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| 2003/4/18-19 [Reference/Law/Visa, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:28160 Activity:nil |
4/17 Are there plug-ins/add-ins (or something like that) available for
xfig to make it easier to draw circuit schematics?
\_ Try "dia" IIRC, it has an icon set for circuits. --dbushong |
| 2003/4/18 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Women] UID:28161 Activity:very high |
4/17 Are Ortha-Evra and Ortha-tricyclene paid by insurance?
\_ Go get the free condoms. You're cheating on each other and need
disease protection as much as you need the pill.
\_ Clearly someone who's not gotten any with and without.
\_ Not so clear. Happily married, thanks! One day you might
know the touch of a woman.
\_ Yermom is better than your wife.
\_ that's not saying much
\_ Happily married is an oxymoron. When you come home
one day and the house is cleaned out (including the
ice cube trays in the freeze and the extra pollen
filters for the upstairs heater) you will know that
no marriage is happy and no woman can be trusted.
Then your education will start. It will be the most
expensive, humiliating and degrading lesson you will
ever learn. Provided you survive...
\_ you are not the real bdg
\_ nah, I got over the lousy taste in women thing in
college. It took time and a lot of fucking to figure
out the score but I'm doing just fine thanks.
\_ Condoms are FAR less effective at birth control. The proper
Paranoid woman uses both.
\_ The properly paranoid man uses condoms because he can't
trust her to be on the pill and also can't trust that she
isn't diseased or trying hard to get diseased somewhere
else. Always use condoms. That way you don't need to trust
each other. Now go out there and ignore me and get herpes
and be parents! GO BEAR!
\_ I know a woman who wants kids, whether she's married or not.
I'm downright SCARED of sleeping with her.
\_ You should be. Why are you even thinking about it?
\_ the answer to that should be self-evident. -tom
\_ he wants to be a daddy? that's the only reason
to fuck a chick who wants kids no matter what.
\_ Of course, nothing beats abstinence, the preferred and
endorsed method of the CSUA.
\_ Depends on your insurance policy. Why don't you call the
800 number on the back of your card and ask? Or look up
the website? I've found most health insurances cover bcp, but
there is no single blanket policy. --chris
\_ I think we need to rename it, this is not insurance. It's
health coverage or a health plan or something. Insurance
wouldn't cover this kind of stuff.
\_ Yeah now if it paid out only when you actually had the
bad luck to impregnate, now THAT would be insurance.
\_ I've actually heard of a health insurance plan that
covers costs of childbirth *and* abortions, but not
birth control. Stupidity knows no bounds.
\_ You mean cover the cost of a kid from 0-18? |
| 2003/4/18 [Health] UID:28162 Activity:very high |
4/18 Dear motd personal trainer: I've been lifting weights for awhile,
and I no longer get that stiff, swollen feeling in my muscles the
day afterward. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I did
an exercise I don't commonly do. Does this mean my workout is not
intense enough (more weights? more reps?) or is it unavoidable?
It seems like I'm lifting at about my outer limits (3rd set seems
exhausting) and I don't want to injure myself. Thanks
\_ I used to work out where I did one body part (back, chest,
legs, etc) each day, several exercises for 3 sets each. I
switched to doing 2 full body workouts per week, 1 set per
exercise of multi-joint exercises like squat, deadlift, bench
press, rowing, and have had good results from that.
\_ do you have a full list of the exercises you do? I've made
my own workout, and would be interested in comparing to get
an idea of other things to add in... - mds
\_ One of the golden rules of weight-lifting: change your routine
regularly. Your muscles grow accustomed to any set of exercises
you do over time, hence become efficient at them. Do different
exercises. You can also try supersetting (doing two different
exercises together, eg. bicep curl and tricep pullovers), or
\_ Do you mean simultaneously?
\_ I think the idea is grab a barbell, curl, raise it over
your head, do the tricep extension. Repeat 8-12 times.
Repeat 3 or 4 times.
circuit training (a set of 5-6 different exercises back to back,
rest, then repeat)
\_ Any good varients for straight and incline bench press?
Thanks! - !OP, same problem
\_ decline bench press
\_ I hate the decline, all the blood rushes to my head.
\_ One variation is to use dumbbells instead of barbell. Or you
can try "negatives": do a bench press as normal, but go really
REALLY slow on the way down... like 3-6 seconds. These will
*burn*. Negatives can be used for just about every exercise.
\_ Well alternating light/medium/heavy lift days also work,
or is that not enough variation?
\_ I've rarely alternated between l/m/h, so I can't say.
But a good indication of how heavy you should be doing
is that the third set should always be to exhaustion.
Ideally, you need a spotter to get to a full 10-12 reps.
\_ The trainer I was working with said for "heavy" you
should be looking at a set of 8/6/6 reps, full
exhaustion at the end. Only when the muscle is
"failing" will it have the incentive to build more
\_ That's cuz you're actually ripping and breaking
down the muscle fibers. New muscle can't be built
unless current muscle is destroyed.
\_ false
\_ fair enough, but spell out why:
is it more accurate to say that new
muscle can't be built unless current
muscle is torn?
\_ How long is a while? After a certain point you will stagnate.
To get past that usually involves eating a ton of food, which makes
you gain weight all over, some/most of which is muscle. Then you
get stronger, but fatter too. -ax |
| 2003/4/18-19 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Consumer, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:28163 Activity:kinda low |
4/18 Toshiba or Hitachi laptop drive?
\_ Hitachi.. they are/were IBM... the quietest and fastest
laptop drives on the market (if you buy the 5400rpm).
IBM sold their whole storage division to Hitachi.
\_ Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I don't see any 9.5mm drives @
5400 rpm though.
\_ Ah, just checked. 60gb drives are about $80 more if you go
from 4200 rpm to 5400.
