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I've often considered attempting such a diet for a few months, just to see if I can feel/see any differences be it slight or significant, but I have no idea where to begin, or how to go about doing this without severely altering everything in my life to accommodate such a change. Such as where to eat or shop without having to go far out of my way to do so, etc. I know what tastes good in the meat world and how to make it, but of the few vegan things I've attempted to eat over the past few weeks in determining whether I'd like to delve further into this journey, I've found that what I did eat was rather bland tasting, and often just...not very good or pleasing to eat. Edit: Oh, and I've searched this matter on Google, but found so many websites dedicated to this (some that conflict or gloss over important life changing details), that I've mostly dismissed it. IE, not all sources of such information are necessarily 'good' sources.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 27, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) I can't disagree with you. And like I said, the new superphones seem to avoid those issues. Just read the review for the Galaxy S II. The phone seems pretty badass out of the box. The only problem with the Galaxy is who makes it. They have a history of non-updates or slow updates or outright not supporting old hardware (and by old, I mean a few months old). Samsung has a terrible history of non support...I just don't know if I trust them anymore.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 27, 2011 -> 09:10 AM) The next wave of phones are pretty ridiculous. They look to be pretty awesome out of the box but I guess I'll believe it when I see it. It's really not Android that's the problem, it's the manufacturers messing with it and sticking their garbage on it. Take any non-Google branded phone and you HAVE to hack it for numerous reasons. Take a Droid for example, hack it and you'll GAIN 50% battery life, speed, and overall smoothness. And I'm not talking about a little bit, I mean, it's NOTICEABLE. To me, that's unacceptable...and I wish they'd knock it off.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 27, 2011 -> 08:27 AM) Well sure it might happen in a few years but who the heck is going to bother when new phones come out all of the time? The developers won't even waster their time on those phones. Just look at the Droid X as the perfect example. Their bootloader is encrypted and there are no true custom ROMs and kernels available for that phone. 256 bit encryption will not be cracked any time soon so no one will bother. I agree, and for the reasons you stated above. The main reason these haven't been cracked is because there are just too many viable alternatives to bother. There aren't many hackers attempting to crack these keys because they can just buy a superior device that isn't encrypted or controlled in this manner. I'm not an Android person, as you know, but if I was, I wouldn't even consider these devices. If they're that worried about locking me down, I'd go elsewhere with my business. The biggest problem I have with Android devices at the moment is that you have to hack them to make them good...I'm not into that hacker crap anymore, so I just use my iPhone, which I'm perfectly happy with unhacked.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 27, 2011 -> 07:11 AM) HTC officially dissolves locked bootloader policy This is after their facebook and twitter were bombarded by thousands of complaints this week. Yay to social media power! I don't know why they bother with that garbage anyway, that stuff is also hacked within days. Locked bootloader or not, people were going to hack that thing.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) How the Hell did we actually just take the lead? Really? I'm not watching, what went down?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) On the heels of a nationally released film about her, the former half-term governor of Alaska is going to start a national bus tour soon. Oh jeeez...please no. I wish people would just start ignoring her already and we could move on and pretend she never happened to American politics.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 26, 2011 -> 03:53 PM) Did Democrats demand that funds for Republican initiatives get stripped to fund Katrina aid? Are you saying Democrats don't do it without actually saying it? If so, are you that in denial for your party? Can't you just admit both parties partake in this bulls***? Because they do.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 26, 2011 -> 01:55 PM) New Tesla 2.5 roadster gets 119 MPGe rating, the best in the world. Now if I could afford one. Update: We just heard from the EPA, which clarified that this is not their official rating for the Roadster 2.5. These numbers are Tesla's, and the window sticker itself is a mockup - not a legitimate sticker from the EPA. Still, if you'd like to see it, it's down after the break. Oops.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ May 26, 2011 -> 04:09 PM) Thanks so much for the reply. I really don't want to have to have a seperate large receiver in every room that I have the speakers. Does that Denon work wirelessly throughout the whole house? IE can I just have the one receiver and run twelve speakers throughout the house off that one receiver and be able to easily choose which speakers via my ipad or iphone are playing what music? I can't tell for sure. The way it is advertised is to be like Sonos where you just have speakers hardwired anywhere and they will just play independently if you want.... but as far as I can tell the Zep speaker is the only one that works this way. That would be something controlled by the receiver itself, so for what you are asking, it appears that's exactly what the Zep speaker system was specifically designed for. However, I highly doubt they are the only one on the market that does that, there are probably alternatives that are cheaper.