Wrong. Addiction is a physical dependency. If you have physical withdrawal symptoms, it's an addictive drug. Caffiene's withdrawal symptom is headaches. LSD is neither addictive nor does it have habituation (in tobacco, the habituation is almost as bad as the physical withdrawal).
Actually, I don't disagree with any of what you said. What exactly is that you think wrong in my comment?
That part I don't know, but it was out of University of New Mexico in about 2003 or thereabouts, from the Psychology Department. Beyond the dissertation I doubt there is a lot that she did publish, but if there is anything I would think that it might have been through MAPS.
OK, thanks. Usually dissertations are a fruit of one or more journal articles, but rarely they can also not have any.
Odd. I requested digital, downloadable versions of both docs yesterday, and today received an estimate of 25.20 pounds for one doc
Right, and this is a good place to correct myself: I finally got an e-mail from the with the same estimate. I swear that, while making the order on their website, the estimate was 0.
It's a bullshit explanation. NATO didn't go to war against Libya, the Libyan people went to war against Qaddafi, and NATO lent support.
I shouldn't reply, because this very sentence shows that you are less than a moron, but rather totally demented. Reference: in my original post I didn't say NATO went to war with Libya. Furthermore, what NATO did in Libya is the same thing NATO could have done in Syria, but didn't. Whatever you call that, it's semantics. It's even more useless semantics because the same intervention from NATO in Libya is what the insurgents in Syria were and are in need of, to protect the civilians from Assad's tank and artillery.
Also, precisely what does NATO have to gain by preventing the Libyans from having more water?
I am not surprised you're showing yet more idiocy, but hey, it's the AC's prerogative, right? First of all, it's not NATO's interest or non-interest. NATO is nothing but the tool of powerful and international rich circles. These have nothing to gain from a prosperous and independent Libya, so they sought to put in place a different regime, one that will play ball (albeit it seems it is as oppressive as the last one) and allow for the commercialization and exploitation of these resources. Gaddafi was keeping those for himself and his countrymen, however crazy he was.
To highlight just how important water in Africa is, think about how the Nile all by itself made Egypt the second most prosperous and powerful country in Africa, after South Africa.
Why not aim for US citizenship instead of getting a Finnish passport if your intention was to go to the US?
My intention was only to participate at a conference (5 days). I wold never want to live in such backwards places that have no universal healthcare and where social mobility has been dead for the last 30 years.
Bullshit on a Popsicle stick. Citation/reference: my parents and friends had to get a Schengen visa often enough (when visiting me, for instance) that I know it's nothing like the US visa at all. Not for a one-week visit it isn't. And even a work visa for a Schengen country doesn't require all the fucking docs that the US visa needs - plus, it doesn't need the archaic payment and weird return envelope.
Gaddafi has built a pipe system to use the huge aquifer under Libya. My friend told me that this was the reason why NATO went to war in Libya but not in Syria. The latter had nothing to offer (a la oil etc.) but the former has a huge treasure, and you can't have someone who doesn't play ball with the rich guys in charge.
Do I share my friend's opinion? Every day more and more.
I don't feel sorry for him or his business. He was knowingly running a warez hub. On top of that, he was running it as a for-profit warez distribution website. What his external marketing showed is meaningless compared to what actually occurred behind the scenes.
I don't feel sorry for anyone who uploaded their only copy of their files to Megaupload, either. It's no one's issue but the uploader's if he was dumb enough to not have multiple physical backups of files that he definitely couldn't lose. Anyone dumb enough to also pay money to share their files on a site that is filled with ads also gets what's coming to him. There are at least 10 sites out there that provide you with a clean, easy to use and efficient service - even for free - for sharing files without any ads.
This whole situation is just children, Brazilians and the mentally challenged just whining about not being able to get their warez, or losing a couple of dollars to a company that shut down and didn't give them a refund. I didn't see any cries from the people who lost hundreds or even thousands of dollars when Etology scammed every advertiser and publisher, last summer.
This whole post is a huge straw man: the story here isn't about feelings of sorrow or otherwise. We hav a very clear (il)legal situation. Changing the topic in this fashion to raise tempers and mislead the attention of the readers - this is called trolling.
The visa application is such a ballache that few people would want to bother, and would take their holidays elsewhere. Business travellers would teleconference or simply not consider doing business in the US.
Truth! Before I got naturalized Finnish citizen, applying for a USA visa was one big, tedious and infinitely irritating procedure where one has to gather ridiculous amounts of documents, like bank statements of the last six months AND payslips AND proof of employment (just to name ONE category of documents). Then, the application fee is paid in some super-archaic way that forces one to go to the bank instead of just whipping out the credit card or doing a bank transfer using internet banking. And finally, you had to provide a special, pre-paid envelope with your application, so they can send you the passport home in that. I didn't mention some other docs one had to collect.
