Hollywood should create a 21st century _Jaws_ rewrite called _Hands_. The idea is that all these sharks are cavorting happily when (cue the ominous music) out of the blinding heights of the ocean come these bubble-trail-leaving rubbermen with opposable thumbs and harpoons...
Don't descend into ad hominem attacks. If you're a serious thinker, you'll follow the references and read the studies. Then, you'll check out Google and the nearest university library for references to these studies, their authors and financial backers. Does this sound exhausting? Time consuming? Thinking for yourself is like that, especially when the discussion finds itself at that muddy crossroads where science and politics meet.
The FAQ cited contains dozens of links to serious scientific studies. I encourage you to find any references to studies demonstrating the phenomena asserted by the original post, or indeed documents/studies that contradict any of the major points of the FAQ.
However, recent research has isolated the elements of the plant that work for pain relief from the other elements, such as those that cause the "high" that can permanently damage the brain's pleasure receptors after frequent use.
Wow, there's nothing like slashdot for unsupported claims about scientific 'fact'.
Please refer to http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/healthmyths .htm l for more info on this and other myths.
It runs during installation. To activate it, click 'I do not agree' when some incomprehensible gobbledegook called a 'EULA' is shown. A EULA is a kind of bug. Unless you refuse to accept, it will bug you again and again. Don't confuse bugs with viruses, however: Microsoft's debugger can't handle viral licenses, which is why they don't like the GPL. Once activated, the powerful EULA non-acceptance debugging option leaves your system bug-free.
Waitamoment. You're assuming that the supply of rain is inelastic. Recall, however, that those big white puffy things that become rain are in turn formed by evaporation from the surface of the ocean.Since weather control presumably works over the open water as well as it does over land, it is very likely that we could simply generate as much rain as we like by efficiently manipulating cloud-cover over open water. This could become the world's most powerful desalinisation tool.
(1) Bunny-hopping (2) Camping (3) Hacking the client
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I think this is a side-effect of the messed-up american telco business. In Canada, it's the cable companies (*cough*, videotron, *cough*) that provide crappy service at bad prices. Bell, OTOH, has always been excellent --- except for when they occasionally remember that they effectively have you over a barrel. I've seen it take up to two months for them to set things up at the DSLAM. (Once it's up, though, it's solid and relatively inexpensive.)
So why do I blame this on the market? I offer the isomorphic case of British railways: When the network is broken up, so is service. Perhaps some things are best left to the hands of benevolent monopolists. (These cases should obviously be minimized, however; screw Gates!)
Fuck happy! Science has proven that happiness is no better than misery. I, for one, choose misery: It's way easier to come by, and if you wear a black beret and smoke Gauloises, chicks will dig you.
(Perhaps your locate.db is corrupt?) I give kudos to your low tech tastes; kaleidescope doesn't even -lgl --- a real antique! They don't make toys like they used to, do they?
I'm not sure I got what you meant about a paper tube and bits of crystal, but it's all OSS so I'm sure you can hack the.c to draw them in.
Although your 486 sounds a lot more powerful than what I have to work with (a 16mhz 486 laptop, 4mb ram), the following worked for me in an analogous, but even more arduous, situation. YMMV.
Get a copy of MS-DOS 6. Yeah yeah, I know. You can substitute another DOS if you know that it'll work with step number
Install a reasonable TCP/IP stack impl with PLIP from simtel.net. Setup for this is extremely tricky and, of course, requires a special cable to talk to your 'main squeeze' linux box, but if you do a lot of filetransfer, you might like this. Alternately, grab a terminal emulator (eg. minicom) and put a getty on/dev/ttyS?, and use sz/rz for filetransfer. In all honesty, this is what I do since I lost my carefully custom-crafted.ini for the plip/tcpip stack. (Note: You *could* do everything by floppy, if you haven't, like myself, long since removed that annoying anachronism from your main machine.)
Install cygwin. Pare it down to give you a basic unix interface: Bash, the commandline utils (awk/sed are a must for me), vim, and what-have-you.
Set your autoexec.bat to launch bash.
Set your cygwin vim's.vimrc to always save with unix fileformat. (:set ff=unix, IIRC). This will save you grief when uploading.
Copy over your usual.bashrc and associated scripts. Might as well be comfortable in your new home.
Voila! It's not linux, but for most of the tasks that you could run on a 4mb 486 you'd be hard-pressed to notice. (How much multitasking are you really going to do in 4mb?) Oh, yeah: You also get to run that copy of Red Baron you have kicking about.
That really starts to turn it into a "Tablet PC" instead of a "Smart Display".
Not really. A smart display would probably only require symmetric encryption to be secure. According to my crypto prof, you can pick up high-speed 3-DES silicon for cents on the dollar. Toss in one of those spiffy 300mhz PICs and your work is done.
This would not make the monitor into anything approaching a PC, unless you also consider, eg. your car stereo to be a 'dashboard PC' and your calculator wristwatch to be a 'wrist PC'. (Although the latter case might be fun to assert around fine arts majors...)
