I've been using a set of Sennheiser TR130's (over-ear, decent isolation) for three years now, they're pretty good - but also more than twice the OP's budget. They're also not the lightest, but comfortable enough. Listening to tunes now, (FLAC, stereo, 96kHz, ~2400kbps), sounds good.
I'm glad you've found interesting work that you enjoy - that's rare enough at any time.
Yeah, the probs attendant longevity... I had the stray thought mid-Seventies that long lives or no, just given population growth, the notion of private ownership of land, for instance, would come into question. This alone, of all the possible disruptions of having a bunch of people living for, say, centuries, acts like a panic/rage button for lots of people, self included. (I've long yearned for a piece of land to build upon and stash my stuff and sit on porch. Well, all the stuff is pretty much gone - the only old thing I've left is a beret from '69. Yet I'd still like a piece of land. The internal conflict is pesky, but not pressing.)
I like that you brought up life cycles; we've been raised on, and taught via history of, the "natural order of things." So what happens when that 'natural order' is grossly modified in a major respect?
For it to happen and happen well, I think that the ways we organize ourselves as, and interact in, a society will need some big changes. Economics and politics will have to reflect tech reality, else we continue as fodder through the dinosaur's gullet. I think it's not just possible but desirable if done with a bit of care. Else all the dark sci-fi examinations of all this gene/nano stuff will happen, and it won't be good, at least for a long while. On the plus side, tho, with long healthy life the market for spare parts will wither.
Ditto, but the results of all the crapola can and does affect what we use how we use it - be its drugs, electronics, software, and our access to and participation on the net.
Do I want to be aware of this stuff? I'd prefer not to be but it's part of the sea in which I swim, kinda hard to avoid. Should I be aware of it? I dunno, man, some days I really don't know.
"Science, math, even technology offers much more than this kind of crap." Yes indeedy-do. Which make them interesting and useful, and also fertile ground for litigious types especially under current law. Just doing, reviewing, and publishing research is a mess, let alone trying to make something useful.
Hey, you want to make a better mousetrap? Great! Hire a team of patent attorneys, wait three years, and you're left with an open-source robot built with open source 3-D printed parts and stuff from the hardware store, using open-source software, wielding a stick that didn't come from a GM'ed tree, and a piece of cheese.
Seems to me the operant words from the article were the following:
"With their rocky terrain, thin atmosphere and high radiation, the Atacama volcanoes are some of the most similar places on Earth to the Red Planet."
“ 'If we know, on Earth, what the outer limits for life were, and they know what the paleoclimates on Mars were like, we may have a better idea of what could have lived there,' he [Steve Schmidt] said."
I may easily have missed it in the article but I saw no direct comparisons made apart from "rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape" which refers to appearance, and by my lights "most similar" does not mean "the same."
What interested me was the five percent or more difference of these various critters from current DNA database. What fascinates me is that Life has of late been found in places we'd thought it to be least likely to impossible.
Indeed. I've long had a liking for Tao and Zen, albeit not claiming to be any good at it. I suffice with a pastiche of thoughts gathered from the smorgasbord of philosophy - not necessarily a bunch of comfort, but a convenient set of sticks and bricks to be going on with.
Yet one might ask why the need to silence an inquisitive child (Yes, I'm aware of the daily exigencies of parenthood.) Strikes me one valid use for stifling would be to aid in producing compliant organic labor units from which to extract taxes, spare parts, the fig leaf of votes, and as source of cannon fodder.
As to goal or guide, only three come to mind just now. Paraphrasing Fuller, the purpose of intelligence in Universe might be to counteract entropy; from Jerry Brown's speechwriter "Our duty is to serve the people, protect the planet, and explore the universe." and the wonderful old stand-by - "Do unto others..."
Thanks for one of the better comments on this stuff, by far, than most all I've seen in the past six months.
"...only moves the problem to the origin of that agent."
Yeah. In '52 I asked my mother, "Where did I come from?" She said God made me, and made everything. My next question obviously was "Who made God?" To this day I won't use Ivory soap - it tastes terribly.
"If I get a $40 meal, but only pay $10 of it, am I not mooching from the person who pays the rest?"
Depends a bit, I think. As it stands, one could consider each gets a discount even tho one ends up out $30. If the person paying $10 is also helping you get a job done...
Nice point about pork. Some of it, maybe, goes deeper. I recall some of the discussion at the time, and a few involved were looking further ahead - be it participation, collaboration in future endeavours, for instance. (Btw, I did spend some time trying to track down facts and figures before my first post, but didn't find all that I was looking for.)
