Sun Microsystems, laying off tons of people and then hiring tons of "guest workers" on the cheap? Publicise it. And the rest of us, refuse to do business with them.
I have told Sprint there's no way in HELL I will deal with them, because they've laid off tons of USian employees for cheap offshore labour.
When companies start realising that people aren't going to stand for their fellow peoples losing their jobs, market forces will force them to start hiring American.
Remember, Nestle were killing children in the 70s with their hard sell of baby formula to Africa. Government? Did little if nothing. But damn, when people stopped buying Nestle EN MASSE in protest, they changed their tune DOUBLEPLUSQUICK.
RE: The US has enjoyed the benefits of globalization for decades now. Look at all the goods at your disposal, right now.
When textiles were mass produced by the lowest bidder, the quality went to hell. Check out vintage cotton from the Victorian era (made in England and the USA) with the cheap, practiacally disposable stuff kicking around now, even in "high end" clothing.
I'm sorry, but our standard of living has NOT gone up in the 50 years since we sent all the manufacturing and now IT jobs overseas - it's been getting steadily worse, and worse, and worse.
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They had to differentiate themselves because if they were passing off what they did as a SPORT, they'd be required to do drug testing, etc. Naturally, all these people would massively fail (remember that Kurt Angle won his Olympic Gold at 167lb, now he's well into the 200s and has the brow ridges and male pattern baldness associated with drug use) so therefore... it's ENTERTAINMENT, not SPORT, so the sporting authorities have no jurisdiction and cannot demand that the "athletes" be drug tested.
Now you know why they broke the code of silence about what they do being fake. It was that or be drug tested, and end up in jail.
It's amazing how INCREDIBLY EVEN his "vitiligo" is. In fact, all of his visible skin is an even, ghost-white color.
The fact that his "vitiligo" also coincides with other "subtle" changes to his face--- does vitiligo also have the effect of causing gross, spontaneous mutation of the nose?
RE: Why do you think you can get liquid nitrogen delivered to your doorstep in the boondocks?
Huh! My initial guesses were 1) It's used in the production of bathtub meth 2) It's used in the production of sippin' shine or 3) It's used in the hilarious and often fatal game of "hey y'all, wawtch this!"
You don't even have the luxury of THAT option anymore. McDonalds is working on high tech stores that only require two workers, will which lead to massive layoffs in fast food.
So people with liberal arts degrees will have literally NO job future.
RE: Imagine if you were a painter, and you were doing something that (for it to convey what you want it to convey) some of the colors should be muted.. but the art gallery told you that you must saturate all of your colors instead (otherwise they won't pay you for the piece
That's not far from the truth in the consumer market. People want art that matches the drapes and or couch.
I don't think "Doctor Who" sucked ass in concept. Execution maybe.
Doctor Who, as a concept, is an interesting one - a member of an alien race with mastery over time and space escapes its rigid, confining, church hierarchy type rules to trip out over the galaxy, getting embroiled in adventure after adventure.
Where it sucked total ass, if you disregard the single digit budgets and overly melodramatic bad acting, was the fact that at one point it went from being about a crotchety scientifically curious eccentric to being about an out-and-out clown.
Some of its "Gothic" period rocked hard, and Pertwee showed it could be an action and suspense show. I'd say T*m B*ker ruined it and Sly tried really hard to undo the damage him, Peter "I'm out of breath" Davison and Colin "Fat Bastard in a clown suit" Baker did to it.
It got cute, it got gimmicky ("Affirmative, Maw-stah!") and towards the end some parts got execrable (Richard Briers? Hello??? "Oo, I liked being the baddie" he said. Baddie? Christ almighty. And speaking of Briers.... You. Thought that. Shatner. Had a problem with. Stopping. And Starting Sentences. Well you. Haven't seen. Anything yet. Until you've heard. Richard Briers.)
And of course, the TV movie pissed all over everything that had been built up to date and made the thing look like a cross between Plan 9 from Outer Space and Dynasty.
It seems to me that doing this whole outsourcing bit is really solving the wrong problem.
