Couldn't that have been due to the smoking? I thought smoking sped up your metabolism directly. Maybe welbutrin had no effect on your weight or actually helped, but other factors outweighed it?
We clearly need to do a control. Start smoking again...
Or for those of us who are skeptical about "videogame addiction", do they develop a real addiction to replace a fake addiction? For that matter, even if the drugs -aren't- really addictive, I guess they could be replacing a fake, socially unhealthy addiction with a fake, physically unhealthy addiction.
Human nature? That's the nature of life. All life forms from bacteria to dogs to people fail to rationally ration themselves. If there's food on the ground, and you don't eat it or take it, something else probably will and you won't get any benefit from it.
Overcoming eons of evolutionarily reinforced instinct to consume all that you can as fast as you can is something that humans are better at than most other species. Lets give ourselves credit where credit is due.
Sadly, that line of reasoning doesn't work, it's never worked for movies. Movies have been around longer, and still we have people who think that movies should only be allowed to contain sanitized bible stories.
For that matter, saying "It's just a walmart greeting, get over it" didn't work when the fox news crowd found out that walmart was saying (gasp) "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
To be fair though, that -was- actually a nefarious plot by us evil "secular progressives" to destroy american and send them all to hell. But they didn't know that.
Where does the federal government get the money to pay for this? Oh, that's right, the taxpayers. So, the taxpayers will be paying for the mistakes of a poor USPTO system.
Who is ultimately the party that will have to raise some objections for anything to change? Oh, that's right, the taxpayers. Maybe if they noticed that the federal government was wasting their tax dollars because the USPTO can't say no to any absurd patent they'd demand that the system be fixed.
Can you scream "privacy issue" so hard that blood is expelled from every single one of your orifices?
Uh...wow, you unintentionally put that in perspective. I don't even care about the privacy issue anymore. Apple can break my jailbroken iphone as long as they don't also send men with blue gloves after me to make me bleed out my orifices.
You are forgetting we are talking about sex here, which throws certain elements of logic out the window.
See, that was my point. I reject the premise that after the crime, suddenly cold logic reinstates itself. I don't think most rapists who leave their victims alive do so because the laws are currently harsher if they murder their victims afterward.
Que the standard partisan trolls screaming about how the government should "keep their hands off of the free market"
They have names you know! And those names are Jmorris42 and commodore64_love.
(I kid. It seems to me that on slashdot there are few people who think unrestrained free market solves everything and Jmorris42 and commodore64_love as far as I can tell don't actually think that in reguards to telecoms. The people you described aren't on slashdot, they're on Fox news.)
the republican party is made up of many individuals with differing opinions, and those opinions sometimes conflict with each other.
Much like the democratic party is made up of people with differing opinions. Specifically, the voters who want the government to do certain things and stand for certain things and stop doing certain things are in disagreement with their elected representatives, who prefer to hide under the table for fear they'll upset someone.
Am I wrong in thinking that's kind of an important detail to leave out?
Maybe worried that right wingers will accuse slashdot of having a liberal bias? That possibility seems to have scared the media into mimicking Fox news in many aspects for reasons passing understanding.
Remember folks, criminals are stupid, but even they are smart enough to count.
Pithy, but I don't accept that as proof that longer jail sentances would turn rapists into murderers through logic and counting. If they were really being logical about it, they'd, you know, not break the law.
And for those of us not in densely populated regions?
You'll still be able to enjoy the benefits of other people using less gas, clogging up the roads, producing fewer greenhouse gases, and the nation being less dependent on petroleum.
Furthermore, those people living in rural areas of countries which use trains seem to avoid dying horrible deaths as a result of the trains. There are really any number of solutions. Some that come to mind are
-Tax breaks for gas-powered vehicles where it's necessary -More gas-efficient vehicles -Move -Other public transit systems (buses) -Pay more for gas and realize that artificially low gas prices were never going to last forever.
