The NS article had some very interesting moral and ethical questions too.
You want to pass a polygraph after comitting a murder. Could taking these pills before committing the crime help that? If this were the case, could the presence of metabolites of the drug in your system be used to incriminate you?
Do we really want to raise an army where the soldiers experience no guilt whatsoever no matter who and how many they kill? Soldiers are members of society too. Do we really want that kind of future society?
The philosophical argument is interesting too. Memories are a fundamentally defining attribute of the human experience. What happens to us as human beings when we choose to modify that?
There's no doubt that trauma patients in A&E benefitted from receiving these kinds of drugs. Their experiences and states of mind after the fact were demonstrably better than those who didn't get the drug.
I can totally see scenarios where this could have great value.
I'm just saying that it could be a very sharp double-edged sword.
I would have thought that the ideal candidate would propose the de-medicalisation of pregnancy.
Delivery has practically been re-classified as a biopsy. Nowhere (as I understand it) is this more prevalent than the US.
Encouraging pregnant women to empower themselves and enjoy a delivery in a home birth setting would not only reduce the number of caesarian sections but would obviously reduce the amount of intervention that OB/GYNs currently practice. *That* would reduce the amount in undue lawsuits.
It really surprises me that developers don't use trackballs more than they do.
I will never use a normal mouse again. Trackballs are the business
It's the fact that there's no twisting of the wrist involved in moving the pointer.
Scroll-wheels are great at reducing the amount you actually have to move the mouse, but when you still do need to click & drag, I still can't get along with having to twist my wrist to do so. It's not like the direction of motion that your wrist is moving in is the most natural direction for your wrist.
I've got a Microsoft Elite "ergo" keyboard both at home and work and at home I've got a Logitec TrackMan Marble FX and at work I've got a cordless trackman (I take the battery out every night when I go home to conserve the battery:-/ ). Sweet.:-)
During the pregnancy we bought some pregnancy videos from Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk has almost none!).
Despite the fact that my Daughter is now six months old Amazon are still recommending Pregnancy for Dummies on DVD!!!!
I'd have thought that since they figure we (or rather my wife) were having a baby (from our purchasing habits) they'd have time-stamped the information for expiration in (say) 9 months!
In this country at least (the UK) the general public are worried about radiation from these things.
I mean people have gotten *really* upset when these things (the un-disguised ones I mean ) are put up right next to schools etc.
I personally wouldn't buy a house near one of them but now the B*st*rds are secreting them so I buy the house and the should the disguised mast be discovered everyone's house loses value 'coz everyone else is like me & wouldn't buy a house next to a frigging phone mast!!!!!!
I'm now a Senior Software Engineer working almost exclusively in C++ and I feel my varied history of languages learnt has greatly contributed to making me the seasoned professional I now am.
The finer point I'm trying to make is that I've engineered C/C++ on boxes ranging in size from clusters of 4GB RAM, 8 x 1GHz POWER4 CPU RS6000 AIX machines all the way down to mobile phones and I feel learning a couple of assembly languages was an appropriate and valuable part of my personal development as a Software Engineer.
The rise of obesity in American society has many factors, and I think that laziness is a very small one. A much more important factor would be the insane number of carbohydrates that we consume now as opposed to one hundred years ago. Do you know how many millions of gallons of soft drinks (50 grams of carbs per can) people go through in a year?
Surely failing to count how many cans one has drunk or how much food one has eaten is in some way lazy?
I mean, noone made these otherwise sensible citizens drink all that sugar did they? They could have drunk diet sodas instead couldn't they?
Regardless of the reasons for be obese, people should take personal responsibility for their health.
It's not my fault, it's Pepsi's, honest!
You know even if someone has a genetic propensity for being overweight, they could still do a little exercise.
I do agree what diets will almost certainly fail. A permanent change in lifestyle, not some temporary starvation is the only long-term way to control weight or improve physical fitness.
It seems to me that in the western world (where I live), people are more and more likely to find an excuse for their circumstances outside of their own home. They had a bad childhood so they're bad people. They were poor so they steal.
Give me a break! I grew up poor and I stayed in school, didn't do very well, but am at least employed. I take complete responsibility for my life and my actions and my condition. Period.
