On 2007-11-22 19:21:20 -0700, Exomiter <exomiter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> On 23 Nov 2007 01:06:12 GMT, rfischer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ray Fischer) wrote:
>
>> John Navas <spamfilter1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> SMS ???• ?
>>>> Neil Harrington wrote:
>>
>>>>> I haven't seen it on any new laptop, including any the ones I've
bought
>>>>> over the last three or four years. IIRC Toshiba used to use the
little
>>>>> blue button thingy, and they don't now.
>>>>
>>>> Dell still has it on some business notebooks, such as the D630. It
was
>>>> also on the D620. They are going after the users that will no longer
>>>> buy Thinkpads, but that got used to the TrackPoint.
>>>
>>> And prefer it. Like so many better tools, you have to learn how to
use
>>> it effectively before it pays off.
>>
>> And there is a fundamental and fatal flaw.
>>
>> Technology that requires the user to adapt is inherently flawed.
>> Technology needs to adapt the the user.
>
> Every bit of technology around you is causing you to adapt to it. It's
just
> happening so slow that you don't notice it.
>
> Not too long ago people lived in caves and in mildly heated temporary
shelters.
> This caused them to burn off excessive calories rapidly by using
fat-stores to
> keep the body warm. You evolved so that approximately 70% of your
calories are
> devoted to just that purpose. In fact I still take advantage of this in
winter
> to burn off any pounds I gained in summer just by lowering the
> temperature in my
> home. I don't have to change my habits at all, nor even how much I eat.
I can
> lose up to a pound per day even while I sleep. (After the outside
temperatures
> have dropped enough to take advantage of the free cold air.) My body
turns up
> its internal thermostat within about 10 days of living in lower
temperature
> conditions. It adapts easily to that more natural 45-55 degree indoor
> temperature. I can wear nothing but socks, shorts, and a T-shirt and I'm
> perfectly content at 45-55 F. Weight gain is not due to modern eating
habits,
> it's due to modern heating habits.
this is so true!...I burrow into the ground just before it freezes
solid (being careful to leave at least one nostril exposed to fresh
air), and my respiration slows to almost nothing...not only do I lose
weight over the winter, but I save enough on utility bills to follow
the 12-month rule and buy the latest Nikon gear each spring
>
> You also evolved to eat seasonal foods, massive quantities of only one
> kind at a
> time with long periods of fasting between food sources. Burning off
fat-stores
> while trying to migrate to new sources in many instances. Your body's
natural
> evolution to living on this planet developed seasonal and cyclic use of
gaining
> and burning fat over short to long periods of time. You kept that system
> flexible and in perfect working order back then. Now you don't exercise
that
> portion of your evolutionary system at all and it goes into atrophy.
Tell
> someone to not eat for 3 days, let alone 3 weeks and watch them freak
out. I've
> gone as long as 3 months in one particularly harsh winter due to being
> snowed in
> where there was no food and no help. Today it doesn't even bother me if
I have
> to go without food for a week. I don't even feel hungry during that
short of a
> span. After having lived through these things and studying evolution and
the
> development of all life on earth I now suspect the "well balanced
(continuous)
I won't be eating at all in 2008, so I can afford the D3 and the D300
and several new lenses...I also have me eye on a Gitzo that is made of
antigravitas and actually floats a few inch above the ground,
eliminating the last few sources of camera shake, but of course it's
quit expensive even by NASA standards
>
> In case you believe these are dangerously unhealthy practices --
seasonal
> low-temperature living, fasting long periods, lots of the same seasonal
foods,
> only 1 or 2 kinds of food per day or week (imagine foraging), etc. The
> last time
> I was to a Dr. for a busted bone from falling out of a tree I was told
my
> insides were 25 years younger than my chronological age. People tell me
I look
> 20 years younger than I am too. I can also heal a completely broken bone
in 3
> weeks to where the break can't even be detected on an x-ray anymore.
I've also
> outlived 2 (I was told "incurable") modern diseases that have killed
> millions of
> people. I must be doing something right.
I am so good-looking it's quite impossible to shoot portraits of anyone
else...they simply get self-conscious...I had the very first female
suicide bomber in my studio a few years back and was very excited about
getting exclusive photos of her, but when she started up with the old
'does this bomb vest make my hips look fat' I knew it would not work
out, and sure enough...
> I cite these evolutionary examples because ...
>
> In order for society to adapt to this new modern technology of living in
> over-heated caves and having their multi-food platters brought to them
daily
> with no need for lengthy fasting, they had to invent health and exercise
clubs,
> imitation steps in the cliff that move for them called stair-masters,
and
> motorized (motorized yet!) treadmills, and who knows all what
mouse-cages they
> invented. All the diets that never seem to work, and insulin
> treatments, and all
> the "health" laws they pass with zero-trans-fats, and no smoking laws,
(you
> adapted to inhale campfires daily, yes, I smoke too, this allows me to
snorkel
> to great depths due to being able to hold my breath much longer than
> others, but
> I digress)
I had to quit smoking while snorkeling as I found the taste of wet
cigars quite unpalatable...I have a fine collection of underwater cigar
lighters for sale on eBay
> ...... ALL THIS in trying to adapt their behavior to try to adapt to
> the very technology in which they have enslaved themselves.
>
> Your logic and reasoning is inherently flawed. Find and use a
functioning mind.
once again, I can help out...if you have access to a rhubarb patch,
simply place one large stalk of rhubarb in the center of a ring of
smooth clean stones under a full moon...this oracle can be consulted
for clear and reliable advice about such matters as 'should I vote for
Ron Paul or Pat Paulsen?' or 'which do I need more, a Sigma lens or
minty fresh breath?' or 'am I a wise guy or a truck driver?
>
> (sorry for the OT, I got bored reading the tomes of misinformative posts
about
> photography and cameras from people that have obviously never been near
either
> in real life)
you can bypass the tomes and go straight to the misinformation once the
RSS feed is up and running...thanks for sharing your angst
--
"Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know."
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