Well you just try laying off the spliffs for a couple of months and come back and let us know how you feel
I have had a very similar experience (insofar as I can tell from your short post of course). Went on the prozac, but took all my pot and froze it in a block of ice for 6 months. I didn't touch it at all for those 6 months. Came off the prozac and now I feel fine.
You know what? Now, when I have a wee smoke these days (as I do from time to time), I feel like crap for about three days afterwards. Still feel pretty good when I'm high though:)
Seriously, I used to think exactly as you do. Pot works as a self-medication for a while only, then it seems that it has the exact opposite effect.
Vaccination works like this. You, as in individual, shoulder the very small risk of taking the vaccinations. The community of which you (like it or not) form a part, benefits enormously. These benefits are hard to see, especially since outbreaks of really damaging childhood illnesses are more or less forgotten. But the benefits are real, and due to the opinion you express being rather widely held, it becomes the job of public health organisations to make sure the benefits continue to be realised.
Everyone knows about smallpox of course. What is perhaps less widely known is that the smallpox vaccine was compulsory. There were riots, and due to the poor hygiene practices of the day relatively large number of people died though infections at the injection site. Smallpox was eradicated from England, and subsequently from the rest of the world, through enforced vaccination.
My point is not that compulsory vaccinations should be used today, just that they only work if large enough percentage of the population takes them. And so, I rather hope that you change your mind.
Then you are taking a free ride on the vaccination - derivied immunity of the people around you. I hope you send them all nice Christmas cards, since they took the (very small) risks of vaccination and you get much of the benefits for nothing.
It most certainly is. My three young children all had it, for about a month all up. They're scarred all over from it (I mean, it's not smallpox, but it's still scarring), and during that month they were extremely unwell and in quite considerable pain.
Bottom line: Vaccination is of extraordinary importance, and if enough people decide to opt out of it we will be looking at fresh epidemics of all those appalling childhood diseases with all their associated complications. It would not be a pretty sight, and we owe it to public health at large to vaccinate our children. Put simply, it is The Right Thing To Do.
Well I would have though that depends on your definition of 'normal means'. For us, the computer literate, a re-install is no big deal. But for many, a re-install *does* mean bricked, in the sense that they are powerless to fix it and they're going to have to call someone or even send it back to the shop.
Well that little 3D app of yours sounds great! I can't wait to see it!
Look for god's sake you people can just spend your lives avoiding buildings like these pretty easily I should have thought, there certainly aren't many of them around.
The world is full of ordinary buildings. Just as the world is full of ordinary paintings, ordinary books, ordinary music. Ordinary everything. It is important for iconoclasts such as Gehry to produce their work, just as it is important for the likes of Cy Twombly, Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs etc to produce theirs. I won't name any musicians since it always seems to start an argument when I do:)
So, in short, you guys are bunch of dull, unimaginative.... well it would be trollish to continue in that vein, so I shan't. But you get the idea.
Personally, when I look at things like that I think to myself "well if we can spend our efforts as a species producing astonishing looking things like that perhaps we're not so fucked after all"
Yeah I wouldn't be too sure about that. Take an existing AA NiMH 2100mAh battery for example. It'll deliver 2.1 Amps for one hour, so if you wanted to recharge it in one second you'd have to deliver 60 * 60 * 2.1 amps to it (assuming perfect efficiency) which is 7560amps. Which is an awful lot.
Well that's all very true and reasonable, but betrays some of the patronising attitude that non-computer literate people have to put up with. To wit:
"Remember that when it comes to computers, otherwise highly intelligent people shut down. It's the same reason old(er) people generally have "12:00" flashing on their VCR clocks. Their brains shut down when it comes to stuff like this. Irrational though it may be it's the truth."
This is incorrect. I am a smart person, and I have never bothered to set my VCR clock. Want to know why? It's the same reason that I wouldn't consider even for a second an operating system the required me to enter obscure and needlessly complex incantations at unforgiving command prompts. It's simply because I've got better things to do with my time. My brain does not "shut down", and neither to the brains of "older people". They just don't give a stuff.
Indentation style is personal choice, and I have never understood why on earth people get so wound up about the way in which code that they might have to read one day is indented.
I mean really, what's the big deal? And the magnificent thing about using curly braces, or whatever, is that it makes that particular personal choice matter not one whit. Just re-indent and the problem goes away! It's almost as if a computer can understand your code!
But not in Python, of course. Python's use of whitespace as actual syntax is just nutty, and that's the end of the matter.
