One of the things that works well for me - a lot of what I enjoy about caffeinated sodas (besides the caffeine) seems to be critically linked to the carbonation and temperature. I've managed to taper off using club soda with flavoured syrups, basically just an Italian soda.
Another possibility - use alternate delivery systems for the caffeine. If the carbonation isn't a big issue, try starting off with something like herba mate. It tastes ok without sugar, and it's got a fair whack of caffeine - but the caffeine doesn't hit you the same way caffeine in a soda does. It kicks in over a longer period of time and lasts longer. This might be an effective way to beat the headaches while not consuming as much caffeine as before. You can taper down to something like green tea, which still has caffeine, but in very small amounts.
Herba mate can be hard to find in a decently drinkable form. You can buy loose bags/bales of it in hispanic markets, but it's not the best stuff in the world. Bija tea puts out a pretty good form, in normal teabags.
To wrap up, you have my sympathy. My Mom went through a caffeine addiction, she kicked it when she was hospitalized for something else. Nasty stuff.
Current hate speech and threat laws should be applicable. In the case of the web site in the second article, it seems like it would be a relatively simple matter to contact the ISP and have them boot the customer (threatening people usually violates your contract).
When people do things through such completely traceable mediums, they should have the book thrown at them. Usually, bullying is almost invisible and proof's hard to find. While this is a horrible situation, it's one that actually has recourse for the victim.
I've had the nick "wench" for about 10 years now, it was from when I was the only woman in the theater lighting program. I suppose I see it in a more positive light than you do.
The point being, this wasn't a random computer store - he brought it there because he knew I worked there and knew we did good work. I'm sure he just forgot, or didn't know how to turn it off.
I'd care if I was taking my machine in for repair because it's incredibly rude to impose that sort of thing on others. There's a difference between leaving your porn in a folder somewhere when it goes into the shop, and having it be your desktop and screensaver.
I worked at a small computer shop - builds, repairs, internet service, that kind of thing. A friend's ex-husband brought his machine in to have us install some hardware upgrades. We didn't notice anything until we left it running for a bit and came back... Lara Croft screensaver, complete with really bad amateur Japanese-tentacle-type-porn.
Me, I'd remember that kind of stuff before I took a machine in for repair.
The term "midwest" comes from a time when the "west" was a lot further east than it is now. Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and I believe Michigan and Wisconsin all fall within the area of the "midwest". The usual way around the fact that there's a lot more west than there used to be is to term things like Kansas and the Dakotas as being either "central" or "plains" states.
So once upon a time, it made perfect sense - and the name just stuck.
That way, whenever the signal-changer is tripped, the camera fires and captures the license plate number of the vehicle going through the light. There's some margin for error, so you'd need maybe a couple shots to get the right car, but by analyzing the data you should be able to see if there are vehicles that tend to show up frequently at the same time the light is tripped.
I wish you the best of luck with this. My grandmother has early alzheimers. Her phone service was changed somewhere around 4-7 times in a one month period, with my father calling the companies each time and explaining in no uncertain terms that they should not be calling her. It didn't stop them. He had to have her credit card number changed when one of the companies continued to charge her for service after he cancelled it. (He has power of attorney.)
I think that businesses that derive their profits from what is, quite frankly, abuse of the elderly should be fined, shut down, perhaps even have criminal charges laid against them. It's appalling what these people do.
And before someone pops up and says "but how could they possibly know she had alzheimers," they couldn't have known the first time. After my father called and told them _why_ they needed to stop calling her, that's no longer an excuse.
Ok, so the FCC says it's fining AT&T for multiple violations of the 'do not call' list. AT&T responds, and says that this is about the previous regulations, not the DNC list.
So what's actually going on? I'm assuming the FCC is correct, since they're the ones enforcing it. Why would AT&T claim that the FCC is enforcing old regulations when the FCC blatantly says they're fining them for DNC violations? Is there anything to be gained by this?
I think you've hit upon the crucial problem - there may not be enough people interested to have two local chapters running separately. And in this situation, it's most likely the girls that will lose out.
However, I also see why they would prefer to have it that way - there is a lot of research showing that when girls and boys are separated in classroom situations it positively influences both groups. The girls are the big winners generally, with increased class participation and fewer inhibitions about demonstrating knowledge. I still have concerns about the girls being marginalized, but there do seem to be definite benefits.