\_ Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I don't see any 9.5mm
drives @ 5400 rpm though.
\_ Ah, just checked. 60gb drives are about $80 more if
you go from 4200 rpm to 5400.
\_ I bought a hitachi travelstar 30 gb drive last week for
around $90. It has 2 MB cache and is pretty quiet and
suprisingly fast for a 4200 RPM drive. Similarly spec'ed
toshiba's are a bit more expensive and since I had to keep
it under $100, I chose the hitachi. |
| 2003/4/18-19 [Uncategorized] UID:28164 Activity:kinda low |
4/17 Go phillip!
http://calstuff.blogspot.com
\_ phillip's name doesn't make sense without the "Edward"
\_ btw, this is very, very cool. nice job, folks. --erikred
\_ Thanks. I've been busy. Have you seen this?
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~phillip/campaign
- phil
\_ heh, cute. the "four heavy duty staples" bit adds a
hint of authenticity. |
| 2003/4/18-19 [Politics/Domestic/911, Science/Electric] UID:28165 Activity:very high |
4/19 Any philosophy minors out there? I'd like to figure out how to
think without resorting to for statements and recursion. Are
there any good books to start off with, or any particular thinkers
that you have enjoyed? I took some ancient greek philosophy class
for my AC, hated it with a passion, but I look back now and realize
that I like knowing about Aristotle's (?) cave and Plato's idiotic
Republic. Anyway, I'm more interested in more modern thought now.
Thanks.
\_ It's not Aristotle's cave. If you want to study laws of thought
study logic, probability theory, and decision theory.
Philosophy is very good to study, but not for that reason.
\_ Well, I definitely want philosophy. For whatever reason.
Any good books?
\_ While modern philosophy is interesting, it's difficult to put
it in a proper context without reading the greeks and
christian philosophers like Acquinas. I would start there.
\- i dont think this is true in the case of Acquinas [sic].
the scholastics are a big detour. --psb
\_ A related note. Anybody watch West Wing? The two times I saw it
I heard the characters talk about John Rawls and a theory of
justice and the veil of ignorance. And also Immanuel Kant and
a critique of pure reason. I strongly doubt the average couch
potato even knows what that means. I'm wondering how the show can
be a big hit if people don't even understand what they're talking
about.
\_ Note that "For whatever reason" above includes the West Wing.
There's a middle ground b/w encouraging further investigation
and talking down to viewers. -op
\_ Ever watch Fraiser? You think think the average couch potato
knows who der fliegende hollander is or who wrote the opera?
Probably not. A show can be a hit despite the fact most of
the content is way over the heads of the average fan.
\_ hello psb. I know die fliegende and I even named your fav
aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni. -psb #2 fan you know
who I am
\_ hello psb. I know die fliegende and I even named your
fav aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni. -psb #2 fan you
know who I am
\_ I'm not psb.
\- i think it is more important to take away
"tools and frameworks" in which to understand
\_ If you had pointy ears or an extremely pale
complextion with yellow contacts it would all
make sense to you.
\_ puccini or donizetti?
\_ wagner
\_ wagner \_ elixir or lucia?
the world [e.g. per ST2:TWoKhan, does the good
of the many *always* outweight the good of the
few?] and thoughtful answers to Big Questions
[like what do the Homeric Epics tell us about
"what is good in life?" or "what merits respect
or constitutes excellence?"] rather than getting
random cultural reference on tv. one is a game
the other is wisdom. --psb
\_ Yeah, just look at Star Trek. It's not only over
peoples heads, it's all total bullshit.
\_ If you are interested in epistemology (how do we know what we
know), you can check out the big hitters like Hume, Kant, and
Wittgenstein, but they might be difficult to read without
some instruction. Some modern philosophy of science would also
be interesting, like Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific
Revolution. However, it seems that you are more interested in
how to reason informally than epistemology. For that, I'd
recommend a Rhetoric 1 textbook.
\_ how about the metaphysics, epistimology, and logic of
kissing partha?
\- with some trepidation about casting pearls ...
\- respectively, rawls: green monster and nozick: anarchy
state utopia, posner: econ analysis of law, hard one...
maybe laski or e.h. carr, kant: crit pur reason.
if you give a specific example of some kinds of questions
you are interested in ... "what is the philosophical basis
of progressive taxation" "what kinds of contracts should not
be legal" "what is the basis and limits of state soverignty"
"is there a possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge" ...
it will only then be possible to make recommendations beyond
"start with plato". in other news, kant's birthday is next week
and john rawls died quite recently. --psb
limits of philosophy, or something my michael sandel.
\- okay, let's assume those are the questions to be
asked. what do you recommend?
\- respectively, 1. rawls: green monster and nozick: anarchy
state utopia, 2. posner: econ analysis of law, 3.hmm...
maybe laski or e.h. carr ... hobbes locke and plato
of course are a given; 4. kant: crit pur reason.
but really you should ask your own questions.
i think you might be better off taking an econ1
type course. try reading the baulmol and blinder
econ textbook. or maybe take a philosophy class
at a community college. based on this conversation
you will not get through wittgenstein, hume, kant etc.
you might be better off reading someone modern who writes
in normal english ... maybe williams: ethics and the
limits of philosophy, or something by michael sandel.
--psb |
| 2003/4/18 [Recreation/Dating] UID:28166 Activity:nil |
4/18 A question for all you work out geeks who are maybe shedding that
nerdy skinny body and starting to look like men for the first time
in your lives: Does it actually help you get laid or are you just
a socially inept but well built geek now?
\_ Please use motdedit. You overwrote my post. Thanks.
\_ no, you overwrote mine which was there for several minutes
before you even started yours.
\_ What editor are you using? I didn't catch any locks. |