The anti-drug education offered in schools today has failed miserbly. What makes you think that this is going to work? I'm not going to say it isn't brainwashing and it should be in schools, but you can barely get kids to not steal tangible things. Intangables like files just don't hit the nervous system in the same way, so that voice of concious doesn't flare up like it might during the shoplifting a candy-bar. Not to mention the plan could actually backfire and boring assed class could motivate more music "piracy."
How convienent. I've been stuck in windows for quite some time now (Once the semester's over I'll get to it. I just have too many more priorities now. Like slashdot...) The one thing I miss most is my C compiler....
I do have ssh and a couple of shells, but it couldn't hurt too much to keep up my Windows skills. I am forced to use it at work everyday.
I was raised a weird half-Catholic thing, but I did spend a good deal of time in Catholic school (not for religious reasons, educational. My family is pretty open-minded). I'm gonna tell you right now there's a good whallop of horseshit in there. For example if you defend the right to choose you will get brow-beat with emotional and flawed-logic arguements until you shut up cause you can't keep up. And the attitude towards sex is immature IMHO.
However, compared to some of the more Fundementalist Christian sects, Catholics are party god damned animals. If I was raised Lutheran I wouldn't have made it.
What really frightens me though are the crazies that run out and preach to the masses. They like to tell me how I feel about things, and I don't think anyone who's so sure of that is right in the gulliver.
If you send a file to/dev/null (assuming you stored the document on a disk drive) the data is still on the hard drive, it is just in blocks that are no longer marked as used. Even overwriting that data with other data several times will not get rid of the data in total, and an agency with enough budget could recover it. Actual total destruction requires several overwrites of specific bit sequences to muddy things up enough to make data recovery extremely difficult, though not unfeasable.
The show has been going downhill for awhile now. They need to replace the writers or retire the series. Every "The Simpsons go to Another Nation" episode is like another spike through my soul.
Ok, just to make sure we're clear about the dopamine thing, if cocaine blocked dopamine receptors it would have the opposite effect. It blocks the reuptake valves, so when dopamine is released into the synapse, it stays there. The more dopamine that is in a synapse, the more likely the next neuron will fire. Incidentially, this is the exact same mechanism that meth works on, except meth last a whole hell of a lot longer than cocaine. I'm too afraid to try either. Addiction is enormously prevelant in my family so I think powdered reward might do me in.
And now to THC and the human body. You're right about the drug receptors, THC has some in the brain but in what area has slipped my mind. It doesn't mean that it is harmless to the head though. Those receptors are there, but if you fuck with them enough you can't tell me there's no possibility of damage.
As far as the liver and kidney stuff goes, I must plead ignorance. I don't know about the studies but I wouldn't mind knowing, and a link or two would be appreciated.
The marijuana plant itself is more complex than 99.9% of the public knows about. The drug-like effects can range from stimulant-like (I've clenched my jaw like a speed-freak after a couple bowls of some real uppy stuff), to depressant (Anyone who's smoked enough knows this is true), to psychedelic (small visual distortions, no true hallucinations in my experience anyway). It depends on the individual Marijuana plant, and all of those effects might be present.
For example, some pot will speed you up right off the bat, then drop you off and make you want to pass out once you've passed peak. Others will speed you up and then you'll just slow back down to normal. Some will just knock you out, and some will make you just feel like crap. There's been an abhorently small amount of scientific work done on Cannabis, considering it's the most complicated drug around. All of those effects have only been linked to THC. The other cannabinoids play very small roles.
The moral of the story is you have one substance with an huge range of effects. Why the hell hasn't it been studied more? I blame conservative Christians and the alcohol lobbists, but that's just me.
Cocaine doesn't block dopamine receptors. It blocks dopamine reuptake, increasing the amount of dopamine in the synapses.
And just because the kidneys and livers have no receptors doesn't mean it will damage them. Just because the brain does have receptors doesn't mean it won't damage them.
I work in an IT department, and a few times a year we will unpack and set up a good 20 to 30 machines in the course of a week or two. When you consider that each machine has a seperate box for the monitor and the actual computer its easy to see how when trash time comes the place is ugly: Cardboard, plastic, and styrofoam everywhere. The cardboard and even the plastic wrapping can be recycled. Not the styrofoam. I can think of at least three occasions when we stuffed most of a dumpster full of the stuff.
The computer industry is just one example of the industrial use of styrofoam. I can assert with confidence that there are many others. So there is an absolute shitload of it. But why use styrofoam when properly made cardboard spacers can do the job? Well obviously the foam is cheaper.
So if you really dislike styrofoam that much (and I can understand how, the environmential impact of that crap is not pleasant to think about) you best do some lobbying and hope that Bush doesn't get reelected(assuming you live in the U.S.). I can also assert with confidence that if he is, he will do exactly dick with the issue. The precident shows industry (for the most part) will not increase overhead for the sake of the environment without some sort of push, so without legislation you're cause is screwed. Based on Bush's current environmential record, I would be concentrate on his changing of emission standards, gutting the enforcement budget of the EPA, and tendency to help set up strip mining/oil drilling contracts in national parks before I started sweating the foam.