Well, no matter how interesting the class, without actors you'd probably get one person sleeping, one reading, a couple people talking... actors look like students without causing all the annoying distractions.
If the Canadian version is that much better, we're in big trouble. =) You watch it enough, it gets pretty bad. Admittedly, Daily Planet is a bright spot.
And for those people suggesting folks get digital cable to get "Discovery Science"... sorry, I'm not shelling out the extra cash just so I can get the three more channels I want. Besides, how long will it be before Discovery Science goes all fluffy and you have to subscribe to super-digital cable to get the new Discovery REAL Science channel? Discovery used to have good animal shows too... until they moved them all to Animal Planet, which you also can't get here without digital cable. Their strategy seems to be to see what people like, then to split it off onto its own channel. Their basic programming definitely suffers for it.
Discovery (I understand it's a bit different up here in Canada) lasted for a while longer, but sure enough, Crocodile Hunter started the downhill slope. Steve, after a few shows you're just not funny anymore, and I wish that damnable dog would get chunked by a croc someday.
While I know a number of people who find him annoying, I just can't get over the fact that Steve Irwin managed to do a fantastic job of getting good info out on the non-cute-and-cuddly endangered species. I'd say that's one of the highlights of the Discovery Channel, and it definitely qualifies as educational.
TLC, in my opinion was going downhill right from the point where they were doing archaeology shows that would present good, hard info... and then cut to commercial break with lines like "... OR was it built by aliens thousands of years ago??" And I'd have to agree with you on the Canadian "History" channel... I'm sure if you like fictional movies about historical things, it'd be great. Educational, no way.
However, for non-educational but enjoyable fluff in Canada, the Space channel has to be it - I've never seen a channel show "Fire Maidens of Outer Space" so often. Wow.
These guys have some power: Apart from the smoking legislation, Barwatch also lobbied to implement bus service later, and allow bars open later [journalism.ubc.ca]. Recently, the BC Liberal party allowed bars to be open until 4 AM on Fridays, and Translink began offering night bus service to at least SFU [www.sfu.ca].
Good lord, they lobbied for late night bus service? Those bastards!:)
I'm not going to try and defend them on anything else, but Vancouver really needs late night bus service... if they contributed to getting the hours extended, I'm happy about that.
What's to stop you from having a Bar ID Swap party?
Is it illegial to have the ID you swipe be false if the person you are presenting it to isn't a law enforcement personal?
What's to stop you? I'm guessing that by the time they've swiped the ID and taken your picture with it... unless you and your friends look remarkably similar, they'll have noticed it's not your ID and will have kicked you out.
Also, since you are at least theoretically using the ID to prove that you are of age to acquire alcohol, it's entirely possible that it's illegal to use a false (or "borrowed") ID for that purpose.
... is that when a fight breaks out at a bar, it's often somewhat difficult to prevent the people involved from leaving before the police get there. This way, besides having your info, they've got a cuurent picture of you - that picture can be used to check with the remaining patrons - "So, was this the person that smacked the guy over there with a bottle?" or with the bartender as to who the people involved were.
Look, maybe this is just a personal bias, but I tend to like cheerful movies. They don't need to be brainless or anything, but I like to see films that I enjoy, that entertain me. I'm not sure I've ever run across a happy independent film. The closest I've been able to get is "bittersweet," which isn't even remotely the same thing.
I welcome suggestions, of course, if anyone knows of happy, enjoyable independent film-viewing.:)
I knew Evil Dead was pretty much the low-budget precursor to Evil Dead II, but I didn't know about Within the Woods being the even lower-budget precursor to Evil Dead.
A good summary, with pictures that are good at getting across the quality of the film available... that is, poor.
Given how scary the filming conditions sounded for Evil Deads I & II, I'm impressed Bruce Campbell and the Raimis have managed to survive this long.
I've moved to Canada, all the rest of my family is in the United States. I like Amazon because I can order from amazon.com to have things sent there and they can order from amazon.ca to have things sent to me. I had things shipped there in my name for Christmas last year so they'd be all ready when I got there.
It means I don't have to:
1) Explain every single thing to the assorted (and generally cranky around the holidays) border guards and airline security people.
2) Worry about needing to pay duties on anything.
3) Worry about what the weight limit is for my flight.
4) Worry about delivery. It gets delivered a heck of a lot faster than if I had something sent to the US from Canada. The post office's "next day" service to the US guarantees it'll be there in a week... or so.