"It's of negative value." Hmm. Does ISS have any value at all? (At first blush, I could make an argument for answering no, not really. But I consider that the day is yet young. Or even ask, "Of what use is a newborn?")
"...not a bad approach" and "Good enough" I'll go along with.
But mooching? You mean the other countries involved (what, 14 of them?) contributed nothing? No money, materials, modules, know-how, personnel, comms links, experiments, or launches?
A quibble re decent display on laptops - I picked up a Toshiba at Office Depot with 17" 1920x1080 for a hair over $500 in late 2009; came with a second-gen dual-core, 4GB RAM (which I upped to 8) and integrated graphics and plays HD just fine. Civ 5 using DX11 under Windows 7 was smooth with most settings set medium to high.
Why you're replying to me I've no idea, 'cuz I figured nothing out. Perhaps a mis-placed "reply" choice. I found it fascinating that with all the gee-whiz boffinry going on the past twenty years that led to building and running the LHC that this bit viz. tides and lake levels and such didn't happen to occur to anyone. Seems to me it's one of those things that seem so damn obvious after the fact, but in real life happens when people do complex new stuff.
I suggest that the issue, and the news of it, is not discovering gravity but rather the finding, delineating, understanding, and compensating for the effects of various celestial bodies and transient local phenomena - some of which might not have been totally obvious beforehand. This is new stuff, people, it's never been done before on anything like this scale, d'you think even your brighter fellow humans might not have considered _everything_ imaginable beforehand? Did you, all the years they were building it? Where were your comments and your wonderful insight before this 'news' was published?
Sorry, jd, that was in response to another post, but I'm lazy, half-drunk, and tired, so it's a lump.
I think your timing idea is interesting, wonder if it's been thought of and done - I don't follow CERN closely.
Running a calibration beam? Intriguing; yet how would one handle magnetic migration or collision, in other words, how to keep two beams separate within the same magnetic envelope? This issue, related ones, and more, seem to crop up repeatedly in various areas of fusion research and engineering from what I've read. There they're dealing with just one equivalent of beam or bottle. Um, bad memory, but wasn't this tried at Batavia? Or even back at LINEAC?
Your last part viz. "you can ALWAYS...", I ain't so sure of that. All I know is from wood: measure twice, cut once. I've no idea if'n it translates, or just how, to LHC.
Your sig reference is unknown to me; I'm still on walrus and carpenter. N'er mind, found it, thanks: lyrics alone worth the search.
As far as I can tell from various studies, let alone real life, let alone computer languages, it all boils down to time slicing. Until someone demonstrates true programming examples or demonstratable neural behaviour, there ain't no thing such as multi-tasking in the sense we like to think it means.
Pretty much. In practice there ends up being a fairly plastic gray market - governments get right creative when a given sale or transfer fits their exigency du jour.
Ok, thanks, that's some good stuff. That's generally the way I shop, btw.
I no longer have any of them, but the five best food books I've run across are Joy of Cooking, early 30s; Diet for a Small Planet; the Culinary Institute of America 'bible'; The Art of One-Armed Cookery (not The One-Armed Cook, I'm thinking of the one written by a woman in Boston who ran a rooming house and decided there was little worth cooking that couldn't be done with a bottle of beer in hand); and On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee. (http://www.curiouscook.com/site/on-food-and-cooking.html)
Moving out of the dorms in '67 was a great crash dive into putting something edible let alone appetizing on the table. I'd already had two years experience working mostly in pizza restaurants and four years experience in a resort hotel kitchen during high school. There followed a year cooking ribs and chicken at a BBQ, two years of line cooking, a year of short-order, a year as an "apprentice sous-chef" - not a real station, but our chef had just come from CIA and believed in acting as much as a teacher and coach as anything else - and a few more years of bits and pieces. Plus what I've done on my own, yeasted- and short-breads, gardens, beer- and wine-making, what have you, a bit of hunting and fishing when in the boonies and hungry.
Your suggestions and pointers are spot-on, but carry some presumptions. F'rinstance, I've zilch for freezer in the over-sized dorm refrigerator - it gets "meal packs" in plastic containers. I have two circuits running through the apt.; the bathroom light is off who knows what, maybe the hall lights, the two outlets on the other handle the reefer, a lamp, and the computer. I hesitate to think seriously about getting a full size icebox, could I find one and transport it, even if the landlord approved. (All three thrift stores have been driven to the city outskirts and none of them still deliver.) Add in use of fan, coffee maker and microwave, the amps budget is tight since my one useful circuit is shared by Lord knows who or what, and has a nasty habit of tripping when least wanted.
