Except the ridiculous interest and the fact that it takes years and years and years to pay it off. Item one in college: DO NOT BORROW EVEN ONE DOLLAR UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Gimme a break! 2.8% is ridiculous intrest? Yeah, that's what I pay on my student loans. Just a hair below average inflation. Which means, you guessed it, adjusted for inflation I make money on my loans. I'm not a lucky as my Dad, who had his student loans in the 70s when inflation was pushing 10%. He spent a decade paying those off while his pay rate kept pace with inflation.
And what are you recommending as an alternative, if people can't work and should take out loans, what should they do?
I just graduated from college and I know too many people who failed classes because they refused to take the absurdly cheap loans they were offered but worked 30+ hours a week instead.
Take the cheap money, pay it off when you can afford it, and don't get a credit card.
Melatonin is good for getting over jetlag, etc. But relying on it on a regular basis will only make things worse. If you take melatonin your body responds by producing less == worse sleep.
I had some trouble with insomnia and my Aunt (who is a Psych nurse practitioner) suggested I try an SSRI (ie. prozac, paxil, etc.). Apparantly insomnia is often triggered by the a deficiency of Seratonin, which can be fixed with Prozac and the like. Note: just because these are mainly depression medications doesn't mean you have to be depressed to take them.
I ended up fixing my sleep problems by getting a latex foam matress pad from CostCo (about $120) instead 'cause I don't have insurance to pay for meds.
Ask you doctor, there are non narcotic pharmacological solutions to this problem.
I had a class once where a classmate used the term USAmericans in discussion and presentations. Needless to say this annoyed the living crap out of me.
I don't think I've ever met anyone who used the term "American" to refer to North and South Americans. I've noticed Canadians sometimes refer to themselves as "North American" instead of Canadian. Maybe Americans should do the same, I don't think I'd really mind getting lumped together with Canada and Mexico, they seem like good folks.
The other term that I wish had more widespread use is "Yankee". It's great 'cause it has some sociopolitical weight in reference to the Civil War, and a not so subtle masturbation reference thrown in. I've never met any American who was offended at being called a "Yankee" (Except maybe Mets fans).
Does anyone else get the feeling that the authors of all of these anti-GTA articles haven't actually played the game?
Ok, it is violent and often that violence is directed towards innocent people, but, violence towards innocent people is not the main point of the game. I mean, you can kill police or civilians but there are consequences. And the whole thing about the Haitians has nothing to do with innocent people from Haiti. You're in the middle of a gang war between the Cuban and the Haitians.
I guess the real problem I have is that people seem to thing that by censoring the game that we'll get rid of violence between racial groups, etc. It's like saying movies that depict racially motivated violence should be censored. Our country will be in a sad state if that ever happens.
I think part of the point of showing these kind of things is that we remember that they do happen. If we pretend there is no racism it won't go away, just get worse.
Wow, that's an awesome concept. I think you just blew my mind.
Oh and by the way, why not warm grits? We wouldn't want to burn her boobies.
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Yeah, when I first saw the pictures I had a fait urge to go and find the cube house. Then I realized that I work in faceless corporate America and every office looks alike.
Actually, from what I recall the Evergreen chip was really a 486DX running at 100 Mhz or higher. They just billed it as a pentium speed. Really I think it's fair because the very late production 486's (that is after pentiums were out for a while) weren't much slower than the early pentiums.
On a totally pointless side note, I find it annoying that the plural for pentium isn't pentia as it should be.
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An electric menorah is about as true to judaism as a glow in the dark plastic virgin mary is true to catholicism.
So, it does count then.
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I don't get it. If God came to me and told me to jump of a cliff, of course I'd do it. I mean is that really a good argument?
Have you ever had God tell you to do anything personally? No, and I'm sure you'd be damn surprised if "he" did.
To keep this on topic: IANARabbi but I don't think there is anything in jewish tradition that says a USB powered LED menora doesn't count. Technically it should be oil lamps, I think.
Regarding the nail clipper, I don't know if you could open wine with it, but you can open beer bottles by wedging one edge of it under the cap while holding it around the neck with one hand. Use your index finger of the holding hand as the fulcrum and pry the top off.
