Seriously though, I was diagnosed ADHD long ago, but for the hell of it, I took a test later on while buzzed. While I was slightly baked, my EEG showed a higher level of concentration.
After doing a little research, I found that THC affected exactly the same portions of the brain, reducing seratonin levels in the brain, but unlike seratonin reuptake inhibitors, it doesn't trick the brain into producing additional seratonin. Seratonin can, in the wrong amounts, lead to everything from ADD through depression, which is why people can pay attention to literal crap if they're watching it "On weed".
Since they now have a dirt cheap DVD recorder (made by Ilo) for less than $100, it's looking more like VHS may give way to DVD-+R/W.
Not only does Tivo cost twice as much as the DVD recorder, it's priced (obviously) far higher than VCRs. Add to that the fact that you have to pay for a service fee, and those costs pile up. Maybe I'm not old enough to be in that "My grandchildren know more how to program my VCR than I do" group, but I don't need, nor want, my home video recorder to phone home every time I want to record the latest Battlestar Galactica eps.
I think it's more than likely due to the sheer volume of games available, along with a lot of middle of the road buyers who wouldn't go for the DS, and want a simple "least number of moving parts to break" gaming system. Both the GBA SP and GB DS have hinged setups, which for many, are inconvenient. Ribbon cables can break, hinges can break, the backlight on both handhelds will obviously consume battery power far quicker than what the Micro would, and on an economical basis, the screen on the Micro is far cheaper to produce in the long run.
Besides that, it's the "small is good" mentality beyond everything else, the GBA, GBA SP and GB DS are all the size of a wallet. The Micro is the size of a keychain. Like at a LAN party, which would garner more interest? Lugging a suitcase size PC in, or carrying in a 17" LCD with a mini ITX box attached that's the size of a Mac Mini?
Considering that the **AA has been taking on "Prove you paid to listen/view this media, or 'accidents' will happen." mob style protection rackets as of late. Only, instead of tossing molatov cocktails into storefronts, they're settling for economically destroying customers for not visiting the storefronts they prefer.
Dehydrated food (costs about $4 a meal, but you save in shipping weight), and as many portable water filters as possible (Ketadyn makes a ceramic one that's very good, albeit expensive, filtering down to.2 microns or so).
What of the concession stands, where the real money is made? Tons of unpopped popcorn going to waste, $9 cups of soda unsold, 80 year old boxes of Raisinettes languishing for another 80! What of the poor guys who's sole job is to stand in the lobby tearing your ticket in half, or the ones who's duty is to pregum the floors of the theater so your feet cling with just enough force to keep you from walking out on the movie? It's a madhouse I tell you! A MAAAADHOUUUUUSE!
So please, won't somebody think of the pimply faced high school students?
This message has been brought to you by the Pimply Faced Sticky Shoes Union Local 109.
Inmate #1: I'm in here for armed robbery, you? Inmate #2: I'm in here for selling pot to grade schoolers, how about you, new guy? Inmate #3: I uploaded a copy of Star Wars on the internet.
Jeeze, lax editorial skills abound. The first shuttle flight was April 12, 1981. Took me all of 2 seconds to research that, can't reporters do the same?
I mean, except for the eyes and big white spider, the character isn't going to work very well on screen, due to his being solid black (with little to no reflective surfaces). Why not use Carnage instead? Far more over the top, and the costume would have a much greater screen presence.
Another reason why Chicago, New York, and Boston have such wide reaching transit systems, particularly NYC, is because the companies that built them (a) Didn't wait for decades to get public approval, and (b) Said companies, if confronted on the subject, would quickly grease the palms of the politicians in charge to ensure they could continue work uninterrupted.
Back when they were building the subways in Manhattan, the construction was literally tearing up all the streets, dynamite used in the tunnelling would occasionally explode and kill bystanders, and buildings would occasionally collapse. Hardly what the public would put up with nowadays, nor politicians looking for reelection, but the systems were *built*. In later decades, the companies that built those subway systems went bankrupt, and the city took over the transit systems. Major corporations may be all evil and bad and junk, but the ineptitude of government is criminal in scale.
As for Seattle, basically the last 10 years or so has been spent funnelling money into bean counters' pockets, who had the task of no more than writing study after study, without one penny being put into any form of construction.
If these guys were actually serious, they could have built a line stretching from Seattle to Tacoma, running above either the old Interurban line, or above/alongside the Burlington/Northern tracks (much like how MARTA in Atlanta operates). No additional noise pollution, no need for environmental impact studies (since nice clean electric transit doesn't produce any pollution on its own), no need to tear down houses or widen streets to make room. Simple as that.