Technology is not in and of itself useful. I mean, yes, your compiler writers are useful, and the software itself provides some service, but the net worth of IT is what it can do for a person, company, etc.
The value in the internet is not selling servers, but implementing an e-commerce site that allows people to buy plane tickets more easily.
The value in the office is not 10 boxes of Office, three quarters of the features of which never get used, but in setting up an office system in which documents can be edited, tracked, archived and shared.
IT kind of strayed from its initial premise and attempted to model itself after other, box moving enterprises. But code isn't like raw oats or widgets. The endgame of it is, how much time or money will the use of it save me?
RE: It's the concept of a competitive advantage. It's time that workers in IT (and I am one) recognize that workers in China and India have a fairly pronounced competitive advantage over the workers herein the United States. We're expensive, difficult to manage, and only slightly better programmers than those in other countries (as a whole).
Well, let me ask you this. How many of us are replaceable in the sense that I could take the day off, and someone else could just walk in and carry on where I left off? You can do that in a tool-and-die or assembly-line position, where a screw is a screw and a nut is a nut. Not so in I.T.
Plus, we have another advantage. We tend to think outside the box, propose better solutions, and have a certain inventiveness, creativity and business savvy that other cultures lack. Many of the cultures mentioned, unless you wish to micromanage these folks to the back teeth nothing will get done. Yes yes yes, they're VERY good at math, but unless you say "do problem 1-4 on page 9" nothing gets done.
A certain high tech company in Canada was experimenting with this about a decade ago.
They realised a few things quickly - and that was that you spent more time and money writing specs, that turned out to make the projects far less flexible. Also, because of cultural differences, for example, when finding a major bug after the project goes gold, some cultures have a "duck the head, don't say anything" mentality, which resulted, in one occasion of note, in a very expensive recall of MANY CDs that had been pressed and sent to customers.
The biggest reason for cost overrun in IT is NOT the salary of the engineer in question, but boneheaded decisions made at levels higher - yes, it may look good in the short term to hire cheaper people, but that doesn't necessarily translate into cheaper projects. Especially when you take the 3am long distance bills into consideration.
I believe Canada swung back after these experiments because it was costing them more than they anticipated, with too much attendant risk. (Company goes out of business? Sells the code on the open market?)
Of course, they wouldn't let us telecommute because they needed us RIGHT THEN AND THERE IN THE OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MEETINGS, etc. But outsourcing the work halfway across the planet? A mere logistical hurdle to be hurdled.
RE: Please provide the verse. I don't trust the paraphrasing of those who reject the Scriptures.
Try Ezekiel 26. Tyre destroyed for ever by "many nations" and never rebuilt. (Actually, Tyre was never destroyed and still exists.)
RE: The food goes right through the rabbit and is passed out as a special type of dropping. These are re-eaten, and can now nourish the rabbit as they have already been partly digested.
That isn't "raising up" food or cud-chewing. Nice try though.
RE: Either you or I am insane then, since I accept the Bible in it's original form was 100% error free and reliable.
Then tell me where I can buy it in its "original form". Cause I see things like this:
GEN 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
GEN 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
In this account, God created the fowl from the WATERS
GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
In this account, God creates the fowls from the land.
For the record, insects don't have four feet:
LEV 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
LEV 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
LEV 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
If you want me to believe that stuff, please explain to me, O inerrant one, a few things. 1) What are the ten commandments 2) how did Judas die 3) What were Jesus' last words
Oh, and you might want to consider this:
MT 16:28, MK 9:1, LK 9:27 Jesus says that some of his listeners will not taste death before he comes again in his kingdom. This was said almost 2000 years ago. (Note: This and many other passages indicate that Jesus was to come again in a relatively short period of time and not just "quickly" as present day Biblicists assert. All of his listeners are now dead, yet Jesus has not come again in his kingdom. All of the alleged words of Jesus recorded in the Bible are therefore suspect.)
RE: Well then, I see the Biblical history being proven true as indisputable evidence of God. For
Didn't God say he would destroy Tyre "for ever"? (Tyre was never overthrown, and still exists albeit under a different name). There are loads of other humorous mistakes like that.
