My girlfriend and I got operated on recently. We found that we had way more problems than before with dry eyes and tried a few things. Here are tips to keep your eyes healthy :
use a white board to write temporary stuff down so your eyes aren't in front of your monitor all day
when you take time to think of your code look out a window or at the farthest possible distance you can in your office. Do this often. I mean very often.
avoid greasy foods, alcohol and smocking. Any food that clogs up your liver makes your vision blurry (I'm not kidding. If I drink three Canadian beers one evening I've got blurred vision for two days, fat meals such as French scalloped potatoes do the same as well). As a rule of thumb anything poisonous (nicotine, alcohol, THC) is bad for your vision.
use a black background for your code. I find it rests my eyes a lot more than a white one
use halogen rather than neon lights and ask to sit by a window to get as much natural light as possible. If they ask you why show them your red eyes.
put your monitor some place where there is no or little glare on it.
I prefer taxes that are based on how much you actually pollute rather than a tax that will force us to have GPS systems in our car (another form of tax if you ask me).
Were these people on crack or are they sleeping with in oligarchic Bushes?
what would be wrong with a society where robots do all the work and we can spend our time being happy instead of worrying about our bills?
The laziness argument is nonsense.
If the things our ancestors gave us could be used by all of us freely for the purpose of our pursuit of happiness then we would be happier than ever. Unfortunatly greed is allowed to proliferate with these laws and we cannot be happy.
so I'm not defending my hobby when I say that violent video games creates violence.
If gay video games caused normal people to turn gay I'd see a pattern here but there isn't.
People with violent propensities play violent video games because they like the violence in the first place. Wether they would act out in real life is irrelevant.
The ones that are allowed to play excessively (16 hours a day) are unstable and their parents should be blamed for not giving them a balanced life. They are the ones that didn't properly educate their kids so they should be blamed.
The gaming industry has been making more and more money so you can expect some people to try to get their killed son back with a few million dollars law suit. I don't find that very ethical or intelligent. Their son isn't worth a million dollars.
On another hand I think there should be less violent games. I dislike blood and gore in a game. I prefer when a game is fun, clean and makes people think (Jewels of the Oracle anyone?)
How about The Demon Haunted World (science as a candle in the dark) by Carl Sagan instead? How else would you face reality instead of living with pacifying fantasies of how special God thinks you are?
Not in the same line but totally amazing book too
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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Well in a perfect world she would be right! The town would spend a fraction of what they saved to hire a few full time developers to fix bugs in OpenOffice!:)
Actually no it isn't anti-Americanism. It is for freedom and to save money.
Believing that people are anti-American won't get you anywhere. Sure they have aprehension because of bullish actions Bush take or M$ take but they don't hate Americans.
The Bush administration would love to see you believe that outsiders are jealous of America so you see our voiced concern as anti-Americanism. Read a Noam Chomsky book such as 9-11 and be enlightened.
are not allowed to stop you from working if you find a job. You still are bound by the contract you signed not to divulgate secrets but you are allowed to work for whoever you want!
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)" Hack Hack, v. t. imp. & p. p. Hacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hacking. OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan.
hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut,
Haggle.
1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to
notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting
instrument; as, to hack a post.
I agree that something bringing hope doesn't make it true. That is why we should not just jump to the conclusion that God must exist simply because we'd like him to or someone says he does. Death, disease, questions that haunt us are all easier through God. Facing up to your problems is much harder and requires a lot more thought.
I cannot reason with you on ways to know wether or not God does exist. Fact is we cannot know. That is why people get all in arms just like in politics. We become attached to an idea and just run with it good or bad. It's a wired survival mechanism that we have and this we can prove or disprove.
Many of the things in the Bible are plain false. For example the laws about what we can and cannot eat saying that anything in the sea with fins and scales is good for us. The people that wrote that part of the Bible hadn't created the universe and everything inside it and if they did they would know about Fugu and other blowfish that have fins and scales but also have a very deadly poison. Pigs were infested with diseases back in that time that could kill us. The explanation as to why we shouldn't eat any is that they have hoofed feet and other visual things like that. Of course today we can eat pork and it doesn't kill us like it did before because today we understand bacterias and viruses. Once again religion shows that it just wants to control and is written by humans and all the errors that comes with humans. A God creator of all things, all-knowing, onmnipotent and omnipresent would know why the pig weren't good to eat and why not all fish is good for you.
I don't argue that God doesn't exist. I just say that it is way more probable that we invented him to make things easier for us. When you have a universal answer for everything it's easier to not bother with the hard questions.
what if that God that told you so is part of your imagination. After all it only appears as a voice or a feeling in your head so it's not too far fetched. It didn't appear in front of you or sit down next to you in the bus did it?
