in recent revisions of the DSM to "Dissociative Identity Disorder" (DID) rather than MPD.
The current theory is that DID exists on a continuum with some of the personality disorders, particularly Borderline personality disorder. The common denominator seems to be very early, severe childhood trauma (emotional, physical, sexual assaults, etc).
on what type of schizophrenia she has... there's paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, etc. Prognosis varies depending on subtype.
Also, does she have chronic schizophrenia, or a reactive form? The reactive form (usually a psychotic "break" in response to some illness or crisis) is much more treatable, and has a better prognosis.
There's a wide spectrum of schizophrenic severity... some people respond to lower-dose older meds, some only to the newer antipsychotic drugs... some don't respond at all.
"The problem must be on your end... everything here is working."
Yeah... sure.
That ranks right up there with their classic first question "do you have a firewall?" Answer "yes," and that IMMEDIATELY becomes the problem (despite the fact that it's been running for months with no change in configuration).
Just FYI: I find that confronting them with a few ethereal packet dumps usually gets you to the second tier at least.
between fire and explosion with Gasoline... that might help delineate what we're talking about here.
For a cell-phone held in the hand, we're probably most worried about igniting gasoline vapors, leading to a subsequent fire (unless you're bathing your cell phone in liquid gasoline while talking on it. Nobody's doing that, are they? Please tell me no...)
Gasoline has a flash point about 40-50 degrees below zero, so unless you're in the arctic circle somewhere, gasoline will almost always be producing some vapors. Those vapors can be ignitable and explosive... but only within a certain range of concentration. The range is between the LEL (Lower Explosive Limit) and the UEL (Upper Explosive Limit)... This naturally varies by compound... but for standard gasoline is roughly 1.5% and 7.5%, respectively.
I've never studied it personally, but I'd think the odds of getting just the right concentration around your cell phone (multiple feet from the nozzle) such that it leads to an explosion and fire are extremely small.
Static electricity? Now that's a much more likely culprit... there have been multiple cases where that's happened.
If you are arguing that the United States has at times been racist, profiteering, and genocidal, you're absolutely right on all counts... but that's history viewed through the prism of today's modern ethos and mores; hardly a useful, objective, or forward-looking evaluation.
Keep telling yourself that. Its simply not true
I don't agree.
The US has made some poor foreign policy decisions in its 200+ yr history, of that there can be no doubt... but I feel it's outweighed by the good (WW1, WW2, Eastern Bloc/Communism, etc). Also, it's easy to look back on one's own history and plot a perfect course... but such judgements are often simple self-flagellation. The US has made many mistakes... but does that mean we can never do the right thing?
Also, to say that parts of the website you mentioned are overdone is putting it mildly... lots of conspiracy theories, CIA/oil-cabal meddling, and black helicopters.
The Neocons are in fact looking ahead to when the day there isn't enough oil to meet demand
This is a bad thing why? (and why is it that everyone who uses the term "Neocons" seems to be a conspiracy theorist?). Oil is a finite resource... America's planners would be fools not to look ahead for future crises by anticipating who might become our enemy. The amount of blowback the US has experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan (just to name two) shows the wisdom of planning for contingencies. If it ever came to a war with China, I'd be angry if our pentagon planners hadn't made a strategic plan to choke off China's oil supply in an effort to win said conflict.
Winning wars is a nasty business, and though it's fiendish, I'm glad the pentagon has scores of people whose only job is to anticipate these things, and think about the unthinkable. Such plans are a necessity... strategic planning and positioning are necessary if america wishes to maintain its position in the world.
Incidently, instant communications and the ultra-short news cycle have changed the world... modern america would never stand for initiation of ethnic cleansing, genocide, or indiscriminate slaughtering of civilians by its own troops... witness the american outcry and prosecution of its own soldiers in the Iraq prison scandal. Yet there are people who still believe that such atrocities are an acceptable tool. Would you rather have them lead the world, or wield a veto at the UN?
Alternatively, would you rather be led by the "principled" objectors to the Iraq war? As you well know, that group contains several of the worlds bloodiest and most-infamous colonial/imperialist powers. Who was in Vietnam before the United States? How many times did the Soviet Union extend its communist tentacles? How many died in Germany's wars? To say nothing of who Saddam's regime bought off and to what degree. If you're going to judge america by its entire history, you should be prepared to do the same for every other county. Do that, and then see how america stacks up...