RE: Creation being proven true would eliminate the already minority view of atheism.
Which account of Creationism are you trying to prove? The one where the fowls were created out of the water, or the one where they were created out of the land? Rabbits don't chew cuds and bats aren't birds.
There's no way any SANE human can hold the Bible up to be fact, 100% error free and reliable.
They're asking BRITS, for Christ's sake. Luddite land of fairies and elves, where people are very likely to say "ee, by gum, ah kin do that fasteh w'pen an papeh!"
You only have to look at how "Doctor Who" depicts robots and computers to realise how devoid of reality those folks are.
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The other powerlifting controversy is the walking out with the weight vs the monolift discussion. A monolift is a contraption that holds a barbell so that the squatter only has to set up, the hooks release the barbell, the lifter squats down and up, and the hooks come back to catch. In the olden days a squatter was expected to take the bar off of stands, walk it out, squat it, walk it back, and rerack.
Fred "Dr. Squat" Hatfield, Ph.D caused a bit of a stir when he asked his spotters to move the racks out from underneath him (in pre-monolift days) and he squatted in situ to move 1014.... it stood, because there was NOTHING in the rules to say he couldn't do it that way. (The rules were changed.) So there's precedent for the monolift idea before the monolift was introduced into competition.
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Powerlifting only involves one thing - namely moving as much weight as possible in three relatively untechnical lifts - the bench press, the squat, and the deadlift.
However, advances in bench shirt and squat suit technology by companies like Inzer have really made people question the sport. Way back people figured out they could bench slightly more if they were wearing a tight T-shirt. Then people started wearing stiffer shirts, and eventually it became part of the sport to wear an overly tight, one or two ply heavy non-stretch polyester that's so rigid the bencher actually has to PULL the weight to his chest in order to complete the lift. You heard me correctly..... one recent competition had a lifter try a NINE HUNDRED POUND BENCH PRESS, and he had to actually force the weight DOWN to his chest by HAULING DOWNWARDS on the bar.
Naturally, the rebound kicks the weight up some, and some believe the right technique and the right shirt can kick up your max weight for a 40-100lb gain.
As for the squat - between the Inzer or Titan knee wraps, the canvas underwear (yes, you heard that right) and the exceedingly tight double ply squat suit, how much of that 1200lb squat is the lifter, and how much the equipment?
Yes, the weights DO go up as a result of the technology, and people can compete longer because the equipment provides some degree of safety. However, you can easily see how some people would denigrate the sport entirely because it works out to who has the best gear, sometimes.
Before the Olympic weightlifters scoff too much, consider that they use a "springy" bar and "bounce" with it to get some rebound and momentum in the lift. No strength sport is without some kind of recoil component.....
I'm kind of torn. Part of me says hey, this is garbage, take the stuff off and make it a competition as to who can lift the weight himself, and the other part realises that the trickiest part of the bench, for example, is the end of it, where the triceps lock the weight out unassisted by the shirt. People who train with the gear are stronger without it than people who don't use it at all, most of the time.
which is why they use uppers (it works on this pathway). I've found heavy exercise and something they no longer make anymore called "Memory Fuel" by the Life Extension Foundation/Durk Pearson + Sandy Shaw really helps.
In fact, if I didn't take the stuff for ages and then took some before midterms I'd have hyperfocus like you wouldn't believe.
Powerlifting first thing in the AM has helped me too. Check out elitefts.com - articles section
Yeah, right, like the downfall of CURSIVE HANDWRITING is the biggest problem that online communication causes. I know very good, very literate people who can't even find the shift key on their keyboard to capitalise the beginnings of sentences, never mind punctuate.
Copperplate handwriting went out of style in the 1920s, but there are still people who do it as a heritage art. Don't sweat it.
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I believe New York State is planning on instituting steroid testing anyway... bye bye Madison Square Garden.
Find out who it is who's outsourcing.
Sun Microsystems, laying off tons of people and then hiring tons of "guest workers" on the cheap? Publicise it. And the rest of us, refuse to do business with them.
I have told Sprint there's no way in HELL I will deal with them, because they've laid off tons of USian employees for cheap offshore labour.
