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Comment Re:simple fix (Score 1) 221

It is indeed, although it's probably not a physical activity that would be considered to improve your physical fitness.

This is why "normal" people hate nerds & geeks.

Obviously, 12oz curls are a physical activity, but no one in their right, non-Aspergers minds actually calls it a "physical activity" in the sense used by everyone except pedantic ass-wipes. (No, that is not an ad hominem attack, because I have facts and definitions on my side.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/phys/ Physical activity is any body movement that works your muscles and requires more energy than resting.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sport an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/sport An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others

I don't have the exact numbers

Right, because there are no numbers showing what you are hoping can be pulled out of your arse.

Comment Re:simple fix (Score 1) 221

Apparently logic

That's the key. GGP's argument is apparently logical, but fails because physical activity means "movement of the body", and even though the "mind" is nothing but the emergent property of all those neuron firing in the brain, there's still no physical activity in playing chess.

If you consider "lifting your arm to move the chess piece" to be physical activity, then sitting on the couch and moving your arm to consume beer and Cheetos is also physical activity, but that's sedentary behavior -- very low energy expenditure in a sitting or reclining posture.

IOW, my "opinion" is not unsupported, but a fully supported thought, and GGP's "logic" is full of definitional flaws, and thus a fallacy.

Comment You have to *demonstrate* that SAS is better (Score 2) 143

Go do something in R or Python that is useful to the company but impossible or very difficult in SAS.

Then show it to the hard-core SAS users. If they're interested, demonstrate it to your boss along with how it can save the company (and especially your cost center) money.

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