The cold sore virus can be passed in the womb from mother to child. Genetic factors also play a role, but you could get the double wammy: The genetics and the virus.
"War and Peace" is one of the best books ever written. And definitely read the prologue's. The books takes a long time to read, but for me it was a life transforming experience. There is definitely a reason it stands as a classic.
In case you are wondering, the Soviet Air History of World War II sucked, terrible, slow, and mind dulling.
If they're looking for generic, thick books, they could easily have access to a Bible or other classic book of literature. (I suddenly have the image of an inmate saying, "Sure, I'll read 'War and Peace' it's not like I don't have the time anymore.":) )
I actually read "War and Peace" while I was in. I also read the "Official Soviet Air History of World War II" so I definitely had the time.
I spent years of my life, mostly from fifteen onwards, in a very intense study of God, morality, and I spent my time to the best of my ability trying to improve myself to help lead others to God. While trying to find these "proofs" of God I concluded there was no God. Having lost my faith at twenty it came with no little trauma. I do not, however, believe that people who have studied the concept of "God" less than me are able to rationally conclude there is no God.
I would not say that someone who only has a cursory understanding of Greek myths is not rationally able to dismiss them as false. You do not have to be an expert in on bullshit to know when you smell it. I dismissed the Greek myths because there is no evidence, I dismiss fairies because there is no evidence, I dismiss spirits, ghosts, etc. because there is no evidence.
When I was finally able to start at zero and try to see God in the real world, without religious texts, with only the natural world to guide me, I saw no evidence. I must dismiss ancient religions for their lack of evidence, and so I dismiss "God" for the same. The people who dismiss God without being experts in the debate are not wrong. They are simply doing the same thing you do when you dismiss the thousands of deities you know little or nothing about.
If you want to hold everyone to this standard of having actually studied it in depth before dismissing it, then I suggest you dedicate the rest of your life to studies the tens of thousands of deities there are, and after this intense study which will consume your entire life, then you can rant about how atheist haven't done enough to study your god.
Hey, I tried Pabst Blue Ribbon for the first time the other day, and it wasn't too bad. Everybody always talking about how bad it is, but they should just give it a try.
Beer, and this includes your favorite beer, is something you grow to like. In reality beer is nasty shit and we all know it. We just learn to tolerate a certain flavor, and we like to stick to what we learned to tolerate. Many may deny it, but in reality all we really want is the alcohol, or one to have the taste to remind us of the alcohol.
Yep, I just said that a beer didn't taste bad, and then went on to say that all beer tastes bad.
Most methamphetamine mostly is produced outside the united states (80%) in so-called "Super-labs". The labs you hear about in the United States are simply the competition. It is hard for the boys up top to gain from locally produced drugs than don't grease the palms of the good ol' boys.
With the United State's large number of chemist the legalization of drugs would probably result in a controlled pharmaceutical market that would displace the organic market.
There are cannabinoids (think THC-variants, kinda) that are thousands of times as powerful as THC and would be cheaper to produce than actually growing an entire plant. Also synthetic opiates (phentanyl variants) can be 10,000 as powerful as morphine putting the Afghanistan drug lords out of business. And we could stop losing money to the Netherlands and Israel for Ecstasy. Heck, users would be able to pick between MDA, MDMA, and avoid MDE.
The legalization of drugs would cause a "shit-storm" of synthetics to hit the market. For good or bad I don't know, but it is something to think about.
Why not a system where you send payloads to the far point of the cable and the centrifugal force produced by them being approximately twice the distance of geosynchronous orbit (GSO) is used to pull up loads from below.
These loads could be hooked to a look cable of sorts, since the side of the cable with an attached load would be heavier it would pull outward and the other side of the loop could run around pulleys which would cause it to be pulled down.
Crazy, yes. Problems galore yes. But this double ribbon might just work for scenarios where you are constantly launching shit into space, and constantly attaching stuff to the side that goes down. Just fly the to earth-surface-bound to GSO, and let the space bound stuff go all the way up.
