kingkongreveng_

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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Looks like death. I'd be surprised if he's around in five years.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
The solution to all of eye strain, hand strain, and ass strain is simply to take five minutes to leisurely walk around the block once every hour and half. You don't need an expensive chair or to work standing up or anything silly like that
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Fructose is sweeter. It actually seems the taste of sweet alone triggers an insulin response that causes fat storage. Zero calorie sweeteners have been shown to cause fat gain.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Picking winning movies is apparently pretty much impossible. That was the whole point of the old Studio System; it allowed the movie makers to limit risk. The government broke up the studio system and now they limit risk by bilking foreign
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I've heard there's malarkey to do with how they account for deaths and cures. If you survive a diagnosis for five years or something they count you as cured. In a lot of cases what we really have is a lot of technology that give people si
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> There's also a selection bias in your comment Please share all the slam dunks I'm unaware of. > leadership needs higher level political intelligence Subscribe to Foreign Affairs. The idea that you need a multibillion dollar agenc
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Teen birth rates where at their highest in 40's, 50's and 60's after all They were married 19 year olds, dummy.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> connecting bodybuilding with health Strength is perhaps the single best predictor of longevity and health. That's not to say vigorous strength training has been clinically shown to increase lifespan, but strong people are much heal
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Washington may need a CIA For what? What have they EVER gotten right? This utterly failed 60 year experiment needs to be shut down. The actual intelligence functions should be absorbed into the pentagon with a much smaller budget.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Why are you "fine" with US covert/clandestine operations as long as they're done "according to process"? I contend our foolish interference overseas lead directly to the blowback of 9/11 and current tensions with Iran, for starters. Nothin
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
What makes you think they didn't get more stupid? The illegitimacy rate shot up. The savings rate fell a lot. Does whatever makes people fat also turn them into irresponsible parents and poor retirement planners? My hypothesis is that we
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> It's not very constructive or interesting to wrap up the whole problem in the word "stupid." It's highly constructive when the prevailing mode of discussing the issue blames public policy and business practices, as this article does.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Food that is good for you is just more expensive than food that is bad for you. It's not a relevant difference. Sugar and rice are the absolutely cheapest calories, and they're not so good for you. But a can of coconut milk is ~700
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
If you're poor and buying mostly fast food you're just stupid. Dare I say you're poor and fat because you're stupid. Convenience and time? You're going to do better healthwise and financially with any of ten products you can eat straight
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Sex Pistols were a boy band. A marketing creation.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> when assaulted, you are trying to do something "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." --Mike Tyson
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
No offense, but this is kind of a dumb question. A martial art is not much different from any other sport, programmer or not. Play tennis, box, what's the difference? My two cents on which martial art to pick is boxing or one of the kickb
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> markets have all the information Markets do have all the available information. But no person or group of people can ever process all the information in a meaningful way. Only the market itself can process the huge amount informat
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
That would explain why the nordic populations in the upper mid-west are similarly "happy"...
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I don't follow your line about huge profits. The simple fact is coal, when measured in terms of energy content, is getting scarcer and more expensive. You can't look at state supported industries and come to any meaningful conclusions. Al
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
The Nordic countries are ethnically homogeneous with rooted communities. They have high average IQs and very low crime. I'd read a lot more into that than anything to do with economic or healthcare policy. The somewhat nordic Minnesota i
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> get us out of the Great Depression ... WWII did, deficit spending did. Absolutely false. Personal well being continued to fall dramatically through the war. GDP went up because the government was buying weapons, i.e. digging and fi
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. The point is no combination of any known substitutes are close to competitive with current fossil fuel usages. Coal is basically in the same situation as oil, contrary to what you may have heard. The good st
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Bush style invasions and assertive control of shipping lanes are two very different things.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
That seems like a baseless assertion. For all you know the country that maintains naval supremacy and control of access to oil reserves will lead the world economy.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Are you talking about fusion or something? The whole point is that nothing now known competes with fossil fuels. Oil is ridiculously cheap and versatile energy.
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Considering history, voting is delusional. Might as well buy lottery tickets. You can't reasonably predict what candidates will do once in power based on what they say. Besides, the political environment is essentially driven by the "madn
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Coolidge might be the last conservative President. Barry Goldwater might be the last serious conservative presidential candidate. The Republican party has not much been for American conservatism (constitutionalism, states rights, extreme
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Here's a much better treatment of the subject: http://www.american.com/archive/2009/october/are-liberals-sm... Summary: For various reasons the general population skews conservative, essentially driving the correlation. "Smart people" pr
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Any picture of a dude wearing pants that aren't jeans is likely to be wool pants, if he's not wearing chintzy cotton khakis. Consider almost any picture dated pre-1970.

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