There were the three movies, then a short special involving yoda flying around (bit of a long lead-up) called episode 2, and then a long, semi-funny gag reel (for instance, Darth crying when he finds out he's darth vader) called episode 3. I also vaguely recall a long, crappy commercial for the original series called episode 1.
People who pay taxes should realize that they are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the more familiar flavor of terrorist does
There, fixed that for you. Our government has a good track record of going into other countries, identifying future terrorists and despots, and giving them guns. Your pot hookup? Probably contributed less to the Taliban than Uncle Sam.
In our time, we have much better ways to communicate, yet our abilities are stifled far below maximum potential because of what appears to be petty reasons
My impression is that in research, being selfish with data and patenting things is the exception, not the norm. In much of the hot research you read about on front-page NY times, like curing cancer, sure, there's a lot of money to be made there so people are going to be greedy. But most research isn't so profitable. Pretty much all basic biology, there's little to be patented there.
For example it seems to me that if someone isn't sharing their data in my field (cell biology) it's because they don't fully trust their data, no one else has asked for it / cares about their data before they publish it, they're overly paranoid that someone will scoop them, or they're just selfish. (in order of decreasing frequency)
Personally, slashdot is stifling my scientific abilities a lot more than people being greedy with data.
I ride a 600 pound motorcycle, so I use less gas than almost EVERY skinny person that drives their car to work alone. And I get to use the HOV lane, which means I'm not in stop-and-go traffic as often.
You don't drive between cars? In CA, that's specifically legal (though still seems kind of dangerous.)
Slightly off topic, but funny and relating to verifying the above, apparently CA highway patrol gets the frequently asked question "If I'm pregnant, can I use the HOV lane?"
They should probably throw in a logical paradox to make their heads explode or short circuit. Like "It's forbidden to use this picture and name for evil purposes, because people want privacy, even though they put it all up there suggesting they don't want privacy... think about that."
There's only one problem...
"Santa-bot: Nice try. But my head was built with paradox-absorbing crumple-zones"
It does say that friends and family started to get suspicious and asked him whether he was the "John Doe." He said he had to lie or refuse to answer the question. Given that the letter told him he couldn't even speak to an attorney, I suspect that if he were to say "Hypothetically, if I were the one served an NSL, I couldn't answer that question. Unrelated note, I'm going to walk away right now," the FBI wouldn't be above trying to throw him in jail. I'm guessing they -did- make attempts to throw him in jail for talking to an attorney and the ACLU.
Maybe that's why they settled for partially dropping the gag order rather than continuing and trying to get the whole NSL practice declared horribly unconstitutional. I suspect we'll never know.
Doing nothing when North Korea runs missile tests is "better" than before?
If there's a "right" thing to do about insane old North Korea, I think only Miss Cleo knows.
Obama can barely convince his own party to do what he wants. Convincing China to either deal with or let us deal with North Korea would be a tall order for Jesus Christ. Doing in regards to North Korea without China's blessing is either pointless diplomatic theater, or would be getting into an armed conflict with two of the world's biggest armies.
And not for nothing, but Obama has yet to start one war. In my book, that puts him up at least two on Bush.
Er, didn't the documents have personally identifiable information for individual troops, and exact locations of things like bases?
Certainly sending them to a war is the much bigger problem here. The neocons who got them there should be tried as war criminals and hanged, and Obama keeping them there is also endangering them a lot more. I'm also guessing not many terrorists or insurgents were unable to find targets and resorted to surfing the net, making the current claims a little ridiculous. This is clearly more of a PR problem for the white house than actual security issue, yes, but I think it's not as clear cut as we'd like it to be either.
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Couldn't that have been due to the smoking? I thought smoking sped up your metabolism directly. Maybe welbutrin had no effect on your weight or actually helped, but other factors outweighed it?
We clearly need to do a control. Start smoking again...
