Interestingly, your five-step process perfectly describes the way he perpetrated his pranks, which both demonstrates the efficacy of the tool, and makes your detractors look like idiots for arguing against it. Either it's ineffective, in which case his pranks are harmless, or it IS effective, and this guy should be "pranked" into becoming a productive member of society.
the thought of now more windows makes me giddy though
Not me.. not in the least. I do not want my OS to, essentially, be a web app. I do not want to depend on a server somewhere to run my applications, or store my files in a place where the only *real* protection against snooping, when you get down to it, is the integrity of the employees.
The point is not the method of reproduction, but that mutated strains of bacteria avoided the defense mechanisms, and once they have done that, they are free to spread to other individuals (assuming that the mutation hasn't compromised its ability to infect new hosts).
As for the HIV virus, as long as it exists somewhere, new strains can and will be produced, and one of those strains might have the ability to negate or overwhelm these "retrocyclins." Once they can do that, they can reproduce, and the arms race proceeds.
As I said, it might be possible that these retrocyclins are foolproof, but if history has taught us anything, it is that fools are often more clever than we give them credit for.
I've personally been using the Commit lozenges for quite some time. A 72-pack lasts me about a week, and at $40, it's roughly the same price as a carton of cigarettes, depending on brand and geographical location. The mint flavors tend to make my mouth numb and desensitize my taste buds, but much less so with the cherry flavor. There is a noticeable "kick" when you pop one, although it may take 2-7 days to lose the craving for an inhaled delivery system.
I have quit nicotine altogether several times in the past, but even after the withdraw period, I still feel like I'm not fully functional, especially when it comes to memory and concentration. (Maybe I'm schizophrenic? I've been using nicotine since my late teens, which is the time frame for the onset of schizophrenia if I'm not mistaken, so who knows..) My kids always used to ask what the candy was that I was eating, and I'd tell them it was my medicine.. Ha. Maybe not so far from the truth.
I never bang people who fall outside of the categories you enumerated. I just temporarily re-categorize them for testing purposes before reverting to a previous version (when necessary).
But cheap != free. Have you ever paid hosting costs for a large website, or run your own server farm? Me neither, but the shit is far from free. Hardware, software, IT personnel, electricity, bandwidth, designers, staff writers.. all of it costs money. And then there's, you know, the desire to actually make a profit.
The catch is that involuntarily modifying another human being, or segregating them from society based on some characteristic of the brain is psychopathic behavior. So the solution to psychopaths is psychopaths...?
Egregious?! It's not like they're printing game materials on baby vellum. Sure, I'd rather play a game without ads, and I'll probably try not to patronize games that include ads, but I'll wager that MOST people won't care, and as a result in-game ads will become the standard rather than the exception. Television gets away with advertising between segments, product placement during segments, segments "brought to you by...", showing billboard ads in stadiums, and on and on. All of this even on cable/satellite channels, and even *very* expensive packages like NFL Sunday Ticket. So yeah, ads are annoying, but hardly egregious.
Oops.. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since the wording of my final sentence was somewhat ambiguous. I was not making a personal revelation of my experience, just stating what I have observed from others who have attended.
I completely agree that it should not be mandatory. Beyond that, I don't see either a factual or ethical reason to attack the organization. It's hardly Scientology, and if they need to use bait & switch to be effective, well, it's hard to argue with success.
And finally, I completely agree that it should not be mandatory or state sponsored. Just wanted to make sure you get that point.
Well, the thing is, many alcoholics *are* powerless to resist on their own, though I submit (admittedly in contradiction to the gospel of AA) that it's the fellowship of people on the same struggle that helps people get through it, and not any higher power.
That said, yeah, they are quick to label anyone who's ever had a negative experience with alcohol to be an alcoholic. Someone who makes mistakes is human, not an alcoholic. A true alcoholic repeats the same patterns expecting different results, and writing off or rationalizing their previous negative experience as a fluke. The rest of us can and do learn from our mistakes with alcohol, and change our behavior as necessary, just as we learn and adapt with anything else.
I have seen positive results from AA, and it can help people who choose to attend. I agree, though, that it should be neither state sanctioned nor mandated.
Dreaming is, by definition, not hallucinating. Hallucinating requires a conscious state. They do not, however, need to be visual. Seriously, "Did you just say something?" has got to be the real stoner catch phrase, to which a response in the negative will be followed by either "I could've sworn.." or else "Stop fucking with me!", depending on how much of a self-assured asshole he is. Of course, the latter response calls for intentionally fucking with them for the rest of the night.
Ha.. I second that, and my friend thirds it, unfortunately. The asshattery over traffic infractions in Virginia is second to none, and truly/literally unbelievable to most people I tell.
Both are true. The problem is that most people only think of hallucinogens as substances which cause vivid visual hallucinations, and limit addiction to include only physical dependence (which is actually a separate phenomenon, though it frequently manifests alongside many drug addictions).