When companies start realising that people aren't going to stand for their fellow peoples losing their jobs, market forces will force them to start hiring American.
Remember, Nestle were killing children in the 70s with their hard sell of baby formula to Africa. Government? Did little if nothing. But damn, when people stopped buying Nestle EN MASSE in protest, they changed their tune DOUBLEPLUSQUICK.
RE: The US has enjoyed the benefits of globalization for decades now. Look at all the goods at your disposal, right now.
When textiles were mass produced by the lowest bidder, the quality went to hell. Check out vintage cotton from the Victorian era (made in England and the USA) with the cheap, practiacally disposable stuff kicking around now, even in "high end" clothing.
I'm sorry, but our standard of living has NOT gone up in the 50 years since we sent all the manufacturing and now IT jobs overseas - it's been getting steadily worse, and worse, and worse.
They had to differentiate themselves because if they were passing off what they did as a SPORT, they'd be required to do drug testing, etc. Naturally, all these people would massively fail (remember that Kurt Angle won his Olympic Gold at 167lb, now he's well into the 200s and has the brow ridges and male pattern baldness associated with drug use) so therefore... it's ENTERTAINMENT, not SPORT, so the sporting authorities have no jurisdiction and cannot demand that the "athletes" be drug tested.
Now you know why they broke the code of silence about what they do being fake. It was that or be drug tested, and end up in jail.
It's amazing how INCREDIBLY EVEN his "vitiligo" is. In fact, all of his visible skin is an even, ghost-white color.
The fact that his "vitiligo" also coincides with other "subtle" changes to his face--- does vitiligo also have the effect of causing gross, spontaneous mutation of the nose?
RE: Why do you think you can get liquid nitrogen delivered to your doorstep in the boondocks?
Huh! My initial guesses were 1) It's used in the production of bathtub meth 2) It's used in the production of sippin' shine or 3) It's used in the hilarious and often fatal game of "hey y'all, wawtch this!"
That isn't the creatine. It's the cheap whey protein he was scarfing sixteen times a day.
You don't even have the luxury of THAT option anymore. McDonalds is working on high tech stores that only require two workers, will which lead to massive layoffs in fast food.
So people with liberal arts degrees will have literally NO job future.
RE: Imagine if you were a painter, and you were doing something that (for it to convey what you want it to convey) some of the colors should be muted.. but the art gallery told you that you must saturate all of your colors instead (otherwise they won't pay you for the piece
That's not far from the truth in the consumer market. People want art that matches the drapes and or couch.
I wonder if the price goes down if they admit they've washed said pants.
I don't think "Doctor Who" sucked ass in concept. Execution maybe.
Doctor Who, as a concept, is an interesting one - a member of an alien race with mastery over time and space escapes its rigid, confining, church hierarchy type rules to trip out over the galaxy, getting embroiled in adventure after adventure.
Where it sucked total ass, if you disregard the single digit budgets and overly melodramatic bad acting, was the fact that at one point it went from being about a crotchety scientifically curious eccentric to being about an out-and-out clown.
Some of its "Gothic" period rocked hard, and Pertwee showed it could be an action and suspense show. I'd say T*m B*ker ruined it and Sly tried really hard to undo the damage him, Peter "I'm out of breath" Davison and Colin "Fat Bastard in a clown suit" Baker did to it.
It got cute, it got gimmicky ("Affirmative, Maw-stah!") and towards the end some parts got execrable (Richard Briers? Hello??? "Oo, I liked being the baddie" he said. Baddie? Christ almighty. And speaking of Briers.... You. Thought that. Shatner. Had a problem with. Stopping. And Starting Sentences. Well you. Haven't seen. Anything yet. Until you've heard. Richard Briers.)
And of course, the TV movie pissed all over everything that had been built up to date and made the thing look like a cross between Plan 9 from Outer Space and Dynasty.
It seems to me that doing this whole outsourcing bit is really solving the wrong problem.
Technology is not in and of itself useful. I mean, yes, your compiler writers are useful, and the software itself provides some service, but the net worth of IT is what it can do for a person, company, etc.
