Posts by Kyle Matthews

  • Hard News: Problems,

    What on earth did I miss? Is it lost in the copyright thread somewhere

    Somewhere on the internet there's Mark Harris/Robbery slash fic that someone has written, or is thinking about writing. Y'just know it.

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  • Hard News: Problems,

    Before even the first world war, a 'geek' named Herbert George Wells read a paper by Ernest Rutherford.

    ...

    Thus was born the Manhattan Project.

    Man. Now you've fucked up my day. 'Cause the other way to look at it was that it's Wells' fault, and that's going to take some thought.

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  • Island Life: The Prime Minister will see…,

    It will have been cutting the intake through the standard orifice for the ingestion of food, and perhaps also improving the nature of it, and adding some exercise into the routine.

    If you're going to take up what I (and others) said on my side of the argument (fat is much more complex than just eating less, exercise, nature of food, individual circumstances affect it), abandoning your original argument ("The simple fact is that fat comes from eating food. Period. It really is that simple. And yes, denying that is lying.") then the argument becomes a lot less fun. But, on the plus side, we win, you agree with us!

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  • Up Front: Making a List, Not Bothering…,

    Initially the first, coming up soon, all ISPs will apply it compulsorily.

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  • Hard News: The Commercial Crunch,

    Who made a living by breaking his bones

    'Rugby League - the craft that he hones' surely?

    (and shouldn't lines 3 and 4 rhyme?)

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  • Hard News: The Commercial Crunch,

    One kick and collect
    And one regulation bomb
    Look at all the praise

    (I refuse to haiku)

    You're forgetting the one that Fien whoopsied.

    And that dummy. He sold that twice over it was so good.

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  • Hard News: The Commercial Crunch,

    This may be the wrong time to point out that traditional haiku should have some reference to the seasons.

    Traditional haiku are written about rugby league players?

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  • Hard News: Problems,

    This article seems appropriate for the thread:

    Ten business lessons from 'Battlestar Galactica'

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  • Island Life: The Prime Minister will see…,

    The simple fact is that fat comes from eating food. Period. It really is that simple. And yes, denying that is lying.

    High school science taught me that fat doesn't come from eating food, and isn't that simple at all.

    Fat is stored energy. Which comes from eating food. Fat accumulation occurs primarily when you intake more energy than you burn up. There are various other complicating factors that varies how that works with each individual.

    The nature of the food also makes a difference as to what happens with it once it enters your body, and how much ends up as fat.

    'Eat less food' is a very simplistic answer which often won't be correct for an individual. 'Eat better food' and 'do more exercise' is much more likely to be the answer.

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  • Hard News: Problems,

    I for one am more interested in history than fantasy, but my readings of Julius Caesar's campaigns in Gaul do not inform me on how to deal with the current crisis - unless the answer is to lead an army across France burning and looting as we go.

    It'd sure make Iceland move one down the ladder of 'most fucked up countries in the world right now'.

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