You had friends? Sounds pretty popular to me.:D Seriously though, I always thought that intelligent people should be able to use their intelligence to affect their social position. What good is this huge evolutionary mental advantage if you can't use it to attract a mate?
I think most geeks choose to be oblivious to 'normal' (common) social customs and then some figure out in their late teens or early 20's that all these other people actually have their own issues and generally don't give much of a fuck about yours unless you bring them up.
People used to say 'computer hacker' because a person was a hacker of computers. When the computer prefix was dropped is about the time that crackers started being called hackers. There are other types of hacking... if you've ever tried to make one good Toyota out of five dead Toyotas, or tried to make a microwave do something it was never designed for, you should understand what hacking is.
Face it, we colonists here in America have been the shining beacon for representative governance. We fought a bloody civil war over the question of human rights, and we have shed blood over the rights of people many times. Whether it was appropriate to do so is another question. Many of us "Yanks" died to save Europe from its own clutches. It wasn't us that caused TWO world wars, it was Europe. Frankly, I think we would be better off pulling out of NATO completely, and let you Europeans self destruct like you always do.
You supplied Germany with materials all the way up until Pearl Harbor, so while you didn't *cause* WW2 you certainly weren't afraid to make a little profit on the side with your (at the time) fledgling military industrial congressional complex. I think my country (New Zealand) with its coalition governments and no electoral college is a better example of democracy in action than America.
I smoke marijuana every day, but not til after work. Usually I start once I get out of the carpark at work, so that the traffic doesn't get me all angry and then I turn up the stereo and have an awesome 10km/hr cruise home. I probably smoke another three to five times before the end of the night, when I go to bed around midnight. On a heavy day for me (weekend) I might smoke 2 grams a day, which isn't a huge amount, but its probably more than most would. I've done this for about six years, and smoked occasionally for a couple of years before that. During that period I've had a 6 month break at the end of 2007 and a few days here and there, but apart from that it's been constant and my level of use hasn't really increased.
So yeah, it would be very difficult for me to smoke 2 ounces a week by myself. If I was really trying, I'm pretty sure I could finish one.
If they were actually 400ug, you're already 25% of the way to a lethal dose (12,000ug).
That's a bit of a fail there... if anything it proves how harmless acid is. A heavy dose (400ug) is about 2.5% of a lethal dose. Saturation doseage is around 800 - 1000ug.
the fact smoking makes one physically tired (do you like sex? well, once a week tops)
BS. I was able to train to run 12km in an hour and a half when I was smoking about 2 packs every 3 days. Sure, my non smoker friends did it closer to an hour, but I still managed.
So, for the average worker in my country (New Zealand, kinda topical I guess) who receive five paid sick days a year, we can afford to be nice to our co workers the first time we get sick each year. Because the transmittable period is about 5 days, maybe longer. That leaves no sick days for hangovers, no sick days for the broken arm or whatever. And if you get sick again in that year, you have to either go to work, spread the sickness, force others to take their time off, or go without pay for 5 days. If you earn a low wage and live paycheque to paycheque you would then be fucked, get behind on rent / utilities, not be able to buy cold medication or food. Thank god we have a decent social welfare system or else we'd probably be looking like the US in terms of homelessness.
Little kids are the worst, they spend six or so hours a day in a room with about thirty other kids, with breaks to go outside and touch things and each other.
Most of the time a cold or a flu strain gets into my work it's from one of the staff members who have kids.
I read the rest of the article, and now I think you are just picking at the minutiae. You know that when people say 'dark age' they generally mean the period from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. When we say that, we are not referring to the battle of good vs evil, light vs dark, god vs satan etc. The period is 'dark' because of the loss of knowledge. It preceeded the 'enlightenment'. I didn't *really* want to get into a semantic argument but rest assured that we are pretty much talking about the same thing.
Strange, because the wikipedia article that you suggested I read fits nicely with my definition...
"The concept of a Dark Age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.[5] Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope."
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She was trying to be cute, you failed.
Awesome movie. Did you get toothgun dreams as well?
You know we call it AFK now right? :D
I think most geeks choose to be oblivious to 'normal' (common) social customs and then some figure out in their late teens or early 20's that all these other people actually have their own issues and generally don't give much of a fuck about yours unless you bring them up.
