Couldn't be bothered to read the entire thread right now...
But don't forget the dessicant!!
Also, I'm thinking CD-ROMs would be the way to go... I'd be hard pressed to believe that nobody will have SOMEthing to read them with in a mere 25 years.
Weight training will build muscle but doesn't burn a lot of calories.
Not exactly true. Weight training may burn slightly less calories than steady-state cardio *while* you're exercising, but lifting causes the body to continue to burn calories at a higher rate for a longer period post-exercise than cardio.
But that's not really where most of its benefit lies. By weight lifting (and I mean heavy, stenuous, can't do more than 8 or 10 reps of this weight), you gain muscle which will increase your body's basal metabolic rate... a.k.a. the number of calories you burn while sitting around doing nothing.
Frequent steady-state cardio, OTOH, has been shown to actually deplete muscle.
I don't really have the time to write everything I'd like to on the subject (plus it's still early and I haven't shaken the cobwebs yet), but for some interesting reading on cardio vs. weights, as well as some really outstanding info on diet (as in, lifelong eating choices, not something you do for two weeks), AND some great workouts to get you started, check out "The Testosterone Advantage Plan" by Lou Schuler. I've recommended this book to a hundred people, and it's the book that got me started on the road from being a 250lb+ guy with no muscle who got winded tying his shoes to a 200lb guy who gets comments on how "muscular" and "in shape" he is (not to mention more attention from the opposite sex, and my wife isn't complaining, either).
Good luck guys! Let's all shake this preconceived notion that geeks all look like Comic Book Store Guy!!
once they get into our cars, then they've opened the way to possibly building devices that a user can carry with them at all times to offer something of an uninterrupted Microsoft experience.
I can't think of anything more horrific. I often go for a drive just to to 'get away from it all'.
Even if such a system from MS didn't turn out obnoxious, annoying, distracting and reduce your MPG to 1, I still wouldn't trust it to be stable. I only use Microsoft products when there is no better alternative available, or when I need Windows to run certain apps (and I'm planning this week to rearrange my machine so that I can run Windows in a VM rather than having to have a dual boot system for work:) ). An "uninterrupted Microsoft experience" sounds to me like a euphemism for Hell. Actually, it's more like the other way round!
Well, obvious and unmitigated loathing of Microsoft aside (would your feelings be any different if It Ran Linux?), I'm sure you could shut the stupid thing off if you wanted to. You know, like your computer and your XBox?
Microsoft wants you to buy their products. They don't want to own you. They're not evil, they're businessmen. If you can't separate the two, then I assume you're living in a commune and growing your own crops and making your own clothes.
I'm figuring their long-term goal is to essentially follow the user everywhere... From home to your car, into work, then back to your car, and back home again. They've already successfully penetrated the home and work markets, once they get into our cars, then they've opened the way to possibly building devices that a user can carry with them at all times to offer something of an uninterrupted Microsoft experience.
That's not a tinfoil-hat supposition, either... I think their goals are mostly innocuous and business-related.
Bullshit. By the definition of opinion, all opinions are, in fact, equal. They are subjective, and no one opinion can be said to be better than another.
That's just the worthless sort of opinion I'd expect from a guy who doesn't agree with me.
Aren't they all just a bunch of myrmidons anyway? Just like cops, when the next Hitler comes along they'll gladly give him the might that he needs, so long as they're told it's their "duty" and that to do otherwise would be "unpatriotic". If you actually believe this, then you must know personally know (m)any servicemen or women. Or cops, for that matter. Modded up insightful? Yeesh.
It's easy for us 1st world Westerners to forget what life is like most people in China, India, Africa, etc. Sure, things are getting better in those places, but that's only for the middle and upper class. And, in Nigeria, the widows of recently-assassinated Colonels.
Postal (might have been postal 2, actually) and Red Alert 2. Oddly enough, both games had the same "different" gameplay in that certain pirated/cracked versions would work for about 30seconds and then everything on screen would explode and/or die.
Oh, is that what that was? Shit. All this time I thought I just beat the game really fast!
You failed to cite the example where a woman got away with displaying potentially offensive material.
All I'm getting from your post is that:
1) You think Claudia Schiffer is hot.
2) You questioned your boss' sexual preference.
3) You were told to do something by your boss, and replied indignantly that you refused to follow his orders.
4) You incorrectly assumed that you had the right to use HP company property however you liked.
5) You were then fired for, ultimately, insubordination.
6) You're bitter.
Sounds like you need to step up and accept responsibility for your actions. You weren't fired because your boss was gay, you were fired because you overtly ignored a directive. It's not HP's fault, it's yours. Grow up.
the BSA's stance is that merely being gay or non-Christian means you are not fit to lead children.
I can't comment on the gay thing, other than that they take the don't-ask-don't-tell stance, but you are utterly incorrect about non-Christians. The BSA requires only that you believe in a higher power, and they don't ask/care which one.
As an example, one of the troop leaders in my town is Jewish (I know this because he's my son's friend's dad). Never bothered to ask anybody, but guessing from last names, I believe he's not alone.
