meat prices will stay static but leather prices will go up to compensate.

I can't wait till we get some slig action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slig_(Dune)#Sligs

Calorie counting does work.

though I havent read the book, I read a study myself that said all weight loss is is calories in vs calories out.

I was told by my doctor that I would die by my mid 40's or have to be on maintenance drugs for the rest of my life, I was 303, and this was on August 31 2009.

Now, as of today I am 270 lbs, well on my way downward in weight.

I didnt eat any fancy foods, healthy foods, whole grain, or any of that. I tried that once and so hated my life I failed over and over to lose weight.

Instead I simply ate less of what I like, and made sure to calculate calories as well as I can and I started doing a little bit of exercise, about 300 calories a day (easy to do, just some small amount of walking).

I dont even need the exercise, I lost nearly 15 lbs without exercise. It is all calories in and calories out.

What I also hate is these advertisements where they argue "lose 20 lbs in a month!"

The first 20lbs is easy, just put the fork down and don't eat so much.

Its the next 20 thats hard.

playing ON the same computer that is hosting is a terrible, terrible idea.

It gives the host a massive advantage

Note, all of those mechs were hacked into the game by mektek.net, because of this work and their work on the models they were added this way.

at 26 mpg (what i get) at 18.5 cents a gallon it means that you spend 71.115 cents per 100 miles.

If its a 1 cent a mile then you spend 1 dollar per mile (100 cents)

If its 2 cent a mile you spend 2 dollars per mile.

Which means that for a car at 26 MPG the current system is almost 42% more tax burden at 1 cent tax and 280 % at 2 cents?

Why, other than the privacy concerns, would America want this if it was completely benign (and they never used it to watch you).

I don't know the scientific community was pretty adamant in its consensus against the Bush administration on this.

This guy sounds like a holdover from individuals hired by the previous administration to refute the rest of the scientific community.

Is the law they are crafting that they will call the "RetroActive Pirating Extended Digital Unity" Act. (The RAPEU Act) that will allow copyright holders to get logs of all users who have downloaded music without DRM and force them to pay a media shifting licensing fee of 10 dollars (so that they can have the right to convert the music to CD, MP3 Player etc..) per song.

Actually the NSA did a warrentless search, and has as of yet to ask for a FISA warrant, as they were unable to find a link between the Clinton Administration and Al Quaeda before the Bush administration ended.

I think they should at least think of calling the satellite a "Death Star" and it can be contracted out to corporate entities to help... disinfect certain areas of their domain with high power beams of energy.

I have not found this to be true. It sounds good in theory, but a view cannot be optimized in some cases and depending on the architecture can also have conversion problems that simply do not exist otherwise.

If you are working at the problem strictly from the point of view of an application, oftentimes your perspective is correct, but if your looking at raw performance issues, and outright bugs, sometimes views can have a significance performance issue. Also, views often only grab subsets of data, and when you are doing heavy data manipulation you may end up joining the view against a table that is in the view itself causing slow downs.

The interesting thing about singularity is that from its raw definition as outlined in the old vernor vinge book (cant remember its name) all that is needed is for people to advance so quickly that those from a generation before can understand.

Now this was changed a bit to add in two caveats, the AI that can build a better AI (machine build greater machine) or humans augmented to extreme points (brain uploading, or something slightly less).

There are several sci fi books that cover this kind of thing.

In some sense we have already had a singularity when personal computers started advancing so quickly.

People are left behind constantly as we move on, people get information so quickly and so densely now compared to even 10 years ago that we are finding it difficult to cope.

Now we aren't even trying to increase density, but ease of use to access that info. At some point you wont even need a computer, info will simply flash into your brain.

As you keep on moving forward from there, were exactly do you get to? Somewhere we can't even easily foresee. So it all depends on what we want to do for ourselves.

I dont think saying "singularity" is near is going to cover it. We won't know when we reach it, but someone from 20 years ago might, for us it will be an upgrade to our mind input cell phone. Each step to get there will seem logical and small, and an improvement on something you have already seen, and there will never be a realization that we have crossed over.

Some books portray the event were this jump is made as peaceful, others portray it as violent.

It is going to be a mix of both.

I am going to build a vault near one.