High levels of THC (no pun intended) have been shown to cause mild auditory hallucinations, including people hearing their names called, failing to respond to their names, "hearing" their own thoughts as external voices, etc. Failure to register external stimuli in a conscious state is just as much a hallucination as seeing pink dragons.
Addictive behavior is any activity, substance, object, or behavior that has become the major focus of a person's life to the exclusion of other activities, or that has begun to harm the individual or others physically, mentally, or socially. There are clearly some individuals who will seek to get high to the exclusion of all else, and obviously it has a biological basis, because a) we are biological creatures, and b) THC binds to specific receptors in the brain -- a biochemical process. When people seek out this biochemical process in the manner described above, then they ARE addicted.
The real disservice is taking it to either extreme: pretending these facts do not exist, or using them as the sole basis to ban a substance. It's incongruous with our social views on alcohol, and the concept that our bodies are our own natural property. That's not to say that no substances should be banned, but there should be concrete data that the substance poses a major risk to the majority of people who use it. Given unfettered access to strong opiates, for example, most recreational OR medicinal users will become both addicted and dependent. Cocaine may or may no possess similar properties. I have not seen any data, or had any personal experience, to suggest the same to be true of marijuana.
Coming around a blind corner?!? There's a rather sickening video of the actual event on the same page as the article. (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Officers-Who-Struck-Killed-Child-Gets-1-Day-Suspension-52187867.html) He was going around a left hand bend in the road at speeds in excess of 70MPH. At the *very* least, any one of us doing the same would be charged with involuntary manslaughter, but more likely second degree murder for engaging in wantonly reckless behavior.
In socialism, the government controls the industry. In corporatism, the industry (the corporations) control the government. We are much closer to the latter.
Does it really matter what we call it when there's an unholy marriage of the two?
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Interestingly, your five-step process perfectly describes the way he perpetrated his pranks, which both demonstrates the efficacy of the tool, and makes your detractors look like idiots for arguing against it. Either it's ineffective, in which case his pranks are harmless, or it IS effective, and this guy should be "pranked" into becoming a productive member of society.
I believe that would actually be *bluffing*, not calling a bluff.
the thought of now more windows makes me giddy though
Not me.. not in the least. I do not want my OS to, essentially, be a web app. I do not want to depend on a server somewhere to run my applications, or store my files in a place where the only *real* protection against snooping, when you get down to it, is the integrity of the employees.
The point is not the method of reproduction, but that mutated strains of bacteria avoided the defense mechanisms, and once they have done that, they are free to spread to other individuals (assuming that the mutation hasn't compromised its ability to infect new hosts).
As for the HIV virus, as long as it exists somewhere, new strains can and will be produced, and one of those strains might have the ability to negate or overwhelm these "retrocyclins." Once they can do that, they can reproduce, and the arms race proceeds.
As I said, it might be possible that these retrocyclins are foolproof, but if history has taught us anything, it is that fools are often more clever than we give them credit for.
I've personally been using the Commit lozenges for quite some time. A 72-pack lasts me about a week, and at $40, it's roughly the same price as a carton of cigarettes, depending on brand and geographical location. The mint flavors tend to make my mouth numb and desensitize my taste buds, but much less so with the cherry flavor. There is a noticeable "kick" when you pop one, although it may take 2-7 days to lose the craving for an inhaled delivery system.
I have quit nicotine altogether several times in the past, but even after the withdraw period, I still feel like I'm not fully functional, especially when it comes to memory and concentration. (Maybe I'm schizophrenic? I've been using nicotine since my late teens, which is the time frame for the onset of schizophrenia if I'm not mistaken, so who knows..) My kids always used to ask what the candy was that I was eating, and I'd tell them it was my medicine.. Ha. Maybe not so far from the truth.
You can't breed an evolved, stronger form of the virus if there are no new generations of the virus. With this treatment, there are no survivors.
That was the assumption we made with antibiotics as well... It turned out to work a bit differently in practice.
Still, it's worth trying, especially if the gene can be reactivated permanently. Worst case it doesn't work long term and we're back to an arms race.
I never bang people who fall outside of the categories you enumerated. I just temporarily re-categorize them for testing purposes before reverting to a previous version (when necessary).
how long till we're all having hot monkey sex with each other?
In the general population? About 5 minutes. But don't get your hopes up. For you, me, and the rest of Slashdot, it will be business as usual.
And by business, I mean masturbation.
But cheap != free. Have you ever paid hosting costs for a large website, or run your own server farm? Me neither, but the shit is far from free. Hardware, software, IT personnel, electricity, bandwidth, designers, staff writers.. all of it costs money. And then there's, you know, the desire to actually make a profit.
Forget robots, it's high time we put a MAN on the Earth!
Laugh it up, fuzzball! Some of us are worried that *we* might get caught up in this dragnet just because our names sound adhesive..
