Most all ODs are caused by variations in the drugs. People used to impure heroin suddenly get some very pure heroin and they drop like flies. Given a consistent product they wouldn't be ODing. There are also many well off drug users who not only don't OD but are actually productive members of society. Some of the same applies, a consistent product allows using less when it is time to go to work
At least where I live, medical help for nicotine addiction is freely available including anti-smoking drugs, nicotine patches and gum etc. A much saner approach then the war on drugs. (We also have safe injection sites that the right hates, they'd rather drug users die horrible deaths then have the option of a clean needle)
Before drugs it was Prohibition. At that when Prohibition ended the government (at least parts of it) were very receptive to propping up Hearsts pulp paper industry through drug prohibition. They also learned their lesson, ignore the Constitution rather then change it.
Perhaps if you hadn't been buying American you wouldn't have had to do a rebuild every 100,000. I had a couple of old Datsuns, they'd run until the engine fell out due to rust, probably 250,000 to 300,000. The Nissans from the early '80's were even better though they still rusted out and the mileage was crap compared to the old L521(J13) and first PL620 (L16)
When I think of knock, I think of bad bearings, main or rod. Pre-ignition I call pinging. Different people have different terminologies, possible due to culture.
Seems weird that vote counting isn't done publicly where you are. Here the election is run by the non-partisan Elections Canada and the whole thing is open, Anyone can hang around and watch the whole voting thing including the counting, and usually there are observers from all interested parties present and observing. I guess if too many people hung around they might place limits but in practice not many people are interested in spending the day at a polling station. This works better by having simple elections where often we vote for one position. Federal representative one election, provincial is a different election and local a different and more complex election. This also has the advantage of the electorate being able to focus on one race at a time rather then having to choose multiple positions ranging from dog catcher to President. It also encourages multiple parties, something that America seems to need more off.
Actually studies show the worst drivers are BMW owners, Prius drivers are also pretty bad drivers. Basically the more expensive the car, the bigger the asshole behind the wheel. Can't find the actual study online right now, it was done by Paul K. Piff at Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California Berkeley and studied things like whether drivers correctly yielded for pedestrians and at 4 way stops.
I'm not an expert and my understanding is probably incomplete, what I do understand is that over the really long term the configuration of the continents has a large input to the climate. As the continents move around they affect the ocean currents, winds and amount of precipitation. Also as the continents rearrange mountains grow and get weathered down and the ocean changes in depth. All these have large affects on the global climate. Ocean currents sometimes transfer heat north and south, other times not. Same with winds. Winds affect the amount of precipitation along with mountains and how extent the oceans and seas are. Precipitation is important as it releases heat and also allow for weathering which removes CO2 from the atmosphere. All the limestone in the world consists of CO2 removed from the atmosphere through rainfall on land and weathering. Over a shorter timescale changes in the Earths orbit has a large affect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles. These are probably largely responsible for the current inter-glacials interspersed with ice ages. There are other affects such as life, the first forests sequestered huge amounts of CO2 in the form of coal causing one of the earliest ice age, huge volcanic eruptions which can both increase CO2 and also cause global dimming from dust and various chemicals and even asteroid strikes.
A real world complex cross platform program using Cairo is Firefox (most recent might use something different by default on Windows, I haven't kept up). It works pretty good on all platforms including non-main stream with (at least on my platform) options to control things like anti-aliasing.
The Sun is warming up very slowly relatively, perhaps causing the Earth to get a kelvin warmer every 10 million years. The exact amount is unsure but the heating itself is caused by the Sun getting denser as hydrogen is transmuted to helium. The figures I've seen vary from 500 million to 2 billion years before the oceans boil.
My understanding is that when Andromeda merges it will trigger a huge amount of star formation due to the shock waves in the interstellar medium which will increase the radiation in the galaxy due to many Blue giants and the resulting supernovas. Long before that (500 million+ years) the Sun is going to get too hot for the Earth to have oceans and advanced (any?) life. Of course we could move the Earth or mankind could migrate elsewhere and there is even a chance of a close encounter with another star perturbing the Earths orbit into a better position. What will probably cause the extinction of Home Sapiens will be climate change. Through most of its life the Earth has been in hot house conditions and we evolved for ice house conditions. If we don't cause climate change, then things like the continents rearranging themselves will long term.
When hemp threatened the business model of someone, millions of lives were ruined. Laws like the DMCA were not thought up out of the blue by the government
Pay to play doesn't mean that corporations run things. I think that's just how the governments of the world routinely monetize their power.
It's in the interest of the corporations to keep the status quo. You do have a point that some of the government are there to play power games.
And as the NSA spying demonstrates, the US government does a lot of stuff without caring about the economic harm caused (much less obtain approval) to its supposed masters.