I could care less about sales tax, for the most part. The ability to order things cross-border will keep ecommerce a useful option for me.
Most people keep them in cedar shavings, which are toxic to their little livers. I'd think that keeping them in paper is infinitely better, and (at least generally speaking) while they will _chew_ paper, they don't tend to ingest it.
Another solution is to just do a "global disconnect" immediately after you start trillian up, before yahoo connects. Then uncheck the box in the yahoo connection manager for autoconnect.
Ok, admittedly, that _sounds_ more complicated... but it works fine for me.
Ukrainian parliamentary candidate strips in appeal to voters
A Ukrainian parliamentary candidate attempted to woo voters by shedding most of her clothes in a televised political address.
Olena Solod, a 28-year-old housewife, stripped down to her underwear during a live TV address to voters in the southeastern city Zaporizhia.
Her show was later broadcast by several TV channels.
"I am the reflection of the real life," said Ms Solod.
Ms Solod is running for a parliamentary seat in the March 31 ballot.
Last year, she expressed interest in having her name changed to Osama bin Laden.
She and her husband also protested last year at a McDonald's restaurant in downtown Zaporizhia, asking people not to buy burgers in a gesture of support for Afghanistan.
Story filed: 19:30 Thursday 7th March 2002
You could easily come up with a vast number of similarly bizarre stories for anywhere in the world, but having these two linked together gives such an interesting impression.
While I think that the Green Bag piece makes some good points, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Judge Kent's writing - it rather reminded me of Mark Twain. It's nice to see a judge whose opinions are colourful and not so dull that you fall asleep while reading them.
Issues of whether such chastisement from the bench is fair or not - perhaps that's something that the Bar Association should look into. I must admit that I have a hard time with the article's portrayal of lawyers as such helpless individuals.
When I get rough cut 2x4s here, they actually are 2"x4". The rounded-edge boards are smaller, usually as you say - about 1.5"x3.5". It seems like that would point to the planing/rounding to being the culprit.
Well, that and at the mills I've seen, they don't process green wood. It'd be a pain, especially if you were doing anything resinous like pine. The saws would keep sticking up. That's completely ignoring the problem you'd have trying to sell wood to anyone if they knew the boards would randomly shrink to smaller sizes - they wouldn't shrink evenly.
Now, this is in Canada, so there may be some differences in how things are done... the wood cut in my area goes to the US, though, so it's most likely done in a similar way there.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that these are the telemarketers who've called you? Even once?
These very blatantly aren't the telemarketers who've called anyone. This is the telemarketing association that claims to have a constitutional right to call anyone they darn well please. What is being said is that if they do... then so does everyone else.
You want to mug somebody because you think they're in the habit of mugging others?
Ok, now read this sentence: "Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers..." Where do get the line about wanting to mug people?
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One of the things that works well for me - a lot of what I enjoy about caffeinated sodas (besides the caffeine) seems to be critically linked to the carbonation and temperature. I've managed to taper off using club soda with flavoured syrups, basically just an Italian soda.
Another possibility - use alternate delivery systems for the caffeine. If the carbonation isn't a big issue, try starting off with something like herba mate. It tastes ok without sugar, and it's got a fair whack of caffeine - but the caffeine doesn't hit you the same way caffeine in a soda does. It kicks in over a longer period of time and lasts longer. This might be an effective way to beat the headaches while not consuming as much caffeine as before. You can taper down to something like green tea, which still has caffeine, but in very small amounts.
Herba mate can be hard to find in a decently drinkable form. You can buy loose bags/bales of it in hispanic markets, but it's not the best stuff in the world. Bija tea puts out a pretty good form, in normal teabags.
To wrap up, you have my sympathy. My Mom went through a caffeine addiction, she kicked it when she was hospitalized for something else. Nasty stuff.
Current hate speech and threat laws should be applicable. In the case of the web site in the second article, it seems like it would be a relatively simple matter to contact the ISP and have them boot the customer (threatening people usually violates your contract).
When people do things through such completely traceable mediums, they should have the book thrown at them. Usually, bullying is almost invisible and proof's hard to find. While this is a horrible situation, it's one that actually has recourse for the victim.
I've had the nick "wench" for about 10 years now, it was from when I was the only woman in the theater lighting program. I suppose I see it in a more positive light than you do.
The point being, this wasn't a random computer store - he brought it there because he knew I worked there and knew we did good work. I'm sure he just forgot, or didn't know how to turn it off.
