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...in a language that was not her original language which is an amazing feat in itself.

... I never said high carb or high protein or high fat was preferable. I am saying that HFCS is a net negative and should not be recommended for people who may not know a lot about health. Every time I try to narrow the scope onto a particular thing, you bring in extraneous points that have nothing to do with HFCS or are not studies. I have specifically stated many times that my problem is not with sugar, but HFCS. I obviously know there are other factors. Again, nothing to do with whether, on average, HFCS is positive or negative for people. I am very frustrated with this thread.

The way it is ensured is the extension of humanity. Once people realize that children are people too, the it would be as infeasible to "fall back into raising children abusively" as it is currently to "fall back into buying some slaves to pick cotton". The thought of doing that is either laughable as a bad joke, or if you show that you are serious it will bring the rage of people around you.

Random charts mean nothing. Obesity is a "lifestyle disease" as in the results do not materialize after instant shifts in consumption. Not to mention that these decreases could still be making things worse than they were because they were higher than they should be. It takes something like 70 years before a lifestyle disease changes are reflected in a chart. This change in sugar and no change in obesity has happened 11 years after, by which we have not full realized the negative consequences of kids still coming up with the negative health consequences to HFCS. Even if the decline is not making things worse as it is still wayyyy too high, it will certainly be a significant lagging indicator and will not change immediately with the change in diet. I can post random charts and make up conclusions too: The other parts are somewhat meaningless. Fatty liver is negative even if it is not fatty liver disease, just like fatty people is negative even if you are not so obese you can't get up or something. I posted several links and studies referencing the other problems. I will assume the rest was a mis-post and that you plan on reading the sources and finding problems in the sources and did not mean to imply that they were any sort of arbitrary opinion I was making up. Finally, I addressed the link you gave in that it of obvious that a hypocaloric diet of any kind would lead to less obesity and less diabetes. However, the amount of restriction in the study was still unhealthy and unsustainable for the long term and should not be anything that anyone can base a life diet off of. I will assume you missed my post about why HFCS in hypocaloric vs Non-HFCS in hypocaloric will both lead to weight loss and have nothing to do with sustainable caloric with HFCS vs sustainable caloric vs Non-HFCS.

Personally, I would have rather not have had slavery. Even though we got cotton from it, it doesn't justify the whole evil thing.

They compress the old transactions so that it doesn't get significantly larger than it was in the past. However, the developers are currently working on a way to have the blockchain on every node and still not have to download all of it. Regardless, using a cold wallet or an app/browser address doesn't require the download of the blockchain. So if you find it prohibitive to download the blockchain you can still participate in bitcoin. It should only take a few hours to download, but obviously there are several factors that can change the speed.

I changed the link for Khan Academy. If you are going to do a cloud mining, you need to calculate a gain within 6 months to a year. You have to assume by 1-2 years that the difficulty will go up significantly and you will not be making very large gains. As long as you understand this and can make a profit quickly, then cloudhashing may be a good idea.

