I had a teenage friend who only killed himself after taking prozac.
I always used to find that whole "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" side-effect of anti-depressants quite odd. At one point, however, I wound up dating a psychiatrist and she explained it to me thus:
Major depression has two effects which bear on this, first, obviously, it causes suicidal ideations, but second, it saps your energy. Suicide is a lot of work (at least for someone who is majorly depressed), which keeps most people with SI from actually carrying through on it. Once you start taking anti-depressants, however, they clear up the lack of energy first, and then there's about a 2 week window before they start making in-roads against the SI, which makes it a dangerous period. Add in to that the fact that depending on the specific neuro-chem involved, it's possible that some drugs may not ever take care of the SI, but will still give the pt energy back...
I keep waiting for the day when Iran will claim to have invented a next-generation satellite dish that does not require line of sight to a satellite, works underground, and remarkably only receives state-approved channels. Upon inspection we will find it is a large plastic Tupperware bowl screwed onto a cable box, which in turn is hooked up to the local cable network.
See, that actually sounds much more like something North Korea would do, except for the whole "cable boxes won't work without power" thing....ahh hell, that wouldn't stop them.
I grew up there as well, although by the time I was born, it was the silicon valley in all earnest.
The fact I like to relate to illustrate the difference over time is this: My HS (SJHA [Now once again SJHS, I guess]), though, which is now more or less in the middle of a ghetto, had hitching posts out front up until 1976.
Personally, I blame IV drug users for that particular misconception. They're almost the only people who establish venous access to deliver a single bolus, and with way more drug users than healthcare personnel using needles in media, people associate needles with IV.
In healthcare, or rather in modern, first world healthcare, when delivering a single drug, it will usually be IM, occasionally sub-cutaneous, and every once in a great while subdermal or intradermal.
If I'm giving a med that has to be delivered by IV, I won't just stick the needle in, push it and take the needle out, even if I don't anticipate pushing any other IV drugs. Basically, if I'm going to go through all the effort of, and cause the scarring by, establishing venous access, I'm going leave it in place just in case it's needed again, either by putting a lock on it (basically just a piece of tubing with a one way valve), or hanging a bag of fluid that's dripping just fast enough to prevent backflow.
Now, I don't do primary care, and in fact, I have very little knowledge of primary care, so it's possible that this isn't true in that setting, though what I do know of primary care says that they very rarely use IV drugs of any description.
I work in healthcare, as a result, I've had almost as many shots as people in the army get. I've started an IV on myself multiple times, and given myself shots. In short, I'm about as used to having needles in me as you can get.
And you know what? Tetanus shots hurt like a bastard.
hmm, what's the percentage of white serial killers in the USA compared to other ethnicities?
Per the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder):
Contrary to popular belief, serial killers span all racial groups. There are white, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian serial killers. The racial diversification of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population.
It doesn't matter with cops (with tasers). Me being 5.11 and upset will simply get me pinned to the floor hit with a nightstick, ZAPPED and handcuffed just for being emotional about an issue in front of them. I.E I'm upset therefore it's justification to assault me. Being tall and athletic means gives grounds for 5 bouncers in a nightclub to attack me even if I'm not irate but cheerful and drunk (they legally classify it as disorderly and label me a potential threat).
I'm 6'8 and weigh in at about 300lbs, of which probably about 40lbs of it is fat. I've never been asked to leave a bar, let alone been approached by a bouncer or five. In the times that I've been confronted with cops, I've never had one draw his handcuffs, nightstick or taser, let alone try to use one of them on me. If you have, perhaps the problem here isn't your size, it's your attitude.
This is speculation, but I'm betting this has less of an application for pacemaking than it does for correcting a conduction induced arrhythmia.
Under normal circumstances, an electrical impulse is generated in the SA node at the top of the heart, then spreads through a defined path, first inervating the atria, a quick stop in the AV node which slows the conduction down for half a beat (haha, I'm so funny.), then continues down to activate the ventricles.
Heart attacks kill muscle, and one of the big effects of that, aside from the loss of contractile force, is the fact that dead muscle doesn't conduct very well, so the electical impulse will start doing all sorts of interesting things to route around the problem, which can lead to the ventricles and atria firing in odd sequences.
