-line program appear, then a 78-line one. Gradually, to fit more copies in, the programs trimmed their own code, one line at a time. Then one emerged that was 45 lines long. It had eliminated its copy instruction, and replaced it with a shorter piece of code that allowed it to hijack the copying code of a longer program. Digital evolvers had arrived, and a virus was born.
Avida is Tierra's rightful successor. Its environment can be made far more complex, it allows for more flexibility and more analysis, and - crucially - its organisms can't use each other's code. That makes them more life-like than the inhabitants of Tierra.
Actually, organisms using each others code sounds way more like our world than ones that can't leech off each other. They already pointed out viruses, and plenty of species exist today that need other species to continue to survive.. in fact pretty much all animals need to eat other lifeforms because we can't draw energy from the sun directly.
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It's true. I got invited to it by a Brazilian friend, and according to Wikipedia over half the users are Brazilian, pretty crazy. They actually moved the Orkut HQ to Brazil.
I have always built gaming desktops in the past, but I don't even have a desk at the moment. I sit on the sofa and either use my PS3 or netbook depending on what I want to do. So a nice big laptop could be good for gaming on the sofa - either that or a desktop + wireless mouse and keyboard hooked up to the TV, but I like the idea of the system being easily portable.
I also doubt I'd want to play many of the latest games when it comes to PC gaming - I'm happy with my PS3 for the latest stuff. When I play a game on PC I spend ages fiddling around with graphics settings, but on the PS3 I just play and don't spend my time overanalysing the graphics. Any PC I get would be more likely used for playing older stuff that isn't available on PS3 (ie Counter-Strike Source) and emulators.
I've been considering this system for the last couple of days - the graphics card is pretty decent for if I do decide to play some modern games, and the 17" form factor should hopefully give it some space to not strangle itself with overheating..
I have decided to avoid Intel for another couple of years or so after it turned out the rumours of their illegal anti-competitive practices were actually true. That really limits my choice in laptops at the moment
Hydraulics would be nice yep - it would take more planning and maintenance than just going all electric though.
Slightly reminds me of when my dad rigged up a pivoting windsurfing simulator in our back garden - good times (and very bruised shins)! Completely powered by renewable energy sources:P
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If anything was actually that private to me that I care who sees it, why would I be sharing it on Facebook..? Facebook is designed for sharing, not privacy. Even for "private" conversations I still go through 3rd party servers, and I honestly don't care if that helps make adverts more relevant to me or not.
Whoever modded this "redundant", I want to live where you live..
Paying definitely does not guarantee "privacy and usability". The only way to be truly private would be to do something like set up your own forum for you and your friends.
I had passed by that point in life where food intake has to be reduced, or it causes weight gain. Since there wasn't a nice signpost along the road saying it, I didn't catch on until I was about 20 pounds overweight
Heh, that's exactly the same amount of weight I lost by starting to exercise etc a couple of years ago, and since then I started experimenting with diet just for the health benefits since I was already noticing real benefits in mood and energy levels from the exercise alone.
Yeah it sounds like your nose may have been getting inflamed too from the poor eating.. since the snoring would probably be a result of constricted airways and dry mouth is a sign of breathing through your mouth.
I started working out to increase my muscle mass last year as well, I've put on probably around 11 pounds of muscle this year I think, though I don't really want to be any heavier than I am now (177lbs, 6'1"). Definitely take it easy when it comes to "ramping up". Doing lower intensity exercise for a longer amount of time is just as good, or even better - especially when first starting out, until your body toughens up. You can build muscle really very quickly if you eat plenty of protein, but it takes much longer for tendons and ligaments to toughen up to be able to safely transfer the forces your muscles generate.. a 30 minute walk every day is all you really need to feel healthy and relaxed anyway :)
I almost knackered my knee a month ago from overdoing it with my Parkour training - thankfully it seems good to go again now that I've given it a few weeks of rest and mild exercise. I'm now going to focus much more on warming up before each session, and do more leg stretching than I was before to keep everything flexible. That will definitely reduce risk of injuries. I've actually been gradually improving my warmups and stretches every few weeks when I realise a new part of me is hurting - hopefully I'm aware of most of the trouble points by now!
Making as much money as possible isn't inherently bad...it's all in how you go about it.
"Making as much money as possible" will only be possible through being "bad".
Being nice will ensure happy customers, happy employees, not breaking any laws etc, but it doesn't guarantee the highest profits.
What if you're a nice company that already has a monopoly on your market? What if you've branched out into every market in the world and have a monopoly on everything that is sold anywhere? To make more profit you then have to start being a douche by raising costs on the customer's side, cutting down on employee benefits, or start breaking laws (environmental as someone mentioned above, or dodging taxes etc).
"Making as much money as ethically acceptable" isn't quite so profitable, but it is nicer.
I quite like the idea that you could use ads that you pay for (that don't cost much) to advertise your party or to post silly messages to your friends
I'd love to be able to pay for what I can do for free on Facebook!
