The exact opposite of how Rolls Royce used to design cars - test to destruction, make the part that failed stronger and repeat.

You should read the article. No really. Because they mention exactly this. That it's not just a matter of eliminating salt, it is absolutely required, but that we tend to eat too much. Heck here's a copy / paste for you:

To stay healthy, the human body relies on a careful balance: too little immune function and we succumb to infection, too much activity and the immune system begins to attack healthy tissue, a condition known as autoimmunity. Some forms of autoimmunity have been linked to overproduction of TH17 cells, a type of helper T cell that produces an inflammatory protein called interleukin-17.

Well if God created everything then I guess he did.

Retarded means extra late, from re - a prefix meaning extra and tard meaning late. So if someone has retarded development it is to say that their development is extra late. Source: speaking a couple of romance languages.

As an adult I would appreciate the extra character development in a longer movie, but that is not what is happening. Longer movies just mean longer, pointless action sequences. And it all gets so tedious.

Yeah but if Peter Jackson's films had intermissions people wouldn't come back after the break.

The problem with PJ and action is that he uses so much that the original carefully placed action sequences in the source material (thinking Tolkien and Herge here) are swamped by meaningless action, which means that there is no build up and release of tension. You become disconnected from the story and your mind starts to wander. Then you realise you're in a cinema and it starts to get boring.

Turning into? They've been twins since the beginning.

To be fair, the much longer and more sophisticated "Lord of the Rings" has exactly this fault also.

I call that the "Peter Jackson" effect. It was the same story for LOTR, Tintin, and well anything he's done since well for ever. He cuts out important narrative and adds pointless action sequences that only serve to reduce the impact and tension of the important action sequences.

That feeling... it's called boredom. Movies are getting longer, and editing looks like a lost art.

I think your signature is brilliant, I tip my hat to you ;-)

I just popped a new hard drive in a 6 year old imac (replacement for one that broke) which is still someone's daily business machine and it's still running fine. That's the good part of starting off with systems with pretty decent specs.

>Also, assuming that you are American (you may not be, of course, but changes are good), remember Afganistan? There is still a war raging there, plus at least 5 >other countries are being bombed on regular basis. All that in response to an 11+ year old event (if a major one). You wanna talk about "proportional response"? This argument is a logical fallacy know as the ad hominem attack. A statement is true or false on its own merits regardless of who is doing the stating.

The point of the exercise is to replace the no longer needed flight software with software it can use to better perform it's tasks while on Mars.