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Comment Re:Nobody but myself. (Score 1) 178

I'm with you no one but myself.

As far as data 20 years from now, much of the data I keep aside from music and family photos will not be relevant in 20 years. Warranty information, order confirmations, receipts, and shipping information for products I've purchased is usually only needed until the warranty expires in 1-3 years. How long does software last 1-2 years or less before a new major revision makes it entirely obsolete and you are unable to upgrade with out purchasing a new copy. if you purchased it on cd/dvd there's not much point, if it's open source then it's likely to be available with the latest patches somewhere on the internet. I don't keep financial or banking records in digital format but even then 7-10 years. The size of drives keep going up.

Comment Re:so? (Score 2) 157

My brother has partnership with an indie label they provide advertising magazine and radio, a radio campaign [plays that are counted for charting], digital sales [50/50 split], help them find sponsors and get interviews with magazines and on the radio [some booking not included]. The band handles all artistic aspects, composition, production, recording, booking, tour, video production, physical media, merchandising, associated cost. The band holds copyright of all their music and art work, they only give the distribution rights to the label under certain terms.

Some of the bands with the indie label were previously signed to big labels and have horror stories.

Comment Re:"Energy Balance" an overly simplistic view (Score 1) 958

As formerly one of the people who can eat anything and stay skinny I will explain how this happens.

First when I was in high school I worked on a farm in the summer, played football, basketball, and ran track during the school year. It was very hard manual work and when the summer was over I was still very active not only did I loose weight I also became very muscular.

After High School I went on to College full time and worked a full time job that required me to be on me feet most of the time. I was active enough that I didn't worry about loosing my muscular build or gaining weight and never hit the gym.

After college I started into a much easier job but by that time I was also married and had kids. My sons and I would shoot hoops, play baseball, and a bunch of other fun activities.

Now that my sons are grown up and I have a easy office job that requires almost no physical effort I find that I need to watch what I eat and make sure I get out and be active as I have gained about 15lbs and and my six pack is now a four pack.

Comment Re:Eating itself? (Score 1) 265

Depends, those laws differ from place to place and Uber does follow the same laws and regulations as taxis in some of the places they operate such as my home state were the requirements are not an overly large burden. It is not outrageous that Uber should want to change requirements when they are an undo burden only that they ignore them and break laws instead.

Comment Re:Further down in the article... (Score 1) 591

Latin GD was the most prominent gang in that area of Illinois which makes it a little more ironic.

The pentacle he was wearing was on a t-shirt transposed over the house of fifths similar to the cover of the guitar grimoire. Basically a chart showing the keys with a legend to help you make guitar chords.

Comment Re:Further down in the article... (Score 5, Interesting) 591

One of my sons was expelled from the highschool the day after the Columbine shootings because had previously owned a trench coat that he had out grown and hadn't owned for nearly a year. The expulsion only lasted half a day before someone came to our house and apologized as the principal had over stepped his authority when he expelled every student that had ever worn a trench coat to school. That was also his last year as principal.

He was also suspended for wearing a pentacle by a vice principal wearing great big honking cross. After a lengthy explanation about religious symbols used as gang signs from her I simply told her she's not suspending him and will never mention it again unless she intends to suspends every person wearing a cross. She started to try and convince me that was different and I cut her off and cautioned her that there wasn't any argument she could give that wouldn't make me want to see her fired.

Comment Re:It'll never happen (Score 1) 333

My 15 yr old and his friend were talking about alien hoaxes on youtube after watching some alien movie and I told them that if an intelligent race of aliens traveled all the way across the universe to get the earth they would land, get out of their craft, stretch their limbs, and exclaim "Damn, that was a long trip!". They thought it was hilarious.

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