I'll have to dig out the article if I manager to find it, I'll post it below, but it basically started with a bunch of furniture and textile mill workers in the Carolinas complaining about how all of their jobs are being moved overseas to China a such. The second part of the artical was interviews with furniture and textile mill workers from the NorthEast who had all watched the mill towns become ghost towns when their jobs were moved to the Carolinas a generation ago.
I always thought being an artist or designer in a future replicator/holodeck enabled world would be awesome. For those who are excellent at it, it could certainly lead to fame (and riches too, depending on how the next couple generations iron out this whole copywright thing). Think about making your earl grey. Sure it will be easy to just use a molecular modeler to, erm, replicate a cup of earl grey, but a lot of our sensory experience isn't necessairly based on how things are, but how we perceive them to be (or to once have been). So no reason to stick with an exact earl grey, I can tweak that bergamot oil compound to enhance it's very "bergamotness" or remove flavors that detract from it. I can imaging the time and environment where the tea was grown and harvested and how that would effect its final flavor. Were the tips rolled or cutin any special way, how dry was it when they were harvested, what trace compounds were in the soil? It becomes even more interesting if you are designing holodeck scenarios because then the experience can be even more subjective. I think I've missed my calling by a few hundred years.
I work for a larger 501(c)3 here in Lexington. We have a paid staff of around 20, plus probably about that same amount in full-time volunteers, plus are non-regulars and court-ordered help. Even our Resale store (a fundraising source) won't accept anything older than a P3. We are trying to get a electronics recycling dumpster to handle all the rest. Now we try to give away all those boat anchors we still seem to get stuck with. That being said, I know of at least two pcs currently in use that have a "turbo" button.
Mostly what we need is better networking gear and maybe a few really dedicated volunteer sysadmins. Right now we have a really crappy terminal services set-up that is slow, always locking up, buggy and with a really limited software suite. And while security is good, if you want to take a file of a disk, or put one on, you have to find the take our accountant out of a meeting and have her run to the serverroom, upload the file and give you access do it. And god forbid you ever need to use an application or website requiring sound......
If even that, around here a fair number of houses are vinyl siding - a layer of blueboard insulation - 2X4 studs (with fiberglass batts between) - and drywall. A little OSB on corners and other stress points, but anyone who paid even the slightest attention while these houses were being built would be able to quickly cut their way in with a sharp knife.
I mean, isn't that what as a parent you do, provide explanatations and answers to your children's questions that meet their ability to reason and understand. If my toddler asks me why giraffes have long necks, I tell him it is so they can eat the leaves from tall trees. I don't go into savannah ecology, evolution, and biology unless and until he is ready and presses me for mor details. Wouldn't God, as parent do the same. It doesn't make you a con man just to give a simplified answer, even if it is one that can be misinterpreted.
Scientific reasoning is just one more rung, and hopefully not the last one on the ladder of human understanding of our world.
When I was a teenager I was the hard working straight A type, friendly, creative, and the last sort of teenager that anyone would conside a moron. But now, with not even handfull of years in hindsight I would be the first to say that I was, if not a complete moron, certainly a more garden variety moron. Teens are beings in transition, physically, psychologically, morally and socially. With that transition comes exploration and with exploration, error. That doesn't excuse or rationalize bad teenage behavior, or negate the vital part that teens and teen perspective contribute to our race and culture, it just helps to understand it.
My 1960s era turntable has a carefully placed Intel Inside sticker on the front face. It does turn a few heads, but only the really observant ones. I think most of us just instinctively tune those things out.
My wife and I wrestled with this one for a while, and finally settled on purchasing an old stone in a new setting (old settings can suffer from too much metal fatigue for proper sizing, or break more easily). Its an "Old European Cut" stone, which is really cool. Its a cut no one makes any more, and rather than reflecting the light shone onto/into it in pure white like all modern cuts, the natural imperfections in the hand cut stone cause it to refract the light into a rainbow of colors. It was also far, far cheaper. We considered Moissanite and even cubic zirconium, but frequently grow tired of explaining our political and philosophical views to relatives. When they asked if I really had managed to afford a real diamon, we could truthfully say yes and leave it at that.
