Heart rate is a statistically-significant indicator of energy expenditures and is used by biomedical devices and fitness trackers as a way to model energy expenditures without having to use more accurate, cumbersome methods such as measuring oxygen intake and CO2 expenditure.

I mean, like all training, that really depends on what you’re doing and things like your body composition. For a morbidly obese person in bad shape for whom walking 3 mph on flat surfaces for 30 minutes will easily get him a cardio workout, he’ll probably be able to burn more energy through walking versus strength…

Legs are your biggest sets of muscles. Not only can leg exercises burn a lot of calories, but building leg muscle is a good way to burn calories long-term. If say, you add ten pounds of muscle mass to your legs, that’s hundreds of extra calories burnt just sitting and watching TV. And that probably works out to about…

Yeah, good luck arguing that in court. I’m sure a jury is going to be really sympathetic if you’re prosecuted and sued. 

Prosecutors have an ethical duty not to pursue charges unless they believe they can be proven in court. Federal prosecutors generally have manuals that instruct on when it is appropriate to pursue charges. Local prosecutors have more latitude to act like cowboys, but they shouldn’t, because that’s ethically-dubious.…

 As already discussed, there doesn’t seem to be any compelling evidence of misdemeanor assault and battery here. So which specific charges do you think a prosecutor could prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, based on the story?

I mean, there’s no criminal case against the teacher based on the article unless the local law is remarkably different than it is in California. Criminal battery generally requires proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the teacher’s mental intent was to cause physical harm (like pain or discomfort) or to cause rude…

I can’t speak for every state, but in California, it’s battery if you cut into someone’s hair with the intent to physically harm them (like you rip someone’s hair out of the roots and cause them physical pain or you intentionally stab shears  into their scalp to hurt them). It’s also battery if it can be proven that…

Yeah, that’s a great idea. Then you can risk a lawsuit or criminal prosecution, but at least you mildly annoyed an underpaid public servant in the process. 

I mean, you’re comparing an adult assaulting another adult to a seven year old assaulting a classmate. No sane prosecutor would pursue charges like this against someone 12 or under.

I tend to doubt charges would fly in this case. Criminal battery requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that you not only used force on another person, but that you willfully did it with the mental intent to be harmful, rude, offensive, annoying or disrespectful.

I don’t think stores are responsible for selling a bad game. But I do applaud those that have a refund policy of some kind. I think that’s kind of necessary. In any case, the store should have clear policies that are designed to promote consumer interest and not censor one point of view or another. Like, the store…

I mean, it’s only less controversial because society is more ignorant about the atrocities that the allies committed against the German people during the Second World War and how restrained allied troops were in Iraq.

I think there’s already far too much corporate censorship. Giant corporations already have too much influence over what we consume, to the detriment of society. If anything, we need laws decreasing the ability of corporate entities to censor content, otherwise we’ll end up video games, books, and pretty much every…

 Look at the list of most censored books in the US. They are the most censored books because people pushed schools, libraries, and bookstores to ban them. Censorship doesn’t have to be absolute. Any business, organization, or even family can censor something.

Yes, advocating censorship is “disgusting” and it’s against the values of anyone who respects a free society. If you don’t like the content of a game, write your own game. Create your own art. Wanting to destroy other people’s works of art because you find them offensive is little different than the Taliban blowing up…

You’re premise is false. If a Fox censor removes the nudity from a broadcast even though it’s still available on the bluray, it’s still censorship. The fact that you can obtain a work of art uncensored somewhere else doesn’t mean that censorship did not occur. Likewise, if a Christian school burns all the Harry Potter…

Censorship is the attempt to suppress a work of art because it’s offensive, obscene, or viewed as a threat. So yes, if a store refuses to sell something because it considers it offensive, then it is censorship. There’s different levels of reasonability of censorship. It’s reasonable that a store that caters to kids…

This is incorrect. A store refusing to sell a product is censorship if the reason they are refusing to sell it is to suppress its content because they consider it obscene, offensive, politically unacceptable, or a threat. When a major distributor  refuses to sell a specific work of art rather than just having a…

What you describe is a classic example of censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any book, film, news, et cetera, or part thereof because it’s considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or otherwise offensive.