Psychology is a fancy name for subjective neurology. The zaps "exist" in your nervous system. Whether they exist in the location they appar to exist in, or only in the portion of the brain mapping to that location, is an interesting question, but does not make them nonexistent. And they are chemical in origin. They are not imagined. They are felt. I have no doubt that if a precise enough instrument were connected to the neurons involved they would detect activity that is not created by outside effectors, but is created by depolarization of axons due to the action of these weird-ass chemicals that bind and block neurotransmitters (like Serotonin, the first 'S' in "SSRI"), whether that action is excitatory or inhibitory.
You were going through withdrawal daily. If you had been on it for at least two weeks and that was happening, it meant your dose wasn't high enough to remain above the withdrawal level as the concentration decayed until your next dose. Your doctor ought to have at least suggested trying a higher dosage and seeing what other side effects that produced.
I was on a similar drug for a few days and decided the side effects (zaps, lockjaw, suicidal thoughts) just weren't worth it. Then I started exercising and eating real food instead of sitting on the sofa 24/7 eating butter-slathered snack-machine crap by the boxful, and all my manic-depressive shit went away (well, almost; I still get the occasional unexplainable high followed within days by a short, trancelike low, but I'm fairly sure that's correlated with weeks when I fail to get out on the road or into the gym). And so did my fat and my inability to climb stairs without pausing at the top, which was a bonus.
The best use of atomic timebases is the same as the best use of clocks used to be: navigation.
We started out needing accurate clocks so we could tell from the angles of celestial bodies and the horizon where we were on the planet relative to home, to within a few hundred meters.
Now we need accurate atomic timebases to measure the frequencies of radio waves from satellites to triangulate between them so we can tell where we are on the planet even if we're at home, to within a few meters.
It would be a good timebase for when we're not on Earth. I.e., it would become "universal".
So, while I think changing what UTC means is pretty dumb, now, I think that if we had/. back when they decided to make the first adjustment to it to keep to the Earth's clock that I would have thought that changing what UTC meant then was really fucking dumb. Since I think now that's what I think having done it then was.
So here's my solution: Leave UTC alone, don't make anyone have to change anything they've based on it, and continue to adjust it continually because that's what people expect, even if they think that is a pain in the ass. Make up a whole new system for those purposes for which you're thinking of munging UTC to serve.
i would guess all of it does, because we've always assumed UTC=UTC=UTC=UTC.
luckily, the fix could be very simple.
you just point your time server for those systems at a master time server that is still giving out UTC, instead of at whatever standards' organization's time server that's been changed over to the new standard.
i suspect you'll be able to find (or construct) such UTC servers indefinitely.
the math will then be done at one place, and everywhere else can just go on as their original specifications, uh, specified.
Your numerical estimates of it are conveniences for your daily use, but, as you can see, can only be reconciled to the year by defining context and accounting for variability.
If UTC stops adjusting for variability, then we'll just go back to using GMT as our human-readable clock standard timebase.
If you could get to another town, would you even live in SF?
I wouldn't. It's dirty, it's cold, and full of people who are either completely disconnected from the universe or perpetually surly because they're paying 4X what their apartment is worth, even though it's covered in toxic mold.
If it weren't for the gays spiffing it up, it'd be as livable as Detroit.
And then a year later they'll have more pets, and will have to give them away for free. Then people who aren't criminals will have pets. And it will continue exponentially until everyone has a pet. Then what will we do? Eventually the number of pets will be so large and so prolific that the surface of the mass of them will be expanding outward from the surface of the Earth at the speed of light.
(The calculation for this has been done for humans, not for pets. It will happen in about 1300 years.)
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Psychology is a fancy name for subjective neurology. The zaps "exist" in your nervous system. Whether they exist in the location they appar to exist in, or only in the portion of the brain mapping to that location, is an interesting question, but does not make them nonexistent. And they are chemical in origin. They are not imagined. They are felt. I have no doubt that if a precise enough instrument were connected to the neurons involved they would detect activity that is not created by outside effectors, but is created by depolarization of axons due to the action of these weird-ass chemicals that bind and block neurotransmitters (like Serotonin, the first 'S' in "SSRI"), whether that action is excitatory or inhibitory.
Any doctor who doesn't believe the zaps exist hasn't even read the fucking packaging. Fire them and find a competent one.
You were going through withdrawal daily. If you had been on it for at least two weeks and that was happening, it meant your dose wasn't high enough to remain above the withdrawal level as the concentration decayed until your next dose. Your doctor ought to have at least suggested trying a higher dosage and seeing what other side effects that produced.
