our brains have advanced far enough that we are not shackled by our instincts.
Not really, our brains have only advanced far enough to allow for very elaborate expressions of our instincs. That's why 99% of the songs on the radio are about the pursuit of a mate.
Hmmm, I'm lacking context for the "preferred" here. Anyway, what I read on the subject by doctors who weren't parroting policy positions were that their problem with medical cannabis was that they have no reliable dosage to follow, the stuff is contraband, and the many chemicals in there are of varying concentrations. Not only from harvest to haverst, but from suppliers and different "breeds" of the plant as well. They wanted something fixed and stable, "like a pill", with a measured dosage, so they can precribe, and study, known dosages of known substances.
A Beowulf cluster of Bene Gesserit witches!
Ooooh, so close. I'm sorry, the correct answer was "mentat": A beowulf cluster of mentats.
P.S. I don't wanna rub it in, but it's "mélange", with the acute on the "e":)
When your smoke stays out of my lungs and eyes, and when its stink stays out of my clothes and hair
you could do what a reasonable person would do, and stay out of places likely to have cigarette smoke.
Your freedom to pollute your environment stops where it affects someone's freedom to enjoy clean air. So aside from a smoker's private lodgins, no place should be likely to have cigarette smoke. Fortunatly, fresh new laws make sure of that.
Pretty hard to find out where a rocket landed 10-30 miles away.. A bunch of the tanks were destroyed by mines.
I figured they had militants near enough to see what was going on through binoculars (therefore far enough away to avoid getting hit) telling them by radio where to aim and what they hit.
Retro-tech espionage... maybe I underestimated their techies.
Maybe pure THC doesn't have a *known* toxic level, but from what I remember, in studies, pure THC generated psychosis and other nasties. The associated "cannabinoids" are what give marijuana the characteristic high.
Just to clarify: THC, tetra hydro cannabinoid, describes about (I forget the exact number) 28 known psychoactive substances found in cannabis, and as many inactive substances. Unfortunatly, the disinformation spread by the media mentions THC as if it were one substance, confusing the issue.
That said, no doubt, smoking it isn't the best way to use it as medicine.
Well, the doctors would like nice lil' pills with known dosages that can be scientifically studied. Eating it is an option, except when the desired effect if fighting nausea, or when quick effects are needed for pain relief. Though I can't see why they couldn't take a toke while eating it, to get immediate effects ad reducing the amount of smoke they expose themselves to for the long-term effect (long-term as in hours, not years) by ingesting the rest.
That may be true *statistically* speaking, but do you actually believe that?!?!?!
It has no known toxic level. It can't kill.
People say the CIA "gave Bob Marley cancer", but isn't a much more probable explanation is that massive ammounts of dope he smoked compromised his immune system?
Funny thing: The THCs in cannabis have anticarcegenic propreties. That's not widely reported though.
I guess this is technically off-topic, but I hate, HATE those Truth.com commercials
You got that right: Your feelings about commercials on TV are offtopic.
To see a bunch of snotty college kids in commercials going around telling everyone how evil cigarettes are, when you know these same kids get drunk and smoke weed on the weekends
Wow, typecasting much! Wanna add something about their mama, while you're at it?
they even dupe local governments into complying and forming a nice little pseudo-fascist state where you can be arrested for daring let a smoker into your club or restaurant (but remember, drunks and stoners are a-okay!).
1- Stoners are routinely put in prison. 2- If you drink next to me, I don't get second-hand drinks in my stomach.
When your smoke stays out of my lungs and eyes, and when its stink stays out of my clothes and hair you'll have a point. In the meantime, you couldn't be further from the truth.
temperature readings gathered in other ways (such as from arctic ice, etc.) are not 100% accurate
Wow, scietific measurements have an error factor? Well then, let's discard all scietific data then!/sarcasm
But seriously: How about the fact that the very artic ice that is used to pull measurements from samples frozen thousands of years ago is melting away as we speak. Does that factor in to "right wing" common sense?
Still a good reading and it explains why Hezbollah could say they had killed X number of troops or destroyed Y tanks before the Israeli military admitted to the losses.
As opposed to having X machine-gun militias or Y bazzoka militias reporting sucessfull application of ammo to target?