I pulled all sorts of online stunts on people at school and others; it didn't stop me from getting picked on at school but it did help me develop skills that have earned me thousands of dollars to date. I was good enough that I never got fingered as the culprit.
I'll have to point out that what I did mostly included social engineering with a little hacking.
It's not looking that way. In fact, according to reuters he sounds like quite a moron. Nothing quite like connecting the virus that you modified to a website registered in yourname.
Didn't I think this several years ago? By golly I think I did, and I doubt I'm alone. And just because its printed does not mean its true, especially in technological predictions. Truman lost remember, and so did Gore... Wait a minute...
Corporations employ geeks. Geeks use linux. As long as the open source integrity remains, let them make their money. I've considered writing open source software myself, and then marketing it with set up and hardware as an alternative to 9 to ? in a cube farm. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I would like to congradulate your tremendamous efforts in keeping industries that do not want to evolve with technology in business by attacking legally individual persons who may or may not be doing anything wrong. It is good to know though that your mucking about will only delay the inevidable, and eventually this "record industry" thing will actually have change with the times. Keep up the good work jack-asses.
I am so glad you finally found a way to profit from shoddy engineering. What a great business strategy! I mean, I suppose you could have come up with a better way of doing the tv subscriptions this but why bother when you can just sue people for the hell of it? I love this country and its wonderful civil legal system, but not as much as you do I'm sure. Oh yes and by the way, next time please use lube; it hurts a lot less and you still get to feel like a big man.
The way they're creating "colliding antiprotons with protons" happens in the atmosphere all the time. So if it does not cause a castastrophe then it more than likely will not cause a castastrophe later because if the Hawking effect was bogus and black holes did not decay one of those created in the atmosphere would get to the center eventually and destroy it. *insert thunderclap* Seeing as that has not happened yet I'm not all too worried. No one says the experiment is going to succeed in creating a black hole anyway.
I fail to see how "Professional Philosophers" have anything up on priests. Not that you mentioned religion but they're on a similar vein of things. Not that I really care if you think a priest is a real job or not, but if you don't think philosophers should be paid than you really can't believe in paying priests either, unless you believe that everyone should have the same religion.
I believe it was Himler (probably a misspelling), but it was definately a high ranker in the Third Reich who said you can convince people anything with the word Patriot. This wave of nationalism is a very scary thing when you think about it from that view. Many people think we shouldn't question our president; Hitler's word was law. These are disconcerting parallels and I'm not saying I think Bush is the next Hitler, I'm just saying the nation is ripe for a police state and it's better to watch for such thing. Keep in mind no one believed the holocaust could happen before it did.
did i just hear something that might actually motivate me to learn java? It's warm outside here (midwest America) but I'm sure hell has just frozen over.
for starters... This article is really grinding Google's special place, making them sound like a dream company, operating flawlessly. And it could be true.
But at the same time, we don't know what Google is missing. There could be large tracts of web servers unknown to the engine, and they quite possibly will eventually die because they don't get google coverage. That is the big problem with one great big search engine.
I'd rather see about two or three google-like companies all competing to give people the best damned web search in the world. But until anyone else masters pigeons like google has, we won't get it.
The thing that kept popping into my head over and over again while I read this was "I am so glad I use linux."
I mean seriously, with the new liscensing scheme + no backwards compatability how can I not continute to use linux. And since there's no way to muscle open source with money, it will still be there (Especially since it is winning on servers).
As bad as the implications of this article are, there's still a possibility of a very nice silver lining, from the open source point of view.
A single case study means nothing. There are endless variables unaccounted for. Any anti-cloning people who use this example as an arguement should try deducing both sides of a quarter from a single coin flip.
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I'm just not going to worry.
I do have ssh and a couple of shells, but it couldn't hurt too much to keep up my Windows skills. I am forced to use it at work everyday.
However, compared to some of the more Fundementalist Christian sects, Catholics are party god damned animals. If I was raised Lutheran I wouldn't have made it.
What really frightens me though are the crazies that run out and preach to the masses. They like to tell me how I feel about things, and I don't think anyone who's so sure of that is right in the gulliver.
If you send a file to /dev/null (assuming you stored the document on a disk drive) the data is still on the hard drive, it is just in blocks that are no longer marked as used. Even overwriting that data with other data several times will not get rid of the data in total, and an agency with enough budget could recover it. Actual total destruction requires several overwrites of specific bit sequences to muddy things up enough to make data recovery extremely difficult, though not unfeasable.
The show has been going downhill for awhile now. They need to replace the writers or retire the series. Every "The Simpsons go to Another Nation" episode is like another spike through my soul.
Doesn't that seem grevious to anyone else? Can you imagine being blacklisted because of you attended a couple functions in college?
And now to THC and the human body. You're right about the drug receptors, THC has some in the brain but in what area has slipped my mind. It doesn't mean that it is harmless to the head though. Those receptors are there, but if you fuck with them enough you can't tell me there's no possibility of damage.
