Regarding your sig, are you serious? If we wrongfully jail someone for 10 years, it's sad that we can't give them their time back, but at least we can set them free. Wrongfully death penalty someone, and there's no fixing the mistake at all.
Also, due to the extra appeals and attorney's fees in death penalty cases, it generally costs society more dollars to kill an inmate than it does to house and feed them for the rest of their naturally-occurring lives. So not only is not killing inmates more humane, it is also more economically efficient.
Being able to SMS doesn't add a lot to the price, having a useful camera does.;)
I must respectfully disagree.
Creating two separate product lines is quite a bit more expensive than one; that added expense will be passed on to the customer. Other manufacturers will create a single line, and not have extra expenses and thus be more competitive.
So, after doing the competitive analysis, most manufacturers will decide to make phones with cameras, which some people may use.
Me, I never use the popcorn button on my microwave, but I do not seek out or petition manufacturers to make microwaves lacking the popcorn button.
But this is exactly what everyone said would happen. Rather than you actually being interested in hearing a question and trying to answer it you get rude.
Aren't you slightly curious as to what PPL says about the law surrounding themselves? Seems like the ultimate test for bias.
I apologize if you consider my request rude. "Extraordinary claims call for extraordinary proof" and all that; you're claiming that my speech violated a criminal law, so, yes, your extraordinary claim does call for extraordinary proof, and I'm not going out of my way to find that proof; you can.
No, I'm not at all curious because I have no vested interest. I'm a satisfied customer. Next!
Oh, and I still have yet to hear from you where the "everyone" is. A link, please, if they're on-line. A... newspaper article, if not?
The tug method has the advantage that it works with piles of gravel just as well as a hunk of iron, and oblong asteroids just as well as spherical ones.
And rotating asteroids just as well as non-rotating ones. (I.e., were we to attach and thrust, we would either have to slow the rotation, or only fire when we're "under" the asteroid.)
OK, for full disclosure: I am a member. I used to sell PPL, but have not for several years. It does seem like an MLM, one reason I no longer sell (that and I found a job). The benefits I have received from the plan have far outweighed the $27/mo I have paid for the past 6 or so years. But then, perhaps I'm an edge case with so much debt (which is what they primarily helped with, and saved me several tens of thousands of dollars by helping negotiate with my creditors, well, not really them, but the collection agencies they contracted with).
There's definitely no criminal liability, even if I was still selling it (show me the law; it's generally on-line). When you say "some people" who are you referring to?
There are 5 "titles" of benefits. I won't go through them all, but the nice part is the fifth one is a 25% discount on the hourly rate for any services that aren't covered by the other four. So, even if your issue isn't covered, you're still saving a quarter of what you otherwise would have paid for the same attorney.
Which isn't to say that you won't find a cheaper attorney, perhaps one who is better. It pays to do your homework, but said homework can be expensive when vetting attorneys. The advice that I have received is far from "questionable" as you stated.
I'm sure even the geniuses at the FBI got that memo. Though maybe they got it earlier, since they seemed to know they should ignore their field office's warnings that Qaeda terrorists were learning to fly planes but not to land them.
Hi Doc. I'm currently re-reading Machiavelli's The Prince, and came across an interesting passage which might help to illuminate the current administration's behavior.
"When there are no external enemies, create one, to unite the people and quell unrest."
It's from memory so may not be an exact quote, but the sentiment is uncannily close to what we've been doing since Sept. 10, 2001.
It was the software companies all individually including the EULAs in the box than convinced people shrink-wrap licenses are binding. Now we just need everyone individually ignoring provisions of contracts they didn't get a chance to negotiate to set the assumption that such contracts aren't binding.
I should add to this that there are several pre-paid legal plans, with which you can sue these fuckers.
So, you don't need a several-thousand-dollar retainer in order to obtain legal satisfaction; $27/mo from PPL, or $18/mo from ARAG (through your employer, not sure how much they charge otherwise), and you have the ability to fight back without hurting your bank account.
