that isn't true, it is not that simple. Muscles actually prefer burning fats at rest and storing glucose from (or converted to from) food as glycogen so there is a store for aerobic erxercise but more importantly for the brain since fats can't cross the blood brain barrier. We need the fats to store fat soluble vitamins too. There are many many factors driving metabolism, the basic ones are activity, hormone levels (made more complex in that some like hgh's have insulin effects), food types eaten and fast periods (including hour(s) long not just days/weeks/months), climate, daylight length, genetics etc etc so it gets complicated and no generalisations can be made.

Most people ask nutritionalists and personal trainers who understand very little and some of it they know the right answer but their reasoning is wrong so they form extra conclusions which are crap. What you really need is to be asking biochemists and molecular biologists and the like those questions or medical practitioners strong in those areas.

I'd argue we do have enough info on metabolism. It was a hell of a large part of my studies (biochem) in 1 and 2nd year and that was in the 90's and understanding has increased not decreased since then. We know a hell of a lot and understand it extremely well right down to the molecular physics of excatly how it does that not just the fact it does.

The problem is most people I know outside of those education subjects and careers don't know it, including a health care professional who is an expert nutritionalist who I've had to give extra info to a lot as she admits she never heard that but comes back surprised after research at it being well known. People want simple answers and the human body is complex; we want magic bullets, instant solutions, and 1 word answers is my guess at the real problem.

Truth to this but lighting is the magic ingredient. PS skills especially well done work frequency sep and subtle accurate changes only go so far if it is poorly lit. I don't just mean artificially lit stuff but same goes for available light although admittedly I tend to use monoblocks in portraiture. Not a quality thing more for the control I have over all light sources and "on tap" perfect light any time of day.

I'm a big fan of eizo monitors and they tend to produce stuff they know there is a niche for. This seems perfect for mfd use for a lot of different applications. I'm mainly familiar with the coloredge cx and cg series but most of their range ticks all the boxes for many people. I tend to design/edit/grade on a 27" screen and use a 20" just for tool panels and common controls I use whilst wanting to see adjustments large screen. I can utilise the screen realestate on the bigger screen for just workspace/pasteboard/footage and so on and declutter but have instant access to controls at the same time this way.

Thing with this kind of setup is the bigger the primary screen the better and the other screen doesn't matter so much and I'd rather have a CX271 or CG277 and 1 or 2 smaller screens than shrink the primary display to fit slightly bigger secondary/tertiary monitors onto my desk. Side monitors in portrait orientation doesn't always work well either so this seems like a good idea and that is just for my personal needs so I'd consider it but there are probably many more uses.

closest thing i've found to realistic is how Chris Roberts is implementing his space physics, fun first but without completely throwing realism out the window https://robertsspaceindustries...

prescribing benzos with ssri/ssnri is done in Europe but not for those reasons. The suicide risk increase has been found significant but the cause isn't fully understood and most will be cautious prescribing fluoxetine, paroxetine and the like to young adults/teenagers. That theory is far from proven and there are others more fitting and the risk found are lower than expected for that theory of "motivation". Also other classes such as treatment with TCAs and some SSNRI/SSRI don't have the same (if any) risk increase for the same therapeutic action/relief of symptoms.

I've found msi make the list too, lot of others find the same. Seems common across wide range of experiences of rig builders and no guaranteed reliable manufacturers now IMO. I just use handful of UK stores with great support whop replace no questions asked for free and honour the warranties for products; the 3 main places I use cover everything without specifics for 12month but do 3 to 5 year on certain products. I always always use psu's that are reliable and tested by good sources. Takes a week of reading around before purchase and always pay more than a crap one but it is worth it IMO but even with more positive than negative experiences I'd be foolish to trust in something completely. Consumer products just aren't made to be failproof, redundant failsafes and seriously over-engineered are things that do not mix with commercial products with sane pricetags for items with limited life before they become obsolete. Failure will always be part of the chain if you make enough machines for you/others. All you can do is insulate yourself from how likely it is by picking tested combos and good warranty scheme for if it did come to crunch

Even free shipping back as places have various policies from courier to pick up defective one when they deliver your replacement, email prepay post label to print out or post prepay box to ship back in (failure to do so gets you billed to stop scams). My advice to friends/family is only use someone with good returns policy who wont palm the problem off on the oem as none seem to give a toss with all products unless it is major known issue.

FWIW the last 2 rigs I made for me (msi mobo with i3 2120 xfx gtx460 and asus w/ i7 4790k gigabyte gtx770 both with corsair ram (I have less issues with gskill tbh)) are fine. Shockingly the msi mobo one going strong for 4 years nearly despite how many rma's in the first week of life on the mobo alone. I received numerous new boards (due to way it was returned I know it was not the same one shipped back out) and all had issues with DOA/, faulty or refusing to play nice with other components despite listed on msi and component manufacturers sites as tested confirmed compatible when it wasn't. Never had bad luck like that on single part in building rigs since mid 90's for myself/ family/ friends/ their friends etc etc. I'd tried other new components and tested working older parts to make sure it was the board (and its replacments), it was. The asus board just worked right off the bat and was a dream and I've had very few problems with asus but I'd still not hold them as reliable despite my own experience as like I say failure is part of the cycle of everything, just lower chances on the good stuff but still significant. I'd not steer clear of new msi products despite issues either, apart from gpus that is and that is not reliability based but their crumby chip binning and my particular needs.

wtf has someone elses dietary choices got to do with you? You know what, I come across more over zealous meat eaters than I do vegans and their bs tires me. Vast majority of vegans (I'm not one) I know don't give a shit what others eat and it is personal ethical choice and they are tolerant of others who don't share their view. Hell 2 of them even cook meat for their kids since they are not old enough to make informed decision.