This scenario assumes heavy extra-planetary commerce, but isn't that the point to expand our horizons? Now for the griping about how much cheaper it is for Mars to send stuff to us, than it is for us to send stuff to them. Mars is the new China! Not cheap labor, just cheaper to Earth transportation than Earth to Mars.
If you actually read the interview Moore says that he thinks selling games for 49 pounds and walking away from the consumer is a rip-off. He compares it to selling CD's for 15 pounds instead of allowing people to buy only the two tracks they want.
I actually do this for people. I'll show them Firefox, and how it works. I'll come back a week later and they'll be using Internet Explorer. They'll say "I'm just used to clicking here" (points at IE icon). So I'll erase the IE icon and put a link to Firefox using an IE icon.
Or you could start out like I did, with a 386 laptop, slackware, and no gui. I worked for years in a command-line only linux environment, and it was Slackware.
I'm still in college, but I can already tell it was a huge benefit. It seems I'm forgetting a lot using Gnome all the time, but it will always be easier to refresh my memory than have to learn it for the first time at my first IT job.
Six feet tall eh? Hemp can make it well over twelve feet. Right out back of my house there is about ten acres of Hemp, and where it has plenty of water and sunlight there are plants more than twice my height (about six foot).
I am amazed by the variety of wild hemp. Some of it is short, stubby with big buds, and some is giant monsters of plants as wide as you are tall. It is all worthless for smoking, but screw the stoners, we have an energy crisis to fix and we can use it for that.
P.S. - no stoners, the shorty stubby ones that resemble indica, or might have some indica genes will not get you high.
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Ok, how about.
Pentium III, 866 Mhz
256MB RAM
Windows XP SP-3
Chrome runs great. I'd say it feels faster than Firefox. Could just all be in my head though. It definitely starts faster, and renders faster. I love it. I just wish I could use it on my Linux box.
Oh, and I love Firefox by the way. I just wanted to see how good Chrome would run.
Being webmaster you'd know if the 3D Realms website was switching to another technology platform, with all the "3.0" web technologies, you know? Web 2.0 with lots of custom coding could probably still look modern though, heh?
I was given a 8086 with 640K of RAM!!!! at the age of about twelve. That was around 1998. To be fair it did have all the RAM I ever needed for it, and the 20 megabyte hard drive was more than enough. All the old games it came with were awesome, "Castle" was a favorite. The biggest benefit was learning to use a command line only environment, be it DOS. I learned to use GW-BASIC and taught myself off some source code I found on the hard drive. I'm currently in school for computer science and I must say that all of my code, in every language, is usually more compact and runs faster than my classmates. I think it comes from writing games for that 4.75Mhz beast.
Has it not occurred to anyone that our ancestors were just genocidal? Look at the inclination for some people to want to wipe out way they see as a lower class. I know more than one person who wants to wipe out the other races on the planet. It seems that recently, the last few hundred years, it has become viewed as wrong to wholesale slaughter other people's. Perhaps we just weren't very civilized, even on the primitive level.
You're lucky you weren't stopped in the vicinity of Rawlins.... your body still wouldn't be found!
Ya, I was a little scared to see the cops reaction, but there was two of us, and we were almost at the Colorado border south of Rock Springs. I don't think the cop wanted to mess with us alone out there. Especially considering that I may be small for a roughneck, but my buddy is a monster. Nice guy though. We both didn't like the hell hole that are the rigs (and we don't use drugs or drink heavily), no matter the pay, and no matter how many calls I get that say "Tired of making nothing, ready to come back?"
How about I work ten hours a day, attend school full-time, and have a family so the few minutes I spend on slashdot aren't wasted on double-checking what I write.
I filmed a copy by Rock Springs, Wyoming who pulled over my buddy. He was as nice as could be. It was "Yes, sir. Thank you sir. How are you today sir?"
