That and I've had really good practice trying to read everything. When I was younger I could not learn anything from other people so the only way I could try and understand the world around me was by reading (couldn't really see either, face agnosia, only really learned what I look like about ~5 years ago.)
On to your question, I did take a speed reading course as part of our nerd program in secondary 1 (canadian here). However, they couldn't measure above 3000 words/min and I was right near that limit before even starting.
Atlas is over-estimated at 645 000 words, that's under 4 hours at 3000w/m. I wasn't going for speed though, more for the movie effect, so it actually took me a whole day curled up on bed or sofa. By movie effect I mean that I go into an almost trance like state where the words seem to disappear and it's just visual imagery in my head like a movie (but with better effects:) ). Does not work for long winded crap which is why i could never read tolkien, that's harder than making an eidetic copy of a text book for me.
If you think Steve Jobs fits with Atlas Shrugged then you clearly aren't familiar with one of them. He of course fits very nicely with the republican view of Atlas shrugged.
Why are you so suprised? Have you ever seen any debates about church and the bible around here? I think the US is famous for ignoring what is actually said and fighting over imaginary beliefs that one side believes over the other.
I can't for the life of me understand why the red devil with horns and pitchfork and some old man with a long beard supposedly representing god are so entrenched in US culture. Oh right, it started thousands of years ago when some people decided to use partying and a book with some truth in it to manipulate people into doing what they wanted... let's just hope the Rand stuff doesn't get misused and abused for millenia as well.
The intended audience would probably say that your last sentence identifies you truthfully.
p.s. It's an okay book where most of what's in there get's misused by republicans to bolster their ideas, sort of the corruption that the church/bible has undergone in the US. btw, i think i read it in one sitting, but that's just me, i've often read trilogies and up in on sitting..
The bible was interesting, but more like a child's picture book.
Science and science fiction didn't have much of an impact as they pretty much follow a linear progression. Grokking Bhagavad Gita is probably akin to a normal programmer grokking lisp.
That said, Stranger in a Strange Land, awesome book along the same lines.
There's a difference between organic, which you can slap on anything, and organically certified which you can't and is heavily regulated.
Standard practice should be to avoid brands that use organic as a buzzword since the care only for the market share and not the concept.
Learn to cook. Seriously. Learning to cook you'll start picking up on how to tell good produce/meat from the bad. There's much you can tell just by looking. You'll also start to learn what ingredients are actually food and tasty, and what is just fillers and used for shelf-life and/or artificial stimulation of your senses. Don't buy for shelf-life.
Maybe you weren't really trying organic? Organic just designates type of food, not type of growing system. Organic hydro can taste just as bad as inorganic hydro if you don't know what you're doing.
Maybe you're just insensitive? Can you taste the difference between soil, hummusy, and hydro, sharp contrasty, regardless of organic/inorganic?
Always be wary of assigning your sensory limits to other people, human sensitivities have large distributions. I once met a newly blind person who asked me to point out where the sun was because he couldn't feel the warmth of it on his skin. That must be a nightmare to be so insensitive and lose the only sense you were proficient at.
The best bet is to reduce energy consumption and pay for it from the existing infrastructure when absolutely necessary.
Things will have to be redesign to eliminate stupidities. For example, in hot weather, what is the point of cooling your refrigerator by heating your home? Or heating your home when you want to cook? Solar ovens built into south facing walls can provide heat or vent it when needed. Einstein fridges on the south or ice rooms on the north wall with solar ice generators.
Why pay lots of money for solar panels to convert sunlight to electricity poorly, lose some more in transportation, and then use it to heat water when you could build a flat panel collector that heats water more efficiently with a smaller resource footprint and can be made simply by your average person?
The only thing I can't find a replacement for electricity is for electronic entertainment. Though I still prefer a large group of people jamming on instruments, singing, and dancing, instead of watching a movie, I still enjoy the occasional movie. Still, with such low energy needs a simple vertical wind turbine tied into the grid could be had pretty cheap.
You don't actually need much space to grow the necessary food. If you want to b wasteful and grow beef, then yes, you'll need lots of additional things. Solar cookers, solar ice makers, cold houses, etc... all remove most energy expenditures. Food self-sustainability is quite simple. Sustainability for non-sustainable lifestyles like the typical USian one, are well, not sustainable. Well, not easily at least. Permaculture food farms where you only sell value added products would be easiest to setup with the least amount of work in return for good profits.
Precipitates schizophrenia is not the same as causes schizophrenia. For something to be precipitated it has to exist in the first place. The research shows that it MAY precipitate early onset schizophrenia. So if you're over 30 and have never had a schizo break smoking pot won't do anything (except make you stupid:) ).
