The Grateful Dead has been one (big) example of a band that succeeded without the need for coercive copyright protections. One could argue that they did still use trademark, but they are closer to the anarchocapitalist goal than most popular bands.
Could that be because the vast majority of their most popular time as a band was before personal computers and the internet and P2P was in everyone's home?
Remember, the music industry wasn't complaining about copyright nearly as much before P2P became so big by Napster and such. If musicians want to make a profit, they deserve to. They can charge for their product like any person would charge for a product they made! If you don't like it, don't buy it! If you want it so bad, spend some cash on it. Why is this such a hard concept for people?
And in my expierence bones and skin people who can't put on weight have no idea how it is to be sick and having headache due to the fact that you are hungry.
Maybe the bone and skin people know how to eat better than you do...
Simply put, if you're starving yourself to the point where you're getting headache's, you're dieting completely wrong to lose weight. Eat 5 - 6 healthy meals a day like I described above. At first, yes, you'll be a little hungrier than normal... but that's because you're used to eating like shit and tons of it at that. However, if you consider starving not being able to eat cupcakes and McDonalds hamburgers 3 times a day, well... I'm sorry you don't care about yourself enough to eat better.
I was overweight once. I lost the weight without starving myself or taking crazy diet pills. However, I took the time to educate myself on proper nutrition and acted like a man and took responsibility for what went in my mouth.
Just a small point here, but I remember talking to a body builder once who complained of bad knees (had surgery on it also). They said that in talking to their doctor, he said that as far as knees go it doesn't matter if you have a pound of fat or a pound of muscle, a pound is a pound, and your knees carry it wherever you go.
But as far as workouts, a swimming pool can provide a decent workout with no impact to the knees.
You're right. However, building up muscle around the knee obviously helps support that area. Like my shoulder. My ligaments are pretty much stretched to their extent. If it weren't for the muscle I've built up around that area, my shoulder would be coming out even more often.
For instance, if I were to load up 300lbs and try to squat that on my very first attempt, a lot of things will happen here. Mainly legs might break, muscles will be pulled, ligaments damaged, and probably your back will get a piece of that too. However, over time, I can work up to that 300lb squat because I'm conditioning my legs to handle more weight and more stress on them. Your muscles grow to support the heavy lifting. However, A LOT of people with bad knee's don't have them due to injury. They have them due to NEVER doing anything. This doesn't sound possible, but it is more than possible. If all you do is sit around and get fat, when you do get up and do things, you're putting extra stress on those knees. If you're a 300lb fat dude that sits behind a computer all day and the only exercise you get is getting up to go pee or get food, your legs are NOT conditioned to handle that weight. However, working them out with strength training tells your legs "Hey, my ass is getting kicked over here. My muscles are torn... Rebuild and rebuild bigger to handle this next time."
In my experience, fat people who say they can't lose weight always eat more than they say they do and exercise less than they say they do.
If your body uses up more energy than you consume, you lose weight. No matter how much you want it to be true, fat people aren't above the laws of thermodynamics.
EXACTLY!
Notice how the guy above said "I can't go to the gym, bad knee's, you see." Yet another excuse. Hey, look... My shoulder chronically dislocates. Talk about pain. It has dislocated a total of 22 times in the past 7 years. 12 of those times I had to go to the ER. Exactly 3 weeks ago I dislocated it in the gym while doing an exercise. Did I stop going to the gym? No. Do I use that as an excuse to stop exercising? No. After 1 week off to heal up, I was back in the gym. The exercise that made my shoulder dislocate is no longer in my routine. Instead, I found a different exercise that works the same muscle group, but doesn't put the soulder in such a vulnerable position.
It's all about excuses. Everyone has one for why they can't get into the gym. The number one excuse for not getting into a gym is... yep, bad knee's. You'd think it was a bad back, but for some reason people are going to the knee's now. The funny thing is, mostly is fat people complaining about bad knee's. I'm willing to be the majority of them have bad knee's because they never get off their butt and that extra weight is definitely putting a strain on your knee's! Don't think that the heavier you get the stronger your knee's get. It's the exact opposite. The more out of shape you get, the worse your bones, muscles and ligaments get due to poor diet and lack of exercise.