"However, I don't disagree that school level shooting aren't the result of violent video games." I just woke up... help me out with here.
People used to say 'computer hacker' because a person was a hacker of computers. When the computer prefix was dropped is about the time that crackers started being called hackers. There are other types of hacking... if you've ever tried to make one good Toyota out of five dead Toyotas, or tried to make a microwave do something it was never designed for, you should understand what hacking is.
Actually they have a tendancy to materialise half way through the week at the empty desk next to you.
Face it, we colonists here in America have been the shining beacon for representative governance. We fought a bloody civil war over the question of human rights, and we have shed blood over the rights of people many times. Whether it was appropriate to do so is another question. Many of us "Yanks" died to save Europe from its own clutches. It wasn't us that caused TWO world wars, it was Europe. Frankly, I think we would be better off pulling out of NATO completely, and let you Europeans self destruct like you always do.
You supplied Germany with materials all the way up until Pearl Harbor, so while you didn't *cause* WW2 you certainly weren't afraid to make a little profit on the side with your (at the time) fledgling military industrial congressional complex. I think my country (New Zealand) with its coalition governments and no electoral college is a better example of democracy in action than America.
This is what you call functioning?!
A million papers published on AI, linguistics, philosophy, neurology and related fields on the same subject in the last month? Overestimate much?
Five years is plenty. Authors life + 70 years is a joke.
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I smoke marijuana every day, but not til after work. Usually I start once I get out of the carpark at work, so that the traffic doesn't get me all angry and then I turn up the stereo and have an awesome 10km/hr cruise home. I probably smoke another three to five times before the end of the night, when I go to bed around midnight. On a heavy day for me (weekend) I might smoke 2 grams a day, which isn't a huge amount, but its probably more than most would. I've done this for about six years, and smoked occasionally for a couple of years before that. During that period I've had a 6 month break at the end of 2007 and a few days here and there, but apart from that it's been constant and my level of use hasn't really increased. So yeah, it would be very difficult for me to smoke 2 ounces a week by myself. If I was really trying, I'm pretty sure I could finish one.
Sounds like you should have just sucked it up and finished your degree.
Or grossly exagerated, like most stories told to young whippersnappers.
If they were actually 400ug, you're already 25% of the way to a lethal dose (12,000ug).
That's a bit of a fail there... if anything it proves how harmless acid is. A heavy dose (400ug) is about 2.5% of a lethal dose. Saturation doseage is around 800 - 1000ug.
the fact smoking makes one physically tired (do you like sex? well, once a week tops)
BS. I was able to train to run 12km in an hour and a half when I was smoking about 2 packs every 3 days. Sure, my non smoker friends did it closer to an hour, but I still managed.
A generation of very focused accountants? Sounds exactly like what the US needs right now if you ask me...
So, for the average worker in my country (New Zealand, kinda topical I guess) who receive five paid sick days a year, we can afford to be nice to our co workers the first time we get sick each year. Because the transmittable period is about 5 days, maybe longer. That leaves no sick days for hangovers, no sick days for the broken arm or whatever. And if you get sick again in that year, you have to either go to work, spread the sickness, force others to take their time off, or go without pay for 5 days. If you earn a low wage and live paycheque to paycheque you would then be fucked, get behind on rent / utilities, not be able to buy cold medication or food. Thank god we have a decent social welfare system or else we'd probably be looking like the US in terms of homelessness.
Little kids are the worst, they spend six or so hours a day in a room with about thirty other kids, with breaks to go outside and touch things and each other. Most of the time a cold or a flu strain gets into my work it's from one of the staff members who have kids.
You're an idiot. It arrived in NZ with a group of students who had been to Mexico on a school trip.
I read the rest of the article, and now I think you are just picking at the minutiae. You know that when people say 'dark age' they generally mean the period from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. When we say that, we are not referring to the battle of good vs evil, light vs dark, god vs satan etc. The period is 'dark' because of the loss of knowledge. It preceeded the 'enlightenment'. I didn't *really* want to get into a semantic argument but rest assured that we are pretty much talking about the same thing.
Well if you had a better clue on how to illustrate your point, maybe you wouldn't have come off as a deadweight conservative technophobe.
"The concept of a Dark Age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.[5] Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope."
Yeah, I'll take legal advice from somebody who calls it the DCMA. Cheers buddy. _b