Yeah the lighter trick. I always end up hurting my index finger and ruining my lighter. I'll try it with the nail clipper though.
Ah clearly you're not as much of an alcoholic as some of us.
When I was in college I had a little corkscrew that fit on a keychain. That thing and the fact that my roommate had a bottle opener (i.e. non cork) on his keychain made us unstoppable.
I do think the screwdriver can be a lot more usefull. One of my friends got the Swiss army geek kit screwdriver for a wedding present, the one with interchangable bits, that thing rocked.
Now the only tool I keep on my keychain is a nail clipper. You can use it to strip wire, clip zip ties, and the little file makes a passable screwdriver. Oh yeah, and you can clip your nails with it. Now if I could only figure out how to open bottle with it...
Yeah, I've pretty much learned my shopping skills from my mother. Her theory is that all of the truly insane shoppers go early (like the day after Thanksgiving) so if you wait until Christmas eve it'll just be the slackers who realize they have all day to get gifts.
So far her system hasn't failed me, especially since I tend not to buy people trendy gifts that are likely to run out.
Now, if only I could convince my family to celebrate Christmas a day late, I could go to all those after Christmas sales...
Yeah, you're right about the bugs eating themselves out of house and home. For those who've made beer, yeast is a good example of this, they generally eat all they can until their waste product (alcohol, a.k.a the good stuff) is so strong they can't survive.
The article mentioned the bugs feeding on the free hydrogen from the slag. It wasn't clear if that was the contaminant or just something else present in the slag.
The impression I got was that these little critters live in a similar way to their cousins at the bottom of the ocean, and weren't participating in the oxygen/CO2 system that we enjoy.
I could still see them being usefull for cleanup even if they didn't eat the contaminant. Maybe they concentrate it or absorb some of it, so that we can just clean up the dead bacteria after they eat their fill. It's kind of like scraping the yeast from the bottom of your carboy when you're done with primary fermentation.
I don't know much about these kinds of bugs but I used to live in an area that was close to an old copper mine. The community tried all kinds of things to deal with the slag, including planting sunflowers (a.k.a. Jerusalem Artichokes) in it. IANABiologist, does anyone know if these things could actually be used to clean up slag? The article didn't really go in depth.
Well, I've never studied church latin very much, being a classicist. I don't see any reason why the church wouldn't use the same language for official purposes as they do in the Mass (other than the Latin Mass being a relatively static document). I'm not sure what you mean by neo-Latin. Having studied the form the Romans used, I tend to compose in classical Latin and I usually avoid Ecclesiastical neologisms.
Check out this site and try looking up some words used in Church latin (try a hymn or the text of the Mass) you'll find that the etymology of some of them will be farily new because Latin vocabulary is changing.
Then go to the Vatican and compare what you hear there with two-thousand-year-old texts.
Nope, sorry. The Latin they speak in the church is actually quite different from what was spoken by the Romans. In some ways proving that Latin isn't dead by your definition. Eccleciastical Latin (what the church uses) has fairly different pronunciation and a lot of new vocabulary, sortof like modern english vs. shakespeare.
Julius Ceasar's "Veni, vidi, vici" didn't sound like "veenee, veedee, veechee" but more like "waynee, weedee, weaky"
For a good demonstration of this, get a classics major and a music major to read the text of the same latin hymn. Of course that could start a fistfight.
In some ways the whistling language is probably quite far from dead, by your definition, because as it falls from general use it'll get more condensed.
My ISP is pretty friendly to people running their own servers. Maybe you should just send them a friendly letter explaining your problem. Then they can keep track of you so that they know you aren't sending spam. If they can't open the port just for you, maybe they could set up some port forwarding, or even the SSH tunneling that other people have suggested.
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Except the ridiculous interest and the fact that it takes years and years and years to pay it off.
Item one in college: DO NOT BORROW EVEN ONE DOLLAR UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Gimme a break! 2.8% is ridiculous intrest? Yeah, that's what I pay on my student loans. Just a hair below average inflation. Which means, you guessed it, adjusted for inflation I make money on my loans. I'm not a lucky as my Dad, who had his student loans in the 70s when inflation was pushing 10%. He spent a decade paying those off while his pay rate kept pace with inflation.