This circuit could potentially provide a new route for the impulse which would more closely mimic the original path, and restore a normal(ish) rhythm.
Extending further out into speculation land, it's possible that with very precise control, and a reasonably powerful computer running the thing, you could correct atrial fibrillation, which would be all sorts of good.
Finally, as to the implantation, I know that people are starting to do endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts, which means that it's possible to work inside the pericardial sac without cracking the chest, I see no real reason that applying this circuitry couldn't be performed in the same way. Yes it's still going to knock people down for longer than a pacemaker implant will, but then, it's doing way more than a pacemaker does.
I'm honestly not trying to make a mother's basement joke here, but seriously, how much of a shut in are you, that you've only seen three iPads in the wild?
I'm virtually a hermit, and I see three uniques a week, easy.
And before you ask, no, I don't live in Cupertino, I live in New Mexico (and not Los Alamos, either), which is 47th in the country by GDP per capita.
I don't own one, I don't want one, and I'm very much not in their target demographic, and it's blindingly obvious that all of that is true of you as well, but the things are popular, massively so, and refusing to acknowledge that by making snide, derogatory comments that just flat out deny reality makes you look like either a) a zealot who is frothing at his mouth, 2) a blithering idiot or III) someone who lives in a shack in the woods and hasn't been in the same room as another human being in 10 years.
My money's on 1), but for all I know it could be C), your written presentation aside, I genuinely don't believe it's II).
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I'm sorry, I forgot to address the weight issue. Per the Apple store, the weight ranges from 308-312g depending on model, and per their environmental report (http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/iPadmini_PER_oct2012.pdf), the packaging weighs in at 333g, I couldn't easily find any numbers for the charger and cord etc, but I'm just going to go hog wild and round the whole thing up from 645g to 750g to cover them. So 1520*750 = 1,140,000g or 1,140kg or 2,513 lbs.
Toyota's bottom of the line forklift (http://www.toyotaforklift.com/product/InternalCombustionCushionTireLiftTrucks/8seriesic.aspx) has a rated capacity of 3,000 lbs.)
Well, I had to take some WAGs, but based on this image: http://assets.ilounge.com/images/uploads/ipadminifr2.jpg and the stated technical dimensions of the ipad mini of 7.8 x 5.3 x.28 inches, I'm guesstimating a packaging dimension of 8 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches. Assuming an ISO 40 x 48 inch pallet, and a stack height of 48 inches (and without running the math for an optimal stacking solution), I make it as each layer being 5 (40/8) x 8 (48/5.5) = 40 units, with 38 layers, for a total of 1520 units per pallet.
Assuming that every one of them was the base model at $329, that would be just over a million dollars (1,000,160) for the two pallets, for the top of the line at $659, that's just over two million dollars (2,003,360).
It's probably a mix of models, and obviously my WAGs are going to be off some, but really, 1.5 million for 2 pallets isn't a wholly unreasonable number.
Next time you're in heavy traffic going 70 mph, try consciously thinking about every move you're making and the move every other vehicle is making or about to make. It will make your head explode.
I know that this really isn't your point, but you touched off a hobby horse of mine.
That's exactly how I drive, if you want to be really safe, it's the only way you can drive.
I'm a paramedic, I routinely drive a 12,000lb (~5,500kg, for those that prefer) vehicle at high rates of speed through maneuvers that are wholly unexpected by a majority of the other drivers on the road, that's the only way I can drive.
I assess every other vehicle on the road, every pedestrian walking along side, and every cardboard box sitting on the curb. I know where they are, how fast they're going, how well they're driving (well, I usually skip that for the boxes.), how likely they are to interfere with my lane space, and as an added bonus, how they're likely to respond to the sight of me in their rear view mirror. From the moment they come into my vision until the moment they leave it, I look at everything no less than once every 5 seconds.
At the same time, I'm also keeping a running evaluation of the degree of urgency I have as it relates to how fast I'm willing to go, how hard I'm willing to accelerate (in any of the three axises available to me), and when and where I have to do what in order to meet those constraints.
That being said, I also drive like that in my personal car (Though I do skip the whole running red lights thing). It's not easy by any means, it requires a great deal of focus, good observation skills and keen geospatial awareness, but it's doable, and it works.
