Squirrels! Do you know in Toronto, they have some white ones? They live

Look! Doughnuts!!

Moralists like you piss me off. What if you're not very attractive and don't make a lot of money? Are you supposed to deny yourself sexual pleasure because women aren't interested in you? Dicks like you don't want prostitution, don't want pron, and based on your statement about drugs, don't want them either. So what's the ugly guy who works a minimum wage job supposed to do? Spend the rest of his life celibate, or jerking off to underwear ads in Cosmo?

In other words, it appears that you are against people finding what makes them happy- without hurting others - unless it's something you approve of. Sounds fascist to me.

" we're going to see studios and production companies coming up with their own virtual cast and headline stars."

Beauty, eh? I can hardly wait to see the first Rei Toei release.

"Even today, the more power and influence and man has the more women they attract."

Yeah, if you're powerful enough, the women will let you grab them by the pussy.
However, please note that the state of the women allowing you to do so, and the state of having done so, are not equivalent.

How is this trolling? And I support the OP's comment - I also find having the watch keeps me tuned into my fitness more. I check to see things like how often I've hit my step goal, what my heart rate trend looks like, etc. So, that's another piece of anecdotal evidence confirming the OP's take. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of us, most of whom don't read /. Finally, I work in data analysis. The first thing any new engagement wants is a "dashboard". Why? Because a dashboard gives them relevant information quickly, in one place, with a minimum of fuss, so they can control their businesses more effectively. That's exactly what my fitbit does for my health. So, if virtually every business wants a dashboard so they can control the business better, why is the notion that people would do that on a personal level worthy of dismissal?

I have a fitbit charge HR, and I use it all the time when biking. It tracks where I go, what speed, etc, and gives me a lot of details afterward. Plus, start and stop when you take a few second's break is just one push on the watch's button; no need to fumble around for my phone. When I bike, I wear a cycling jersey and bike shorts. Bike shorts don't have pockets. Cycling jerseys have pockets that are around the back, and difficult to reach quickly. The fitbit is a great complement to my phone.

Since most good /.'ers don't RTFA, I wanted to point out that this technique was only tested on NON-insulin dependent diabetics (i.e. those managing the disease with pills, diet, and exercise). I was like that for many years, but eventually, the pancreas gives up, and leaves with you no functioning islets. At that point, you have to move on to an insulin regimen. So, if you have to take insulin 4-5 times a day, as I do, this offers you no hope.

No race horse owner trains his horse 14 hours a day. Farmers who used to use horse/oxen/donkeys to pull plows didn't work them 14 hours a day, either. But people - them you can run into the ground. I worked at an Ottawa, Ontario tech company that hit it big in the 1980's. We had a huge order come in that we just couldn't meet working regular hours, so management asked if we would work overtime. At one point, wives and kids were helping pack boxes! But, then the management turned around a month later and took EVERYONE to Florida for a few days to say "Thank you" (families included!). I think people understand that there needs to be a give-and-take over regular hours, and sometime, you just need to get the job finished. But management should recognize and reward that, not just say "Be glad you have a job".

Please mod this up. This guy gets it.

I don't even think it's the question of benefits so much as satisfaction. When you bring in a crop, or see your livestock, you know what you've done - you've created food from scratch and you're helping to feed your fellow man. That has to be much more satisfying than the poor saps at, e.g., Wells Fargo - 'great, I just added another eight phony accounts to my customers, that'll make the boss happy!"

" Countries don't simply "fix" themselves while their citizens retreat to their bunkers cutting themselves off from the world. " Jeezus H. F'ing... clearly, you have never lived in a rural area. People there don't "cut themselves off"; they know better than any urbanite how much they need the help of their friends and neighbours when they're in trouble. I've lived in urban areas most of my life, and I don't know the names of the people two doors down, or across the street. In the country, you know everyone for miles around, including how many kids they have, what car they drive, and what church they go to. I'd argue the sense of real community is much, much stronger in the countryside than it is in the city.

Shouldn't be too hard. According to NewsWeak (sic), some $4700 in paid tweets, and $1000 a month for a dozen trolls were enough to tip the entire US election to Trump. For $25,000, you should be able to reach your goal!

One of the things I learned collecting tax data from farmers is that, in Canada anyway, the tax department IMPUTES income to the farmer on any crops/livestock that he grows and feeds his family with. Slaughtered a calf each fall? That's $1500 added to your income. Have a big garden? If you're a farmer, that produce is income!

I spent one term doing tax returns for farmers in SouthWest Ontario (well, collecting their data for the computer to generate the return) back in the 1970's. My manager said "Farmers live poor and die rich", and that was often the case - they made very little from actually farming, but when they died and the family sold the farm, they were often wealthy as urban encroachment and the demand for more sub-divisions made the land quite expensive. Very few farmers that I met were actually making a lot of money - enough to live on, but hardly enough to retire on. (although, to be fair, as I was quite new in the job, I got the low gross income farmers, so my sample set might have been skewed.) I also heard this tragic story a number of times: farmer reached 60 or so, decided to retire, sold the farm, moved to the city, and died in less than a year. Without the daily routine of chores, etc., it seemed they had nothing to do, so they just withered away.

How does going from $10 to $15 become a "5% increase in costs"? Sounds like 33% to me. And since many companies operate on a net margin of less than 5%, a 5% rise in wage costs (i.e. going from $10 to $10.50) would, ceterus paribus, mean their profits would be wiped out.