... how would they determine how they are related in the first place? Especially given the complexity of these issues in their relation to the central nervous system.
Same way they diagnose people. They guess.
Psychiatry is the only industry where someone can present the same affect to 10 shrinks and get 10 different diagnoses. Trust me on this.
...and no, no Dianetics, e-meters, or Xenu for me, thanks for asking.
I'm not one to throw out the word "impossible" very quickly, since people who have used that word have been proven wrong so many times in the past. However, I read an argument back in...Jr. High?...that claimed that a truly rotational structure on a biological organism was at the very least highly improbable. There aren't biological structures that can rotate infinitely, because biological mechanisms require plumbing (blood, etc.) and muscle attach points on both halves of the rotating structure.
How far down the size scale are you looking?
Take a peek at this and see if it's what you're thinking of.
Here's a news flash for you buddy. UHC has never worked anywhere in the world as well as the US's private health care. Not that the US's health care system is perfect by any means, but it's way better then any socialist health care that's out there.
Yes I do know the kind of security you get from CCTV. Absolutely none! Cameras might help catch the person who killed/raped/robbed you AFTER THE FACT, but what good is that? The damage is done.
Sure, 'cause catching them after the fact and jailing them before they do it again doesn't make us safer. Nope. Not a bit.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
No, really. I'm mostly deaf, and find I have a much easier time "translating" what I hear if I have the phone to my right ear, rather than the left. According to the audiologists, the loss is roughly equal in both ears, so it's not a matter of it being easier to hear.
Personally, I think it would be a lot more effective (and it makes more sense) to genetically engineer the methane-producing bacteria in their digestive tract, solving the problem at the root of the cause.
I wonder if anyone has tried adding this {or something similar} to their feed yet...
I can't stand the stuff, personally. Produced an... interesting sensation as it worked.
I could not find anything to support your claim of Mr. Tashkin being a "government expert". Can you provide a citation for that claim?
Sure, if you include the NIH! His name came up in multiple studies on pot when I entered his name in the search bar there. He's also referenced here in paragraph 8.
I particularly enjoyed one training where it was clear that we should go outside once an hour and look at things far in the distance, to avoid eye strain. Good luck with taking that many breaks in a day without getting fired.:)
At my shop, I justify it by not taking a lunch. 6 minutes to smoke a cig once an hour, while looking around the landscape * 8 hours = 48 minutes, which means my boss gets an extra 12 minutes a day.
The cig smoking isn't the healthiest part, but it could be easily replaced by walking around the building once or twice. Either way, my boss gets an extra 12 minutes, so he has no cause to complain, and I get no eyestrain after 30 years in front of computers...
They're illegal. In a bathroom you have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
That's what I thought, and looked up Texas Penal code Sec. 21.15... It states:
Sec. 21.15. IMPROPER PHOTOGRAPHY OR VISUAL RECORDING. (a) In this section, "promote" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.21.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another at a location that is not a bathroom or private dressing room:
(A) without the other person's consent; and
(B) with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; (2) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records, broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another at a location that is a bathroom or private dressing room:
(A) without the other person's consent; and
(B) with intent to:
(i) invade the privacy of the other person; or
(ii) arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; or
(3) knowing the character and content of the photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission, promotes a photograph, recording, broadcast, or transmission described by Subdivision (1) or (2).
(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
(d) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this section also constitutes an offense under any other law, the actor may be prosecuted under this section or the other law. (e) For purposes of Subsection (b)(2), a sign or signs posted indicating that the person is being photographed or that a visual image of the person is being recorded, broadcast, or transmitted is not sufficient to establish the person's consent under that subdivision.
I'm no lawyer, but it seems that just posting signs is not a legal waiver to the invasion of privacy.
I don't feel that comparison with Rhapsody is quite in order.
First, the number of games that I'd want to play, and WOULD play regularly is pretty low. It's not that I don't like to game; I've been playing since the Atari 2600 days. It's just that with a few exceptions, most games are just "prettier" versions of titles that came out before it. To me, while the physics and graphics are MUCH better, Gran Turismo == Pole Position... you drive in a circle while trying to beat a certain time/other cars. Castle Wolfenstein 3d == Unreal Tourny == {insert your fave shooter here}. The game AI gets better, but the game of running around and shooting things doesn't change.
