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Comment Re:Cholesterol is the symptom, not the problem (Score 1) 94

Your knowledge is out of date.

CVD can be reversed. One of the big vitamins that does this is Vitamin K2 (which most of us don't get enough of in our diets)

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Low-carbohydrate diets can also reverse CVD.

Plaque build up in the arteries doesn't happen from the inner walls and move outside. It happens on the exterior and moves in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

Comment Emotional Bandwidth (or strength) (Score 1) 496

To summarize the article, it comes down to 2 keys: Diet and Exercise. What is never talked about (sometimes hinted at or briefly touched on) is the 3rd Key:

Emotional Bandwidth (or perhaps, emotional strength or support.)

The author did say that at 1 or 2 points that weightloss certainly requires discipline, but that doesn't really explain it fully.

In order to be truly successful at achieving a healthy weight on a long term basis, one needs a good deal of emotional support/strength/will-power/whathaveyou. This is why when you're part of a Weight Watchers group or are part of a team that trains regularly or you have a personal trainer, things tend to go well.

When life is not going so well, many of us compensate by stopping the hard workouts and eating more (both of which make us feel better in the short term.) Then once we get used to the extra feeling of more food and sitting around, it becomes habit.

More needs to be said about how to bolster Emotional Bandwidth (strength, support, discipline, etc.)

Comment Partial Key Verification is your answer. (Score 2) 687

I found this answer on SO a couple years ago and flagged it as a favorite because I figured I might need it some day.

The short version is a lot like what people have already said, have cracked keys be detectable and then decide from there what to do.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3550556/ive-found-my-software-as-cracked-download-on-internet-what-to-do

This guy decided to redirect the users to a website to inform them that they're using a cracked key and that they should really purchase the software.

His studies seem to indicate that it works well.

Comment Not everyone is playing Angry Birds (Score 2) 351

You can also *read books* on your phone. Right now I'm reading Proust. So there is quite a bit of angsty introspection going on in my life right now. So just because someone is looking at their phone non-stop doesn't mean they're playing a game, or tweeting, or whatever. And if you're shallow, don't blame it on the phone, or the internet, or connectivity. Just spend less time with Angry Birds and more time with Thoreau.
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Amazon's Winding Course Through the Patent Jungle 13

ericjones12398 writes "On one hand, Amazon is not exactly short on patents themselves. The 'non-exhaustive list' on the company's site is a tidy little bundle of e-commerce IP, with a few questionable software patents — including a 1-click buying method, a Lodsys-baiting in-app purchasing method and a social networking patent, all of which have achieved a somewhat notorious reputation. Indeed, the last fiscal year was as significant for Amazon's litigation as for the company's behind-closed-doors acquisitions."

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