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Comment Donald Duck (Score 1) 77

From the article: "Standing with chest pushed forward and buttocks pushed back (the so-called Donald Duck posture that exaggerates the lumbar curve). "

Interestingly, I read an article about a photographer who noticed, while taking images of indigenous people, this exact posture. What she also noticed was that there were 80 year old women bending over from the waist with no apparent pain while picking vegetables. This diverged into reviewing old plates in medical textbooks which showed a much greater curvature at the top and bottom of the spine; an "S" shape, as opposed to our "J" shape. She now teaches a method based on her observations.

The article: http://www.npr.org/sections/go...

Her website: http://gokhalemethod.com/

Comment Re:When in Rome (Score 2) 153

One might construe from "unlimited" that it means unlimited use of a service as described. Not, unlimited until you reach a cap where you'll receive a 2nd tier service. As for its impact on other customers, either you can manage an "unlimited" offering, or you can't. The term is deceptive, despite being in the contract. They simply need to find another descriptor for their service.

Comment hmmm.... (Score 1) 203

I hope it turns out better for them than when they held a press conference to demonstrate their new crash avoidance system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://jalopnik.com/5533328/vo... ....or a few months later when their pedestrian avoidance tech proved to be a autonomous Death Race 2000 contender: http://jalopnik.com/5648126/vo...

Comment Re:newshell.exe (Score 1) 354

Interesting, but I'm not sure you are correct. It was a significant amount of time after Win95 had been released that newshell.exe became available for testing. It was purely cosmetic and was, as I recall, 2.8megs in size. In fact, I'm sure I have a copy of it here somewhere.

Comment Re:65 VW Bug (Score 1) 373

As someone who ran a mechanic/used car shop from the late 70s through the early 90s and raced modified stock class, I don't have the same view as you. In fact, I built a '79 Mustang pace car for racing, never intending it to do much street driving, sold it to a kid who I recently ran into it. He had driven that thing to California, went to college and when graduated drove it back to Texas years later before selling it himself. I never would have tried it, but it served him well enough.

Drum brakes suck, I'll grant you that, but brakes never failed without adequate warning. I've dropped many a hot engine into a beat up 60's shell and driven the hell out of it. Power steering? Doesn't really matter unless you're pulling into a tight parking spot too fast. One wouldn't notice it going out above 35mph. Hard to start? Only if you didn't understand how your choke operated so that you could properly adjust it.

Older cars are noisy, leaky things and may not handle corners as well as modern cars, but weren't death traps or I would have been dead long ago. I'll take a '72 Challenger RT with a 340 and A727 over a new one any day (Thermoquad is the finest carburetor ever made). I still choose to drive a '77 Silverado that has over 300,000 miles on the original engine and suspension. Nope, don't agree at all.

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