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Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?

From	"3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
Date	2016-04-14 04:19 +1000
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"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:MPG.3177d1f0467238d798a0c6@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article <dn66eoFhrk3U1@mid.individual.net>, 3899jk@gmail.com says...
>>
>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.317751437839b71198a0c5@news.eternal-september.org...
>> > In article <dn5e4gFchdrU1@mid.individual.net>, 3899jk@gmail.com says...
>> >>
>> >> "Scott Lurndal" <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote in message
>> >> news:vHbPy.5631$wk5.2006@fx36.iad...
>> >> > "3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >>> You even have agri-subsidies going back to the Civil War.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Such market manipulation will have dietary effects on the
>> >> >>> population when seen as a macro observation. Cheap,
>> >> >>> non-spoilt food will be eaten by someone.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>But won't usually produce obesity. The obesity epidemic
>> >> >>isn't due to food being too cheap, it's due to modern
>> >> >>processed food being very calorie rich and that sees
>> >> >>people shovel rather more calories into their mouths
>> >> >>than they burn.
>> >> >
>> >> > A far more apropos cause of obesity is the modern
>> >> > sedentary lifestyle which is due to TV and the
>> >> > relative lack of strenuous employment opportunities.
>> >>
>> >> Doesn?t explain obese kids particularly.
>> >
>> > No, helicopter parenting and parental fear of the big bad world does 
>> > that.
>>
>> Didn't happen with either of the obese kids I know,
>> or with the father of one of the obese kids I have
>> known very well indeed since before he even
>> went to school.
>>
>> > I suspect that in the modern world my parents would have been
>> > arrested for letting me do the sorts of things that I and my friends 
>> > did.
>>
>> I know mine wouldn't be.
>>
>> > I suspect that if they knew, _they_ would have been horrified.
>>
>> I know all those obese kids still do that stuff.
>
> So there are still parents today who put the kids out like they were
> cats and then don't worry about them until lunchtime?

Not put them out so much as let them do what they like.

One of my neighbours has 2 boys still in grade school, both
quite skinny, and they go past my house most days with their
mates, because there is a small park next to my house which
is primarily intended as a walk way to the high school that is
at the end of the park. Those two head thru that park with
their mates most days, they roam around the high school
out of hours because it has a very large grassed oval and
some basketball courts etc. No parental supervision at all.

>> >> > The type or available quantities of food or government
>> >> > recommendations have little to no effect.
>> >>
>> >> That bullshit with the type of food.
>>
>
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