Yea I may seem a little disrespectful. I've seen so much drug abuse, how it grips a person and destroys families. I've seen MANY lives destroyed by one person, and I'm not just referring to one case. You can believe your 5% and justify all you want. You can put your fingers in your ears and hum away. Deny all you want but facts are facts. If you like I'll perform the "THUNK FACTOR" for you but I'm afraid that may be enabling. Take 30 seconds on google for heroin addiction and THUNK yourself.
A very small portion of the population creates an undue burden on the vast majority of the population due to a substance. Society is there for the benefit of the many so apply the 80/20 rule. Remove the 20% of the most harmful substances and realize 80% of the benefit. Leave the other 80% of harmful substances be and then put the rest of the money towards development. By any unbiased study narcotics easily belong to that 80% and as you so succinctly put it so does alcohol but we're past that, prohibition, and the irresponsible behavior of it kills more people than most want to admit.
Neither of which are nearly as addictive as opiates. Once addicted you can still function for a while, then you can no longer function in a productive manner. Your only thought is the next high. At this point you cannot provide for yourself in which, no matter how cheap, you no longer have the means and thus resort to other less savory methods. Unless you are suggesting that the government allow for the purchase of these substances with government aid.
Not to mention... What is the cost of morphine, paid by a hospital? What is the market price of same volume of heroin? Many of these substances are taken intravenously. The only way to lower cost would be to completely deregulate administration/distribution which would then provide vectors for nasty infection. The addict doesn't care how it gets in, as long as it's in, even if you hand them a needle just used on the person next to them known to have Hep-C, full blow AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, flesh eating staph, and INSERT FAVORITE STD HERE.
Assuming your statement is valid you still have not have addressed the addicts doing whatever they can to obtain the substance in question. This leads to quite a bit of petty and violent crimes.
I believe your statement is not valid... It is the addiction that removes freedom. A majority of the commodities in question have a strong tendency to remove free will from those consuming, i.e. addiction. This is not something easily broken and WILL be capitalized by those seeking power, leading to more violence.
It's not about the users. The users typically become addicted to whatever substance they are using. It's those that control the supply, they control the users. In other words, it's power. No matter what side you look at..
It boils down to power and who is going to wield that power. You find a way to decouple power from narcotics and then you can have a free society in which people make their own choice. In any other situation the lever of addiction will be pulled to the greatest effect to line the pockets of the one who's hand is on that lever. More often than not, the hand on the lever is in reality placed on a gun with somebody else having to deal with the receiving end. Police officer, drug lord or middle man; they are all fighting for that power.
In any case the person consuming the narcotic is giving power to somebody. The addiction drives them to get it however they can which means that power goes indiscriminately to whoever provides the quickest/cheapest fix. The casual user is capable of making more informed decision on how they obtain but it still eventually gets to a drug lord; exception being home grown stuff, which is a very small portion of the opiate trade.
To say the least I'm tired of the mantra "have you ever seen a dude high on some drug fighting." Set aside PHP for a moment and then have you ever seen some dude wanting to get high fighting, stealing, murdering...? If you haven't just open a news paper of your nearest metropolitan area.
Grammer and Spelling Nazis beware, I'm the worlds worst speller and terrible with grammer.
Aspergers is a spectrum disorder, meaning you can have it lightly in one symptom, not at all in another symptom, and have it strongly in another symptom.
You must first "qualify" by these diagnostic criteria
There is not one that I didn't qualify. Also I have sensory cross over, I "see sound and hear light" all the time. Differnt sounds produce differnt noice in my vision and differnt colors produce differnt pitch sounds in my ears.
It is difficult to diagnose due to the later emmergance of the symptomms over autisim or *REAL* ADHD. Also it is coupled with high intelligence (Hans Asperger had high intelligence listed as a pre-requesit to be diagnosed) This gives idiot parents the ability to fit two needs; 1. My child is very intelligent, see this diagnosis from the High Priest^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDoctor, 2. Oh poor me, my child is disabled and needs every med (secrectly joyus that they don't have to deal with the little hellion they've created; their out being doping them up and giving themselves the pat on the back that it is not their fault littly Jonny has Aspergers or whatever) again they show the diagnosis from the High Priest to reinforce their denail.
Anybody doing some serious research finds that it is a mild disability that can create some pretty signifigant complications if the enviornment is not proper, i.e. parents.
I was diagnosed when I was 26, 4 years after I got married. I'm 32 now, married 10, and I can say one thing. The diagnosis changed everything. First I was relieved that most of the areas of my life were a little different because I'm a little different and not just in my head. Second I became angry because everybody missed it, including my parents and myself. Thrid I became a bit down on my self (depression too hard a term to describe what was going on). Forth I started to slip in many of the areas of my life because I had a disability and that allowed me to slip, i.e. an execuse to slack off. Fith I realized I lived 26 years of my life not knowing, an execuse was stupid at this point and really took a look at what it meant, I read voraciously on the subject and got a life coach that had an amazing ability to intutivly get in my head and pull out things. It was basicaly mild behavior modification therapy. I leared what were my triggers for causing bad episodes and to notice the stages before things got bad. My productivity skyrockted by over 600%, and that's extremly concervative and tracked over a period of 3 years.
I've never been on any meds except for ritalin for a few weeks, the stuff sucks bad. I've found a combination of vitamins and herbs that make a world of difference, the primary being bitter orange extract combined with ginko. Alone they both do squat. I've changed my diet quite a bit finding that processed sugar and dairy can cause seroius issues with irritation which triggers many other symptoms.
