Misc News Comments 2006-11-21
I say fish out the oceans while we still can. Humans are going to kill the fish whether we eat them or not. If the fishing boats don’t get em’, global warming will. Plus less fish breathing out CO2 means we can have more humans (and our cars, power plants, pets, cattle, and sewage / fertilized soil bacteria) breathing it out.
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PlayStation 3 is so expensive that robbing 100 people in a line of their playstation money will net you $60,000!! A thousand, $600,000!!! Somebody will definitly shoot a strong-willed resistor to keep the rest of the line robbable. People obviously want it to pay $1200-$2400 on average (12 hours or less remaining on auction) on ebay for one. About 4800 60GB models listed on ebay as of the morning of 11/17/2006. Wasn’t their only 100,000 units available in japan??? Looks like a lot of scalping to me.
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Go Wal-Mart! Only problem is that wal-mart lacks high-end electronics. Wal-Mart tends to have crappy and mediocre and limited mid-line electronics. Thats where Circuit City could butt in maybe (Best Buy and Circuit City are more midline). Crutchfield is doing well discounting high-end electronics (at least high-end shelf-stereos). Otherwise it is shop the manufacturer’s site and then price-compare on yahoo shopping and buying from small businesses that bulk-import ($1000 MSRP digicam for $742). Some are import-on-demand ($1000 MSRP digicam for $635). These are even cheaper, but it is usually 6-12 weeks for shipping (batching, possibly ground-based shipping) and have no box, just an bare OEM unit with foreign-language (thai or chinese usually) instructions if any at all.
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Chocolate Milk is 200-250 (Shamrock is 220) calories per 8 ounces, 150-200 for lowfat (Shamrock is 160 i think). Gatorade is 50 calories per 8 Ounces. PowerAde is 100 and has no fructose. I don’t know the calorie density of Carb drinks. Weight gainers (and protien/weight gainer hybrids) and meal replacement protien shakes have slow burning carbs. PowerAde and Soda are all fast burning. Chocolate mil is regular milk with a bunch of sugar added. Gatorade (bottled not powdered) has some fructose in it. It appears, since the sport drink and the chocolate milk had no noticable difference, that you get the biggest bang for the buck with Chocolate milk, but you get the biggest bang for the calorie with Gatorade (Chocolate milk is a bigger loser when it comes to calories due to self-control issues). I personally like Cytomax over gatorade (only sold bottled in Albertsons in AZ). The taste is about the same as a protien meal replacement (better than regular protien powder), which is not as good as soda or chocolate milk. The study did not use plain water, so it did not have an effective control. The article doesn’t not mention if any food intake was controlled or banned (or rigged). The article also does not mention the exertion level. 100-200 watts (depending on fitness) is sustainable beyond the bonk / crash, giving advantage to medium burning carbs in the gatorade (fructose) and the fat in the milk.