Finally: if the next time you go to a restraunt they give you a bigger portion than the last time DON'T EAT IT ALL!!!!!
I submitted the story from work & didn't have all day to flesh out the story as much as I could have.
The upgrade was a one-way trip. My old box died and the replacement came from a newer line and the older boxes are no longer supported.
I have complained to the cable company. They claim that they didn't know that their new batch of boxes didn't have this feature until they'd taken possession of 10,000 of them and then people started calling the faults centre to complain that the feature had vanished.
In my heart I'm sure that it was deliberate because they want their customers to rent the second cable box. Not only will I not give in to this blackmail I won't spend the extra money either.
Their response to my complaint was very interesting to say the least:
"Okay, if you had a roof-top aerial you'd be able to do what you now obviously cannot. However we understand that you haven't got one (in fact that's part of the reason why you've got cable!) so do this: get a quote for an aerial, fax it to us & we'll consider paying part of the costs."
Was I shocked or what!
So I'm just ringing around & we'll see what happens next.
As a further follow-up there's plenty of other things that are wrong with the box.
Pop-up dialogs have no cancel buttons.
When viewing the Electronic Programme Guide, I'm forced to watch adverts for pay-per-view movies rather than being able to carry on watching the channel I was watching.
The UI is very slow!
You know what is interesting though? Just about everyone focused their posts to this submission on solutions to my problem and not on their experiences with consumer electronics getting dumbed down with every new generation.
My current VCR is way worse than my last one (that's no longer available & would have cost more to repair when it died than to buy a new one). I'm sure most consumer electronics devices are losing features because the manufacturers want to save money and the vast majority of consumers don't miss the features.
However, the cable company I'm with will charge me an extra £15 per month for that second box.
Since I'm paying for all the other channels even when I'm watching one of them I bitterly resent paying for those other channels again just so I can record one of them.
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As a Nation, England ceased to exist around 1707.
A couple of AAA batteries in a pocket somewhere are *no* issue at all.
here it is
The NS article had some very interesting moral and ethical questions too.
You want to pass a polygraph after comitting a murder. Could taking these pills before committing the crime help that? If this were the case, could the presence of metabolites of the drug in your system be used to incriminate you?
Do we really want to raise an army where the soldiers experience no guilt whatsoever no matter who and how many they kill? Soldiers are members of society too. Do we really want that kind of future society?
The philosophical argument is interesting too. Memories are a fundamentally defining attribute of the human experience. What happens to us as human beings when we choose to modify that?
There's no doubt that trauma patients in A&E benefitted from receiving these kinds of drugs. Their experiences and states of mind after the fact were demonstrably better than those who didn't get the drug.
I can totally see scenarios where this could have great value.
I'm just saying that it could be a very sharp double-edged sword.
Thoughts?
The baby monitor I use has a "your baby isn't breathing" alarm.
This means that I can totally relax unless the alarm is ringing.
I don't need to hear anything coming out of the monitor if the alarm is silent.
This has given me great peace of mind and helped me relax no end.
As long as SIDS is largely unexplained, these monitors will be of great value.
Delivery has practically been re-classified as a biopsy. Nowhere (as I understand it) is this more prevalent than the US.
Encouraging pregnant women to empower themselves and enjoy a delivery in a home birth setting would not only reduce the number of caesarian sections but would obviously reduce the amount of intervention that OB/GYNs currently practice. *That* would reduce the amount in undue lawsuits.
Everyone wins. :-D
It's a technology. This is insane!
This is $34 at Amazon.COM and 40 at Amazon.CO.UK!!!! That's the equivalent of $70!!!!!!
If I bought AUP and APUE together from Amazon.COM and used standard international airmail shipping, I'd get AUP FREE!!!!!!
I will never use a normal mouse again. Trackballs are the business
It's the fact that there's no twisting of the wrist involved in moving the pointer.
Scroll-wheels are great at reducing the amount you actually have to move the mouse, but when you still do need to click & drag, I still can't get along with having to twist my wrist to do so. It's not like the direction of motion that your wrist is moving in is the most natural direction for your wrist.
I've got a Microsoft Elite "ergo" keyboard both at home and work and at home I've got a Logitec TrackMan Marble FX and at work I've got a cordless trackman (I take the battery out every night when I go home to conserve the battery :-/ ). Sweet. :-)
I saw this car/boat on TV last night!