The NSA seems to have as their main directive to support American corporations as most of the spying seems to be for economical reasons, as in industrial espionage. Of course their other directive is self-preservation which means a strong supporting government.
The government is run by the corporations. See revolving door, and campaign contributions for a start. When hemp threatened the business model of someone, millions of lives were ruined. Laws like the DMCA were not thought up out of the blue by the government Personally I see it as a size thing as much as anything. The bigger the corporation or government, the more the potential threat.
I actually have lived places (though only a third of the way up the mountain) without a driveway and my transportation was by foot to the highway where there was a greyhound to flag down, hitch hiking or bicycling. Crappy internet connection is a 26.4 KB connection and half the sites time out half the time. I'm just trying to find out if bitcoins work when the net is down or not. I've always suspected that they don't work so good without an internet connection.
So without a network connection bitcoin is useless? Not trying to troll but I've ignored bitcoin as it seems like a ponzi scheme to make the first movers rich and doesn't work without a good internet connection. Since I live where there is barely an internet connection it seems useless for me.
And spend both copies quick and laugh about whoever gets caught with the worthless bitcoin. Shit if you're organized you can copy the wallet to a hundred thumbdrives and spend the bitcoin a hundred times as long as it's done at the same time.
Are you claiming that a bitcoin is impossible to copy? Perfect DRM? Or do you mean that a counterfeit would eventually be caught? It seems to me that if 2 people came to my house and I bought something off them with the same bitcoin it would be duplicated and until they had a network connection to verify the coin there are 2 in existence, then whoever connected to the network second would discover his coin is worthless.
Assuming you were talking about the Giant Panda, the one with black patches around its ears, eyes and such, it is a member of the bear (Ursidae) family. Just split off from the rest earlier and sort of a living fossil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_bear#Classification
You can put 500 ones in your wallet? If I have 5 bills in my wallet, I have between $25 and $500 in there. If you have 5 bills in there you might only have $5. Same with coins, 5 coins=25 cents to $10 while you might only have a nickel. Why the fuck would having $1 coins cause prices to rise?
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Most all ODs are caused by variations in the drugs. People used to impure heroin suddenly get some very pure heroin and they drop like flies. Given a consistent product they wouldn't be ODing.
There are also many well off drug users who not only don't OD but are actually productive members of society. Some of the same applies, a consistent product allows using less when it is time to go to work
At least where I live, medical help for nicotine addiction is freely available including anti-smoking drugs, nicotine patches and gum etc. A much saner approach then the war on drugs. (We also have safe injection sites that the right hates, they'd rather drug users die horrible deaths then have the option of a clean needle)
Before drugs it was Prohibition. At that when Prohibition ended the government (at least parts of it) were very receptive to propping up Hearsts pulp paper industry through drug prohibition. They also learned their lesson, ignore the Constitution rather then change it.
Perhaps if you hadn't been buying American you wouldn't have had to do a rebuild every 100,000. I had a couple of old Datsuns, they'd run until the engine fell out due to rust, probably 250,000 to 300,000. The Nissans from the early '80's were even better though they still rusted out and the mileage was crap compared to the old L521(J13) and first PL620 (L16)
When I think of knock, I think of bad bearings, main or rod. Pre-ignition I call pinging. Different people have different terminologies, possible due to culture.
Seems weird that vote counting isn't done publicly where you are. Here the election is run by the non-partisan Elections Canada and the whole thing is open, Anyone can hang around and watch the whole voting thing including the counting, and usually there are observers from all interested parties present and observing. I guess if too many people hung around they might place limits but in practice not many people are interested in spending the day at a polling station.
This works better by having simple elections where often we vote for one position. Federal representative one election, provincial is a different election and local a different and more complex election. This also has the advantage of the electorate being able to focus on one race at a time rather then having to choose multiple positions ranging from dog catcher to President. It also encourages multiple parties, something that America seems to need more off.
Actually studies show the worst drivers are BMW owners, Prius drivers are also pretty bad drivers. Basically the more expensive the car, the bigger the asshole behind the wheel.
Can't find the actual study online right now, it was done by Paul K. Piff at Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California Berkeley and studied things like whether drivers correctly yielded for pedestrians and at 4 way stops.
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I'm not an expert and my understanding is probably incomplete, what I do understand is that over the really long term the configuration of the continents has a large input to the climate. As the continents move around they affect the ocean currents, winds and amount of precipitation. Also as the continents rearrange mountains grow and get weathered down and the ocean changes in depth. All these have large affects on the global climate. Ocean currents sometimes transfer heat north and south, other times not. Same with winds. Winds affect the amount of precipitation along with mountains and how extent the oceans and seas are. Precipitation is important as it releases heat and also allow for weathering which removes CO2 from the atmosphere. All the limestone in the world consists of CO2 removed from the atmosphere through rainfall on land and weathering.