Look, eating only 1500 calories a day doesn't mean squat. You probably consumed 1500 calories in one sitting and then didn't eat all day. So your body would go into hybernation mode and hold onto those calories and fat because it thought you were starving it. No wonder you didn't lose weight! Plus, were those 1500 calories empty calories from trans-fats and refined carbs? I'm betting most of them were. Plus, not everyone loses weight on cardio and good diet alone. I know many people at my gym that didn't start losing weight until they added resistance training into their routine!
If you want to lose weight, it's simple. Eat 5 - 6 HEALTHY meals a day. Every 3 hours eat a balanced meal. Such as A Tuna Pita Sandwich and some Strawberries instead of chips. Next meal have some fruit or veggies and some yogurt. Next meal have a protein shake all mixed up with some natural peanut butter and some fruits. Next meal have some baked chicken with rice. You get my point. Small but wholesome meals. If you did that, you body would react to it with not holding onto the fat and your metabolism would skyrocket! Why? Because your body says "Hey, I don't need to hold onto this fat. I'll be fed again in 3 hours. Let's burn this stuff for energy! I have plenty of calories and fat to spend!" Then add a good resistance routine along with 20 - 30 minutes of cardio a day, if even the most challenged people don't lose weight on this, I'll pay you money for every pound you gain. It's proven.
However, people don't do this... They think not having breakfast, eating an apple for lunch and then CRAMMING down carbs and calories and fat into a HUGE 1500 calorie dinner is how they'll lose weight. It's just ignorance... and people don't want to admit they're ignorant so they blame it on genetics or bad knee's. Look, if my shoulder has the potential to be ripped off during exercise and trust me, if I don't follow correct form and posture, I feel pain even if it doesn't, and yet I still work out, don't give me the bullshit about your knee's.
Why not post your 1500 calorie diet for me to see. I'll show you exactly where you went wrong. If you want to get back down to 200 lbs, I can show you how. However, you have to quit whinning and blaiming it on everything else but yourself.
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The Grateful Dead has been one (big) example of a band that succeeded without the need for coercive copyright protections. One could argue that they did still use trademark, but they are closer to the anarchocapitalist goal than most popular bands.
Could that be because the vast majority of their most popular time as a band was before personal computers and the internet and P2P was in everyone's home?
Remember, the music industry wasn't complaining about copyright nearly as much before P2P became so big by Napster and such. If musicians want to make a profit, they deserve to. They can charge for their product like any person would charge for a product they made! If you don't like it, don't buy it! If you want it so bad, spend some cash on it. Why is this such a hard concept for people?
And in my expierence bones and skin people who can't put on weight have no idea how it is to be sick and having headache due to the fact that you are hungry.
Maybe the bone and skin people know how to eat better than you do...
Simply put, if you're starving yourself to the point where you're getting headache's, you're dieting completely wrong to lose weight. Eat 5 - 6 healthy meals a day like I described above. At first, yes, you'll be a little hungrier than normal... but that's because you're used to eating like shit and tons of it at that. However, if you consider starving not being able to eat cupcakes and McDonalds hamburgers 3 times a day, well... I'm sorry you don't care about yourself enough to eat better.
I was overweight once. I lost the weight without starving myself or taking crazy diet pills. However, I took the time to educate myself on proper nutrition and acted like a man and took responsibility for what went in my mouth.
Just a small point here, but I remember talking to a body builder once who complained of bad knees (had surgery on it also). They said that in talking to their doctor, he said that as far as knees go it doesn't matter if you have a pound of fat or a pound of muscle, a pound is a pound, and your knees carry it wherever you go.
But as far as workouts, a swimming pool can provide a decent workout with no impact to the knees.
You're right. However, building up muscle around the knee obviously helps support that area. Like my shoulder. My ligaments are pretty much stretched to their extent. If it weren't for the muscle I've built up around that area, my shoulder would be coming out even more often.