What state did you grow up in? There are plenty of people in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky still subsistence farming on less than five acres. A farm doesn't have to be measured in the hundreds (or thousands) of acres to provide food for the people who live on it. My grandfather plows his two acre garden with two Belgiums (really large draft horses). My inlaws live off of small gardens and orchards, keep sheep, pigs,chicken and bees. They preserve most of it, and sell their suplus for spending cash. They aren't Amish, just practical. If they need extra cash, they sell a car (yes, probably out of the front lawn), cut some timber, or work a few months in the mines. My mother and father in-law remember the when their holler first got electric, when they saw their first car, and when the highways were built, and they aren't in their 60s yet.
Sorry for the rant, but five acres is plenty. Now that being said, none of my relatives know what wi-fi is either.:)
There is another function to forcing people to stay in school for a few more years. Every year you are in school is a year you aren't employed or seeking employment. Which basically leaves more jobs for everyone else, lowering unemployment and driving wages up. Just think what would happen if there were no BAs, MAs and PHDs. All of those people would go from high school to the job market. There probably wouldn't be enough jobs for them. They might feel angry about this. Most "People in Power" do no want a whole bunch of angry jobless people around. Now, some people with jobs, a hefty mortage, 8 years of student loans and some credit card debt to pay off...those are the type to keep around. Working too hard for two bits to even realize they should be angry.
I was thinking a real lightweight temporary adhesive, maybe just some wheat gluten or starch and water mix sprayed on with a hose or pressure washer, followed by an application of popcorn, feathers, what have you with one of those machines used for blow-in insulation. You usually get the machine rental free with the purchase of a couple bags of the (relatively cheap) blow in cellulose. Some experimentation would be required.
thank you! I laughed so hard when I read that it brought tears to my eyes. I'm going to try growing my potatos in piles of loose straw this year, a suggestion I found in Mother Earth News.
I've always thought a good work around to this problem would be to do what the car insurance companies do and offer a good student discount. Have a 3.5gpa or higher, save $100+ a month on your rent, refer a friend as you approach graduation and get your last two months rent rebated, grad and doctoral student discounts, etc. Get the kids who are too busy studying to have any time to trash the place. Keep it in good shape and stop by frequently to do "yard work" and you should have good tenants.
For a moment there, I thought I was reading a letter from the ancient Chinese philosopher to the ancient Greek prophet/soothsayer, and I thought "cool!" It was a good premise anyways.
Just for counterpoint, I attended a major state university for four years and ran into several students who were functionally illiterate, and I'd say easily 70% of the sutdents in my general education classes (Eng. 101 etc) could barely read or write beyond a middle school level. I mean come on, the firve paragraph essay for college juniors..who were repeating the class? I'm a far cry from a genius, or even a real hard worker, but I still consistently carried double the course load of the average student.
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I believe there is no recipe calling for any mixture of fruit and sugar that can't be benefitted by the addition of a good shake of Kentucky Bourbon.
1992 US Presidential Election: Yes, I smoked pot, but I didn't inhale.
2024 US Presidential Election: Yes, I downloaded on Napster, but I didn't share.
I don't know if the movie touches on the significance of MJ being in this play. It's one of Oscar Wilde's famous comedies, and it's all about the dangers of living a double life. The short of it; a young country gent(Algernon) goes to city to flirt around and cause trouble, but when in the city goes by the name of Ernest so that no rumours of his city life make it back to his home in the country. One of Algernon's city friends, Jack, travels to the country to dally with Algernon's young ward, and he also uses the name Ernest. Combined with some witty dialogue, a good does of sarcasm, and some smacks at the upperclass, its probably one of Wilde's best works. And Oscar Wilde, along with GB Shaw should probably be up there with Shakespeare among England's finest playwrights. Summary here Full text here
I've done just the reverse. About a year ago I switched to a shaving mug and brush, and soap from a local artisan soapmaker. Recently I finally found a an old single blade razor that uses the still readily available injector blades. I'm trying to cultivate a little more art and ritual, or at least depth to my life, and it really makes my day to start each morning with such an old fashioned ritual, plus knowing that I'm taking one more step away from our mass-market consumption-happy society puts a smile on that baby smooth face.