And the fact that the word "quantum" has absolutely nothing to do with healing and 99% of the other terms and fields where it is abused.
Actually, I think that the word "quantum" does have to do with healing. Back in 1998, I read an article stating that the human brain worked not only on chemical, electrical, and mechanical processes, but also on quantum processes. The gist of the article was that if we are going to make a copy of a human brain (or an accurate simulation/AI), then we are going to need to understand quantum processes.
The brain is responsible for much of the healing in the body, so I would venture that quantum processes have greater than 0 participation there.
I find it interesting the (other) vitriolic responses that my sharing of my experience has garnered.
Randi will never pay out. He's got a great thing going: once it's been proven to exist, then it's no longer super-natural, it's just natural; so, he doesn't have to pay. And thanks for the kind words.
Mock all you want. One day, you will feel it too. Or you'll die unenlightened. Those are the options; but it's obvious that the moderators cheer the skeptic and boo the one with experience. That's fine, I'll take the karma hit; I know that I'm a happier, more productive person because of my new finding. I'm in my late 30s and have only known this for 2 years, and it is something that I experience. I don't know much about crystals and pyramids, sorry.
Like most people here, I have a healthy dose of skepticism. I very reluctantly saw the healer who began my enlightenment two years ago, and only then because I was in so much pain that I would try anything. Generally, that's how most people end up there, again due to the skepticism of anything "non-pill" built into our culture. The Chinese have an ancient medicine system that incorporates energy pathways; and their system works so well that they are able to use only acupuncture for anesthesia during medical procedures. Here's one link of many.
But really, this is more like wasting my time and annoying the pig. Oh well, you'll hear it when you're ready.
I know you're probably not listening, but thanks for the binaural beat pointer. The tactile feedback has nothing to do with drugs, in my case, but it's interesting that you have found a working method. The rest of the responses were fairly negative, from people who likely never spent the 40 hours that (at least in my case) was required in order to begin to feel it. Interestingly, when I first felt it, it was in my upper lip. A few days later, I was able to feel it in my fingertips.
Ray - Not only do you do great things for "The People", but I believe your work is helping to fix the typical feeling of mistrust that most Americans have for lawyers.
I also heartily agree, NYCL has been a great boon for my estimation of attorneys, as well as an excellent David vs Goliath success story (he will win, ultimately; he's got physics on his side).
If I may be so bold, I would like to recommend an attorney who also comes from an IT background. His name is Dmitri Lev, in Boston. No affiliation, apart from being a satisfied customer.
This is only a little better than the quacks who talk about "quantum healing energy"; they're exploiting the vague term "quantum computing" and the small amount of understanding to try and make a quick buck from investors.
While I agree with you that this device may not be all that it is advertised to be, I must strongly object to your analogy.
I can feel a tingling in my fingertips when I'm "running the energy". There are several methods that I have studied, Jin Shin Jyustu, the book Quantum Touch, and Donna Eden's methods (both books and videos).
It took me about 40 hours of practice before I began feeling the tingling. It's similar to a body part falling asleep, but it is not numb, just tinging. Other people feel it as a temperature difference (either warmer or colder), and others feel it as pressure. There is no "sixth sense"; it comes to you in a form of your existing senses.
I say all this, because I know that energy is part of my human existence, and although I only have a short amount of practice, I have seen benefits. Perhaps I'm overreacting to your wording; perhaps you also agree that energy healing is real, but merely object to practitioners using the trendy term "quantum" along with it. In that case, no worries. But if you meant that there is no such thing as energy or healing benefits from breathing deeply and placing your fingers lightly on specific parts of the body, I can say that I have direct experience that proves the existence of energy.
Just because our instruments are not yet capable of measuring it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist; just as hundreds of years ago, we couldn't measure bacteria, but they still infected us. The difference is that hundreds of years ago, nobody could "detect" bacteria, whereas I can feel the energy as it's moving. I cannot see it; others can. I want to develop that skill.