You may not like or trust america, and that's fine... but if america doesn't lead, who would you rather have?
though with a slightly different frequency range... the troops found the terrorists were using the circuit boards out of remote control toy cars to detonate bombs. The countermeasure was easy, and obvious...
but I've been looking at that site, and haven't found too much alarming stuff, speaking as a life-long, well-traveled american. Their principles are clearly stated... do you think other nations don't have groups strategically plotting their future course? The difference in America is that you can go on a website, see the players, and read what they have to say. My cursory perusal didn't turn up much objectionable material. Can you point me to some specific papers and/or citations? I'm genuinely curious.
I also never found a position paper advocating a conquest of the middle east and theft of their oil. For pity sake, americans want to buy the mideast's oil, not seize it (if the US military seriously wanted to take it, there'd be little to stop them... but that's not how americans see themselves on the world stage).
One can attempt to argue whether American prominence is good for the world... but I would challenge you to put forth a better choice (China? Russia? Iran?). It's the nature of world affairs for the dominant powers to emerge... I would also submit to you that "the United Nations" is not an appropriate alternative... the UN's lack of action has resulted in much pain and suffering around the world, and their ludicrous committee appointments (Sudan and Cuba in the human rights group, for example) bring the credibility of that body into serious doubt.
The US is the "big boy" on the block, and an easy target for derision... but on the whole I'd consider the US a force for good in the world... our track record in confronting various evils, and settling/winning various wars and conflicts speaks for itself.
Granted, whether we have the political will to make Iraq work out remains to be seen. We certainly have the physical ability, but unfortunately that's not america's achilles heel... it's politics.
though they're probably only affordable by big-city departments.
Whenever you've got barricaded subject(s), you always want to cut off their communications... get them talking to you and nobody else. This keeps other people from interfering with hostage negotiations, feeding the subjects intel, warning them that a breach is imminent, calling in reinforcements, etc, etc.
There was a case a few years back in Tampa, Florida... multiple cop-killer actually called a radio station and gave an interview before killing himself... article here. Now imagine some terrorist doing that to air his "philosophy" or set off coordinated attacks (while the police are busy with the first scene), or call his buddies, or set off a pre-planted device, or, or... the possibilities are endless. Communications are a force-multiplier, and you always want to deny your enemy the use of them.
Also, cell phones and pagers have been used to detonate bombs for years... Madrid was just the most recent example.
I have also never seen any sort of cellular phone interfere with telemetry equipment, and I work in a critical care area. Hell, I tell patients to use our land-line phones, but let's be realistic; they fire up their cell phone the moment I close the door... I walk back in and catch them all the time, and the tele continues to function.
Also... setting off someone's defibrillator?? Uh, how about "no" and "hell no." Anyone who thinks a bio-med company could get away with selling implantable cardioverter/defibrillators that were triggerable by cell phone needs their head examined.
The US military is unlike many militaries: It is all volunteer, it is multi-racial, multi-cultural, and comes from all strata of american society. It also has a sizable percentage of members who are not career soldiers... they are only serving a stint to get their college money, etc. Many are also "citizen-soldiers"... reservists and Guard of various types. The US military is unlikely to act against US society, because it's drawn from, and represents a broad cross-section of, that same society.
Also, there is the small matter of illegal orders... those soldiers in Iraq that stated that they were "just following orders" are going to twist in the wind. A soldier is OBLIGATED to disobey an order he knows to be illegal or unlawful. As an officer carrying out illegal orders, you have no defense against prosecution for such actions... it is your duty as an officer to evaluate those orders. As an enlisted man (depending on your rank), you sure as hell go up the chain of command for clarification.
As a former field-grade officer in the US military, it is difficult for me to envision a scenario where the US military would act to oppress and murder US civilians. If you think it's odd that the Iraqi military would not act against its own people (witness the recent uprisings in Iraq), you should ask a bunch of US soldiers if they'd do the same without a damned good reason.
