Have you read about a polyphasic sleeping schedule?
Yes, at least the concept rings the bell. Has it been proven that it does not have any negative side efects on overall condition of the organism in the long run?
Each age has its own little joys, and if you have lived your life without unnecessary excesses while being young you are sure to find out being old is quite nice. Quite a lot of people are both old and happy. It's not that hard to be healthy and old, it's just that modern urban lifestyle makes people prone to disease in old age. Diet, exercise and good friends/family do miracles for one's wellbeing. Just look at old people in Mediterranean Europe - happy and healthy, watching football and drinking wine;-)
Also, allow me to generalize: when I was 16 I thought that I should get everything from life then, because the older you get the less fun you have...
Now I am 23 and I have way more fun than when I was 16, I simply enjoy being myself more, and I think it only gets better as you learn about who you are and how best to satisfy your own needs.
This should read "I shouldn't blah blah etc..." not WE, as I enjoy my work, and would love the opportunity to do it more effectively. Since my work often requires longer hours than most people would be happy with, such a drug would be ideal.
You dear sir are very likely to run into serious health problems several years from now, if you are not already suffering from them.
It is not yet possible to regularly sleep less than the 7-8 hours for a day for several years without screwing up your:
nervous system
digestive system
mind (acquiring depression, burnout, various other disorders of lesser and greater graveness)
To preempt some of the possible counterarguments: yes we all are different, and some of us indeed possess titanic stamina(at least by normal standards) and are in general very resistant to disease of all kinds, yet the limits are still there, and after crossing them we all tend to run into problems. And overworked human being is a physiological timebomb waiting to explode.
I may be mistaken, and you may have already reached a ripe age where you can know for sure what is and what is not good for you and your body, having lived 60 years and still growing stronger. In that case - my most sincere apologies.
I don't think an average Ph.D/MSC makes even close as much as 9000$ a year in India.
9000$/year in India is more in the order of magnitude of ~ 230000$/year in US or Europe.
Dude. Humor is the natural way to deal with situations and matters of grave seriousness. Moreover, I was born in USSR, and didn't find gp's joke offensive at all.
A friend who frequently uses services of working girls (and is friends with some of them) told me that the emotional handicap is still there, even if the other problems don't exist - prostitues have trouble getting romantically attached.
Sexuality is a complex thing, and it's tied to person's psyche in very delicate ways, hence prostitutes may still be harming themselves.
But anyway, my point wasn't that prostitution is evil, or that prostitutes don't get some perks from their occupation. The point was that you can't compare something potentially harmful to something harmless and even necessary (like P2P).
The GP's point was the the teacher was shocked at being censored in the EU, yet the EU was partly formed through subversive tactics.
There is a group of people here in Europe that think that countries were bullied into starting/joining the EU by big corporations and governments acting as their puppets. (other similar theories also exist)
The truth is, that EU was formed by popular vote, however, many people still feel nostalgia for independent nation states.
As for benefits and drawbacks, according to my subjective view, there were more good things coming out of European integration than bad ones, while of course, no complex process (especially if carried through for the first time) can go without a glitch, hence the shortcomings like suboptimal agricultural policies in EU.
It was like one of the coolest moment in my life, which is also kind of pathetic if I think about it.
Nothing pathetic about it, you discovered something about the way your brain works and solved a problem too. Best things in life don't have to be "extraordinary". Quite on the contrary - the little things that happen all the time are the coolest things in life.
Heat death is not necessarilly what the universe is heading towards. This is due to gravity - some scientists claim that uniform soup of particles at the end-state of the universe will not come to be for a simple reason that particles will start to attract each other and complexity would increase, aided by the rules governing chaos.
Some of the ideas relevant to this can be found in this book
Um, well in my humble experience Debian/unstable isn't all that unstable. In fact I havent had any noteworthy problems with it since I installed it in November...
And why don't you just compile your own kernel, anyway?
Well, despite being a troll, I have used w2k and KDE on exact same hardware.
And, yes, KDE is *slower* when it comes to launching apps than w2k is. IIRC, it had something to do with the way NT handles DLLs (it didn't have to read them all into memory, the executables in win32 accessed only the portions they needed).
