It's better to look at avg RPM (if you're on a bike, that is) rather than burnt calories. How are you determing how many calories you burned?

Music distracts me too much. It sucks when they're playing stuff on the gym system but it's usually silent enough to tune out.

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Robots, machines, mechanical beings
Automatic and synthetic, we have the means
To take control of this planet and the human race
With our electronic rhythms and the Armageddon Bass

i listen to ASOT's on my RIo mp3 player while doing cardio on the Precor elliptical machine. I found that i go faster and get a better workout and burn more calories if i listen to Manu Chao instead. so go figure.

>JM<

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Originally posted by Boomer187 its more depressing than boring. Knowing that 99.9999% of research is crap, make my research career look like poop.

seriously dude, I read about all this research ppl do about how media effects our lives and u kno the biggest one is if media violence makes us violent ourselves

so they do all this research and surveys and tests and crap and then in the end they come to the conclusion "for some ppl media violence has an affect on their behavior, but for other ppl it doesn't"

so wow tell me something i didn't kno before... thanks for wasting all that time and money

i find that the majority of humanities based research is pretty lame and useless, there are so many variables that affect our lives it's almost impossible to come to any solid conclusion

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Originally posted by ASOT100 seriously dude, I read about all this research ppl do about how media effects our lives and u kno the biggest one is if media violence makes us violent ourselves so they do all this research and surveys and tests and crap and then in the end they come to the conclusion "for some ppl media violence has an affect on their behavior, but for other ppl it doesn't" so wow tell me something i didn't kno before... thanks for wasting all that time and money i find that the majority of humanities based research is pretty lame and useless, there are so many variables that affect our lives it's almost impossible to come to any solid conclusion

but its the best we can do and some results are useful. When you look at such a broad topic as violence you need to pin point it down, which is what most experiments do, and you need to read those individual ones to actually understand wtf they are getting at.


I know Bandura did a shit ton with violence and influence of tv. seemed kinda pointless back then but now he helps a TV production company make serial dramas (soap operas) in countries where they ahve problems. Like in mexico birth rate was outta control so they used banduras techniques in a tv show and condom sales went from like 1 million to over 4 million after the first season ended.



it can be powerful and useful....depends on which articles you read .

I was also using a precor elliptical machine. Those machines work wonders in all kinds of ways. You can work so many muscle groups its amazing. And boomer it was NOT a study.

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Originally posted by La5eR I was also using a precor elliptical machine. Those machines work wonders in all kinds of ways. You can work so many muscle groups its amazing. And boomer it was NOT a study.

well you can't tlak of psychological effects without a study. It just ain't right.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 well you can't tlak of psychological effects without a study. It just ain't right.

you arent allowed to talk,.. you suck at poker and its yoru birthday,...

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Originally posted by Zewad you arent allowed to talk,.. you suck at poker and its yoru birthday,...

true, but im wasted.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 true, but im wasted.

granted a get out of jail free card by mustache monopoly guy... you are freed adn allowed to talk again

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Originally posted by Zewad granted a get out of jail free card by mustache monopoly guy... you are freed adn allowed to talk again

I want a mustache ride