http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/1415246/Iron-Man-Is-Another-Step-Closer-To-a-Reality

Why wouldn't a marine keep a healthy lifestyle? Their performance depends on a healthy lifestyle. Body and mind need to be healthy and clear to perform their duties well. Obviously, in the midst of battle they aren't in complete control of how healthy their lifestyle is, but I'm sure most would do their best when they got back to base or returned home. You'd basically have to be in top physical conditioning to survive training, let alone keep up in battle.

In Canada and the USA, smoking has been shifting to the not-cool sector for years now. Sure, it's still overwhelmingly popular for rebelling teenagers, and criminals, but it's illegal to smoke inside businesses, even bars, now. The fact is that smoking isn't as cool today as it once was. If a young Hollywood celebrity is caught smoking now it could be grounds for bad press (which is still good press, but I digress). It's just not cool anymore. My brother is finally quitting for good now, I think.

People don't seem to care that I don't want to die of lung cancer from second hand smoke, and belive it or not, I actually want to go outside now and then. Without the so called "nanny state" I would have to stay home all the time to avoid second hand smoke. Now I don't have to.

I'd bet you'd like the govt to revoke the laws on assult. Its the same thing. "The rights of your fist end where the rights of my face beings" -> "The rights of your nicotine habit end where the rights of my lungs begin".

This is one of the funniest arguments against smoking. "Second-hand smoke kills!" Here's something: Every single car that drives by you is producing a carcinogen out the exhaust pipe. Every. Single. One. You are breathing in second-hand death gas out of every car and you don't think twice at all. You don't think twice about sitting at a stop light with your windows down surrounded by idling cars. You don't think twice about standing behind a car. You have no idea how much carcinogen gases you breathe every day. But Jesus, protect us from these smokers! How will we survive their onslaught? Let's ignore welding gas, solder, flux, burning any plastics, and coal.

Why not just be honest and say "I don't like the smell." That's why I don't like it. I also hate that every damn smoker seems to use the world as his or her ashtray.

Have you ever seen someone in the military? You're being shot at every day. Who gives a shit if it's going to help you relax.

Second hand smoke is worse than car exhaust. Firstly, a perfect combustion would produce only water and carbon-dioxide. You can't survive by breathing either, but they won't kill you either (AFAIK, CO₂ is not poisonous to humans). Of course, no combustion engine is perfect so there are poisonous byproducts, such as carbon-monoxide (CO), but they're at a relatively small concentration. In fact, most exhaust smells good to me, which is generally not a sign of something that will kill you. Of course, combustion exhaust from billions and billions of machines can certainly do harm, but that's not really the same thing as inhaling the dissipating exhaust of a car or six.

Obviously, we know that being trapped with the exhaust of your car can kill you, but I would guess that it's because it's converting the oxygen required to breathe into carbon-dioxide, which isn't useful to breathe unless you're a plant.

Cigarette smoke is a lot worse for you due to all of the horrible chemicals they use during the tobacco growth and processing. I'm not an expert on the matter, but I know that inhaling second hand cigarette smoke (or Hell, filtered first-hand) is more than uncomfortable. If you've ever been in a room full of smoke then you'll probably recognize that your body considers it harmful. Your throat begins to seal up (unless you're a career smoker, in which case it's been convinced that it's "normal"). Honestly, I can't even visit my brother without my throat completely closing up, making it hurt for me to breath or speak. And that's within like 5 minutes. And I'm no virgin to smoking, as I've smoked plenty of cigarettes and cigars myself.

One is full of very harmful chemicals and the other produces mostly harmless chemicals.

Cigarettes don't help you to relax. They satisfy a craving, which makes your body stop saying "I NEED A CIGARETTE. I NEED A CIGARETTE. I NEED A CIGARETTE." Nobody has ever smoked a cigarette for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

Then where were you when Diablo 2 was released? By all reason you should have been crying your head off back then, too, not to mention "giving up", since there is no Warrior class in that game either.

It really is the same thing. Cigarette/Cigar smoking in public is assault. And smoking is suicide. Both of which are, and have been illegal for quite a while. It just happens to take a bit longer than normal. Could even call it torture.

Cigarette smoke residue on clothing tends to make it harder for me to breathe, the smoke itself makes my asthma act up pretty fierce, and very little makes my asthma act up.