There's a couple of places I plan on making shelves as material is found; stocking much is problematic as I've some fairly serious limitations on how much I can carry for any distance - I buy dried goods in one to ten pound bags. The norm is to buy food for one to several days and hope to be well enough to buy more before I run out. Current equipment is... basic. Right now a small stainless pot serves for soups, stews, and my killer spaghetti sauce. Making yoghurt again is in the cards when I can provide regulated temperature range. The gas range is decent and I keep sourdough starter. Don't misunderstand, please, I get by most days, it's just that it can sometimes be a bit more than a challenge. (I also admit a yen for Ben&Jerry's when it's on sale.)
Thanks again for your suggestions. Herbs are your friends. The tip on insulin shock was a good catch as well. (I use two things to help guide what I end up cooking - protein complementarity and the glycemic and insulin indices.)
Cheers.
As for saving enough to get out of Dodge, that's another matter, apart from destination. Meanwhile I've applied to several subsidized-housing places but with a felony conviction that's iffy. (Maybe I'll win that $3K from Walgreen's - which would likely be used for a new build and other necessities.)
Maybe it's because scientists search, look, explore, measure, reason, and try to understand what and how and maybe even why things are the way they are; the surprise or shock comes from the unexpected, just like in real life - as distinct from the many here who apparently already know everything worth knowing about anything worth knowing about.
"In most places in the US you can find at *least* a tiny studio apartment in a non-shithole neighborhood for under $300", et cetera.
I don't know where you live or what your latest explorations into rentals have shown you. I live in a small (50-55k) city in the Midwest and pay $473 for ~ 145 sq. ft. apartment partitioned from a house built in the 1880s in a decidedly non-genteel block near "downtown" where I have walking access to food. In local terms, I've got a good deal - an "affordable" price (about 2/3 of my Social Security), decent landlord, heat and electric included, nearby "amenities."
Please show me your menu for one for a month on $100. Nothing wrong with beans and rice, and the local mercado has good prices on chicken and veggies. My food stamps allow about $6.50/day, so it's doable, but I'd still like to see your menu based on half that.
Where will I put paying roommates, presuming such can be found? Fuck, my usable living area is comparable to a jail cell. I hope that I can save enough in a year buy the stuff to loft the bed so's to have room for the computer table and a chair and a lamp. How long at what savings per month to move to a cheaper location? Chances are I'll be long dead ere then.
Many things can theoretically be done. If you've got superior info and know-how, I'd be happy to be the recipient. My willingness and ability, medical matters aside, to deal with what level of stinting to get to greener grass whilst still alive, and, one hopes, the ability to enjoy such, is open for consideration. YMMV.
I recall reading some thirty years back that the last parties to lose money in a depression are cosmetics and booze; by examination and extrapolation they seem to do pretty well in good times as well.
Arms merchants transcend that - there's always people wanting to mess over others, and other people wanting to defend themselves. I expect that given net and scope of profit and the realpolitik of weaponry, it's a no-lose proposition. Guns and bullets have no morals, nor, essentially, do their makers. True capitalism, true free markets. Funny, doesn't bring the prices down to stick an MP5 in the closet.
I've read not a little, here and there over the years, of various pieces in learned journals purporting to describe and delineate the effects of LSD. Having lost count of the number of trips, somewhere north of 100, I can say most of the learned crap is just that, crap.
Far too many of the 'studies' were done by those with little to no practical knowledge or experience with psychedelics and done in settings that essentially guaranteed anomalous behaviours. The rest of the crap is from people pulling together "results" from flawed studies.
"...under the influence you are less likely to care..." No. No, one cares, albeit not perhaps in a manner readily accessible to an uninformed observer. But then I and most people I knew did not "get high" to visit the mundane places and pursue the workaday activities. Mostly we just kicked back and grooved.
[off-topic, thanks for the link for stegamail]
On-topic, I think aussersterne, above, stated things well.
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Good link to succinct article, thanks. Interesting boss.
Yah, been messing about in a consumerish way with Linux since '03; main OS for almost four years. Cheers.
I've been using a set of Sennheiser TR130's (over-ear, decent isolation) for three years now, they're pretty good - but also more than twice the OP's budget. They're also not the lightest, but comfortable enough. Listening to tunes now, (FLAC, stereo, 96kHz, ~2400kbps), sounds good.
