I used to take a home brew stack like that in college when I first started getting in shape...caffeine pills, white willow bark (aspirin), ma huang (ephedra), and yohimbe. It really worked well as a thermogenic (coupled with heavy lifting and 6 small high-protein meals daily I lost 50 lbs in about 4 months), but boy howdy did it make me irritable and more than a little bit loopy and paranoid. When my second stack of the day was in full peak, I would sit in class and sweat and tremble and grind my teeth and be generally grouchy and unsociable. Probably shaved a couple of years off my life along with all of that fat, in retrospect, but that's what college is for I guess. I have recently taken EAS Thermodynamix, same ingredients basically but it has a time release that seems to take the edge off of the crazy-peaks.
Seems to me, the concept isn't any diffent then drinking a diet coke along with a couple of the thermogenic pills/powders that can be purchased OTC...since the ephedra ban, many of them use the same ingredients as this drink, although in pill form they would tend (I assume) to have higher doses of said ingredients, or at least it's easier to pop 3 pills than slam 4 cans of TurboCoke. Do they work? Sure, in conjunction with a solid and consistent diet and exercise program, but if you are using TurboCoke to wash down some 7 layer cake, you might as well be drinking water.
I used to live across the sound near Silverdale; I agree, the rain wasn't constant, but the non-stop cloudiness was really depressing, despite that area being one of the most stunningly beautiful places I have ever seen. So now I live in Las Vegas, where nobody ever gets depressed! The flashy lights and ringy bells keep us happy all day and all night! (twitch twitch).
When I first got there, I also had a weird claustrophobic feeling, like I was stuck between the sound and the mountains and looming pine trees and mountains, but after a while that became part of the charm of the area...in summary: as far as places to live, the puget sound area is great if you don't do sun.
They can..., but they are still a public company responsible to a group of investors with essentially one thing in mind: returns. If a U.S. college basketball team scouts for really, really tall people in Indonesia and offers them full-ride scholarships and does their visa paperwork for them, is that dirty pool? Some may think so...but if they do it and get away with it, is it still dirty pool if the competing schools do the same in order to compete?
I don't agree wholesale with the "it's the only game in town, so you gotta play" chestnut, but there are always two sides, I suppose. I'm quite certain they had meetings about what the public would think (and how long the/. threads would get), but they still made the decision, and presumably felt that the burst of negative PR would be worth the long-term benefit.
Yes, those little bastards...I used to buy the generic disks with all silver (no printing or mther markings) on top, and I would estimate a 40% 2 year scratch rate with them...the ones with white paint on top seem to hold up well (memorex comes to mind); definitely one of the situations where it is worth the extra money for a little more quality
nations, you say...? (cocks eyebrow)...well, we'll have to put this to the council...perhaps you and your friends can wait in the lobby while we discuss these...um...oh yes, na-a-ations...
...or the annual burning man festival, where the unwashed, topless masses gather in the desert to huddle together and utter a collective, impassioned cry of "...meh..."
Ditto, happened to me back in like '95 when they distributed floppies with like 10 hours free usage...didn't have a credit card, and like a sucker I gave up my checking account#, which they continued to debit for months after going through the arduous cancellation process...I was later told by an ex-AOL employee (we worked at Egghead together) that they actually do get paid per saved account in that department...sneaky frickin' pool...some banks do the same, particularly for profitable (read: revolving) credit card customers
Yes, Bob, I did call you "D00D"...yeah, two zeroes...uh huh...uh huh...yeah, Survivor was EL THREE THREE SEVEN last night...uh huh...yeah...hey, sorry, got a customer, gotta go...alright, BEE EFF EN.
You don't even have to call them a terrorist...there is a political corruption trial going on here in Las Vegas, where some local officials took bribes from stip club owners. The FBI just admitted a couple of weeks ago to using the PATRIOT act to get financial data on the accused, simply because it was faster than getting a warrant, and because, well, they could. No implied terrorism, but our leaders gave the justice system a useful tool and the right to use it, so they do.
