Well, that's bette than the "War on Drugs" here in Thailand where suspicion of drug dealing is carte blanche for the police to open fire on you. Some thousands killed that way last year in the north.
Funny thing is that people in the know tell me that the cops and the army go in halfsies on the organized portion of the drug business.
I tend to open Koffice when I want to just bash something out quickly for a flyer or the like. The load time and responsiveness are several times better than OO. When Koffice gets (finished already?) OO.o export capability, I'll probably use it more than I do now.
I seem to run into the occassional Chinese person in far flung places like Indonesia, Malaysia and so on... are these remnants of some Greater Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere? Did the boundaries of the Chinese Empire reach Java?
The Chinese control this whole area. You might not notice it in Indonesia, because it is illegal to write Chinese there. It is illegal because the government doesn't want want them to control the country's businesses like they do in almost every other country around here. Still, they are everywhere in Asia, as business owners.
The Chinese have a stereotype in Asia just like the Jews do in in Europe. They control the businesses. Countries fear them for it. They were never expansionist in a militarist style, they just took over. Kind of like the US does now in the Americas.
Anyway, this is way OT. I was saying that, for some time anyway after the rise of the PRC and before the late sixties, the PRC was definitely expansionist. Chinese soldiers were in Korea and they were in Vietnam. To compare them to the Japanese or Germans will never happen, though.
Overall, though, I agree with you that the Chinese have been militarily quiet for most of the time, prefering, it appears, to be conquered and spread their culture back to their conquerors.
Rome civilized Europe by conquering it, but the Chinese kind of stood that on its head.
Dan
I am on dangerous ground here, if only because of your user name, but I am quite aware of the history of China and the time surrounding the rise of Mao. Let's see, I studied Mandarin in High School, studied history from a pro-marxist PhD, lived in the PRC during Deng Xiao Ping's "Open Door" (a name coined by western newscasters, if I remember) era, and live in SE asia right now. Have you ever been to Tian An Men. Shit, I've got a friend who was shot there. Vientiane? How about Cambodia?
When I was 18, I was even a borderline Marxist-Lenninist-Maoist and walked around campus in my Mao suit. I don't need to read up, thank you. If Mao hadn't killed all his intellectuals and artists and spent all his time arguing with the USSR, he might've expanded more aggressively, or what you call helped neighbouring communist states and would be revolutions.
I'll leave the reading to you, thanks...
My father flew the last true fighter for the navy (trivia: what is it?) in the Vietnam War. He was fond of saying that he had to know that his plane was spec'ed to do 6 Gs, meaning it could really do 7, which meant he could push it to 9. He turned down his spot on the Blue Angels.
Anyway, my father was also involved in the inital run to the moon, though he got turned down as an astronaut. He reports that there was no really good reason that they chose fighter pilots to be astronauts, because anyone would do. What the bureaucrats really didn't want was to wade through the umpteen million application they were sure to get, and fighter pilots were about the smallest, mostly qualified, justifiable group that they could choose.
They probably would've chosen the smaller rocket scientist group if they weren't all so geeky and out of shape. Man, fighter pilots are cocky, but they generally deliver and have no fear!
Authoritarian, yes. Undemocratic, obviously. Expansionist? You have gotta be kidding!
So what about Korea, Vientam, Laos, Cambodia, Tibet and attempts on Taiwan?
After 1949, the coutries neighboring the PRC were terrified. I don't think it was without cause. China immediately began expansionist moves. Read up.
I use composer to create themes. Well, not really me, but my artist does the work then mocks the page up in composer so that I can see what she's looking for, Then I clean it up a little and write the PhP from it.
I would love to. I spent a week of nights trying to do exactly that. I don't live in an English speaking country, and the only docs that I could get about XUL appear to be from a milestone.
Half of the stuff I tried wouldn't work because the syntax has changed. I can't spend six months tracking down and sorting through which version of XUL this doc is, and if it will help me or not before I even get to really start working on my app.
Mod me down for saying something bad about moz if you want, but I really wanted to do my next stuff in XUL, but I could barely get off first base with it, much less finish a product in my off-work hours.
Oh yeah, because those scrawny geeks intimidated everyone in high school with their damage-causing physiques, so it should work when they get older, right?
"Biff" "Boom" "Splat!"
Pan back to reveal herd of geeks laying on the floor, bloodied and beaten.
Those are the same parts of the world where virtually every other license is also "regarded very lightly." GPL is based on copyright, you know. Cultures which don't respect copyright won't respect the GPL, either.
The original post was about the end of the US and that someone would just take over after that, because they always do. I said that that's not necessarily the case and raised an example as proof. I'm not arguing anything else.