The incident lead me to a moment of reflection where I now realize that people are better off building their own things at a slightly higher cost but end up with a product that is their own design, meets their own needs, and since they designed and built it they almost intrinsically know how to maintain and repair it.
Which is why I'm building a system to share open intelligent designs, i.e., taking into account parts, maintenance, cleaning, usage, and disposal, which also has a built-in knowledge aggregator, system simulator, as well as a data analyser.
It's actually extremely simple to match Ikea quality with a basic understanding of woodworking and the appropriate tools or some jig making knowledge. If you are a semi-decent carpenter, buying the wood will always be cheaper to build something of the same quality because projects made with real wood cost an arm and a leg.
There's a big difference between crafts and craftsmanship, and craftsmanship is severely lacking in all industries.
Creating something disposable that isn't recyclable, instead of maintainable and sustainable, is poor craftsmanship, and yet it's the backbone of western economics.
Hopefully you now understand that the US has gotten it's lifestyle by abusing resources in an unsustainable manner and usually by misappropriating them from other countries. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. The real question is how do we solve this? If the majority of US'ians believe that one person taking up the resources needed to sustain a thousand people is the norm and an inalienable right, conferred by might, then what hope do we have?
Just because people misunderstand God doesn't mean one should use their faulty definitions in argument.
BTW, you could get rules from God, because the underlying rules of reality are the building blocks of right action in the human manifestation.
Hinduism, not hindi the language, is very interesting in that their Gods are human, i.e., the properties of those gods are conveyed to the human which adopts the same energetic patterns (asana) as the god. True, these super powers where then associated with roadblocks to enlightenment as they require unbending intent in one direction which is antithetic to balance and equanimity.
Buddhism is a failure as much as all the other religions. Along comes a person who understands what it means to be human, said person explains to everybody how the key to their enlightenment lies within oneself and they must seek it in their own manner. Everybody then ignores what said person said and falls to copying and worshipping the poor bastard.
BTW, you're confusing Atman, the personal manifestation of a singular god consciousness in a person with the sum total of all consciousness, Brahman. Atman is not really above the gods, as atman is a full understanding of all the energetic qualities of all the gods, as the gods are only specialized subsets of Atman, i.e., one who has cleansed all nadis and controls them at will.
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The major thought process will be like this: oooh, shiny. thin, recognizable brand name, give me three.
Maybe what you said would make sense in an alternate universe where linux was king of the desktop.
That and I've had really good practice trying to read everything. When I was younger I could not learn anything from other people so the only way I could try and understand the world around me was by reading (couldn't really see either, face agnosia, only really learned what I look like about ~5 years ago.)
On to your question, I did take a speed reading course as part of our nerd program in secondary 1 (canadian here). However, they couldn't measure above 3000 words/min and I was right near that limit before even starting.
Atlas is over-estimated at 645 000 words, that's under 4 hours at 3000w/m. I wasn't going for speed though, more for the movie effect, so it actually took me a whole day curled up on bed or sofa. By movie effect I mean that I go into an almost trance like state where the words seem to disappear and it's just visual imagery in my head like a movie (but with better effects :) ). Does not work for long winded crap which is why i could never read tolkien, that's harder than making an eidetic copy of a text book for me.
If you think Steve Jobs fits with Atlas Shrugged then you clearly aren't familiar with one of them. He of course fits very nicely with the republican view of Atlas shrugged.
I can't for the life of me understand why the red devil with horns and pitchfork and some old man with a long beard supposedly representing god are so entrenched in US culture. Oh right, it started thousands of years ago when some people decided to use partying and a book with some truth in it to manipulate people into doing what they wanted... let's just hope the Rand stuff doesn't get misused and abused for millenia as well.
The intended audience would probably say that your last sentence identifies you truthfully.
p.s. It's an okay book where most of what's in there get's misused by republicans to bolster their ideas, sort of the corruption that the church/bible has undergone in the US. btw, i think i read it in one sitting, but that's just me, i've often read trilogies and up in on sitting..
Just kiddding.... maybe.
Science and science fiction didn't have much of an impact as they pretty much follow a linear progression. Grokking Bhagavad Gita is probably akin to a normal programmer grokking lisp.
That said, Stranger in a Strange Land, awesome book along the same lines.
Modded insightful? You apparently don't even know what Linux is.
Standard practice should be to avoid brands that use organic as a buzzword since the care only for the market share and not the concept.
