I actually went for 5 days without sleep and the hallucinations started by that last day. I was seeing this same old man seemingly follow me around. I would feel invisible people watching me, it was not a good experience. I felt like crap through most of it like a full body fuzzy feeling. After day 3, i couldn't really get sleepy. It was interesting but the day after I finally slept was the most painful. I wouldn't do that again for sure.
This is what I was thinking. We will evolve ourselves into machines and I guess we could always maintain DNA cultures and grow bodies if we need. I just wonder what would become of our humanity if we could do the Ghost In The Shell thing. It would mess with your mind to change bodies and basically be around indefinitely. Nothing is impossible, it's just not possible now. I can see humans as the Borg... taking over the universe like the plague we are on Earth:P
I am actually from Sudbury and was shocked to hear about this when it first was proposed. I'm glad they found a use for all those mines. A pretty cool thing for such a remote little town.
Not that I remember. It was rough for the first two days but by day 3 I just didn't feel like sleeping anymore. I watched TV or played games all night until people were alive again and continued on with my day. I was exhausted though both mentally and physically somehow. The day after I finally slept was probably the worst. Still no energy but now coupled with nausea and no appetite. It was like a withdrawal of some sort... not recommended:P I already kick into REM sleep really fast as it is so when I was not sleeping, I would sort of dream while being awake. It's a crazy experience for sure.
I went almost a week without sleep and it definitely screws you up. On day 5, I was hallucinating that there were people around me and seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I had a constant fuzzy feeling and had very little energy. It was an interesting experiment and it was not easy to get to sleep. It took me over a month to get back into a proper rhythm.
Every military person I've known have done it for the free college money they give out. The military basically buys service with tax dollars. These kids don't generally go die for free and if they do it's because they were brainwashed into nationalistic American exceptionalism.
Working at the VA is a huge credit on anyone's resume, especially in the Neurology/Medical sciences field. It's hard to get in there but a huge bonus if you can claim that experience.
People are inherently selfish but I will admit there are a small percentage that do things because they mean well and desire nothing in return. A dying breed for sure.
Yup, that's why I spend as much time as possible with mine. I try my best to be friendly with the mother as now we are stuck in each other's lives forever so why not make the best of it. People need to get over themselves and think about what's best for their little ones. If you can't put them first then you shouldn't have kids.
Or better yet, let's run a threat scenario of an event at the exact same time the actual event is happening. Also, let's do this a bunch of times and wait to see who notices that our exercises end up confusing authorities during the actual concurrent events as they happen.:P
Yea and when it fails to go anywhere, they can just say "oh well, we tried". Eventually the people might wake up and realize they haven't been in control for a very long time. Your vote means nothing and even if you replace one scumbag for another, they are all part of the same broken system. I'm guessing whoever runs the global network of federal banks is the real overlord.
They will eventually have to make a show that it's all shut down or controlled while just upping the secrecy level by creating an actual secret government agency. They already have secret courts so it's not that far a leap.
As a previous employee for over a decade, I was on the team that started their foray into "services" and you may have a point. MD will always want to develop his own software and use that in lieu of acquisitions of companies that actually know how to develop sw. We tried using a Dell developed sw on a huge services client and it failed horribly nearly costing Dell the whole account. Acquiring Perot brings that knowledge to the table but the philosophies are so different between the two that it will take some time to figure out a middle-ground. The "it's not ready until it's 100%" approach of Perot vs the "80% is good enough, we need this now!" approach of Dell. Dell has a speed and it's always at the redline. (yay, car analogy!)
They will keep the enterprise business running strong as they can attach services at a premium. Consumer and SMB might be sold to whoever wants that nightmare and there may be solutions to provide virtual helpdesks but I doubt there will be any more laptops or PCs coming out.
Nope, I was the same way and finally gave in to create an ID and stop being a Coward.:P
I do regret that Tesla wasn't recognized for his talent back in the day though. Imagine the things he could have come up with instead of dying poor and alone.
This place has definitely changed. I was on here for a couple years before I decided to make a UID and stop being a Coward:P
Every so often you will see a nugget of brilliance from someone but then I see some tea party poster get modded to +5 and have to wonder what happened.