Okay, well not quite baby smooth. The downside is it takes some getting used to. I did cut myself up pretty good at first. But now I find that I have nearly as good a shave as I was getting with all but a brand new two or three blade razor (although I keep just a few on hand for "must not cut myslef now have [big presentation, fancy dinner, job interview,...] to go to.
Although the parent post may be taking things to the extremist ends, if you exploring non-medical treatments, or at least alternatives to the side effects of Ritalin, looking for an environmental cause just might be worth your time. In fact, since you sound like a caring and concerned parent, I'll bet you already have.
Case in point, my fiance used to suffer from terrible migrains. She tried cutting out caffeine with some success, but when she cut out corn syrup from her diet (a tough thing to do) The migraines went away. Now, ADHD is is a very different beast from migraines, but I would certainly look to things like diet, climate (desert / ocean or in between), local pollutants (live downwind from a coal-powered generating plant, or even a peanut-butter plant?) And I would certainly try extensive periods of foregoing things like television and computers.
I might mess with classical music or even music lessons, and certainly, I would try forgoing various foods, including processed sugars, preservatives, and yes meat. Yes humans are omnivores, but some more or less so than others. Just because we evolved to eat meat doesn't mean we did so perfectly. And yes, I'd check my house for mold spores, look at my laundry detergents and other soaps, and see how much outgassing I was getting from carpeting, matresses, linens and other platics. The chance of finding something is slim, but if the choice is between a lifetime prescription on Ritalin, other expensive therapies, orsimply eating organic foods, I'd at least try everything I could think of.
They're small. I remember the desperate attempts to keep the zebra mussels out of Lake Ontario. When they did establish themselves, they came in droves. A single mussel is only about the size of a dime, with about an eraser head's worth of meat in them. But they die by the thousands, littering the beaches with their rotting carcasses and tons of glass sharp broken shells. Sometimes theylayer of shells and dead mussels on the beach would be 6 inches thick.
You should read "Illusions" by Richard Bach. It's kind of campy Christian fiction, but its from the Vatican council II days, so it's a lot more optimistic and progressive thinking than today's evangelical christian pulp. It's central character is a Messiah who on his second time around decides this isn't fun anymore and quits. The wording and style of your post immediately made me think of the book, though I haven't read it in years.
I work at a resal store operated by habitat for Humanity. We get keyboards in all the time. I sell the real IBM model M's for $10 and any other keyboard for $2, including a whole lot of non model M spring buckle IBM keyboards. I finally brought one home for myself the other day and just love it, my words per minute has increased (not really sure why) and it just plain sounds cooler, especially since I tend to hit my keys,especially the space bar, pretty hard anyways.
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I'll have to dig out the article if I manager to find it, I'll post it below, but it basically started with a bunch of furniture and textile mill workers in the Carolinas complaining about how all of their jobs are being moved overseas to China a such. The second part of the artical was interviews with furniture and textile mill workers from the NorthEast who had all watched the mill towns become ghost towns when their jobs were moved to the Carolinas a generation ago.
I always thought being an artist or designer in a future replicator/holodeck enabled world would be awesome. For those who are excellent at it, it could certainly lead to fame (and riches too, depending on how the next couple generations iron out this whole copywright thing). Think about making your earl grey. Sure it will be easy to just use a molecular modeler to, erm, replicate a cup of earl grey, but a lot of our sensory experience isn't necessairly based on how things are, but how we perceive them to be (or to once have been). So no reason to stick with an exact earl grey, I can tweak that bergamot oil compound to enhance it's very "bergamotness" or remove flavors that detract from it. I can imaging the time and environment where the tea was grown and harvested and how that would effect its final flavor. Were the tips rolled or cutin any special way, how dry was it when they were harvested, what trace compounds were in the soil? It becomes even more interesting if you are designing holodeck scenarios because then the experience can be even more subjective. I think I've missed my calling by a few hundred years.
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I work for a larger 501(c)3 here in Lexington. We have a paid staff of around 20, plus probably about that same amount in full-time volunteers, plus are non-regulars and court-ordered help. Even our Resale store (a fundraising source) won't accept anything older than a P3. We are trying to get a electronics recycling dumpster to handle all the rest. Now we try to give away all those boat anchors we still seem to get stuck with. That being said, I know of at least two pcs currently in use that have a "turbo" button.