I'd care if I was taking my machine in for repair because it's incredibly rude to impose that sort of thing on others. There's a difference between leaving your porn in a folder somewhere when it goes into the shop, and having it be your desktop and screensaver.
I worked at a small computer shop - builds, repairs, internet service, that kind of thing. A friend's ex-husband brought his machine in to have us install some hardware upgrades. We didn't notice anything until we left it running for a bit and came back... Lara Croft screensaver, complete with really bad amateur Japanese-tentacle-type-porn.
Me, I'd remember that kind of stuff before I took a machine in for repair.
The term "midwest" comes from a time when the "west" was a lot further east than it is now. Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and I believe Michigan and Wisconsin all fall within the area of the "midwest". The usual way around the fact that there's a lot more west than there used to be is to term things like Kansas and the Dakotas as being either "central" or "plains" states.
So once upon a time, it made perfect sense - and the name just stuck.
That way, whenever the signal-changer is tripped, the camera fires and captures the license plate number of the vehicle going through the light. There's some margin for error, so you'd need maybe a couple shots to get the right car, but by analyzing the data you should be able to see if there are vehicles that tend to show up frequently at the same time the light is tripped.
I wish you the best of luck with this. My grandmother has early alzheimers. Her phone service was changed somewhere around 4-7 times in a one month period, with my father calling the companies each time and explaining in no uncertain terms that they should not be calling her. It didn't stop them. He had to have her credit card number changed when one of the companies continued to charge her for service after he cancelled it. (He has power of attorney.)
I think that businesses that derive their profits from what is, quite frankly, abuse of the elderly should be fined, shut down, perhaps even have criminal charges laid against them. It's appalling what these people do.
And before someone pops up and says "but how could they possibly know she had alzheimers," they couldn't have known the first time. After my father called and told them _why_ they needed to stop calling her, that's no longer an excuse.
Ok, so the FCC says it's fining AT&T for multiple violations of the 'do not call' list. AT&T responds, and says that this is about the previous regulations, not the DNC list.
So what's actually going on? I'm assuming the FCC is correct, since they're the ones enforcing it. Why would AT&T claim that the FCC is enforcing old regulations when the FCC blatantly says they're fining them for DNC violations? Is there anything to be gained by this?
I think you've hit upon the crucial problem - there may not be enough people interested to have two local chapters running separately. And in this situation, it's most likely the girls that will lose out.
However, I also see why they would prefer to have it that way - there is a lot of research showing that when girls and boys are separated in classroom situations it positively influences both groups. The girls are the big winners generally, with increased class participation and fewer inhibitions about demonstrating knowledge. I still have concerns about the girls being marginalized, but there do seem to be definite benefits.
Well, no matter how interesting the class, without actors you'd probably get one person sleeping, one reading, a couple people talking... actors look like students without causing all the annoying distractions.
If the Canadian version is that much better, we're in big trouble. =) You watch it enough, it gets pretty bad. Admittedly, Daily Planet is a bright spot.
And for those people suggesting folks get digital cable to get "Discovery Science"... sorry, I'm not shelling out the extra cash just so I can get the three more channels I want. Besides, how long will it be before Discovery Science goes all fluffy and you have to subscribe to super-digital cable to get the new Discovery REAL Science channel? Discovery used to have good animal shows too... until they moved them all to Animal Planet, which you also can't get here without digital cable. Their strategy seems to be to see what people like, then to split it off onto its own channel. Their basic programming definitely suffers for it.
While I know a number of people who find him annoying, I just can't get over the fact that Steve Irwin managed to do a fantastic job of getting good info out on the non-cute-and-cuddly endangered species. I'd say that's one of the highlights of the Discovery Channel, and it definitely qualifies as educational.
TLC, in my opinion was going downhill right from the point where they were doing archaeology shows that would present good, hard info... and then cut to commercial break with lines like "... OR was it built by aliens thousands of years ago??" And I'd have to agree with you on the Canadian "History" channel... I'm sure if you like fictional movies about historical things, it'd be great. Educational, no way.
However, for non-educational but enjoyable fluff in Canada, the Space channel has to be it - I've never seen a channel show "Fire Maidens of Outer Space" so often. Wow.
Good lord, they lobbied for late night bus service? Those bastards!
I'm not going to try and defend them on anything else, but Vancouver really needs late night bus service... if they contributed to getting the hours extended, I'm happy about that.