I even started laughing and said "He's gotta be nice now", but he didn't even respond. So basically it was like any traffic stop, except the copy was nicer than usual, but he did everything by the book and ticket us for exactly how much over we were instead of giving us a few mph brake as they usually do.
1) Elementary teachers need to have a minor in every subject they are to teach. No more monoculture of a million English teachers teaching elementary school [sic].
Excellent idea, except a minor in every subject may be too much. Two minors may be enough, with one either being math or science, and the other the teachers choice. They will still have to have an education degree and a BA in something also. I know this would mean about 8 years of college to become a teacher, but it is better than what you're implying if I understand you correctly.
well i overheard a neighbor talking to a friend about how he had harvested a whole bunch of BUDs from his backyard. He just said he was planning on smoking them; I'm not sure what that means but good luck with your search.
I think it has something to do with that smoking BUD death-ray thing with the tin-foil. Though I think I heard them say something about rolling it right, must be getting the tin foil on the dish, but I think they are confusing tin foil with paper.
The whole "noble savage" and living a humble stone age life idea is obviously false. If it was more satisfying and happy to live like that great numbers of people would do it. Some do, many for religious reasons, even if they claim they are secular reasons, but most of us realize how great it is to live in the modern age.
I've cut firewood, walked everywhere, occasionally used a bike, and cooked all of my food like it was the eighteenth century. I felt, and it worked for a bit, that I would be more satisfied. The amount of free time I lost to all of these activities was not worth it. The modern age gives me free time to study philosophy, history, computer programming, mathematics, and whatever else I feel like, all things very few people had time for in the past, unless they had servants to do the vast majority of the work for them.
People settle on what makes them happy, and how we choose to live shows what makes us happy no matter how much we deny it.
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The cold sore virus can be passed in the womb from mother to child. Genetic factors also play a role, but you could get the double wammy: The genetics and the virus.
"War and Peace" is one of the best books ever written. And definitely read the prologue's. The books takes a long time to read, but for me it was a life transforming experience. There is definitely a reason it stands as a classic. In case you are wondering, the Soviet Air History of World War II sucked, terrible, slow, and mind dulling.
If they're looking for generic, thick books, they could easily have access to a Bible or other classic book of literature. (I suddenly have the image of an inmate saying, "Sure, I'll read 'War and Peace' it's not like I don't have the time anymore." :) )
I actually read "War and Peace" while I was in. I also read the "Official Soviet Air History of World War II" so I definitely had the time.
I do not, however, believe that people who have studied the concept of "God" less than me are NOT able to rationally conclude there is no God.
That is what I meant to say.
I spent years of my life, mostly from fifteen onwards, in a very intense study of God, morality, and I spent my time to the best of my ability trying to improve myself to help lead others to God. While trying to find these "proofs" of God I concluded there was no God. Having lost my faith at twenty it came with no little trauma. I do not, however, believe that people who have studied the concept of "God" less than me are able to rationally conclude there is no God.
I would not say that someone who only has a cursory understanding of Greek myths is not rationally able to dismiss them as false. You do not have to be an expert in on bullshit to know when you smell it. I dismissed the Greek myths because there is no evidence, I dismiss fairies because there is no evidence, I dismiss spirits, ghosts, etc. because there is no evidence.
When I was finally able to start at zero and try to see God in the real world, without religious texts, with only the natural world to guide me, I saw no evidence. I must dismiss ancient religions for their lack of evidence, and so I dismiss "God" for the same. The people who dismiss God without being experts in the debate are not wrong. They are simply doing the same thing you do when you dismiss the thousands of deities you know little or nothing about.
If you want to hold everyone to this standard of having actually studied it in depth before dismissing it, then I suggest you dedicate the rest of your life to studies the tens of thousands of deities there are, and after this intense study which will consume your entire life, then you can rant about how atheist haven't done enough to study your god.