That is very, very interesting! I would be very interested in all and any articles she might have published on this issue. We _should_ have subscriptions to most journals in the field.
If you prefer, you can send by e-mail to howdilydoo {at} gmail {d0t} com
To be precise, caffeine forms a light dependency, but tobacco and alcohol both create strong physical dependencies which require heroic efforts to overcome.
LSD and extasy (i.e. MDMA) are two of the least addictive drugs. In fact, LSD isn't addictive at all. And the side effects are very mild to none in either case.
But yeah, good job federal agents of the USA, your work is making the world a better place.
This is exactly why 60 year old tech is still flying as a bomber. Air power is still king in conventional warfare, and once you've sent in your fleet of high-tech air-superiority and multirole/ground-attack fighters to clean out the AA threats, all you really require next is a very large flying tube that holds a lot of bombs. Hence, the B-52 is still around. You don't need a fancy stealth bomber because penetrating enemy airspace is better left to smaller stealthier craft - or you ignore the airplane altogether and use a cruise missile.
If you think about it, the B-2 is the real antique here. The B-52 is just practical.
This was the gist of my post, though not as explicit and detailed:D
I guess the USAF expects to have the better fighter jets in the decades to come, so they will maintain air superiority - and then, it doesn't matter that your bombers are 80 year old tech. They probably consider this a more viable option than counting on the expensive B-2 being purchased in large numbers.
Disclaimer: I am not an aviation or army expert. This is just something I was thinking about and you are welcome to extend or correct my thoughts.
Seriously, what a fucking blind spot, Woz. If anything, Apple is the most vicious patent suer of all. I really hope B&N fucks Apple's patent portfolio for good.
I am particularly irritated by Woz's assertion, because it just plays into the zombie-Jobs reality distortion field.
Yes because an electric car can really carry me 150 miles per day on my work commute. (Not.)
Firstly, people that work 75 miles away from home represent a tiny minority, and will not determine the overall adoption rate of fully electric vehicles. IOW; just because you, in particular, aren't going to be served by an electric car, doesn't mean squat. Further to t his, though, there already are gas-backed electric cars - they have a small gas-fueled engine to get you through the last few miles, if you run out of electric charge. Finally, 75 miles is within the range of some electric vehicles already today. Once at your work, you can recharge the vehicle during the day.
Off-topic: I wonder how much time do you spend just driving to work and back home?
Lots of things don't work on Windows XP. Just off the top of my head I can think of:
* Windows 2008 R2 RSAT Tools -- you can RDP to a server instead, but that's not always possible or recommended. * PowerShell Active Directory module -- very handy, but doesn't work on XP at all. * You mentioned DX11 * Internet Explorer 9 or later * Location APIs for HTML5 apps * Proper IPv6 support (XP has some experimental support, but in practice it's not very usable) * Any 64-bit only software like the SharePoint 2010 design tools -- I know there's a 64-bit XP edition, I used to use it myself, but few others did, and support for it by hardware vendors was never good and even less these days.
Sure, these are all small things, but they add up. To get an XP machine to "work" you need about a bazillion hotfixes, add-ons, extras, drivers, and even some scripts. On top of that, these days it's getting hard to buy a machine with "only" 4GB of memory, but that's the most XP supports, unless you're a masochist and want to run an unsupported decade-old 64-bit OS instead of just going straight to Windows 7 64-bit like a normal person.
Every time people make a list of features, they say "they are not important but it adds up." This "adds up" doesn't really happen with Win 7. In our research organization, not a single person needs Win 7. We will be upgraded, we know that, but are trying to keep a number of desktops on Win XP, because of some MEMS design apps. Being a research organization, it is full of content-creating people (we make extensive use of MS Office and OpenOffice packages, graphing tools, Autocad and other vector design packages, MEMS layout editors, physics simulators of all kinds, even bitmap editing apps). And yet, not a single one of us 200 needed Win 7. From this perspective, I'd say that list doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I mean, who the fuck needs IE 9 ? Just run Chrome or Firefox like everybody else, FFS. No need to be all special and different by using an exotic browser:D
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I programmed Monopoly into it, complete with color-pixel graphics, all in BASIC!
Well, that's funny, since the TS1000/ZX81 was B/W. It had no color to speak of.
That's what the ZX Spectrum fixed.
Wrong. Addiction is a physical dependency. If you have physical withdrawal symptoms, it's an addictive drug. Caffiene's withdrawal symptom is headaches. LSD is neither addictive nor does it have habituation (in tobacco, the habituation is almost as bad as the physical withdrawal).
Actually, I don't disagree with any of what you said. What exactly is that you think wrong in my comment?
That part I don't know, but it was out of University of New Mexico in about 2003 or thereabouts, from the Psychology Department. Beyond the dissertation I doubt there is a lot that she did publish, but if there is anything I would think that it might have been through MAPS.
