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I agree, it isn't like games are for having fun.

Ok, I think we are talking past each other a bit. There are essentially 3 parties in the mess. 38, the former Governor/EDC, and the rest of the state/taxpayers. The EDC used 38 to transfer money from the state/taxpayers to their finance buddies. In this scenario the state its taxpayers are...

Ok, here is what I am trying to say (we can just use the term "state" from now on, that's fine). From the state's perspective they are "buying jobs", that is their negotiating point, in this transaction they want as many jobs per dollar as they can get. There is PROBABLY some standard formula...

Holy shit you are an idiot.

The deal was for ~400 jobs and they filled about half of them. There were some penalties for not hiring the agreed upon number of people, but I don't think 38 lasted long enough for them to come into effect. I also disagree with you about the # of jobs being the state's fault. That is...

It was a pretty big mess, no doubt. I ran through the numbers up thread and the company's cost per employee wasn't crazy, just on the higher side of average, what killed them was having to serve their debt to the tune of something like $1.12 million a month, they spent $43 million of the $75...

You are assuming they were capable of shoving something out the door, which they weren't. With a burn rate was $3.3 million a month they would have chewed through any additional money very quickly and then been in the same boat again only now the state would have sunk another few 10s of...

Schilling is apparently still living in a fantasy world where he isn't a colossal fuck-up that never deserved a single dime from anyone let alone the state of RI. Chafee correctly cut the state's losses when 38 missed their loan payment, and Curt should stfu.

If you are after is a tablet, then the Surface is a very nice machine, and worth the money, there is no reason to "avoid it like the plague". Like I said, I did a bunch of research and ended up buying the Surface 2 over the iPad Air. I haven't used it much beyond setting it up(christmas gift)...

I ended up buying my girlfriend a Surface 2 for christmas. The Surface and Surface RT are the same thing, RT refers to the operating system which is basically Win8 for ARM so you can't install 3rd party or x86/x64 programs. The Surface Pro is a ultrabook/tablet hybrid that uses an intel chip...

Yes and no. This is a slightly more complex than it sounds. At the time we all thought they were so bad that it was incomprehensible how anyone could think the tools were good. After working at a other places I came to understand just how good the tools actually were. In fact VG still has...

If you are trying to reach that level of accuracy with your measurements I would pick up a food scale ASAP. It'll be much easier and more accurate.

If you only stall over the holidays I'd consider that a weight loss mega-win.

I did that even though I don't (or rarely) play ADC and I really like it. Takes some getting used to but I even find it helpful in last hitting better. The trick is attack move for the most part goes after the nearest target so you maneuver in such a way that you keep your intended target the...

As I recall from reading the book any "bodybuilding" program would be considered intermediate because once past your novice stage is where you would start to specialize and SS is designed to get you through it and milk it as much as possible. If I think back to my most successful stint with SS...

I admit I don't follow lifting as much as I used to (I changed sports a couple of years ago and therefore my training), what is considered better now and why?

As usual I agree with Elurin, at a glance your routine looks like crap and guessing from your height/weight (without knowing your lifting numbers) it looks like you are still a Novice. In general I am not a big fan of body part splits and prefer to program by compound movements. For someone...

I missed Khanes post, which is completely wrong. Low-carb diets aren't even close to all or nothing. Ketogenic diets are all or nothing because being in ketosis is a binary condition, you are in it or you aren't, but not all low carb diets are ketogenic diets. There are plenty of good diets...

I consider it a macro-nutrient on par in importance as the other 3 big ones. Fiber is basically indigestible plant cellulose, or the stringy parts of your food. Generally more stringy = more fiber. There are 2 kinds, soluble and insoluble, veggies have soluble and grains insoluble. You...

My point was that the OS is intimately involved in power regulation, and can clock up/down the processor for example (turbo), put things to sleep, wake things up, and so on. I should have said "the way the OS talks to the hardware" but I shorthanded it to voltage regulation which technically is...

You aren't wrong, and are totally right to be skeptical, but there is logic to it. Generally, things that are toxic to us are compounds that we either didn't evolve alongside or that are in much different concentrations than what we evolved alongside. There are exceptions of course, but this...

The OS, by design, interacts with the hardware so the software doesn't have to. I don't know for certain, so I am just going to guess that the problems come from the way Win8 handles voltage regulation, as managing power use is one of the major functions of any OS. It is designed to take...

That is because "eat what a caveman would" is the super-duper condensed marketing pitch version that is also often spun into strawmen to attack paleo. Any popular paleo literature has a much better and more nuanced version of that, but then you'd need to read a bit and it makes it much harder...

I'm a big supporter of the pseudo-paleo not counting Calories paradigm. That isn't to say you should never count Calories or that "omg super hardcore paleoz only!" is the correct advice either. But I feel like in your situation chaos it is a very good strategy, especially with growing kids...

It's healthy food so it isn't a waste of money. The "fat burning effect" is BS though.

Those are pretty light. They probably won't get you stronger but can be used for muscle endurance or conditioning. I'd say if that's all you have to put your focus there.

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The gizmos aren't really worth your time. You should learn how to use barbells, they are probably the most versatile and effective single piece of training equipment in existence. I recommend picking up a copy of Starting Strength to anyone that is in the first stages of learning how to exercise.

Yes, because someone like Elidroth, and the thousands of other people working in the industry, wield enormous power and have massive control over the direction of the comparative tiny number of MMOs that are released. We are also all extremely rich, very good looking, and have huge dongs.

Pfft... been done. Mark my words the future of MMOs is Second Person View.

Yep! And I met a girl so there is no way I am coming back now

There are no gyms anywhere near you with a barbell and some plates that you can spend 4 hours a week at? I find that a little hard to believe, but then again I've never been to Qatar.

To see the difference between anaerobic training and aerobic training all someone has to do is Google "marathon runner" and compare it to pictures from Googling "sprinter athlete."

Pick up a sport. Your motivation then becomes being better and weight loss is just a side benefit.

Running, in general, is pretty crappy exercise. Some people really enjoy it and good for them, but overall it is really inefficient and does little to nothing for your strength anywhere not just your upper body.

No idea. I'm practically on the other side of the world now so most of my info on this kind of stuff comes through social media. If anything crops up I will post it here.

My faith in Brad's ability as a leader to bring a good product to market on time and on budget is extremely low. The lack of a KS in the time-frame he admittedly vaguely hinted at isn't helping.

I see it more as a general health thread than general fitness. They are related, with lots of overlap, but not quite the same. I worked as a personal trainer for a little while and "I want to lose weight" is usually code for 3 things: A) I want live to see my grandkids grow up B) I want...

Ok, seriously, where is this thing? Unless they are making an in game demo of some sort then this should have been out weeks ago. You can slap together a talking head video + some concept art in like 3 days.