I've driven over half a million miles in ambulances, and probably another half million in my personal car. I've been in two accidents, both of which occurred within a year of getting my license, and both of which I know (as much as you can know such things) that if I could go back and do it again with the skills I have now, I could avoid them. (Oh, and for the record, neither of them were ruled as being my fault at the time.).
I dunno, I really liked TACA, when I was living in Honduras, mostly though, I was flying in and out of the US.
The flights were usually pretty comparable in price to continental and delta, (plus or minus 10% or so), the planes were relatively comfortable (If you fly on their newer planes, the older ones were so-so), and you gotta love the open bar:)
The biggest advantage was the customer service though, multiple times I wound up missing a connection for one reason or another, and they always got me on the next flight, if it was the next day they would put me up in a hotel and pay for my meals (including one time that I was actually flying on separate tickets, the system wouldn't let me combine them because it was supposed to be impossible to make the connection, but the ticket agent assured me the second flight was always late, which it was, it's just the first flight was later.). There's no way in hell any of the US carriers would do the same.
This kid is probably a sociopath....Sociopaths don't learn how to stop hurting people, they just learn not to get caught the next time.
Fun fact, per the DSM-IV Sociopathy, or actually Antisocial Personality Disorder, as it's now known, can't be diagnosed before age 18.
What that source material doesn't cite, and what 5 seconds of googlin failed to turn up, and thus would require too much effort for me to cite, is why.
Put simply, almost all kids profile as sociopaths. Look at the diagnostic criteria, I'm sure you'll see why.
Now, before anyone jumps up and says "But...but...he's 17, that's close enough to 18, right?", I'll point out that like any developmental milestone, that's just a guideline, there's always some play in development, plus or minus.
Now, having said that, it's entirely possible that this kid actually is a sociopath, personally it doesn't read like that to me, but I'm willing to be wrong.
I write the occasional bit of quick and dirty code to do something I want done, and I imagine that you've stuck a bandaid on a cut a time or two.
That being said, barring radical career shifts, I'll never write code as well as you do, and you'll never do first aid as well as I do. I've hired a freelance coder to do something, and statistically, you have called, or someday will call, for an ambulance.
I can't imagine that anyone will ever expect me to be supplanted by a guy who took first aid in HS and has a moderately well stocked first aid kit, and I would NEVER suggest that you shouldn't apply bandaids, in fact, I would be all in favor of you and everyone you know going out and taking a CPR and first aid course. I think that would be fantastic.
I can't even imagine why you would be worried about the inverse.
Main engine fuse blew out, I was 60 miles from anywhere, and for whatever reason, had a cheap ass fork in my car. Bent up the middle two tines, shoved the outer tines in the fuse holder, taped the hell out of it to prevent shorting and away I went.
Also, don't try this at home, if the fuse blew, there's probably a reason, etc, etc, etc.
Speaking as a casual infringer...I don't infringe by habit. But living in a third world country, sometimes I literally cannot pay for the content I want. So in those cases, I will infringe...
Anyhow, I don't count myself as a diehard pirate, but I didn't even know about 4/5 sites listed, so I thank the MPAA for improving my options.
I don't type Priii to appear smart, I do it because the notion of three running 'i's tickles my fancy.
Don't forget to leave room for whimsy in your cynical view of the world.
Oh, don't think that was an attack on cynicism, I won't say I'm the most cynical bastard you'll meet, but that's only because I'm sure there's someone worse than me out there.
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I had a teenage friend who only killed himself after taking prozac.
I always used to find that whole "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" side-effect of anti-depressants quite odd. At one point, however, I wound up dating a psychiatrist and she explained it to me thus:
Major depression has two effects which bear on this, first, obviously, it causes suicidal ideations, but second, it saps your energy. Suicide is a lot of work (at least for someone who is majorly depressed), which keeps most people with SI from actually carrying through on it. Once you start taking anti-depressants, however, they clear up the lack of energy first, and then there's about a 2 week window before they start making in-roads against the SI, which makes it a dangerous period. Add in to that the fact that depending on the specific neuro-chem involved, it's possible that some drugs may not ever take care of the SI, but will still give the pt energy back...