OK, thanks. Usually dissertations are a fruit of one or more journal articles, but rarely they can also not have any.
Odd. I requested digital, downloadable versions of both docs yesterday, and today received an estimate of 25.20 pounds for one doc
Right, and this is a good place to correct myself: I finally got an e-mail from the with the same estimate. I swear that, while making the order on their website, the estimate was 0.
Anyhow, I stand utterly and miserably corrected.
Fuck.
It's a bullshit explanation. NATO didn't go to war against Libya, the Libyan people went to war against Qaddafi, and NATO lent support.
I shouldn't reply, because this very sentence shows that you are less than a moron, but rather totally demented. Reference: in my original post I didn't say NATO went to war with Libya. Furthermore, what NATO did in Libya is the same thing NATO could have done in Syria, but didn't. Whatever you call that, it's semantics. It's even more useless semantics because the same intervention from NATO in Libya is what the insurgents in Syria were and are in need of, to protect the civilians from Assad's tank and artillery.
Also, precisely what does NATO have to gain by preventing the Libyans from having more water?
I am not surprised you're showing yet more idiocy, but hey, it's the AC's prerogative, right? First of all, it's not NATO's interest or non-interest. NATO is nothing but the tool of powerful and international rich circles. These have nothing to gain from a prosperous and independent Libya, so they sought to put in place a different regime, one that will play ball (albeit it seems it is as oppressive as the last one) and allow for the commercialization and exploitation of these resources. Gaddafi was keeping those for himself and his countrymen, however crazy he was.
To highlight just how important water in Africa is, think about how the Nile all by itself made Egypt the second most prosperous and powerful country in Africa, after South Africa.
Why not aim for US citizenship instead of getting a Finnish passport if your intention was to go to the US?
My intention was only to participate at a conference (5 days). I wold never want to live in such backwards places that have no universal healthcare and where social mobility has been dead for the last 30 years.
This is NOT a US-specific process!
Bullshit on a Popsicle stick. Citation/reference: my parents and friends had to get a Schengen visa often enough (when visiting me, for instance) that I know it's nothing like the US visa at all. Not for a one-week visit it isn't. And even a work visa for a Schengen country doesn't require all the fucking docs that the US visa needs - plus, it doesn't need the archaic payment and weird return envelope.
Gaddafi has built a pipe system to use the huge aquifer under Libya. My friend told me that this was the reason why NATO went to war in Libya but not in Syria. The latter had nothing to offer (a la oil etc.) but the former has a huge treasure, and you can't have someone who doesn't play ball with the rich guys in charge.
Do I share my friend's opinion? Every day more and more.
I have an Olivetti M10, which is exactly identical to the TRS-80 100, apart for the obvious (the logo).
No laptop has ever had such decadent keyboard as this wee little machine. A joy to use.
I don't feel sorry for him or his business. He was knowingly running a warez hub. On top of that, he was running it as a for-profit warez distribution website. What his external marketing showed is meaningless compared to what actually occurred behind the scenes.
I don't feel sorry for anyone who uploaded their only copy of their files to Megaupload, either. It's no one's issue but the uploader's if he was dumb enough to not have multiple physical backups of files that he definitely couldn't lose. Anyone dumb enough to also pay money to share their files on a site that is filled with ads also gets what's coming to him. There are at least 10 sites out there that provide you with a clean, easy to use and efficient service - even for free - for sharing files without any ads.
This whole situation is just children, Brazilians and the mentally challenged just whining about not being able to get their warez, or losing a couple of dollars to a company that shut down and didn't give them a refund. I didn't see any cries from the people who lost hundreds or even thousands of dollars when Etology scammed every advertiser and publisher, last summer.
This whole post is a huge straw man: the story here isn't about feelings of sorrow or otherwise. We hav a very clear (il)legal situation. Changing the topic in this fashion to raise tempers and mislead the attention of the readers - this is called trolling.
The visa application is such a ballache that few people would want to bother, and would take their holidays elsewhere. Business travellers would teleconference or simply not consider doing business in the US.
Truth! Before I got naturalized Finnish citizen, applying for a USA visa was one big, tedious and infinitely irritating procedure where one has to gather ridiculous amounts of documents, like bank statements of the last six months AND payslips AND proof of employment (just to name ONE category of documents). Then, the application fee is paid in some super-archaic way that forces one to go to the bank instead of just whipping out the credit card or doing a bank transfer using internet banking. And finally, you had to provide a special, pre-paid envelope with your application, so they can send you the passport home in that. I didn't mention some other docs one had to collect.
A fucking quest!
Medium option: Paper copies
Why didn't you order the digital, downloadable option? I did, and they estimate came back to 0 (i.e. free).
That said, I still don't have a link for the download.