See, Saul won't go to waste. Soylent Cells, the wave of the future.
Hey, I tried Pabst Blue Ribbon for the first time the other day, and it wasn't too bad. Everybody always talking about how bad it is, but they should just give it a try.
Beer, and this includes your favorite beer, is something you grow to like. In reality beer is nasty shit and we all know it. We just learn to tolerate a certain flavor, and we like to stick to what we learned to tolerate. Many may deny it, but in reality all we really want is the alcohol, or one to have the taste to remind us of the alcohol.
Yep, I just said that a beer didn't taste bad, and then went on to say that all beer tastes bad.
Most methamphetamine mostly is produced outside the united states (80%) in so-called "Super-labs". The labs you hear about in the United States are simply the competition. It is hard for the boys up top to gain from locally produced drugs than don't grease the palms of the good ol' boys.
With the United State's large number of chemist the legalization of drugs would probably result in a controlled pharmaceutical market that would displace the organic market.
There are cannabinoids (think THC-variants, kinda) that are thousands of times as powerful as THC and would be cheaper to produce than actually growing an entire plant. Also synthetic opiates (phentanyl variants) can be 10,000 as powerful as morphine putting the Afghanistan drug lords out of business. And we could stop losing money to the Netherlands and Israel for Ecstasy. Heck, users would be able to pick between MDA, MDMA, and avoid MDE.
The legalization of drugs would cause a "shit-storm" of synthetics to hit the market. For good or bad I don't know, but it is something to think about.
Why not a system where you send payloads to the far point of the cable and the centrifugal force produced by them being approximately twice the distance of geosynchronous orbit (GSO) is used to pull up loads from below.
These loads could be hooked to a look cable of sorts, since the side of the cable with an attached load would be heavier it would pull outward and the other side of the loop could run around pulleys which would cause it to be pulled down.
Crazy, yes. Problems galore yes. But this double ribbon might just work for scenarios where you are constantly launching shit into space, and constantly attaching stuff to the side that goes down. Just fly the to earth-surface-bound to GSO, and let the space bound stuff go all the way up.
This scenario assumes heavy extra-planetary commerce, but isn't that the point to expand our horizons? Now for the griping about how much cheaper it is for Mars to send stuff to us, than it is for us to send stuff to them. Mars is the new China! Not cheap labor, just cheaper to Earth transportation than Earth to Mars.
The summary is wrong.
If you actually read the interview Moore says that he thinks selling games for 49 pounds and walking away from the consumer is a rip-off. He compares it to selling CD's for 15 pounds instead of allowing people to buy only the two tracks they want.
I actually do this for people. I'll show them Firefox, and how it works. I'll come back a week later and they'll be using Internet Explorer. They'll say "I'm just used to clicking here" (points at IE icon). So I'll erase the IE icon and put a link to Firefox using an IE icon.
Or you could start out like I did, with a 386 laptop, slackware, and no gui. I worked for years in a command-line only linux environment, and it was Slackware.
I'm still in college, but I can already tell it was a huge benefit. It seems I'm forgetting a lot using Gnome all the time, but it will always be easier to refresh my memory than have to learn it for the first time at my first IT job.
Six feet tall eh? Hemp can make it well over twelve feet. Right out back of my house there is about ten acres of Hemp, and where it has plenty of water and sunlight there are plants more than twice my height (about six foot). I am amazed by the variety of wild hemp. Some of it is short, stubby with big buds, and some is giant monsters of plants as wide as you are tall. It is all worthless for smoking, but screw the stoners, we have an energy crisis to fix and we can use it for that. P.S. - no stoners, the shorty stubby ones that resemble indica, or might have some indica genes will not get you high.
Ok, how about.
Pentium III, 866 Mhz
256MB RAM
Windows XP SP-3
Chrome runs great. I'd say it feels faster than Firefox. Could just all be in my head though. It definitely starts faster, and renders faster. I love it. I just wish I could use it on my Linux box.