That having been said, rather than spend money on a subscription for a set number of games per month, I'd rather find ONE game and do what my wife and I are doing now: support the non-company-owned server that we play on. While it's ancient by today's standards, we've found that we like Command and Conquer:Renegade, bought the disks, and pay VOLUNTARILY to keep our favorite Renegade server {UNrules.com} up and moving. The server admin gets paid, m'wife and I have quality gaming time together, and aren't frantically trying to complete games before a rental period is up.
I'd venture this service is more geared toward the short-attention-span-theater crowd. They don't know what they like, and will bounce from title to title trying to entertain themselves, like TV channel-surfers. I doubt, however, that the majority of gamers will find value in this service once they've exhausted the few games/genres they enjoy... and the selection will be a lot lower than 30,000 games.
Ok, we get it. You're a home user, and you want a free fix that doesn't cost anything.
Might I suggest you look up the acronym TANSTAAFL? You can get "non-consumer" equipment on ebay for cheap... just not for free. In addition, what are your measured upstream/downstream rates for your internet connection?
Originally, when Sputnik flew over what might have been considered US airspace, the Eisenhower administration intelligently agreed that it was legal and valid... otherwise you couldn't have any kind of orbit that wasn't geostationary.
Ok, I'll bite... if it's international space, then why worry about posse comitatus in this case?
People just don't want to be teased with "hey Geordi" everywhere. It's bad enough at my job... I have a Linux box and a Windows box, each with dual monitors (not particularly big ones) and it's always "hey Houston, are you sure you don't need another monitor?"
Hell, they could call me "Judy" if I got a nice hi-res HMD. Give me eyeballs like Geordi in First Contact, and they could call me "Buttercup" for all I care.
Bones was great. Gives people another reason as to why he is Bones McCoy, not just that he is a doctor.
Out of all the performances, I feel that Karl Urban nailed the original better than anyone else. The voice, and the WAY he said things just worked.... well.
You wouldn't likely see anything at all. When you see light, you don't see the actual beams, you see what is reflected off of objects. With radio passing through just about everything, you probably couldn't see anything.
Silly question: What am I seeing, then, when I look at a clear lightbulb that's on...other than a bright light?
I think I can tell you where the exchange went wrong, if you don't mind my saying so..
He asked me, "blhack, what is wrong with this?"
"Well, it sounds like the platters start to spin up, then stop. It also sounds like the read-head might be stuck also. The disk is dead."
"Is it possible to fix it?"
"yes, it is! There are several companies that can fix it for you. Sometimes it is as simple as swapping out the circuit board on the back, sometimes they actually have to open it up and swap the platters into another disk"
"oh, okay"
The most accurate answer was "typically, not without a clean-room and bunny-suits". I've found that keeps most people from getting inside a drive, not having access to those items.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment on client knowledge, please do not forget that a client's ignorance is the catalyst for folks like us to get paid!
Well, which would you rather have... a client that calls every 5 minutes for advice because they're dependent on you for answers, or a client that only calls you when there's a REAL problem?;)
If you know that, in your friend's jargon, "hard drive" and "CPU" are both terms used to refer to the entire computer other than external peripherals, you should tell him "a part inside your computer is broken but it can be fixed or even replaced without you having to buy a new computer."
That's why our shop has developed the crazy idea of "informing our clients". We drag 'em to the back, 'n' SHOW 'em their hard drive. We then show them an open hard drive, and even our older clients get the "record player" analogy once they've seen the guts. We've found that the clients walk away more informed, and happier that we actually took a few minutes to describe the problem. Otherwise, all they hear is "the framjabulator snonked on the whooziwhats, so pay us money to make your computer work again..." and just look at the dollar signs. On the extreme cases, we plunk their rears down for the install itself.
When I installed Vista on a used laptop it didn't recognize the Vista CD Key on the laptop and wouldn't let me log in to the system. Only thing it would display is "YOUR KEY IS INVALID. PLEASE ENTER A VALID KEY OR CALL... (etc)". Safe mode didn't work either.
First thought that came to mind is that you might've been using a Retail disk for an OEM install. While I've seen OEM disks from different PC makers work on other brands, I've yet to see a Retail version work with an OEM serial number.