I've actually had this conversation with other officers and enlisted men... our concensus was not only "no," but "Hell no!" If ordered to wantonly slaughter their own people, US soldiers would either refuse, remove their bars/oak-leaves/stripes, or immediately turn on and arrest whoever issued that order.
and should be modded as troll. How sanctimonious and self-righteous can you get?
Why do some people volunteer to kill people? Perhaps it's because they're dumb and don't understand the implications... but perhaps they ARE smart enough. Perhaps they understand that, in a violent, racist, zealous, genocide-prone world, lethal violence is sometimes necessary.
I'm sorry, but that's the hard truth. Look it in the eye. Go ahead. It's easy to do from your computer... a lot harder to do in person.
The soldiers who abused those prisoners WILL get what's coming to them, as well they should... but don't go tarring the entire military with the same brush... that's how racists and fanatical islamists think.
Even if you haven't the understanding of what it means to serve in the military, at least show a little respect... if it wasn't for those troops (and thousands of others like them) protecting your rights, you wouldn't be writing such trollish rants in this forum.
I'm running CS on a 9800Pro, and I get way more than 5 fps, and that's with maximum settings... Smoke is never a problem. Admittedly, the performance isn't as good as the windows drivers... but it's very playable, and is far better than 5fps.
BTW, steam runs under the newest version of WineX... it's stable as a rock, and works beautifully.
Personally, I don't have a problem with vouchers for parochial schools.
Even years ago (this was back in the early 70's) religious schools didn't push their religion on you... at least the ones I went to didn't. I know because I was pretty much the only non-catholic kid at a catholic school.
However, as you probably already suspected, it wasn't totally a bed of roses, primarily due to the other kids. Nothing like being an outsider right from day 1... but they never forced me to sit through their religious classes, and they never forced me to sit through Mass. Instead, they allowed me to skip those classes. Unfortunately, when they were inevitably questioned about this by the other students, they told the students "he doesn't have to take this class... he's not catholic." (Yeah... great. Thanks a lot, Sister... thanks for singling me out even more.)
Even with the obvious downside, I'd still send my kids to a superior parochial school over a mediocre public one (and I'm still not catholic).
Far be it from me to defend parasitic lawyers (the majority are not... let's be fair), but some would argue that lawyers create justice, which is crucial for any civilized society. Now ambulance-chasing, trolling-for-dollars-with-TV-commercials lawyers? Oh yes... personally, I could easily do without those types.
As for doctoring (the profession I know best, seeing as how I am one), it's not about improving the gene pool. Good lord, man... I'm not a nazi (There it is... kudos to Mike Godwin), trying to build some kind of master race by culling out the weak. I'm in a profession where I help people; weak, strong, black, white, rich, poor. Einstein didn't talk much in childhood, and schoolmasters considered Thomas Edison "addled"... where would we be if we'd culled out those folks?
Also, I'm really racking my brain here, but I don't recall creating a single war or famine.
If you can't handle the coursework, either work harder, or have the insight to get out of that major.
Nobody is good at everything... personally, I had difficulties with some coursework in college. I liked engineering, but realized that my natural proclivities would make an undergraduate degree in engineering a herculean task, so I took a different track in something else that I enjoyed (I had planned on pursuing graduate studies in medicine either way, so no harm done).
Nobody is good at everything, and that's just the reality of life. Some people will never work any job but manual trades, while some people become Stephen Hawking... hold onto an objective standard and wash out the non-hackers.
Sorry to offend the self-esteem crowd, but either you can do the job adequately, or you cannot.
Well, I don't know what kind of work you're doing with your linux boxen, but mine run just fine with 500mhz celerons and 256megs of RAM... and that's with X, KDE, and all the usual goodies.
You're sure Gnome or KDE would suck with 500mhz and 768 of RAM? I don't know what distro you'd be using, but even the eye-candy-heavy ones should run fine on that hardware.
It's commonly used by gastroenterologists to clean out the colon prior to endoscopy. You have to drink an entire gallon...it's usually referred to as a "bowel prep."
To those of us familiar with it, it's also affectionately known as "GoHeavily," "GoFrequently," or "GoEndlessly." I've also seen it used to treat bad constipation... ingestion of the required amount virtually guarantees an impressive "code brown."