Mostly what we need is better networking gear and maybe a few really dedicated volunteer sysadmins. Right now we have a really crappy terminal services set-up that is slow, always locking up, buggy and with a really limited software suite. And while security is good, if you want to take a file of a disk, or put one on, you have to find the take our accountant out of a meeting and have her run to the serverroom, upload the file and give you access do it. And god forbid you ever need to use an application or website requiring sound......
And don't get me started on our e-mail client.
If even that, around here a fair number of houses are vinyl siding - a layer of blueboard insulation - 2X4 studs (with fiberglass batts between) - and drywall. A little OSB on corners and other stress points, but anyone who paid even the slightest attention while these houses were being built would be able to quickly cut their way in with a sharp knife.
I mean, isn't that what as a parent you do, provide explanatations and answers to your children's questions that meet their ability to reason and understand. If my toddler asks me why giraffes have long necks, I tell him it is so they can eat the leaves from tall trees. I don't go into savannah ecology, evolution, and biology unless and until he is ready and presses me for mor details. Wouldn't God, as parent do the same. It doesn't make you a con man just to give a simplified answer, even if it is one that can be misinterpreted.
Scientific reasoning is just one more rung, and hopefully not the last one on the ladder of human understanding of our world.
When I was a teenager I was the hard working straight A type, friendly, creative, and the last sort of teenager that anyone would conside a moron. But now, with not even handfull of years in hindsight I would be the first to say that I was, if not a complete moron, certainly a more garden variety moron. Teens are beings in transition, physically, psychologically, morally and socially. With that transition comes exploration and with exploration, error. That doesn't excuse or rationalize bad teenage behavior, or negate the vital part that teens and teen perspective contribute to our race and culture, it just helps to understand it.
My 1960s era turntable has a carefully placed Intel Inside sticker on the front face. It does turn a few heads, but only the really observant ones. I think most of us just instinctively tune those things out.
>>Its like communism, but everyone isn't broke
Yet.
My wife and I wrestled with this one for a while, and finally settled on purchasing an old stone in a new setting (old settings can suffer from too much metal fatigue for proper sizing, or break more easily). Its an "Old European Cut" stone, which is really cool. Its a cut no one makes any more, and rather than reflecting the light shone onto/into it in pure white like all modern cuts, the natural imperfections in the hand cut stone cause it to refract the light into a rainbow of colors. It was also far, far cheaper. We considered Moissanite and even cubic zirconium, but frequently grow tired of explaining our political and philosophical views to relatives. When they asked if I really had managed to afford a real diamon, we could truthfully say yes and leave it at that.
Sorry for the rant, but five acres is plenty. Now that being said, none of my relatives know what wi-fi is either. :)
There is another function to forcing people to stay in school for a few more years. Every year you are in school is a year you aren't employed or seeking employment. Which basically leaves more jobs for everyone else, lowering unemployment and driving wages up. Just think what would happen if there were no BAs, MAs and PHDs. All of those people would go from high school to the job market. There probably wouldn't be enough jobs for them. They might feel angry about this. Most "People in Power" do no want a whole bunch of angry jobless people around. Now, some people with jobs, a hefty mortage, 8 years of student loans and some credit card debt to pay off...those are the type to keep around. Working too hard for two bits to even realize they should be angry.
I was thinking a real lightweight temporary adhesive, maybe just some wheat gluten or starch and water mix sprayed on with a hose or pressure washer, followed by an application of popcorn, feathers, what have you with one of those machines used for blow-in insulation. You usually get the machine rental free with the purchase of a couple bags of the (relatively cheap) blow in cellulose. Some experimentation would be required.
thank you! I laughed so hard when I read that it brought tears to my eyes. I'm going to try growing my potatos in piles of loose straw this year, a suggestion I found in Mother Earth News.
I've always thought a good work around to this problem would be to do what the car insurance companies do and offer a good student discount. Have a 3.5gpa or higher, save $100+ a month on your rent, refer a friend as you approach graduation and get your last two months rent rebated, grad and doctoral student discounts, etc. Get the kids who are too busy studying to have any time to trash the place. Keep it in good shape and stop by frequently to do "yard work" and you should have good tenants.
For a moment there, I thought I was reading a letter from the ancient Chinese philosopher to the ancient Greek prophet/soothsayer, and I thought "cool!" It was a good premise anyways.