I'm glad you've found interesting work that you enjoy - that's rare enough at any time.
Yeah, the probs attendant longevity... I had the stray thought mid-Seventies that long lives or no, just given population growth, the notion of private ownership of land, for instance, would come into question. This alone, of all the possible disruptions of having a bunch of people living for, say, centuries, acts like a panic/rage button for lots of people, self included. (I've long yearned for a piece of land to build upon and stash my stuff and sit on porch. Well, all the stuff is pretty much gone - the only old thing I've left is a beret from '69. Yet I'd still like a piece of land. The internal conflict is pesky, but not pressing.)
I like that you brought up life cycles; we've been raised on, and taught via history of, the "natural order of things." So what happens when that 'natural order' is grossly modified in a major respect?
For it to happen and happen well, I think that the ways we organize ourselves as, and interact in, a society will need some big changes. Economics and politics will have to reflect tech reality, else we continue as fodder through the dinosaur's gullet. I think it's not just possible but desirable if done with a bit of care. Else all the dark sci-fi examinations of all this gene/nano stuff will happen, and it won't be good, at least for a long while. On the plus side, tho, with long healthy life the market for spare parts will wither.
Just one more turn....
"Best of luck."
Lost track, sorry. Thanks. I consider it a work in progress - or piecework, one.
Thank you. Neat stuff, hope it's going well for you. Now, if'n somebody'd just fix them pesky telomeres....
Thanks for the clarification and background.
"Used to..." What happened?
Ditto, but the results of all the crapola can and does affect what we use how we use it - be its drugs, electronics, software, and our access to and participation on the net.
Do I want to be aware of this stuff? I'd prefer not to be but it's part of the sea in which I swim, kinda hard to avoid. Should I be aware of it? I dunno, man, some days I really don't know.
"Science, math, even technology offers much more than this kind of crap." Yes indeedy-do. Which make them interesting and useful, and also fertile ground for litigious types especially under current law. Just doing, reviewing, and publishing research is a mess, let alone trying to make something useful.
Hey, you want to make a better mousetrap? Great! Hire a team of patent attorneys, wait three years, and you're left with an open-source robot built with open source 3-D printed parts and stuff from the hardware store, using open-source software, wielding a stick that didn't come from a GM'ed tree, and a piece of cheese.
Seems to me the operant words from the article were the following:
"With their rocky terrain, thin atmosphere and high radiation, the Atacama volcanoes are some of the most similar places on Earth to the Red Planet."
“ 'If we know, on Earth, what the outer limits for life were, and they know what the paleoclimates on Mars were like, we may have a better idea of what could have lived there,' he [Steve Schmidt] said."
I may easily have missed it in the article but I saw no direct comparisons made apart from "rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape" which refers to appearance, and by my lights "most similar" does not mean "the same."
What interested me was the five percent or more difference of these various critters from current DNA database. What fascinates me is that Life has of late been found in places we'd thought it to be least likely to impossible.
Indeed. I've long had a liking for Tao and Zen, albeit not claiming to be any good at it. I suffice with a pastiche of thoughts gathered from the smorgasbord of philosophy - not necessarily a bunch of comfort, but a convenient set of sticks and bricks to be going on with.
Yet one might ask why the need to silence an inquisitive child (Yes, I'm aware of the daily exigencies of parenthood.) Strikes me one valid use for stifling would be to aid in producing compliant organic labor units from which to extract taxes, spare parts, the fig leaf of votes, and as source of cannon fodder.
As to goal or guide, only three come to mind just now. Paraphrasing Fuller, the purpose of intelligence in Universe might be to counteract entropy; from Jerry Brown's speechwriter "Our duty is to serve the people, protect the planet, and explore the universe." and the wonderful old stand-by - "Do unto others..."
Thanks for one of the better comments on this stuff, by far, than most all I've seen in the past six months.
"...only moves the problem to the origin of that agent."
Yeah. In '52 I asked my mother, "Where did I come from?" She said God made me, and made everything. My next question obviously was "Who made God?" To this day I won't use Ivory soap - it tastes terribly.
"If I get a $40 meal, but only pay $10 of it, am I not mooching from the person who pays the rest?"
Depends a bit, I think. As it stands, one could consider each gets a discount even tho one ends up out $30. If the person paying $10 is also helping you get a job done...