Yes, I realize that's waaaaay more than you wanted to know. Sorry.
at certain stages of metabolism, both of the products you and the parent poster mentioned are formed.
In years past, the only treatment was competitive enzyme inhibition via an alcohol drip (that's still the treatment in some places)... though fomepizole (Trade name is Antizol, I believe) is the safest treatment now, and a hell of a lot easier to get than persuading the pharmacy to mix up an ethanol drip.
Ethylene Glycol is a nasty poisoning... and thankfully not that common. I'm pretty thankful that I haven't taken care of a case of that in a few years.
Interesting that they only had 12.8 gigs... they must be new
Even in the years between the first gulf war and the second, many soldiers in the field had enormous communal stashes of MP3s.
Saudi Arabia, for example, was notorious for confiscating anything/everything coming through customs that looked remotely suspicious, or violated islamic law in any way. This included fitness magazines (showing skin between the neck and ankles == BAD), CDs or DVDs with racy covers, any/all pornography, bibles or non-muslim religious tracts... you name it. This customs search even covered US troops rotating into country to participate in Operation Southern Watch (enforcing the Iraqi no-fly zones and defending the KSA's hide).
And yet... the people they had inspecting bags at the customs tables had clearly never seen an external hard drive, and they never searched laptops... so digital music/movies made it in no problem, and were immediately shared among the deployed soldiers and airmen. Yes, it's illegal, but it was great for morale... and somehow I can't see the MPAA/RIAA getting upset. After all, It's not like you can just run out and buy all their music/movies in the middle of a fundamentalist islamic nation (and soldiers might even buy better copies when they returned home, particularly if it was something they liked and/or had never heard before).
Besides, gathering evidence would be impossible... Saudi Arabia doesn't even issue tourist visas to non-muslims. How do you possibly track all the little LANs soldiers set up? How do you get the military to let you monitor their base network (hint: NOT going to happen). It would also be absolute political suicide to go after soldiers. Can you imagine the magnitude of the public relations backlash if the RIAA/MPAA prosecuted? Squeezing fines out of a bunch of homesick grunts just trying to survive and have a taste of home makes Ebeneezer Scrooge look like a philanthropist.
That'd be be like prosecuting grandmothers and children (Oh... hmm. Nevermind)
When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to make some sort of creative comparison between the Delorean and the Yamaha Vmax (which is one formidable bike).
Oh well... another day, another bitter disappointment.
BTW, You wouldn't, by chance, be the mightiest sorcerer in these isles, would you?
is it really about the love of writing the software? The purity of the code?
Good grief man... so you have an anti-war opinion; good for you (ironic that people have died in wars to secure that right for you, but I digress)... but what on earth does this have to do with linux? And exactly how is your opinion more important that any other citizen's?
Is this an LA thing? Something in the water out there? Like the Hollywood types who think their opinion is so much more valuable than everyone else's that it must be heard? *actor waving arms* "I pretend to be someone else for living! You should listen to me!" Bah.
Yes, everyone's got an opinion, and this individual is actually backing his up (flawed reasoning aside)... but they're actually making a distro called "AshcroftProof linux?" C'mon... this is a political stunt all the way, from somebody with an agenda to push.
they don't exactly know what part of the brain controls all the stages of motor movement... deciding to move, planning to move, executing the movement, and coordinating the movement (the decision area in particular isn't known for certain)
Also, it depends on what kind of movement you are doing... and is the movement a voluntary one, a planned movement, or is it being done in response to a stimulus?
I'd be interested to know exactly where they're mapping out these movements... motor planning is usually done in the frontal cortex, near the precentral gyrus. The motor cortex actually moves the muscles, though coordination is thought to require cerebellar input.
For as complex a process as movement actually is, this article is a little thin on details. Still... interesting research.
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in recent revisions of the DSM to "Dissociative Identity Disorder" (DID) rather than MPD.
The current theory is that DID exists on a continuum with some of the personality disorders, particularly Borderline personality disorder. The common denominator seems to be very early, severe childhood trauma (emotional, physical, sexual assaults, etc).
Not picking a nit, just FYI.
but there are several physicians (including myself) that post here regularly, and under our own accounts.
