For a long time I had a deadbeat using my phone number while obtaining lines of credit. The collectors would start calling and asking for her, and there was nothing that I could say to them to convince them that I did not know her, she did not live at my house, had never lived at my house, etc. It looks like lies no matter what, and these arent people who are willing to actually follow the laws about harrasment. They bothered me enough that I was ready to hunt her down for them.

you think the police care?

I dont see the relation. With a smaller stomach, then you wont be able to get the calories, and eventually the portion sizes get corrected. With this sideways puking device, you are always able to eat more and purge. Will it work? probably, but the behavior that caused the initial problem has been increased.

I fear this would make someone believe that a normal serving could be several times our servings now, which are bigger than what is really needed.

You are right on the need comment... I word that wrong because I run far too much ( was fat, fear having to lose weight again), and I have serious issues with meeting minimal nutritional requirements, but that is the opposite of this conversation. There is a tremendous amount of discipline and restraint needed for me to not over eat when not over-exercising though. The habit of how much is needed to eat is a tough one to alter, as like you said, the body tries to prepare for potential lean times.

horrible... If your body needs the calories to fill the cells, then it needs the calories. Eating may make your head think that you have the needed intake, but then the calories wont arrive and the cells start screaming. This is going to train people's brains to have some very unbalanced desires.

lolz, you would have to push down on the upstroke to compress this. There is a graceful solution to this in place already. The pedals clip to the shoes. The rider simply pushes the foot into a position past TDC and BDC, then simply pushes down/lifts up. there is less pressure during that small moment , but the muscles dont work efficiently through that movement anyhow. Any mechanical fix would require a biological change to use to its fullest extent.

well, TDC is the same place for the foot, but there is a bit of weight in front of the crank that can "help" get the thing moving ( assuming we are at a stop, and the idiot rider has the pedal at TDC). YAY, easier ( and bullshit)! Of course, any time you carry extra weight on a bike you have made a mistake. I want to make the next wonderful product in this line of snake oil, but instead of the crank, I will put weights on the toes of the shoes. When you have the crank at TDC, the shoe will use gravitational potential buzzwords to convince dumb people to make me rich to reduce the PERCEIVED effort.

i am not saying that I am superman's secret identity, but I have never been seen in the room with superman.

i looked through the white privilege checklist, and very few of them apply to me. I would attribute some of this list as having come from Boston (MIT) . Seriously, that city can be racist as all hell. I live in Atlanta now, and while there is racism in the south, being in a big city with a very large minority population, these things just dont work out for me. If I ask to see who is in charge, I have no idea what race I would end up speaking with, the news here is very mixed, the grocery store shelves and music stores are not homogenized. So, not being pissy... these points seem to be localized.

yup, that is going straight to my facebook status. time to get trolling

this points to the real problem that this discussion should be looking into. I had similar issues, because I would ask the teachers if the goal was to learn the material or to do the work. I didnt do the work, but could pass the tests. I was viewed as a malcontent and actually asked to drop out of school. I was actually trying to get into the challenging courses because I was bored in the standard levels, but couldnt get reccomendations to move up because of poor scores. I consistently had very low participation and homework grades, but had very high test scores. I never got moved into challenging levels, and I began taunting teachers by achieving pre-determined grades in the class... literally choosing my test scores and then missing the right number of problems.

I cant confirm a gender specific cause to this, but following rules and completing busy work was much more important than mastering and applying the concepts.

yup. Just like the thermostat in office buildings that goes nowhere, this gives people the feeling that they have some sort of say or control, and pacifies them while allowing the government the right to pretend that they arent just ignoring the population to the benefit of those in power. Fun game.

I left the keys to my first car on top of the car everywhere i went. Never lost them.

Always a fun question... if the two are mutually exclusive, would you rather be right, or win an argument. I dont fly anymore, so the masses can have their vote.

Just because the general public is rather stupid, does not mean they are right.