Each person is differnt and each journy of discovery will be differnt, meaning there is no magic cure all. Parents need to employ a bit of creativity to better raise their children, basicaly they need to spend time with their children. Adults need to employ creativity to deal with the issues, and they need to learn as much as they can. "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Granden seriously helped me. Much of what was in the book described me. I'd read a portion of the book to my Wife, who was in the other room, she had to ask, "Are you describing yourself or reading the book?" So the last thing is you need a *SAFE* relationship that you can bounce ideas around of your behavior and experiences, in which you can brainstorm how to address the issues that come from them to better function as a human being.
I've reached a point in my life that nobody notices that I have anything different about me, unless I'm having a bad day. In which case
This analogy really irks me. I agree the public fire departments work much better than the private fire departments we've had in the past. The reason this works is that it's organized on a more local level than federal level. So when has the federal government of the United States ever done anything well in public social reform? Social Security is going to go broke due to the boomers entering retirement after the government raided it's coffers, it's full of treasuries now! There are many other issues with Social Security such as it was promised to be voluntary, is it now? Sounds familiar with the public option, why trust the government to keep it optional when they reneged on the only other close example we have. We expect the feds to do better with our health than our retirement? Even if they did as well as with SS, I'd go for the crap of the private system.
Another question about the public option... Why does the public sector receive a private option and they are trying to push a public option on the private sector? This seems a bit reversed to me. Either put us (the public) on their plan, or put them on our plan!
Anyway that's just a few small points I have in regard to the public option. Neither the private option nor the public are good, but I don't trust the federal government to do as they say with social reform as they have not done so in the past.
I have 4 accounts to play Eve online. I was involved with a friend that participated in trading items and accounts for real money. I had no idea it was going on and because of my close workings with him within our corporation, my accounts were banned and CCP has not taken the time to listen to my side of the story.
I still have 3 petitions opened and one has been responded to with a senior GM stating the one account will remain permanently banned.
They have become rabid in their persuit of stopping the RL money issues and innocent people are being harmed. I consider Eve one of my hobbies and after 3.5 years they arbatrairly destroyed that work.
I dont care how good you are. TAKE A FRICKING SHOWER AND WASH YOUR CLOTHES.
I have Aspegers syndrome which, arguably is a "mild" form of autism. I feel every droplet like a gran of sand when I'm in the shower. A bath is even worse. If I'm having a good day it takes 2-3 hours to recover from said hygienic activity. I do wear deodorant, it took a very long time to find one that did not irritate. Some of the other symptoms are; I cannot stay in a mall for more than 30 minutes, if I wear ear plugs that goes to 4 hours; I see sound and hear color (different sounds produce different "static" in the back ground, red produces a particular type of hum).
I have no rash, nor is there any physiological explanation for why such activities cause extreme discomfort/pain other than an over sensitivity analogous to the input gain turned way up high.
I consider myself a *VERY GOOD* developer/engineer. The current software I wrote for executing statistical simulations executes 2000x faster than the fastest competition with the same fidelity. This was done with one other person I was throwing ideas around with. We both have our quirks, but we both are probably near the best in the industry. We both realize that we have quirks and we make room for them. Neither of us are indispensable though, and we know it.
Before I knew I had Aspergers I didn't understand how people could take a shower and go on with their daily lives like nothing happened (Think getting a light sand blast). After I discovered it researched it, got diagnosed by a professional with adequate experience, I went about modifying my life to manage this disorder. I still stink from time to time, and my wife reminds me and I take a shower... When I'm going to have a meeting with "normal" people I make sure I'm showered 2-3 hours before the meeting and had a good day of rest before.
It's a cost/benefit. I've sat down and wrote 800 flawless lines of c++ in 2 hours, no copy and past crap, utilizing functors, polymorphism, STL and a few other fun and exciting things. There's never been a problem I couldn't solve, one of my first jobs I was "The Exterminator" because I could find most bugs quickly and fix them. I averaged 40 hours of fixes per day, compared to my team mates, measured by management.
The point I'm making is many times, and I've met many like me, a shower HURTS and causes severe problems for the remainder of the day. Showering before bed is worse because you don't sleep well.
Your comment is very short sided and quite Narcissistic as to expect everybody to exist for your comfort (HEAVY SARCASIM THERE)
You have a good point but before you get FRICKING bent out of shape over some BO, there might be a reason behind it and then again their may not be. Don't be afraid to talk to the person as they may not know they stink (been there done that on both sides)
As far as I know, T20 is a Sr developer that was part of the beginning team. He may have stock in the company and it may have been legally impossible to fire him.
Just a thought and not a defense. I love eve and play it quite a bit. The acts of T20 were unconscionable and should have been handled differently. "Those that were responsible for sacking the producers have been sacked" type thing.
Except in the case of all that spyware on "your" PC. I've seen some broadband connections crippled because of the level of bandwidth consumed by the spyware crap. All the web-site tracking, 10 layeres of referrals, pop-ups, and let us not forget trogans spewing spam... It all adds up. If it is metered and sombody has to pay for that spyware cloged bandwidth usage, there are going to be some *VERY* pissed off people/customers. I'm half tempted to want this to get passed for this very reason, but I just cannont stand the fact that the Internet would become metered again AOL $0.05/minute, just metered a different way $0.49/GB.
I so agree with the statement, "But don't get me wrong. I think that people who have Asperger's (and similar people in general) do have some obligation to try to overcome their problems. It's not good to chalk it up to autism and be a dick to everyone."
I have been diagnosed, informally, with Aspergers. I'm 27 now and only discovered Aspergers 3 months ago. It has been an amazing time! For so long I was worried why I didn't feel the same as everybody else, and other times was overwhelmed with feeling when everybody else didn't even perceive what is going on.
