BlueLancer

You can't totally eliminate fat from the diet though.. Because it's a natural part of the diet. Then again you'll probably get it from the foods you eat (tuna has fat even if it's stored in water), and if you eat protein filled foods like beans/meat, you'll definitely get the recommended 5-10g of sodium per day. Fat isn't dangerous in a diet if you work out.. It's absolutely necessary. You simply should avoid excess amount of fat because of the calory content: 1 gram of fat = 9 calories 1 gram of protein= 4 calories 1 gram of carbohydrates= 4 calories In bodybuilding diets it's usually recommended at least 5-10% of the diet consists of fat (oil is usually used as a supplement). So if your weight/height ratio dictates a 2500 calorie diet just to maintain your weight, the diet should consist of about ~27 grams fat per day maximum. And if you really want mass.. You need to go over the limit by some 200-300 calories daily. Usually this is done with protein shakes and supplements that have a precise amount of protein, easy to measure.

Well, the hypothetical question of somehow instantly having 13 year old kids seems odd.. I'd raise kids in a peaceful countryside place which has 'real' winters and summers, maybe build snow castles or play soccer or something in the summer, & make sure at all times they have enough to eat, a few friends of their own age, shelter, clothing and safety. All I know is no kid deserves to have a bad childhood. If I had a child he/she would mean everything to me. I'd instantly take a bullet for them if it came down to that. Few people realize, small children are the purest form of life on Earth. They don't have conscious sin or impure thoughts like adults. If you're a real man you should always value the life, well-being and safety of a child over anything else. Therefore you can probably imagine my view towards those who abuse kids... It's not about what I'd want from my kids. A better question would be 'what can you offer them'?

Fighting against light drugs: Employs police officers Creates jobs for the prison industry Employs customs and border officials Cleaning companies (prisons, rehab centers) Clothing/laundry companies (prisons, uniforms, keeping it all clean) Private guards who prevent them from entering schools Benefits rehabilitation centres Employs government agents Gives a general scapegoat for politicians. With so many people benefiting from outlawed drugs, why would anyone realistically think they will one day just say "we were wrong all along, marijuana doesn't kill and is less harmful than tobacco, knock yourselves out"? It's a situation that pays off by 'going on and on' no matter how unharmful those substances like pot in reality are (which is a load of trash, unlike alcohol and cigarettes, marijuana/hash don't directly kill anyone and never have). The truth doesn't have much weight in an issue of big economical scale

But what if your opinion isn't as valid? Tbh just saying an opinion is an opinion is just stupid. It has to be a good one. /facepalm /facepalm /facepalm tbh. imo tbh. lulz ... [/sarcasm] I occassionally still read stuff (mostly on other forums) about science, math, etc... Which cancels out my earlier beliefs. Do I change my opinion? Hell yes... If there are verifiable facts that prove I was wrong. Refusing to believe obvious, proven facts indicates mental r­etardation or overly pronounced stubbornness... You don't benefit from living in a lie. Or is it an ego issue? If you have been wrong about something, accept it and move on. If the other person presented you with irrefutable evidence to the contrary, you were wrong. Only objective observation can lead to understanding reality. Objectivity does not mean "I can't be wrong".

Naive, idiotic government officials. Russian ID thieves and mobsters are probably laughing their butts off while going to a US government site & finding files of some people that actually even contain SSN's and credit card numbers. The article says thousands of person's files' include that data. It's beyond me why they'd make it public. Plenty of states also have open prisoner records. Well, not that I have even a drop of sympathy for people like pedophiles, but I can imagine what happens to them after a higher ranking prisoner asks someone on the outside to check why someone "really" is in jail...

Sounds intense as hell.. I've been an avid gym goer for some 7-8 years but don't think I've heard of that method before. Can 10x10 rep sets really build mass... Guess I've got to take the articles word for it. I still stick to mass basics for the upper body; Though I've modified it over the years... I do 6 reps at 90% of my max, 120 second rest between sets, and repeat 4 times with final set on 100% of max, 2 reps. Doesn't take long & has brought stable results.