Ok, let's look at this report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Deal?
This report is mostly about food allergies and ADD, but does cover the sugar / caffeine angle in some detail:
Here it says that "In spite of the substantial evidence to the contrary, several prominent public and private health organizations--and researchers themselves--have ignored, downplayed, or dismissed any relationship between diet and children's behavior."
Here it talks about the carcinogenic effect of Ritalin.
This is the section directly on sugar and ADD (I note that they don't include caffeine here). They say "Several other studies attributed some changes in motor activity and attentiveness to consumption of sugars. In a study of 12 psychiatric inpatients with a variety of disorders, Conners and his colleagues found that sucrose or fructose caused a significant increase in total motor activity. Wender and Salient found that sucrose reduced attention to tasks in children with ADHD, but not in other children. Both of those studies were funded by the sugar industry." This information is in direct conflict with the point of their paper, which is to show the effect of food additives on ADD. Sucrose is derived from cane and beet sugar, but not corn syrup. "The bottom line on sugars is that few good studies--of sufficient duration, with sizable numbers of subjects, and employing child-by-child analyses--have been conducted." They go on to recommend that children eat less sugar no matter the result.
This one reports CHADD dismissing any dietary involvement in ADD and strongly support the use of drugs in all cases. Maybe this is where you got your information? The report also says that 20% of CHADD's budget comes from Novartis, the maker of Ritalin. Hmmmm...
This list of foods that they recommend avoiding is given
caffeine (colas and other soft drinks, coffee, tea)
chocolate
corn products (and corn sugar and corn syrup) (Note: high-fructose corn syrup, which is what most sweetened foods use now)
Dairy foods
Eggs
Nuts
Oranges and grapefruits
Soybeans and tofu
Wheat
This shows double blind studies covering diet and ADD. 4-6 of them showed no change while 16-18 of them showed some or significant change.
Again, this was a report mostly about food allergies and food dyes on ADD, so it did not directly address the issue of sugar. It did talk quite a bit about caffeine, however, and said that the sugar issue is still in the air with few good studies to prove anything either w
The sugar caffeine hypothesis has been disproven.
Any source for this? My empirical evidence certainly doesn't support it, but I'm open to being proven wrong.
You see, most things concentrated and then eaten in bulk are bad for you...
the west rediscovered all the Roman knowledge that had been squirreled away by monks in the Church
This was exactly the point of my post. It didn't work in the short-term.
Well, my sister was diagnosed with adult onset diabetes. She has many physical and mental handicaps which helped her become severely overweight. She started on needles, but wasn't able to do that herself, so there was a lot of pressure to find another method. She was moved down to oral medication and a strict diet. Eventually, she went off medication entirely, and she controls the whole thing through her diet. She's autistic, so she actually likes the regimen. If she hadn't been so handicapped, there wouldn't have been the motivation to find another way, and she might very well be using needles to this day. Her diabetes isn't gone, but in control, and she is much happier now.
About three years ago I was given a student for weekend classes. We'll call him N. N was a cute little Thai boy about eight years old. He caused me some trouble during my classes, but I could deal with him.
After about seven sessions, when his mother came in for an update on his studies, I told her that I was not a counselor or specifically trained in detecting disorders like this, but I thought that N might have an attention span type disorder. I encouraged her to have him looked at.
He was diagnosed full ADD and put on medication. This medication radically changed his personality. Again, I say, before that, he was a cute little boy who just had trouble concentrating. Because of this change, he couldn't interact with the other children in the class and was often mocked, though I took steps to limit it. Thai children are even more vicious than in my country (where I was not treated well, as many of you).
From what I understand, his medication level has only gone up since then. He has become eceptionally moody and I can immediately tell whether he has skipped his medicine for the day, which he does because he doesn't like the effect it has on him.
N, like many Thai children from a upper-middle class family, has a nanny from Burma and two absentee parents. His nanny is fully under his control, and so N gets to eat or drink anything he want and play unlimited computer games or watch TV until late at night. These have certainly hindered any treatment that could be given to him.
I believe in my heart that, if N spent more time in a loving, structured environment, with limits on stimulants like caffeine and sugar and stimulation like his gameboy, PS2, computer, and TV, that he would deal with his condition much better than he does.
N has tutors in several subjects who can't control him or deal with him in class, and they rarely last longer than a few months. I have been teaching him for about three years now, and his mother keeps him with me because she says that I am the only one who can do it. I don't know about that, because we generally see less progress in my class with him than we hope for.