Or for those of us who are skeptical about "videogame addiction", do they develop a real addiction to replace a fake addiction? For that matter, even if the drugs -aren't- really addictive, I guess they could be replacing a fake, socially unhealthy addiction with a fake, physically unhealthy addiction.
Human nature? That's the nature of life. All life forms from bacteria to dogs to people fail to rationally ration themselves. If there's food on the ground, and you don't eat it or take it, something else probably will and you won't get any benefit from it.
Overcoming eons of evolutionarily reinforced instinct to consume all that you can as fast as you can is something that humans are better at than most other species. Lets give ourselves credit where credit is due.
Santa, I'd like some self control this year for christmas.
Sadly, that line of reasoning doesn't work, it's never worked for movies. Movies have been around longer, and still we have people who think that movies should only be allowed to contain sanitized bible stories.
For that matter, saying "It's just a walmart greeting, get over it" didn't work when the fox news crowd found out that walmart was saying (gasp) "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
To be fair though, that -was- actually a nefarious plot by us evil "secular progressives" to destroy american and send them all to hell. But they didn't know that.
Where does the federal government get the money to pay for this? Oh, that's right, the taxpayers. So, the taxpayers will be paying for the mistakes of a poor USPTO system.
Who is ultimately the party that will have to raise some objections for anything to change? Oh, that's right, the taxpayers. Maybe if they noticed that the federal government was wasting their tax dollars because the USPTO can't say no to any absurd patent they'd demand that the system be fixed.
Can you scream "privacy issue" so hard that blood is expelled from every single one of your orifices?
Uh...wow, you unintentionally put that in perspective. I don't even care about the privacy issue anymore. Apple can break my jailbroken iphone as long as they don't also send men with blue gloves after me to make me bleed out my orifices.
You are forgetting we are talking about sex here, which throws certain elements of logic out the window.
See, that was my point. I reject the premise that after the crime, suddenly cold logic reinstates itself. I don't think most rapists who leave their victims alive do so because the laws are currently harsher if they murder their victims afterward.
Que the standard partisan trolls screaming about how the government should "keep their hands off of the free market"
They have names you know! And those names are Jmorris42 and commodore64_love.
(I kid. It seems to me that on slashdot there are few people who think unrestrained free market solves everything and Jmorris42 and commodore64_love as far as I can tell don't actually think that in reguards to telecoms. The people you described aren't on slashdot, they're on Fox news.)
the republican party is made up of many individuals with differing opinions, and those opinions sometimes conflict with each other.
Much like the democratic party is made up of people with differing opinions. Specifically, the voters who want the government to do certain things and stand for certain things and stop doing certain things are in disagreement with their elected representatives, who prefer to hide under the table for fear they'll upset someone.
Am I wrong in thinking that's kind of an important detail to leave out?
Maybe worried that right wingers will accuse slashdot of having a liberal bias? That possibility seems to have scared the media into mimicking Fox news in many aspects for reasons passing understanding.
Remember folks, criminals are stupid, but even they are smart enough to count.
Pithy, but I don't accept that as proof that longer jail sentances would turn rapists into murderers through logic and counting. If they were really being logical about it, they'd, you know, not break the law.
And for those of us not in densely populated regions?
You'll still be able to enjoy the benefits of other people using less gas, clogging up the roads, producing fewer greenhouse gases, and the nation being less dependent on petroleum.
Furthermore, those people living in rural areas of countries which use trains seem to avoid dying horrible deaths as a result of the trains. There are really any number of solutions. Some that come to mind are
-Tax breaks for gas-powered vehicles where it's necessary
-More gas-efficient vehicles
-Move
-Other public transit systems (buses)
-Pay more for gas and realize that artificially low gas prices were never going to last forever.
There were the three movies, then a short special involving yoda flying around (bit of a long lead-up) called episode 2, and then a long, semi-funny gag reel (for instance, Darth crying when he finds out he's darth vader) called episode 3. I also vaguely recall a long, crappy commercial for the original series called episode 1.