I have been working with somebody with 15 years of experience in identifying those with Aspergers, he is a consultant for many school districts. The reason the diagnosis is informal is that I have not been to a doctor yet for him to point a finger and say "You have Aspergers"
Now that I have been all over the map in my posting I will start with the important part... Too many times I have failed to intuitively identify emotion being expressed by others. In elementary school this led to being bullied even by the "nerds." I was the theta wolf so to speak. This was at least until I took Tai-Kwan-Do, to defend my self from the increasing forms of violence. The principal was a moron and would watch the fights from his office. Anyway this was an incredible experience for me because the intense training helped greatly with motor coordination. Which I will now dove tail into... Everything in my life has been extremely difficult, except the areas that I was interested in. My progression was first bugs, reptiles, dinosaurs. Then Astronomy, to a degree that scared everybody around me, I knew incredible detail about other galaxies at the age of 11, and it was all I would talk about. Then my parents got a PC when I was 13, which changed my life for ever. Only these 3 things have been "easy". Computers being the easiest. I got my first contract at $35/hour+perdiem for a company doing work for TRANE heating and cooling, when I was 19. This was not chump change! It only expanded from there, and I have never been without computer work, not for my social ability, but what has been described to me as an "insane" ability to solve problems in the context of the logical pragmatic languages expressed in computer languages such as c/c++.
Now other things that have hampered my development have been the fact that I do not recognize people by their facial features. I recognize people mainly by their voice ( I have scared people by identifying what Klingons were used over and over again because of their voice, other aliens too and other shows, which the identification was across shows as well ), secondly by their mannerisms, by the way the hold their head, the way the slouch their shoulders, they way the hold their elbows from their body, their gait as they walk and the bob of their head as they walk. I freaked a friend out one time by identifying somebody by their neck. It was a shot of their neck in some movie I forget. We have a PVR and I paused it and said who is was, not by their name but by what movies/shows they acted in. Only their neck was showing so there were no other attributes. Thirdly I identify by their hair ears and chin/neck. I did horrible in history because of face/name association. I could tell you everything about the events except the people's names.
Now to get back to my agreement with your statement. Throughout my life I've held to the belief that there is a "space" between stimulus and response. In this space we make a choice and our lives are created by that choice. Nurture/Nature (Environment/Genes) influence that space, but an extremely few adults do not have the ability to choose in that space, as partially evidenced by autistics writing books and leading productive lives. The discovery of Aspergers has lead me to a quest to understand and with that understanding extrapolate techniques to apply to my life. In 2 weeks of application, I'm in my 3rd now, my wife has noticed huge
From the article, emphasis mine
"A skull and bones from eight H. floresiensis individuals were unearthed in a cave on Indonesia's island of Flores over 2003 and 2004 by a team of Indonesian and Australian researchers. The new species, which may have been alive as recently as 18,000 years ago"
Makes me wonder if somebody's grant was running out and needed something to get more grant money. One skull and some misc bones... Give me a break. What happened to common sense or simple explanations, such as... Some hunters were hunting and they killed this funny monkey and a few other small animals, they ate it, and left their temporary tools. Many hunters would do this because it was heavy to carry tools around, so they'd make them on the spot. In fact many hunters still do this. (I qualify this as hunters that use "primitive" weapons)
And as a last rant... We have how many dinosaur bones to know what a T-Rex is and they lived how many millions of years ago? Why aren't there more of these laying around, or buried if you like? What is up with NEW SPECIES alert with just one find, that was localized? This is a bunch of bunk. There has been no real research, no other finds, no other corroborating evidence. If this were compared to a court case they would be laughed out of the building. Where is the evidence they had children? From what my common sense tells me and concrete finds, they found T-Rex eggs, small T-Rex remains, a.k.a baby T-Rexes, any here? Most mutants cannot reproduce, there should be evidence before it is claimed to be a missing link, not ONE FRICKING SKULL and some misc bones, so don't play the mutant card!
And no I'm not fighting evolution, just making some common sense points!)
I know this is a bit advanced so it is not for the "average" computer user. But what I do is...
Set up my computer the way I want it, All MS Software activated, such as office. (FYI this works with Windows Server 2003)
1. Boot to Gentoo Live CD
2. dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 >/mnt/where/I/mounted/my/rev/drive (35GB) (you can use external HD, or your favorite mass storage device)
When spyware or just general Windows Entropy slows the system down too much, I back up my data...
1. Boot to Gentoo Live CD
2. dd of=/mnt/where/I/mounted/my/rev/drive | bzip2 -d >/dev/hda
3. Reboot
4. Use windows normally, have to re-install games
5....
6. Profit?
The one "Bad Thing"(TM) about this is that data has to be on a separate disk. You can also modify the above to use partitions and have all data on a different partition. Though with any windows reinstall it is a good idea to reformat, with slow version, the partition to NTFS. So you'd have to do this in either case.
Anyway This works well and gets around that stupid reactivation crap, now I'm *VERY* glad I do this.
And remember kids, ALWAYS backup your data on a normal basis. HDs will fail!!! There is no question, they will fail. If I was not clear let me repeat that, THEY WILL FAIL!!!!! You need backups, and if you do this as you should, the above process will be less of a fuss.
The Kyoto accord is a sham. Yea mark me as flame bait if you wish but read on... Harvard Agrees that it is a sham, though not that particular word. Quoted from the linked article, for those that are click impared,
"But the choice of 1990 immediately introduced inequities into the ensuing political process to determine who should cut how much, says Butler professor of environmental science Michael B. McElroy. That particular date "gave the Europeans a massive advantage relative to other countries," he says, because "reunification of Germany led to the elimination (for economic reasons) of a lot of dirty, polluting industry in what was formerly East Germany."
By selecting a timescale that was almost immediate--a completion date of 2008--the Kyoto Protocol mandated economically inefficient measures to achieve its targets. "The economic lifetime of a power plant is maybe 30 years," says McElroy, "and the average automobile in the U.S. is on the road for 11 and a half or 12 years. If you try to change the energy economy too quickly, you are going to have to retire equipment that is still economically productive."