I have a friend who, many years ago, owned a trenchcoat with (a) a well-sewn liner and (b) missing or ruined pockets. Thus she'd typically fill her coat with: All the day's required textbooks and coursepacks, a dozen paperbacks, lunch, notepad, pens, a stapler, a flask, a math set, chemistry goggles, kleenex, and (IIRC) half a dozen moist towelettes. The thing is, most of the above are relatively flat, and so if stacked carefully added absolutely nothing to the coat's outline. Your first clue would be Jen reaching into her pocket and pulling out item after large absurd item...
But would it even be a big deal *without* that hope? I mean, really --- is nothingness really so ghastly that the only solace that can be achieved before it is belief in some doubleplus sequel to life? Why does non-existence haunt you?
Natch, eventual obliteration is much scarier if you posit that you might end up in some eternal barbecue pit... which is why I don't posit such dark fantasies. When I'm dead, I intend to be a lump of putrescing organic molecules, thanks. No rent, no irascible nerve endings, no eight-thirty class... Hot damn, I'm surprised no one is selling tickets.
Slashdot eds, you might consider using headlines more accessible to non-americans. When I saw this story I thought, "What? The Palestinian Authority is restricting P2P? Terrorist bastards!"
Weird... you just took me back to grade 9. I remember advising a friend that he not buy a computer with a CD drive on the advice of MacWorld, which claimed that CD-ROM was a technology which had already peaked; with production overhead ostensibly too high, sizes too small, read-speeds too slow and writing impossible, the technology was surely just a way-station on the road to magneto-optical floppies.
The weird bit is that every point MW made was correct -- and in a world devoid of network effects, the market for CDROMs would've wasted away. But we all know how that one went...
Okay, you're going to laugh, but this worked really well for my housemate and me.
(1) Buy a pair of clear swimming goggles. (2) Wear them. (3) PROFIT by the experience.
One word of warning: With your eyes protected, you'll notice what the onion does to your sinuses whole hell of a lot more. (I bet you didn't even notice that onions did anything to your sinuses!) On the other hand, this is plenty more bearable than what it does to your eyes, so....
Geez, I didn't realise that there was more than one of us.:)
I'm going to (a) give you a fish and (b) teach you how to catch more.
(a) Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Sipser, Michael; 1997, PWS Publishing Company; ISBN 0-534-94728-X; QA267.S56 1996b 511.3 --dc20; amazon page here) is a fantastic volume. We used it in a comp sci course I took, and is probably the
only book from my dint in c.s. that I won't sell.
This, however, brings us to the bit about fishing:
(b) Find out what courses at your university offer comp. sci theory, and then either (i) take the course (possibly pass/fail), or
(ii) borrow their reading list. Contrary to your experiences in phil, virtually all (comp?) sci lectures are simple verbalisations of some gigantic glossy textbook. Those guys in the faculty of Science have far less interest in primary sources than we do; class time is not spent carefully teasing apart inscrutable two thousand year old sentences when a big glossy manual with colour diagrams are available.
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Hollywood should create a 21st century _Jaws_ rewrite called _Hands_. The idea is that all these sharks are cavorting happily when (cue the ominous music) out of the blinding heights of the ocean come these bubble-trail-leaving rubbermen with opposable thumbs and harpoons...
Don't descend into ad hominem attacks. If you're a serious thinker, you'll follow the references and read the studies. Then, you'll check out Google and the nearest university library for references to these studies, their authors and financial backers. Does this sound exhausting? Time consuming? Thinking for yourself is like that, especially when the discussion finds itself at that muddy crossroads where science and politics meet.
The FAQ cited contains dozens of links to serious
scientific studies. I encourage you to find any references to studies demonstrating the phenomena asserted by the original post, or indeed documents/studies that contradict any of the major points of the FAQ.
However, recent research has isolated the elements of the plant that work for pain relief from the other elements, such as those that cause the "high" that can permanently damage the brain's pleasure receptors after frequent use.
s .htm l
Wow, there's nothing like slashdot for unsupported claims about scientific 'fact'.
Please refer to
http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/healthmyth
for more info on this and other myths.
It runs during installation. To activate it, click 'I do not agree' when some incomprehensible gobbledegook called a 'EULA' is shown. A EULA is a kind of bug. Unless you refuse to accept, it will bug you again and again. Don't confuse bugs with viruses, however: Microsoft's debugger can't handle viral licenses, which is why they don't like the GPL. Once activated, the powerful EULA non-acceptance debugging option leaves your system bug-free.
Waitamoment. You're assuming that the supply of rain is inelastic. Recall, however, that those big white puffy things that become rain are in turn formed by evaporation from the surface of the ocean.Since weather control presumably works over the open water as well as it does over land, it is very likely that we could simply generate as much rain as we like by efficiently manipulating cloud-cover over open water. This could become the world's most powerful desalinisation tool.