People who pay taxes should realize that they are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the more familiar flavor of terrorist does
There, fixed that for you. Our government has a good track record of going into other countries, identifying future terrorists and despots, and giving them guns. Your pot hookup? Probably contributed less to the Taliban than Uncle Sam.
In our time, we have much better ways to communicate, yet our abilities are stifled far below maximum potential because of what appears to be petty reasons
My impression is that in research, being selfish with data and patenting things is the exception, not the norm. In much of the hot research you read about on front-page NY times, like curing cancer, sure, there's a lot of money to be made there so people are going to be greedy. But most research isn't so profitable. Pretty much all basic biology, there's little to be patented there.
For example it seems to me that if someone isn't sharing their data in my field (cell biology) it's because they don't fully trust their data, no one else has asked for it / cares about their data before they publish it, they're overly paranoid that someone will scoop them, or they're just selfish. (in order of decreasing frequency)
Personally, slashdot is stifling my scientific abilities a lot more than people being greedy with data.
I ride a 600 pound motorcycle, so I use less gas than almost EVERY skinny person that drives their car to work alone. And I get to use the HOV lane, which means I'm not in stop-and-go traffic as often.
You don't drive between cars? In CA, that's specifically legal (though still seems kind of dangerous.)
Slightly off topic, but funny and relating to verifying the above, apparently CA highway patrol gets the frequently asked question "If I'm pregnant, can I use the HOV lane?"
Only in California...
But hey, let's bash fat people
Well, it's sure easier than bashing skinny people, what with their better cardio, faster running speeds, and smaller target area.
No idea how you combine those two into "The claim that this is the first discovery to be made through distributed computing".
Distributed summary writing, mostly.
This kind of behavior is called "not being a complete fucking douche" and is quite intelligent.
Looking at politics and business, I'd say that last part isn't quite true...
They should probably throw in a logical paradox to make their heads explode or short circuit. Like "It's forbidden to use this picture and name for evil purposes, because people want privacy, even though they put it all up there suggesting they don't want privacy... think about that."
There's only one problem...
"Santa-bot: Nice try. But my head was built with paradox-absorbing crumple-zones"
It does say that friends and family started to get suspicious and asked him whether he was the "John Doe." He said he had to lie or refuse to answer the question. Given that the letter told him he couldn't even speak to an attorney, I suspect that if he were to say "Hypothetically, if I were the one served an NSL, I couldn't answer that question. Unrelated note, I'm going to walk away right now," the FBI wouldn't be above trying to throw him in jail. I'm guessing they -did- make attempts to throw him in jail for talking to an attorney and the ACLU.
Maybe that's why they settled for partially dropping the gag order rather than continuing and trying to get the whole NSL practice declared horribly unconstitutional. I suspect we'll never know.
Latinos have a median of 4.5 and African Americans of 8.3
So would that be like conjoined twins or what?
Doing nothing when North Korea runs missile tests is "better" than before?
If there's a "right" thing to do about insane old North Korea, I think only Miss Cleo knows.
Obama can barely convince his own party to do what he wants. Convincing China to either deal with or let us deal with North Korea would be a tall order for Jesus Christ. Doing in regards to North Korea without China's blessing is either pointless diplomatic theater, or would be getting into an armed conflict with two of the world's biggest armies.
And not for nothing, but Obama has yet to start one war. In my book, that puts him up at least two on Bush.
Er, didn't the documents have personally identifiable information for individual troops, and exact locations of things like bases?
Certainly sending them to a war is the much bigger problem here. The neocons who got them there should be tried as war criminals and hanged, and Obama keeping them there is also endangering them a lot more. I'm also guessing not many terrorists or insurgents were unable to find targets and resorted to surfing the net, making the current claims a little ridiculous. This is clearly more of a PR problem for the white house than actual security issue, yes, but I think it's not as clear cut as we'd like it to be either.