That said, you'd be wise to be wary of medical info from some of the ACs aroud here.
on what type of schizophrenia she has... there's paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, etc. Prognosis varies depending on subtype.
Also, does she have chronic schizophrenia, or a reactive form? The reactive form (usually a psychotic "break" in response to some illness or crisis) is much more treatable, and has a better prognosis.
There's a wide spectrum of schizophrenic severity... some people respond to lower-dose older meds, some only to the newer antipsychotic drugs... some don't respond at all.
More info, please.
"The problem must be on your end... everything here is working."
Yeah... sure.
That ranks right up there with their classic first question "do you have a firewall?" Answer "yes," and that IMMEDIATELY becomes the problem (despite the fact that it's been running for months with no change in configuration).
Just FYI: I find that confronting them with a few ethereal packet dumps usually gets you to the second tier at least.
between fire and explosion with Gasoline... that might help delineate what we're talking about here.
For a cell-phone held in the hand, we're probably most worried about igniting gasoline vapors, leading to a subsequent fire (unless you're bathing your cell phone in liquid gasoline while talking on it. Nobody's doing that, are they? Please tell me no...)
Gasoline has a flash point about 40-50 degrees below zero, so unless you're in the arctic circle somewhere, gasoline will almost always be producing some vapors. Those vapors can be ignitable and explosive... but only within a certain range of concentration. The range is between the LEL (Lower Explosive Limit) and the UEL (Upper Explosive Limit)... This naturally varies by compound... but for standard gasoline is roughly 1.5% and 7.5%, respectively.
I've never studied it personally, but I'd think the odds of getting just the right concentration around your cell phone (multiple feet from the nozzle) such that it leads to an explosion and fire are extremely small.
Static electricity? Now that's a much more likely culprit... there have been multiple cases where that's happened.
If you are arguing that the United States has at times been racist, profiteering, and genocidal, you're absolutely right on all counts... but that's history viewed through the prism of today's modern ethos and mores; hardly a useful, objective, or forward-looking evaluation.
Keep telling yourself that. Its simply not true
I don't agree.
The US has made some poor foreign policy decisions in its 200+ yr history, of that there can be no doubt... but I feel it's outweighed by the good (WW1, WW2, Eastern Bloc/Communism, etc). Also, it's easy to look back on one's own history and plot a perfect course... but such judgements are often simple self-flagellation. The US has made many mistakes... but does that mean we can never do the right thing?
Also, to say that parts of the website you mentioned are overdone is putting it mildly... lots of conspiracy theories, CIA/oil-cabal meddling, and black helicopters.
The Neocons are in fact looking ahead to when the day there isn't enough oil to meet demand
This is a bad thing why? (and why is it that everyone who uses the term "Neocons" seems to be a conspiracy theorist?). Oil is a finite resource... America's planners would be fools not to look ahead for future crises by anticipating who might become our enemy. The amount of blowback the US has experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan (just to name two) shows the wisdom of planning for contingencies. If it ever came to a war with China, I'd be angry if our pentagon planners hadn't made a strategic plan to choke off China's oil supply in an effort to win said conflict.
Winning wars is a nasty business, and though it's fiendish, I'm glad the pentagon has scores of people whose only job is to anticipate these things, and think about the unthinkable. Such plans are a necessity... strategic planning and positioning are necessary if america wishes to maintain its position in the world.
Incidently, instant communications and the ultra-short news cycle have changed the world... modern america would never stand for initiation of ethnic cleansing, genocide, or indiscriminate slaughtering of civilians by its own troops... witness the american outcry and prosecution of its own soldiers in the Iraq prison scandal. Yet there are people who still believe that such atrocities are an acceptable tool. Would you rather have them lead the world, or wield a veto at the UN?
Alternatively, would you rather be led by the "principled" objectors to the Iraq war? As you well know, that group contains several of the worlds bloodiest and most-infamous colonial/imperialist powers. Who was in Vietnam before the United States? How many times did the Soviet Union extend its communist tentacles? How many died in Germany's wars? To say nothing of who Saddam's regime bought off and to what degree. If you're going to judge america by its entire history, you should be prepared to do the same for every other county. Do that, and then see how america stacks up...