Barracuda :!:

Besides a few pretty trashy flash-based ones, not really... They're very few or driven out of business by lack of players fast. http://browsermmorpg.com/ A vague list.. But be warned.. Some of those are really crappy. Gotta applaud for the enthusiasm the amateurs put in some of the games, but they're just not fun to play over time.. At least for the casual gamer

Feeding trolls is unhealthy.

Err.. Kind of off topic, but forcing a person to do anything he/she doesn't want to do is illegal and morally questionable. It's a very common consensus. God forbid you were to do it against a child; Even the prison population would beat you to a bloody pulp once they found out. Rapists earn no compassion anywhere.

No "cabbage" man... :lol: I actually cringed at a few.. Anyways... There are a few ways which can give you an advantage... 1. Distinguish yourself from the masses. Ginger has a point that it's not "that" important.. But you want to be different to get a better chance. Like if everyone is in a dark suit or collar shirt (which will be the likely scenario)... Wear a light/tan colour suit to the interview. You'll stick out and the employer will remember you better. 2. Use mouth water some 30 mins before the interview.. Self explanatory... 3. Don't praise yourself too much. You'll come across as an egoistic jerk. Rather answer questions only when asked, and express your interest & motivation in the job. (Ok, it might be hard to fake interest in a fast food/coffee shop job if you just need the money, but you can try) 4. Be calm and smile if possible. Being overly enthusiastic or too excited is a big minus point. (I've had to recruit 2 people for a company in the past, those are only a few things that might work for you!)

The only source for that is a Digg article written by a user, and not surprisingly enough, quick search will show that's the only site "quoting" the article (which is 100% made up), which further only links to a Wikipedia article. Don't blindly believe things before researching... Mostly it's just 4chan trolls doing this stuff

What a load of crap. This woman shouldn't be let anywhere near the presidency. Really, how many people will buy it? War in Iraq as a "mission from God"? I could bear the thought of McCain being in the white house. With this witch? Not a chance I'd vote in a million years.. Even Hillary would be the lesser of two evils.

Yep, I read quite the opposite as well.. In fact I even remember seeing a mythbusters episode on the 5-second rule, which turned out to be garbage. Of course it's different if you drop it in your own room (if you clean it regularly, it's probably 100% void of e.coli bacteria or salmonella), but in a public place.. They tested it, and there's no difference between a sandwich dropped on the floor for 2 seconds, and one dropped for 5 or more seconds. It's contaminated as heck and contains all kinds of dangerous bacteria you don't want to put in your mouth. If it's touched a public floor, just don't eat it.

Dominant and recessive traits in biology don't work like that. Even if a "place" was populated with 10,000 people with blue eyes, 2,000 with green eyes, 500 with brown eyes... The genetic makeup wouldn't change much over a few centuries. Just like in real life, you probably know families with all sorts of hair and eye colours. It doesn't really matter that in theory, only brown hair, black eyes & dark skin should prevail. In reality, if all sorts of traits appear, darker complexes are just favoured, not a rule. A normal human family with all kinds of genes in the family would have approximately equal chances of having green, brown, blue-eyed kids, same with hair color. Brown is a slight favourite, by some 25%. So even if parents with blue/brown eyes had 4 kids, statistically 2 would have brown eyes and 2 would have green/blue. None of the traits actually disappear.

