Have you ever heard of carcinogens? How about Acrylamide? What is Acrylamide? It is just a chemical that food manufacturors put in French Fries and Chips.
*Put* in French Fries and Chips? Do you have the slightest clue about what you're speaking of?
Acrylamide is a chemical contaminant in food caused by a chemical reaction that occurs when foods are fried, deep-fried or oven-baked.
It's due to the cooking process, not something that's added.
Speaking of mental slowdowns, do you know where it comes from? Aluminum in the diet. Where does the Aluminum come from? From all the machines that process food.
Cite, please? Show me an actual study where this correlation is indicated? Hell, show me a study where any significant aluminum is introduced into food through processing.
Processed foods do cause cancer. Why is it that 30 years ago most Ice Creams were made from milk and sugar, and a flavoring like vanilla beans or chocolate, but today they are made with an ingredient list of 20 chemicals?
Huh? So ice cream makers are part of a huge conspiracy with the health care/military industrial complex trying to spread cancer to everyone to generate huge profits?
Why is it that 70 years ago airplanes were made with wood and fabric but today they're made with plastics and composites? Because materials science has advanced and it makes a stronger, longer lasting product.
The sad part is that I mostly agree with what you're trying (badly) to say. Too many foods have all the nutrition processed out of them for purposes of extending shelflife and allowing the use of cheaper materials. But making crap up and spewing pseudo-science and voodoo doesn't help.
It's true that you can't really "focus" the electron beam on the monitor from the video card. And even if you could the worst that would happen is to create a small spot of burn in on the phosphor. However, as other posters have pointed out it is possible to do damage to an older monitor by running the video timing out of spec. I personally experienced this when setting up my very first X Server configuration on my very first Linux installation back in 93. It didn't cause a fire but it did blow one of the power transistors in the monitor (after making a helluva squealing noise). Depending on how the monitor was designed it's plausible that running the monitor sufficiently out of spec could cause it to catch on fire.
No, those are perfect examples. Pushing boundaries implies and *requires* risk that unpleasant things might happen as a result. If you try to make everything completely safe and prevent any mistakes nothing innovative will ever happen. Bureaucracies don't innovate. Committees don't innovate.
In each of those examples the good far outweighed the bad. It's a shame that Curie and Cook had to make those sacrifices. But just like many other explorers and boundary-pushers they contributed huge amounts to humanity. And at the time, Bell's monopoly probably did far more good for the communications infrastructure in this country than it did harm.
Because it's great to get an invitation via email, which you can add to your calendar with one click, rather than re-entering the info?
Right, just like it gets so damned tiresome to have to retype all those URLs when people send you links to web sites. Or when you have to go manually FTP jpegs and bring up the image viewer when they email you photos, or...
Because no one has built email clients that understand URIs and invoke external handlers to do things like that. No, of course not. The only way is to tightly integrate the email and calendar functionality. Yessiree.
Because I leave my email program running all the time, and I'd rather not have to leave another calendar program running as well?
Yup. And this is why I like my email, browser, wordprocessor, IDE, desktop background, MP3 player, and coffee maker all integrated into the same giant, monolithic package. When I fire up my VT220 I don't want to have all kinds of different apps competing for screen real-estate.
This is true of any software system. As it grows, complexity increases. The answer isn't (can't be) to stop growth. The answer is to manage the complexity by using well-designed and well-defined interfaces and minimizing side effects.
The hard drive is a component that DI doesn't build so I don't see how you can use that as the basis to question the Neuros build quality. Just like the drive in any computer, they're using standard components that sometimes fail. The 20G in mine was an IBM, if I remember correctly. I say was because I just replaced it with a 60G to get more space.
As for battery life, using the HD backpack I've gotten through two back-to-back 4.5 hour flights without a recharge. I wasn't skipping around songs and I wasn't using the FM transmitter. Either will impact battery life, it's just the nature of the beast.
If you're an incompetent moron whose labor causes negative productivity, you have a right to profit?
No, the original statement is correct. No one has a right to profit. Everyone should have the right to pursue profit. This is a wholly different thing.