I was on a similar drug for a few days and decided the side effects (zaps, lockjaw, suicidal thoughts) just weren't worth it. Then I started exercising and eating real food instead of sitting on the sofa 24/7 eating butter-slathered snack-machine crap by the boxful, and all my manic-depressive shit went away (well, almost; I still get the occasional unexplainable high followed within days by a short, trancelike low, but I'm fairly sure that's correlated with weeks when I fail to get out on the road or into the gym). And so did my fat and my inability to climb stairs without pausing at the top, which was a bonus.
Why do we need them?
They should submit the standard to us and we'll figure out whether anything needs to be done.
The best use of atomic timebases is the same as the best use of clocks used to be: navigation.
We started out needing accurate clocks so we could tell from the angles of celestial bodies and the horizon where we were on the planet relative to home, to within a few hundred meters.
Now we need accurate atomic timebases to measure the frequencies of radio waves from satellites to triangulate between them so we can tell where we are on the planet even if we're at home, to within a few meters.
Redefining UTC is just plain stupid - it was created to track sol.
Actual sol or relativistically delayed sol?
Speak for yourself, timezone-off-center dweller.
If you're basing your critical time-dependent software on year:day:month:hour:minute:second time formats, you're a dope.
Your computer could care less, and the things you schedule in that format are about as critical as snooze alarms.
Only if they're on playboy.com
It would be a good timebase for when we're not on Earth. I.e., it would become "universal".
So, while I think changing what UTC means is pretty dumb, now, I think that if we had /. back when they decided to make the first adjustment to it to keep to the Earth's clock that I would have thought that changing what UTC meant then was really fucking dumb. Since I think now that's what I think having done it then was.
So here's my solution: Leave UTC alone, don't make anyone have to change anything they've based on it, and continue to adjust it continually because that's what people expect, even if they think that is a pain in the ass. Make up a whole new system for those purposes for which you're thinking of munging UTC to serve.
I will ignore both and continue to claim "my watch is a little fast" when showing up my customary 160+-5 seconds late for meetings.
You should have just eaten the dog food and taken the paddling, and you'd have a login.
i would guess all of it does, because we've always assumed UTC=UTC=UTC=UTC.
luckily, the fix could be very simple.
you just point your time server for those systems at a master time server that is still giving out UTC, instead of at whatever standards' organization's time server that's been changed over to the new standard.
i suspect you'll be able to find (or construct) such UTC servers indefinitely.
the math will then be done at one place, and everywhere else can just go on as their original specifications, uh, specified.
A year is a year long.
Your numerical estimates of it are conveniences for your daily use, but, as you can see, can only be reconciled to the year by defining context and accounting for variability.
If UTC stops adjusting for variability, then we'll just go back to using GMT as our human-readable clock standard timebase.
Thus demonstrating the principle of the limit of information value as the intelligence of the poster goes to zero.
Here's another unreplayable game for Capcom to try: Fuck off and die.
"Pi is a confusing and unnatural choice for the circle constant."
Unless you're trying to pack amphorae into a cargo hold and calculate your profit on the voyage.
Seriously, there's not much more natural and distinctive than
Korg: "How big is a circle"?
Ugg: "You mean how big across or how big around?"
Korg: "OoooOOOoohhhh, look who's been going to college!"
A talking dog!
How much you want for him?
They aren't preventing pet ownership.
They're preventing pet-breeding business.
You can still whelp a litter of pups and give them away free.
This is where I say something like "Richard Gere, you got a new handle", but I'm too metta for that.
If you could get to another town, would you even live in SF?
I wouldn't. It's dirty, it's cold, and full of people who are either completely disconnected from the universe or perpetually surly because they're paying 4X what their apartment is worth, even though it's covered in toxic mold.
If it weren't for the gays spiffing it up, it'd be as livable as Detroit.
Petco doesn't sell cats and dogs. They invite the rescue organizations to bring adoptable animals to the store.
Exactly.
The pet industry is about 80% evil, and demand for their product is built on circumventing the supply available at the shelter.
And then a year later they'll have more pets, and will have to give them away for free. Then people who aren't criminals will have pets. And it will continue exponentially until everyone has a pet. Then what will we do? Eventually the number of pets will be so large and so prolific that the surface of the mass of them will be expanding outward from the surface of the Earth at the speed of light.
(The calculation for this has been done for humans, not for pets. It will happen in about 1300 years.)
Then so are laws against drugs and murder.