It means, it's turtles all the way down.

And you just showed your ignorance in a marvelous combo.

It's a misconception that people thought the world was flat - we have known it to be round since the ancient greeks.

And predictions coming true? Well you are sort of correct, they aren't exactly coming true as actual events tend to happen a whole lot quicker and worse than IPCC predicts.

Lately PHK has become more and more derailed. If you ever follow him on his local Danish blogs, he has gone totally off the rail - claiming all sorts of weird things, from major conspiracies to some far fetched claims against the EU.

There are 9 regions for DVDs, there are probably at least 5-10.000 network operators world wide and you need a profile for whatever operator you want to use.

For countries with bad coverage (like the US), you are going to have multiple profiles and sim cards for a TV to ensure coverage (and even then, you are going to have a bad time).

Bulk access to MVNO is pretty cheap, it's more expensive to get the sim cards provisioned for each country they operate in, and make sure they are paired with the right country.

You know how we know that you didn't even bother to read the excerpt?

When websites vet their advertisement and host the stupid things, I'll let them through (and in fact do so).

Arh 'murcian, cause what we do is what everyone else are doing.

Text prices outside the US was definitely not driven anywhere by Apple, they have been plummeting for ages - having multiple carriers did that, not some shiney toy.

In Denmark, Mobile Pay is a massive success, users can transfer money to each other, split bill etc.

The value added as a consumer using Mobile Pay, rather than CC, is the fact that we can instantly settle our "debt". No more "I bought round number 4, so I'm not up for another now", someone goes and pays with their CC (or using mobile pay in the places that accept that) and can instantly deal with the bill among their peers.

Almost 25% of the population has adapted this solution in less than a year.

At what point did I blame society for the problem?

What I said was society needs to understand the problem and help the people who are in trouble, iff we wan't to fix this issue. Huge difference...

Also, you are really really ignorant, if you think it's a matter of impulse control. Sugar is extremely addictive - think Heroin like cravings. Those of us who grew up with lots of candy are battling an inner demon like you wouldn't believe; and having ignorant people like you telling us to just grow up is again a detrimental to the effort.

As long as you and the rest of society doesn't understand the problem, we as a society can't fix it.

Also, as I wrote, I've dropped 30kg, don't fucking tell me what impulse control is about, you have no idea what hell I've been through.

So yeah, fuck you, but thanks for playing.

Really? The do tell why smoking commercials where banned?

Are all people suddenly mentally ill?

The feedback loop in your brain for stimulus like sugar is very well understood and it's almost impossible to fight; but hey good for you if you haven't been conditioned like about 90% of the young population.

Also props for not understanding anything about the current issue, stay ignorant, stay happy!

No no no and no.

Fat people are not going to lose weight by eating calories. Rice and pasta has very high amount of carbs per g.

I'm not advocating eating chocolate, but trust me, binge eating rice will not help you.

Also, if you absolutely must eat something sweet, ice cream is actually not a bad option. Pretty much any candy you pick will come in at 500kcal / 100g (+/-50kcal), most ice cream will come in around 250kcal/100g, just remember 100ml != 100g.

Another fun fact, sugarfree candy is usually just as bad as the regular stuff, look at the content description, the calorie table will almost always match the regular candy.

I only ever cycle, I do fitness 3-4 times a week. I'm still quite a bit overweight. And I fucking hate people like you who thinks it all comes down to getting some exercise. Having muscle will help metabolism, however, it is a big fucking mistake to think that hitting the gym will lower your weight, in fact quite the opposite happens for most overweight people.

Hitting the gym with the object of losing weight will be very detrimental to your efforts, 1. you will gain weight from the additional muscle. 2. raising your activity will increase your need for calories and if not kept in check, will just have you eat more.
Now what happens to us fatties at this point is, we realize that all that effort in the gym hasn't helped us, so we stop going there, but the calorie intake doesn't go down, causing even more weight gain...

If we as a society want to get rid of this epidemic, we can't just go around telling people to move more, it doesn't help, we need people to eat proper food, we need to have the amount of added sugar to daily food removed. And we need to make it easier for people combatting their weight - restrict advertisements on candy/cake/cookies, just like with smoking. Require supermarkets to move the unhealthy food away from cash registers and by law require a "healthy" path through the market, a path which allows you to buy the daily groceries, without having to fight your inner need for candy, and trust me it's a daily battle and it doesn't get easier.

I've dropped almost 30kgs over the last 18 months, and it's still a fucking struggle; one advertisement can send you on a binge eating candy spree like you wouldn't believe it.

I get that it is a silly comparison, but what's with the negative vibes?

These guys have come up with a nifty solution to an expensive problem and they are using some awesome geek gear to do so.

Go ask Microsoft how that defense works out...