Chceck this out for other Interesting Reads. And for the kicker. All nations that are pressuring America stand to beneffit from a mass redistribuion of wealth from America. Don't believe me? Well what about THIS.
I may sound a little steamed, well I AM!!! I'm tired of the tree huggin' hippes deciding to listion to only one side fo the story. I've quoted Harvard here, and they ignore it! Everyone who is on the "green bandwagon," that I have talked to, has denied this material as being fringe. I beg to differ!!! The media is a sensationlist money maker. The more sensational they sound the more money they make. I ask this question, what is more sensational than Chicken Little screaming "The Sky is Falling"? Oh wait just a second, what is more sensational than an actor with almost as much plastic surgery as Michael Jackson stating that the coasts are going to flood, or that "The Day After Tomorrow" is reality, or "The End of the World"?
We need a dose of cold reality. The Tsunami at the end of 2004 was part of it. Nature is much more dangerous than some fickle mathematics. Just think of a volcano in Antartica... Hmmm... That would do more than global warming ever could!
And yea, I failed spelling all through my elementary years.
Shouldn't the title be "Genetic Engineers Barking Up The Wrong Jeans^H^H^H^H^HGenes?"
Apologies for my lame joke...
Re:Gentoo in the enterprise? I don't see it.
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Short answer, I already see it because I'm making money in the enterprise from Gentoo!
Long answer... I have a general purpose server, i.e. it has samba, ldap, apache, bind, dhcp,... Each one I charge a setup fee anb each one has a monthly fee for support. So upon installation a client pays a nice chunk of change, $2300 for a full samba setup, and a decent monthly fee, $40. A fully loaded system including the hardware will cost them $8000, and $350/month, I am soon going to be doubling the monthly fee because the market can support it. This is some nice money when they *NEVER* go down and *NEVER* have a problem. My clients are very happy to pay because they *NEVER* go down and they *NEVER* have to call me because there are no problems. I have these systems in production from screw machine shops to realtor's offices. IT WORKS. I support them. I have a system at my office that I continually test and develop the new products on. Each system is accessible by me via ssh. As part of the support 4 times a year a techie goes out with a laptop and using eth over firewire, installs the new binary packages, that I have tested.
I run my own rsync mirror with security patches so when a venerability is found I can deploy those patches immediately. The reason I use techies to deploy the upgrades is it is cheaper and has more perceived value than doing it automagicaly over the Internet.
Now get this, I landed a huge web development contract leveraging this system. Each of these systems are a platform for new work. Each system is a constant source of monthly income. I can't loose! Better yet I'm getting ready to start hiring people full time. I have a growing thriving business based around Gentoo that is running many enterprises!
Now to top it all off, I'm was born a geek, I still am a geek... Each of these systems are AMD64 or Opteron boxen, depending on client needs. I'm using the AMD64 portion of Gentoo, which is awesome. I have the technical skill necessary to fix the bugs. Hell, I've done kernel driver development. I am confident that I can solve any problem that comes up. And if I cannot, don't want to or don't have the time, I've never been let down by #linux, #gentoo, #gentoo-amd64, #samba, #ldap, and a few others on irc.freenode.net.
The support is out there, companies are begging me to give me their money and the only downfall is I'm turning away business right now because I'm too busy.
I see Gentoo in the enterprise and it is the color of Green!
Actualy I'm more reminded of Stargate SG1. In about the 4th or 5th season Daniel is given a dream by the Haresis(SP?) child. The love child of Apoffis and his Wife, who was Daniel's wife taken by Gou'ld(SP?). Anyway the Haresis had the combined knowledge of both gou'ld and imparted that knowledge in a profetic dream, more accuratly he imparted the effects of the knowledge. The technical knowledge gave Earth a very strong defense against the gou'ld but the side effects of the evilness of the gou'ld overtook Daniel and he became the one world power. If I remember correctly he totaly anhilated Moscow within seconds.
I imagine George W Bush watching that episode and telling his secretary of defense, "Get me one of these!"
Disclaimer... I voted for Bush and agree with much of what he is doing, yea flame me all you want I'm entitled to my opinion. Though I do belive that it is good to poke fun at our leaders and that it can be done without disrespect.
I cannot agree more! I have a client that is moving away from Novell Netware to a Linux backend using Samba and LDAP. When I first proposed this move, to the suits of the company, they asked about the litigation of SCO and IBM. After about 20 minutes of non-tech explanation they realized that the SCO lawsuit is just a farce. Also the fact there is no inside buying of the stock, and the fact there is quite a bit of selling says alot about the insiders faith of the suit.
The problem with the area around the fused glass, is the tremendous heat... The heat would vaporize the water in the surrounding area further than the disipation of the lightning. When I said disipiation it is very, very small.
If it is something as simple as heat then I would think that exsisting lab expirments could have reporduced the results of self replicating organisims in the lab.
"What about land shadowed by trees and rocks?" I suspect this is what I would consider a "brain fart" or I'm totaly misunderstanding you. If I'm misunderstanding you I'm sorry, if it is a brain fart, heh, I got a good laugh. And just in case you are a complete moron, which I do suspect you are not from your previous posts... A tree is a very high form of life compared to the first life on earth proposed by the current theory of evolution, how would it be there to shade the beginning of life?
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Pffttt... 5%
Over 4x that rate.
http://www.recoverycorps.org/addiction/opiates/heroin/
Yea I may seem a little disrespectful. I've seen so much drug abuse, how it grips a person and destroys families. I've seen MANY lives destroyed by one person, and I'm not just referring to one case. You can believe your 5% and justify all you want. You can put your fingers in your ears and hum away. Deny all you want but facts are facts. If you like I'll perform the "THUNK FACTOR" for you but I'm afraid that may be enabling. Take 30 seconds on google for heroin addiction and THUNK yourself.