I haven't watched the Olympic games .. shit, I don't even remember when I watched them the last time. I vaguely remember watching the games in Moscow.
I really couldn't get over the corporate crap and the whole irrelevance whether this or that country won. Who really gives a shit?
Where it will be hidden behind a paywall
...for the next 70 years or so. Plenty of time for a cure to be found! Win-win!
On a serious note: why not on PLoS ONE? Impact factor of ~10 not good enough for him?
That is very, very interesting! I would be very interested in all and any articles she might have published on this issue. We _should_ have subscriptions to most journals in the field.
If you prefer, you can send by e-mail to howdilydoo {at} gmail {d0t} com
To be precise, caffeine forms a light dependency, but tobacco and alcohol both create strong physical dependencies which require heroic efforts to overcome.
LSD and extasy (i.e. MDMA) are two of the least addictive drugs. In fact, LSD isn't addictive at all. And the side effects are very mild to none in either case.
But yeah, good job federal agents of the USA, your work is making the world a better place.
This is exactly why 60 year old tech is still flying as a bomber. Air power is still king in conventional warfare, and once you've sent in your fleet of high-tech air-superiority and multirole/ground-attack fighters to clean out the AA threats, all you really require next is a very large flying tube that holds a lot of bombs. Hence, the B-52 is still around. You don't need a fancy stealth bomber because penetrating enemy airspace is better left to smaller stealthier craft - or you ignore the airplane altogether and use a cruise missile.
If you think about it, the B-2 is the real antique here. The B-52 is just practical.
This was the gist of my post, though not as explicit and detailed :D
I guess the USAF expects to have the better fighter jets in the decades to come, so they will maintain air superiority - and then, it doesn't matter that your bombers are 80 year old tech. They probably consider this a more viable option than counting on the expensive B-2 being purchased in large numbers.
Disclaimer: I am not an aviation or army expert. This is just something I was thinking about and you are welcome to extend or correct my thoughts.
Sue everyone for "copying" your brilliant ideas of icons in a grid and rounded corners, and expect some backlash.
"giving away" but you're tied into a 2 year contract?
I don't think "giving away" means what you think it means.
But seriously, this is a slashvertisment at it's utter worst. This is the pits, Slashdot.
So, basically, the GP is totally, utterly debunked in every aspect and every statement.
Seriously, what a fucking blind spot, Woz. If anything, Apple is the most vicious patent suer of all. I really hope B&N fucks Apple's patent portfolio for good.
I am particularly irritated by Woz's assertion, because it just plays into the zombie-Jobs reality distortion field.
Yes because an electric car can really carry me 150 miles per day on my work commute. (Not.)
Firstly, people that work 75 miles away from home represent a tiny minority, and will not determine the overall adoption rate of fully electric vehicles. IOW; just because you, in particular, aren't going to be served by an electric car, doesn't mean squat.
Further to t his, though, there already are gas-backed electric cars - they have a small gas-fueled engine to get you through the last few miles, if you run out of electric charge.
Finally, 75 miles is within the range of some electric vehicles already today. Once at your work, you can recharge the vehicle during the day.
Off-topic: I wonder how much time do you spend just driving to work and back home?
Lots of things don't work on Windows XP. Just off the top of my head I can think of:
* Windows 2008 R2 RSAT Tools -- you can RDP to a server instead, but that's not always possible or recommended.
* PowerShell Active Directory module -- very handy, but doesn't work on XP at all.
* You mentioned DX11
* Internet Explorer 9 or later
* Location APIs for HTML5 apps
* Proper IPv6 support (XP has some experimental support, but in practice it's not very usable)
* Any 64-bit only software like the SharePoint 2010 design tools -- I know there's a 64-bit XP edition, I used to use it myself, but few others did, and support for it by hardware vendors was never good and even less these days.
Sure, these are all small things, but they add up. To get an XP machine to "work" you need about a bazillion hotfixes, add-ons, extras, drivers, and even some scripts. On top of that, these days it's getting hard to buy a machine with "only" 4GB of memory, but that's the most XP supports, unless you're a masochist and want to run an unsupported decade-old 64-bit OS instead of just going straight to Windows 7 64-bit like a normal person.
Every time people make a list of features, they say "they are not important but it adds up." This "adds up" doesn't really happen with Win 7. In our research organization, not a single person needs Win 7. We will be upgraded, we know that, but are trying to keep a number of desktops on Win XP, because of some MEMS design apps. Being a research organization, it is full of content-creating people (we make extensive use of MS Office and OpenOffice packages, graphing tools, Autocad and other vector design packages, MEMS layout editors, physics simulators of all kinds, even bitmap editing apps). And yet, not a single one of us 200 needed Win 7. From this perspective, I'd say that list doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I mean, who the fuck needs IE 9 ? Just run Chrome or Firefox like everybody else, FFS. No need to be all special and different by using an exotic browser :D