(sorry, full article has been archived by the review-journal)
FBI confirms Patriot Act's use in corruption probe
By ADRIENNE PACKER REVIEW-JOURNAL. Federal authorities confirmed in court Wednesday that they used the Patriot Act to access bank records while investigating alleged political corruption involving former Clark County commissioners and strip club owner Michael Galardi.. The Patriot Act, enacted after Sept. 11, 2001, as a tool to fight terrorism, included provisions that allowed authorities to access personal financial records more easily.. During the federal trial against former county...
I think they have value in some cases, but using the test results as a knock-out rule for hiring is a mistake, except in extrememe cases (results say: data entry worker negative, psycho-killer positive...sorry, no second interview!). They really only have value if you are looking for something specific and quantifiable (typing speed, ability to sit for long periods), but that hardly makes it a psychological profiling, I suppose. My experience says that if someone wants the job badly enough, they will tell you what you want to hear, and lying on a test is no exception to this.
FYI, I work for an international company of ~200k people, mostly front-line customer service types...they briefly implemented personality tests for incoming entry-level hires, but ended the program within 2 years without explanation to the hiring managers.
Wow...you guys are wa-a-a-ay overthinking this situation...the guy is a 73 year old murdering gangster in a rural area in Sicily. This was, I'm sure, some pretty high-tech stuff for him and his no-neck band of merrymen.
Some very good points...that's the core of business politics, and the first thing they taught us in business grad school (shit, did I just post that on slashdot...?). In profiling successful managers: if you define success as efficiency, quality, etc, those managers are found to spend most of their time communicating with 1. employees and 2. customers; defining success as salary, title, etc, those managers are found to spend upwards of 80% of their time not actually doing or producing things, per se, but talking to people who can help their careers (i.e., networking). Fucktard, indeed.
My experience in the last 8 years in various levels in one of the 3 largest banks in the U.S., moving up from front-line development to group VP: sheltering your team from politics may improve efficiency for a time, but you are doing them no favors personnally. As a manager, you need to bear the brunt of that BS, but keeping your team informed and involved at appropriate levels will help prepare them for the impending re-orgs (oh yes, they're coming), hopefully give them some perspective to "think like an owner", and help them understand the "whys" behind the "whats"...when I was writing code, I always appreciated those things, and it helped me feel more like an important member of the organization and less of a cog, and being prepared for the political stoms can give you additional tools to be productive (read: independently working toward organizational goals) in times of change (in 8 years I have had 16 direct managers, two of them I never met or spoke to).
it's a good thought, but it is highly likely that IBM is contractually forbidden from re-licensing or releasing the source for x period, due to the fact that there are companies out there who bought OS/2 because it was what it was...example: many banks use OS/2 as their ATM platform, and would probably have been less likely to have done so if the source was, at the time, or likely to be in the future, openly available.
Last year in the local Vegas paper, there was an article discussing the post-mortem effects of no '04 Comdex, and a local analyst said that the only major effects to the economy were complaints from the strippers and prostitutes.
...and what website was it you thought you were reading again? The one I'm reading isn't known for objectivity on the particular topics of discussion that arise here...
ex.:
Latest Gnome Release...But Why? From the bubblegum-and-bailing-wire dept.
News flash, the latest Gnome packages are up on the server...actually, X tends to crash my box more often than Windows did, and I spend more time fixing Mandrake than actually using it, and I should just reinstall Windows or buy a Mac...but what the heck, I have some free bandwidth on my 33.6k and limitless time!
companies that decide to go with EFI will be able to use it any way they like, by picking and choosing different features
Couldn't find docs or linkies to support, but I seem to remember that those were the claims of ACPI, and that played hell on many a 'nix laptop for a full one-dot kernel version, i.e., hardware not working because there was no good software IRQ handler, sleep-mode problems, kernel lockups, etc...any takers?