A very small portion of the population creates an undue burden on the vast majority of the population due to a substance. Society is there for the benefit of the many so apply the 80/20 rule. Remove the 20% of the most harmful substances and realize 80% of the benefit. Leave the other 80% of harmful substances be and then put the rest of the money towards development. By any unbiased study narcotics easily belong to that 80% and as you so succinctly put it so does alcohol but we're past that, prohibition, and the irresponsible behavior of it kills more people than most want to admit.
I don't even know why I try...
Neither of which are nearly as addictive as opiates. Once addicted you can still function for a while, then you can no longer function in a productive manner. Your only thought is the next high. At this point you cannot provide for yourself in which, no matter how cheap, you no longer have the means and thus resort to other less savory methods. Unless you are suggesting that the government allow for the purchase of these substances with government aid.
Not to mention... What is the cost of morphine, paid by a hospital? What is the market price of same volume of heroin? Many of these substances are taken intravenously. The only way to lower cost would be to completely deregulate administration/distribution which would then provide vectors for nasty infection. The addict doesn't care how it gets in, as long as it's in, even if you hand them a needle just used on the person next to them known to have Hep-C, full blow AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, flesh eating staph, and INSERT FAVORITE STD HERE.
Correction, I was referring to PCP and my auto-type brain typed PHP. Betcha couldn't guess I was a geek! err...
Assuming your statement is valid you still have not have addressed the addicts doing whatever they can to obtain the substance in question. This leads to quite a bit of petty and violent crimes.
I believe your statement is not valid... It is the addiction that removes freedom. A majority of the commodities in question have a strong tendency to remove free will from those consuming, i.e. addiction. This is not something easily broken and WILL be capitalized by those seeking power, leading to more violence.
It's not about the users. The users typically become addicted to whatever substance they are using. It's those that control the supply, they control the users. In other words, it's power. No matter what side you look at..
It boils down to power and who is going to wield that power. You find a way to decouple power from narcotics and then you can have a free society in which people make their own choice. In any other situation the lever of addiction will be pulled to the greatest effect to line the pockets of the one who's hand is on that lever. More often than not, the hand on the lever is in reality placed on a gun with somebody else having to deal with the receiving end. Police officer, drug lord or middle man; they are all fighting for that power.
In any case the person consuming the narcotic is giving power to somebody. The addiction drives them to get it however they can which means that power goes indiscriminately to whoever provides the quickest/cheapest fix. The casual user is capable of making more informed decision on how they obtain but it still eventually gets to a drug lord; exception being home grown stuff, which is a very small portion of the opiate trade.
To say the least I'm tired of the mantra "have you ever seen a dude high on some drug fighting." Set aside PHP for a moment and then have you ever seen some dude wanting to get high fighting, stealing, murdering...? If you haven't just open a news paper of your nearest metropolitan area.
Grammer and Spelling Nazis beware, I'm the worlds worst speller and terrible with grammer.
Aspergers is a spectrum disorder, meaning you can have it lightly in one symptom, not at all in another symptom, and have it strongly in another symptom.
You must first "qualify" by these diagnostic criteria
http://www.aspergers.com/aspcrit.htm
There is not one that I didn't qualify. Also I have sensory cross over, I "see sound and hear light" all the time. Differnt sounds produce differnt noice in my vision and differnt colors produce differnt pitch sounds in my ears.
It is difficult to diagnose due to the later emmergance of the symptomms over autisim or *REAL* ADHD. Also it is coupled with high intelligence (Hans Asperger had high intelligence listed as a pre-requesit to be diagnosed) This gives idiot parents the ability to fit two needs; 1. My child is very intelligent, see this diagnosis from the High Priest^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDoctor, 2. Oh poor me, my child is disabled and needs every med (secrectly joyus that they don't have to deal with the little hellion they've created; their out being doping them up and giving themselves the pat on the back that it is not their fault littly Jonny has Aspergers or whatever) again they show the diagnosis from the High Priest to reinforce their denail.
Anybody doing some serious research finds that it is a mild disability that can create some pretty signifigant complications if the enviornment is not proper, i.e. parents.
I was diagnosed when I was 26, 4 years after I got married. I'm 32 now, married 10, and I can say one thing. The diagnosis changed everything. First I was relieved that most of the areas of my life were a little different because I'm a little different and not just in my head. Second I became angry because everybody missed it, including my parents and myself. Thrid I became a bit down on my self (depression too hard a term to describe what was going on). Forth I started to slip in many of the areas of my life because I had a disability and that allowed me to slip, i.e. an execuse to slack off. Fith I realized I lived 26 years of my life not knowing, an execuse was stupid at this point and really took a look at what it meant, I read voraciously on the subject and got a life coach that had an amazing ability to intutivly get in my head and pull out things. It was basicaly mild behavior modification therapy. I leared what were my triggers for causing bad episodes and to notice the stages before things got bad. My productivity skyrockted by over 600%, and that's extremly concervative and tracked over a period of 3 years.
I've never been on any meds except for ritalin for a few weeks, the stuff sucks bad. I've found a combination of vitamins and herbs that make a world of difference, the primary being bitter orange extract combined with ginko. Alone they both do squat. I've changed my diet quite a bit finding that processed sugar and dairy can cause seroius issues with irritation which triggers many other symptoms.