We battle almost every week because I can't let him control the class in fairness to the other students there, but he still comes to me because he loves me and he knows that I love him. I try my best with him, and when we hit bottom together, he hugs me and cries, and I sometimes do, too.
I am thankful that I grew up with a severely mentally handicapped and autistic sibling, because it gives me the strength to deal with children like N on a daily basis.
I'm not sure why I wrote this exactly, except that I thought it might be relevant for someone reading.
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A lot is a generic word replacing the count / non-count dependent many and much.
Well, that's bette than the "War on Drugs" here in Thailand where suspicion of drug dealing is carte blanche for the police to open fire on you. Some thousands killed that way last year in the north.
Funny thing is that people in the know tell me that the cops and the army go in halfsies on the organized portion of the drug business.
And get blowjobs while cracking encryption...?
I tend to open Koffice when I want to just bash something out quickly for a flyer or the like. The load time and responsiveness are several times better than OO. When Koffice gets (finished already?) OO.o export capability, I'll probably use it more than I do now.
I seem to run into the occassional Chinese person in far flung places like Indonesia, Malaysia and so on... are these remnants of some Greater Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere? Did the boundaries of the Chinese Empire reach Java?
The Chinese control this whole area. You might not notice it in Indonesia, because it is illegal to write Chinese there. It is illegal because the government doesn't want want them to control the country's businesses like they do in almost every other country around here. Still, they are everywhere in Asia, as business owners.
The Chinese have a stereotype in Asia just like the Jews do in in Europe. They control the businesses. Countries fear them for it. They were never expansionist in a militarist style, they just took over. Kind of like the US does now in the Americas.
Anyway, this is way OT. I was saying that, for some time anyway after the rise of the PRC and before the late sixties, the PRC was definitely expansionist. Chinese soldiers were in Korea and they were in Vietnam. To compare them to the Japanese or Germans will never happen, though.
Overall, though, I agree with you that the Chinese have been militarily quiet for most of the time, prefering, it appears, to be conquered and spread their culture back to their conquerors.
Rome civilized Europe by conquering it, but the Chinese kind of stood that on its head.
Dan
I am on dangerous ground here, if only because of your user name, but I am quite aware of the history of China and the time surrounding the rise of Mao. Let's see, I studied Mandarin in High School, studied history from a pro-marxist PhD, lived in the PRC during Deng Xiao Ping's "Open Door" (a name coined by western newscasters, if I remember) era, and live in SE asia right now. Have you ever been to Tian An Men. Shit, I've got a friend who was shot there. Vientiane? How about Cambodia?
When I was 18, I was even a borderline Marxist-Lenninist-Maoist and walked around campus in my Mao suit. I don't need to read up, thank you. If Mao hadn't killed all his intellectuals and artists and spent all his time arguing with the USSR, he might've expanded more aggressively, or what you call helped neighbouring communist states and would be revolutions.
I'll leave the reading to you, thanks...
My father flew the last true fighter for the navy (trivia: what is it?) in the Vietnam War. He was fond of saying that he had to know that his plane was spec'ed to do 6 Gs, meaning it could really do 7, which meant he could push it to 9. He turned down his spot on the Blue Angels.
Anyway, my father was also involved in the inital run to the moon, though he got turned down as an astronaut. He reports that there was no really good reason that they chose fighter pilots to be astronauts, because anyone would do. What the bureaucrats really didn't want was to wade through the umpteen million application they were sure to get, and fighter pilots were about the smallest, mostly qualified, justifiable group that they could choose.
They probably would've chosen the smaller rocket scientist group if they weren't all so geeky and out of shape. Man, fighter pilots are cocky, but they generally deliver and have no fear!
Authoritarian, yes. Undemocratic, obviously. Expansionist? You have gotta be kidding!
So what about Korea, Vientam, Laos, Cambodia, Tibet and attempts on Taiwan?
After 1949, the coutries neighboring the PRC were terrified. I don't think it was without cause. China immediately began expansionist moves. Read up.
That's why you have to train them: I suggest the electronic collar with remote.
Relax! It's a joke...
Only on Slashdot will you find a word like Sisyphean.
Doubtful, but on Slashdot it will be used incorrectly and probably spelled wrong, too.
Thanks. As I said, "I'll try..."
- Tell the Air Force to secure a building, and they'll lock the doors and windows.
- tell the Army to secure the same building, and they'll post and roam guards.
- Tell the Marines to secure it, and they'll run in shooting and kill all the AF and USA guys.
Where does MS fall on that scale?I use composer to create themes. Well, not really me, but my artist does the work then mocks the page up in composer so that I can see what she's looking for, Then I clean it up a little and write the PhP from it.