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There's certainly the possibility of tracing an IP address back to a single person, it's just not very reliable.
Unless said IP changes whenever someone new sits down at the computer, I'd venture that it doesn't identify people in itself...
...which still leaves the question of "just what IS that hair doing in my face?" unanswered. -sigh-
... how would they determine how they are related in the first place? Especially given the complexity of these issues in their relation to the central nervous system.
Same way they diagnose people. They guess.
Psychiatry is the only industry where someone can present the same affect to 10 shrinks and get 10 different diagnoses. Trust me on this.
...and no, no Dianetics, e-meters, or Xenu for me, thanks for asking.
I'm not one to throw out the word "impossible" very quickly, since people who have used that word have been proven wrong so many times in the past. However, I read an argument back in...Jr. High?...that claimed that a truly rotational structure on a biological organism was at the very least highly improbable. There aren't biological structures that can rotate infinitely, because biological mechanisms require plumbing (blood, etc.) and muscle attach points on both halves of the rotating structure.
How far down the size scale are you looking?
Take a peek at this and see if it's what you're thinking of.
Here's a news flash for you buddy. UHC has never worked anywhere in the world as well as the US's private health care. Not that the US's health care system is perfect by any means, but it's way better then any socialist health care that's out there.
Never heard of Canada?
Yes I do know the kind of security you get from CCTV. Absolutely none! Cameras might help catch the person who killed/raped/robbed you AFTER THE FACT, but what good is that? The damage is done.
Sure, 'cause catching them after the fact and jailing them before they do it again doesn't make us safer. Nope. Not a bit.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Works for me.
No, really. I'm mostly deaf, and find I have a much easier time "translating" what I hear if I have the phone to my right ear, rather than the left. According to the audiologists, the loss is roughly equal in both ears, so it's not a matter of it being easier to hear.
Personally, I think it would be a lot more effective (and it makes more sense) to genetically engineer the methane-producing bacteria in their digestive tract, solving the problem at the root of the cause.
I wonder if anyone has tried adding this {or something similar} to their feed yet...
I can't stand the stuff, personally. Produced an... interesting sensation as it worked.
I could not find anything to support your claim of Mr. Tashkin being a "government expert". Can you provide a citation for that claim?
Sure, if you include the NIH! His name came up in multiple studies on pot when I entered his name in the search bar there. He's also referenced here in paragraph 8.
I can't believe why everybody wants to be rich without doing nothing... Really, this is just going insane!
It's only worth it if you get your chicks for free...
I particularly enjoyed one training where it was clear that we should go outside once an hour and look at things far in the distance, to avoid eye strain. Good luck with taking that many breaks in a day without getting fired. :)
At my shop, I justify it by not taking a lunch. 6 minutes to smoke a cig once an hour, while looking around the landscape * 8 hours = 48 minutes, which means my boss gets an extra 12 minutes a day.
The cig smoking isn't the healthiest part, but it could be easily replaced by walking around the building once or twice. Either way, my boss gets an extra 12 minutes, so he has no cause to complain, and I get no eyestrain after 30 years in front of computers...
Caller ID brought another relic of that era to an end: war-dialers.
They're illegal. In a bathroom you have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
That's what I thought, and looked up Texas Penal code Sec. 21.15... It states:
I don't feel that comparison with Rhapsody is quite in order.
First, the number of games that I'd want to play, and WOULD play regularly is pretty low. It's not that I don't like to game; I've been playing since the Atari 2600 days. It's just that with a few exceptions, most games are just "prettier" versions of titles that came out before it. To me, while the physics and graphics are MUCH better, Gran Turismo == Pole Position... you drive in a circle while trying to beat a certain time/other cars. Castle Wolfenstein 3d == Unreal Tourny == {insert your fave shooter here}. The game AI gets better, but the game of running around and shooting things doesn't change.
That having been said, rather than spend money on a subscription for a set number of games per month, I'd rather find ONE game and do what my wife and I are doing now: support the non-company-owned server that we play on. While it's ancient by today's standards, we've found that we like Command and Conquer:Renegade, bought the disks, and pay VOLUNTARILY to keep our favorite Renegade server {UNrules.com} up and moving. The server admin gets paid, m'wife and I have quality gaming time together, and aren't frantically trying to complete games before a rental period is up.
