Effects.. or affects? I suppose both add up to the same meaning in this case :D

Bingo. "Higher" fat, low carb diets don't make you fat. High carb, low fat diets are way more likely to do so. Worse, "low fat" foods often are packed with sugar.

I read about gut flora/fauna a while ago and realised that it may not be purely blood sugar levels affecting my mood. After being on a lower GI diet for a few years and taking probiotics, I'm slightly more able to eat "normal" food again without it affecting my mood so much. Potato still causes noticeable differences though.

Maybe you haven't actually look at what the device does. You wouldn't get one with a built in battery for $20. Obviously they were offering something different or people would have just bought a $20 device off of Amazon rather than choosing to fund this project.

Sounds like someone could do with watching Idiocracy.

That didn't take much choosing, I'll go with trash thanks.

Isn't the entitlement princess really the one who refuses to pick up trash?

Yet you weren't worried at all about the ones it created? That seems a bit shortsighted.

Hence the quotation marks.

It's almost exactly like the US yes, ie basically nothing important really changes no matter who's in power. Even when you vote for the "other side" (or in our case a coalition of 2 parties), "democratic" government is "democratic".

Ah, well I'm Scottish so that explains it. Thanks for clearing that up :)

Well, you can live away from your parents/guardians and get married at 16 in the UK. I always considered that the point adulthood, but obviously there will be a lot of differing opinions on the term.

After looking it up just now I see you still need permission from your parents though, so I guess you're right about 18.

Yep, it doesn't have anything to do with totalitarianism, but it does have to do with freedom. An optional web filter doesn't have much to do with either.

Oh gods, I have to tell that that I want to be able to view adult content! This position is untenable!

I live in the UK, and I also have that freedom. I also had a few freedoms a lot earlier than I would have had them in the US:

UK public drinking age: 18
US: 21

UK public smoking age: 16
US: 18

UK age of consent/adulthood: 16
US: 18

Tell me, which is closer to being a "totalitarian state".. the country with an opt-out porn filter, or the one where the government can do whatever the fuck it wants, whenever it wants - without telling anyone - via the PATRIOT act? How can you be so hypocritical?

This thing has first person view using a headset from the ground. There's a holy fuckload of negativity around here. I think the project is pretty awesome, and I didn't expect any more than the frame to be made of lego after reading the summary..

I use Linux. I've also been a gamer all my life.

The point is that you can't "practically use" Linux for most games, because they aren't available on Linux. This is a good step on the way to rectifying that. The situation used to be the same on Mac OS, but that's been gradually changing over the years. One nice thing about that is that any game that runs on Mac OS shouldn't take very much tweaking to run on Linux too.

I used to be religious myself. After I stopped believing, I developed quite a hate for what religion is doing to the world.

I have mellowed out somewhat since then, but I have a friend who is openly derisive and angry about all religion.

I'm pretty sure that there are people that actively fight against the bullshit of trying to teach creationism in science classes. That can be taught in school, but the place for it is religious/anthropological studies.

The child here is the one that apparently doesn't know how to explain their point of view adequately. Probably because you just believe what you are told rather than thinking about it.