To be a spammer requires being a self-centered psychopath. It requires not caring about the consequences of your actions to other people, just as long as you receive benefit from them. In other words, just the kind of guy who decides to take his family with him to his grave.
Huh, so you're saying spammers are the same as the folks who set up their businesses near rivers for the run-off? Know a lot of mill owners who murder-suicide?
But you would get used to it (if you can teach an old dog new tricks?), just as everything else, most dashes are already obnoxious with lights and gizmo's but you stop noticing at after the first week or so [...]
I had a car with a heads-up display before. It was very helpful, it helped me keep my eyes constantly on the road instead of looking up and down at the instruments. I highly recommend this type of advancement.
I want to see this stuff wiped out as much as anyone else. But for some reason they're focusing their efforts at the wrong ends of the internet.
And, pointing that out gets you labeled. I wonder when they'll start linking child porn to terrorism, drug use, poverty, and obesity? I mean, our wars on all those worked out so well...
How can we convey to the public that the internet's value depends directly on ISP's not being able to discriminate traffic by content?
Sue the ISPs, because by blocking certain portions of the stream they have given up the right to be called "common carriers" and are now responsible for policing all the content streaming through their routers.
(Like that'll work.)
Any other visual evidence of a crime having been committed is legal to possess. Why the special exemption, especially because it has been used to ruin the lives of many otherwise law-abiding citizens? What we need is a virus that targets politicians, or their children/personal network (can be mined from their email), and downloads certain content.
I wonder if falling inwards might be a good idea with a solar sail? Not like Icarus, just get close enough so that the extra boost from the solar radiation helps -- perhaps an elliptical curve falling inwards, and grabbing extra delta v on the way out? Perhaps, don't deploy the sail until you're starting to fall outwards? IMNARS though.
Well, you can replace "fuck" with "like" and you've hit about 90% of the speech in high schools these days. It doesn't mean that they're not having intelligent discourse, it just means that they haven't completely developed their social skills.
The book "Comedy Writing Secrets" mentions that the "k" sound is a funny sound, and words with "k" sounds in them tend to be funnier words when used as punchlines in a joke. Both the words you mention, "fuck" and "suck", end in the "k" sound. I wonder if humor and rage might be related somehow?
Then again, my counter of "like" also ends in the "k" sound -- but then, that's what kids are, like, saying these days, and if it sounds like a duck...
(Another "k" sound.)
Besides, I have worked and currently work with many professionals who pepper their speech with swears. Perhaps it's because, as someone else noted, these words have an emotional effect on the listener and as long as nobody gets HR involved, that speaker will be seen as having a more dramatic effect on the audience due to said emotional effect.
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Exactly!
"Why is anything ANYTHING?" - the great philosopher Master Shake
If chopping off body parts is your answer to avoiding disease, I fear for your children.
Regarding your sig, are you serious? If we wrongfully jail someone for 10 years, it's sad that we can't give them their time back, but at least we can set them free. Wrongfully death penalty someone, and there's no fixing the mistake at all.
Also, due to the extra appeals and attorney's fees in death penalty cases, it generally costs society more dollars to kill an inmate than it does to house and feed them for the rest of their naturally-occurring lives. So not only is not killing inmates more humane, it is also more economically efficient.
I must respectfully disagree.
Creating two separate product lines is quite a bit more expensive than one; that added expense will be passed on to the customer. Other manufacturers will create a single line, and not have extra expenses and thus be more competitive.
So, after doing the competitive analysis, most manufacturers will decide to make phones with cameras, which some people may use.
Me, I never use the popcorn button on my microwave, but I do not seek out or petition manufacturers to make microwaves lacking the popcorn button.
I apologize if you consider my request rude. "Extraordinary claims call for extraordinary proof" and all that; you're claiming that my speech violated a criminal law, so, yes, your extraordinary claim does call for extraordinary proof, and I'm not going out of my way to find that proof; you can.
No, I'm not at all curious because I have no vested interest. I'm a satisfied customer. Next!