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Bitcoin: Getting Started What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency. Please review this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo For anyone looking for a more advanced overview, here is the Khan Academy Bitcoin Course Playlist: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it Bitcoin Terms: Address (Public Address): These are the parts of the Blockchain which denote where the bitcoins are. Anyone can generate an address and begin receiving bitcoins. The address can be made public in order to receive bitcoins. Bitcoin, BTC: The Cryptographic bits of data that can be exchanged as a payment system. Bitcoins are divisible a theoretical infinite number of times. There are several names for these divisions including BitCents (BTC x 10-2), mBTC (BTC x 10-3), uBTC (BTC x 10-6) and Satoshi (BTC x 10-9). Block Chain: This is the P2P transaction ledger for Bitcoin. All transactions are stored on the ledger and on every computer connected to the bitcoin network. Older transactions are compressed for efficiency, however it still can take some time to update when a computer has been off for a while. Confirmation: It is possible that bitcoins could be sent fraudulently (through double spends, etc). However, the system is constantly being audited by miners. If a transaction is successful, then it will start acquiring confirmations. It is considered to be guaranteed correct if it has acquired 6 confirmations. You may decide how many confirmations you wish to wait for. Increasing your fee will prioritize the transaction to the miners and will make transactions get confirmed faster. If you do not care how long the transaction takes, you can send the transaction fee free. A significant fee to make the transaction occur quickly is still very small. Difficulty: Bitcions are mathematically released and the difficulty it is to get bitcions is constantly adjusted in order to regulate the release of coins. If coins are being released too fast (more people start mining as BTC price rises) then the difficulty will increase making mining less profitable. Double Spend: A user will try to send bitcoins to 2 addresses simultaneously. The software thinks it has enough coin for both transactions when in reality it does not. Thus, the user is attempting to multiply his purchasing power. This is why miners are auditing the system in order to prevent such fraud. Hash Rate: The rate at which a miner’s (or the bitcoin network) calculates problems for auditing and verifying the blockchain. At the time of writing this, the bitcion network’s hash rate is 4,000,000 Gh/s which means that it performs 4 million billion calculations a second. Key (Private Key): This is what allows you to send the bitcoins in an address. If you lose your private key, you can look at bitcoins in a wallet but you will not be able to send them. Public Addresses can be generated from Private Keys, but Private Keys cannot be figured out from Public Addresses. Mining/Miners: Miners use mining equipment to audit the bitcoin system. They are rewarded with bitcoins as they are being released into the network on a regular, planned basis. Once all bitcoins are released, mining will still continue but will survive on the transaction fees. Mixing: There may be a time where you wish to send coins in a way that is anonymous. A mixing service will allow you to send coins into a pool where your coins get sent somewhere unrelated to the recipient of the coins. The recipient will then get coins from someone else who sent them to the pool. Current fees are around 1% P2P: Peer-to-peer system where there is no central location where the data is stored. It is on everyone’s computer and is shared between users. This means there is no central system you have to go through and shutting down one node will change nothing about the system as a whole. Signature: If one wishes to make known that an address belongs to them, they can transmit a digital signature to the network. This will cause you to lose anonymity. Taint: If coins are sent from one address to another, the system “remembers” where the coins have been. This is called taint. Tainted coins can be mixed and sent to a new address if desired. Taint can potentially lead to linking addresses, but because of mixing it makes it impossible to trace. Wallet: This is the collection of addresses that you own is said to be stored in a wallet. If you use the standard software, the file that stores your addresses is wallet.dat. Can Bitcion be Hacked? The Bitcoin Math itself cannot be hacked unless you took the power of the sun and converted it into computing power for a couple million years. This is theoretically possible, but practically impossible. HOWEVER… The weakness in bitcoin is not the math. There are a few ways in which bitcoin has vulnerabilities. The 51% attack: If there was a situation in which someone can get enough computing power in order to overcome the entire bitcoin system (own 51% of it) then their miners could approve the transactions they want to the detriment of actual valid transactions. The longer bitcoin goes on and the more popular it gets, the more impossible it is for this to happen. Currently, it would take a few super computers to overcome the system and is quickly becoming nearly impossible. YOUR SECURITY!!! The main thing you want to be concerned about is YOUR security. The weakness in bitcoin is not the math of bitcoin, but you not having good protection of your private keys. If you store your private keys in a wallet.dat file on your computer, then I will not try to hack bitcoin. I will hack your computer and copy that file. Thus, precautions must be taken. How Can I Get an Address/Wallet? Computer Client (Think Checking Account) There are several ways to get an address/wallet. If you are just going to dip into the bitcoin network and want an easy way to send small amounts of coin, then the best method is to use one of the many programs available for bitcoin wallets. http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet The Bitcoin-Qt is the backbone of the network and the main base client if you want to start. Armory Client is a feature-rich client that I currently use. It allows paper back-ups and many other things. Encrypting a Wallet: If you want to add one step up to your protection, both of those clients allow you to encrypt your