The value in the internet is not selling servers, but implementing an e-commerce site that allows people to buy plane tickets more easily.
The value in the office is not 10 boxes of Office, three quarters of the features of which never get used, but in setting up an office system in which documents can be edited, tracked, archived and shared.
IT kind of strayed from its initial premise and attempted to model itself after other, box moving enterprises. But code isn't like raw oats or widgets. The endgame of it is, how much time or money will the use of it save me?
RE: It's the concept of a competitive advantage. It's time that workers in IT (and I am one) recognize that workers in China and India have a fairly pronounced competitive advantage over the workers herein the United States. We're expensive, difficult to manage, and only slightly better programmers than those in other countries (as a whole).
Well, let me ask you this. How many of us are replaceable in the sense that I could take the day off, and someone else could just walk in and carry on where I left off? You can do that in a tool-and-die or assembly-line position, where a screw is a screw and a nut is a nut. Not so in I.T.
Plus, we have another advantage. We tend to think outside the box, propose better solutions, and have a certain inventiveness, creativity and business savvy that other cultures lack. Many of the cultures mentioned, unless you wish to micromanage these folks to the back teeth nothing will get done. Yes yes yes, they're VERY good at math, but unless you say "do problem 1-4 on page 9" nothing gets done.
A certain high tech company in Canada was experimenting with this about a decade ago.
They realised a few things quickly - and that was that you spent more time and money writing specs, that turned out to make the projects far less flexible. Also, because of cultural differences, for example, when finding a major bug after the project goes gold, some cultures have a "duck the head, don't say anything" mentality, which resulted, in one occasion of note, in a very expensive recall of MANY CDs that had been pressed and sent to customers.
The biggest reason for cost overrun in IT is NOT the salary of the engineer in question, but boneheaded decisions made at levels higher - yes, it may look good in the short term to hire cheaper people, but that doesn't necessarily translate into cheaper projects. Especially when you take the 3am long distance bills into consideration.
I believe Canada swung back after these experiments because it was costing them more than they anticipated, with too much attendant risk. (Company goes out of business? Sells the code on the open market?)
Of course, they wouldn't let us telecommute because they needed us RIGHT THEN AND THERE IN THE OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MEETINGS, etc. But outsourcing the work halfway across the planet? A mere logistical hurdle to be hurdled.
RE: Please provide the verse. I don't trust the paraphrasing of those who reject the Scriptures.
Try Ezekiel 26. Tyre destroyed for ever by "many nations" and never rebuilt. (Actually, Tyre was never destroyed and still exists.)
RE: The food goes right through the rabbit and is passed out as a special type of dropping. These are re-eaten, and can now nourish the rabbit as they have already been partly digested.
That isn't "raising up" food or cud-chewing. Nice try though.
RE: Either you or I am insane then, since I accept the Bible in it's original form was 100% error free and reliable.
Then tell me where I can buy it in its "original form". Cause I see things like this:
GEN 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
GEN 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
In this account, God created the fowl from the WATERS
GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
In this account, God creates the fowls from the land.
For the record, insects don't have four feet:
LEV 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
LEV 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
LEV 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
If you want me to believe that stuff, please explain to me, O inerrant one, a few things. 1) What are the ten commandments 2) how did Judas die 3) What were Jesus' last words
Oh, and you might want to consider this:
MT 16:28, MK 9:1, LK 9:27 Jesus says that some of his listeners will not taste death before he comes again in his kingdom. This was said almost 2000 years ago. (Note: This and many other passages indicate that Jesus was to come again in a relatively short period of time and not just "quickly" as present day Biblicists assert. All of his listeners are now dead, yet Jesus has not come again in his kingdom. All of the alleged words of Jesus recorded in the Bible are therefore suspect.)
RE: Well then, I see the Biblical history being proven true as indisputable evidence of God. For
Didn't God say he would destroy Tyre "for ever"? (Tyre was never overthrown, and still exists albeit under a different name). There are loads of other humorous mistakes like that.
RE: Creation being proven true would eliminate the already minority view of atheism.