Each person is differnt and each journy of discovery will be differnt, meaning there is no magic cure all. Parents need to employ a bit of creativity to better raise their children, basicaly they need to spend time with their children. Adults need to employ creativity to deal with the issues, and they need to learn as much as they can. "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Granden seriously helped me. Much of what was in the book described me. I'd read a portion of the book to my Wife, who was in the other room, she had to ask, "Are you describing yourself or reading the book?" So the last thing is you need a *SAFE* relationship that you can bounce ideas around of your behavior and experiences, in which you can brainstorm how to address the issues that come from them to better function as a human being.
I've reached a point in my life that nobody notices that I have anything different about me, unless I'm having a bad day. In which case
This analogy really irks me. I agree the public fire departments work much better than the private fire departments we've had in the past. The reason this works is that it's organized on a more local level than federal level. So when has the federal government of the United States ever done anything well in public social reform? Social Security is going to go broke due to the boomers entering retirement after the government raided it's coffers, it's full of treasuries now! There are many other issues with Social Security such as it was promised to be voluntary, is it now? Sounds familiar with the public option, why trust the government to keep it optional when they reneged on the only other close example we have. We expect the feds to do better with our health than our retirement? Even if they did as well as with SS, I'd go for the crap of the private system.
Another question about the public option... Why does the public sector receive a private option and they are trying to push a public option on the private sector? This seems a bit reversed to me. Either put us (the public) on their plan, or put them on our plan!
Anyway that's just a few small points I have in regard to the public option. Neither the private option nor the public are good, but I don't trust the federal government to do as they say with social reform as they have not done so in the past.
I have 4 accounts to play Eve online. I was involved with a friend that participated in trading items and accounts for real money. I had no idea it was going on and because of my close workings with him within our corporation, my accounts were banned and CCP has not taken the time to listen to my side of the story.
I still have 3 petitions opened and one has been responded to with a senior GM stating the one account will remain permanently banned.
They have become rabid in their persuit of stopping the RL money issues and innocent people are being harmed. I consider Eve one of my hobbies and after 3.5 years they arbatrairly destroyed that work.
I dont care how good you are. TAKE A FRICKING SHOWER AND WASH YOUR CLOTHES.
I have Aspegers syndrome which, arguably is a "mild" form of autism. I feel every droplet like a gran of sand when I'm in the shower. A bath is even worse. If I'm having a good day it takes 2-3 hours to recover from said hygienic activity. I do wear deodorant, it took a very long time to find one that did not irritate. Some of the other symptoms are; I cannot stay in a mall for more than 30 minutes, if I wear ear plugs that goes to 4 hours; I see sound and hear color (different sounds produce different "static" in the back ground, red produces a particular type of hum).
I have no rash, nor is there any physiological explanation for why such activities cause extreme discomfort/pain other than an over sensitivity analogous to the input gain turned way up high.
I consider myself a *VERY GOOD* developer/engineer. The current software I wrote for executing statistical simulations executes 2000x faster than the fastest competition with the same fidelity. This was done with one other person I was throwing ideas around with. We both have our quirks, but we both are probably near the best in the industry. We both realize that we have quirks and we make room for them. Neither of us are indispensable though, and we know it.
Before I knew I had Aspergers I didn't understand how people could take a shower and go on with their daily lives like nothing happened (Think getting a light sand blast). After I discovered it researched it, got diagnosed by a professional with adequate experience, I went about modifying my life to manage this disorder. I still stink from time to time, and my wife reminds me and I take a shower... When I'm going to have a meeting with "normal" people I make sure I'm showered 2-3 hours before the meeting and had a good day of rest before.
It's a cost/benefit. I've sat down and wrote 800 flawless lines of c++ in 2 hours, no copy and past crap, utilizing functors, polymorphism, STL and a few other fun and exciting things. There's never been a problem I couldn't solve, one of my first jobs I was "The Exterminator" because I could find most bugs quickly and fix them. I averaged 40 hours of fixes per day, compared to my team mates, measured by management.
The point I'm making is many times, and I've met many like me, a shower HURTS and causes severe problems for the remainder of the day. Showering before bed is worse because you don't sleep well.
Your comment is very short sided and quite Narcissistic as to expect everybody to exist for your comfort (HEAVY SARCASIM THERE)
You have a good point but before you get FRICKING bent out of shape over some BO, there might be a reason behind it and then again their may not be. Don't be afraid to talk to the person as they may not know they stink (been there done that on both sides)
As far as I know, T20 is a Sr developer that was part of the beginning team. He may have stock in the company and it may have been legally impossible to fire him.
Just a thought and not a defense. I love eve and play it quite a bit. The acts of T20 were unconscionable and should have been handled differently. "Those that were responsible for sacking the producers have been sacked" type thing.
Anyway end of my rant.
-Infodragon
Except in the case of all that spyware on "your" PC. I've seen some broadband connections crippled because of the level of bandwidth consumed by the spyware crap. All the web-site tracking, 10 layeres of referrals, pop-ups, and let us not forget trogans spewing spam... It all adds up. If it is metered and sombody has to pay for that spyware cloged bandwidth usage, there are going to be some *VERY* pissed off people/customers. I'm half tempted to want this to get passed for this very reason, but I just cannont stand the fact that the Internet would become metered again AOL $0.05/minute, just metered a different way $0.49/GB.
Spoken like a true addict :P
I so agree with the statement, "But don't get me wrong. I think that people who have Asperger's (and similar people in general) do have some obligation to try to overcome their problems. It's not good to chalk it up to autism and be a dick to everyone."
... Everything in my life has been extremely difficult, except the areas that I was interested in. My progression was first bugs, reptiles, dinosaurs. Then Astronomy, to a degree that scared everybody around me, I knew incredible detail about other galaxies at the age of 11, and it was all I would talk about. Then my parents got a PC when I was 13, which changed my life for ever. Only these 3 things have been "easy". Computers being the easiest. I got my first contract at $35/hour+perdiem for a company doing work for TRANE heating and cooling, when I was 19. This was not chump change! It only expanded from there, and I have never been without computer work, not for my social ability, but what has been described to me as an "insane" ability to solve problems in the context of the logical pragmatic languages expressed in computer languages such as c/c++.