wallet by using a passphrase. Make sure the passphrase is complicated. An easy passphrase just creates a vulnerability. You can get a good enough encryption in order to make it pretty secure to store some coins. Backing Up a Wallet: You can copy a wallet.dat file onto a thumb drive, cd, or even write your private key on a piece of paper. In case of a hard drive failure, you do not want to lose your coins. Cold Wallets (Think Savings Account): In order to take away the vulnerabilities to your computer, then you can print out an only paper wallet. You can use the public address to send coins into the wallet and only import the private key at some point in the future when you wish to spend those coins. Some especially paranoid (or they just have a loooot of bitcoins) people will buy a computer that has never touched the internet in order to generate the address and then destroy the computer. For a full description as to how to generate a good paper wallet, read this link: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet If you want to generate some paper wallets, you can go here (be sure to move your mouse around as it helps make the address generation more random): https://www.bitaddress.org/ There are many other cold storage options (and you can come up with your own) but here are some examples that are out there. https://www.casascius.com/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/bitcoin-ring/ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156534.0 Many more are probably in use that people do not wish to share. How Do I Get Bitcoins? Exchanges There are many exchanges available. If you wish to look at the list: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Currency_exchanges Coinbase has been used and is trusted by a few FDR users. *Update: Since making this thread, I have created an account at Coinbase and would highly recommend them for purchasing bitcoins. *Update #2: MMD also has used Coinbase and set up an FDR affiliate link. By using this link to create an account and purchasing at least $100 worth of bitcoin, Coinbase will give FDR $5 worth of bitcoin. A great way for you to get bitcoin and indirectly send a little tip for some of the work Stef and Mike have been doing around bitcoin lately. This link is now the FDR affiliate link: https://coinbase.com/ One of the easiest ways to get bitcoins is to use LocalBitcoins.com (https://localbitcoins.com/). LocalBitcoins allows you to meet up with people (at a public place to prevent theft) and trade BTC for money. Make sure to wait for confirmations before leaving a local bitcoin exchange unless you trust the other person [high rating] (and make sure you give a transaction fee to the network so that this happens in a reasonable amount of time.) If you have any worries at all in a local exchange, do not buy and just check the next person on the list. Bad feelings can easily let you just abort the exchange at any time. Besides exchanging money, there are other options. Faucet Sites: These sites pay you to look at ads or watch videos. I run them sometimes in the background when I’m going to be on the internet all day anyway. You will not make a lot of money on this (a couple cents an hour maybe?) However, if you are just looking for a small amount to tip people with or just a free way to dip in, then faucet sites may be for you. I have used bitvisitor.com in the past. Donations/Tipping: Create an address and put it in your signature in forums or on your website. When you produce content people enjoy, they may send you a tip. Payment: Accept payment for goods or services in bitcoin. Especially if you think prices will go up (or bitcoin just has fewer fees) you can provide discounts for customers who pay in bitcoin. Mining: I would HIGHLY recommend against this until you have spent a lot of time on bitcointalk.org and know what you are doing with mining. Mining can lose you money if you get the wrong equipment. However, some people (especially where power is free or very cheap) are able to make money mining for bitcoins. Of course there are probably many other ways to earn BTC, but these are the basics. Can I Accept Bitcoins Without Having to Hold the Bitcions? Bitpay (https://bitpay.com/) and other bitcoin payment providers allow people to accept bitcoins and get a check for the value of bitcoins at the end of the day. This allows people to accept bitcoins as payment, but not worry about potential fluctuations in price in the bitcoin market. How Can I Send Bitcoins? If you have the coins on a cold wallet, import them into a client. Select “send bitcoins” or the equivalent. Make sure the transaction fee is set where you want it to be. Paste/Type the public address of where you would like them sent. Paste/Type the amount. DOUBLE CHECK THE AMOUNT AND ADDRESS!!! There are no chargebacks with bitcoin and someone may keep excess coins that are sent if they choose to. If you send to the wrong address, then it is most likely that that person will keep them (or they will never be seen again if you somehow really messed up). There are checks in the system to correct toward real addresses; however, double checking should always be performed. Send the coins. What Can I Buy with Bitcoins? A list has somewhat been compiled here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade However, there are probably many, many more who are not on that list and accept bitcoin. An open-source map of bitcoin-friendly businesses has been started here: http://coinmap.org/ Even if you do not end up getting bitcoin, but enjoy the idea it would be awesome if you supported bitcoin-friendly buinesses in your area with fiat dollars as well as with bitcoin if you wish. Where Can I Learn More? http://www.weusecoins.com/en/ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page https://bitcointalk.org/ http://bitcoin.org/en/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ http://bitcoincharts.com/ http://blockchain.info/ And many more... At this point I will take a break and ask for feedback. I probably made mistakes, so I would be happy to hear corrections. Do you have a question I didn’t answer? I will answer it below and if I think enough people will have the same question, I will edit this post so that others do not have that question at the end. If you want more information on a topic, I may have some sources or can create another post about it. Thanks for reading!