To call the BSA as an organization bigots is outrageously ignorant. I'm guessing you've never been to a multi-troop gathering? I have been to plenty and I see kids of all colors and creeds. Furthermore they never EVER preach any sort of religious doctrine like "going to hell". You have demonstrated either a clear lack of knowledge about the organization, or a preference to stand in your ivory tower and cast aspersions on groups that don't jibe with your own views on how things should be. Funny how that works, huh?
In any event, there are plenty of alternatives to the BSA... one of which is more popular than the others (sadly the name eludes me presently). So, if you're not too tired from carrying that chip around on your shoulder all day, why don't you do a little research and help those guys out? Gay atheist parents everywhere will be forever indebted to you.
I respect the work that these people do, but come on. I think this guy might be stretching it a bit. People don't buy video games for an actor in the same way they go see a movie for an actor in it. It is a completely different medium. I don't totally disagree with you, but there definitely are some games with recognizable voice actors... Michael Ironside's voice acting in Splinter Cell is, as far as I'm concerned, a huge part of what makes that series so damned GOOD. I can't even picture another voice for Sam Fisher... even if they got a sound-alike, I doubt the character's voice inflections or speech mannerisms would remain intact. It would probably damage the series. Enough to make me stop playing? Maybe, maybe not.
Anybody still getting that hoax email that claims that MS will pay you for every person you forward it to, and everybody they forward it to, etc etc?
Funny, first time I got that hoax was at least 10 years ago, probably longer. I still get it from time to time.
Now in light of this new development, I'm thinking maybe I should have forwarded it after all...
Make them think that I actually DO have time to work out. The fact of the matter is, you probably DO have time (not directed specifically at the parent, BTW, it seems like he's making an effort). "Not having time" is just a convenient excuse... but not a valid one 95% of the time.
I run my company's IT department, and am involved with a number of large projects, my wife works nights so I have to get home to care for our 3 kids, etc., etc... I used to say I didn't have enough time, too... until I got fed up with feeling and looking like shit.
I started eating better, drinking less beer, and guess what, when you make the commitment, it's very easy to find an HOUR a day to work out. Face it, you almost certainly waste at least that much time doing something less important than maintaining that carrying case for your vital organs you call a body.
Take better care of yourself, quit making BS excuses, and see how much better you feel and how much better you look (and, subsequently,the opposite sex likes to feel you.)
Symantec has a history of turning any good products to crap. Sage Software is guilty of that too.
One should buy the other and then they could implode into a vacuum of suckiness and then only good software would remain and my Lucasarts floppies would work again.
they've been deluded into believing in the 'American Dream' - dream long enough and good things will come out of nowhere. They don't try to raise themselves up, because they expect someone else to do it for them. Wow, is that the American Dream? And here I was all this time, thinking that the American Dream meant that any American citizen could succeed and thrive through hard work, perseverance, and honesty. What a fool I've been. Welfare line, here I come!
Well, as it turns out, this thread got me in the mood to watch ToD with my sons tonight... and my DVD is also rated PG.
I also feel old, so you're not alone.:^|
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, the first two PG-13 movies were Red Dawn and Lady in Red. TOD's theatrical release was PG, but the home release may have been given the "new" PG-13 rating.
But I could be wrong. Too lazy to look, so I'm just going by memory.
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Couldn't be bothered to read the entire thread right now... But don't forget the dessicant!! Also, I'm thinking CD-ROMs would be the way to go... I'd be hard pressed to believe that nobody will have SOMEthing to read them with in a mere 25 years.
Yeah, but the thing you didn't notice was that the park ranger was an impostor - a bear that had eaten the human park ranger. Dumb humans.
The bear must not have been able to find any pick-i-nick baskets...
Weight training will build muscle but doesn't burn a lot of calories.
Not exactly true. Weight training may burn slightly less calories than steady-state cardio *while* you're exercising, but lifting causes the body to continue to burn calories at a higher rate for a longer period post-exercise than cardio.
But that's not really where most of its benefit lies. By weight lifting (and I mean heavy, stenuous, can't do more than 8 or 10 reps of this weight), you gain muscle which will increase your body's basal metabolic rate... a.k.a. the number of calories you burn while sitting around doing nothing.
Frequent steady-state cardio, OTOH, has been shown to actually deplete muscle.
I don't really have the time to write everything I'd like to on the subject (plus it's still early and I haven't shaken the cobwebs yet), but for some interesting reading on cardio vs. weights, as well as some really outstanding info on diet (as in, lifelong eating choices, not something you do for two weeks), AND some great workouts to get you started, check out "The Testosterone Advantage Plan" by Lou Schuler. I've recommended this book to a hundred people, and it's the book that got me started on the road from being a 250lb+ guy with no muscle who got winded tying his shoes to a 200lb guy who gets comments on how "muscular" and "in shape" he is (not to mention more attention from the opposite sex, and my wife isn't complaining, either).
Good luck guys! Let's all shake this preconceived notion that geeks all look like Comic Book Store Guy!!
-Bob
once they get into our cars, then they've opened the way to possibly building devices that a user can carry with them at all times to offer something of an uninterrupted Microsoft experience.