I have been diagnosed, informally, with Aspergers. I'm 27 now and only discovered Aspergers 3 months ago. It has been an amazing time! For so long I was worried why I didn't feel the same as everybody else, and other times was overwhelmed with feeling when everybody else didn't even perceive what is going on.
I have been working with somebody with 15 years of experience in identifying those with Aspergers, he is a consultant for many school districts. The reason the diagnosis is informal is that I have not been to a doctor yet for him to point a finger and say "You have Aspergers"
Now that I have been all over the map in my posting I will start with the important part... Too many times I have failed to intuitively identify emotion being expressed by others. In elementary school this led to being bullied even by the "nerds." I was the theta wolf so to speak. This was at least until I took Tai-Kwan-Do, to defend my self from the increasing forms of violence. The principal was a moron and would watch the fights from his office. Anyway this was an incredible experience for me because the intense training helped greatly with motor coordination. Which I will now dove tail into
Now other things that have hampered my development have been the fact that I do not recognize people by their facial features. I recognize people mainly by their voice ( I have scared people by identifying what Klingons were used over and over again because of their voice, other aliens too and other shows, which the identification was across shows as well ), secondly by their mannerisms, by the way the hold their head, the way the slouch their shoulders, they way the hold their elbows from their body, their gait as they walk and the bob of their head as they walk. I freaked a friend out one time by identifying somebody by their neck. It was a shot of their neck in some movie I forget. We have a PVR and I paused it and said who is was, not by their name but by what movies/shows they acted in. Only their neck was showing so there were no other attributes. Thirdly I identify by their hair ears and chin/neck. I did horrible in history because of face/name association. I could tell you everything about the events except the people's names.
Now to get back to my agreement with your statement. Throughout my life I've held to the belief that there is a "space" between stimulus and response. In this space we make a choice and our lives are created by that choice. Nurture/Nature (Environment/Genes) influence that space, but an extremely few adults do not have the ability to choose in that space, as partially evidenced by autistics writing books and leading productive lives. The discovery of Aspergers has lead me to a quest to understand and with that understanding extrapolate techniques to apply to my life. In 2 weeks of application, I'm in my 3rd now, my wife has noticed huge
What would Yoda say?
"One skull does not a species make!"
And yes it was ONE skull...
From the article, emphasis mine
"A skull and bones from eight H. floresiensis individuals were unearthed in a cave on Indonesia's island of Flores over 2003 and 2004 by a team of Indonesian and Australian researchers. The new species, which may have been alive as recently as 18,000 years ago"
Makes me wonder if somebody's grant was running out and needed something to get more grant money. One skull and some misc bones... Give me a break. What happened to common sense or simple explanations, such as... Some hunters were hunting and they killed this funny monkey and a few other small animals, they ate it, and left their temporary tools. Many hunters would do this because it was heavy to carry tools around, so they'd make them on the spot. In fact many hunters still do this. (I qualify this as hunters that use "primitive" weapons)
And as a last rant... We have how many dinosaur bones to know what a T-Rex is and they lived how many millions of years ago? Why aren't there more of these laying around, or buried if you like? What is up with NEW SPECIES alert with just one find, that was localized? This is a bunch of bunk. There has been no real research, no other finds, no other corroborating evidence. If this were compared to a court case they would be laughed out of the building. Where is the evidence they had children? From what my common sense tells me and concrete finds, they found T-Rex eggs, small T-Rex remains, a.k.a baby T-Rexes, any here? Most mutants cannot reproduce, there should be evidence before it is claimed to be a missing link, not ONE FRICKING SKULL and some misc bones, so don't play the mutant card!
And no I'm not fighting evolution, just making some common sense points!)
I know this is a bit advanced so it is not for the "average" computer user. But what I do is...
/mnt/where/I/mounted/my/rev/drive (35GB) (you can use external HD, or your favorite mass storage device)
/dev/hda ...
Set up my computer the way I want it, All MS Software activated, such as office. (FYI this works with Windows Server 2003)
1. Boot to Gentoo Live CD
2. dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 >
When spyware or just general Windows Entropy slows the system down too much, I back up my data...
1. Boot to Gentoo Live CD
2. dd of=/mnt/where/I/mounted/my/rev/drive | bzip2 -d >
3. Reboot
4. Use windows normally, have to re-install games
5.
6. Profit?
The one "Bad Thing"(TM) about this is that data has to be on a separate disk. You can also modify the above to use partitions and have all data on a different partition. Though with any windows reinstall it is a good idea to reformat, with slow version, the partition to NTFS. So you'd have to do this in either case.
Anyway This works well and gets around that stupid reactivation crap, now I'm *VERY* glad I do this.
And remember kids, ALWAYS backup your data on a normal basis. HDs will fail!!! There is no question, they will fail. If I was not clear let me repeat that, THEY WILL FAIL!!!!! You need backups, and if you do this as you should, the above process will be less of a fuss.
The Kyoto accord is a sham. Yea mark me as flame bait if you wish but read on... Harvard Agrees that it is a sham, though not that particular word. Quoted from the linked article, for those that are click impared,
"But the choice of 1990 immediately introduced inequities into the ensuing political process to determine who should cut how much, says Butler professor of environmental science Michael B. McElroy. That particular date "gave the Europeans a massive advantage relative to other countries," he says, because "reunification of Germany led to the elimination (for economic reasons) of a lot of dirty, polluting industry in what was formerly East Germany."
