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Water Cooler / Re: The Less is More Thread
« on: January 03, 2011, 11:49:49 PM »
Check this out - a podcast that has both Lou Schuler and Dan John in one episode (plus Alan Aragon).

http://thefitcast.com/episode-200-lou-schuler-alan-aragon-and-dan-john

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Water Cooler / Re: The Less is More Thread
« on: January 03, 2011, 11:48:46 PM »
Drastic - looking at your exercise plan, I highly recommend Lou Schuler's books
 - New Rules of Lifting (2006)
 - New Rules of Lifting for Abs (Dec, 2010)

They are funny, well-written and, most importantly, based on the best available research at the time. You can get the pair at Amazon for under $25 (I just got them for $24).

The whole chest/biceps/shoulders thing is the classic bodybuilding workout. In the past year, I've changed over to more of a deadlifting/squats/Turkish Getups type of workout, which is more along the lines of NROL and what people like Mike Boyle, Mike Robertson, Dan Jon, Stuart McGill and people like that recommend.

You may never have heard of these folks, but they're the people who train elite athletes and train the people who train elite athletes. In terms of knowledge and experience, they are miles beyond the Jillian Michaels/P90X crowd.

Bottom line for me:
Switching to those types of workouts for me has made me leaner and stronger, with about half as much time in the gym as I was doing.

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Water Cooler / Re: If we are all going to die, maybe I should buy the farm now?
« on: January 02, 2011, 02:26:45 AM »
Digression RE population.

Demographers expect population to peak at the end of the current century and then to start declining.

Population would be in freefall in most of the developed world if not for immigration. Countries like Japan, with low immigration, worry about replacement.

Essentially, once you get infant mortality down, population tends to decline after a lag. Fertility goes down quickly, but increased lifespan causes a population bulge in the near term.

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Water Cooler / Re: MMA training starts Monday...
« on: January 02, 2011, 02:22:15 AM »
Wife wants to ski Mount Shasta this year. I've done it before and could probably do it without training, but we're trying to get out skiing a bunch so she can do it without wishing she would die.

It's not particularly technical skiing, it's the skiing up 7,000 vertical feet and then having the legs to enjoy the ski back down that's the killer.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Wireless carriers considering charging per service
« on: December 20, 2010, 06:35:54 PM »
I wonder how that would fare in an anti-trust suit.

If they want to model it on phone service, I think they would be okay: charge per minute, free within network. It's agnostic to what you're doing except for a simple binary: you're staying within our network or you want to connect out beyond it.

The equivalent would be a charge per megabyte, no charge on sites within network (whatever that would mean).

Where the anti-trust thing becomes an issue is that I don't see how any one carrier can start doing it alone. Anyone who really wants a data plan will jump to another carrier and people who don't want it will cancel the plan. So that means coordinating, which means a form of price fixing, which means feds jumping down your throat.

I see this as more of a positioning thing. Throw out the worst case scenarios, get people outraged, and then back off to something that looks a lot better, but would have outraged people if thrown out as a first offer. By moving the awful line, it creates a different perspective.

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Water Cooler / Re: advice please....
« on: December 14, 2010, 06:12:29 PM »
It's not just a muslim custom - as I was saying in the last post, this is often LAW, not custom. As near as I can tell, in India, the Bonus Act of 1965 requires most employers in India to pay a bonus

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Under this Act, every employee who is receiving salary or wages upto Rs. 3,500 p.m. and is engaged in any kind of work whether skilled, unskilled, managerial, supervisory etc. is entitled to bonus for every accounting year if he has worked for at least 30 working days in that year. However, employees of L.I.C., Universities and Educational institutions, Hospitals, Chamber of Commerce, R.B.I., IFCI, U.T.I. Social Welfare institutions are not entitled to bonus under this Act.

http://www.tax4india.com/indian-laws/labour-law/payment-of-bonus/payment-of-bonus-2.html

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The payment of Bonus Act, 1965, extends to the whole of India. This Act shall be applicable to:

   1. every factory; and
   2. every other establishment in which twenty or more persons are employed on any day during an accounting year.

...

Minimum bonus – Minimum bonus is 8.33 % of the salary or wages of an employee or Rs. 100 in case of employees above 15 years of age and Rs 60 in case of employees below 15 years of age. Maximum Bonus – When the allocable surplus exceeds the minimum bonus, the employer should pay bonus in proportion to the salary or wages earned by the employee subject to a maximum of 20% of such salary or wages.

In some special cases where the salary or wage of an employee exceeds Rs. 1600/- per month, minimum or maximum bonus payable to such employee shall be calculated as if his salary or wage were Rs. 1600/- per month.

http://www.tax4india.com/indian-laws/labour-law/payment-of-bonus/payment-of-bonus-1.html


Firing someone just because he has asked for his year end bonus which is typically mandated by law seems ridiculous.

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Water Cooler / Re: my latest theory: correlation between angle of your hat and your world outlook
« on: December 14, 2010, 06:01:21 PM »
Okay... random thoughts to a sort of random thread

- I don't have a dominant eye, or at least not strongly dominant. When I do tests like hold up one finger (not in anger), and site down it, supposedly it should shift more when I close my dominant eye. It doesn't.

