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esponapule··on Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year
the legion of unknown has moved on to operation paperstorm
esponapule··on Diet hacker data point
you are correct, most junk food does contian some type of animal part be it eggs, dairy or fom animal-derived protein (i.e. l-cycten or gelatin)
esponapule··on Diet hacker data point
Not all excessive calories are converted into fat. It all depends on blood glucose level, and liver/muscle glycogen storage levels and the level of activity after the meals.
esponapule··on Diet hacker data point
As a vegetarian, I can attest to the health aspect of it. I am more healthy than anyone I know (all meat/dairy/egg eaters). Whenever I get a checkup they always ask if i am an athlete or some weird health nut, I just say , "no I just don't eat animals."

My last cholesterol test was 113 total.

esponapule··on [dead]
why does this get to stay but this gets killed?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860118

esponapule··on 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
This is the best thing that could happen for the software, it will continue, as FOSS and innovate. This is a good thing.
esponapule··on OpenOffice.org Council members resign
the deal is the steering committee is now made up of all Oracle employees, no one from the community, a BIG deal for FOSS
esponapule··on OpenOffice.org Council members resign
OO will serve as a test bed for Oracle Office but it will not be innovative and free, OO will just be free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Office

esponapule··on OpenOffice.org Council members resign
in theory yes, but in practice no. developing such a complex piece of software is very hard to do. the pieces are there, they just need refine it.
esponapule··on OpenOffice.org Council members resign
OpenOffice was acquired by Oracle recently when they bought Sun Microsystesm and have not embraced the open source philosophy in the opinion of the greater open office community. So, since the code is open source, several in the non-Oracle community decided to "rescue" the project from the same fate as Opensolaris. Libre Office is based on OO code 3.3 and GO-OO.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014478-264.html

esponapule··on In defense of Wikileaks
I am thankful the world has wikileaks
esponapule··on McDonald's Intends to Raise Prices
Pay more to make yourself sick.... Maybe we all should watch SuperSize me again.
esponapule··on Is It Cheaper to Be Vegan, Vegetarian, or a Meat Eater?
better to pay the grocer now than the doctor later... a vegan diet will save you later in life
esponapule··on Ask HN: What do you eat, hackers?
Mostly Vegan, 100% vegetarian
esponapule··on Ask HN: What do you drink?
Water, Water with lemon, Water, some wine and then some more water. and NEVER corn water (i.e. pepsi, coke, snapple, etc...)
esponapule··on Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead
The main reason I am stuck with windows is because I have to reboot to play my new "windows only" games (wine cannot handle it) and, I have hardware with "windows only" drivers and I use as a freelancer CS5, gimp scribus and inkcsape just are not there as far as innovation and then people keep sending me M$ word docs and openoffice just cannot format these files 100%, in business this needs to work seamlessly.

I prefer a linux desktop but the rest of the world keeps making it "windows only."

esponapule··on Do something positive - leave your job
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
esponapule··on What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment

The several state legislatures ratified the Sixteenth Amendment on the following dates: Alabama, August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8, 1910; South Carolina, February 19, 1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910; Mississippi, March 7, 1910; Oklahoma, March 10, 1910; Maryland, April 8, 1910; Georgia, August 3, 1910; Texas, August 16, 1910; Ohio, January 19, 1911; Idaho, January 20, 1911; Oregon, January 23, 1911; Washington, January 26, 1911; Montana, January 27, 1911; Indiana, January 30, 1911; California, January 31, 1911; Nevada, January 31, 1911; South Dakota, February 1, 1911; Nebraska, February 9, 1911; North Carolina, February 11, 1911; Colorado, February 15, 1911; North Dakota, February 17, 1911; Michigan, February 23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Kansas, March 2, 1911; Missouri, March 16, 1911; Maine, March 31, 1911; Tennessee, April 7, 1911; Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having rejected the amendment at the session begun January 9, 1911); Wisconsin, May 16, 1911; New York, July 12, 1911; Arizona, April 3, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912; Louisiana, June 28, 1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; Delaware, February 3, 1913; Wyoming, February 3, 1913; New Mexico, February 3, 1913; New Jersey, February 4, 1913; Vermont, February 19, 1913; Massachusetts, March 4, 1913; New Hampshire, March 7, 1913 (after having rejected the amendment on March 2, 1911). The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Utah.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/conamt.html

esponapule··on What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?
that fast food hamburgers are only 2.1% to 14.8% Meat (B. Prayson et al. Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 12 (2008) 406–409
esponapule··on Has a USB memory stick ever failed on you?
Yes, several. In fact I just had a Kingston become unreadable (even though the hardware was recognized) after just one month, had to RMA it. I have another transcend 4GB that is now eternally locked and read only.
esponapule··on MySQL price hikes
I think MySQL needs to follow the path of Libre Office (the document foundation) and fork. The project should be run by the community and not controlled by Oracle. Oracle, like Sun did not create the database (Sun bought it in 2008) and are trying to profit off the community MySQL has created. This is open source and should remain open source.
esponapule··on Browsers used in 5500+ HN visits yesterday
this information deeply saddens me... However I am please to see no IE :)
esponapule··on A little aspirin may prevent colon cancer
so will being a vegetarian... I choose the latter.
esponapule··on I'm rich; tax me more
I'm poor, tax me less.
esponapule··on [dead]
It is people like this who I blame for no space cars and a base on the moon...
esponapule··on BP Damage Control Leaks Online (buying oil phrases on Google/Yahoo)
i clicked on it just to cost BP more money, did not read what they are doing because all they do is LIE
esponapule··on Random Numbers
blocked at my work...Detected possible botnet command and control traffic.
esponapule··on Do iPhone Users Face a Draconian Future?
yes as well as a present