If you want to believe in something your imagination can create and ask your imagination for answers surely your imagination will answer things for you. But you are not living in truth.
First of all I don't reject truth because of self absorbtion. I reject assumptions based on nothing more than desires.
I once was a firm believer in things that were unproven and unproveable. Now I only accept to believe truth that I can have proof for. Mind you I don't go to extreme. If you tell me you went to the mall yesterday i'll believe you. If you tell me you met Jesus Christ I'll ask for proof because it's far out. If you were fasting, lacking sleep or hadn't talked to a human in 40 days I'd have reasons to think you had hallucination. Still if you had a proof for me I'd accept that and then I would believe as well.
I once believed in god (actually I wanted to believe more than I really believed) and if you look at the reasons you'll understand why they are so hard to not fall into.
As I was growing up in my faith I asked myself a lot of questions about life and death. Heaven was the perfect solution to death. It was such a nice concept that I just ate it up.
I also needed justice. God was just so he could take care of justice for those who got away. Ultimate justice was such a nice concept I ate it up too.
Solitude really sucks. Being alone really is hard on us social animals. Believing that god is always there for us and that angels look out for us just makes us feel really good. Having someone around was such a nice concept I ate it up.
I had questions that were unanswered about when the universe was created, why people die young or in accidents, why people get ill and others don't, why gorillas can't speak but we can, what love and hatred was. All these questions were hard to answer and certainly easier to just accept that god made it that way. Then I was stunned with the theory of evolution. How could that be? You mean that god didn't create us but were were the result of genes shifting?
As I became older I read a bit more. I had read the bible prior to the real revelations in my life. I found lots of wonderful things in there but none of them had rigor. It was all hope and desires packaged in a candy wrapped figure. I then read a few books by Stephen Hawkins, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. These brought new light to my beliefs and everyhing I ever believed in came crumbling down.
If you enjoy living in cotton candy world then believe in god. In the meantime people do unjust things in this life and if I'm right god will never do anything about it. If you really want to be a man and do something about this earth and your kids then stop believing that god will take care of justice for you.
In the meantime please do not tell us that atheists are self absorbed. They aren't sponges to every nice concept.
kinda funny that the one living in fear of god thinks he's happier in life than the one that doesn't believe in god.
I feel sorry for you and others like you. While I enjoy life for what it really is you live in fear of grave consequences.
Seems so contradictory that the almighty loves and forgives yet punishes people that don't want to play a ridiculous game of hide and seek. If god were to appear in front of me (wouldn't that be funny) I'd ask him to explain to me why he is so mean to us! Why can't he just play fair? He can see everything we do but we can't see anything he does.
"It is possible of course, that not all them were available in the primitive soup, and that some were synthesized by cells once they evolved. This would require the appearance of biosynthetic pathways, and the more complex they are, the more clear it becomes that they could have not appeared until the genome was sufficiently complex to encode for the proper catalysts." - Miller
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I hope people can find these solutions helpful.
Were these people on crack or are they sleeping with in oligarchic Bushes?
The laziness argument is nonsense.
If the things our ancestors gave us could be used by all of us freely for the purpose of our pursuit of happiness then we would be happier than ever. Unfortunatly greed is allowed to proliferate with these laws and we cannot be happy.
If gay video games caused normal people to turn gay I'd see a pattern here but there isn't.
People with violent propensities play violent video games because they like the violence in the first place. Wether they would act out in real life is irrelevant.
The ones that are allowed to play excessively (16 hours a day) are unstable and their parents should be blamed for not giving them a balanced life. They are the ones that didn't properly educate their kids so they should be blamed.
The gaming industry has been making more and more money so you can expect some people to try to get their killed son back with a few million dollars law suit. I don't find that very ethical or intelligent. Their son isn't worth a million dollars.
On another hand I think there should be less violent games. I dislike blood and gore in a game. I prefer when a game is fun, clean and makes people think (Jewels of the Oracle anyone?)
How about The Demon Haunted World (science as a candle in the dark) by Carl Sagan instead? How else would you face reality instead of living with pacifying fantasies of how special God thinks you are?
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Next the Bush administration will call tax cuts "economy boost package" rather than what it is "getting rich off the backs of normal Americans"
Of course it's for the best interest of Americans*
*Well admitedly a selected bunch, the Bush, Dick and Colon families...
lol! :) Excellent game! :)
Blair Witch project, Jackass and the like!
Well in a perfect world she would be right! The town would spend a fraction of what they saved to hire a few full time developers to fix bugs in OpenOffice! :)
Believing that people are anti-American won't get you anywhere. Sure they have aprehension because of bullish actions Bush take or M$ take but they don't hate Americans.