Which account of Creationism are you trying to prove? The one where the fowls were created out of the water, or the one where they were created out of the land? Rabbits don't chew cuds and bats aren't birds.
There's no way any SANE human can hold the Bible up to be fact, 100% error free and reliable.
Since when do smelly unemployed hippies have that kind of money?
They're asking BRITS, for Christ's sake. Luddite land of fairies and elves, where people are very likely to say "ee, by gum, ah kin do that fasteh w'pen an papeh!"
You only have to look at how "Doctor Who" depicts robots and computers to realise how devoid of reality those folks are.
The other powerlifting controversy is the walking out with the weight vs the monolift discussion. A monolift is a contraption that holds a barbell so that the squatter only has to set up, the hooks release the barbell, the lifter squats down and up, and the hooks come back to catch. In the olden days a squatter was expected to take the bar off of stands, walk it out, squat it, walk it back, and rerack.
Fred "Dr. Squat" Hatfield, Ph.D caused a bit of a stir when he asked his spotters to move the racks out from underneath him (in pre-monolift days) and he squatted in situ to move 1014.... it stood, because there was NOTHING in the rules to say he couldn't do it that way. (The rules were changed.) So there's precedent for the monolift idea before the monolift was introduced into competition.
Powerlifting only involves one thing - namely moving as much weight as possible in three relatively untechnical lifts - the bench press, the squat, and the deadlift.
However, advances in bench shirt and squat suit technology by companies like Inzer have really made people question the sport. Way back people figured out they could bench slightly more if they were wearing a tight T-shirt. Then people started wearing stiffer shirts, and eventually it became part of the sport to wear an overly tight, one or two ply heavy non-stretch polyester that's so rigid the bencher actually has to PULL the weight to his chest in order to complete the lift. You heard me correctly..... one recent competition had a lifter try a NINE HUNDRED POUND BENCH PRESS, and he had to actually force the weight DOWN to his chest by HAULING DOWNWARDS on the bar.
Naturally, the rebound kicks the weight up some, and some believe the right technique and the right shirt can kick up your max weight for a 40-100lb gain.
As for the squat - between the Inzer or Titan knee wraps, the canvas underwear (yes, you heard that right) and the exceedingly tight double ply squat suit, how much of that 1200lb squat is the lifter, and how much the equipment?
Yes, the weights DO go up as a result of the technology, and people can compete longer because the equipment provides some degree of safety. However, you can easily see how some people would denigrate the sport entirely because it works out to who has the best gear, sometimes.
Before the Olympic weightlifters scoff too much, consider that they use a "springy" bar and "bounce" with it to get some rebound and momentum in the lift. No strength sport is without some kind of recoil component.....
I'm kind of torn. Part of me says hey, this is garbage, take the stuff off and make it a competition as to who can lift the weight himself, and the other part realises that the trickiest part of the bench, for example, is the end of it, where the triceps lock the weight out unassisted by the shirt. People who train with the gear are stronger without it than people who don't use it at all, most of the time.
Indiana Jones and the Dentures of Polident?
Indiana Jones and the Metamucil of Regularity?
Indiana Jones and the Depends of Comfort?
This movie is years too late.
RE: Every student has their own
That should be "every student has his (or her) own".
I suggest that you actually learn English before teaching it.
Searching will be nigh on impossible.
.NET and ADO.NET, none of which have ANY relevance to your original query.
Query: 12th century architecture
Result: 12,000 pages about ASP,
which is why they use uppers (it works on this pathway). I've found heavy exercise and something they no longer make anymore called "Memory Fuel" by the Life Extension Foundation/Durk Pearson + Sandy Shaw really helps.
In fact, if I didn't take the stuff for ages and then took some before midterms I'd have hyperfocus like you wouldn't believe.
Powerlifting first thing in the AM has helped me too. Check out elitefts.com - articles section
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Yeah, right, like the downfall of CURSIVE HANDWRITING is the biggest problem that online communication causes. I know very good, very literate people who can't even find the shift key on their keyboard to capitalise the beginnings of sentences, never mind punctuate.
Copperplate handwriting went out of style in the 1920s, but there are still people who do it as a heritage art. Don't sweat it.