Oh, and I still have yet to hear from you where the "everyone" is. A link, please, if they're on-line. A ... newspaper article, if not?
I'm sorry, no, you're the one who suggested that talking is illegal. Why don't you back up your assertions?
And rotating asteroids just as well as non-rotating ones. (I.e., were we to attach and thrust, we would either have to slow the rotation, or only fire when we're "under" the asteroid.)
OK, for full disclosure: I am a member. I used to sell PPL, but have not for several years. It does seem like an MLM, one reason I no longer sell (that and I found a job). The benefits I have received from the plan have far outweighed the $27/mo I have paid for the past 6 or so years. But then, perhaps I'm an edge case with so much debt (which is what they primarily helped with, and saved me several tens of thousands of dollars by helping negotiate with my creditors, well, not really them, but the collection agencies they contracted with).
There's definitely no criminal liability, even if I was still selling it (show me the law; it's generally on-line). When you say "some people" who are you referring to?
There are 5 "titles" of benefits. I won't go through them all, but the nice part is the fifth one is a 25% discount on the hourly rate for any services that aren't covered by the other four. So, even if your issue isn't covered, you're still saving a quarter of what you otherwise would have paid for the same attorney.
Which isn't to say that you won't find a cheaper attorney, perhaps one who is better. It pays to do your homework, but said homework can be expensive when vetting attorneys. The advice that I have received is far from "questionable" as you stated.
Hi Doc. I'm currently re-reading Machiavelli's The Prince, and came across an interesting passage which might help to illuminate the current administration's behavior.
"When there are no external enemies, create one, to unite the people and quell unrest."
It's from memory so may not be an exact quote, but the sentiment is uncannily close to what we've been doing since Sept. 10, 2001.
I should add to this that there are several pre-paid legal plans, with which you can sue these fuckers.
So, you don't need a several-thousand-dollar retainer in order to obtain legal satisfaction; $27/mo from PPL, or $18/mo from ARAG (through your employer, not sure how much they charge otherwise), and you have the ability to fight back without hurting your bank account.
Actually, I think that the word "quantum" does have to do with healing. Back in 1998, I read an article stating that the human brain worked not only on chemical, electrical, and mechanical processes, but also on quantum processes. The gist of the article was that if we are going to make a copy of a human brain (or an accurate simulation/AI), then we are going to need to understand quantum processes.
The brain is responsible for much of the healing in the body, so I would venture that quantum processes have greater than 0 participation there.
I find it interesting the (other) vitriolic responses that my sharing of my experience has garnered.
Randi will never pay out. He's got a great thing going: once it's been proven to exist, then it's no longer super-natural, it's just natural; so, he doesn't have to pay. And thanks for the kind words.
Mock all you want. One day, you will feel it too. Or you'll die unenlightened. Those are the options; but it's obvious that the moderators cheer the skeptic and boo the one with experience. That's fine, I'll take the karma hit; I know that I'm a happier, more productive person because of my new finding. I'm in my late 30s and have only known this for 2 years, and it is something that I experience. I don't know much about crystals and pyramids, sorry.
Like most people here, I have a healthy dose of skepticism. I very reluctantly saw the healer who began my enlightenment two years ago, and only then because I was in so much pain that I would try anything. Generally, that's how most people end up there, again due to the skepticism of anything "non-pill" built into our culture. The Chinese have an ancient medicine system that incorporates energy pathways; and their system works so well that they are able to use only acupuncture for anesthesia during medical procedures. Here's one link of many.
But really, this is more like wasting my time and annoying the pig. Oh well, you'll hear it when you're ready.
I know you're probably not listening, but thanks for the binaural beat pointer. The tactile feedback has nothing to do with drugs, in my case, but it's interesting that you have found a working method. The rest of the responses were fairly negative, from people who likely never spent the 40 hours that (at least in my case) was required in order to begin to feel it. Interestingly, when I first felt it, it was in my upper lip. A few days later, I was able to feel it in my fingertips.