Not long ago, here in Austin, a cop followed up on a lead regarding a robbery suspect at his apartment. The cop knocked on the door, heard the person inside bolt the door shut and then the cop called in the SWAT team. One guy was holed away in his apartment and they call in SWAT. They ended up using tear gas to get him out. Welcome to Amerika.
It is funny how most of these "terror" events seem to happen at the same time or around the same time as simulations of the exact same events. 9/11, boston, sandy hook, etc... Maybe they have the right idea but their timing stinks? Definitely better ways to spend billions of dollars.
It's all about the red tape. The gov't is run like a corporation and I'm sure all the red tape is causing the huge amounts of financial bloat. You probably need to get a proposal of your TPS report cover sheet approved by a board before it goes into draft and another round of proposals just so it can be added to a report that will have lost all relevance and only cost taxpayers 100 million dollars. I'm sure there's some ego to it too. "It's not declassified until I say it is!" "B..b..but sir, everyone has a copy of this. There are billions of these in the wild" "What did I just say?!"
Did that agreement have a little smiley face on it near the end? Does anyone really expect the USA to be honest about their activities? This is more likely a coordinated display to show the US feels bad about being caught red-handed and now they can be trusted by the worldz again.
The UK will be next I'm sure... I don't know the lapdog priority in Europe though:P
I hear that. It's called having an open mind. Heck, scientists are still trying to find the other 95% of the universe's mass. With dark energies and crazy things like spooky action, who knows what's out there.
What's to say that little ghosties or other related phenomena aren't a strange harmonic imbalance between parallel universes and we appear as ghosts to that side too. Depends on your views of string theory and all that I guess.
I'm an atheist and a skeptic but only because I want to know the truth, not because I don't want to believe in it. Everything has an answer.
Genetic memories? There's still a lot to figure out about how memories work. I think there has been some research that discovered memories might reside in different cells. It could explain past life phenomena and weird unexplainables like that.
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I actually went for 5 days without sleep and the hallucinations started by that last day. I was seeing this same old man seemingly follow me around. I would feel invisible people watching me, it was not a good experience. I felt like crap through most of it like a full body fuzzy feeling. After day 3, i couldn't really get sleepy. It was interesting but the day after I finally slept was the most painful. I wouldn't do that again for sure.
This is what I was thinking. We will evolve ourselves into machines and I guess we could always maintain DNA cultures and grow bodies if we need. I just wonder what would become of our humanity if we could do the Ghost In The Shell thing. It would mess with your mind to change bodies and basically be around indefinitely. Nothing is impossible, it's just not possible now. I can see humans as the Borg... taking over the universe like the plague we are on Earth :P
I am actually from Sudbury and was shocked to hear about this when it first was proposed. I'm glad they found a use for all those mines. A pretty cool thing for such a remote little town.
That's my guess. :)
Not that I remember. It was rough for the first two days but by day 3 I just didn't feel like sleeping anymore. I watched TV or played games all night until people were alive again and continued on with my day. I was exhausted though both mentally and physically somehow. The day after I finally slept was probably the worst. Still no energy but now coupled with nausea and no appetite. It was like a withdrawal of some sort... not recommended :P
I already kick into REM sleep really fast as it is so when I was not sleeping, I would sort of dream while being awake. It's a crazy experience for sure.
I went almost a week without sleep and it definitely screws you up. On day 5, I was hallucinating that there were people around me and seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I had a constant fuzzy feeling and had very little energy. It was an interesting experiment and it was not easy to get to sleep. It took me over a month to get back into a proper rhythm.
Every military person I've known have done it for the free college money they give out. The military basically buys service with tax dollars. These kids don't generally go die for free and if they do it's because they were brainwashed into nationalistic American exceptionalism.
Working at the VA is a huge credit on anyone's resume, especially in the Neurology/Medical sciences field. It's hard to get in there but a huge bonus if you can claim that experience.
People are inherently selfish but I will admit there are a small percentage that do things because they mean well and desire nothing in return. A dying breed for sure.
Yup, that's why I spend as much time as possible with mine. I try my best to be friendly with the mother as now we are stuck in each other's lives forever so why not make the best of it.
People need to get over themselves and think about what's best for their little ones. If you can't put them first then you shouldn't have kids.