- I'm strongly righthanded for most tasks

- I think I'm lefty for some tasks. In a previous discussion people said lefties shoot a rifle with the left hand on the trigger. I shoot that way. I tried to imagine holding a rifle with my right on the trigger and it was like trying to hold it with my feet.

- I don't where hats with asymmetrical brims (like baseball caps). I where no hat, warm hats with no brim or hats with big floppy brims.

- No lefties in my family, but many dyslexics.

- I'm pretty sure handedness is genetic

- I suspect (no evidence) that hand dominance and eye dominance are different phenotypes of the same genotypes

- I suspect (no evidence) that there are a more than one gene involved and that the alleles are complex and varied and it results in a lot of variation in degree and manifestation

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Water Cooler / Re: advice please....
« on: December 13, 2010, 08:06:57 PM »
>>is in India

I was going to ask where this is. In Latin American countries, Singapore and the Philippines the "thirteenth month" payment is required or expected

Don't know about India, but it seems like there is some expecation of bonus based on teh 1965 Bonus Act or some such thing

http://www.tax4india.com/indian-laws/labour-law/payment-of-bonus/payment-of-bonus-2.html

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Web Development / Re: Monte Leaving Moniker - Does this change anything?
« on: December 13, 2010, 04:35:57 PM »
Meanwhile... 12 hours later my support request from Moniker is unanswered.

I may need to use that phone number, but for something this simple, it should not need a phone call

This should go into the support queue and be handled in... I would expect 12 mins, not 12hours.

[Was trying to change an A record and couldn't set
example.com A 1.2.3.4

finally got back to me and said you have to use the pseudo-domain default domain placeholder @ which I should have guessed]

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Water Cooler / Re: best driveway transformation
« on: December 10, 2010, 05:10:16 PM »
Never thought I would pronounce a driveway beautiful, but that one is!

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Water Cooler / Re: Katie the Geek Girl...AWESOME story about bullying with happy ending..
« on: December 09, 2010, 08:13:10 PM »
Wow... real tear jerker.

My niece - a very well-balanced geek girl who had some good geek friends in high school, put it really well, in terms of teasing. She said "I don't care what the cool kids are into. Why does it matter to them what the geek kids are into? We don't want to be part of their group. We just want to be left alone."

Of course, that requires having found a few soul mates, but when I heard her say that, I thought "She's got a future ahead of her, that girl!"

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Web Development / Re: The Thing I Hate About Wordpress Is.....
« on: December 09, 2010, 05:05:50 PM »
Yeah, great info Torben

As i was posting about Drupal, I was thinking there had to be some CVS/SVN/git solution for Wordpress, but I had never heard of any. Thanks!

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Web Development / Monte Leaving Moniker - Does this change anything?
« on: December 08, 2010, 09:17:00 PM »
I must say, I've never cared for the Moniker interface, but a few webmasters have told me that they went there because other registrars have, through incompetence or greed, let out sensitive information and they felt Moniker was at least trustworthy, if sometimes a PITA.

So now I have 30 domains I'm trying to get someone to transfer out of Yahoo @ $35/year or some such. In the past, I would have told him, albeit with reservations, to use Moniker. But more and more...

So, who do you like and why?

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Web Development / Re: How I Find Good Content Writers
« on: December 08, 2010, 09:00:12 PM »
I have not bought that many articles, but my results have mostly been very good. I've also found that in addition to voice and audience, it helps to stipulate the format. If the writer is a bit savvy about the web, saying things like

"Articles should be broken into 2-4 sections with subheadings. One section will consist of 3-5 bullet points"

Has gotten me articles that come closer to the finished product. I've gotten some excellent, but somewhat pricey authors off Elance, and some very good articles from.... I think it's called SEO Article Pros??? I can look it up if anyone cares.

If you buy in bulk, they'll be down around the 2 cent/word range I think

Check: http://seoarticlewritingpros.com/order/

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Web Development / Re: The Thing I Hate About Wordpress Is.....
« on: December 08, 2010, 08:35:25 PM »
If you're hosting the sites spread out on servers all over the place, there's not much you can do.

If not, you can reduce the hassle by serving up multiple domains on WPMU.

Sadly, since the WP/WPMU merge, serving multiple domains is a bit of a hassle, but it can be done.

You can also use symlinks to use one codebase to serve as many sites as you want, so if there are no DB changes, it's just one update.

Drupal is, by the way, a lot worse UNLESS you use drush + either rysnc or cvs. Then it's quick via command line.

I don't dare to live this dangerously, but if I had as many sites as you guys do, I would just script the updates.

I'm not sure you can do it on WP, but with drupal, you can do almost any management task from the bash shell using the tools I mentioned above... and it's dead easy to run many sites from one codebase, but only makes sense if you have a very defined module set and the sites are similar in terms of functionality (otherwise you get into the situation where you want to upgrade, but site one needs version 1.1 of a module and site 2 needs version 1.2 of a module and and and).

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