The catch is that involuntarily modifying another human being, or segregating them from society based on some characteristic of the brain is psychopathic behavior. So the solution to psychopaths is psychopaths...?
like shark deaths, AFAIK there are only about 10 of them per year
I'm pretty sure that more than 10 sharks die per year.
Egregious?! It's not like they're printing game materials on baby vellum. Sure, I'd rather play a game without ads, and I'll probably try not to patronize games that include ads, but I'll wager that MOST people won't care, and as a result in-game ads will become the standard rather than the exception. Television gets away with advertising between segments, product placement during segments, segments "brought to you by...", showing billboard ads in stadiums, and on and on. All of this even on cable/satellite channels, and even *very* expensive packages like NFL Sunday Ticket. So yeah, ads are annoying, but hardly egregious.
San Francisco, for instance, attracts homeless people like a magnet from all over the US...
And San Diego, and many cities in Texas. Turns out that warm climates without alligators are desirable when you have no shelter.
Oops.. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since the wording of my final sentence was somewhat ambiguous. I was not making a personal revelation of my experience, just stating what I have observed from others who have attended.
Moreover, there is empirical data to suggest that 12-Step programs are more effective than alternative treatments: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T63-4NT93TD-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=3532d0365bafe068101e1d966398ec3a
I completely agree that it should not be mandatory. Beyond that, I don't see either a factual or ethical reason to attack the organization. It's hardly Scientology, and if they need to use bait & switch to be effective, well, it's hard to argue with success.
And finally, I completely agree that it should not be mandatory or state sponsored. Just wanted to make sure you get that point.
I would respond, but it's clear that you didn't even read my post beyond the first paragraph.
Pot does not do that.
And it doesn't have to to qualify as a hallucinogen.
Well, the thing is, many alcoholics *are* powerless to resist on their own, though I submit (admittedly in contradiction to the gospel of AA) that it's the fellowship of people on the same struggle that helps people get through it, and not any higher power.
That said, yeah, they are quick to label anyone who's ever had a negative experience with alcohol to be an alcoholic. Someone who makes mistakes is human, not an alcoholic. A true alcoholic repeats the same patterns expecting different results, and writing off or rationalizing their previous negative experience as a fluke. The rest of us can and do learn from our mistakes with alcohol, and change our behavior as necessary, just as we learn and adapt with anything else.
I have seen positive results from AA, and it can help people who choose to attend. I agree, though, that it should be neither state sanctioned nor mandated.
Dreaming is, by definition, not hallucinating. Hallucinating requires a conscious state. They do not, however, need to be visual. Seriously, "Did you just say something?" has got to be the real stoner catch phrase, to which a response in the negative will be followed by either "I could've sworn.." or else "Stop fucking with me!", depending on how much of a self-assured asshole he is. Of course, the latter response calls for intentionally fucking with them for the rest of the night.
Ha.. I second that, and my friend thirds it, unfortunately. The asshattery over traffic infractions in Virginia is second to none, and truly/literally unbelievable to most people I tell.
Both are true. The problem is that most people only think of hallucinogens as substances which cause vivid visual hallucinations, and limit addiction to include only physical dependence (which is actually a separate phenomenon, though it frequently manifests alongside many drug addictions).
High levels of THC (no pun intended) have been shown to cause mild auditory hallucinations, including people hearing their names called, failing to respond to their names, "hearing" their own thoughts as external voices, etc. Failure to register external stimuli in a conscious state is just as much a hallucination as seeing pink dragons.
Addictive behavior is any activity, substance, object, or behavior that has become the major focus of a person's life to the exclusion of other activities, or that has begun to harm the individual or others physically, mentally, or socially. There are clearly some individuals who will seek to get high to the exclusion of all else, and obviously it has a biological basis, because a) we are biological creatures, and b) THC binds to specific receptors in the brain -- a biochemical process. When people seek out this biochemical process in the manner described above, then they ARE addicted.
The real disservice is taking it to either extreme: pretending these facts do not exist, or using them as the sole basis to ban a substance. It's incongruous with our social views on alcohol, and the concept that our bodies are our own natural property. That's not to say that no substances should be banned, but there should be concrete data that the substance poses a major risk to the majority of people who use it. Given unfettered access to strong opiates, for example, most recreational OR medicinal users will become both addicted and dependent. Cocaine may or may no possess similar properties. I have not seen any data, or had any personal experience, to suggest the same to be true of marijuana.
Coming around a blind corner?!? There's a rather sickening video of the actual event on the same page as the article. (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Officers-Who-Struck-Killed-Child-Gets-1-Day-Suspension-52187867.html) He was going around a left hand bend in the road at speeds in excess of 70MPH. At the *very* least, any one of us doing the same would be charged with involuntary manslaughter, but more likely second degree murder for engaging in wantonly reckless behavior.
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In socialism, the government controls the industry. In corporatism, the industry (the corporations) control the government. We are much closer to the latter.
Does it really matter what we call it when there's an unholy marriage of the two?