And since you seem in such a grumpy mood, I though I'd cheer you up by pointing out that you probably wanted to use the word "they're" not "their" in your second to last sentence there.
Oh for god's sake. Doesn't anyone here know how to use these things?
If you want to get to the top menu in a hurry, hold down the menu key for a second or so, and there you are. Time was that would have turned on the backlight, but that changed with a firmware upgrade. Sensible if you ask me, holding down 'Menu' to take you to the top menu seems fairly reasonable.
Now granted, this makes changing the volume while elewhere in the UI slightly annoying. But you know what? I have had the thing for several years and I have never once had a sudden urge to change the volume on the playing song while browsing looking for a new song to listen to. Perhaps I'd just more easily pleased than the GP?
I'm going to assume that English is your second language, and not bother hassling you about your terrible writing.
But let's just get one thing straight. The two Matrix sequels were total and utter shite from beginning to end. They had between them not a single redeeming factor. They were rubbish. End of story.
Go on - argue with me.
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PDF is made for prepress, which is something that it excels at.
PDF is not made for the onscreen viewing of documents, which is obvious from the extraordinary extent to which the PDF viewer sucks at this.
Try creating some smart playlists. Try creating smart playlists that depend on other smart playlists. They're kind of cool.
Also, don't be scared of the itunes account. As far as I know you could probably get away with an invalid or expired cc number - since they don't charge it until you actually buy something. The downloaded album art is actually pretty nice and works really well. They're adding new ones all the time, and it's always nice when new album art appears on my iPod.
But no, there's no 'tree-like' view. Which IMHO is a good thing because if there's any UI innovation that I despise, it's the 'tree view'. Hate hate hate them.
But I will say one thing, you are quite right in that iTunes hasn't changed much at all in quite a few years, whereas WMP and the others have all experienced significant upgrades in functionality.
Jesus man, how big are your hands? They sound gigantic! I would say since you're obviously some way out on the edge of the hand-size bell curve you'd probably want to invest in a larger device.
Presumably your pockets are pretty big too right? To accomodate such enormous paddles? So get yourself a full-size iPod instead and it'll feel just like a Nano feels to the rest of us, and you'll be sweet.
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Ps. Death is not an appropriate punishment for breaking and entering.
I have had a very similar experience (insofar as I can tell from your short post of course). Went on the prozac, but took all my pot and froze it in a block of ice for 6 months. I didn't touch it at all for those 6 months. Came off the prozac and now I feel fine.
You know what? Now, when I have a wee smoke these days (as I do from time to time), I feel like crap for about three days afterwards. Still feel pretty good when I'm high though :)
Seriously, I used to think exactly as you do. Pot works as a self-medication for a while only, then it seems that it has the exact opposite effect.
A fuse into every plug, and so if your extension cord has a plug on the end (which would be fairly likely), then yes.
Well apart from the power button failing I suppose.... ;-)
It's probably not even true though, it's probably just the usual anti-poor thing that you see floating around these sorts of forums alot.
Vaccination works like this. You, as in individual, shoulder the very small risk of taking the vaccinations. The community of which you (like it or not) form a part, benefits enormously. These benefits are hard to see, especially since outbreaks of really damaging childhood illnesses are more or less forgotten. But the benefits are real, and due to the opinion you express being rather widely held, it becomes the job of public health organisations to make sure the benefits continue to be realised.
Everyone knows about smallpox of course. What is perhaps less widely known is that the smallpox vaccine was compulsory. There were riots, and due to the poor hygiene practices of the day relatively large number of people died though infections at the injection site. Smallpox was eradicated from England, and subsequently from the rest of the world, through enforced vaccination.
My point is not that compulsory vaccinations should be used today, just that they only work if large enough percentage of the population takes them. And so, I rather hope that you change your mind.
Then you are taking a free ride on the vaccination - derivied immunity of the people around you. I hope you send them all nice Christmas cards, since they took the (very small) risks of vaccination and you get much of the benefits for nothing.
It most certainly is. My three young children all had it, for about a month all up. They're scarred all over from it (I mean, it's not smallpox, but it's still scarring), and during that month they were extremely unwell and in quite considerable pain.
Bottom line: Vaccination is of extraordinary importance, and if enough people decide to opt out of it we will be looking at fresh epidemics of all those appalling childhood diseases with all their associated complications. It would not be a pretty sight, and we owe it to public health at large to vaccinate our children. Put simply, it is The Right Thing To Do.
Well I would have though that depends on your definition of 'normal means'. For us, the computer literate, a re-install is no big deal. But for many, a re-install *does* mean bricked, in the sense that they are powerless to fix it and they're going to have to call someone or even send it back to the shop.
