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Criticism On “Ranking States By Obesity Rates”
Indeed, Trent, BMI is way oversimplified measure of percent of body fat... It only considers height and weight. There are people with big bones and dense muscles who would skew the measurements how to reduce weight naturally the high side. All my family has big bones and all of us are by BMI called overweight and obese... How ever, I am not over weight because I am muscular with big bones. When my body fat is calculated, it is from a dozen measurements More
My View On “Is It Time to Buy a Home?”
It's kinda silly to distinguish non-distressed new sales leads from distressed sales given the ratio of homes underwater. A good percentage of total sales will be from this underwater group which will include not only foreclosures but probably many more short sales. Also there are many, many folks out there who want to move/sell but cannot because their homes are underwater. As their need and desire to move grows, they'll sell distressed. This glut More
Criticism On “Frank: The Economic Crisis: Lessons Unlearned”
What else i love moneys there but money? Money is the measure of all things in the human world. It represents not evil but good. It is the labor of the honest and the wicked but in itself it is good. It represents time saved and time spent. It represents your love and the love of your life for without money you wouldn't have time to love or be loved. It is the driver of productivity and entreprenuership for without it to measure the relative risk of More
My View On “FC Barcelona: Fancy Flicks and Dirty Tricks”
Well then if that bores you, change the channel, passing in football is as crucial as passing in basketball. Having a lot of ball possession is not always winning the game, but I have what to do when you are bored go with another stat, that Barcelona are 88 points in the lead in La Liga and Real Madrid have 80. That 'boredom' that you refer to, only just made them the only team in the history of all European football to win all 6 trophies available. More
Thoughts On “Jenkins: Obama and the Smartphone Wars”
Google is a patent violator and so is Dow Jones & Co, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle...
In fact, every entity that produces software violates hundreds, if not thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of patents. This is because patents are granted for things that are obvious to people in the trade.
Once you drop the trivial patents, you'll find that Google probably doesn't infringe on any patents - ask an expert without a vested interest in patents.
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Thoughts On “Stephens: Is Obama Smart?”
Michael, put the kool-aid down for a moment. You're just repeating what you think you're supposed to say: Fox News this and Fox News that. Fox News actually questions actions and wants accountability in the workplace of people from both sides of the aisle. Just because they point out mistakes, shortcomings and outright lies it doesn't make them a propaganda machine. It's called journalism. It does all of us citizens a favor. What doesn't help us are More
Some Thoughts On “Obama Asks EPA to Withdraw Proposed Ozone Rule”
I say regulation needs to be based on the size of the company.
regulations can present significant barrier to entry for small companies
so there should be no regulation for small companies and heavier regulations as the company becomes bigger to the point where there should be incentive for companies not to grow too big
that's where USA fails today
If I want to start up companies a car making company in my garage the barrier to entry is too big
I have More
Criticism On “The Weekend Interview with Richard Pipes: A Cold Warrior at Peace”
Thanks Anton. I am trying to understand the Russian political mind. For all practical purposes I believe there is only one political party and the ultimate leader is determined by a relatively few that belong or mostly belong to the communist party. Thus if I am correct the real definition of a leader of policy would have to lie more with the man chosen then the policy. But, do you believe any credible Russian political figure would have disputed Russian More
A Response To “Bob Lutz: Life Lesson From the Car Guy”
Yes . . . It was management's fault. Everyone can blame the unions all they want, but it was GM's CEO, Roger Smith, who, with no regard for the future, rolled over and played dead to union demands in the 80s. What kind of executive manager would allow a union to insert a contract provision that 'paid people not to work' ?
However, even though I have blamed incompetent executives for GM's fall, let's not forget that the Board of Directors were also More
A Response To “Why So Many People Can’t Make Decisions”
I have found plenty types of emotion emotion-driven conservatives and fact-based liberals. Emotion driven conservatives are usually a combination of angry and fearful and prone to exaggeration. Likewise, a common criticism of the liberal President is that he has no emotion. Whether you agree or disagree with his reasoning, he is not emotion driven.
The real problem is that the emotion-driven folks are in charge of our politics on both sides of the More