(1) Bunny-hopping
(2) Camping
(3) Hacking the client
I think this is a side-effect of the messed-up american telco business. In Canada, it's the cable companies (*cough*, videotron, *cough*) that provide crappy service at bad prices. Bell, OTOH, has always been excellent --- except for when they occasionally remember that they effectively have you over a barrel. I've seen it take up to two months for them to set things up at the DSLAM. (Once it's up, though, it's solid and relatively inexpensive.)
So why do I blame this on the market? I offer the isomorphic case of British railways: When the network is broken up, so is service. Perhaps some things are best left to the hands of benevolent monopolists. (These cases should obviously be minimized, however; screw Gates!)
P10 was laggy as hell in last week's quakematch.
Fuck happy! Science has proven that happiness is no better than misery. I, for one, choose misery: It's way easier to come by, and if you wear a black beret and smoke Gauloises, chicks will dig you.
Dude, it's /usr/lib/xscreensaver/kaleidescope.
.c to draw them in.
(Perhaps your locate.db is corrupt?) I give kudos to your low tech tastes; kaleidescope doesn't even -lgl --- a real antique! They don't make toys like they used to, do they?
I'm not sure I got what you meant about a paper tube and bits of crystal, but it's all OSS so I'm sure you can hack the
Have graphical depictions of nude women tattooed to your forehead and cheeks before death.
That really starts to turn it into a "Tablet PC" instead of a "Smart Display".
Not really. A smart display would probably only require symmetric encryption to be secure. According to my crypto prof, you can pick up high-speed 3-DES silicon for cents on the dollar. Toss in one of those spiffy 300mhz PICs and your work is done.
This would not make the monitor into anything approaching a PC, unless you also consider, eg. your car stereo to be a 'dashboard PC' and your calculator wristwatch to be a 'wrist PC'. (Although the latter case might be fun to assert around fine arts majors...)
Transparent aluminium. Good EMF, nice look. :)
I have a friend who, many years ago, owned a trenchcoat with (a) a well-sewn liner and (b) missing or ruined pockets. Thus she'd typically fill her coat with: All the day's required textbooks and coursepacks, a dozen paperbacks, lunch, notepad, pens, a stapler, a flask, a math set, chemistry goggles, kleenex, and (IIRC) half a dozen moist towelettes. The thing is, most of the above are relatively flat, and so if stacked carefully added absolutely nothing to the coat's outline. Your first clue would be Jen reaching into her pocket and pulling out item after large absurd item...
With that hope, dying isn't as big a deal.
But would it even be a big deal *without* that hope? I mean, really --- is nothingness really so ghastly that the only solace that can be achieved before it is belief in some doubleplus sequel to life? Why does non-existence haunt you?
Natch, eventual obliteration is much scarier if you posit that you might end up in some eternal barbecue pit... which is why I don't posit such dark fantasies. When I'm dead, I intend to be a lump of putrescing organic molecules, thanks. No rent, no irascible nerve endings, no eight-thirty class... Hot damn, I'm surprised no one is selling tickets.
Whoa, check out the lobes on *that* babe!
Slashdot eds, you might consider using headlines more accessible to non-americans. When I saw this story I thought, "What? The Palestinian Authority is restricting P2P? Terrorist bastards!"
with a bumper sticker that reads 'my other star is a giant'.
And a left hook isn't educational? :)
Weird... you just took me back to grade 9. I remember advising a friend that he not buy a computer with a CD drive on the advice of MacWorld, which claimed that CD-ROM was a technology which had already peaked; with production overhead ostensibly too high, sizes too small, read-speeds too slow and writing impossible, the technology was surely just a way-station on the road to magneto-optical floppies.
The weird bit is that every point MW made was correct -- and in a world devoid of network effects, the market for CDROMs would've wasted away. But we all know how that one went...
In other words, a modern version of....
Techno-Trousers!
No, 15,000kg = 15 Tonnes = ~16.5Tons.
If you're going to bitch about metricity, the least you can do is not to confuse the two systems.
Okay, you're going to laugh, but this worked really well for my housemate and me.
(1) Buy a pair of clear swimming goggles.
(2) Wear them.
(3) PROFIT by the experience.
One word of warning: With your eyes protected, you'll notice what the onion does to your sinuses whole hell of a lot more. (I bet you didn't even notice that onions did anything to your sinuses!)
On the other hand, this is plenty more bearable than what it does to your eyes, so....
I'm going to (a) give you a fish and (b) teach you how to catch more.
(a) Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Sipser, Michael; 1997, PWS Publishing Company; ISBN 0-534-94728-X; QA267.S56 1996b 511.3 --dc20; amazon page here) is a fantastic volume. We used it in a comp sci course I took, and is probably the only book from my dint in c.s. that I won't sell. This, however, brings us to the bit about fishing:
(b) Find out what courses at your university offer comp. sci theory, and then either (i) take the course (possibly pass/fail), or (ii) borrow their reading list. Contrary to your experiences in phil, virtually all (comp?) sci lectures are simple verbalisations of some gigantic glossy textbook. Those guys in the faculty of Science have far less interest in primary sources than we do; class time is not spent carefully teasing apart inscrutable two thousand year old sentences when a big glossy manual with colour diagrams are available.