Oh, and I love Firefox by the way. I just wanted to see how good Chrome would run.
Being webmaster you'd know if the 3D Realms website was switching to another technology platform, with all the "3.0" web technologies, you know? Web 2.0 with lots of custom coding could probably still look modern though, heh?
I was given a 8086 with 640K of RAM!!!! at the age of about twelve. That was around 1998. To be fair it did have all the RAM I ever needed for it, and the 20 megabyte hard drive was more than enough. All the old games it came with were awesome, "Castle" was a favorite. The biggest benefit was learning to use a command line only environment, be it DOS. I learned to use GW-BASIC and taught myself off some source code I found on the hard drive. I'm currently in school for computer science and I must say that all of my code, in every language, is usually more compact and runs faster than my classmates. I think it comes from writing games for that 4.75Mhz beast.
Has it not occurred to anyone that our ancestors were just genocidal? Look at the inclination for some people to want to wipe out way they see as a lower class. I know more than one person who wants to wipe out the other races on the planet. It seems that recently, the last few hundred years, it has become viewed as wrong to wholesale slaughter other people's. Perhaps we just weren't very civilized, even on the primitive level.
You're lucky you weren't stopped in the vicinity of Rawlins.... your body still wouldn't be found!
Ya, I was a little scared to see the cops reaction, but there was two of us, and we were almost at the Colorado border south of Rock Springs. I don't think the cop wanted to mess with us alone out there. Especially considering that I may be small for a roughneck, but my buddy is a monster. Nice guy though. We both didn't like the hell hole that are the rigs (and we don't use drugs or drink heavily), no matter the pay, and no matter how many calls I get that say "Tired of making nothing, ready to come back?"
... a copy ? ... Did you mean a cop ... ?
Stop smoking that shit
How about I work ten hours a day, attend school full-time, and have a family so the few minutes I spend on slashdot aren't wasted on double-checking what I write.
I filmed a copy by Rock Springs, Wyoming who pulled over my buddy. He was as nice as could be. It was "Yes, sir. Thank you sir. How are you today sir?" I even started laughing and said "He's gotta be nice now", but he didn't even respond. So basically it was like any traffic stop, except the copy was nicer than usual, but he did everything by the book and ticket us for exactly how much over we were instead of giving us a few mph brake as they usually do.
1) Elementary teachers need to have a minor in every subject they are to teach. No more monoculture of a million English teachers teaching elementary school [sic].
Excellent idea, except a minor in every subject may be too much. Two minors may be enough, with one either being math or science, and the other the teachers choice. They will still have to have an education degree and a BA in something also. I know this would mean about 8 years of college to become a teacher, but it is better than what you're implying if I understand you correctly.
well i overheard a neighbor talking to a friend about how he had harvested a whole bunch of BUDs from his backyard. He just said he was planning on smoking them; I'm not sure what that means but good luck with your search.
I think it has something to do with that smoking BUD death-ray thing with the tin-foil. Though I think I heard them say something about rolling it right, must be getting the tin foil on the dish, but I think they are confusing tin foil with paper.
You're right. Period.
The whole "noble savage" and living a humble stone age life idea is obviously false. If it was more satisfying and happy to live like that great numbers of people would do it. Some do, many for religious reasons, even if they claim they are secular reasons, but most of us realize how great it is to live in the modern age. I've cut firewood, walked everywhere, occasionally used a bike, and cooked all of my food like it was the eighteenth century. I felt, and it worked for a bit, that I would be more satisfied. The amount of free time I lost to all of these activities was not worth it. The modern age gives me free time to study philosophy, history, computer programming, mathematics, and whatever else I feel like, all things very few people had time for in the past, unless they had servants to do the vast majority of the work for them. People settle on what makes them happy, and how we choose to live shows what makes us happy no matter how much we deny it.