I did pseudo-voice journaling where I added speech recognition software. Then i had a written and searchable record as well as all the benefits listed above. I would ignore spelling and grammar issues and correct them after if I needed to. saying "period" at the end of a sentence became pretty natural too and didn't interfere with my flow of thought after a while. Just an idea, but do whatever works for you.

Animation would be the best way to have Bob and Doug kill, steal from and rape each other. Otherwise you'll have to ask for volunteers which not only messes up the ethical parts (it becomes voluntary) but also can be a messy amount of paperwork. Plus I hear that Socrates actors are quite expensive these days.

I find the best way to learn critical thinking is to interact with people who are good critical thinkers. I know that's not exactly your question, but I thought I would add it anyway.

It is rather simple that the more time, effort, sessions, books, etc you put into it, the more you get out of it and the more effective it is. I would very much like to +1 Stephen's post. If you can only afford a couple sessions, then it will be vastly better than no sessions assuming they are a good therapist, which unfortunately many are not. Definitely ask for homework and journal often and everything so that sparing sessions can be more effective.

Just like "you can voluntarily choose to give me your money or not, but if you don't I'm going to shoot you in the head!" Generally, this is called theft and not exactly the epitome of voluntarism.

Weight loss was not the issue in what I quoted. It was fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia, accelerated aging, gut inflammation, and maybe a few other things. The idea that being on a HFCS diet isn't significantly different from another bad diet in the "weight loss" category doesn't address any of those negative consequences (except possibly the obesity, but losing a few pounds often doesn't change whether you are still obese or not). Yes, if you cut calories you can lose weight. However, losing weight is one of many, many signs of health. That study used nearly starvation-level calories and I would consider that dangerous and not a long-term healthy way to eat, but a short-term way to lose a little weight. For illustration: I can eat only 1 pack of Twinkies a day and I will lose weight, but I would not be healthy.

The debate is not sugar. Sugar in my opinion is fine. It is fuel for the body. You said that fructose was a preferable source of sugar. I said that it was not only not preferable but harmful, especially in the instance of HFCS. I provided sources. Now you are moving the debate to terms I do not disagree with and would not debate. I am asserting that Fructose is a less preferable sugar source and HFCS is actively negative and harmful to health. You have asserted that Fructose is a preferable sugar source which would include HFCS. Thus, I am asking if you have nay proof that HFCS is a healthier source of sugar than natural sugars or glucose. I would be very interested in this information.

See, you do not get to ignore scientific studies because you think the construction of the substances shouldn't result in the result of the study. That is not the best practice for discovering truths. We were talking about the negative effects of high fructose corn syrup and I provided 4 sources, at least 2 of them published and have some credibility. I am very interested in any potential published studies that find that HFCS is healthy as a result of a study. If you have this, then I will look at it. Otherwise, I have provided evidence and you have not which, in general, some evidence is far better than no evidence for proving a proposition.

Well so far, I have cited 4 sources: 2 of them publish journals and one from a doctor. I have not seen any sources from you. They only seem to be empty assertions. If you have sources, I would be happy to see where these many doctors are wrong on the issue.

I think you didn't read what I posted at all

http://drhyman.com/blog/2011/05/13/5-reasons-high-fructose-corn-syrup-will-kill-you/#close In short, unpaired fructose rarely happens in nature. However high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is very, very common in production food. 70 million Americans have fatty liver disease, which could be highly linked to HFCS.That is a major problem for a very significant minority of people in America.

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fructosedangers.htm http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/895.full http://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/18/10/2619.full For starters on fructose

Fructose does not spike insulin, but it wears on your liver because of how it needs to be processed. Fructose is worse than glusoce and there are better ways to moderate blood sugar levels than to dump on your liver. Fructose should be avoided except in small amount in real fruit (obviously avoiding high fructose corn syrup in packaged foods). This is an instance of counting the benefits and ignoring the costs. Saturated fats can be healthy or unhealthy. Saturated fats in hot dogs probably aren't the best. Saturated fats in coconut oil are great. Everyone should avoid industrial seed and vegetable oils whenever possible. Saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fats do not ever define if they are good or bad. There are good and bad in each category depending on how they are used and broken down by your body. This is true to some extent, but exaggerated and a bit of scare at the end. It is better to get fish oil by having fish once or twice a week. If you have to take a supplement, put it in a dark, cold area (like your freezer) and it will be unlikely to oxidize. As long as you prevent oxidation, taking fish oil is usually preferable to not taking fish oil in a standard American diet. It depends a bit on the nut/seed. Some are better than others and I would not consider this a universal statement. Nuts an seeds being a sparing snack would be better than many other options that people do snack on. Having a tub of nuts a day would obviously be an issue. Nuts also tend to be high in Omega 6's and will counter your attempts at better balance with your essential fatty acids with fish oil. Again, for the occasional snack it wouldn't be an issue. The lean meats is meh. There are more important things, but the main thing is the quality of fat on the meat has a lot to do with the diet of the animal. If it was a grass fed cow with room to roam, then itll be quality fat and the leanness doesn't matter. If it is an industrially produced cow that wasn't allowed to move and ate crappy grain meant to make it fat and probably the occasional bit of dead, sick cow then I would tend to go on the leaner side (or just avoid that meat when possible). Slow cooking is preferable to fast cooking anyway because there are less carcinogens produced, but you can slow cook lean chicken just like you can a fatty pork belly. The leanness/fattiness of the meat is not a big deal in my book.

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2 gangs Both say the other is crazier Both say the other is violent Both say they are following just law Yea, I just want no part of it. The sovereign citizens (at least as portrayed in the article) are not exactly philosophically sound. It is not just the use of violence. Therefore, Ideally we would have a constitutional republic ruled by God. No thanks. I do not wish to die.

The answer would be yes. However, never to the point of force not existing. This would mean he no longer had the job.