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  1. Re:Slimy yes but how is it illegal? on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    I don't see why blackmail should be illegal either. Extortion typically involves the threat of violence so I can see why that would be illegal.

    Let's say you have an embassaing picture of a politician or celebrity in which it would damage their reputation. What is the difference if I offer to sell it to TMZ or to the celebrity?

  2. Slimy yes but how is it illegal? on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    I am making the assumption the photos were taken legality and not by trespassing or some illegal means. If this is the case why is this illegal?

  3. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    You know nothing about my diet. I told you what I restricted my intake to include but not the proportions. I drink 30 g of saturated fat a day as heavy cream in coffee. I eat eggs cooked in bacon drippings, butter, or coconut oil. I'll have full fat yogurt for snacks. And lots of meat and veggies and root starches cooked in butter or olive oil. For the past two years the majority of my calories have been from fat and mostly saturated. I've gone from obese to normal weight which is pretty hard for a 40 year old guy. All with only moderate exercise (15 min high intensity classes 3 times a week.

    For 20 years I was following the low fat BS and it left me in horrible shape.

  4. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 2

    Oh hell yeah butter coffe. I drink 2 pints of Heavy Cream a week in my coffee.

    Try this one. Get a good cocoa powder (just cocoa nothing else). Then get some coconut oil. Put the oil and cocoa powder in a pan or in the microwave and disolve the cocoa powder. Now add that to coffee and blend. It is awesome.

  5. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Someone should tell the French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox

  6. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    That's a "nice to have" balance if possible. But you will do great things if you eliminate refined carbs and oils and up the animal fat.

  7. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    If saturated fat is so bad why does our own body choose to store energy that way?

  8. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. What do they feed cows to fatten them up for slaughter? Hint it's not fat.

  9. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    I understand. I'm saying my total saturated fat has increased a bunch. Coconut oil is 90 saturated fat. Avacado and olive are 20 with most if the rest mono unsaturated.

    Most "vegetable" oil in stored uses solvents to extract the oil from corn, soybeans, and rapeseed. These are high in polyunsaturated fats and are terrible for you.

  10. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I should have clarified. I try to only eats fats that are made through old processes. So meat, dairy, lard, fish and cold pressed plant vegetables like olive, nut, and Avacado oils. Most are high in saturated fat. But unsaturated fats are mostly the byproduct of industrial processes requied heat and solvents. No thanks.

  11. Re:before anybody pops pills on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I lost 40 pounds by drastically increasing my saturated fat intake while reducing my refined carb intake.

  12. It's not altruism if a favor is expected in return on Beer Drinking Networks In Amazon Tribe Help Explain Altruism · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doing something for someone else with no expectation of it being returned is altruism.

  13. Re:Mostly... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 2

    If you want to be honest about it you really don't need universities for STEM degrees either. Most of it was taught as a part of apprenticeship programs by companies in the old days. Some of the best engineers I knew as an intern were non degreed and learned in the job. The problem for many companies is when they get done teaching someone that person is pretty valuable and is likely to leave if given the chance.

  14. Re:Government vs Private Contracts. on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 1

    Experiences vary I guess.

    I wrote a contract for a piece of test equipment that needed to accelerate a 100 kg mass for a minimum of 4m and 30 m/s^2 (3 G's). It had to work in a horizontal and vertical up direction. During testing the contractor could do it horizontally but not vertically. They insisted they met the contract because there is already 9.8 m/s^2 acceleration in the vertical direction due to gravity. Our legal department agreed and paid them.

  15. Re:hemoglobin test on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    The tests at the big labs are actually pretty cheap. Look online for various testing companies. I was interested in a MNR Lipopanel that my doctor refused to write a script for. I course he had no problem writing a script for a lifetime of statins. I went online and paid someone $70 to write a script and pay Labcorp to run the test and email the results.

  16. Re:RPN calcs- esp 35s on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    Is there any little HP that has the unit conversion ability of the 48? That is the reason I still use my 48 G. You can quickly add any type of mixed units and carry them through your calculations and convert them easily. I've never seen anything better to this day.

  17. Government vs Private Contracts. on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 2

    I have experience in both. In a private business contract both parties do their best to meet the terms of the contract. The reason is simple. It's expensive to go to court and bad for future business. I've written unclear requirements. When it was a private contract if they noticed it they would call for clarification and unless it was major there was no charge. A contractor that buckles and dimes you doesn't get a second chance to bid.
    A Government contract is different. If there are two ways to interprete a requirement they will always pick the wrong way and do as much work as possible down the wrong path so they get a bigger change order when it's discovered. They never get punished because technically they are right. It just rarely happens in private business.

  18. Re:if you have nothing to hide on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 3, Funny

    This made me a worse driver. They had the data plotted online for you to monitor.
    So I thought it would be fun to use my car to make patterns. I would get on a stretch of highway and then lower and raise my speed in intervals with my cruise control to make sawtooth patterns. So ever 5 seconds I'd bump it up 1 mph. Then down.

  19. Re:Well, there's a simple explanation, really. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1

    When each new observation that baffles the experts is explained by another theory I pay attention.

  20. Re:wrong it is electricity... plasma discharge.. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Rifled and tapped? on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    I use an Objet resin printer and when I make a tapped hole on the machine I always run a tap through just to clean up the hole.

  22. Re:Well, there's a simple explanation, really. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 2

    You are more right than you know. There is an explaination that asteroids and comets have tails due to electric discharges as they move through voltage potentials in the solar system.
    http://youtu.be/De9b8Z94nQk

  23. Re:wrong it is electricity... plasma discharge.. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'm not suggesting everything the EU folks say is true but something like this does make a good case for thei theory in asteroids and comets. I wonder how elliptical the orbit is. That looks a lot like a plasma discharge.

  24. A bank going out of business? Sign me up! on Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations · · Score: 1

    This is great. Usually when a bank loses everything the taxpayers are forced to bail them out. The customers actually losing is a breath of fresh air.

  25. Re:Donate Win 7 if you really want to be charitabl on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 1

    If this is true thank you. I must investigate.