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 26, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) Doesn't really explain or excuse Republicans' actions, though. That's my point, he allowed them to do it. All part of "playing the game", which is nonsense both parties partake in. The bill pretty much had to be passed to not delay the money, which is BS even creating the bill int he way it was created, and further that they let it pass because of it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2011 -> 12:01 PM) Vetoing immediately needed disaster relief dollars and delaying them by days to weeks because of a dispute over automobile purchases? I never said he should, I simply said he could.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ May 26, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) Anyone utilize Apple Airplay yet? I was about a day away from pulling the trigger on setting up my house for "whole house music" (since my house is a cape cod without an attic it was going to be like $8k with a bunch of that in labor) when Gizmodo posted this article: http://gizmodo.com/5696379/how-apples-airp...hange-your-life So, I decided to wait Airplay out, and now six months later the only speakers that are available (as far as I can tell) is this Zeppelin thing ( http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS319ZM/A ) that is expensive, and my wife isn't thrilled about having in every room of our house (imagine that in the bathroom). All I want is simple speakers (in wall would be awesome), and they still don't appear to be on the market. Am I missing something? I use it through my AppleTV, which I have connected to my TV in the basement. Upstairs, I have my Mac, and it wirelessly streams anything on it's iTunes to that TV/surround system downstairs. I can also play anything off of my iPhone or iPad2 to that TV, too. It just streams over my houses wireless N network. My entire house is Wireless for Internet/streaming, including my Xbox360, my printer, etc. AppleTV's cost 99$ and hook into your current tv/speaker system. There are also many other wireless speaker systems available that work much the same way. Here is a bit more information with some cheaper alternatives than what you listed above. http://airplayspeakers.com/airplay-speaker...d-alternatives/

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2011 -> 09:16 AM) And Don Cooper. If not the best, Coop has a reputation of definitely being in the top 5 for his position. Although Baines might be the worst 1B coach, Cora the shortest bench coach (he does get extra credit points for his overrated "Camp Coras" that have had such a tangible long-term effect on our fielders) and Jeff Cox the looniest/most hyperkinetic 3B coach. I much preferred when Rock was our first base coach.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 25, 2011 -> 04:53 PM) Instead, we pay for it by cutting it from a clean cars program. Republicans are impressively sociopathic. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-conte...t-Amendment.pdf Isn't a democrat sitting in the presidents seat right now, that could veto any bill?

I'm just a good as Bossard...though I have to say, my lawn is 1/800th the size...but that said, it's perfect. Oh, and I use a regular old Toro...actually I borrow it because I lost the bag to my own. Honestly though, I could easily use a push mower, my lawn is only about 30x20, and another subsection that's about 7x30...but as stated above, not a weed in sight.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2011 -> 08:17 AM) Different version from the NYT: Wait, it takes only 5 million barrels of oil on futures contracts to completely distort the market? Then I take back everything I ever said about speculation being a miniscule factor in price spikes. There are many factors contributing to oil prices, such as the value of the dollar, unnecessary fear being spread about production (fact is, the supply has remained constant despite wars), speculation, locking in futures contracts at high prices, etc. Some speculation is good for markets, even necessary, it's when speculation is abused and bastardized which is the problem. What do I mean by bastardized speculation? Speculation is usually used in commodities markets to lock in prices to prevent huge price swings for delivery takers. For example, Hershey company would look at the price of cocoa and determine if the price may rise due to crop yields, and buy a bunch of contracts on speculation that the cost may rise in the future, in this example, they'd have locked in contracts at the current price because they think it's going to cost more soon. This prevents the prices from going up too high in the future because the cocoa industry realizes that a big buyer already locked in plenty of futures and won't need more for a while...it's like a control mechanism. This also works by preventing the prices from falling so low that the sellers cannot make money, as if the prices fall low, the buyers will start locking up contracts, which shortens supply, putting the price back in line where it belongs. This type of speculation keeps the markets stable. The problem comes in when speculators are actively looking to rocket the price by buying up supplies and holding them so when inventories are counted, those contracts are "off the market" and thus inventories