Over zealous meat eaters banging on about what others eat, leave peoples personal choices the them. As for the local farm comment most I know are opposed on ethical point because creature is "killed" for a purpose they think is avoidable, such friends know killing is still part the chain and your view seems simplistic and childish, obviously there is still unavoidable death in insects killed in farming, transport etc and reducing arguments either side to such black & white simplistic one line arguments gets nowhere.

Jeez it's worse than listening to the ram it down your throat atheists bang on about God, I don't believe in divine creator myself but don't attack everyone of faith much as most of those leave my different belief alone, it's called growing the fuck up.

Bearing in mind Cameron is an oaf I wouldn't be surprised if it was being rolled out for either similar behind the scenes purpose not too far off what you state, or another tory get rich[er] quick scheme. After all a lot of the gov investment and involvement in fair bit of projects has been a shill reasons with high vested interest, shares and so on in such things being the driving force and even willingness to damage the stated aim if it means more money.

I'd go try that out a gain and experiment what is messing your settings up since I didn't realise youtube had ads until this story. I use adblock plus and it works but make sure you have disable unintrusive ads. Fwiw I use some other things which could affect it like noscript and ghostery. Yeah the latter two are very similar but I use in particular way, such as slashdot is whitelisted in noscript but the trackers are blocked by ghostery.

By whitelisting in either ghostery or noscript and setting selective permissions in the other I effectively have simple way of managing different permissions for same tracker/script etc for different sites for instance blocking Google analytics on most sites but enabling where it is favourable on a select few sites. It also means even whitelisted domains have filtering of some things still.

I really don't know at what point it'd be an issue and personally couldn't even guess. Worst I've seen oxide buildup was NiMH powered old portable units for small setups or backups; line in recorders and portable phantom power supplies for mics. That was just the battery contacts on them not the xlr's sockets, I'd guess because batteries had been used under 20min fresh off the charger so still degassing which speeds up the buildup and done over long time on regular basis. They worked but getting rid of weak points is just good practice I guess and when people depending on the result best not taking chances and it is one less thing to worry about when you need to troubleshoot problems.

Metal migration seems more of the issue though as I'd been warned about that in some stuff but never seen it myself. All the 1/4" jacks and xlr's I've seen have been none GP types so the oxides can't be significant problem in average situations or it'd be more common seeing the GP stuff. Most the places it is used will be for marketing reasons like with silver cable with the skin effect myths. Of course there is some truth to it but it doesn't really affect audio and marketing kind of draws wrong conclusions to sell snakeoil essentially.

exactly what I thought. Don't get me started on bose but klipsch have done a lot of good and fair amount of their good stuff is cheap too.

actually they can have their place in studios although I have rarely seen it. Gp terminations makes no difference to signal of course and thickness of some is crap so it wears fast when plugging/unplugging on regular basis. However on the stuff that stays hooked up for long periods it has 2 purposes,first the GP doesn't matter BUT mixing GP and none plated does since mix metals leads to various issues so if the breakout boxes or whatever are GP then so are the terminations. Most studio gear I see doesn't though which leads me to the second, that stuff could do with a squirt of Deoxit every 1 or 2 years. I've seen visible oxide buildup on stuff and it's still worked but good housekeeping dictates you should. Fwiw I don't work in a studio but have done bits with in such environments for friends who do ( 3 of the 4 are elec.engineers so know the score here where as I studied biochem so clearly out of my area although I do bits of audio on hobbyist level at most).

That will be because it is audiophile wank. Dedicated cards have their place in some situations I admit the only potential truth in it is used to make totally wrong conclusion. Some boards have bad design with regards to signal path so you may get issues including interference with low impedance headphones (I noticed this on one machine with msi z77a g45) or the integrated doesn't have power to drive higher impedance ones (nor will most cards). Desktop amps exist for that reason or a cheap card like the xonar dgx (with uni drivers not official ones) may fix it as it did for me. The higher end discrete cards are BS along with all the marketing bollocks that go with them and are pretty much the same, any difference in sound comes down to a prefered sound from using different op amps usually.

As for sounding better if it wasn't double blind then placebo makes a hell of a difference and this has been proven many times. What has been found is driving high impedance phones properly can make difference in sound, so equal volume but 100% maxed out on one setup and 50% total volume on the other may actually result in different performance as as SOME devices distort more and have issues operating at highest end such as 95%-100% max output. Also slight volume increases are often percieved as "better" sounding, people will often score THE SAME headphones as higher than what they presume is another pair in blind tests just because they have been slightly turned up.

that wont fix anything, think a little bigger than national boundaries for the proof. Plenty of the worlds police turn to corruption to make a living because they have barely enough resources to do their job. The corruption doesn't stem from resources per se, just the way the corruption manifests changes whether it is on the side taxation/bribes/using resources to acting as a semi pmc or militia for various groups like in some developing countries to common thing in US and Europe of arrests for filling quotas to hit plotical projected figures and thus future funds as well as too much interests in getting fat of privatised prison system, sadly the UK is now going the same way.