I dunno, I thought it was interesting.
What is the measurement unit for "amount of work", though?
That would be a joule.
Sorry, I'm not awake yet, the long hanging fruit was too tempting.
This is obviously targeted at Iranian audience.
I keep waiting for the day when Iran will claim to have invented a next-generation satellite dish that does not require line of sight to a satellite, works underground, and remarkably only receives state-approved channels. Upon inspection we will find it is a large plastic Tupperware bowl screwed onto a cable box, which in turn is hooked up to the local cable network.
See, that actually sounds much more like something North Korea would do, except for the whole "cable boxes won't work without power" thing....ahh hell, that wouldn't stop them.
I grew up there as well, although by the time I was born, it was the silicon valley in all earnest.
The fact I like to relate to illustrate the difference over time is this: My HS (SJHA [Now once again SJHS, I guess]), though, which is now more or less in the middle of a ghetto, had hitching posts out front up until 1976.
Personally, I blame IV drug users for that particular misconception. They're almost the only people who establish venous access to deliver a single bolus, and with way more drug users than healthcare personnel using needles in media, people associate needles with IV.
In healthcare, or rather in modern, first world healthcare, when delivering a single drug, it will usually be IM, occasionally sub-cutaneous, and every once in a great while subdermal or intradermal.
If I'm giving a med that has to be delivered by IV, I won't just stick the needle in, push it and take the needle out, even if I don't anticipate pushing any other IV drugs. Basically, if I'm going to go through all the effort of, and cause the scarring by, establishing venous access, I'm going leave it in place just in case it's needed again, either by putting a lock on it (basically just a piece of tubing with a one way valve), or hanging a bag of fluid that's dripping just fast enough to prevent backflow.
Now, I don't do primary care, and in fact, I have very little knowledge of primary care, so it's possible that this isn't true in that setting, though what I do know of primary care says that they very rarely use IV drugs of any description.
I work in healthcare, as a result, I've had almost as many shots as people in the army get. I've started an IV on myself multiple times, and given myself shots. In short, I'm about as used to having needles in me as you can get.
And you know what? Tetanus shots hurt like a bastard.
hmm, what's the percentage of white serial killers in the USA compared to other ethnicities?
Per the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder):
Contrary to popular belief, serial killers span all racial groups. There are white, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian serial killers. The racial diversification of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population.
Man, I have mod points, but sadly no matter how deserving I can't mod you to +11 insightful.
It doesn't matter with cops (with tasers). Me being 5.11 and upset will simply get me pinned to the floor hit with a nightstick, ZAPPED and handcuffed just for being emotional about an issue in front of them. I.E I'm upset therefore it's justification to assault me. Being tall and athletic means gives grounds for 5 bouncers in a nightclub to attack me even if I'm not irate but cheerful and drunk (they legally classify it as disorderly and label me a potential threat).
I'm 6'8 and weigh in at about 300lbs, of which probably about 40lbs of it is fat. I've never been asked to leave a bar, let alone been approached by a bouncer or five. In the times that I've been confronted with cops, I've never had one draw his handcuffs, nightstick or taser, let alone try to use one of them on me. If you have, perhaps the problem here isn't your size, it's your attitude.
This is speculation, but I'm betting this has less of an application for pacemaking than it does for correcting a conduction induced arrhythmia.
Under normal circumstances, an electrical impulse is generated in the SA node at the top of the heart, then spreads through a defined path, first inervating the atria, a quick stop in the AV node which slows the conduction down for half a beat (haha, I'm so funny.), then continues down to activate the ventricles.
Heart attacks kill muscle, and one of the big effects of that, aside from the loss of contractile force, is the fact that dead muscle doesn't conduct very well, so the electical impulse will start doing all sorts of interesting things to route around the problem, which can lead to the ventricles and atria firing in odd sequences.
This circuit could potentially provide a new route for the impulse which would more closely mimic the original path, and restore a normal(ish) rhythm.
Extending further out into speculation land, it's possible that with very precise control, and a reasonably powerful computer running the thing, you could correct atrial fibrillation, which would be all sorts of good.