I would love to. I spent a week of nights trying to do exactly that. I don't live in an English speaking country, and the only docs that I could get about XUL appear to be from a milestone.
Half of the stuff I tried wouldn't work because the syntax has changed. I can't spend six months tracking down and sorting through which version of XUL this doc is, and if it will help me or not before I even get to really start working on my app.
Mod me down for saying something bad about moz if you want, but I really wanted to do my next stuff in XUL, but I could barely get off first base with it, much less finish a product in my off-work hours.
Oh yeah, because those scrawny geeks intimidated everyone in high school with their damage-causing physiques, so it should work when they get older, right?
"Biff" "Boom" "Splat!" Pan back to reveal herd of geeks laying on the floor, bloodied and beaten.
Those are the same parts of the world where virtually every other license is also "regarded very lightly." GPL is based on copyright, you know. Cultures which don't respect copyright won't respect the GPL, either.
It's a Java program. Much easier.
The original post was about the end of the US and that someone would just take over after that, because they always do. I said that that's not necessarily the case and raised an example as proof. I'm not arguing anything else.
Nearly Anime is also 2D... "3D Anime" almost seems like a contradiction in terms.
Can I get some 3D Hentai, please?
No, really. I mean it.
I suggest the currently skewered and dying Devil thrashing like a dolphin in a fishing net. Gets the entire concept across, donchaknow?
This report is mostly about food allergies and ADD, but does cover the sugar / caffeine angle in some detail:
Again, this was a report mostly about food allergies and food dyes on ADD, so it did not directly address the issue of sugar. It did talk quite a bit about caffeine, however, and said that the sugar issue is still in the air with few good studies to prove anything either w
The sugar caffeine hypothesis has been disproven.
Any source for this? My empirical evidence certainly doesn't support it, but I'm open to being proven wrong.
You see, most things concentrated and then eaten in bulk are bad for you...
the west rediscovered all the Roman knowledge that had been squirreled away by monks in the Church
This was exactly the point of my post. It didn't work in the short-term.
Well, my sister was diagnosed with adult onset diabetes. She has many physical and mental handicaps which helped her become severely overweight. She started on needles, but wasn't able to do that herself, so there was a lot of pressure to find another method. She was moved down to oral medication and a strict diet. Eventually, she went off medication entirely, and she controls the whole thing through her diet. She's autistic, so she actually likes the regimen. If she hadn't been so handicapped, there wouldn't have been the motivation to find another way, and she might very well be using needles to this day. Her diabetes isn't gone, but in control, and she is much happier now.
About three years ago I was given a student for weekend classes. We'll call him N. N was a cute little Thai boy about eight years old. He caused me some trouble during my classes, but I could deal with him.
After about seven sessions, when his mother came in for an update on his studies, I told her that I was not a counselor or specifically trained in detecting disorders like this, but I thought that N might have an attention span type disorder. I encouraged her to have him looked at.
He was diagnosed full ADD and put on medication. This medication radically changed his personality. Again, I say, before that, he was a cute little boy who just had trouble concentrating. Because of this change, he couldn't interact with the other children in the class and was often mocked, though I took steps to limit it. Thai children are even more vicious than in my country (where I was not treated well, as many of you).
From what I understand, his medication level has only gone up since then. He has become eceptionally moody and I can immediately tell whether he has skipped his medicine for the day, which he does because he doesn't like the effect it has on him.
N, like many Thai children from a upper-middle class family, has a nanny from Burma and two absentee parents. His nanny is fully under his control, and so N gets to eat or drink anything he want and play unlimited computer games or watch TV until late at night. These have certainly hindered any treatment that could be given to him.
I believe in my heart that, if N spent more time in a loving, structured environment, with limits on stimulants like caffeine and sugar and stimulation like his gameboy, PS2, computer, and TV, that he would deal with his condition much better than he does.
N has tutors in several subjects who can't control him or deal with him in class, and they rarely last longer than a few months. I have been teaching him for about three years now, and his mother keeps him with me because she says that I am the only one who can do it. I don't know about that, because we generally see less progress in my class with him than we hope for.
We battle almost every week because I can't let him control the class in fairness to the other students there, but he still comes to me because he loves me and he knows that I love him. I try my best with him, and when we hit bottom together, he hugs me and cries, and I sometimes do, too.
I am thankful that I grew up with a severely mentally handicapped and autistic sibling, because it gives me the strength to deal with children like N on a daily basis.
I'm not sure why I wrote this exactly, except that I thought it might be relevant for someone reading.