In fact, more than likely they DIDN'T want a monorail, because someone would have to be accountable for all the money that was wasted on those studies.
Last I heard, lightning reaches temperatures approaching that of the sun's surface. If such is the case, then something approaching that process has to occur.
In Neuromancer, they had suits that were designed to blend in perfectly with the background to hide their wearers. This isn't much of a different concept.
Just substitute a jacket lined with IR LEDs that are on continuously, then screw any special sensing software, you can keep hidden anytime you want. You don't need the software, you just need enough IR light to overload the cameras spying on you.
But instead, because anyone who can tie their shoes can get net access, the apparent signal to noise ratio is considerably skewed.
30+ years ago, most people of nominal to below average intelligence generally kept low paying jobs, stayed in their locales (often for their entire lives), and stuck with jobs that suited them, and of course, were not on the internet. Like the middle class' dirty little secret (much like how the autistic were treated), you didn't hear very much about them.
Of course, since many of them can get on the net and demonstrate that lack of intelligence outside of their respective towns or workplaces, there has been an explosion in perception, not in their population.
Nowadays, with both handy spreadsheet apps that take 5 minutes to learn, calculators, and spell checkers, most of those people can hold higher paying jobs, without having to demonstrate the literacy or number crunching skills that those jobs would require.
Hell, we don't even let kids learn math without a calculator. So really, it's the laissez faire attitude regarding education that is cutting into the perceived lack of intelligence overall.
On average, a butane refill cannister (for cigarette lighters) runs around $2-$3 for around 300 ml.
Judging from the yields, you could refill the fuel cell at the cost of one of those butane bottles for a month (and $2 a month is pretty danged cheap).
Would it take any major doing to redesign the fuel cell to process butane?
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I volunteer to be one of the test subjects!
Seriously though, I was diagnosed ADHD long ago, but for the hell of it, I took a test later on while buzzed. While I was slightly baked, my EEG showed a higher level of concentration.
After doing a little research, I found that THC affected exactly the same portions of the brain, reducing seratonin levels in the brain, but unlike seratonin reuptake inhibitors, it doesn't trick the brain into producing additional seratonin. Seratonin can, in the wrong amounts, lead to everything from ADD through depression, which is why people can pay attention to literal crap if they're watching it "On weed".
Since they now have a dirt cheap DVD recorder (made by Ilo) for less than $100, it's looking more like VHS may give way to DVD-+R/W.
Not only does Tivo cost twice as much as the DVD recorder, it's priced (obviously) far higher than VCRs. Add to that the fact that you have to pay for a service fee, and those costs pile up. Maybe I'm not old enough to be in that "My grandchildren know more how to program my VCR than I do" group, but I don't need, nor want, my home video recorder to phone home every time I want to record the latest Battlestar Galactica eps.
No, they'll do much, much worse things than send zombie warriors.
They send lawyers.
There's a difference?
I heard they ship with a 40 Giggigity hard drive (OH!)
I think it's more than likely due to the sheer volume of games available, along with a lot of middle of the road buyers who wouldn't go for the DS, and want a simple "least number of moving parts to break" gaming system. Both the GBA SP and GB DS have hinged setups, which for many, are inconvenient. Ribbon cables can break, hinges can break, the backlight on both handhelds will obviously consume battery power far quicker than what the Micro would, and on an economical basis, the screen on the Micro is far cheaper to produce in the long run.
Besides that, it's the "small is good" mentality beyond everything else, the GBA, GBA SP and GB DS are all the size of a wallet. The Micro is the size of a keychain. Like at a LAN party, which would garner more interest? Lugging a suitcase size PC in, or carrying in a 17" LCD with a mini ITX box attached that's the size of a Mac Mini?
Honeycomb big?
Considering that the **AA has been taking on "Prove you paid to listen/view this media, or 'accidents' will happen." mob style protection rackets as of late. Only, instead of tossing molatov cocktails into storefronts, they're settling for economically destroying customers for not visiting the storefronts they prefer.
Road? Where we're going, we don't NEED roads.
And, considering my birthday is October 5, 1969, the addition to the Smithsonian is doubly appreciated.
Dehydrated food (costs about $4 a meal, but you save in shipping weight), and as many portable water filters as possible (Ketadyn makes a ceramic one that's very good, albeit expensive, filtering down to .2 microns or so).
The Pirate Bay has a torrent of the infamous Backstroke of the West, not really deleted footage, of course, but good for total hilarity.
At least 2 hours of deleted footage is of the Jedi Counsel turning Jar Jar into Gungan sashimi.