Nice point about pork. Some of it, maybe, goes deeper. I recall some of the discussion at the time, and a few involved were looking further ahead - be it participation, collaboration in future endeavours, for instance. (Btw, I did spend some time trying to track down facts and figures before my first post, but didn't find all that I was looking for.)
"It's of negative value." Hmm. Does ISS have any value at all? (At first blush, I could make an argument for answering no, not really. But I consider that the day is yet young. Or even ask, "Of what use is a newborn?")
"...not a bad approach" and "Good enough" I'll go along with.
But mooching? You mean the other countries involved (what, 14 of them?) contributed nothing? No money, materials, modules, know-how, personnel, comms links, experiments, or launches?
A quibble re decent display on laptops - I picked up a Toshiba at Office Depot with 17" 1920x1080 for a hair over $500 in late 2009; came with a second-gen dual-core, 4GB RAM (which I upped to 8) and integrated graphics and plays HD just fine. Civ 5 using DX11 under Windows 7 was smooth with most settings set medium to high.
Why you're replying to me I've no idea, 'cuz I figured nothing out. Perhaps a mis-placed "reply" choice. I found it fascinating that with all the gee-whiz boffinry going on the past twenty years that led to building and running the LHC that this bit viz. tides and lake levels and such didn't happen to occur to anyone. Seems to me it's one of those things that seem so damn obvious after the fact, but in real life happens when people do complex new stuff.
I suggest that the issue, and the news of it, is not discovering gravity but rather the finding, delineating, understanding, and compensating for the effects of various celestial bodies and transient local phenomena - some of which might not have been totally obvious beforehand. This is new stuff, people, it's never been done before on anything like this scale, d'you think even your brighter fellow humans might not have considered _everything_ imaginable beforehand? Did you, all the years they were building it? Where were your comments and your wonderful insight before this 'news' was published?
Sorry, jd, that was in response to another post, but I'm lazy, half-drunk, and tired, so it's a lump.
I think your timing idea is interesting, wonder if it's been thought of and done - I don't follow CERN closely.
Running a calibration beam? Intriguing; yet how would one handle magnetic migration or collision, in other words, how to keep two beams separate within the same magnetic envelope? This issue, related ones, and more, seem to crop up repeatedly in various areas of fusion research and engineering from what I've read. There they're dealing with just one equivalent of beam or bottle. Um, bad memory, but wasn't this tried at Batavia? Or even back at LINEAC?
Your last part viz. "you can ALWAYS...", I ain't so sure of that. All I know is from wood: measure twice, cut once. I've no idea if'n it translates, or just how, to LHC.
Your sig reference is unknown to me; I'm still on walrus and carpenter. N'er mind, found it, thanks: lyrics alone worth the search.
As far as I can tell from various studies, let alone real life, let alone computer languages, it all boils down to time slicing. Until someone demonstrates true programming examples or demonstratable neural behaviour, there ain't no thing such as multi-tasking in the sense we like to think it means.
Pretty much. In practice there ends up being a fairly plastic gray market - governments get right creative when a given sale or transfer fits their exigency du jour.
Ok, thanks, that's some good stuff. That's generally the way I shop, btw.
I no longer have any of them, but the five best food books I've run across are Joy of Cooking, early 30s; Diet for a Small Planet; the Culinary Institute of America 'bible'; The Art of One-Armed Cookery (not The One-Armed Cook, I'm thinking of the one written by a woman in Boston who ran a rooming house and decided there was little worth cooking that couldn't be done with a bottle of beer in hand); and On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee. (http://www.curiouscook.com/site/on-food-and-cooking.html)
Moving out of the dorms in '67 was a great crash dive into putting something edible let alone appetizing on the table. I'd already had two years experience working mostly in pizza restaurants and four years experience in a resort hotel kitchen during high school. There followed a year cooking ribs and chicken at a BBQ, two years of line cooking, a year of short-order, a year as an "apprentice sous-chef" - not a real station, but our chef had just come from CIA and believed in acting as much as a teacher and coach as anything else - and a few more years of bits and pieces. Plus what I've done on my own, yeasted- and short-breads, gardens, beer- and wine-making, what have you, a bit of hunting and fishing when in the boonies and hungry.