And what are you recommending as an alternative, if people can't work and should take out loans, what should they do?
I just graduated from college and I know too many people who failed classes because they refused to take the absurdly cheap loans they were offered but worked 30+ hours a week instead.
Take the cheap money, pay it off when you can afford it, and don't get a credit card.
Gasp! No!
Melatonin is good for getting over jetlag, etc. But relying on it on a regular basis will only make things worse. If you take melatonin your body responds by producing less == worse sleep.
I had some trouble with insomnia and my Aunt (who is a Psych nurse practitioner) suggested I try an SSRI (ie. prozac, paxil, etc.). Apparantly insomnia is often triggered by the a deficiency of Seratonin, which can be fixed with Prozac and the like. Note: just because these are mainly depression medications doesn't mean you have to be depressed to take them.
I ended up fixing my sleep problems by getting a latex foam matress pad from CostCo (about $120) instead 'cause I don't have insurance to pay for meds.
Ask you doctor, there are non narcotic pharmacological solutions to this problem.
No, I have no problem with you doing that.
Um... ever hear of slavery?
I know that's not why the war was fought but seriously.
Georgia...revolver...pickup truck...shotgun
wow, I think you've proved my point of why I'd like to be called a yankee.
I had a class once where a classmate used the term USAmericans in discussion and presentations. Needless to say this annoyed the living crap out of me.
I don't think I've ever met anyone who used the term "American" to refer to North and South Americans. I've noticed Canadians sometimes refer to themselves as "North American" instead of Canadian. Maybe Americans should do the same, I don't think I'd really mind getting lumped together with Canada and Mexico, they seem like good folks.
The other term that I wish had more widespread use is "Yankee". It's great 'cause it has some sociopolitical weight in reference to the Civil War, and a not so subtle masturbation reference thrown in. I've never met any American who was offended at being called a "Yankee" (Except maybe Mets fans).
Does anyone else get the feeling that the authors of all of these anti-GTA articles haven't actually played the game?
Ok, it is violent and often that violence is directed towards innocent people, but, violence towards innocent people is not the main point of the game. I mean, you can kill police or civilians but there are consequences. And the whole thing about the Haitians has nothing to do with innocent people from Haiti. You're in the middle of a gang war between the Cuban and the Haitians.
I guess the real problem I have is that people seem to thing that by censoring the game that we'll get rid of violence between racial groups, etc. It's like saying movies that depict racially motivated violence should be censored. Our country will be in a sad state if that ever happens.
I think part of the point of showing these kind of things is that we remember that they do happen. If we pretend there is no racism it won't go away, just get worse.
I know, I'm preaching to the choir.
so fast Slashdot would Slashdot itself.
Wow, that's an awesome concept. I think you just blew my mind.
Oh and by the way, why not warm grits? We wouldn't want to burn her boobies.
Yeah, when I first saw the pictures I had a fait urge to go and find the cube house. Then I realized that I work in faceless corporate America and every office looks alike.
Thanks for the link, much better than my hazy recollection of hardware I couldn't afford.
+1 informative
Actually, from what I recall the Evergreen chip was really a 486DX running at 100 Mhz or higher. They just billed it as a pentium speed. Really I think it's fair because the very late production 486's (that is after pentiums were out for a while) weren't much slower than the early pentiums.
On a totally pointless side note, I find it annoying that the plural for pentium isn't pentia as it should be.
An electric menorah is about as true to judaism as a glow in the dark plastic virgin mary is true to catholicism.
So, it does count then.
I don't get it. If God came to me and told me to jump of a cliff, of course I'd do it. I mean is that really a good argument?
Have you ever had God tell you to do anything personally? No, and I'm sure you'd be damn surprised if "he" did.
To keep this on topic: IANARabbi but I don't think there is anything in jewish tradition that says a USB powered LED menora doesn't count. Technically it should be oil lamps, I think.
Regarding the nail clipper, I don't know if you could open wine with it, but you can open beer bottles by wedging one edge of it under the cap while holding it around the neck with one hand. Use your index finger of the holding hand as the fulcrum and pry the top off.
Yeah the lighter trick. I always end up hurting my index finger and ruining my lighter. I'll try it with the nail clipper though.