By selecting a timescale that was almost immediate--a completion date of 2008--the Kyoto Protocol mandated economically inefficient measures to achieve its targets. "The economic lifetime of a power plant is maybe 30 years," says McElroy, "and the average automobile in the U.S. is on the road for 11 and a half or 12 years. If you try to change the energy economy too quickly, you are going to have to retire equipment that is still economically productive."
Chceck this out for other Interesting Reads. And for the kicker. All nations that are pressuring America stand to beneffit from a mass redistribuion of wealth from America. Don't believe me? Well what about THIS.
I may sound a little steamed, well I AM!!! I'm tired of the tree huggin' hippes deciding to listion to only one side fo the story. I've quoted Harvard here, and they ignore it! Everyone who is on the "green bandwagon," that I have talked to, has denied this material as being fringe. I beg to differ!!! The media is a sensationlist money maker. The more sensational they sound the more money they make. I ask this question, what is more sensational than Chicken Little screaming "The Sky is Falling"? Oh wait just a second, what is more sensational than an actor with almost as much plastic surgery as Michael Jackson stating that the coasts are going to flood, or that "The Day After Tomorrow" is reality, or "The End of the World"?
We need a dose of cold reality. The Tsunami at the end of 2004 was part of it. Nature is much more dangerous than some fickle mathematics. Just think of a volcano in Antartica... Hmmm... That would do more than global warming ever could!
And yea, I failed spelling all through my elementary years.
Shouldn't the title be "Genetic Engineers Barking Up The Wrong Jeans^H^H^H^H^HGenes?"
Apologies for my lame joke...
Short answer, I already see it because I'm making money in the enterprise from Gentoo!
... Each one I charge a setup fee anb each one has a monthly fee for support. So upon installation a client pays a nice chunk of change, $2300 for a full samba setup, and a decent monthly fee, $40. A fully loaded system including the hardware will cost them $8000, and $350/month, I am soon going to be doubling the monthly fee because the market can support it. This is some nice money when they *NEVER* go down and *NEVER* have a problem. My clients are very happy to pay because they *NEVER* go down and they *NEVER* have to call me because there are no problems. I have these systems in production from screw machine shops to realtor's offices. IT WORKS. I support them. I have a system at my office that I continually test and develop the new products on. Each system is accessible by me via ssh. As part of the support 4 times a year a techie goes out with a laptop and using eth over firewire, installs the new binary packages, that I have tested.
Long answer... I have a general purpose server, i.e. it has samba, ldap, apache, bind, dhcp,
I run my own rsync mirror with security patches so when a venerability is found I can deploy those patches immediately. The reason I use techies to deploy the upgrades is it is cheaper and has more perceived value than doing it automagicaly over the Internet.
Now get this, I landed a huge web development contract leveraging this system. Each of these systems are a platform for new work. Each system is a constant source of monthly income. I can't loose! Better yet I'm getting ready to start hiring people full time. I have a growing thriving business based around Gentoo that is running many enterprises!
Now to top it all off, I'm was born a geek, I still am a geek... Each of these systems are AMD64 or Opteron boxen, depending on client needs. I'm using the AMD64 portion of Gentoo, which is awesome. I have the technical skill necessary to fix the bugs. Hell, I've done kernel driver development. I am confident that I can solve any problem that comes up. And if I cannot, don't want to or don't have the time, I've never been let down by #linux, #gentoo, #gentoo-amd64, #samba, #ldap, and a few others on irc.freenode.net.
The support is out there, companies are begging me to give me their money and the only downfall is I'm turning away business right now because I'm too busy.
I see Gentoo in the enterprise and it is the color of Green!
Heh, you just got pulled in by none other than John Katz...
/me wonders when Katz moved to spiked-culture!
Actualy I'm more reminded of Stargate SG1. In about the 4th or 5th season Daniel is given a dream by the Haresis(SP?) child. The love child of Apoffis and his Wife, who was Daniel's wife taken by Gou'ld(SP?). Anyway the Haresis had the combined knowledge of both gou'ld and imparted that knowledge in a profetic dream, more accuratly he imparted the effects of the knowledge. The technical knowledge gave Earth a very strong defense against the gou'ld but the side effects of the evilness of the gou'ld overtook Daniel and he became the one world power. If I remember correctly he totaly anhilated Moscow within seconds.
I imagine George W Bush watching that episode and telling his secretary of defense, "Get me one of these!"
Disclaimer... I voted for Bush and agree with much of what he is doing, yea flame me all you want I'm entitled to my opinion. Though I do belive that it is good to poke fun at our leaders and that it can be done without disrespect.
So even the non-geeks are getting into it.
I cannot agree more! I have a client that is moving away from Novell Netware to a Linux backend using Samba and LDAP. When I first proposed this move, to the suits of the company, they asked about the litigation of SCO and IBM. After about 20 minutes of non-tech explanation they realized that the SCO lawsuit is just a farce. Also the fact there is no inside buying of the stock, and the fact there is quite a bit of selling says alot about the insiders faith of the suit.
The real conspiracy is that tionfoil hats only amplify the government/alien brain control signals.
All because Tacho couldn't resist a dare...
Yea, and I dare Tacho to do it just 1 more time...
The problem with the area around the fused glass, is the tremendous heat... The heat would vaporize the water in the surrounding area further than the disipation of the lightning. When I said disipiation it is very, very small.
If it is something as simple as heat then I would think that exsisting lab expirments could have reporduced the results of self replicating organisims in the lab.
"What about land shadowed by trees and rocks?"
I suspect this is what I would consider a "brain fart" or I'm totaly misunderstanding you. If I'm misunderstanding you I'm sorry, if it is a brain fart, heh, I got a good laugh. And just in case you are a complete moron, which I do suspect you are not from your previous posts... A tree is a very high form of life compared to the first life on earth proposed by the current theory of evolution, how would it be there to shade the beginning of life?