Finally, as to the implantation, I know that people are starting to do endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts, which means that it's possible to work inside the pericardial sac without cracking the chest, I see no real reason that applying this circuitry couldn't be performed in the same way. Yes it's still going to knock people down for longer than a pacemaker implant will, but then, it's doing way more than a pacemaker does.
I'm honestly not trying to make a mother's basement joke here, but seriously, how much of a shut in are you, that you've only seen three iPads in the wild?
I'm virtually a hermit, and I see three uniques a week, easy.
And before you ask, no, I don't live in Cupertino, I live in New Mexico (and not Los Alamos, either), which is 47th in the country by GDP per capita.
I don't own one, I don't want one, and I'm very much not in their target demographic, and it's blindingly obvious that all of that is true of you as well, but the things are popular, massively so, and refusing to acknowledge that by making snide, derogatory comments that just flat out deny reality makes you look like either a) a zealot who is frothing at his mouth, 2) a blithering idiot or III) someone who lives in a shack in the woods and hasn't been in the same room as another human being in 10 years.
My money's on 1), but for all I know it could be C), your written presentation aside, I genuinely don't believe it's II).
Registrant Name Xavier Jenks
Registrant Organization NASA
Registrant Address1 PO Box 791633
Registrant City Cape Carnival
Registrant State/Province FL
Registrant Postal Code 666666
Quite aside from the festive town, there's the postal code, but my favorite bit is Googling for "Xavier Jenks" The third result (the first two are Facebook) is: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2011/06/28/big-foot-real-or-imagined
Which includes this little nugget:
Dr. Xavier Jenks, PhD
Research Team Leader
New Orleans Bigfoot Society (N.O.B.S.)
A foolish consistency is the hob-goblin of small minds.
I'm sorry, I forgot to address the weight issue. Per the Apple store, the weight ranges from 308-312g depending on model, and per their environmental report (http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/iPadmini_PER_oct2012.pdf), the packaging weighs in at 333g, I couldn't easily find any numbers for the charger and cord etc, but I'm just going to go hog wild and round the whole thing up from 645g to 750g to cover them. So 1520*750 = 1,140,000g or 1,140kg or 2,513 lbs.
Toyota's bottom of the line forklift (http://www.toyotaforklift.com/product/InternalCombustionCushionTireLiftTrucks/8seriesic.aspx) has a rated capacity of 3,000 lbs.)
Well, I had to take some WAGs, but based on this image: http://assets.ilounge.com/images/uploads/ipadminifr2.jpg and the stated technical dimensions of the ipad mini of 7.8 x 5.3 x .28 inches, I'm guesstimating a packaging dimension of 8 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches. Assuming an ISO 40 x 48 inch pallet, and a stack height of 48 inches (and without running the math for an optimal stacking solution), I make it as each layer being 5 (40/8) x 8 (48/5.5) = 40 units, with 38 layers, for a total of 1520 units per pallet.
Assuming that every one of them was the base model at $329, that would be just over a million dollars (1,000,160) for the two pallets, for the top of the line at $659, that's just over two million dollars (2,003,360).
It's probably a mix of models, and obviously my WAGs are going to be off some, but really, 1.5 million for 2 pallets isn't a wholly unreasonable number.
Actually, the point I was trying to make is that my driving is conscious, and yours should be, too.
Next time you're in heavy traffic going 70 mph, try consciously thinking about every move you're making and the move every other vehicle is making or about to make. It will make your head explode.
I know that this really isn't your point, but you touched off a hobby horse of mine.
That's exactly how I drive, if you want to be really safe, it's the only way you can drive.
I'm a paramedic, I routinely drive a 12,000lb (~5,500kg, for those that prefer) vehicle at high rates of speed through maneuvers that are wholly unexpected by a majority of the other drivers on the road, that's the only way I can drive.
I assess every other vehicle on the road, every pedestrian walking along side, and every cardboard box sitting on the curb. I know where they are, how fast they're going, how well they're driving (well, I usually skip that for the boxes.), how likely they are to interfere with my lane space, and as an added bonus, how they're likely to respond to the sight of me in their rear view mirror. From the moment they come into my vision until the moment they leave it, I look at everything no less than once every 5 seconds.