Slashdot Mirror
Fruitcake mod! Fruitcase! Genius! Maybe not so biodegrabable, but, sturdy and perfect for re-gifting/secret santa at the office!
I used to take a home brew stack like that in college when I first started getting in shape...caffeine pills, white willow bark (aspirin), ma huang (ephedra), and yohimbe. It really worked well as a thermogenic (coupled with heavy lifting and 6 small high-protein meals daily I lost 50 lbs in about 4 months), but boy howdy did it make me irritable and more than a little bit loopy and paranoid. When my second stack of the day was in full peak, I would sit in class and sweat and tremble and grind my teeth and be generally grouchy and unsociable. Probably shaved a couple of years off my life along with all of that fat, in retrospect, but that's what college is for I guess. I have recently taken EAS Thermodynamix, same ingredients basically but it has a time release that seems to take the edge off of the crazy-peaks.
Seems to me, the concept isn't any diffent then drinking a diet coke along with a couple of the thermogenic pills/powders that can be purchased OTC...since the ephedra ban, many of them use the same ingredients as this drink, although in pill form they would tend (I assume) to have higher doses of said ingredients, or at least it's easier to pop 3 pills than slam 4 cans of TurboCoke. Do they work? Sure, in conjunction with a solid and consistent diet and exercise program, but if you are using TurboCoke to wash down some 7 layer cake, you might as well be drinking water.
Oh yeah, I can render raw HTML in my head, just like Neo decoding the green drippy matrixatron screensaver jobby...
me too...had to refresh, it all straightened out.
Yeah, I remember...as my cloud got more populated, I found out that I once did a movie with Kevin Bacon. Weird.
I used to live across the sound near Silverdale; I agree, the rain wasn't constant, but the non-stop cloudiness was really depressing, despite that area being one of the most stunningly beautiful places I have ever seen. So now I live in Las Vegas, where nobody ever gets depressed! The flashy lights and ringy bells keep us happy all day and all night! (twitch twitch).
When I first got there, I also had a weird claustrophobic feeling, like I was stuck between the sound and the mountains and looming pine trees and mountains, but after a while that became part of the charm of the area...in summary: as far as places to live, the puget sound area is great if you don't do sun.
They can..., but they are still a public company responsible to a group of investors with essentially one thing in mind: returns. If a U.S. college basketball team scouts for really, really tall people in Indonesia and offers them full-ride scholarships and does their visa paperwork for them, is that dirty pool? Some may think so...but if they do it and get away with it, is it still dirty pool if the competing schools do the same in order to compete?
/. threads would get), but they still made the decision, and presumably felt that the burst of negative PR would be worth the long-term benefit.
I don't agree wholesale with the "it's the only game in town, so you gotta play" chestnut, but there are always two sides, I suppose. I'm quite certain they had meetings about what the public would think (and how long the
Does anyone have a somewhat comprehensive musician list or source list of non-RIAA music/labels?
have you checked your credit report since to make sure they didn't report you as late?
Yes, those little bastards...I used to buy the generic disks with all silver (no printing or mther markings) on top, and I would estimate a 40% 2 year scratch rate with them...the ones with white paint on top seem to hold up well (memorex comes to mind); definitely one of the situations where it is worth the extra money for a little more quality
Or something a little more suble and confusing like filtering everything through google's elmer fudd translator
nations, you say...? (cocks eyebrow)...well, we'll have to put this to the council...perhaps you and your friends can wait in the lobby while we discuss these...um...oh yes, na-a-ations...
...or the annual burning man festival, where the unwashed, topless masses gather in the desert to huddle together and utter a collective, impassioned cry of "...meh..."