I can't think of anything more horrific. I often go for a drive just to to 'get away from it all'.
Even if such a system from MS didn't turn out obnoxious, annoying, distracting and reduce your MPG to 1, I still wouldn't trust it to be stable. I only use Microsoft products when there is no better alternative available, or when I need Windows to run certain apps (and I'm planning this week to rearrange my machine so that I can run Windows in a VM rather than having to have a dual boot system for work :) ). An "uninterrupted Microsoft experience" sounds to me like a euphemism for Hell. Actually, it's more like the other way round!
Well, obvious and unmitigated loathing of Microsoft aside (would your feelings be any different if It Ran Linux?), I'm sure you could shut the stupid thing off if you wanted to. You know, like your computer and your XBox?
Microsoft wants you to buy their products. They don't want to own you. They're not evil, they're businessmen. If you can't separate the two, then I assume you're living in a commune and growing your own crops and making your own clothes.
Yeesh.
I'm figuring their long-term goal is to essentially follow the user everywhere... From home to your car, into work, then back to your car, and back home again. They've already successfully penetrated the home and work markets, once they get into our cars, then they've opened the way to possibly building devices that a user can carry with them at all times to offer something of an uninterrupted Microsoft experience.
That's not a tinfoil-hat supposition, either... I think their goals are mostly innocuous and business-related.
All opinions are not equal...
Bullshit. By the definition of opinion, all opinions are, in fact, equal. They are subjective, and no one opinion can be said to be better than another.
That's just the worthless sort of opinion I'd expect from a guy who doesn't agree with me.
Sure, same with 640K!
Postal (might have been postal 2, actually) and Red Alert 2. Oddly enough, both games had the same "different" gameplay in that certain pirated/cracked versions would work for about 30seconds and then everything on screen would explode and/or die.
Oh, is that what that was? Shit. All this time I thought I just beat the game really fast!http://www.hackaday.com/2008/06/19/wii-menu-3-3-already-circumvented/ [hackaday.com]
Nope, made an innocuous joke that apparently wasn't funny and got modded down as "off topic".
Fission is nuclear, fusion is nukuler, right?
You failed to cite the example where a woman got away with displaying potentially offensive material.
All I'm getting from your post is that:
1) You think Claudia Schiffer is hot.
2) You questioned your boss' sexual preference.
3) You were told to do something by your boss, and replied indignantly that you refused to follow his orders.
4) You incorrectly assumed that you had the right to use HP company property however you liked.
5) You were then fired for, ultimately, insubordination.
6) You're bitter.
Sounds like you need to step up and accept responsibility for your actions. You weren't fired because your boss was gay, you were fired because you overtly ignored a directive. It's not HP's fault, it's yours. Grow up.
Just IMHO.
I can't comment on the gay thing, other than that they take the don't-ask-don't-tell stance, but you are utterly incorrect about non-Christians. The BSA requires only that you believe in a higher power, and they don't ask/care which one.
As an example, one of the troop leaders in my town is Jewish (I know this because he's my son's friend's dad). Never bothered to ask anybody, but guessing from last names, I believe he's not alone.
To call the BSA as an organization bigots is outrageously ignorant. I'm guessing you've never been to a multi-troop gathering? I have been to plenty and I see kids of all colors and creeds. Furthermore they never EVER preach any sort of religious doctrine like "going to hell". You have demonstrated either a clear lack of knowledge about the organization, or a preference to stand in your ivory tower and cast aspersions on groups that don't jibe with your own views on how things should be. Funny how that works, huh?
In any event, there are plenty of alternatives to the BSA... one of which is more popular than the others (sadly the name eludes me presently). So, if you're not too tired from carrying that chip around on your shoulder all day, why don't you do a little research and help those guys out? Gay atheist parents everywhere will be forever indebted to you.
I wish I had points so I could mod this up. Well said, sir.
Anybody still getting that hoax email that claims that MS will pay you for every person you forward it to, and everybody they forward it to, etc etc? Funny, first time I got that hoax was at least 10 years ago, probably longer. I still get it from time to time. Now in light of this new development, I'm thinking maybe I should have forwarded it after all...
Mod parent up... he's 110% correct... especially with the last two paragraphs.
I run my company's IT department, and am involved with a number of large projects, my wife works nights so I have to get home to care for our 3 kids, etc., etc... I used to say I didn't have enough time, too... until I got fed up with feeling and looking like shit.
I started eating better, drinking less beer, and guess what, when you make the commitment, it's very easy to find an HOUR a day to work out. Face it, you almost certainly waste at least that much time doing something less important than maintaining that carrying case for your vital organs you call a body.
Take better care of yourself, quit making BS excuses, and see how much better you feel and how much better you look (and, subsequently,the opposite sex likes to feel you.)
Just my 2 cents.
Well, as it turns out, this thread got me in the mood to watch ToD with my sons tonight... and my DVD is also rated PG. I also feel old, so you're not alone. :^|
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, the first two PG-13 movies were Red Dawn and Lady in Red. TOD's theatrical release was PG, but the home release may have been given the "new" PG-13 rating. But I could be wrong. Too lazy to look, so I'm just going by memory.