Learn to cook. Seriously. Learning to cook you'll start picking up on how to tell good produce/meat from the bad. There's much you can tell just by looking. You'll also start to learn what ingredients are actually food and tasty, and what is just fillers and used for shelf-life and/or artificial stimulation of your senses. Don't buy for shelf-life.
I thought their stuff was cheap because the US wants cheap stuff at whatever cost.
Maybe you're just insensitive? Can you taste the difference between soil, hummusy, and hydro, sharp contrasty, regardless of organic/inorganic?
Always be wary of assigning your sensory limits to other people, human sensitivities have large distributions. I once met a newly blind person who asked me to point out where the sun was because he couldn't feel the warmth of it on his skin. That must be a nightmare to be so insensitive and lose the only sense you were proficient at.
Things will have to be redesign to eliminate stupidities. For example, in hot weather, what is the point of cooling your refrigerator by heating your home? Or heating your home when you want to cook? Solar ovens built into south facing walls can provide heat or vent it when needed. Einstein fridges on the south or ice rooms on the north wall with solar ice generators.
Why pay lots of money for solar panels to convert sunlight to electricity poorly, lose some more in transportation, and then use it to heat water when you could build a flat panel collector that heats water more efficiently with a smaller resource footprint and can be made simply by your average person?
The only thing I can't find a replacement for electricity is for electronic entertainment. Though I still prefer a large group of people jamming on instruments, singing, and dancing, instead of watching a movie, I still enjoy the occasional movie. Still, with such low energy needs a simple vertical wind turbine tied into the grid could be had pretty cheap.
You don't actually need much space to grow the necessary food. If you want to b wasteful and grow beef, then yes, you'll need lots of additional things. Solar cookers, solar ice makers, cold houses, etc... all remove most energy expenditures. Food self-sustainability is quite simple. Sustainability for non-sustainable lifestyles like the typical USian one, are well, not sustainable. Well, not easily at least. Permaculture food farms where you only sell value added products would be easiest to setup with the least amount of work in return for good profits.
It's basically lisp without any power.
That approach only leads us to 42.
Precipitates schizophrenia is not the same as causes schizophrenia. For something to be precipitated it has to exist in the first place. The research shows that it MAY precipitate early onset schizophrenia. So if you're over 30 and have never had a schizo break smoking pot won't do anything (except make you stupid :) ).
when you have no spine or when "sitting" ==slouching
Sounds like some one needs to grok the Bhagavad Gita.
There's actually quite a few vaccines, some tested on humans. My brother is an immunologist working with ebola.
Though the methane numbers do help to attribute climate change more to the West than the rest of the world.
The incident lead me to a moment of reflection where I now realize that people are better off building their own things at a slightly higher cost but end up with a product that is their own design, meets their own needs, and since they designed and built it they almost intrinsically know how to maintain and repair it.
Which is why I'm building a system to share open intelligent designs, i.e., taking into account parts, maintenance, cleaning, usage, and disposal, which also has a built-in knowledge aggregator, system simulator, as well as a data analyser.
It's actually extremely simple to match Ikea quality with a basic understanding of woodworking and the appropriate tools or some jig making knowledge. If you are a semi-decent carpenter, buying the wood will always be cheaper to build something of the same quality because projects made with real wood cost an arm and a leg.
Creating something disposable that isn't recyclable, instead of maintainable and sustainable, is poor craftsmanship, and yet it's the backbone of western economics.
Hopefully you now understand that the US has gotten it's lifestyle by abusing resources in an unsustainable manner and usually by misappropriating them from other countries. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. The real question is how do we solve this? If the majority of US'ians believe that one person taking up the resources needed to sustain a thousand people is the norm and an inalienable right, conferred by might, then what hope do we have?
BTW, you could get rules from God, because the underlying rules of reality are the building blocks of right action in the human manifestation.
Hinduism, not hindi the language, is very interesting in that their Gods are human, i.e., the properties of those gods are conveyed to the human which adopts the same energetic patterns (asana) as the god. True, these super powers where then associated with roadblocks to enlightenment as they require unbending intent in one direction which is antithetic to balance and equanimity.
Buddhism is a failure as much as all the other religions. Along comes a person who understands what it means to be human, said person explains to everybody how the key to their enlightenment lies within oneself and they must seek it in their own manner. Everybody then ignores what said person said and falls to copying and worshipping the poor bastard.
BTW, you're confusing Atman, the personal manifestation of a singular god consciousness in a person with the sum total of all consciousness, Brahman. Atman is not really above the gods, as atman is a full understanding of all the energetic qualities of all the gods, as the gods are only specialized subsets of Atman, i.e., one who has cleansed all nadis and controls them at will.