Ditto, happened to me back in like '95 when they distributed floppies with like 10 hours free usage...didn't have a credit card, and like a sucker I gave up my checking account#, which they continued to debit for months after going through the arduous cancellation process...I was later told by an ex-AOL employee (we worked at Egghead together) that they actually do get paid per saved account in that department...sneaky frickin' pool...some banks do the same, particularly for profitable (read: revolving) credit card customers
Yes, Bob, I did call you "D00D"...yeah, two zeroes...uh huh...uh huh...yeah, Survivor was EL THREE THREE SEVEN last night...uh huh...yeah...hey, sorry, got a customer, gotta go...alright, BEE EFF EN.
You don't even have to call them a terrorist...there is a political corruption trial going on here in Las Vegas, where some local officials took bribes from stip club owners. The FBI just admitted a couple of weeks ago to using the PATRIOT act to get financial data on the accused, simply because it was faster than getting a warrant, and because, well, they could. No implied terrorism, but our leaders gave the justice system a useful tool and the right to use it, so they do.
(sorry, full article has been archived by the review-journal)
FBI confirms Patriot Act's use in corruption probe
By ADRIENNE PACKER REVIEW-JOURNAL. Federal authorities confirmed in court Wednesday that they used the Patriot Act to access bank records while investigating alleged political corruption involving former Clark County commissioners and strip club owner Michael Galardi.. The Patriot Act, enacted after Sept. 11, 2001, as a tool to fight terrorism, included provisions that allowed authorities to access personal financial records more easily.. During the federal trial against former county...
I think they have value in some cases, but using the test results as a knock-out rule for hiring is a mistake, except in extrememe cases (results say: data entry worker negative, psycho-killer positive...sorry, no second interview!). They really only have value if you are looking for something specific and quantifiable (typing speed, ability to sit for long periods), but that hardly makes it a psychological profiling, I suppose. My experience says that if someone wants the job badly enough, they will tell you what you want to hear, and lying on a test is no exception to this.
FYI, I work for an international company of ~200k people, mostly front-line customer service types...they briefly implemented personality tests for incoming entry-level hires, but ended the program within 2 years without explanation to the hiring managers.
Wow...you guys are wa-a-a-ay overthinking this situation...the guy is a 73 year old murdering gangster in a rural area in Sicily. This was, I'm sure, some pretty high-tech stuff for him and his no-neck band of merrymen.
My experience in the last 8 years in various levels in one of the 3 largest banks in the U.S., moving up from front-line development to group VP: sheltering your team from politics may improve efficiency for a time, but you are doing them no favors personnally. As a manager, you need to bear the brunt of that BS, but keeping your team informed and involved at appropriate levels will help prepare them for the impending re-orgs (oh yes, they're coming), hopefully give them some perspective to "think like an owner", and help them understand the "whys" behind the "whats"...when I was writing code, I always appreciated those things, and it helped me feel more like an important member of the organization and less of a cog, and being prepared for the political stoms can give you additional tools to be productive (read: independently working toward organizational goals) in times of change (in 8 years I have had 16 direct managers, two of them I never met or spoke to).
it's a good thought, but it is highly likely that IBM is contractually forbidden from re-licensing or releasing the source for x period, due to the fact that there are companies out there who bought OS/2 because it was what it was...example: many banks use OS/2 as their ATM platform, and would probably have been less likely to have done so if the source was, at the time, or likely to be in the future, openly available.
I was waiting for flash animation of a Guild Navigator to float out of the front of one of those boxes...
gotta love Vegas...
ex.:
Latest Gnome Release...But Why?
From the bubblegum-and-bailing-wire dept.
News flash, the latest Gnome packages are up on the server...actually, X tends to crash my box more often than Windows did, and I spend more time fixing Mandrake than actually using it, and I should just reinstall Windows or buy a Mac...but what the heck, I have some free bandwidth on my 33.6k and limitless time!
never happen.
ok, flame away!
Couldn't find docs or linkies to support, but I seem to remember that those were the claims of ACPI, and that played hell on many a 'nix laptop for a full one-dot kernel version, i.e., hardware not working because there was no good software IRQ handler, sleep-mode problems, kernel lockups, etc...any takers?