For instance, if I were to load up 300lbs and try to squat that on my very first attempt, a lot of things will happen here. Mainly legs might break, muscles will be pulled, ligaments damaged, and probably your back will get a piece of that too. However, over time, I can work up to that 300lb squat because I'm conditioning my legs to handle more weight and more stress on them. Your muscles grow to support the heavy lifting. However, A LOT of people with bad knee's don't have them due to injury. They have them due to NEVER doing anything. This doesn't sound possible, but it is more than possible. If all you do is sit around and get fat, when you do get up and do things, you're putting extra stress on those knees. If you're a 300lb fat dude that sits behind a computer all day and the only exercise you get is getting up to go pee or get food, your legs are NOT conditioned to handle that weight. However, working them out with strength training tells your legs "Hey, my ass is getting kicked over here. My muscles are torn... Rebuild and rebuild bigger to handle this next time."
In my experience, fat people who say they can't lose weight always eat more than they say they do and exercise less than they say they do.
If your body uses up more energy than you consume, you lose weight. No matter how much you want it to be true, fat people aren't above the laws of thermodynamics.
EXACTLY!
Notice how the guy above said "I can't go to the gym, bad knee's, you see." Yet another excuse. Hey, look... My shoulder chronically dislocates. Talk about pain. It has dislocated a total of 22 times in the past 7 years. 12 of those times I had to go to the ER. Exactly 3 weeks ago I dislocated it in the gym while doing an exercise. Did I stop going to the gym? No. Do I use that as an excuse to stop exercising? No. After 1 week off to heal up, I was back in the gym. The exercise that made my shoulder dislocate is no longer in my routine. Instead, I found a different exercise that works the same muscle group, but doesn't put the soulder in such a vulnerable position.
It's all about excuses. Everyone has one for why they can't get into the gym. The number one excuse for not getting into a gym is... yep, bad knee's. You'd think it was a bad back, but for some reason people are going to the knee's now. The funny thing is, mostly is fat people complaining about bad knee's. I'm willing to be the majority of them have bad knee's because they never get off their butt and that extra weight is definitely putting a strain on your knee's! Don't think that the heavier you get the stronger your knee's get. It's the exact opposite. The more out of shape you get, the worse your bones, muscles and ligaments get due to poor diet and lack of exercise.
Look, eating only 1500 calories a day doesn't mean squat. You probably consumed 1500 calories in one sitting and then didn't eat all day. So your body would go into hybernation mode and hold onto those calories and fat because it thought you were starving it. No wonder you didn't lose weight! Plus, were those 1500 calories empty calories from trans-fats and refined carbs? I'm betting most of them were. Plus, not everyone loses weight on cardio and good diet alone. I know many people at my gym that didn't start losing weight until they added resistance training into their routine!
If you want to lose weight, it's simple. Eat 5 - 6 HEALTHY meals a day. Every 3 hours eat a balanced meal. Such as A Tuna Pita Sandwich and some Strawberries instead of chips. Next meal have some fruit or veggies and some yogurt. Next meal have a protein shake all mixed up with some natural peanut butter and some fruits. Next meal have some baked chicken with rice. You get my point. Small but wholesome meals. If you did that, you body would react to it with not holding onto the fat and your metabolism would skyrocket! Why? Because your body says "Hey, I don't need to hold onto this fat. I'll be fed again in 3 hours. Let's burn this stuff for energy! I have plenty of calories and fat to spend!" Then add a good resistance routine along with 20 - 30 minutes of cardio a day, if even the most challenged people don't lose weight on this, I'll pay you money for every pound you gain. It's proven.
However, people don't do this... They think not having breakfast, eating an apple for lunch and then CRAMMING down carbs and calories and fat into a HUGE 1500 calorie dinner is how they'll lose weight. It's just ignorance... and people don't want to admit they're ignorant so they blame it on genetics or bad knee's. Look, if my shoulder has the potential to be ripped off during exercise and trust me, if I don't follow correct form and posture, I feel pain even if it doesn't, and yet I still work out, don't give me the bullshit about your knee's.
Why not post your 1500 calorie diet for me to see. I'll show you exactly where you went wrong. If you want to get back down to 200 lbs, I can show you how. However, you have to quit whinning and blaiming it on everything else but yourself.