At the same time, I'm also keeping a running evaluation of the degree of urgency I have as it relates to how fast I'm willing to go, how hard I'm willing to accelerate (in any of the three axises available to me), and when and where I have to do what in order to meet those constraints.
That being said, I also drive like that in my personal car (Though I do skip the whole running red lights thing). It's not easy by any means, it requires a great deal of focus, good observation skills and keen geospatial awareness, but it's doable, and it works.
I've driven over half a million miles in ambulances, and probably another half million in my personal car. I've been in two accidents, both of which occurred within a year of getting my license, and both of which I know (as much as you can know such things) that if I could go back and do it again with the skills I have now, I could avoid them. (Oh, and for the record, neither of them were ruled as being my fault at the time.).
Right, sorry.
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Hey! I liked the cube.
It had a feature that I've yet to see on another computer, that's how advanced it was.
Surely I'm not the only one who wants to fry an egg for breakfast while checking my morning e-mail and feeds.
I dunno, I really liked TACA, when I was living in Honduras, mostly though, I was flying in and out of the US.
:)
The flights were usually pretty comparable in price to continental and delta, (plus or minus 10% or so), the planes were relatively comfortable (If you fly on their newer planes, the older ones were so-so), and you gotta love the open bar
The biggest advantage was the customer service though, multiple times I wound up missing a connection for one reason or another, and they always got me on the next flight, if it was the next day they would put me up in a hotel and pay for my meals (including one time that I was actually flying on separate tickets, the system wouldn't let me combine them because it was supposed to be impossible to make the connection, but the ticket agent assured me the second flight was always late, which it was, it's just the first flight was later.). There's no way in hell any of the US carriers would do the same.
This kid is probably a sociopath....Sociopaths don't learn how to stop hurting people, they just learn not to get caught the next time.
Fun fact, per the DSM-IV Sociopathy, or actually Antisocial Personality Disorder, as it's now known, can't be diagnosed before age 18.
What that source material doesn't cite, and what 5 seconds of googlin failed to turn up, and thus would require too much effort for me to cite, is why.
Put simply, almost all kids profile as sociopaths. Look at the diagnostic criteria, I'm sure you'll see why.
Now, before anyone jumps up and says "But...but...he's 17, that's close enough to 18, right?", I'll point out that like any developmental milestone, that's just a guideline, there's always some play in development, plus or minus.
Now, having said that, it's entirely possible that this kid actually is a sociopath, personally it doesn't read like that to me, but I'm willing to be wrong.
I'm a paramedic, you're almost certainly a coder.
I write the occasional bit of quick and dirty code to do something I want done, and I imagine that you've stuck a bandaid on a cut a time or two.
That being said, barring radical career shifts, I'll never write code as well as you do, and you'll never do first aid as well as I do. I've hired a freelance coder to do something, and statistically, you have called, or someday will call, for an ambulance.
I can't imagine that anyone will ever expect me to be supplanted by a guy who took first aid in HS and has a moderately well stocked first aid kit, and I would NEVER suggest that you shouldn't apply bandaids, in fact, I would be all in favor of you and everyone you know going out and taking a CPR and first aid course. I think that would be fantastic.
I can't even imagine why you would be worried about the inverse.
...Hitler...
Hitler could have taken one the hard way, and I'd have been okay with it.
I actually have fixed a car with a fork once.
Main engine fuse blew out, I was 60 miles from anywhere, and for whatever reason, had a cheap ass fork in my car. Bent up the middle two tines, shoved the outer tines in the fuse holder, taped the hell out of it to prevent shorting and away I went.
Also, don't try this at home, if the fuse blew, there's probably a reason, etc, etc, etc.
Speaking as a casual infringer...I don't infringe by habit. But living in a third world country, sometimes I literally cannot pay for the content I want. So in those cases, I will infringe...
Anyhow, I don't count myself as a diehard pirate, but I didn't even know about 4/5 sites listed, so I thank the MPAA for improving my options.
I don't type Priii to appear smart, I do it because the notion of three running 'i's tickles my fancy.
Don't forget to leave room for whimsy in your cynical view of the world.
Oh, don't think that was an attack on cynicism, I won't say I'm the most cynical bastard you'll meet, but that's only because I'm sure there's someone worse than me out there.