This is an interesting statement. I have struggled with weight issues my whole life. Two years ago I decided to make a change. Thing is, many people SAY they would 'do anything' to be at Xlbs, but it's just not true. They only way to actually make this happen is to commit to making a change - no matter what and follow through by making quality lifestyle changes that will help them lose fat and keep it off.
Bottom line is you DO overeat. You may not eat an extrodinary amount, but if you took in less calories than you burned your body would use up the nutrients in the other tissues of your body. You would lose weight. If you are gaining weight, you are consuming more calories than your body needs.
Everytime I've made the "change" I've lost weight. At one point, it was 33lbs. I kept a diary, went to a supervised program, and kept it off for about one year. Slowly it started - the LBs were coming back. Was I letting myself eat more? - no. I still kept the diary and I was still maintaining the 1500 calorie limit. Went walking with the dogs each morning. And still it came on. Within 24 - 30 months after beginning the program, I had gained half of the loss back. Eventually, it all came back and then some.
Want to call me a liar? Of course you do, because if you had truly struggled with weight issues you'd understand what happens. But it's easier to let your prejudices come forward, because, after all, fat people lie right?
The next step might be a gastric bypass, but that will be a last resort. After that there is no place to go. When I say I'd do anything, that's what I'm talking about. But before I take that highly risky step, I'll try again and again. At 53yo, I'm running out of time. What keeps me going is that 25 years ago I was in great shape, but the genetics, metabolism or bad karma has caught up with me. I don't overeat, I am sedentary, but so aren't many others are the don't have weight problems. How come ? Anyone have a glib answer for that?
My own experience: I have never had any issues with my own weight (actually, I have trouble putting on weight). My wife, however, was VERY overweight, and made all the usual excuses for it. About 18 months ago she decided she was going to take responsibility for her own weight. She now eats a far healthier diet, gets lots more exercise, and has so far lost nearly 50 kilograms (and still going)
Well, bully for you. You should consider yourself lucky that you can't put on weight, but I feel bad for your wife. I'd bet like most skinny runts, you bust her chops over the additional pounds. And, if nature has its way, she will put that weight back on in a few years with some to spare.
It's ignorance to assume that the individual is in full control. Personally, I weighed around 200lbs in my 20's, but by the time I turned 45, my weight reached 260 - and it wasn't from eating. I consumed a measured 1500 calories a day and still could not lose more than a few pounds. Some people have slower metabolic rates and that's where the problem lies. I used to run 5 miles a day and even bicycled a many as 50 miles in a day. It took about three years but after I stopped that regimen due to knee problems, the weight started going on and I couldn't diet it off. My body was retaining the calories, despite my best efforts.
I'd give anything to be 200lbs again, but it's going to be a struggle and may never happen. I don't overeat, but I do have a sedentary job. Going to a gym is not an option - bad knees, you see.
Don't assume fat people have a choice. Most would rather be slender, but nature is working against us. Do some reading on the subject and lose the predjudice.
What simple socialist view. No one forced me or you to buy a Windows PC. I could have bought a Mac and so could you. Maybe you could run a Linux box but you have Windows. And, as for monopolies, AT&T DID only work with AT&T phones - Bell was the only telephone supplier in the US at one time. If you had a phone, you had a Bell supplied phone. Never heard anyone complain. Now you can buy phones from your local dollar store and look at what you get.
Microsoft doesn't have to release anything. Let the great engineering talent in this country and others develop a true competitor to MS. Why don't they do that? Oh, there's no money in it.
Look, I agree we'd all be better served if operating systems were independant of various vendors. But who would make sure all apps would work with an open OS and where's the incentive to improve it? You don't have to love MS and I don't, but until there's a better alternative that works with MS, it's not right that MS has to give anything away. The real motive the socialist EU has is the fine - 500 EU if I recall. Just think of how the Euro politicians could spend that!
Send one my way if you get one.
By the way, if you know any ladies that need a gynological examination, I've downloaded enough images of female genitalia that I believe I'm qualified to be a OB/GYN.
You have every right to complain about their service because YOU ARE THEIR CUSTOMER! If you're walking through your local Wal-mart, that doesn't give them the right to mug you if you don't spend any money.
