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rayb


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So my wife just read to me instructions to parents and kids participating in 8-10 years old basketball. The kids were instructed that they could not bring food into the gym and there's a note, "that includes coffee".  Now of course you're all assuming that this would not be a problem for kids, but up here in Seattle, it's becoming more and more prevalent that children drink coffee. A friend of mine drives schoolbus for middleschool 6-7th grade and every morning the kids are there with their Starbucks drinks (which is rather amusing, cuz it means their parents went and got them the drinks on their way to work, cuz there's no way they would walk that far and back to the busstop). He makes them pour them all out before getting on the bus because no food and drink on the bus, even though the last bus driver let them take the stuff on the bus.

I also know of a parent who regularly lets their 3 year old child drink her energy drink or coffee, and with a grin claims, "It calms him down." (I saw no evidence of that, btw.)

So whaddya think, is all this coffee consumption good for society?

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Well, considering we have the knowledge of the Word of Wisdom I think we have the answer already.biggrin

-- Edited by mirkwood at 13:04, 2008-01-11

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Personally, I think it's fantastic.

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Really? How so?

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I'm with jen. Especially for Seattle.

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I don't understand the response, though. Why would that be fantastic? So it's not an issue in Utah, yet, but in a couple generations, you'll be freaking out about your caffienated grandchildren.

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Mountain Dew! Hello!

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So is a "tripleshot" coffee drink at starbucks worse than Mountain Dew, healthwise? (I have no idea... it just amazes me that my kids will have peers that are so... umm... coffee-lovin'... )

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MJB tastes good when it should. Ahhh....

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Are you a coffee drinker, Coco?

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I am shocked and appalled that you think my compliance to the WOW is any of your business.

Are you out of debt, ray?

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You're both shocked and appalled?

Well at least now I've gotten you in the right attitude for how we should be about coffee drinking... :) Now if we could focus on the topic...

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Coffee drinking is one of those outward sins. So easy to see and condemn.

Now turn over your finances! :)

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To be honest, when I read the title of this thread I thought it would be about computer programming...

Doesn't drinking coffee stunt your growth? Or was that just a myth they told kids back in the day? Are people shorter in Seattle? (I'll have to pay closer attention to that next time I go up there to visit my parents.)

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I personally think that java is better than .net because of its great multiple platform support, but .net has become really popular.

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java IS better than .net but coldfusion is better than them both. :P

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I'm not sure if the de-railment going on is just goofyness or intentional?? but it's annoying.

But...I grew up in the Diet Coke Generation. Everyone drank diet coke. It was THE drink of choice. (I drank Dr. Pepper because I can't stand to be averagewink )

My sisters kids had diet coke in thier baby bottles. A BIG CHILL was simply a new apendage.

And now, it's mocha lattes. I happen to love good coffee--I just don't drink it. But I envy those who do. Especially with all the new configurations available. It is trendy. And it's no longer an adult thing. There are no age-limitations with coffee like there is with alcohol or cigarettes. So, if it's trendy and tastes as good as it does, the kids will be all over it.

Lately there has been a little arguement around here about decaffinated coffee being acceptable. A woman in my ward keeps some Sanka in the cupboard because she likes to put a scoop in her hot chocolate. What?! That doesn't seem like it fits the WoW to me.

I had a heated discussion with a non-member who took her daughters mormon friends out for coffee all the time. She felt a teenagers should be making that decision all their own even though she knew the parents would certainly disapprove and probably not allow the relationship if they found out.

I don't know what point I'm making. But it does seem like Satan has possibly stalled a little with the heavier temptations and is reverting back to a small, simple, not that bad temptations.

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Bah! Fooey on your Java, .net and Coldfusion!  I'll do my coding in nice obfuscated perl iffen ya don't mind. biggrin

Sorry Ros just had to continue the derail.wink


Oh and don't ask for for a sample of perl code, in reality my perl was never very good, let alone being able to make it intentionally obfuscated.aww

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My husband uses PHP, mostly.

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Even though I am profecient in Java, I prefer C++. I am going to try out C# with the XNA framework for my game programming hobby soon, and see how I like it. biggrin

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Sheesh. I'm sorry I said out loud what I was thinking (although with all these computer weenies on here, I'm betting someone else would have said it if I didn't).

But I was serious about my question. It seems that I always heard that drinking coffee would stunt a kid's growth. Is that not true? Because if it is true then wouldn't we expect to start getting shorter over the next generation or two as a nation of coffee drinkers?

PS: Interpreted and compiled languages are for wimps. Real men code in assembly language!

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Assembly is for sissies! Real programmers code in machine code.
I think that coffee is bad for normal development. But soda is bad for you too. It contributes to bad teeth and obesity problems. I have been weaning myself off of soda for a while now.

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Coffee doesn't stunt your growth. I know something that does, but I'm not gonna say it cuz you guys'll freak out. smile.gif

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My first thought was programming too. Python, people. Python.

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Translation for ya below.  What I said was:

Y'all are a bunch of wussies. The only way to really code is in pure Binary.

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-- Edited by DaKnife at 22:09, 2008-01-13

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The Body Electric

One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun

Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode...crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload

[Chorus:]
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
SOS
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
In distress
1 0 0 1 0 0

Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits

Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist
To resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist

[Chorus]

It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines


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I love Perl.

Been trying to come up to speed on some of the nuances of Visual C++ lately, though I've been programming in C for 15 years...

I sat in on a Java class my buddy taught at USU, but never had a chance to do anything with it.

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DaKnife,

If by "pure Binary" you mean soldering resistors to tie data lines to Vcc or ground, then yeah, you have a point.

Ray, I'm also a veteran C programmer. I dabbled a little in Java once, but had to interface with some existing legacy C code (using JNI--Java Native Interface). I kept wanting to load bytes into an array of chars and then read them out using an int pointer all in Java. Needless to say that didn't go too well.

I'm afraid that C has become what FORTRAN was when I started my career. For me OOP stands for Old Obsolete Programmer. (But since I'm an EE and not a CS, nobody pays me for my programming skills anyway.)

Oh, and back on topic: I have noticed that lots of programmers drink coffee. And it doesn't seem to matter whether they are doing procedural or object oriented programming.

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What's totally disgusting is when they drink out of this stained, grody brown on the inside where it used to be white mug. Over. And over. And over.

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All the programmers that my husband works with seem to really like Mtn. Dew Code Red.

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That's cuz they can keep their temple rec's. wink.gif

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DaKnife... hubby says... rofl.gif

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