Even the "no calory sweetener" generic hypothesis, that the taste preps the body for a rush of incoming sugar that never appears, causing disease, is a load of BS. Along with the diet pop come tons of bread, buns, fries, chips, Doritos, macaroni and cheese, whatever.

But almost every meal is choked with carbs which jam up the blood sugar as surely as the jelly or frosting on a cake would...and then some several times over.

So any "prep" for incoming sweets is more than satisfied with carb overload turning to glucose.

People who are thinner tend to prefer a sweerer whipped concoction than fat people, who prefer a fatter, not sweet whipped concoction. That knowledge is 30 years old.

Fat people are fat because of savory desires rather than sweets (to borrow a culinary term for non-sweets cooking AKA most cooking).

But i's thr breads and cereals aspect -- grains, in bread and pasta, that generates excess calories and sugar in the blood. Too much sugar...in the form of those buns and fries with that paltry 300 calories of burger-and-cheese in a Big Mac.

"Ancient thought patterns" have done nothing to move people beyond simple huts. It is reality itself sorely in need of modern asskicking as it is reality that gives disease and starvation.

Advancing tech is what saves us, and freedom. They are interrelated to advance at the fastest rate., and solve issues faster than they become serious leading to an ever-increasing quality and length of life. Hell, western obesity is a result of kicking the starvation issue too hard, with food so cheap it's almost free, and the poorest are he fattest in the US.

Nature? Fuck nature. I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth. Why? Because I fucking love humanity and its masses yearning to breathe free and live llong with healthy lives and lots of stuff.

Exactly what everyone claims...then they launch into their pet political philosophies AKA quasi-religions. The only real politics is what advances technology fastest to execute murderous nature. What has it done for us lately?

Seriously.

No, seriously. Besides being a meme-justofication for certain quasi-religions and their power dominance.

The math is simple. At 2 miles per hour, it takes a fat programmer 1 hour to go ten miles.

Their ranger in a game, however, can probably do it in 6 on a horse. Or their non-superspeed hero in City of Heroes (RIP) in 3 1/4 minutes as they ran at 37 mph. In their Eve ship from a dead stop, maybe 30s, for a bloated one.

My 5 inch wide slug railguns oh baby how many level 95s do you have in WoW?

They. Are. Not. Destroying. It.

They are refusing to work with it, correcting a bug in their earlier software.

Neither the counterfeit chip maker, nor the counterfeit chip-using device maker, nor you have any expectation to use their unlicensed software.

Sucks to be you, the end user, but your beef is with the device maker, who should produce their own driver.

So jokers around here expect the driver to write nice, useful changes to the chip and OS, even if counterfeit, if part of the update?

But not to write changes so their driver won't work with it?

So the frauds get to shove their hands down your pants but you can't return the favor?

"You may shove your hamd into our pants to do good things, but not pinch us in the ball."

Myyyyyy, how magnanimous everyone ie with other peoples' efforts.

As far as IP goes, the chips *are* theirs.

Let the counterfeiters take them to court over it if they disagree.

Chili's has these little kiosks at your table, a little unwired screen on a stand. Yo can swipe your own card and pay without waiting for a check.

I don't like it. Rarely do I "wait" for a check, and it seems like lazy on their part.

Ahhh, when can I perma-plug in to a virtual net with an autodoc to tend my body?

> $666.66

Keep in mind a loaded station wagon, of Family Truckster fame, was around $3500.

Still, it's a 90-fold increase over the original price.

The United States has long had a policy to have the best-trained, best-equipped troops. Let the nations of the Continent throw human waves against each other.

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you haven't done your homework."

> "what's happening in Beta Pic"

It appears to be a really fat guy tipping his fedora, as if to say, "Mi'lady!"

> In the UK... "$50 for a 6-in model, $70 for a 7.5-in model,
> and $100 for a 9-in figurine."

In the US, that's for girth, not height, btw.

The mfr. who used the counterfeit chip should pay for it. And you, as end user, should be aware you may be using scam hardware, the cheaper and more off-mainline brand you go.

Properly speaking, get upset at your fraudulent device maker, not the official chip/driver maker. And if you knew it was a counterfeit chip, well, you pays your money and takes your chances.

> Reagan is rong! Internet regulated but not taxed in US!

  We're tryiing to stop it from being. regulated and taxed. Give the government hacks time.

Remember:

Senator: What good is electricity to the house, anyway?

Engineer: Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it.

I envision some Democrats in the US wanting to pipe up about how brave Hungary is being, but will not do so less than a month before the election.

Search your feelings, Luke. You know it to be true.