Diet soda does suck. How can people stand to put that stuff in their mouths? It must be less horrifying to them than me, I suppose.

If I had to choose between soda and diet soda, I'd only drink soda, even though it'd be awful for me. Fortunately, that's not actually the choice I have to make! I prefer to drink water most of the time, and tea the rest.

My old doctor told me this, too. But like most things doctors tell me, I've learned to trust it about as far as I can throw it.

Here's a citation to the contrary (that is to say, agreeing with you), from the NIH: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003051.htm I'm not sure where to begin searching the literature, so I'll pretend that link proves the point for the time being!

In my experience, corps promise a certain amount of profitability to try to boost their stock price each quarter, so being profitable isn't enough, and a profitable division can still get head count slashed, or removed entirely, so that they can say "We're making $580,000 profit per head this quarter". IOW, it's not about making money for every company--it's about playing the stock game.

Hahahahaha.

No.

People torrent those, too!

I work much better if I disable all notifications, and only find out I have an IM when I decide to check them.

Of course! einstein.xxx!

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Oh god!

$ host einstein.xxx
einstein.xxx has address 130.250.5.253
einstein.xxx has address 130.250.4.253

They aren't necessarily tiresome. Some people can play games all day without hurting themselves.

Musicians learn to avoid building up muscle tension, both in the muscles they use, and sympathetic tension in the muscles they aren't using. They learn to keep good posture, keep their wrists relatively straight, to breathe properly and so forth, and these skills get passed down to new musicians.

The same skills apply to video games. But there's no "classical video game technique". People tense up, have terrible posture, and generally do things that will hurt themselves if they keep it up long enough. It's totally natural, and takes training for most people to avoid it.

I'm not proposing any particular solution to this, but I think some basic training might help with the sort of people who injure themselves playing video games. Certainly the ways to avoid RSI are non-obvious, whether you're playing Street Fighter or sitting in an office typing all day.

That's because programmers cannot think logically like most people do.

An obvious troll comment, modded up to +5. Yeesh.

Don't forget all your privatized prisons. What a wonderful place to live!