Maybe it's just me, but maybe all us college kids need some more discipline?
I've definately used my fair share of psychotropics to cram. But all they do is simply focus your attention. Knowing that from experience, I don't bother anymore.
Get off the goddamn amphetamines, anduse some discipline! Turn off the fuckin' iPod, yank out the Ethernet cable, turn off the goddamn TV, and GO STUDY! Jesus. It's not that hard. If you need some energy, drink a cup of coffee. I guarantee it'll screw up your brain a lot less.
A drug can't increase your IQ. The damn potential is always there, just learn how to harness it. When I was in elementary school, a psychologist tried to tell my parents I had mild ADD. They didn't believe it, so I was never put on anything for it. Well, he was right, but guess what? You learn to control it. I'm a multitasker extraordinaire, not a amped-out zombie.
Since they're using an analogy comparing it to physical sports, I'll use another: If you're overweight, you can take drugs to suppress your diet and increase your metabolism, or you can eat right and exercize and get the same results. I'm sure you can tell which option will be healthier. The same goes for your mind - train yourself right, and you now have that ability naturally and for life. Pop an Adderall, and you have the same effect - until the drug wears off, and you sleep for 2 days straight.
That stupid icon has been bitching at me to install the new WGA Tool for days now. Considering I ALREADY installed it and verified my installation, I figured the reboot wasn't worth it and have not installed it yet. Guess that was a good thing.
Why would I need to re-verify my installation anyway?
They/don't/ possess your DNA. If their test matches your 52-digit hash, any good lawyer would have his own DNA testing lab test the full DNA sample, not their specific parts.
Must be their free speech and completely free market. Must be their unfiltered internet, or their steadfast platform of NOT intentionally hoarding other contries' currencies in an effort to dilute its value and encourage their own advantageous trade surplus. Or perhaps its their very strict labor laws that make sure citizens are paid a wage that they can live on, or their internationally-acclaimed judicial system.
However, I am sure that in China, I could not walk up to the president and tell him he is a walking ass, incapable of even the most mundane aspects of human life, and that he should do humanity a favor and off himself. Here I could do that and get away with it.
I don't even care if they could. If I'm in public, someone's already going to be able to take my picture (and the tats are a dead giveaway - if you want to know who I am exactly, blonde haired 20 year old with multiple tattoos is a lot more descriptive than just "blonde haired 20 year old") - but I don't want my boss to have the ability to know when I go out for a break, and I don't want wally world knowing about every product I walk by and look at.
I'm not paranoid, but my body is my body. I will modify it as I see fit. I do not prefer to be identified by a number wirelessly. I am, however, prepared to make myself unique with/meaningful/ art.
Mr. Slippery already said it, but I'll add my $0.02 also - if a tattoo artist was going to try to surrepticiously ID me, I'd know it. All of my ink came from bottles that were already open, and trust me, I'm watching that guy needle me. If he decided to stick a rice kernel sized chip in me, I'd feel it. My ink may be able to identify me uniquely, but not with a small radio. I'm going to keep it that way.
I don't need a fuckin' implant. Give me a credit-card sized ID, like my old apartment complex had. If I need to, I can break it in half and chuck it in the river. The only thing under my skin that wasnt there from birth will be tattoo ink, thank you very much.
Not only that, but notice the proximity of the eyes, ears, and nose - our most important sex organs - to the brain. A 3 inch nerve works a lot quicker than say, the 5' one from your brain to your big toe.
You know, I've worked enough blue collar summer jobs to have a preference for/manual/ control. And I think that way is actually safer - for me anyway - if all I have to do is aim the car and tell it how fast to go and when to slow down, i'm going to pay a lot less attention to driving the car than if I have to watch my engine speed and make sure when I apply the brakes I better damn well watch what I'm doing else I lock up and - NE PA, yo - fly off the cliff on the side of the road - I pay a hell of a lot more attention. It's rather hard to go "Hey, hang on, I gotta shift" on a cell phone whenever you have to speed up or slow down!
The pop would be kinda nostalgic... Drive around in downtown philly at night, and if you're ballsy enough to have your window down, you can hear the relays click as the lights change!
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Jesus Christ.
Maybe it's just me, but maybe all us college kids need some more discipline?
I've definately used my fair share of psychotropics to cram. But all they do is simply focus your attention. Knowing that from experience, I don't bother anymore.
Get off the goddamn amphetamines, anduse some discipline! Turn off the fuckin' iPod, yank out the Ethernet cable, turn off the goddamn TV, and GO STUDY! Jesus. It's not that hard. If you need some energy, drink a cup of coffee. I guarantee it'll screw up your brain a lot less.
A drug can't increase your IQ. The damn potential is always there, just learn how to harness it. When I was in elementary school, a psychologist tried to tell my parents I had mild ADD. They didn't believe it, so I was never put on anything for it. Well, he was right, but guess what? You learn to control it. I'm a multitasker extraordinaire, not a amped-out zombie.
