Don't forget nutrition. If you don't feed your brain right, it's not going to work for you. I could be wrong, but I'd bet your probably missing some veggies in your diet, maybe some protein.
I was vegetarian for most of my life and vegan for 14 years. In 02, at the age of 44, i started eating fish and i noticed a distinct improvement in my memory over the next year or two.
I stopped drinking beer at the same time - which was probably related too.
Making people unhappy is fundamental to the business strategy of the television companies.
They pump out depressing boring shit non-stop to make people watching feel as miserable and discontented as possible. Then they show you ads for crap that promises to make you happy - and you rush out and buy it out of desperation.
The television companies would never make a cent if they made their audience feel happy and contented.
But seriously, bandwidth isn't a finite resource like food or water or oil.
It is. Sort of. It certainly is in some countries, anyway - in effect, at least.
Australia, for example, has a limited amount of bandwidth to the rest of the world. It is phenomenally expensive to lay cables from Australia to the US for example, and you can't just pop out there and chuck a new cable in when you run out of bandwidth.
Having said that, though, the expense of international bandwidth isn't the only thing that keeps Australian internet bandwidth extortionately priced. One big factor is (the largest telco) Telstra's anti-competitive antics - in particular, their refusal to peer with other networks in all major cities. They peer in one city only - in the far south east corner of a continent the size of the US or Europe, which results in a phenomenal waste of bandwidth.
The only paper i read regularly is the Observer - and they're not normally given to hysteria.
But my original comment wasn't exactly meant as an accurate statistical analysis - it was a comment on the state of the UK. I've lived in several other countries and travelled to many more - and, no, every other country isn't as bad.
Britain's a joke. I've been living there for most of the last year and barely a week seems to have gone by without a 12-14 year old kid getting stabbed or a large batch of confidential personal data going missing from some government department or other.
It's unbelievable. When are they going to get their shit together???
(Before anyone gets too narky, i'm British - i just haven't lived there for nearly 25 years).
[......] talking about a country that started at a tyrannical baseline and has moved away from it.
Yeah, probably about as far away from it as any country has ever moved in the history of the world.
But that move was only brought about by a long period of concerted fighting - mainly by the trade unions, but also by organizations like tenants unions etc. The problem nowadays is that half the population has grown up taking the easy life for granted and have no conception of how much (real) bloodshed and struggling went into getting there - and therefore have no idea that you have to fight to keep that lifestyle. It doesn't require as much effort to keep it as it took to get it in the first place - or as much as it will take to get it back again when it's gone - but it still takes an effort.
Education is the key. If you don't understand your history, you can't understand the present. Or, in the words of Jamaican activist, Marcus Garvey:
"A people without a knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Australia is still a very young country, it has never had to deal with oppression or tyranny in any way
That's so totally not true. Australia was founded on tyranny and oppression. It started out as a prison camp where the inmates and the guards alike were subjected to the most appalling oppression and tyranny. It's from those roots that Australia's strong culture of disrespect for authority has come.
Australians fought back against landlords and evictions during harder times and, in general, they don't take shit.
But they are pretty apathetic. In most of the densely populated parts of Australia it's always much easier to go to the beach and ignore it than it is to fight back. There is a limit to what Australians will take though.
Do you know the etymology of the word "assassin"? Check out the history of the Hashshashins. Admittedly, the etymology is disputed, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. (It's a good story anyway, and i'm sticking to it!)
Mobile phones stop affecting you as soon as you turn them off. THC can still be detected by a piss test for at least 60 days after it was last ingested.
Yeah, but drug deaths aren't just caused by overdoses. A significant proportion of alcohol-related deaths, for example, are caused by accidents and i'm sure there have been lethal accidents where cannabis was the main factor.
Look, it is that very prohibition which inflates the price and causes these farmers to resort to growing poppies instead of say - wheat.
That's absolutely not true in Afghanistan. The reason why they grow poppies instead of wheat is because wheat wouldn't grow in those places anyway. Virtually nothing else of any value will grow where poppies are grown, without irrigation - and they can't afford that. They really don't have a choice.
However, there are plenty of places in the world where poppies are grown legally for pharmaceutical use where other crops could be grown instead. Growing other crops in those places should be subsidised and the poppy harvest in Afghanistan should be legalised and bought for pharmaceutical use. Unfortunately, the US government doesn't think like that.
it doesn't lead to psychosis, like weed and speed and cocaine can.
That's not true, unfortunately. Opiate use can lead to a form of psychosis - as can anything that keeps you in a state of confusion for months or years on end. The strain of coping with that confusion has some very nasty effects on your thought processes.
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I reckon any human willing to hang around on /. is different from a normal human!
Drink less and improve your memory.
I was vegetarian for most of my life and vegan for 14 years. In 02, at the age of 44, i started eating fish and i noticed a distinct improvement in my memory over the next year or two.
