I don't know any smokers (real smokers, not an occasional cigarette "socially") who can run a marathon. None. I've known several people who have run marathons and none of them smoke. I smoked for about 15 years (over 2 packs a day at the end) and there was no way in hell I was running down the street unless chased during that time, certainly wasn't in any shape to run a marathon. When I got sick as a smoker I got really sick, lasting weeks rather than days. As a nonsmoker (I quit 8 or 9 years ago) I rarely get sick at all (I exercise a lot more too now) and when I do it is over in a couple days. I have watched other smokers get ill and die as a result of their smoking. My PhD advisor smoked all his life and I watched him deteriorate badly over the last 10 years of it. Emphysema is not a pretty way to go.
I am not denying that there may be positive health effects from tobacco under the right conditions, or that there might even be people who can run a marathon while smoking heavily, but for the overwhelming majority of human beings, smoking is harmful on balance. And if there are any positive pharmacological effects of nicotine, there are safer ways to deliver the drug to your system than drawing soot into your lungs.
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Halfway through the marathon, he collapsed to the ground wheezing.
I have been looking for a place like this!
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There is a place you can go where projective vomiting indoors is acceptable? Do they have a full bar?
Vegas is probably the most surveilled city in the U.S. Keeping rental car records and hotel receipts pales in comparison to the information stored by the casinos. What's frightening is that the government collecting such information about ordinary Americans doesn't amount to much on its own in terms of fighting terrorism, but it would offer unscrupulous feds a convenient database of information for blackmail purposes (as well as for a variety of investigations, both legal and illegal). A call by the feds to your hotel/casino could probably garner fairly detailed information about your activities in the city, including video of most of your public activities on the strip and in many cases even your activities in your room. Again, if the suspect isn't holding a terrorist or mafia meeting in Vegas, such information is probably not worth much for investigative purposes, but imagine its utility for blackmail purposes.
I realize this is a joke, but there have been studies done of how the body is affected by music. I don't know about the "brown note," but the idea that bass "rattles your colon" is not far off. Interestingly a recent issue of Playboy (I, um, read the articles) had a brief note about this when somebody wrote in and asked what frequencies make women the horniest; it turns out someone did a study to determine exactly that. The frequencies were very much on the low end, though I don't remember. The study itself sounded pretty interesting though - they had various women sit on top of a subwoofer and played different frequencies while asking about their sexual response...
That seems a lot to lease a car -- I'm not sure what the incentive would be to do it if I were the driver. You can lease a nice car for a lot less money. I understand the motive of making sure the user bitches about every little thing, but they would probably do that at a reasonable rate, no? This almost seems like punishment.
Frankly, I'm amazed that anyone in America can get an SSN, but that's liberty for you.
It's a fact. An armed society is a polite society, and a society armed with attack submarines is extremely polite indeed. On balance, SSNs in America prevent more deaths than they cause, even when you include accidents and children getting ahold of the subs. Can you cite even a single reported instance of violence between individuals in America when both were armed with SSNs? I didn't think so.
They can take my attack submarine when they pry my cold dead hands from the periscope!
Think there's any chance we'll ever see a ppc port of this distro? Once upon a time, there was an unofficial project, and slackware.org for a while had an announcement up that an official ppc distro was in the works, but that was long ago...
It would be even more secure if the security guard was trained to shoot the reviewer immediately after the screening. This would solve a lot of problems, actually.
you don't but if you have this information you could conceivably figure out the way the personalized info is encoded into the DVD; setting yourself up to copy future screeners.
Microsoft isn't pushing their OS for its easy install. You never hear about OS X's install.
That's because 99% of users never have to install Windows or OSX. It comes on the computer and they don't futz with it. Whereas probably 90% of linux users have to install it themselves, on widely varying hardware, for which your instructions on a napkin may not apply. When I was using linux (before osx was available) I installed it many times, always on irregular hardware, and had various issues with the install process -- hardware not detected correctly; misleading impressions of what was installed and where, etc. I haven't installed linux in a few years so most distros are probably a lot better with this issue, but it's clear that the reason reviewers always comment on the ease of installation is (1) chances are the user will have to actually install this OS, and (2) the installation process is not always (at least historically) point and click and it just works.
Once the whole world isn't fighting over the same TLD there won't be any call for the USA to give up control because it would only control the ".us" domain anyway.
Didn't MS have a license with Front Page for a while that said that it violated the license to use the product to create web pages critical of MS? As I recall they took the clause out after people complained about it, but the fact that they even had the audacity to consider it is troubling.