What's to stop you? I'm guessing that by the time they've swiped the ID and taken your picture with it... unless you and your friends look remarkably similar, they'll have noticed it's not your ID and will have kicked you out.
Also, since you are at least theoretically using the ID to prove that you are of age to acquire alcohol, it's entirely possible that it's illegal to use a false (or "borrowed") ID for that purpose.
... is that when a fight breaks out at a bar, it's often somewhat difficult to prevent the people involved from leaving before the police get there. This way, besides having your info, they've got a cuurent picture of you - that picture can be used to check with the remaining patrons - "So, was this the person that smacked the guy over there with a bottle?" or with the bartender as to who the people involved were.
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I believe this whole thing was triggered by shootings in a club in Vancouver - http://www.vancourier.com/083203/news/083203nn2.h
It'd make a big difference for cases like that.
Look, maybe this is just a personal bias, but I tend to like cheerful movies. They don't need to be brainless or anything, but I like to see films that I enjoy, that entertain me. I'm not sure I've ever run across a happy independent film. The closest I've been able to get is "bittersweet," which isn't even remotely the same thing.
:)
I welcome suggestions, of course, if anyone knows of happy, enjoyable independent film-viewing.
I knew Evil Dead was pretty much the low-budget precursor to Evil Dead II, but I didn't know about Within the Woods being the even lower-budget precursor to Evil Dead.
A good summary, with pictures that are good at getting across the quality of the film available... that is, poor.
Given how scary the filming conditions sounded for Evil Deads I & II, I'm impressed Bruce Campbell and the Raimis have managed to survive this long.
I know it's been shown at the Toronto and Montreal film festivals, but there's no word on a general release for anywhere but the US on the web site.
I sent the webmaster the question, I'm assuming I'll get the same response: No distributor.
I've moved to Canada, all the rest of my family is in the United States. I like Amazon because I can order from amazon.com to have things sent there and they can order from amazon.ca to have things sent to me. I had things shipped there in my name for Christmas last year so they'd be all ready when I got there.
It means I don't have to:
1) Explain every single thing to the assorted (and generally cranky around the holidays) border guards and airline security people.
2) Worry about needing to pay duties on anything.
3) Worry about what the weight limit is for my flight.
4) Worry about delivery. It gets delivered a heck of a lot faster than if I had something sent to the US from Canada. The post office's "next day" service to the US guarantees it'll be there in a week... or so.
I could care less about sales tax, for the most part. The ability to order things cross-border will keep ecommerce a useful option for me.
Most people keep them in cedar shavings, which are toxic to their little livers. I'd think that keeping them in paper is infinitely better, and (at least generally speaking) while they will _chew_ paper, they don't tend to ingest it.
Another solution is to just do a "global disconnect" immediately after you start trillian up, before yahoo connects. Then uncheck the box in the yahoo connection manager for autoconnect.
Ok, admittedly, that _sounds_ more complicated... but it works fine for me.
Ukrainian parliamentary candidate strips in appeal to voters
You could easily come up with a vast number of similarly bizarre stories for anywhere in the world, but having these two linked together gives such an interesting impression.
While I think that the Green Bag piece makes some good points, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Judge Kent's writing - it rather reminded me of Mark Twain. It's nice to see a judge whose opinions are colourful and not so dull that you fall asleep while reading them.
Issues of whether such chastisement from the bench is fair or not - perhaps that's something that the Bar Association should look into. I must admit that I have a hard time with the article's portrayal of lawyers as such helpless individuals.
When I get rough cut 2x4s here, they actually are 2"x4". The rounded-edge boards are smaller, usually as you say - about 1.5"x3.5". It seems like that would point to the planing/rounding to being the culprit.
Well, that and at the mills I've seen, they don't process green wood. It'd be a pain, especially if you were doing anything resinous like pine. The saws would keep sticking up. That's completely ignoring the problem you'd have trying to sell wood to anyone if they knew the boards would randomly shrink to smaller sizes - they wouldn't shrink evenly.
Now, this is in Canada, so there may be some differences in how things are done... the wood cut in my area goes to the US, though, so it's most likely done in a similar way there.
These very blatantly aren't the telemarketers who've called anyone. This is the telemarketing association that claims to have a constitutional right to call anyone they darn well please. What is being said is that if they do... then so does everyone else.
Ok, now read this sentence: "Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers..." Where do get the line about wanting to mug people?