Ah clearly you're not as much of an alcoholic as some of us.
When I was in college I had a little corkscrew that fit on a keychain. That thing and the fact that my roommate had a bottle opener (i.e. non cork) on his keychain made us unstoppable.
I do think the screwdriver can be a lot more usefull. One of my friends got the Swiss army geek kit screwdriver for a wedding present, the one with interchangable bits, that thing rocked.
Now the only tool I keep on my keychain is a nail clipper. You can use it to strip wire, clip zip ties, and the little file makes a passable screwdriver. Oh yeah, and you can clip your nails with it. Now if I could only figure out how to open bottle with it...
Yeah, I've pretty much learned my shopping skills from my mother. Her theory is that all of the truly insane shoppers go early (like the day after Thanksgiving) so if you wait until Christmas eve it'll just be the slackers who realize they have all day to get gifts.
So far her system hasn't failed me, especially since I tend not to buy people trendy gifts that are likely to run out.
Now, if only I could convince my family to celebrate Christmas a day late, I could go to all those after Christmas sales...
How could a five ounce orange carry a one pound coconut?
if they'd get the same results if they tested gay men (with the appropriate pictures). Or if they showed pictures of attractive men to straight men.
It would be interesting to see if this breaks down on gender lines or sexual preference lines.
Oh man! I used to love this game when I was a kid. It's about as hard to convince people to play it as monopoly though.
I don't think I ever really got into the strategy because I was probably about 12. I do remember it being a lot of fun.
Yeah, you're right about the bugs eating themselves out of house and home. For those who've made beer, yeast is a good example of this, they generally eat all they can until their waste product (alcohol, a.k.a the good stuff) is so strong they can't survive.
The article mentioned the bugs feeding on the free hydrogen from the slag. It wasn't clear if that was the contaminant or just something else present in the slag.
The impression I got was that these little critters live in a similar way to their cousins at the bottom of the ocean, and weren't participating in the oxygen/CO2 system that we enjoy.
I could still see them being usefull for cleanup even if they didn't eat the contaminant. Maybe they concentrate it or absorb some of it, so that we can just clean up the dead bacteria after they eat their fill. It's kind of like scraping the yeast from the bottom of your carboy when you're done with primary fermentation.
I don't know much about these kinds of bugs but I used to live in an area that was close to an old copper mine. The community tried all kinds of things to deal with the slag, including planting sunflowers (a.k.a. Jerusalem Artichokes) in it. IANABiologist, does anyone know if these things could actually be used to clean up slag? The article didn't really go in depth.
Well, I've never studied church latin very much, being a classicist. I don't see any reason why the church wouldn't use the same language for official purposes as they do in the Mass (other than the Latin Mass being a relatively static document). I'm not sure what you mean by neo-Latin. Having studied the form the Romans used, I tend to compose in classical Latin and I usually avoid Ecclesiastical neologisms.
Check out this site and try looking up some words used in Church latin (try a hymn or the text of the Mass) you'll find that the etymology of some of them will be farily new because Latin vocabulary is changing.
Then go to the Vatican and compare what you hear there with two-thousand-year-old texts.
Nope, sorry. The Latin they speak in the church is actually quite different from what was spoken by the Romans. In some ways proving that Latin isn't dead by your definition. Eccleciastical Latin (what the church uses) has fairly different pronunciation and a lot of new vocabulary, sortof like modern english vs. shakespeare.
Julius Ceasar's "Veni, vidi, vici" didn't sound like "veenee, veedee, veechee" but more like "waynee, weedee, weaky"
For a good demonstration of this, get a classics major and a music major to read the text of the same latin hymn. Of course that could start a fistfight.
In some ways the whistling language is probably quite far from dead, by your definition, because as it falls from general use it'll get more condensed.
My ISP is pretty friendly to people running their own servers. Maybe you should just send them a friendly letter explaining your problem. Then they can keep track of you so that they know you aren't sending spam. If they can't open the port just for you, maybe they could set up some port forwarding, or even the SSH tunneling that other people have suggested.
I think you're thinking of "Mona Lisa Overdrive" but they weren't laptops, the boxes were just art objects.