Over a shorter timescale changes in the Earths orbit has a large affect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles. These are probably largely responsible for the current inter-glacials interspersed with ice ages.
There are other affects such as life, the first forests sequestered huge amounts of CO2 in the form of coal causing one of the earliest ice age, huge volcanic eruptions which can both increase CO2 and also cause global dimming from dust and various chemicals and even asteroid strikes.
A real world complex cross platform program using Cairo is Firefox (most recent might use something different by default on Windows, I haven't kept up). It works pretty good on all platforms including non-main stream with (at least on my platform) options to control things like anti-aliasing.
The Sun is warming up very slowly relatively, perhaps causing the Earth to get a kelvin warmer every 10 million years. The exact amount is unsure but the heating itself is caused by the Sun getting denser as hydrogen is transmuted to helium. The figures I've seen vary from 500 million to 2 billion years before the oceans boil.
The Milky Way, Andromeda along with 50+ other galaxies and dwarf galaxies are gravitationally bound. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group
My understanding is that when Andromeda merges it will trigger a huge amount of star formation due to the shock waves in the interstellar medium which will increase the radiation in the galaxy due to many Blue giants and the resulting supernovas.
Long before that (500 million+ years) the Sun is going to get too hot for the Earth to have oceans and advanced (any?) life. Of course we could move the Earth or mankind could migrate elsewhere and there is even a chance of a close encounter with another star perturbing the Earths orbit into a better position.
What will probably cause the extinction of Home Sapiens will be climate change. Through most of its life the Earth has been in hot house conditions and we evolved for ice house conditions. If we don't cause climate change, then things like the continents rearranging themselves will long term.
When hemp threatened the business model of someone, millions of lives were ruined. Laws like the DMCA were not thought up out of the blue by the government
Pay to play doesn't mean that corporations run things. I think that's just how the governments of the world routinely monetize their power.
It's in the interest of the corporations to keep the status quo. You do have a point that some of the government are there to play power games.
And as the NSA spying demonstrates, the US government does a lot of stuff without caring about the economic harm caused (much less obtain approval) to its supposed masters.
The NSA seems to have as their main directive to support American corporations as most of the spying seems to be for economical reasons, as in industrial espionage. Of course their other directive is self-preservation which means a strong supporting government.
The government is run by the corporations. See revolving door, and campaign contributions for a start.
When hemp threatened the business model of someone, millions of lives were ruined. Laws like the DMCA were not thought up out of the blue by the government
Personally I see it as a size thing as much as anything. The bigger the corporation or government, the more the potential threat.
I actually have lived places (though only a third of the way up the mountain) without a driveway and my transportation was by foot to the highway where there was a greyhound to flag down, hitch hiking or bicycling.
Crappy internet connection is a 26.4 KB connection and half the sites time out half the time.
I'm just trying to find out if bitcoins work when the net is down or not. I've always suspected that they don't work so good without an internet connection.
Thinking more about ESP. Seems if it was real there'd be more cancellations, no shows and such.
Seems that you could use statistics to see if there are more cancellations on doomed flights.
So without a network connection bitcoin is useless? Not trying to troll but I've ignored bitcoin as it seems like a ponzi scheme to make the first movers rich and doesn't work without a good internet connection. Since I live where there is barely an internet connection it seems useless for me.
What network? Not everywhere has cell or broadband which is why I used my house as an example.
My house has no cell coverage and only bad dial-up. How are they in contact with the network?
And spend both copies quick and laugh about whoever gets caught with the worthless bitcoin.
Shit if you're organized you can copy the wallet to a hundred thumbdrives and spend the bitcoin a hundred times as long as it's done at the same time.
Are you claiming that a bitcoin is impossible to copy? Perfect DRM? Or do you mean that a counterfeit would eventually be caught?
It seems to me that if 2 people came to my house and I bought something off them with the same bitcoin it would be duplicated and until they had a network connection to verify the coin there are 2 in existence, then whoever connected to the network second would discover his coin is worthless.
Assuming you were talking about the Giant Panda, the one with black patches around its ears, eyes and such, it is a member of the bear (Ursidae) family. Just split off from the rest earlier and sort of a living fossil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_bear#Classification
You can put 500 ones in your wallet? If I have 5 bills in my wallet, I have between $25 and $500 in there. If you have 5 bills in there you might only have $5. Same with coins, 5 coins=25 cents to $10 while you might only have a nickel.
Why the fuck would having $1 coins cause prices to rise?