For a full rate ATSC stream you need just over 19Mbps. To watch and record different streams at the same time you'd need double that. Add it in once more as a fudge factor and you're still only at 60Mbps. That's less than 8MBps which any disk big enough to be worthwhile using should handle without a problem.
1. GNC MRPs & Protein powders : Body can utilize only so much protein. If you buy a powder with 100 grams protein per serving, you'll simply tax your kidneys and piss it off - no anabolic ( muscle-building ) effect. Anything above 30-40 grams is overkill.
Cites on studies that support this 30-40 gram limit? Or how about any studies showing problems with healthy kidneys processing large protein intakes? There is no set limit on how much protein the body can process per serving. It depends on a multitude of factors -- how quickly the protein digests, the overall energy balance of the person, whether the person is exercising or sitting their ass.
2. Aspartame in MRPs : Almost ALL meal replacement powders sold in GNC have aspartame. Check aspartamekills.com for known risks. Lately, a few ( eg. MET-RX ) have switched to suclarose and prominently advertize "No aspartame", but doesn't that make then liable since they have sold aspartame-laced powders for so many years before making the switch.
Again, any studies to back this up? You're good at making claims, where is your data? A hint: quotes from bullshit websites do not count. Something published in a real journal does.
3. Protein cannot be effectively utilized without carbs, however, the protein powders sold in GNC contain 2-4% carbs, quite inadequate.
You really are a fucking idiot, aren't you? It'll be far too tedious to go item by item and point out how wrong you are since pretty much every point you make is either flatly wrong or mostly wrong. You spout a combination of myths and pseudo-science that has no factual backing. None. Zero. You must be a personal trainer at a Bally's or some other chrome and tone gym. Or perhaps you've taken your own advice and spoken with a nutritionist. Most of them are quoting 20 year old texts that have been invalidated through new studies and understanding of nutrition and physiology.
Other people have done a good job pointing out how wrong you are about an armed populace being useful against an invading army.
I take issue with the "first order of business for any robber" statement. It simply isn't true.
From guncite.com:
In studies involving interviews of felons, one of the reasons the majority of burglars try to avoid occupied homes is the chance of getting shot. (Increasing the odds of arrest is another.) A study of Pennsylvania burglary inmates reported that many burglars refrain from late-night burglaries because it's hard to tell if anyone is home, several explaining "That's the way to get shot." (Rengert G. and Wasilchick J., Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything, 1985, Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas.)
By comparing criminal victimization surveys from Britain and the Netherlands (countries having low levels of gun ownership) with the U.S., Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck determined that if the U.S. were to have similar rates of "hot" burglaries as these other nations, there would be more than 450,000 additional burglaries per year where the victim was threatened or assaulted. (Britain and the Netherlands have a "hot" burglary rate near 45% versus just under 13% for the U.S., and in the U.S. a victim is threatened or attacked 30% of the time during a "hot" burglary.)
Source: Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997.
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*Put* in French Fries and Chips? Do you have the slightest clue about what you're speaking of? Acrylamide is a chemical contaminant in food caused by a chemical reaction that occurs when foods are fried, deep-fried or oven-baked.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/topics/tpacrylamide. htm
It's due to the cooking process, not something that's added.
Speaking of mental slowdowns, do you know where it comes from? Aluminum in the diet. Where does the Aluminum come from? From all the machines that process food.
Cite, please? Show me an actual study where this correlation is indicated? Hell, show me a study where any significant aluminum is introduced into food through processing.
Processed foods do cause cancer. Why is it that 30 years ago most Ice Creams were made from milk and sugar, and a flavoring like vanilla beans or chocolate, but today they are made with an ingredient list of 20 chemicals?
Huh? So ice cream makers are part of a huge conspiracy with the health care/military industrial complex trying to spread cancer to everyone to generate huge profits?
Why is it that 70 years ago airplanes were made with wood and fabric but today they're made with plastics and composites? Because materials science has advanced and it makes a stronger, longer lasting product.
The sad part is that I mostly agree with what you're trying (badly) to say. Too many foods have all the nutrition processed out of them for purposes of extending shelflife and allowing the use of cheaper materials. But making crap up and spewing pseudo-science and voodoo doesn't help.