Your suggestions and pointers are spot-on, but carry some presumptions. F'rinstance, I've zilch for freezer in the over-sized dorm refrigerator - it gets "meal packs" in plastic containers. I have two circuits running through the apt.; the bathroom light is off who knows what, maybe the hall lights, the two outlets on the other handle the reefer, a lamp, and the computer. I hesitate to think seriously about getting a full size icebox, could I find one and transport it, even if the landlord approved. (All three thrift stores have been driven to the city outskirts and none of them still deliver.) Add in use of fan, coffee maker and microwave, the amps budget is tight since my one useful circuit is shared by Lord knows who or what, and has a nasty habit of tripping when least wanted.
There's a couple of places I plan on making shelves as material is found; stocking much is problematic as I've some fairly serious limitations on how much I can carry for any distance - I buy dried goods in one to ten pound bags. The norm is to buy food for one to several days and hope to be well enough to buy more before I run out. Current equipment is... basic. Right now a small stainless pot serves for soups, stews, and my killer spaghetti sauce. Making yoghurt again is in the cards when I can provide regulated temperature range. The gas range is decent and I keep sourdough starter. Don't misunderstand, please, I get by most days, it's just that it can sometimes be a bit more than a challenge. (I also admit a yen for Ben&Jerry's when it's on sale.)
Thanks again for your suggestions. Herbs are your friends. The tip on insulin shock was a good catch as well. (I use two things to help guide what I end up cooking - protein complementarity and the glycemic and insulin indices.)
Cheers.
As for saving enough to get out of Dodge, that's another matter, apart from destination. Meanwhile I've applied to several subsidized-housing places but with a felony conviction that's iffy. (Maybe I'll win that $3K from Walgreen's - which would likely be used for a new build and other necessities.)
Maybe it's because scientists search, look, explore, measure, reason, and try to understand what and how and maybe even why things are the way they are; the surprise or shock comes from the unexpected, just like in real life - as distinct from the many here who apparently already know everything worth knowing about anything worth knowing about.
"In most places in the US you can find at *least* a tiny studio apartment in a non-shithole neighborhood for under $300", et cetera.
I don't know where you live or what your latest explorations into rentals have shown you. I live in a small (50-55k) city in the Midwest and pay $473 for ~ 145 sq. ft. apartment partitioned from a house built in the 1880s in a decidedly non-genteel block near "downtown" where I have walking access to food. In local terms, I've got a good deal - an "affordable" price (about 2/3 of my Social Security), decent landlord, heat and electric included, nearby "amenities."
Please show me your menu for one for a month on $100. Nothing wrong with beans and rice, and the local mercado has good prices on chicken and veggies. My food stamps allow about $6.50/day, so it's doable, but I'd still like to see your menu based on half that.
Where will I put paying roommates, presuming such can be found? Fuck, my usable living area is comparable to a jail cell. I hope that I can save enough in a year buy the stuff to loft the bed so's to have room for the computer table and a chair and a lamp. How long at what savings per month to move to a cheaper location? Chances are I'll be long dead ere then.
Many things can theoretically be done. If you've got superior info and know-how, I'd be happy to be the recipient. My willingness and ability, medical matters aside, to deal with what level of stinting to get to greener grass whilst still alive, and, one hopes, the ability to enjoy such, is open for consideration. YMMV.
Nice catch.
I recall reading some thirty years back that the last parties to lose money in a depression are cosmetics and booze; by examination and extrapolation they seem to do pretty well in good times as well.
Arms merchants transcend that - there's always people wanting to mess over others, and other people wanting to defend themselves. I expect that given net and scope of profit and the realpolitik of weaponry, it's a no-lose proposition. Guns and bullets have no morals, nor, essentially, do their makers. True capitalism, true free markets. Funny, doesn't bring the prices down to stick an MP5 in the closet.
Nicely put.
Well, they got rid of the Stasi but it seems they want the informers back - this time with the whole planet for their playground.
Yup, coffee is WD-40 for the brain.
I've read not a little, here and there over the years, of various pieces in learned journals purporting to describe and delineate the effects of LSD. Having lost count of the number of trips, somewhere north of 100, I can say most of the learned crap is just that, crap.
Far too many of the 'studies' were done by those with little to no practical knowledge or experience with psychedelics and done in settings that essentially guaranteed anomalous behaviours. The rest of the crap is from people pulling together "results" from flawed studies.
"...under the influence you are less likely to care..." No. No, one cares, albeit not perhaps in a manner readily accessible to an uninformed observer. But then I and most people I knew did not "get high" to visit the mundane places and pursue the workaday activities. Mostly we just kicked back and grooved.
[off-topic, thanks for the link for stegamail]
On-topic, I think aussersterne, above, stated things well.