Or better yet, let's run a threat scenario of an event at the exact same time the actual event is happening. Also, let's do this a bunch of times and wait to see who notices that our exercises end up confusing authorities during the actual concurrent events as they happen. :P
Yea and when it fails to go anywhere, they can just say "oh well, we tried". Eventually the people might wake up and realize they haven't been in control for a very long time. Your vote means nothing and even if you replace one scumbag for another, they are all part of the same broken system. I'm guessing whoever runs the global network of federal banks is the real overlord.
They will eventually have to make a show that it's all shut down or controlled while just upping the secrecy level by creating an actual secret government agency. They already have secret courts so it's not that far a leap.
I'm more worried about what's in the columns.... Metadata my ass.
As a previous employee for over a decade, I was on the team that started their foray into "services" and you may have a point. MD will always want to develop his own software and use that in lieu of acquisitions of companies that actually know how to develop sw.
We tried using a Dell developed sw on a huge services client and it failed horribly nearly costing Dell the whole account. Acquiring Perot brings that knowledge to the table but the philosophies are so different between the two that it will take some time to figure out a middle-ground. The "it's not ready until it's 100%" approach of Perot vs the "80% is good enough, we need this now!" approach of Dell. Dell has a speed and it's always at the redline. (yay, car analogy!)
They will keep the enterprise business running strong as they can attach services at a premium. Consumer and SMB might be sold to whoever wants that nightmare and there may be solutions to provide virtual helpdesks but I doubt there will be any more laptops or PCs coming out.
If so, then we have solved world hunger and overpopulation in one fell swoop! Maybe the Morlocks were on to something :P
Nope, I was the same way and finally gave in to create an ID and stop being a Coward. :P
I do regret that Tesla wasn't recognized for his talent back in the day though. Imagine the things he could have come up with instead of dying poor and alone.
Not to mention the oil pipeline that plans to supply Russia with energy via Turkish borders.
This place has definitely changed. I was on here for a couple years before I decided to make a UID and stop being a Coward :P
Every so often you will see a nugget of brilliance from someone but then I see some tea party poster get modded to +5 and have to wonder what happened.
Not long ago, here in Austin, a cop followed up on a lead regarding a robbery suspect at his apartment. The cop knocked on the door, heard the person inside bolt the door shut and then the cop called in the SWAT team.
One guy was holed away in his apartment and they call in SWAT. They ended up using tear gas to get him out. Welcome to Amerika.
It is funny how most of these "terror" events seem to happen at the same time or around the same time as simulations of the exact same events. 9/11, boston, sandy hook, etc...
Maybe they have the right idea but their timing stinks? Definitely better ways to spend billions of dollars.
It's all about the red tape. The gov't is run like a corporation and I'm sure all the red tape is causing the huge amounts of financial bloat. You probably need to get a proposal of your TPS report cover sheet approved by a board before it goes into draft and another round of proposals just so it can be added to a report that will have lost all relevance and only cost taxpayers 100 million dollars.
I'm sure there's some ego to it too.
"It's not declassified until I say it is!"
"B..b..but sir, everyone has a copy of this. There are billions of these in the wild"
"What did I just say?!"
Thanks for that. I laughed out loud in a very quiet office. Hilarious :P
Did that agreement have a little smiley face on it near the end? Does anyone really expect the USA to be honest about their activities? This is more likely a coordinated display to show the US feels bad about being caught red-handed and now they can be trusted by the worldz again.
The UK will be next I'm sure... I don't know the lapdog priority in Europe though :P
Egypt obviously. In America we just let the government do whatever they want and ask for more when the next puppet is put into place.
I hear that. It's called having an open mind. Heck, scientists are still trying to find the other 95% of the universe's mass. With dark energies and crazy things like spooky action, who knows what's out there.
What's to say that little ghosties or other related phenomena aren't a strange harmonic imbalance between parallel universes and we appear as ghosts to that side too. Depends on your views of string theory and all that I guess.
I'm an atheist and a skeptic but only because I want to know the truth, not because I don't want to believe in it. Everything has an answer.
Genetic memories? There's still a lot to figure out about how memories work. I think there has been some research that discovered memories might reside in different cells. It could explain past life phenomena and weird unexplainables like that.
Just a quick google cuz I'm at work and lazy:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080123/full/451385a.html
I dunno, maybe there's a vast single consciousness and we're all one pretty flower. If that can be proven, I'm on board :P
Well considering how often the planet gets f**ked, it's about time someone committed :P