The Bush administration would love to see you believe that outsiders are jealous of America so you see our voiced concern as anti-Americanism. Read a Noam Chomsky book such as 9-11 and be enlightened.
http://www.xprize.org/
are not allowed to stop you from working if you find a job. You still are bound by the contract you signed not to divulgate secrets but you are allowed to work for whoever you want!
the simple fact that you pose the two questions is an answer in itself is it not?
Admit it guys. The Matrix is the father of a movement towards having more philosophical movies and entertainment.
Though I agree it is still washed down to be called hard core philosophy it still has components of real philosophy.
If you liked the selfish gene and Carl Sagan in general you'll probably like Dragons of Eden which is a marvel.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Hack Hack, v. t. imp. & p. p. Hacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hacking. OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan.
hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut,
Haggle.
1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to
notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting
instrument; as, to hack a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak.
you are right we don't understand it. Perhaps it needs to explain itself to the world.
Competition is always good. It drives the linux community.
I cannot reason with you on ways to know wether or not God does exist. Fact is we cannot know. That is why people get all in arms just like in politics. We become attached to an idea and just run with it good or bad. It's a wired survival mechanism that we have and this we can prove or disprove.
Many of the things in the Bible are plain false. For example the laws about what we can and cannot eat saying that anything in the sea with fins and scales is good for us. The people that wrote that part of the Bible hadn't created the universe and everything inside it and if they did they would know about Fugu and other blowfish that have fins and scales but also have a very deadly poison. Pigs were infested with diseases back in that time that could kill us. The explanation as to why we shouldn't eat any is that they have hoofed feet and other visual things like that. Of course today we can eat pork and it doesn't kill us like it did before because today we understand bacterias and viruses. Once again religion shows that it just wants to control and is written by humans and all the errors that comes with humans. A God creator of all things, all-knowing, onmnipotent and omnipresent would know why the pig weren't good to eat and why not all fish is good for you.
I don't argue that God doesn't exist. I just say that it is way more probable that we invented him to make things easier for us. When you have a universal answer for everything it's easier to not bother with the hard questions.
If you want to believe in something your imagination can create and ask your imagination for answers surely your imagination will answer things for you. But you are not living in truth.
that doesn't look anything like the original cool matrix phone. What a gimmick!!!
I once was a firm believer in things that were unproven and unproveable. Now I only accept to believe truth that I can have proof for. Mind you I don't go to extreme. If you tell me you went to the mall yesterday i'll believe you. If you tell me you met Jesus Christ I'll ask for proof because it's far out. If you were fasting, lacking sleep or hadn't talked to a human in 40 days I'd have reasons to think you had hallucination. Still if you had a proof for me I'd accept that and then I would believe as well.
I once believed in god (actually I wanted to believe more than I really believed) and if you look at the reasons you'll understand why they are so hard to not fall into.
As I was growing up in my faith I asked myself a lot of questions about life and death. Heaven was the perfect solution to death. It was such a nice concept that I just ate it up.
I also needed justice. God was just so he could take care of justice for those who got away. Ultimate justice was such a nice concept I ate it up too.
Solitude really sucks. Being alone really is hard on us social animals. Believing that god is always there for us and that angels look out for us just makes us feel really good. Having someone around was such a nice concept I ate it up.
I had questions that were unanswered about when the universe was created, why people die young or in accidents, why people get ill and others don't, why gorillas can't speak but we can, what love and hatred was. All these questions were hard to answer and certainly easier to just accept that god made it that way. Then I was stunned with the theory of evolution. How could that be? You mean that god didn't create us but were were the result of genes shifting?
As I became older I read a bit more. I had read the bible prior to the real revelations in my life. I found lots of wonderful things in there but none of them had rigor. It was all hope and desires packaged in a candy wrapped figure. I then read a few books by Stephen Hawkins, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. These brought new light to my beliefs and everyhing I ever believed in came crumbling down.
If you enjoy living in cotton candy world then believe in god. In the meantime people do unjust things in this life and if I'm right god will never do anything about it. If you really want to be a man and do something about this earth and your kids then stop believing that god will take care of justice for you.
In the meantime please do not tell us that atheists are self absorbed. They aren't sponges to every nice concept.
I feel sorry for you and others like you. While I enjoy life for what it really is you live in fear of grave consequences.
Seems so contradictory that the almighty loves and forgives yet punishes people that don't want to play a ridiculous game of hide and seek. If god were to appear in front of me (wouldn't that be funny) I'd ask him to explain to me why he is so mean to us! Why can't he just play fair? He can see everything we do but we can't see anything he does.
I don't bash you but just feel sorry for you.
"It is possible of course, that not all them were available in the primitive soup, and that some were synthesized by cells once they evolved. This would require the appearance of biosynthetic pathways, and the more complex they are, the more clear it becomes that they could have not appeared until the genome was sufficiently complex to encode for the proper catalysts." - Miller