Since they're using an analogy comparing it to physical sports, I'll use another: If you're overweight, you can take drugs to suppress your diet and increase your metabolism, or you can eat right and exercize and get the same results. I'm sure you can tell which option will be healthier. The same goes for your mind - train yourself right, and you now have that ability naturally and for life. Pop an Adderall, and you have the same effect - until the drug wears off, and you sleep for 2 days straight.
That stupid icon has been bitching at me to install the new WGA Tool for days now. Considering I ALREADY installed it and verified my installation, I figured the reboot wasn't worth it and have not installed it yet. Guess that was a good thing.
Why would I need to re-verify my installation anyway?
Your "civil disobedience" doesn't help these bands at all because you're not building an alternative marketplace.
When prohibition was in effect in the states, moonshine and speakeasys (both illegal) certainly brought about the repeal.
We can't force *AA to adopt a different distribution model, but we can sure show them what we want.
That's the point. If you punch anything, you'll have to pay him patent royalties.
Me too, cuz I'm his lawyer.
They /don't/ possess your DNA. If their test matches your 52-digit hash, any good lawyer would have his own DNA testing lab test the full DNA sample, not their specific parts.
It's ok, it's already there, you just don't know it.
Wait, I can't let root not have a password in UNIX?
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He posted a PICTURE OF THE GUYS FAMILY!!!!!!11111oneoneoneoneone
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Waht wil tehy evar do to oVercom tis TRAGEDIE!!???!
Because BSD is dead?
Yes, MS will come in third, amongst M$-hating Nintendo fanbois. Give me a break. /. is NOT marketing research.
Jesus, man. Five minutes?!
You're getting paid for that time! Make it thirty.
Wait, just how are they not evil?
Must be their free speech and completely free market. Must be their unfiltered internet, or their steadfast platform of NOT intentionally hoarding other contries' currencies in an effort to dilute its value and encourage their own advantageous trade surplus. Or perhaps its their very strict labor laws that make sure citizens are paid a wage that they can live on, or their internationally-acclaimed judicial system.
Yeah, that's gotta be it.
I'm not sure about that.
Why would Joe Schmoe think that his phone records were public?
He doesn't pay the government for the line, does he?
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sure there's a loss! Well, now there will be anyway - they actually have to secure their stuff.
However, I am sure that in China, I could not walk up to the president and tell him he is a walking ass, incapable of even the most mundane aspects of human life, and that he should do humanity a favor and off himself. Here I could do that and get away with it.
I don't even care if they could. If I'm in public, someone's already going to be able to take my picture (and the tats are a dead giveaway - if you want to know who I am exactly, blonde haired 20 year old with multiple tattoos is a lot more descriptive than just "blonde haired 20 year old") - but I don't want my boss to have the ability to know when I go out for a break, and I don't want wally world knowing about every product I walk by and look at.
/meaningful/ art.
I'm not paranoid, but my body is my body. I will modify it as I see fit. I do not prefer to be identified by a number wirelessly. I am, however, prepared to make myself unique with
Mr. Slippery already said it, but I'll add my $0.02 also - if a tattoo artist was going to try to surrepticiously ID me, I'd know it. All of my ink came from bottles that were already open, and trust me, I'm watching that guy needle me. If he decided to stick a rice kernel sized chip in me, I'd feel it. My ink may be able to identify me uniquely, but not with a small radio. I'm going to keep it that way.
Fuck that.
I don't need a fuckin' implant. Give me a credit-card sized ID, like my old apartment complex had. If I need to, I can break it in half and chuck it in the river. The only thing under my skin that wasnt there from birth will be tattoo ink, thank you very much.
Miro ain't sayin /shit/. He's /dead/.
oh wow, screwed that one up...
Should probably have a cup of coffee and a cigarette before posting.
Not only that, but notice the proximity of the eyes, ears, and nose - our most important sex organs - to the brain. A 3 inch nerve works a lot quicker than say, the 5' one from your brain to your big toe.
You know, I've worked enough blue collar summer jobs to have a preference for /manual/ control. And I think that way is actually safer - for me anyway - if all I have to do is aim the car and tell it how fast to go and when to slow down, i'm going to pay a lot less attention to driving the car than if I have to watch my engine speed and make sure when I apply the brakes I better damn well watch what I'm doing else I lock up and - NE PA, yo - fly off the cliff on the side of the road - I pay a hell of a lot more attention. It's rather hard to go "Hey, hang on, I gotta shift" on a cell phone whenever you have to speed up or slow down!
If it was obvious, wouldn't it have been done already?
Oh, ok. Guess it wasn't.
The pop would be kinda nostalgic... Drive around in downtown philly at night, and if you're ballsy enough to have your window down, you can hear the relays click as the lights change!