Hell, too much of anything is bad for you. It's all about balance. Almost everything we need to live is damaging or toxic if we overdo it.

But I'll still pick bacon over seaweed. :)

Welcome. An additional thought re the Japanese study:

Most of what we call "diseases of aging" are actually hypothyroid symptoms (T4 to T3 conversion declines, and the effect is low thyroid at the tissue level even tho TSH and T4 will still test normal). If thyroid function can be boosted naturally as people reach that stage -- perhaps we can mitigate those symptoms more broadly, as it appears the Japanese diet does. But you don't want to do it too early (or overdo it) and damage function, either. Needs More Study.

It's a case of some is good, more is not necessarily better. A few articles that came instantly to hand (tho the one I wanted, with hard data, managed to elude quick search):

http://www.medicinenet.com/scr...
http://www.thyroid.org/ata-sta...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.thyroidresearchjour...

To what degree it relies on underlying conditions...?? Fact is about 25% of the "healthy" population, and 80% of people over 50 years old, have some degree of thyroid dysfunction (an adaptation against starvation especially in less-productive ie. older individuals). Suddenly that risk pool doesn't sound so small, does it??

Eat this stuff too routinely, and screw up your thyroid function, which can be damaged by excess iodine intake.

I had a similar thought involving just block the durn update thingee in your router or wherever works best for that, surely it goes to some identifiable domain or address block.

Far as I can tell from what I read, Win10's mission in life is to provide an interface to the Windows Store, and that is probably why the updates are mandatory.

Right on. I don't care what she/he was/is on the gender front. I do care about being manipulated and lied to.

http://gamergate.community/t/b...

In fact, I was going to ask...

What's with the restraining order on you from your former place of work?

Because when I go to town, I usually come home with not only my groceries, but also half a ton of feed. I suppose if I had my own rail siding, public transport might be more practical.

Haha, as a fellow supertaster I hear that one -- I've got to where I say "no sauce" as if by reflex, and dislike a lot of "good" stuff as being the wrong kind of bitter. OTOH, I have often refused to eat something that tasted wrong to me, and meanwhile my fellow diners are busy acquiring food poisoning.

As to sleep, dogs vary wildly in their sleep needs, but it's most obvious with pre-weaning puppies. Most sleep a lot; some slow-developers do almost nothing but sleep. But a few are up and at-em very early in life, and sleep very little then or ever. The most freakish I've seen was active 8 hours a day already by age 2 weeks, and her physical development was miles ahead of normal across the board. (Normal 2 week old puppies can at best stagger around for half an hour before they get tired and fall down asleep; she could already *gallop* back and forth, with good coordination and balance, for hours on end.)

Going from WinXP to Win7 pretty much made my mom give up using the computer too. She is 85 but not at all dim. She just doesn't live on the computer like some of us do, and if anything doesn't work as expected, she's like "whatever" and stops using it.

Geez yes. If it ain't broke, don't go fixing it. If it ain't broke, a whole LOT of people already depend on it, and whatever you change WILL break it for too many of 'em.

This kind of breakage is a major reason why I use so many old software versions, across the board.

Considering the radically poor quality I've observed in Chinese steel (speaking of construction materials here) -- I'm not at all surprised.

The first that I noticed was concrete bracing, which I formerly used for something it wasn't really meant to do, but worked well for anyway. And it held up great for many years of hard use under severe conditions -- no broken welds, no destructive rust. The current stuff coming from China starts popping apart in a matter of months, and is rusting away within a year.

You gotta wonder what that's doing to our infrastructure that's being built using Chinese materials.

Or maybe you need not wonder, just look at the example of that new bridge... where was it, San Francisco? that per what I've heard is already falling apart thanks to the foibles of Chinese steel.

Consider also your climate-related road conditions:

Recently I talked to someone here in Montana who drives a late-model hybird... and they plan to trade the damn thing in ASAP, because in ice/snow conditions, it has no torque. Get it the least bit stuck, either in snow or an ice rut (a common situation under icy winter conditions) and it won't climb out, and it can't be rocked out. It is STUCK until someone with a non-electric vehicle comes along and pushes or pulls them out.

How about we stop trying to make one plane do everything? Build something small, fast, and minimal for dogfights. Build something with more range and capacity for when that's needed. Don't cripple the pilot's ability to use the tool, either.