You may not like or trust america, and that's fine... but if america doesn't lead, who would you rather have?
though with a slightly different frequency range... the troops found the terrorists were using the circuit boards out of remote control toy cars to detonate bombs. The countermeasure was easy, and obvious...
Story here.
but I've been looking at that site, and haven't found too much alarming stuff, speaking as a life-long, well-traveled american. Their principles are clearly stated... do you think other nations don't have groups strategically plotting their future course? The difference in America is that you can go on a website, see the players, and read what they have to say. My cursory perusal didn't turn up much objectionable material. Can you point me to some specific papers and/or citations? I'm genuinely curious.
I also never found a position paper advocating a conquest of the middle east and theft of their oil. For pity sake, americans want to buy the mideast's oil, not seize it (if the US military seriously wanted to take it, there'd be little to stop them... but that's not how americans see themselves on the world stage).
One can attempt to argue whether American prominence is good for the world... but I would challenge you to put forth a better choice (China? Russia? Iran?). It's the nature of world affairs for the dominant powers to emerge... I would also submit to you that "the United Nations" is not an appropriate alternative... the UN's lack of action has resulted in much pain and suffering around the world, and their ludicrous committee appointments (Sudan and Cuba in the human rights group, for example) bring the credibility of that body into serious doubt.
The US is the "big boy" on the block, and an easy target for derision... but on the whole I'd consider the US a force for good in the world... our track record in confronting various evils, and settling/winning various wars and conflicts speaks for itself.
Granted, whether we have the political will to make Iraq work out remains to be seen. We certainly have the physical ability, but unfortunately that's not america's achilles heel... it's politics.
the tax the scammer had to pay was in the neighborhood of $500+
Brilliant... way to stick a thumb in the scammer's eye!
though they're probably only affordable by big-city departments.
Whenever you've got barricaded subject(s), you always want to cut off their communications... get them talking to you and nobody else. This keeps other people from interfering with hostage negotiations, feeding the subjects intel, warning them that a breach is imminent, calling in reinforcements, etc, etc.
There was a case a few years back in Tampa, Florida... multiple cop-killer actually called a radio station and gave an interview before killing himself... article here. Now imagine some terrorist doing that to air his "philosophy" or set off coordinated attacks (while the police are busy with the first scene), or call his buddies, or set off a pre-planted device, or, or... the possibilities are endless. Communications are a force-multiplier, and you always want to deny your enemy the use of them.
Also, cell phones and pagers have been used to detonate bombs for years... Madrid was just the most recent example.
I have also never seen any sort of cellular phone interfere with telemetry equipment, and I work in a critical care area. Hell, I tell patients to use our land-line phones, but let's be realistic; they fire up their cell phone the moment I close the door... I walk back in and catch them all the time, and the tele continues to function.
Also... setting off someone's defibrillator?? Uh, how about "no" and "hell no." Anyone who thinks a bio-med company could get away with selling implantable cardioverter/defibrillators that were triggerable by cell phone needs their head examined.
I agree... total FUD.
The US military is unlike many militaries: It is all volunteer, it is multi-racial, multi-cultural, and comes from all strata of american society. It also has a sizable percentage of members who are not career soldiers... they are only serving a stint to get their college money, etc. Many are also "citizen-soldiers"... reservists and Guard of various types. The US military is unlikely to act against US society, because it's drawn from, and represents a broad cross-section of, that same society.
Also, there is the small matter of illegal orders... those soldiers in Iraq that stated that they were "just following orders" are going to twist in the wind. A soldier is OBLIGATED to disobey an order he knows to be illegal or unlawful. As an officer carrying out illegal orders, you have no defense against prosecution for such actions... it is your duty as an officer to evaluate those orders. As an enlisted man (depending on your rank), you sure as hell go up the chain of command for clarification.
As a former field-grade officer in the US military, it is difficult for me to envision a scenario where the US military would act to oppress and murder US civilians. If you think it's odd that the Iraqi military would not act against its own people (witness the recent uprisings in Iraq), you should ask a bunch of US soldiers if they'd do the same without a damned good reason.