I also heartily agree, NYCL has been a great boon for my estimation of attorneys, as well as an excellent David vs Goliath success story (he will win, ultimately; he's got physics on his side).
If I may be so bold, I would like to recommend an attorney who also comes from an IT background. His name is Dmitri Lev, in Boston. No affiliation, apart from being a satisfied customer.
While I agree with you that this device may not be all that it is advertised to be, I must strongly object to your analogy.
I can feel a tingling in my fingertips when I'm "running the energy". There are several methods that I have studied, Jin Shin Jyustu, the book Quantum Touch, and Donna Eden's methods (both books and videos).
It took me about 40 hours of practice before I began feeling the tingling. It's similar to a body part falling asleep, but it is not numb, just tinging. Other people feel it as a temperature difference (either warmer or colder), and others feel it as pressure. There is no "sixth sense"; it comes to you in a form of your existing senses.
I say all this, because I know that energy is part of my human existence, and although I only have a short amount of practice, I have seen benefits. Perhaps I'm overreacting to your wording; perhaps you also agree that energy healing is real, but merely object to practitioners using the trendy term "quantum" along with it. In that case, no worries. But if you meant that there is no such thing as energy or healing benefits from breathing deeply and placing your fingers lightly on specific parts of the body, I can say that I have direct experience that proves the existence of energy.
Just because our instruments are not yet capable of measuring it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist; just as hundreds of years ago, we couldn't measure bacteria, but they still infected us. The difference is that hundreds of years ago, nobody could "detect" bacteria, whereas I can feel the energy as it's moving. I cannot see it; others can. I want to develop that skill.
Well, I've enjoyed some of your posts, so Yes, I do care. The general answer, though, is no...
Huh, so you're saying spammers are the same as the folks who set up their businesses near rivers for the run-off? Know a lot of mill owners who murder-suicide?
I had a car with a heads-up display before. It was very helpful, it helped me keep my eyes constantly on the road instead of looking up and down at the instruments. I highly recommend this type of advancement.
And, pointing that out gets you labeled. I wonder when they'll start linking child porn to terrorism, drug use, poverty, and obesity? I mean, our wars on all those worked out so well...
Yes, a great way to "think of the children", and just imagine -- if we manage to use them all up, we'll get our newsgroups back!
Sue the ISPs, because by blocking certain portions of the stream they have given up the right to be called "common carriers" and are now responsible for policing all the content streaming through their routers.
(Like that'll work.)
Any other visual evidence of a crime having been committed is legal to possess. Why the special exemption, especially because it has been used to ruin the lives of many otherwise law-abiding citizens? What we need is a virus that targets politicians, or their children/personal network (can be mined from their email), and downloads certain content.
I wonder if falling inwards might be a good idea with a solar sail? Not like Icarus, just get close enough so that the extra boost from the solar radiation helps -- perhaps an elliptical curve falling inwards, and grabbing extra delta v on the way out? Perhaps, don't deploy the sail until you're starting to fall outwards? IMNARS though.
Well, you can replace "fuck" with "like" and you've hit about 90% of the speech in high schools these days. It doesn't mean that they're not having intelligent discourse, it just means that they haven't completely developed their social skills.
The book "Comedy Writing Secrets" mentions that the "k" sound is a funny sound, and words with "k" sounds in them tend to be funnier words when used as punchlines in a joke. Both the words you mention, "fuck" and "suck", end in the "k" sound. I wonder if humor and rage might be related somehow?
Then again, my counter of "like" also ends in the "k" sound -- but then, that's what kids are, like, saying these days, and if it sounds like a duck...
(Another "k" sound.)
Besides, I have worked and currently work with many professionals who pepper their speech with swears. Perhaps it's because, as someone else noted, these words have an emotional effect on the listener and as long as nobody gets HR involved, that speaker will be seen as having a more dramatic effect on the audience due to said emotional effect.
A Tom Cruise Something-or-other? Uh oh, there's a group of religious whackjobs at my door...