Really? Are you sure about this? The new ipods don't function as USB hard disks? Because that would really really suck.
Look for god's sake you people can just spend your lives avoiding buildings like these pretty easily I should have thought, there certainly aren't many of them around.
The world is full of ordinary buildings. Just as the world is full of ordinary paintings, ordinary books, ordinary music. Ordinary everything. It is important for iconoclasts such as Gehry to produce their work, just as it is important for the likes of Cy Twombly, Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs etc to produce theirs. I won't name any musicians since it always seems to start an argument when I do :)
So, in short, you guys are bunch of dull, unimaginative.... well it would be trollish to continue in that vein, so I shan't. But you get the idea.
Personally, when I look at things like that I think to myself "well if we can spend our efforts as a species producing astonishing looking things like that perhaps we're not so fucked after all"
Not having floats does make it trickier to write a calculater app though, doesn't it :)
"Remember that when it comes to computers, otherwise highly intelligent people shut down. It's the same reason old(er) people generally have "12:00" flashing on their VCR clocks. Their brains shut down when it comes to stuff like this. Irrational though it may be it's the truth."
This is incorrect. I am a smart person, and I have never bothered to set my VCR clock. Want to know why? It's the same reason that I wouldn't consider even for a second an operating system the required me to enter obscure and needlessly complex incantations at unforgiving command prompts. It's simply because I've got better things to do with my time. My brain does not "shut down", and neither to the brains of "older people". They just don't give a stuff.
Torchwood sucks. Worst science fiction TV series ever made, and up against some stiff competition for the title too.
And Knight Rider sucked too, only good things about it were the opening credits and the car. Everything else was total pants.
Thants.
Watch 'Look around you'. And mod parent funny.
Indentation style is personal choice, and I have never understood why on earth people get so wound up about the way in which code that they might have to read one day is indented.
I mean really, what's the big deal? And the magnificent thing about using curly braces, or whatever, is that it makes that particular personal choice matter not one whit. Just re-indent and the problem goes away! It's almost as if a computer can understand your code!
But not in Python, of course. Python's use of whitespace as actual syntax is just nutty, and that's the end of the matter.
And since you seem in such a grumpy mood, I though I'd cheer you up by pointing out that you probably wanted to use the word "they're" not "their" in your second to last sentence there.
If you want to get to the top menu in a hurry, hold down the menu key for a second or so, and there you are. Time was that would have turned on the backlight, but that changed with a firmware upgrade. Sensible if you ask me, holding down 'Menu' to take you to the top menu seems fairly reasonable.
Now granted, this makes changing the volume while elewhere in the UI slightly annoying. But you know what? I have had the thing for several years and I have never once had a sudden urge to change the volume on the playing song while browsing looking for a new song to listen to. Perhaps I'd just more easily pleased than the GP?
2*x^2+2*x+2
But let's just get one thing straight. The two Matrix sequels were total and utter shite from beginning to end. They had between them not a single redeeming factor. They were rubbish. End of story.
Go on - argue with me.
PDF is not made for the onscreen viewing of documents, which is obvious from the extraordinary extent to which the PDF viewer sucks at this.
Try creating some smart playlists. Try creating smart playlists that depend on other smart playlists. They're kind of cool.
Also, don't be scared of the itunes account. As far as I know you could probably get away with an invalid or expired cc number - since they don't charge it until you actually buy something. The downloaded album art is actually pretty nice and works really well. They're adding new ones all the time, and it's always nice when new album art appears on my iPod.
But no, there's no 'tree-like' view. Which IMHO is a good thing because if there's any UI innovation that I despise, it's the 'tree view'. Hate hate hate them.
But I will say one thing, you are quite right in that iTunes hasn't changed much at all in quite a few years, whereas WMP and the others have all experienced significant upgrades in functionality.
Not that I'd touch WMP with a barge pole ;-)
Except that laptops don't, and neither (amusingly) do any of Apple's iMac range. Well, not without much disassembly and hard work, that is.
(And for that matter, replacing a car's stereo is actually a pain in the arse job, and not something that most people ever bother to do.)
Jesus man, how big are your hands? They sound gigantic! I would say since you're obviously some way out on the edge of the hand-size bell curve you'd probably want to invest in a larger device.
;-)
Presumably your pockets are pretty big too right? To accomodate such enormous paddles? So get yourself a full-size iPod instead and it'll feel just like a Nano feels to the rest of us, and you'll be sweet.