There actually have been lengthy discussions about the issues.
As for my personal experience on my hardware (POS k6-2 350 w/128 mb) w2k took waaay less to open file manager and web-browser windows than KDE. On my box KDE 2 / 3 takes around 6 secs to open the corresponding windows. That's what I call pain in the ass. W2k took one second at max. Due to this I am forced to use console as my primary file manager (yes, sometimes it may be powerful, but for doing menial everyday tasks GUI is much better... this will prolly spawn gazillion flames in my direction:)
More? Word takes 3 secs to load (ok, I know, half of it is loaded with OS already) and OpenOffice takes around 25 secs. And no, I am not trying to prove that Linux is inferior, or KDE for that matter. On decent hardware you wouldn't notice the diff, and the way 'doze treats your resources is still unforgivable, no matter how fast some apps are. The point of my "trolling" is to remind ppl of the issues that are there, the issues that shouldn't be overlooked.
As for ligth WMs, of course they are good for certain tasks, but they, IMHO, don't substitute too well for a complete desktop environment.
It costs shitloads to get stuff into orbit, right?
Wouldn't it than be smarter to accumulate all the space junk in a big orbital junkyard? This could also include all the obsolete satelites currently burned down in the atmosphere.
Next to this junkyard there could be an orbital factory using the scrap metal and other debris for raw materials. Furthermore, this facility wouldn't be *THAT* expensive to build, and i.e. the accumulation of all the used satelites in the same place would be trivial, by programming their final thrust to get them to the place. The compound in question could use solar energy, and be fully automatic.
Building the trivial things, like the replacement solar panels for the ISS as well as other relatively easy to produce things in space would seem like a wiser way to deal with stuff that cost millions to launch up there!
...since ethics is just a code, a set of laws and rules. You are ethical if you live exactly by that arbitrary set of rules. Which says nothing about the morality, or goodness, of those rules.
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If yes, than my original post is incomplete :-)
Each age has its own little joys, and if you have lived your life without unnecessary excesses while being young you are sure to find out being old is quite nice. Quite a lot of people are both old and happy. It's not that hard to be healthy and old, it's just that modern urban lifestyle makes people prone to disease in old age. Diet, exercise and good friends/family do miracles for one's wellbeing. Just look at old people in Mediterranean Europe - happy and healthy, watching football and drinking wine ;-)
Also, allow me to generalize: when I was 16 I thought that I should get everything from life then, because the older you get the less fun you have...
Now I am 23 and I have way more fun than when I was 16, I simply enjoy being myself more, and I think it only gets better as you learn about who you are and how best to satisfy your own needs.
Ok, enough preaching for today...
It is not yet possible to regularly sleep less than the 7-8 hours for a day for several years without screwing up your:
- nervous system
- digestive system
- mind (acquiring depression, burnout, various other disorders of lesser and greater graveness)
To preempt some of the possible counterarguments: yes we all are different, and some of us indeed possess titanic stamina(at least by normal standards) and are in general very resistant to disease of all kinds, yet the limits are still there, and after crossing them we all tend to run into problems. And overworked human being is a physiological timebomb waiting to explode.I may be mistaken, and you may have already reached a ripe age where you can know for sure what is and what is not good for you and your body, having lived 60 years and still growing stronger. In that case - my most sincere apologies.
I don't think an average Ph.D/MSC makes even close as much as 9000$ a year in India. 9000$/year in India is more in the order of magnitude of ~ 230000$/year in US or Europe.
Dude. Humor is the natural way to deal with situations and matters of grave seriousness. Moreover, I was born in USSR, and didn't find gp's joke offensive at all.
Huh? There is no atmosphere in orbit, even if it's the low one.
Am I the only one who thought of Interstella 999?
How would you ensure that companies from other countries than US get to use this plan too?
Heh, hasn't anyone implemented a tool for OCRing these text-images?
Sexuality is a complex thing, and it's tied to person's psyche in very delicate ways, hence prostitutes may still be harming themselves.