It's true that you can't really "focus" the electron beam on the monitor from the video card. And even if you could the worst that would happen is to create a small spot of burn in on the phosphor. However, as other posters have pointed out it is possible to do damage to an older monitor by running the video timing out of spec. I personally experienced this when setting up my very first X Server configuration on my very first Linux installation back in 93. It didn't cause a fire but it did blow one of the power transistors in the monitor (after making a helluva squealing noise). Depending on how the monitor was designed it's plausible that running the monitor sufficiently out of spec could cause it to catch on fire.
No, those are perfect examples. Pushing boundaries implies and *requires* risk that unpleasant things might happen as a result. If you try to make everything completely safe and prevent any mistakes nothing innovative will ever happen. Bureaucracies don't innovate. Committees don't innovate.
In each of those examples the good far outweighed the bad. It's a shame that Curie and Cook had to make those sacrifices. But just like many other explorers and boundary-pushers they contributed huge amounts to humanity. And at the time, Bell's monopoly probably did far more good for the communications infrastructure in this country than it did harm.
Because it's great to get an invitation via email, which you can add to your calendar with one click, rather than re-entering the info?
Right, just like it gets so damned tiresome to have to retype all those URLs when people send you links to web sites. Or when you have to go manually FTP jpegs and bring up the image viewer when they email you photos, or...
Because no one has built email clients that understand URIs and invoke external handlers to do things like that. No, of course not. The only way is to tightly integrate the email and calendar functionality. Yessiree.
Because I leave my email program running all the time, and I'd rather not have to leave another calendar program running as well?
Yup. And this is why I like my email, browser, wordprocessor, IDE, desktop background, MP3 player, and coffee maker all integrated into the same giant, monolithic package. When I fire up my VT220 I don't want to have all kinds of different apps competing for screen real-estate.
Are you people high?
This is true of any software system. As it grows, complexity increases. The answer isn't (can't be) to stop growth. The answer is to manage the complexity by using well-designed and well-defined interfaces and minimizing side effects.
The hard drive is a component that DI doesn't build so I don't see how you can use that as the basis to question the Neuros build quality. Just like the drive in any computer, they're using standard components that sometimes fail. The 20G in mine was an IBM, if I remember correctly. I say was because I just replaced it with a 60G to get more space.
As for battery life, using the HD backpack I've gotten through two back-to-back 4.5 hour flights without a recharge. I wasn't skipping around songs and I wasn't using the FM transmitter. Either will impact battery life, it's just the nature of the beast.
If you're an incompetent moron whose labor causes negative productivity, you have a right to profit?
No, the original statement is correct. No one has a right to profit. Everyone should have the right to pursue profit. This is a wholly different thing.
For a full rate ATSC stream you need just over 19Mbps. To watch and record different streams at the same time you'd need double that. Add it in once more as a fudge factor and you're still only at 60Mbps. That's less than 8MBps which any disk big enough to be worthwhile using should handle without a problem.
Try logging in and someone might actually see what you write.
But good points, anyway -- since we did pretty much say the same thing. And no, I didn't read your post first. You don't happen to follow MFW do you?
Cites on studies that support this 30-40 gram limit? Or how about any studies showing problems with healthy kidneys processing large protein intakes? There is no set limit on how much protein the body can process per serving. It depends on a multitude of factors -- how quickly the protein digests, the overall energy balance of the person, whether the person is exercising or sitting their ass.
Again, any studies to back this up? You're good at making claims, where is your data? A hint: quotes from bullshit websites do not count. Something published in a real journal does.
You really are a fucking idiot, aren't you?
It'll be far too tedious to go item by item and point out how wrong you are since pretty much every point you make is either flatly wrong or mostly wrong. You spout a combination of myths and pseudo-science that has no factual backing. None. Zero. You must be a personal trainer at a Bally's or some other chrome and tone gym. Or perhaps you've taken your own advice and spoken with a nutritionist. Most of them are quoting 20 year old texts that have been invalidated through new studies and understanding of nutrition and physiology.
I take issue with the "first order of business for any robber" statement. It simply isn't true.
From guncite.com:
Just a minor correction: SAX is an API, not a parser. Many parsers (universally tested or not) implement SAX.