Yes, someone had to say it.
How dare Lucasfilms claim a loss @380 million?
What of the concession stands, where the real money is made? Tons of unpopped popcorn going to waste, $9 cups of soda unsold, 80 year old boxes of Raisinettes languishing for another 80! What of the poor guys who's sole job is to stand in the lobby tearing your ticket in half, or the ones who's duty is to pregum the floors of the theater so your feet cling with just enough force to keep you from walking out on the movie? It's a madhouse I tell you! A MAAAADHOUUUUUSE!
So please, won't somebody think of the pimply faced high school students?
This message has been brought to you by the Pimply Faced Sticky Shoes Union Local 109.
Inmate #1: I'm in here for armed robbery, you?
Inmate #2: I'm in here for selling pot to grade schoolers, how about you, new guy?
Inmate #3: I uploaded a copy of Star Wars on the internet.
Inmates 1&2: That's just SICK! (slowly back away)
Jeeze, lax editorial skills abound. The first shuttle flight was April 12, 1981. Took me all of 2 seconds to research that, can't reporters do the same?
I mean, except for the eyes and big white spider, the character isn't going to work very well on screen, due to his being solid black (with little to no reflective surfaces). Why not use Carnage instead? Far more over the top, and the costume would have a much greater screen presence.
Another reason why Chicago, New York, and Boston have such wide reaching transit systems, particularly NYC, is because the companies that built them (a) Didn't wait for decades to get public approval, and (b) Said companies, if confronted on the subject, would quickly grease the palms of the politicians in charge to ensure they could continue work uninterrupted.
Back when they were building the subways in Manhattan, the construction was literally tearing up all the streets, dynamite used in the tunnelling would occasionally explode and kill bystanders, and buildings would occasionally collapse. Hardly what the public would put up with nowadays, nor politicians looking for reelection, but the systems were *built*. In later decades, the companies that built those subway systems went bankrupt, and the city took over the transit systems. Major corporations may be all evil and bad and junk, but the ineptitude of government is criminal in scale.
As for Seattle, basically the last 10 years or so has been spent funnelling money into bean counters' pockets, who had the task of no more than writing study after study, without one penny being put into any form of construction.
If these guys were actually serious, they could have built a line stretching from Seattle to Tacoma, running above either the old Interurban line, or above/alongside the Burlington/Northern tracks (much like how MARTA in Atlanta operates). No additional noise pollution, no need for environmental impact studies (since nice clean electric transit doesn't produce any pollution on its own), no need to tear down houses or widen streets to make room. Simple as that.
In fact, more than likely they DIDN'T want a monorail, because someone would have to be accountable for all the money that was wasted on those studies.
While asteroid belts will vary widely by interfering gravitational effects, planets manage a consistant orbit.
Last I heard, lightning reaches temperatures approaching that of the sun's surface. If such is the case, then something approaching that process has to occur.
I guess Quaid finally started the reactor.
In Neuromancer, they had suits that were designed to blend in perfectly with the background to hide their wearers. This isn't much of a different concept.
Just substitute a jacket lined with IR LEDs that are on continuously, then screw any special sensing software, you can keep hidden anytime you want. You don't need the software, you just need enough IR light to overload the cameras spying on you.
But instead, because anyone who can tie their shoes can get net access, the apparent signal to noise ratio is considerably skewed.
30+ years ago, most people of nominal to below average intelligence generally kept low paying jobs, stayed in their locales (often for their entire lives), and stuck with jobs that suited them, and of course, were not on the internet. Like the middle class' dirty little secret (much like how the autistic were treated), you didn't hear very much about them.
Of course, since many of them can get on the net and demonstrate that lack of intelligence outside of their respective towns or workplaces, there has been an explosion in perception, not in their population.
Nowadays, with both handy spreadsheet apps that take 5 minutes to learn, calculators, and spell checkers, most of those people can hold higher paying jobs, without having to demonstrate the literacy or number crunching skills that those jobs would require.
Hell, we don't even let kids learn math without a calculator. So really, it's the laissez faire attitude regarding education that is cutting into the perceived lack of intelligence overall.
On average, a butane refill cannister (for cigarette lighters) runs around $2-$3 for around 300 ml.
Judging from the yields, you could refill the fuel cell at the cost of one of those butane bottles for a month (and $2 a month is pretty danged cheap).
Would it take any major doing to redesign the fuel cell to process butane?
It's just like a brick, which I also fling at the screen if I don't like what's on!
Awwwcrap, it's "Bonsai Kitten" all over again.
(sits back and starts munching popcorn, watching for the inevitable comedy)