I've actually had this conversation with other officers and enlisted men... our concensus was not only "no," but "Hell no!" If ordered to wantonly slaughter their own people, US soldiers would either refuse, remove their bars/oak-leaves/stripes, or immediately turn on and arrest whoever issued that order.
Just FYI.
and should be modded as troll. How sanctimonious and self-righteous can you get?
Why do some people volunteer to kill people? Perhaps it's because they're dumb and don't understand the implications... but perhaps they ARE smart enough. Perhaps they understand that, in a violent, racist, zealous, genocide-prone world, lethal violence is sometimes necessary.
I'm sorry, but that's the hard truth. Look it in the eye. Go ahead. It's easy to do from your computer... a lot harder to do in person.
The soldiers who abused those prisoners WILL get what's coming to them, as well they should... but don't go tarring the entire military with the same brush... that's how racists and fanatical islamists think.
Even if you haven't the understanding of what it means to serve in the military, at least show a little respect... if it wasn't for those troops (and thousands of others like them) protecting your rights, you wouldn't be writing such trollish rants in this forum.
I'm running CS on a 9800Pro, and I get way more than 5 fps, and that's with maximum settings... Smoke is never a problem. Admittedly, the performance isn't as good as the windows drivers... but it's very playable, and is far better than 5fps.
BTW, steam runs under the newest version of WineX... it's stable as a rock, and works beautifully.
Personally, I don't have a problem with vouchers for parochial schools.
Even years ago (this was back in the early 70's) religious schools didn't push their religion on you... at least the ones I went to didn't. I know because I was pretty much the only non-catholic kid at a catholic school.
However, as you probably already suspected, it wasn't totally a bed of roses, primarily due to the other kids. Nothing like being an outsider right from day 1... but they never forced me to sit through their religious classes, and they never forced me to sit through Mass. Instead, they allowed me to skip those classes. Unfortunately, when they were inevitably questioned about this by the other students, they told the students "he doesn't have to take this class... he's not catholic." (Yeah... great. Thanks a lot, Sister... thanks for singling me out even more.)
Even with the obvious downside, I'd still send my kids to a superior parochial school over a mediocre public one (and I'm still not catholic).
I have to respond to this... sorry.
Far be it from me to defend parasitic lawyers (the majority are not... let's be fair), but some would argue that lawyers create justice, which is crucial for any civilized society. Now ambulance-chasing, trolling-for-dollars-with-TV-commercials lawyers? Oh yes... personally, I could easily do without those types.
As for doctoring (the profession I know best, seeing as how I am one), it's not about improving the gene pool. Good lord, man... I'm not a nazi (There it is... kudos to Mike Godwin), trying to build some kind of master race by culling out the weak. I'm in a profession where I help people; weak, strong, black, white, rich, poor. Einstein didn't talk much in childhood, and schoolmasters considered Thomas Edison "addled"... where would we be if we'd culled out those folks?
Also, I'm really racking my brain here, but I don't recall creating a single war or famine.
If you can't handle the coursework, either work harder, or have the insight to get out of that major.
Nobody is good at everything... personally, I had difficulties with some coursework in college. I liked engineering, but realized that my natural proclivities would make an undergraduate degree in engineering a herculean task, so I took a different track in something else that I enjoyed (I had planned on pursuing graduate studies in medicine either way, so no harm done).
Nobody is good at everything, and that's just the reality of life. Some people will never work any job but manual trades, while some people become Stephen Hawking... hold onto an objective standard and wash out the non-hackers.
Sorry to offend the self-esteem crowd, but either you can do the job adequately, or you cannot.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you.
Why is it wrong for the US to vet students, scientists, and other immigrants coming into the US? How many of the 9/11 hijackers were students?
Sorry... we were complacent once, and the terrorists ate our lunch. I'd be highly pissed if we blew off that hard lesson and went back to the old way.
New realities, folks... better get used to them.
Well, I don't know what kind of work you're doing with your linux boxen, but mine run just fine with 500mhz celerons and 256megs of RAM... and that's with X, KDE, and all the usual goodies.
You're sure Gnome or KDE would suck with 500mhz and 768 of RAM? I don't know what distro you'd be using, but even the eye-candy-heavy ones should run fine on that hardware.
of PEG... it's called Golytely... here's a bit of info.