We have the opportunity to create life and the first thing these guys think of making is a freakin' bug?? Like there aren't enough annoying insects on this miserable planet -- we need science to develop new roaches, new fruit flies, new mosquitos so we can spend our time swatting at them and invest our money in new poison products to kill them.
Freakin scientists. Go cure cancer or something, will ya?!
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You could say that it is the next step....
forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to boot the UI after you login like this, or do you have to logout and log back in to do so?
I am not denying that there may be positive health effects from tobacco under the right conditions, or that there might even be people who can run a marathon while smoking heavily, but for the overwhelming majority of human beings, smoking is harmful on balance. And if there are any positive pharmacological effects of nicotine, there are safer ways to deliver the drug to your system than drawing soot into your lungs.
Halfway through the marathon, he collapsed to the ground wheezing.
There is a place you can go where projective vomiting indoors is acceptable? Do they have a full bar?
In America we have been experimenting with materials that are inflammable for this very reason. What a country!
Vegas is probably the most surveilled city in the U.S. Keeping rental car records and hotel receipts pales in comparison to the information stored by the casinos. What's frightening is that the government collecting such information about ordinary Americans doesn't amount to much on its own in terms of fighting terrorism, but it would offer unscrupulous feds a convenient database of information for blackmail purposes (as well as for a variety of investigations, both legal and illegal). A call by the feds to your hotel/casino could probably garner fairly detailed information about your activities in the city, including video of most of your public activities on the strip and in many cases even your activities in your room. Again, if the suspect isn't holding a terrorist or mafia meeting in Vegas, such information is probably not worth much for investigative purposes, but imagine its utility for blackmail purposes.
This thing will make a difference, but only if powered by an amp that goes at least to 11.
I realize this is a joke, but there have been studies done of how the body is affected by music. I don't know about the "brown note," but the idea that bass "rattles your colon" is not far off. Interestingly a recent issue of Playboy (I, um, read the articles) had a brief note about this when somebody wrote in and asked what frequencies make women the horniest; it turns out someone did a study to determine exactly that. The frequencies were very much on the low end, though I don't remember. The study itself sounded pretty interesting though - they had various women sit on top of a subwoofer and played different frequencies while asking about their sexual response...
Me too! But so far I've had no luck finding a car that runs on cheap vodka.
That seems a lot to lease a car -- I'm not sure what the incentive would be to do it if I were the driver. You can lease a nice car for a lot less money. I understand the motive of making sure the user bitches about every little thing, but they would probably do that at a reasonable rate, no? This almost seems like punishment.
It's a fact. An armed society is a polite society, and a society armed with attack submarines is extremely polite indeed. On balance, SSNs in America prevent more deaths than they cause, even when you include accidents and children getting ahold of the subs. Can you cite even a single reported instance of violence between individuals in America when both were armed with SSNs? I didn't think so.
They can take my attack submarine when they pry my cold dead hands from the periscope!
He gets the machine with only one button.
You should get a Mac! They brought back that great puzzle game that made people flock to OS 7-9 back in the day.
You need to get out more.
Sweet!! Thanks!
Think there's any chance we'll ever see a ppc port of this distro? Once upon a time, there was an unofficial project, and slackware.org for a while had an announcement up that an official ppc distro was in the works, but that was long ago...
I count 1, including yours.
It would be even more secure if the security guard was trained to shoot the reviewer immediately after the screening. This would solve a lot of problems, actually.
you don't but if you have this information you could conceivably figure out the way the personalized info is encoded into the DVD; setting yourself up to copy future screeners.
the car runs on the driver's inflated sense of self-importance.
That's because 99% of users never have to install Windows or OSX. It comes on the computer and they don't futz with it. Whereas probably 90% of linux users have to install it themselves, on widely varying hardware, for which your instructions on a napkin may not apply. When I was using linux (before osx was available) I installed it many times, always on irregular hardware, and had various issues with the install process -- hardware not detected correctly; misleading impressions of what was installed and where, etc. I haven't installed linux in a few years so most distros are probably a lot better with this issue, but it's clear that the reason reviewers always comment on the ease of installation is (1) chances are the user will have to actually install this OS, and (2) the installation process is not always (at least historically) point and click and it just works.
So is that when all your base will belong to .us?
Didn't MS have a license with Front Page for a while that said that it violated the license to use the product to create web pages critical of MS? As I recall they took the clause out after people complained about it, but the fact that they even had the audacity to consider it is troubling.
Freakin scientists. Go cure cancer or something, will ya?!