If you read the book first, you won't enjoy the movie because the movie is NEVER as good as the book. See the movie, then read the book: It's the only sane thing to do:)
)Two things: 1) gcc has nothing to do with OS X, that bit of goodness comes from the underlying BSD core, and you'd probably be better served using a proper *nix machine to compile with it...
Duh. Irrelevant, he's talking about teaching kids with available machines. If the available machine is a mac, that stuff's there for the using.
2) HTML isn't even a programming language, not even close to being one.
Did I say HTML and ONLY html, or did I say HTML and something else? Hmmmm?
Why use that old junk? What's he got against C? You can simply use an OSX terminal and compile with gcc, no fuss.
But if you want to teach a kid programming: HTML and Javascript is the way to go. They're universally accessible in new computers, and they're a great way to learn to code and to share the results.
Let's give the mona lisa more modern clothing and make her thinner.
This time around, they aren't pulling a Lucas:
From what I've seen, this is more like repairing all those cracks in the varnish and bringing back the original colors through the years of fading. Technical enhancement, nothing done to the subject of the work.
the animated series on DVD. I have good memories of these cartoons from when I was a kid, but I never had a chance to watch more than one or two. I'm looking forward to renting them - it's almost like having new episodes of the original series to watch.
Yeah... I saw some in the late 90s....
Nostalgia will do wonderfull things to your memories:-\
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our brains have advanced far enough that we are not shackled by our instincts.
Not really, our brains have only advanced far enough to allow for very elaborate expressions of our instincs.
That's why 99% of the songs on the radio are about the pursuit of a mate.
You're either good technically or a good artist. Not both. That's the way it's always been.
People have paid me to draw their portrait, others to write them bits of code... I'm also nearly ambidextrous.
Would you like to make a comment about how people are either good with their left hand, or their right hand. Not Both, and how that's always been?
Suppose I'm drunk enough to passionately kiss you. Suppose I vomit.
I rather suppose that I would vomit, if you kissed me.
inhalers are the preferred method
:)
Hmmm, I'm lacking context for the "preferred" here.
Anyway, what I read on the subject by doctors who weren't parroting policy positions were that their problem with medical cannabis was that they have no reliable dosage to follow, the stuff is contraband, and the many chemicals in there are of varying concentrations. Not only from harvest to haverst, but from suppliers and different "breeds" of the plant as well.
They wanted something fixed and stable, "like a pill", with a measured dosage, so they can precribe, and study, known dosages of known substances.
A Beowulf cluster of Bene Gesserit witches!
Ooooh, so close.
I'm sorry, the correct answer was "mentat": A beowulf cluster of mentats.
P.S. I don't wanna rub it in, but it's "mélange", with the acute on the "e"
Your freedom to pollute your environment stops where it affects someone's freedom to enjoy clean air.
So aside from a smoker's private lodgins, no place should be likely to have cigarette smoke. Fortunatly, fresh new laws make sure of that.
Pretty hard to find out where a rocket landed 10-30 miles away.. A bunch of the tanks were destroyed by mines.
I figured they had militants near enough to see what was going on through binoculars (therefore far enough away to avoid getting hit) telling them by radio where to aim and what they hit.
Retro-tech espionage... maybe I underestimated their techies.
Maybe pure THC doesn't have a *known* toxic level, but from what I remember, in studies, pure THC generated psychosis and other nasties. The associated "cannabinoids" are what give marijuana the characteristic high.
Just to clarify:
THC, tetra hydro cannabinoid, describes about (I forget the exact number) 28 known psychoactive substances found in cannabis, and as many inactive substances.
Unfortunatly, the disinformation spread by the media mentions THC as if it were one substance, confusing the issue.
That said, no doubt, smoking it isn't the best way to use it as medicine.
Well, the doctors would like nice lil' pills with known dosages that can be scientifically studied.
Eating it is an option, except when the desired effect if fighting nausea, or when quick effects are needed for pain relief. Though I can't see why they couldn't take a toke while eating it, to get immediate effects ad reducing the amount of smoke they expose themselves to for the long-term effect (long-term as in hours, not years) by ingesting the rest.
Cue the Dune references of spice here.
rediculous
:)
How will we ever get rid of this horrid spelling!?
That may be true *statistically* speaking, but do you actually believe that?!?!?!
It has no known toxic level. It can't kill.