That 70's show has Everybody loves Raymond-style half-dry jokes. Really, I think "dry" humor actually appeals to a vast majority of 'average' people. It just isn't reflected in online communities, where lame humor gets flamed and told "yeah... Really funny [rolleye]". Can you blame the "average Joe"? I've learned that eventually... Fans of "good" humor are no better. Comedy is made with the "average Joe" in mind. He works, comes home, pops open a beer can and wants to reset his brain. Ultimately, a very little % of comedy shows/movies have genuine, intellectual/witty/reference humor. The key is how many people will get the joke. The comedy is optimized towards the average casual watcher, and thus usually, it might seem a bit dumbed-down/moronic (Disaster movie would be the perfect example, but not even the average Joe is falling for that one; It's getting crushed in reviews/box office)

I wouldn't go as far as calling him a nutcase. I remember reading his literature and messages, people with his kind of intellectual thinking/understanding/compassion are maybe 1 in 100,000, he was an extremely smart person despite (more likely than not) being an obvious hoax. And what's to rule out that world-lines couldn't really be very different from the ones he's experienced :lol: Would it been weird if Beijing 2008 was canceled in another path of reality? Not really... The Russia-Georgia started exactly on the day of the 1st olympic day too, not by coincidence. Wouldn't take the stories for more than entertainment, but still an interesting read. He never belittles or gets frustrated with his readers either.

Catholicism is overwhelmingly the most adhered christian sect, the only one coming even nearly close is protestantism, which is a sect usually followed in very secular countries such as in northern Europe/England... Not that personally the word of the Pope/Vatican means much to me either, but what basis do sects mostly invented in the 1700-1800's have to call heretic something that has existed for so much longer?

The Vatican and former pope John Paul also supported the scientific method of thinking, even less of a reason for the ultra conservatives to keep claiming "evolution and science are hoaxes"... You'd think the Vatican knows a bit more about the Bible than a random tinfoil-hat guy, they don't find any contradiction in both faith & science

Regardless of the candidate being McCain or Obama, some users complained about baseless rumors on this topic. Those will be removed in the future if no credible source is presented for things like "Obama snorted coke" or "McCain can't use a computer" That being said.. I do recall Obama mentioning it already in 1996 in his autobiography... So it's nothing new. At least he has the guts to admit it. Clinton admitted in 1992 he had "smoked marijuana but not inhaled it" Bush was caught driving under influence in 1976, and admitted he has used marijuana (and doesn't deny using cocaine). Nobody is "clean of guilt"...

I occassionally have thoughts which involve exploiters, pedophiles, abusers of children... And baseball bats, smashed faces, hot acid, electrical chairs, torture, knife stabs between legs, disembowelment, decapitation, gunshots .. Figure out the rest & how all that pans out. But then again, I'm not ashamed to admit it & hide those under the guise of psychopathy/inappropriateness. Think if someone screwed up your kid's life, in the most cowardly way possible. Would you be happy with a jail sentence for the scumbag? I don't have kids yet, but I'd make sure that person's life got ruined equally as much, if I was 100% sure he was acting in full consciousness and doesn't have some disability/disease.

If you think you're poor, check this guy's kids :lol: http://www.rediff.com/sports/2005/mar/02schu1.htm That's a very healthy attitude for someone who made hundreds of millions during his F1 career (although now retired). Actually that's pretty damn admirable, really. At least he's not going to have spoiled kids.

Well.. That's a bit off topic.. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is an extremely demanding FPS game, even some semi-high end desktop users have problems running it without screen lag or hangups. If you have a $2,500 laptop.. Why not? It could be possible if it has a strong enough inbuilt nVidia/ATI graphics card, although I'd estimate very few people have strong enough laptops to run games like Stalker smoothly. My laptop can barely even launch up games 2x less processor/gfx demanding, and it's pretty powerful. I doubt OP cares though, he's mostly looking for a laptop that's suitable for Runescape and possibly mild multitasking.

It's always worked like that. I knew plenty of wealthy kids (yes, I just called the kids wealthy instead of their parents) in school, and the only reason they had nice gadgets and new clothes every 3 days was because of their parents. Not jealousy, I was friends with 1 of the guys, and I don't even see what's wrong with being wealthy. Generally, a child is the most important thing to a parent, like one would be for me too if I had a child... So obviously, if a kid's parent is rich, he/she is often going to share the wealth with them. You'd have a really hard time finding a poor kid coming from a rich family. Some of them might even get debit cards loaded with thousands of dollars at age 14-15 for personal spending. So it does correlate.