Free or not, the hardware belongs to the customer and companies that do anything that's not explicitly spelled out to that hardware are guilty of being unethical at the least, criminal at the worst.
Of course, it's sign of the times when Slashdotters are using *gulp* AOL anything......
froogle shows the cheapest 1000baseSX card @ $105; SX-TX media converter @ $188 So, not exactly "double the cost". That is 5-10x more than a copper card. But, fibre to the home will likely not be gig, and will very likely have a telco provided terminal for voice, video, and data.
(Even our office T1 has a telco provided terminal providing ethernet for data and twisted pair (db25) for voice. It's actually voice and data over frame relay -- ATM multiplexed most likely, but I didn't dig any further.)
With purchase contracts, the prices might even go lower. But would you agree it's safe to say that businesses, especially larger ones, won't be on the leading edge of this type of technology as long as it has a higer cost? It all comes down to ROI - return on investment. Might be just my experience, but the few corporate IT guys I've had the pleasure to know just don't see themselves as early adopters, especially if it means justifying the cost to a CFO or CEO who is ofter technolgy blind.
Fiber will not be the media of choice for the last yard until the price drops significantly. In an earlier post, a Slashdotter mentioned the cost of a Gigabit card being more than the price of the PC its attached to. A business class PC can be purchased for under $800, but include a fiber cable and Gigabit card, and it doubles the cost. Very few companies would be able to justify that expense and even fewer home users.
When the cost comes close to copper, you'll see DIY repair kits. It's got to happen.
This is called "testing the waters". Even though the DVD is a well established form of entertainment media, some marketers still test things like this to see what the upper end of pricing is. Believe me, they didn't run 100,000 copies of this package. More like 5,000 - and they will sell more than half of them.
Or how about picking up a phone and CALLING them. If there is no number to call, donate elsewhere.
How dare you think of something so simple and logical! Let me send your $.50 so you can call your parents and tell them why you will never be a lawyer.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. does not know a lot of things. He inherited the Seagram fortune, sold its $9 Billion stock of Dupont to buy MCA, for the sole purpose of becoming a media mogul. He's failed miserably.
Bronfman was probably nursed on Seagrams 7. That would explain the lack of clear thinking.
Perhaps I'm living in a dreamworld, but if phones were on the open market, I think the prices would drop dramatically. I mean, even WalMart was selling the Motorola V551 (poor man's Razr) for $40 - with a contract. Cingular wanted at least $100, and for their good customers like me - $150! Course I get a $50 rebate in the form of a VISA card, but it will take 12 weeks to get here. Must have to hand chisel the numbers on the card.
All consumer electronics have come way down in price. Hell, if Phillips could sell 10 million plasma screens each year, would they still cost > $3000? DVD players started slow, but when the prices dropped below $100, they took off like crazy.
Phones are nothing special and they're all made in China anyway. Get 'em down around $50 - $150 retail and they'd sell millions more.
For more than 20 years, consumers and businesses have been able to purchase their own landline telephones sets. That wasn't always the case. When you ordered a line, you got a phone set from Bell. There were no others, and Bell used to charge you if they determined you had connected another device to their lines. A few well-placed lawsuits ended all that. Now that cell phones outnumber landlines, maybe the time is right for an anti-trust class action lawsuit against the cell carriers. It's clearly not in the consumer's interest to have the equipment and service from a single source. Let me buy a cell phone and pick the carrier. No long term contract and no penalty for changing. Make them compete with service and let retailers sell the hardware. It works in so many other businesses, why not cell providers.
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Everytime I've made the "change" I've lost weight. At one point, it was 33lbs. I kept a diary, went to a supervised program, and kept it off for about one year. Slowly it started - the LBs were coming back. Was I letting myself eat more? - no. I still kept the diary and I was still maintaining the 1500 calorie limit. Went walking with the dogs each morning. And still it came on. Within 24 - 30 months after beginning the program, I had gained half of the loss back. Eventually, it all came back and then some.
Want to call me a liar? Of course you do, because if you had truly struggled with weight issues you'd understand what happens. But it's easier to let your prejudices come forward, because, after all, fat people lie right?