But anyway, my point wasn't that prostitution is evil, or that prostitutes don't get some perks from their occupation. The point was that you can't compare something potentially harmful to something harmless and even necessary (like P2P).
Anyway, this is going way off-topic:)
There is a group of people here in Europe that think that countries were bullied into starting/joining the EU by big corporations and governments acting as their puppets. (other similar theories also exist)
The truth is, that EU was formed by popular vote, however, many people still feel nostalgia for independent nation states.
As for benefits and drawbacks, according to my subjective view, there were more good things coming out of European integration than bad ones, while of course, no complex process (especially if carried through for the first time) can go without a glitch, hence the shortcomings like suboptimal agricultural policies in EU.
Prostitution is harmful to health (STDs, violent pimps, emotional handicap of many prostitutes).
Right to fair use, on the other hand, isn't.
Nothing pathetic about it, you discovered something about the way your brain works and solved a problem too. Best things in life don't have to be "extraordinary". Quite on the contrary - the little things that happen all the time are the coolest things in life.
Heat death is not necessarilly what the universe is heading towards. This is due to gravity - some scientists claim that uniform soup of particles at the end-state of the universe will not come to be for a simple reason that particles will start to attract each other and complexity would increase, aided by the rules governing chaos. Some of the ideas relevant to this can be found in this book
Cantonese is predominant in Hong Kong. (I have no information about other parts where they use it)
Nu nafig tu taa! Cilveeks izteica savas domas a tu uzreiz virsuu brauc!:)
Supports Mozilla and Konqueror perfectly. Don't know about Opera.
Anyway, the difficult part is that you will need WIMP-9 to play them, no?
Well, you see, network problems are there to be troubleshooted:P
I always keep the sources unpacked.
And why don't you just compile your own kernel, anyway?
And, yes, KDE is *slower* when it comes to launching apps than w2k is. IIRC, it had something to do with the way NT handles DLLs (it didn't have to read them all into memory, the executables in win32 accessed only the portions they needed).
There actually have been lengthy discussions about the issues.
As for my personal experience on my hardware (POS k6-2 350 w/128 mb) w2k took waaay less to open file manager and web-browser windows than KDE.
On my box KDE 2 / 3 takes around 6 secs to open the corresponding windows. That's what I call pain in the ass. W2k took one second at max.
Due to this I am forced to use console as my primary file manager (yes, sometimes it may be powerful, but for doing menial everyday tasks GUI is much better... this will prolly spawn gazillion flames in my direction:)
More? Word takes 3 secs to load (ok, I know, half of it is loaded with OS already) and OpenOffice takes around 25 secs.
And no, I am not trying to prove that Linux is inferior, or KDE for that matter. On decent hardware you wouldn't notice the diff, and the way 'doze treats your resources is still unforgivable, no matter how fast some apps are.
The point of my "trolling" is to remind ppl of the issues that are there, the issues that shouldn't be overlooked.
As for ligth WMs, of course they are good for certain tasks, but they, IMHO, don't substitute too well for a complete desktop environment.
And KDE is way less responsive and robust than Win2k/XP... (unless the 'doze hasn't been reinstalled for at least 4 months)
hmm, what else?...
And to preempt others' comments:
lightweight windowmanagers = good, blah, blah, blah.
No they aren't.
Wouldn't it than be smarter to accumulate all the space junk in a big orbital junkyard?
This could also include all the obsolete satelites currently burned down in the atmosphere.
Next to this junkyard there could be an orbital factory using the scrap metal and other debris for raw materials.
Furthermore, this facility wouldn't be *THAT* expensive to build, and i.e. the accumulation of all the used satelites in the same place would be trivial, by programming their final thrust to get them to the place. The compound in question could use solar energy, and be fully automatic.
Building the trivial things, like the replacement solar panels for the ISS as well as other relatively easy to produce things in space would seem like a wiser way to deal with stuff that cost millions to launch up there!
...since ethics is just a code, a set of laws and rules. You are ethical if you live exactly by that arbitrary set of rules. Which says nothing about the morality, or goodness, of those rules.