Sorry to be on topic for once, but I'm not buying anything Blizzard until it stops bathing in a puddle of mediocrity.

StarCraft is still sold in all our local retail stores, despite it having little copy protection, the spawn feature (one copy = full lan party), and it being over 12 years old!

If you simply make the best games people will buy them for years to come. If you waste efforts on futile things, your game will suck. Then people like me will boycott your company over stupid things like no local lan play. No spawn is fine, but shit! Does everything have to validate through the internet?

You are very wrong on this. Cigarette smoke smells good to people, but you shouldn't breathe it. Gasoline smells good to people but you shouldn't inhale it.

"Perfect combustion does not exist" to quote my Thermodynamics teacher. There are always unburnt biproducts of a combustion process. We only use perfect combustion as a baseline to calculate numbers then we go through the process again but with the assumption that the process isn't perfect.

As for the combustion biproducts, they're always present . NO2 results from having very high combustion temperatures (which are required for high Carnot efficiencies). You're literally ripping Nitrogen bonds apart in the air and recombining them with oxygen. Carbon monoxide is going to happen any time there is a region that is oxygen starved. The mixture could be oxygen rich and still not mix with every carbon atom because fuel mixtures are never completely homogeneous.

Also, car engines actually don't run with stoichiometric fuel ratios for much of their driving time. They often run rich or lean depending on load. Rich tends to reduce the chance of detonation and increase power because it ensures more fuel atoms reach oxygen atoms, but extra fuel atoms are left over. So every time you use full throttle, you are putting out significant emissions.

Well of course I wasn't directing it at you. It's more of the people who are hyper-sensitive to cigarettes but only because they've been trained that way. They don't apply the same logic to every other part of their lives.

Have you ever smoked a cigarette? Or even known someone who does?

Did I say that was the only reason, or was it implied to be apart of a bigger problem?

Why can't smokers move to a country with out these laws?

Firstly, we could say that about anything. In a perfect world, there would be no problems.

Burgers smell good to me, but the nanny state tells me the grease is bad for me. Some people think cigarette smoke smells good. This is hardly an argument at all.

You're wrong again. Car exhaust killing you has nothing to do withthe lack of oxygen...

* Nobody has ever played a video game for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

• Nobody has ever written a program for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

• Nobody has ever watched a movie for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

• Nobody has ever drove a car for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

• Nobody has ever done anything for the first time and thought, "Wow, this is so relaxing."

I was shocked to read this post of yours, even after considering that it was a post written by you.

You missed the most important point. Your over-reaction to smoking, and under-reaction to equally (if not more) harmful gases present in your daily life.

I never said I like smoke, or cigarettes.

This is just like people's over-reaction to germs. People freak out if you say, don't wash your hands in the bathroom. Yet, if you used a urinal, it's very likely that the faucet handle and the door handle have more germs than your genitals. People's hands and faces are more germ infested than their butts. People's kitchens are far more infested than their bathrooms. The silly fact is that people do not apply the scary reaction norm based on any logical rational at all. It's the look of being intelligent (avoiding germs!) without actually being it (you're not).

Washing your hands with plain water [and plain soup] removes a good 90% of germs. Water. Anti-bacterial soup is handed out like you need it to survive, and then you touch the door knob removing any sanitation you might have had. Meanwhile, we're actually making germs stronger because the only ones that survive are the ones immune to anti-bacterial soup. So we're breeding bacteria that we won't be able to fight in ~50 years. We're actually setting ourselves up for a massive epidemic in the future. But it's okay! We look like we know what we're doing.

People apply health concerns without any rational at all.

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If you can't tell that I'm dissatisfied with the entire product and it's provider, I'll just say it plainly: I'm dissatisfied with the entire product and its provider. If I end up bragging about how awesome D3 is next year, feel free to make me eat my words. But unless Blizzard has a huge change of heart, that simply won't be happening. The company that I loved (and loved me back) simply doesn't exist anymore.

Correlation is not causation. Walking through a puff of smoke does not mean you will get cancer and die. Moreover, if it was, you would get cancer from the highway long before you got it from a smoker. Did you read my posts at all? Do you know how much gas is pushed through a typical engine driving for only an hour?