What times do you eat? And what do you eat? The first day I noticed that I actually felt okay even when getting up early for work was when I had had hardly anything to eat the night before. Since then I happened upon eating "low GI" food, and I no longer feel like I've been hit by a bus in the mornings.
My blood sugar issues may be completely unrelated of course, but I suspect the majority of people would be feeling better overall if they got off the sugar train like I have - I've noticed many unexpected health improvements like my dry skin becoming normal, my often blocked/allergic nose issues disappearing, my sleep patterns and energy levels becoming "normal".. it's awesome.
Sure I do, but clearly so do you! Go on, have another try.
I'm not Apple fan, but putting Flash on an iPhone4 is like going to a nice dinner party, getting wasted, jumping up on the table, dropping trou, and depositing a huge steamer right in the salad bowl.
You mean it lets you skip the salad and get straight to the good stuff?
It's just NASTY.
Ah, you kids and your crazy wicked sick gnarly talk..
They rather tweak reality than simply admit a silly fault and get it over with, like grown-ups
Hey, this sounds really familiar!
You are hilarious :p Here's another chance to tell us all how great you are and how everyone in the world apart from you is wrong, go ahead! :)
Argumentum ad populum.
If everyone else thinks you're a jerk, chances are pretty good that you're a jerk - no matter your opinion of yourself.
Okay, how about we try a more objective approach since you can't judge this sensibly for yourself.. 1/3rd of your comments have been moderated down, often as "flamebait". I clicked on one of them and it starts with "shut up".
Yeah, it's clearly me that "likes to argue" here *rolleyes* I'm not going to waste any more time trying to help you understand why people think you're a jerk.
I'm not trying to look smug, I'm trying to give helpful advice that may actually result in you being able to maintain healthy relationships with other humans.
Try reading your last few posts before calling anyone else an asshole..
Perhaps if you were a little more polite, people would be less inclined to point out your mistakes.
The first and last things people say are the bits that are more likely to be noticed, it's called the "Primacy Effect" and the "Recency Effect". You started off by incorrectly saying Vitamin D production is "drawing energy directly from the sun". This is what set the tone of your post, and it is incorrect, hence why people mentally discard the rest of what you said.
That was only part of what you said, the rest of which was bollocks, which is all he was pointing out.
They're not "animals".
In the late 1980s, ecologist Thomas Ray, who is now at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, got wind of Core Wars and saw its potential for studying evolution. He built Tierra, a computerised world populated by self-replicating programs that could make errors as they reproduced.
When the cloned programs filled the memory space available to them, they began overwriting existing copies. Then things changed. The original program was 80 lines long, but after some time Ray saw a 79-line program appear, then a 78-line one. Gradually, to fit more copies in, the programs trimmed their own code, one line at a time. Then one emerged that was 45 lines long. It had eliminated its copy instruction, and replaced it with a shorter piece of code that allowed it to hijack the copying code of a longer program. Digital evolvers had arrived, and a virus was born.
Avida is Tierra's rightful successor. Its environment can be made far more complex, it allows for more flexibility and more analysis, and - crucially - its organisms can't use each other's code. That makes them more life-like than the inhabitants of Tierra.
Actually, organisms using each others code sounds way more like our world than ones that can't leech off each other. They already pointed out viruses, and plenty of species exist today that need other species to continue to survive.. in fact pretty much all animals need to eat other lifeforms because we can't draw energy from the sun directly.
It's true. I got invited to it by a Brazilian friend, and according to Wikipedia over half the users are Brazilian, pretty crazy. They actually moved the Orkut HQ to Brazil.
Your sig is very appropriate today!
I thought helium was refined essence of Chipmunk - surely a renewable source?
As of July 2010, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 65th in the world; the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide
Orkut doesn't sound like a flop to me either. It may not be popular in the US, but that really doesn't make it a flop.
I was actually considering it.
I have always built gaming desktops in the past, but I don't even have a desk at the moment. I sit on the sofa and either use my PS3 or netbook depending on what I want to do. So a nice big laptop could be good for gaming on the sofa - either that or a desktop + wireless mouse and keyboard hooked up to the TV, but I like the idea of the system being easily portable.
I also doubt I'd want to play many of the latest games when it comes to PC gaming - I'm happy with my PS3 for the latest stuff. When I play a game on PC I spend ages fiddling around with graphics settings, but on the PS3 I just play and don't spend my time overanalysing the graphics. Any PC I get would be more likely used for playing older stuff that isn't available on PS3 (ie Counter-Strike Source) and emulators.
I've been considering this system for the last couple of days - the graphics card is pretty decent for if I do decide to play some modern games, and the 17" form factor should hopefully give it some space to not strangle itself with overheating..
I have decided to avoid Intel for another couple of years or so after it turned out the rumours of their illegal anti-competitive practices were actually true. That really limits my choice in laptops at the moment
Yes, if you're planning on doing that a lot then sticking to the simulator could be a good idea.
Hydraulics would be nice yep - it would take more planning and maintenance than just going all electric though.
Slightly reminds me of when my dad rigged up a pivoting windsurfing simulator in our back garden - good times (and very bruised shins)! Completely powered by renewable energy sources :P