I basically agree with what you're stating. But those few seconds impressed me at that moment and I never forgot it. Basically I made re-evaluations of previous thoughts. I can still remember the order in which I made the re-evalutations, or at least so I think. I can be a fast and unconventional thinker, but I never reprocessed so many different thoughts with such big new insights.
I did notice that my conditions slowly deteriorated in those years. During those years I had a lung X-ray photo taken because of pneumonia. Even though all of my stomach was above my diaphragm the photo analyst had not given a notice. He just confirmed the pneumonia. I still have the MRI images that were taken later.
I was in bed in the early morning, I just awoke a couple of minutes before. Without prior warning it felt like all my internal organs started to move up through my trachea. I sensed I was paralyzed, unable to stop it and immediately I felt something like a heart stroke. I thought I had only a few seconds left. In those few seconds everything I had done, still had wanted to do, the implications for my family members went through my head. The brain has an enormous extra capacity when it is needed. I never felt the urge to resist or panicked, just to accept the inevitable.
It later turned out my diaphragm had ruptured and my stomach had gone through that hole, collapsing my left lung and displacing my heart by 10 centimeter. It took five years to diagnose correctly.
Games that give instant rewards for simple motion actions like first person shooters will train the brain to seek out actions IRL that require a small amount of brain activity to provide the 'rewards'. Games that challenge the child to combine information from multiple viewpoints and create a greater reward in the end (parent involvement could do that trick) will train the brain to be useful in a sciencelab.
The amount of money spent on healthcare during the lifespan of a person in Europa is normally divided as follows. 50% for the last year of someone's life and 50% for all years up to the last year. The problem is trying to determine when the last year of someone's life starts.
I read the story. I don't make references towards bomb threads in any remote way on twitter or anywhere else. In 1991, ten years before 9/11 I left from Amsterdam airport. I was greeted by two MP's with automatic rifles in the passenger terminals and the airliner I was on was escorted on the runway by two armoured cars. All passengers were questioned by two independent agents. There and then I figured it is not wise to even remotely hint at explosions. I later got arrested on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking a video of an orange grove. Learn to deal with the world we are living in.
This happens about every other week on an airport somewhere. It will still take some time but gradually more and more people learn not to make such jokes or use such language. Being at an airport is no excuse for using inappropriate language. There once were times (in the nineties) when there were no guns at airport. Now all airports have military style weapons to greet their travellers. Just adopt to the environment a bit more quickly.
People with a degree and taste of freedom available in the Western countries find themselves locked out of every possibility to develop themselves in countries in the Middle-East like Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, etc. etc. if they are not part of the ruling few. If they blame only their own government they flee to the West. If they believe there is a conspiracy between the local rulers at home and the infidels that rule the West they go support violent groups like Al-Qaida that fight the West and their own governments. People without a degree tend to live happy within the constraints of dictatorships. The only long term strategy that can make an end to the wars between countries in the Middle East among themselves and against Western countries is a shift of power from those who have access to the natural resources to those that participate in the workforce. The problem however is that the Industrial Revolution does not take place in those parts of the world where there are abundant natural resources. That has to do with policies set by those who control the access to the resources who do not want changes in the economic order.
Safety and security procedures in Israel are strict, but effective and generally well applied. Terrorists often send 'innocent' foreigners with equipment across the border to test procedures. They now know what does not work. As far as the woman involved concerned, just reading the leaflets with info available at all embassies and airlines would have prevented her laptop in need of replacement.
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I basically agree with what you're stating. But those few seconds impressed me at that moment and I never forgot it. Basically I made re-evaluations of previous thoughts. I can still remember the order in which I made the re-evalutations, or at least so I think. I can be a fast and unconventional thinker, but I never reprocessed so many different thoughts with such big new insights.
I did notice that my conditions slowly deteriorated in those years. During those years I had a lung X-ray photo taken because of pneumonia. Even though all of my stomach was above my diaphragm the photo analyst had not given a notice. He just confirmed the pneumonia. I still have the MRI images that were taken later.
I was in bed in the early morning, I just awoke a couple of minutes before. Without prior warning it felt like all my internal organs started to move up through my trachea. I sensed I was paralyzed, unable to stop it and immediately I felt something like a heart stroke. I thought I had only a few seconds left. In those few seconds everything I had done, still had wanted to do, the implications for my family members went through my head. The brain has an enormous extra capacity when it is needed. I never felt the urge to resist or panicked, just to accept the inevitable. It later turned out my diaphragm had ruptured and my stomach had gone through that hole, collapsing my left lung and displacing my heart by 10 centimeter. It took five years to diagnose correctly.
Games that give instant rewards for simple motion actions like first person shooters will train the brain to seek out actions IRL that require a small amount of brain activity to provide the 'rewards'. Games that challenge the child to combine information from multiple viewpoints and create a greater reward in the end (parent involvement could do that trick) will train the brain to be useful in a sciencelab.
The amount of money spent on healthcare during the lifespan of a person in Europa is normally divided as follows. 50% for the last year of someone's life and 50% for all years up to the last year. The problem is trying to determine when the last year of someone's life starts.
I read the story. I don't make references towards bomb threads in any remote way on twitter or anywhere else. In 1991, ten years before 9/11 I left from Amsterdam airport. I was greeted by two MP's with automatic rifles in the passenger terminals and the airliner I was on was escorted on the runway by two armoured cars. All passengers were questioned by two independent agents. There and then I figured it is not wise to even remotely hint at explosions. I later got arrested on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking a video of an orange grove. Learn to deal with the world we are living in.
This happens about every other week on an airport somewhere. It will still take some time but gradually more and more people learn not to make such jokes or use such language. Being at an airport is no excuse for using inappropriate language. There once were times (in the nineties) when there were no guns at airport. Now all airports have military style weapons to greet their travellers. Just adopt to the environment a bit more quickly.
Hotmail addresses were fine. Until Hotmail was bought by Microsoft. Something about 'Resistance is futile...'
People with a degree and taste of freedom available in the Western countries find themselves locked out of every possibility to develop themselves in countries in the Middle-East like Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, etc. etc. if they are not part of the ruling few. If they blame only their own government they flee to the West. If they believe there is a conspiracy between the local rulers at home and the infidels that rule the West they go support violent groups like Al-Qaida that fight the West and their own governments. People without a degree tend to live happy within the constraints of dictatorships. The only long term strategy that can make an end to the wars between countries in the Middle East among themselves and against Western countries is a shift of power from those who have access to the natural resources to those that participate in the workforce. The problem however is that the Industrial Revolution does not take place in those parts of the world where there are abundant natural resources. That has to do with policies set by those who control the access to the resources who do not want changes in the economic order.
Safety and security procedures in Israel are strict, but effective and generally well applied. Terrorists often send 'innocent' foreigners with equipment across the border to test procedures. They now know what does not work. As far as the woman involved concerned, just reading the leaflets with info available at all embassies and airlines would have prevented her laptop in need of replacement.