It gets better--following their math, 92 minutes a week gives a 14% reduction in mortality from all causes, and every additional 15 minutes gives an additional 4%.
Clearly, it's not a linear scale. Also, this is a reduction in mortality. Life expectancy did not increase 14%, it increased 3 years which is about 4%.
It means if you exercise, the length of time you are in a wheelchair or in pain due to insufficient muscle mass (eg. chronic back pain, or chronic joint pain, etc.) is greatly reduced. Instead of a slow, painful decline leading to death spreading over last 20 years of your life, your life ends much more abruptly. For example, you die from complications to some cold virus while you were fine just a week ago.
Exercise is about quality of life, not about its duration.
True true. But also the quality of your life is usually improved due to exercise cause of increased neurotransmitter release, hormones, etc. A little bit of exercise should improve quality and duration of life by a someone positive percentage. In theory anyway.
Nice. That just about sums up everything i've thought about religion, but not been able to put into words. I wish i could put my thoughts into words like you.
umm, GalCiv2 is $39.
you should atleast check the price before you say it's too much =P but i can see how that would be easy to do, most games are $50 anyway..
I like how the patriot act gets renewed virtually without any coverage, cause Dick Cheney accidently shooting some guy is a much better story than covering an act that restricts our civil liberties.
This isn't a troll, i'm just pissed off.
i don't believe the whole "violent videogames are causing kids to be violent" thing a bit.
i pretty much grew up playing violent games, watching violent tv shows and movies.
i havn't ever even come near doing something violent, never gotten in a fight in my life, i'm a pacifist really, i don't care about fragging someone in a game because IT'S A FUCKING GAME.
if kids parents raised them correctly this would be moot, as all the posters above me pointed out.
What if they found a copy of the fast and the furious in one of the cars? i guess it'd be the movies fault then right? oh wait... movies aren't a pariah subject like gaming, my bad.
i agree with you, although having been homeschooled myself, there are quite a few problems like, most curriculum is just insanely biased towards christianity.
i'm atheist/agnostic myself and the curriculum i had was "Alpha Omega Christian Academy" and bollacks, although their science curriculum was quite funny to read.
also socially, you're kind of stunted, being at home most of the time and not being around other people and such, although i'm not entirely sure that's a downside =P
that's amazing, another vague law based around morals.
when are people going to wake up and realize that nudity and sex ARE NOT harmful, how come something like shooting someone in the head about 5 time is ok, but sex, which is completely natural, is wrong and evil?
I agree, i have alot of friends who won't play cause they think it's only for hardcore PVP people.
But really, you could play it and never even PVP and have plenty of fun.
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It gets better--following their math, 92 minutes a week gives a 14% reduction in mortality from all causes, and every additional 15 minutes gives an additional 4%.
Clearly, it's not a linear scale. Also, this is a reduction in mortality. Life expectancy did not increase 14%, it increased 3 years which is about 4%.
It means if you exercise, the length of time you are in a wheelchair or in pain due to insufficient muscle mass (eg. chronic back pain, or chronic joint pain, etc.) is greatly reduced. Instead of a slow, painful decline leading to death spreading over last 20 years of your life, your life ends much more abruptly. For example, you die from complications to some cold virus while you were fine just a week ago.
Exercise is about quality of life, not about its duration.
True true. But also the quality of your life is usually improved due to exercise cause of increased neurotransmitter release, hormones, etc. A little bit of exercise should improve quality and duration of life by a someone positive percentage. In theory anyway.
Well you know.. There can be only one and all that. :)
I agree. I also think it was a joke too though. Well I hope!
Well, the whole Fermi Paradox sounds like a big false dichtomy to me, because there are many more possible outcomes than just two.
I'd join any army that had the P-90 as a sidearm haha.
Not to be a pendant, but the FN P-90 is fully ambidextrous. =) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90#Overview
Nice. That just about sums up everything i've thought about religion, but not been able to put into words. I wish i could put my thoughts into words like you.
Agreed. You said pretty much everything i was going to say.
umm, GalCiv2 is $39. you should atleast check the price before you say it's too much =P but i can see how that would be easy to do, most games are $50 anyway..
I like how the patriot act gets renewed virtually without any coverage, cause Dick Cheney accidently shooting some guy is a much better story than covering an act that restricts our civil liberties. This isn't a troll, i'm just pissed off.
It makes plenty of sense if you think of "man" as, all of mankind. that's how i had always understood it anyway.
i don't believe the whole "violent videogames are causing kids to be violent" thing a bit. i pretty much grew up playing violent games, watching violent tv shows and movies. i havn't ever even come near doing something violent, never gotten in a fight in my life, i'm a pacifist really, i don't care about fragging someone in a game because IT'S A FUCKING GAME. if kids parents raised them correctly this would be moot, as all the posters above me pointed out.
Exactly.
What if they found a copy of the fast and the furious in one of the cars? i guess it'd be the movies fault then right? oh wait... movies aren't a pariah subject like gaming, my bad.
2005 Console gaming sets record. not one mention of pc games in it.
no complaints about the article linking to a blog? what's the world coming to? ;)
so, our ancestors were killed by birds, and now the birds are at it again with their pesky flu
you have some major cahones man, posting it on your account and not AC ;)
i agree with you, although having been homeschooled myself, there are quite a few problems like, most curriculum is just insanely biased towards christianity. i'm atheist/agnostic myself and the curriculum i had was "Alpha Omega Christian Academy" and bollacks, although their science curriculum was quite funny to read. also socially, you're kind of stunted, being at home most of the time and not being around other people and such, although i'm not entirely sure that's a downside =P
that's amazing, another vague law based around morals. when are people going to wake up and realize that nudity and sex ARE NOT harmful, how come something like shooting someone in the head about 5 time is ok, but sex, which is completely natural, is wrong and evil?
this might get me modded down, but, how about a new definition of milf by microsoft, Mom I'd Like to Frag?
I agree, i have alot of friends who won't play cause they think it's only for hardcore PVP people. But really, you could play it and never even PVP and have plenty of fun.