The next step might be a gastric bypass, but that will be a last resort. After that there is no place to go. When I say I'd do anything, that's what I'm talking about. But before I take that highly risky step, I'll try again and again. At 53yo, I'm running out of time. What keeps me going is that 25 years ago I was in great shape, but the genetics, metabolism or bad karma has caught up with me. I don't overeat, I am sedentary, but so aren't many others are the don't have weight problems. How come ? Anyone have a glib answer for that?
I'd give anything to be 200lbs again, but it's going to be a struggle and may never happen. I don't overeat, but I do have a sedentary job. Going to a gym is not an option - bad knees, you see.
Don't assume fat people have a choice. Most would rather be slender, but nature is working against us. Do some reading on the subject and lose the predjudice.
What simple socialist view. No one forced me or you to buy a Windows PC. I could have bought a Mac and so could you. Maybe you could run a Linux box but you have Windows. And, as for monopolies, AT&T DID only work with AT&T phones - Bell was the only telephone supplier in the US at one time. If you had a phone, you had a Bell supplied phone. Never heard anyone complain. Now you can buy phones from your local dollar store and look at what you get.
Microsoft doesn't have to release anything. Let the great engineering talent in this country and others develop a true competitor to MS. Why don't they do that? Oh, there's no money in it. Look, I agree we'd all be better served if operating systems were independant of various vendors. But who would make sure all apps would work with an open OS and where's the incentive to improve it? You don't have to love MS and I don't, but until there's a better alternative that works with MS, it's not right that MS has to give anything away. The real motive the socialist EU has is the fine - 500 EU if I recall. Just think of how the Euro politicians could spend that!
Send one my way if you get one. By the way, if you know any ladies that need a gynological examination, I've downloaded enough images of female genitalia that I believe I'm qualified to be a OB/GYN.
You have every right to complain about their service because YOU ARE THEIR CUSTOMER! If you're walking through your local Wal-mart, that doesn't give them the right to mug you if you don't spend any money. Free or not, the hardware belongs to the customer and companies that do anything that's not explicitly spelled out to that hardware are guilty of being unethical at the least, criminal at the worst. Of course, it's sign of the times when Slashdotters are using *gulp* AOL anything......
Fiber will not be the media of choice for the last yard until the price drops significantly. In an earlier post, a Slashdotter mentioned the cost of a Gigabit card being more than the price of the PC its attached to. A business class PC can be purchased for under $800, but include a fiber cable and Gigabit card, and it doubles the cost. Very few companies would be able to justify that expense and even fewer home users. When the cost comes close to copper, you'll see DIY repair kits. It's got to happen.
This is called "testing the waters". Even though the DVD is a well established form of entertainment media, some marketers still test things like this to see what the upper end of pricing is. Believe me, they didn't run 100,000 copies of this package. More like 5,000 - and they will sell more than half of them.
Spam, porn and malware anywhere you are. I can't wait!
Excellent idea. When do tickets go on sale?
Who knew Mitt was a closet penguin fan? Go Mitt!
Perhaps I'm living in a dreamworld, but if phones were on the open market, I think the prices would drop dramatically. I mean, even WalMart was selling the Motorola V551 (poor man's Razr) for $40 - with a contract. Cingular wanted at least $100, and for their good customers like me - $150! Course I get a $50 rebate in the form of a VISA card, but it will take 12 weeks to get here. Must have to hand chisel the numbers on the card.
All consumer electronics have come way down in price. Hell, if Phillips could sell 10 million plasma screens each year, would they still cost > $3000? DVD players started slow, but when the prices dropped below $100, they took off like crazy.
Phones are nothing special and they're all made in China anyway. Get 'em down around $50 - $150 retail and they'd sell millions more.
For more than 20 years, consumers and businesses have been able to purchase their own landline telephones sets. That wasn't always the case. When you ordered a line, you got a phone set from Bell. There were no others, and Bell used to charge you if they determined you had connected another device to their lines. A few well-placed lawsuits ended all that. Now that cell phones outnumber landlines, maybe the time is right for an anti-trust class action lawsuit against the cell carriers. It's clearly not in the consumer's interest to have the equipment and service from a single source. Let me buy a cell phone and pick the carrier. No long term contract and no penalty for changing. Make them compete with service and let retailers sell the hardware. It works in so many other businesses, why not cell providers.