Ever read "The Scarlet Letter"?
Just for counterpoint, I attended a major state university for four years and ran into several students who were functionally illiterate, and I'd say easily 70% of the sutdents in my general education classes (Eng. 101 etc) could barely read or write beyond a middle school level. I mean come on, the firve paragraph essay for college juniors..who were repeating the class? I'm a far cry from a genius, or even a real hard worker, but I still consistently carried double the course load of the average student.
I believe there is no recipe calling for any mixture of fruit and sugar that can't be benefitted by the addition of a good shake of Kentucky Bourbon.
1992 US Presidential Election: Yes, I smoked pot, but I didn't inhale.
2024 US Presidential Election: Yes, I downloaded on Napster, but I didn't share.
I don't know if the movie touches on the significance of MJ being in this play. It's one of Oscar Wilde's famous comedies, and it's all about the dangers of living a double life.
The short of it; a young country gent(Algernon) goes to city to flirt around and cause trouble, but when in the city goes by the name of Ernest so that no rumours of his city life make it back to his home in the country. One of Algernon's city friends, Jack, travels to the country to dally with Algernon's young ward, and he also uses the name Ernest. Combined with some witty dialogue, a good does of sarcasm, and some smacks at the upperclass, its probably one of Wilde's best works. And Oscar Wilde, along with GB Shaw should probably be up there with Shakespeare among England's finest playwrights.
Summary here
Full text here
I've done just the reverse. About a year ago I switched to a shaving mug and brush, and soap from a local artisan soapmaker. Recently I finally found a an old single blade razor that uses the still readily available injector blades. I'm trying to cultivate a little more art and ritual, or at least depth to my life, and it really makes my day to start each morning with such an old fashioned ritual, plus knowing that I'm taking one more step away from our mass-market consumption-happy society puts a smile on that baby smooth face. ...] to go to.
Okay, well not quite baby smooth. The downside is it takes some getting used to. I did cut myself up pretty good at first. But now I find that I have nearly as good a shave as I was getting with all but a brand new two or three blade razor (although I keep just a few on hand for "must not cut myslef now have [big presentation, fancy dinner, job interview,
Case in point, my fiance used to suffer from terrible migrains. She tried cutting out caffeine with some success, but when she cut out corn syrup from her diet (a tough thing to do) The migraines went away. Now, ADHD is is a very different beast from migraines, but I would certainly look to things like diet, climate (desert / ocean or in between), local pollutants (live downwind from a coal-powered generating plant, or even a peanut-butter plant?) And I would certainly try extensive periods of foregoing things like television and computers.
I might mess with classical music or even music lessons, and certainly, I would try forgoing various foods, including processed sugars, preservatives, and yes meat. Yes humans are omnivores, but some more or less so than others. Just because we evolved to eat meat doesn't mean we did so perfectly. And yes, I'd check my house for mold spores, look at my laundry detergents and other soaps, and see how much outgassing I was getting from carpeting, matresses, linens and other platics. The chance of finding something is slim, but if the choice is between a lifetime prescription on Ritalin, other expensive therapies, orsimply eating organic foods, I'd at least try everything I could think of.
They're small. I remember the desperate attempts to keep the zebra mussels out of Lake Ontario. When they did establish themselves, they came in droves. A single mussel is only about the size of a dime, with about an eraser head's worth of meat in them. But they die by the thousands, littering the beaches with their rotting carcasses and tons of glass sharp broken shells. Sometimes theylayer of shells and dead mussels on the beach would be 6 inches thick.
You should read "Illusions" by Richard Bach. It's kind of campy Christian fiction, but its from the Vatican council II days, so it's a lot more optimistic and progressive thinking than today's evangelical christian pulp. It's central character is a Messiah who on his second time around decides this isn't fun anymore and quits. The wording and style of your post immediately made me think of the book, though I haven't read it in years.
I work at a resal store operated by habitat for Humanity. We get keyboards in all the time. I sell the real IBM model M's for $10 and any other keyboard for $2, including a whole lot of non model M spring buckle IBM keyboards. I finally brought one home for myself the other day and just love it, my words per minute has increased (not really sure why) and it just plain sounds cooler, especially since I tend to hit my keys,especially the space bar, pretty hard anyways.