You'll need access to an SMTP server that allows arbitrary sender details to be set.
My ISP (NTL) doesn't let me send email from any domain other than it's own.
Shouldn't he call it sfXP? :-)
So how does that marry up with the "you cannot use VPN stuff?"
During the pregnancy we bought some pregnancy videos from Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk has almost none!).
Despite the fact that my Daughter is now six months old Amazon are still recommending Pregnancy for Dummies on DVD !!!!
I'd have thought that since they figure we (or rather my wife) were having a baby (from our purchasing habits) they'd have time-stamped the information for expiration in (say) 9 months!
What I'd like to know is "are GNU going to have a burn the JPEGs day any time soon?"
All I can say is that for over $400 the girl next door better have a great ass!
I mean people have gotten *really* upset when these things (the un-disguised ones I mean ) are put up right next to schools etc.
I personally wouldn't buy a house near one of them but now the B*st*rds are secreting them so I buy the house and the should the disguised mast be discovered everyone's house loses value 'coz everyone else is like me & wouldn't buy a house next to a frigging phone mast!!!!!!
My history of languages learnt are (roughly):
Not including shell scripting languages etc.
I'm now a Senior Software Engineer working almost exclusively in C++ and I feel my varied history of languages learnt has greatly contributed to making me the seasoned professional I now am.
The finer point I'm trying to make is that I've engineered C/C++ on boxes ranging in size from clusters of 4GB RAM, 8 x 1GHz POWER4 CPU RS6000 AIX machines all the way down to mobile phones and I feel learning a couple of assembly languages was an appropriate and valuable part of my personal development as a Software Engineer.
Surely failing to count how many cans one has drunk or how much food one has eaten is in some way lazy?
I mean, noone made these otherwise sensible citizens drink all that sugar did they? They could have drunk diet sodas instead couldn't they?
Regardless of the reasons for be obese, people should take personal responsibility for their health.
It's not my fault, it's Pepsi's, honest!
You know even if someone has a genetic propensity for being overweight, they could still do a little exercise.
I do agree what diets will almost certainly fail. A permanent change in lifestyle, not some temporary starvation is the only long-term way to control weight or improve physical fitness.
It seems to me that in the western world (where I live), people are more and more likely to find an excuse for their circumstances outside of their own home. They had a bad childhood so they're bad people. They were poor so they steal.
Give me a break! I grew up poor and I stayed in school, didn't do very well, but am at least employed. I take complete responsibility for my life and my actions and my condition. Period.
Finally: if the next time you go to a restraunt they give you a bigger portion than the last time DON'T EAT IT ALL!!!!!
I too have drawn loads of blood on these. They're way too tight. :-(
If this were legal, surely MP3 and OGGs of Other people's CDs would also be legal! :-)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/068231 &mode=nested&tid=100
I submitted the story from work & didn't have all day to flesh out the story as much as I could have.
The upgrade was a one-way trip. My old box died and the replacement came from a newer line and the older boxes are no longer supported.
I have complained to the cable company. They claim that they didn't know that their new batch of boxes didn't have this feature until they'd taken possession of 10,000 of them and then people started calling the faults centre to complain that the feature had vanished.
In my heart I'm sure that it was deliberate because they want their customers to rent the second cable box. Not only will I not give in to this blackmail I won't spend the extra money either.
Their response to my complaint was very interesting to say the least:
Was I shocked or what!So I'm just ringing around & we'll see what happens next.
As a further follow-up there's plenty of other things that are wrong with the box.
You know what is interesting though? Just about everyone focused their posts to this submission on solutions to my problem and not on their experiences with consumer electronics getting dumbed down with every new generation.
My current VCR is way worse than my last one (that's no longer available & would have cost more to repair when it died than to buy a new one). I'm sure most consumer electronics devices are losing features because the manufacturers want to save money and the vast majority of consumers don't miss the features.
However, the cable company I'm with will charge me an extra £15 per month for that second box.
Since I'm paying for all the other channels even when I'm watching one of them I bitterly resent paying for those other channels again just so I can record one of them.
Simple as that. :-)