will look artificially low. The only reason this works is because the people with these contracts have no intention of taking delivery, all they're looking to do is keep the barrels locked up so when inventories are counted, the barrels they bought "don't exist", which offsets supply and demand. Of course, it's all artificial supply and demand, since we know they not only don't want to take delivery, but in reality, they CANNOT take delivery...where would they store 5M barrels of oil, and what would they do with it if they could? My problem isn't speculation, there is a reason for legit buyers and sellers of commodities to speculate on price. My problem is that people are being allowed to speculate that have ZERO intention of accepting delivery, not only that, but have NO actual use for said commodity other than making money off of it. IMO, if you aren't able to accept delivery of a commodity such as cocoa or oil (food/petroleum), you have no business buying futures. This is bastardized speculation, and downright evil...considering we are talking about food and oil, which affects peoples lives, often in very drastic ways.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2011 -> 06:28 PM) Complete idiocy? That sound like something we ought to gamble out entire financial system on. (someday, some investment firm will read this post and offer me $7 mil a year.) While I find the humor in this, what's not funny about it is every last one of those pieces of garbage walked away...and walked away with millions.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 23, 2011 -> 04:39 PM) I have no idea or opinion of LinkedIn's worth. It's not about having an opinion. It's trading at 88.30, so that's what it's worth. So long as people are willing to pay something in the vicinity of 500+ times earnings for a share of LinkedIn, that's what it's worth...but the floors going to drop out on that one fast enough. It's merely .com IPO euphoria rearing it's head again that caused the run up. When will it come down to earth and be priced what is should be priced at? I don't know. But it will. Every stock eventually comes in line with an average P/E ratio, it's just a matter of when. Googles P/E is 20. Apples is 16. Microsofts is 9. Note that those companies, each of them individually, make more profit in a single day than LinkedIn makes in a year (or has EVER made, all years combined in it's existence), yet the street only values them at 9x to 20x earnings. Eventually LinkedIn's street value will come in line with that, as it always does. Oh and even better, the WSJ notes: “The company expects its revenue growth rate to slow and warns that it won’t be profitable in 2011 as it invests in what it calls future growth, such as technology and product development. It also warns that it expects that its results in the future could become more cyclical and seasonal.” ...meanwhile, Microsoft, Google and Apple are all making more money than the quarter/year before it...and set their expectations as such. This is complete idiocy that I see happening right now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 23, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) recruiters/staffing firms dig through it I'm sure. Which doesn't lead to many jobs. From the sounds of it, if you are on linked in, youll get a million job offers...at least that's what they made it sound like above...only the job market completely sucks right now, so you two must be very marketable. Either that or they're the typical recruitment calls where they want you to take jobs you have no interest in. I've been linked in for years, it's a fine site...it's not better than competing job search sites, either...and it's still not worth what some of you appear to think it is, and if you truly believe it is, then buy it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2011 -> 03:17 PM) anticipatory strike here... please no one feed the troll. He's looking for a reaction.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 23, 2011 -> 01:59 PM) Fascinating article on Chicago and climate change. Good, I hope it gets warm and stays warm.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 23, 2011 -> 01:58 PM) But it has value in job searching beside just looking for job openings. I'm sure it does. It simply doesn't have the value of it's current price. It's like agreeing to pay 5,000$ for an iPad2, when they're worth ~600$. I'm not saying people don't have the right to be stupid and pay that much...but I am saying it's stupid.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 23, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) It's the last place you'd go? I know you climb hyperbole mountain all the time, but linked in was actually a great resource for job searching and people DO recruit from there. They weren't even a job search site until like 9 months ago. That is all.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 23, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) IF they become the go to search engine for available jobs, they could make quite a bit of money not only from users but also companies wanting to post on there. That's going to be a problem since they're not even on the job search radar right now. People post profiles there but nobody recruits from there...it's more like a personal networking site so people can feel important or something, I'm not even sure. I've had a LinkedIn profile for years and never actually searched around the site, and really don't care to do so. Monster and Dice are FAR more popular job search engines. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even think of using LinkedIn to search for a job...it's the last place I'd go.