I stopped drinking beer at the same time - which was probably related too.
11th of April? Nothing much.
Making people unhappy is fundamental to the business strategy of the television companies.
They pump out depressing boring shit non-stop to make people watching feel as miserable and discontented as possible. Then they show you ads for crap that promises to make you happy - and you rush out and buy it out of desperation.
The television companies would never make a cent if they made their audience feel happy and contented.
They're not happy, they're just stoned. Get them straight for a few weeks and see how happy they are!
They're happier if they get "5, Funny" for their comment.
Not even remotely. But i do like a challenge. And security in general is a fascinating subject.
I just think it would be technically very interesting.
I wish i was criminally inclined - it must be fun getting that stuff up and running!
Yeah, interesting. As you say, it's hard to get a clear picture of the infrastructure.
But just because there's lots of it doesn't make it infinite, of course! ;-)
It is. Sort of. It certainly is in some countries, anyway - in effect, at least.
Australia, for example, has a limited amount of bandwidth to the rest of the world. It is phenomenally expensive to lay cables from Australia to the US for example, and you can't just pop out there and chuck a new cable in when you run out of bandwidth.
Having said that, though, the expense of international bandwidth isn't the only thing that keeps Australian internet bandwidth extortionately priced. One big factor is (the largest telco) Telstra's anti-competitive antics - in particular, their refusal to peer with other networks in all major cities. They peer in one city only - in the far south east corner of a continent the size of the US or Europe, which results in a phenomenal waste of bandwidth.
The only paper i read regularly is the Observer - and they're not normally given to hysteria.
But my original comment wasn't exactly meant as an accurate statistical analysis - it was a comment on the state of the UK. I've lived in several other countries and travelled to many more - and, no, every other country isn't as bad.
As i never read the Daily Mail, i guess that must mean it would seem even worse if i did!
Britain's a joke. I've been living there for most of the last year and barely a week seems to have gone by without a 12-14 year old kid getting stabbed or a large batch of confidential personal data going missing from some government department or other.
It's unbelievable. When are they going to get their shit together???
(Before anyone gets too narky, i'm British - i just haven't lived there for nearly 25 years).
Try saying that after a 17kg chunk hits you on the head at 100mph!
Yeah, probably about as far away from it as any country has ever moved in the history of the world.
But that move was only brought about by a long period of concerted fighting - mainly by the trade unions, but also by organizations like tenants unions etc. The problem nowadays is that half the population has grown up taking the easy life for granted and have no conception of how much (real) bloodshed and struggling went into getting there - and therefore have no idea that you have to fight to keep that lifestyle. It doesn't require as much effort to keep it as it took to get it in the first place - or as much as it will take to get it back again when it's gone - but it still takes an effort.
Education is the key. If you don't understand your history, you can't understand the present. Or, in the words of Jamaican activist, Marcus Garvey:
"A people without a knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
That's so totally not true. Australia was founded on tyranny and oppression. It started out as a prison camp where the inmates and the guards alike were subjected to the most appalling oppression and tyranny. It's from those roots that Australia's strong culture of disrespect for authority has come.
Australians fought back against landlords and evictions during harder times and, in general, they don't take shit.
But they are pretty apathetic. In most of the densely populated parts of Australia it's always much easier to go to the beach and ignore it than it is to fight back. There is a limit to what Australians will take though.
Do you know the etymology of the word "assassin"? Check out the history of the Hashshashins. Admittedly, the etymology is disputed, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. (It's a good story anyway, and i'm sticking to it!)
That's true. But i haven't advocated banning anything, have i?
Mobile phones stop affecting you as soon as you turn them off. THC can still be detected by a piss test for at least 60 days after it was last ingested.
Will it cure cancers that were caused by beer in the first place?
Yeah, but drug deaths aren't just caused by overdoses. A significant proportion of alcohol-related deaths, for example, are caused by accidents and i'm sure there have been lethal accidents where cannabis was the main factor.
That's absolutely not true in Afghanistan. The reason why they grow poppies instead of wheat is because wheat wouldn't grow in those places anyway. Virtually nothing else of any value will grow where poppies are grown, without irrigation - and they can't afford that. They really don't have a choice.
However, there are plenty of places in the world where poppies are grown legally for pharmaceutical use where other crops could be grown instead. Growing other crops in those places should be subsidised and the poppy harvest in Afghanistan should be legalised and bought for pharmaceutical use. Unfortunately, the US government doesn't think like that.
That's not true, unfortunately. Opiate use can lead to a form of psychosis - as can anything that keeps you in a state of confusion for months or years on end. The strain of coping with that confusion has some very nasty effects on your thought processes.
If you mean 0 deaths, then i very much doubt that's true.
However, there's only a subtle difference between being dead and wasting your whole life living in a trance.