It's commonly used by gastroenterologists to clean out the colon prior to endoscopy. You have to drink an entire gallon...it's usually referred to as a "bowel prep."
To those of us familiar with it, it's also affectionately known as "GoHeavily," "GoFrequently," or "GoEndlessly." I've also seen it used to treat bad constipation... ingestion of the required amount virtually guarantees an impressive "code brown."
Yes, I realize that's waaaaay more than you wanted to know. Sorry.
at certain stages of metabolism, both of the products you and the parent poster mentioned are formed.
In years past, the only treatment was competitive enzyme inhibition via an alcohol drip (that's still the treatment in some places)... though fomepizole (Trade name is Antizol, I believe) is the safest treatment now, and a hell of a lot easier to get than persuading the pharmacy to mix up an ethanol drip.
Ethylene Glycol is a nasty poisoning... and thankfully not that common. I'm pretty thankful that I haven't taken care of a case of that in a few years.
Interesting that they only had 12.8 gigs... they must be new
Even in the years between the first gulf war and the second, many soldiers in the field had enormous communal stashes of MP3s.
Saudi Arabia, for example, was notorious for confiscating anything/everything coming through customs that looked remotely suspicious, or violated islamic law in any way. This included fitness magazines (showing skin between the neck and ankles == BAD), CDs or DVDs with racy covers, any/all pornography, bibles or non-muslim religious tracts... you name it. This customs search even covered US troops rotating into country to participate in Operation Southern Watch (enforcing the Iraqi no-fly zones and defending the KSA's hide).
And yet... the people they had inspecting bags at the customs tables had clearly never seen an external hard drive, and they never searched laptops... so digital music/movies made it in no problem, and were immediately shared among the deployed soldiers and airmen. Yes, it's illegal, but it was great for morale... and somehow I can't see the MPAA/RIAA getting upset. After all, It's not like you can just run out and buy all their music/movies in the middle of a fundamentalist islamic nation (and soldiers might even buy better copies when they returned home, particularly if it was something they liked and/or had never heard before).
Besides, gathering evidence would be impossible... Saudi Arabia doesn't even issue tourist visas to non-muslims. How do you possibly track all the little LANs soldiers set up? How do you get the military to let you monitor their base network (hint: NOT going to happen). It would also be absolute political suicide to go after soldiers. Can you imagine the magnitude of the public relations backlash if the RIAA/MPAA prosecuted? Squeezing fines out of a bunch of homesick grunts just trying to survive and have a taste of home makes Ebeneezer Scrooge look like a philanthropist.
That'd be be like prosecuting grandmothers and children (Oh... hmm. Nevermind)
When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to make some sort of creative comparison between the Delorean and the Yamaha Vmax (which is one formidable bike).
Oh well... another day, another bitter disappointment.
BTW, You wouldn't, by chance, be the mightiest sorcerer in these isles, would you?
is it really about the love of writing the software? The purity of the code?
Good grief man... so you have an anti-war opinion; good for you (ironic that people have died in wars to secure that right for you, but I digress)... but what on earth does this have to do with linux? And exactly how is your opinion more important that any other citizen's?
Is this an LA thing? Something in the water out there? Like the Hollywood types who think their opinion is so much more valuable than everyone else's that it must be heard? *actor waving arms* "I pretend to be someone else for living! You should listen to me!" Bah.
Yes, everyone's got an opinion, and this individual is actually backing his up (flawed reasoning aside)... but they're actually making a distro called "AshcroftProof linux?" C'mon... this is a political stunt all the way, from somebody with an agenda to push.
they don't exactly know what part of the brain controls all the stages of motor movement... deciding to move, planning to move, executing the movement, and coordinating the movement (the decision area in particular isn't known for certain)
Also, it depends on what kind of movement you are doing... and is the movement a voluntary one, a planned movement, or is it being done in response to a stimulus?
I'd be interested to know exactly where they're mapping out these movements... motor planning is usually done in the frontal cortex, near the precentral gyrus. The motor cortex actually moves the muscles, though coordination is thought to require cerebellar input.
For as complex a process as movement actually is, this article is a little thin on details. Still... interesting research.