I'd venture this service is more geared toward the short-attention-span-theater crowd. They don't know what they like, and will bounce from title to title trying to entertain themselves, like TV channel-surfers. I doubt, however, that the majority of gamers will find value in this service once they've exhausted the few games/genres they enjoy... and the selection will be a lot lower than 30,000 games.
Jus' my two cents...
Ok, we get it. You're a home user, and you want a free fix that doesn't cost anything.
Might I suggest you look up the acronym TANSTAAFL? You can get "non-consumer" equipment on ebay for cheap... just not for free. In addition, what are your measured upstream/downstream rates for your internet connection?
Originally, when Sputnik flew over what might have been considered US airspace, the Eisenhower administration intelligently agreed that it was legal and valid... otherwise you couldn't have any kind of orbit that wasn't geostationary.
Ok, I'll bite... if it's international space, then why worry about posse comitatus in this case?
People just don't want to be teased with "hey Geordi" everywhere. It's bad enough at my job... I have a Linux box and a Windows box, each with dual monitors (not particularly big ones) and it's always "hey Houston, are you sure you don't need another monitor?"
Hell, they could call me "Judy" if I got a nice hi-res HMD. Give me eyeballs like Geordi in First Contact, and they could call me "Buttercup" for all I care.
Did we check to see that US military flights over another sovereign nation would be OK with them?
Bones was great. Gives people another reason as to why he is Bones McCoy, not just that he is a doctor.
Out of all the performances, I feel that Karl Urban nailed the original better than anyone else. The voice, and the WAY he said things just worked.... well.
You wouldn't likely see anything at all. When you see light, you don't see the actual beams, you see what is reflected off of objects. With radio passing through just about everything, you probably couldn't see anything.
Silly question: What am I seeing, then, when I look at a clear lightbulb that's on...other than a bright light?
I think I can tell you where the exchange went wrong, if you don't mind my saying so..
He asked me, "blhack, what is wrong with this?"
"Well, it sounds like the platters start to spin up, then stop. It also sounds like the read-head might be stuck also. The disk is dead."
"Is it possible to fix it?"
"yes, it is! There are several companies that can fix it for you. Sometimes it is as simple as swapping out the circuit board on the back, sometimes they actually have to open it up and swap the platters into another disk"
"oh, okay"
The most accurate answer was "typically, not without a clean-room and bunny-suits". I've found that keeps most people from getting inside a drive, not having access to those items.
Sure! Record player is to hard drive like steam locomotive is to mag-lev bullet train.
They all use tracks, but the latter in each uses the nifty power of magnetism to run faster than the former.
Only if your cruminator is furgged bilaterally!
While I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment on client knowledge, please do not forget that a client's ignorance is the catalyst for folks like us to get paid!
Well, which would you rather have... a client that calls every 5 minutes for advice because they're dependent on you for answers, or a client that only calls you when there's a REAL problem? ;)
If you know that, in your friend's jargon, "hard drive" and "CPU" are both terms used to refer to the entire computer other than external peripherals, you should tell him "a part inside your computer is broken but it can be fixed or even replaced without you having to buy a new computer."
That's why our shop has developed the crazy idea of "informing our clients". We drag 'em to the back, 'n' SHOW 'em their hard drive. We then show them an open hard drive, and even our older clients get the "record player" analogy once they've seen the guts. We've found that the clients walk away more informed, and happier that we actually took a few minutes to describe the problem. Otherwise, all they hear is "the framjabulator snonked on the whooziwhats, so pay us money to make your computer work again..." and just look at the dollar signs. On the extreme cases, we plunk their rears down for the install itself.
Informed clients are generally happy ones.
When I installed Vista on a used laptop it didn't recognize the Vista CD Key on the laptop and wouldn't let me log in to the system. Only thing it would display is "YOUR KEY IS INVALID. PLEASE ENTER A VALID KEY OR CALL... (etc)". Safe mode didn't work either.
First thought that came to mind is that you might've been using a Retail disk for an OEM install. While I've seen OEM disks from different PC makers work on other brands, I've yet to see a Retail version work with an OEM serial number.