People say the CIA "gave Bob Marley cancer", but isn't a much more probable explanation is that massive ammounts of dope he smoked compromised his immune system?
Funny thing: The THCs in cannabis have anticarcegenic propreties. That's not widely reported though.
I guess this is technically off-topic, but I hate, HATE those Truth.com commercials
You got that right: Your feelings about commercials on TV are offtopic.
To see a bunch of snotty college kids in commercials going around telling everyone how evil cigarettes are, when you know these same kids get drunk and smoke weed on the weekends
Wow, typecasting much! Wanna add something about their mama, while you're at it?
they even dupe local governments into complying and forming a nice little pseudo-fascist state where you can be arrested for daring let a smoker into your club or restaurant (but remember, drunks and stoners are a-okay!).
1- Stoners are routinely put in prison.
2- If you drink next to me, I don't get second-hand drinks in my stomach.
When your smoke stays out of my lungs and eyes, and when its stink stays out of my clothes and hair you'll have a point. In the meantime, you couldn't be further from the truth.
Heck recently I heard some one say that it is getting cooler because of global warming. What?
Shift in currents, duh.
Let's say this is true:
1) Given that the "secondhand-smoke" hysteria genuinely was shoddy pseudoscience as a pretext to legislate lifestyle
What. The. Hell?
Let's say this is true:
1) Given that Yetis are roaming the streets and devouring our children...
What's the motivation behind Philip Morris trying to debunk global warming?
They have invested in technologies which are environmentally harmfull and want to protect their investment.
just right-wing common sense.
/sarcasm
Truthiness?
temperature readings gathered in other ways (such as from arctic ice, etc.) are not 100% accurate
Wow, scietific measurements have an error factor? Well then, let's discard all scietific data then!
But seriously: How about the fact that the very artic ice that is used to pull measurements from samples frozen thousands of years ago is melting away as we speak. Does that factor in to "right wing" common sense?
Still a good reading and it explains why Hezbollah could say they had killed X number of troops or destroyed Y tanks before the Israeli military admitted to the losses.
As opposed to having X machine-gun militias or Y bazzoka militias reporting sucessfull application of ammo to target?
Not a mistake, a calculated move.
They leave the store having spent 250 + taxes, but...
They'll be back... and they'll bring more money! Yay!
The formula is:
:)
1- See the movie, enjoy.
2- Read the book, enjoy.
If you read the book first, you won't enjoy the movie because the movie is NEVER as good as the book.
See the movie, then read the book: It's the only sane thing to do
Javascript isn't a proper programming language either, and I think you know that.
And BASIC is???
)Two things: 1) gcc has nothing to do with OS X, that bit of goodness comes from the underlying BSD core, and you'd probably be better served using a proper *nix machine to compile with it...
Duh.
Irrelevant, he's talking about teaching kids with available machines. If the available machine is a mac, that stuff's there for the using.
2) HTML isn't even a programming language, not even close to being one.
Did I say HTML and ONLY html, or did I say HTML and something else? Hmmmm?
Logo was the only thing we had. We whipped that turtle to death on the Apple ][
Ahhhh... memories... Logo was an awesome learning tool.
Why use that old junk? What's he got against C?
You can simply use an OSX terminal and compile with gcc, no fuss.
But if you want to teach a kid programming: HTML and Javascript is the way to go.
They're universally accessible in new computers, and they're a great way to learn to code and to share the results.
All you need is a browser and a text editor.
Let's give the mona lisa more modern clothing and make her thinner.
This time around, they aren't pulling a Lucas:
From what I've seen, this is more like repairing all those cracks in the varnish and bringing back the original colors through the years of fading. Technical enhancement, nothing done to the subject of the work.
the animated series on DVD. I have good memories of these cartoons from when I was a kid, but I never had a chance to watch more than one or two. I'm looking forward to renting them - it's almost like having new episodes of the original series to watch.
:-\
Yeah... I saw some in the late 90s....
Nostalgia will do wonderfull things to your memories
You know what else Apple has? Something I haven't seen mentioned in the first 120 comments on this post?
The Dock connector.
That's funny, I have the older iPod with the firewire connection, and I look down at the newer models because of the connector.
I think the firewire solution is simple and elegant, the dock seems like an extra I don't need.
Regular DVD players aren't region-free just because there exist DVDs suitable for all regions
Well said.