As far as the liver and kidney stuff goes, I must plead ignorance. I don't know about the studies but I wouldn't mind knowing, and a link or two would be appreciated.
For example, some pot will speed you up right off the bat, then drop you off and make you want to pass out once you've passed peak. Others will speed you up and then you'll just slow back down to normal. Some will just knock you out, and some will make you just feel like crap. There's been an abhorently small amount of scientific work done on Cannabis, considering it's the most complicated drug around. All of those effects have only been linked to THC. The other cannabinoids play very small roles.
The moral of the story is you have one substance with an huge range of effects. Why the hell hasn't it been studied more? I blame conservative Christians and the alcohol lobbists, but that's just me.
Cocaine doesn't block dopamine receptors. It blocks dopamine reuptake, increasing the amount of dopamine in the synapses. And just because the kidneys and livers have no receptors doesn't mean it will damage them. Just because the brain does have receptors doesn't mean it won't damage them.
The computer industry is just one example of the industrial use of styrofoam. I can assert with confidence that there are many others. So there is an absolute shitload of it. But why use styrofoam when properly made cardboard spacers can do the job? Well obviously the foam is cheaper.
So if you really dislike styrofoam that much (and I can understand how, the environmential impact of that crap is not pleasant to think about) you best do some lobbying and hope that Bush doesn't get reelected(assuming you live in the U.S.). I can also assert with confidence that if he is, he will do exactly dick with the issue. The precident shows industry (for the most part) will not increase overhead for the sake of the environment without some sort of push, so without legislation you're cause is screwed. Based on Bush's current environmential record, I would be concentrate on his changing of emission standards, gutting the enforcement budget of the EPA, and tendency to help set up strip mining/oil drilling contracts in national parks before I started sweating the foam.
I pulled all sorts of online stunts on people at school and others; it didn't stop me from getting picked on at school but it did help me develop skills that have earned me thousands of dollars to date. I was good enough that I never got fingered as the culprit.
I'll have to point out that what I did mostly included social engineering with a little hacking.
negative "effects"
It's not looking that way. In fact, according to reuters he sounds like quite a moron. Nothing quite like connecting the virus that you modified to a website registered in yourname.
Didn't I think this several years ago? By golly I think I did, and I doubt I'm alone. And just because its printed does not mean its true, especially in technological predictions. Truman lost remember, and so did Gore... Wait a minute...
Corporations employ geeks. Geeks use linux. As long as the open source integrity remains, let them make their money. I've considered writing open source software myself, and then marketing it with set up and hardware as an alternative to 9 to ? in a cube farm. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I would like to congradulate your tremendamous efforts in keeping industries that do not want to evolve with technology in business by attacking legally individual persons who may or may not be doing anything wrong. It is good to know though that your mucking about will only delay the inevidable, and eventually this "record industry" thing will actually have change with the times. Keep up the good work jack-asses.
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If I got sold cocaine at flour prices I'd be pretty damned happy even though I would not consider touching that stuff.
The way they're creating "colliding antiprotons with protons" happens in the atmosphere all the time. So if it does not cause a castastrophe then it more than likely will not cause a castastrophe later because if the Hawking effect was bogus and black holes did not decay one of those created in the atmosphere would get to the center eventually and destroy it. *insert thunderclap* Seeing as that has not happened yet I'm not all too worried. No one says the experiment is going to succeed in creating a black hole anyway.
I fail to see how "Professional Philosophers" have anything up on priests. Not that you mentioned religion but they're on a similar vein of things. Not that I really care if you think a priest is a real job or not, but if you don't think philosophers should be paid than you really can't believe in paying priests either, unless you believe that everyone should have the same religion.
I believe it was Himler (probably a misspelling), but it was definately a high ranker in the Third Reich who said you can convince people anything with the word Patriot. This wave of nationalism is a very scary thing when you think about it from that view. Many people think we shouldn't question our president; Hitler's word was law. These are disconcerting parallels and I'm not saying I think Bush is the next Hitler, I'm just saying the nation is ripe for a police state and it's better to watch for such thing. Keep in mind no one believed the holocaust could happen before it did.
did i just hear something that might actually motivate me to learn java? It's warm outside here (midwest America) but I'm sure hell has just frozen over.
for starters... This article is really grinding Google's special place, making them sound like a dream company, operating flawlessly. And it could be true.
But at the same time, we don't know what Google is missing. There could be large tracts of web servers unknown to the engine, and they quite possibly will eventually die because they don't get google coverage. That is the big problem with one great big search engine.
I'd rather see about two or three google-like companies all competing to give people the best damned web search in the world. But until anyone else masters pigeons like google has, we won't get it.
The thing that kept popping into my head over and over again while I read this was "I am so glad I use linux."
I mean seriously, with the new liscensing scheme + no backwards compatability how can I not continute to use linux. And since there's no way to muscle open source with money, it will still be there (Especially since it is winning on servers).
As bad as the implications of this article are, there's still a possibility of a very nice silver lining, from the open source point of view.
A single case study means nothing. There are endless variables unaccounted for. Any anti-cloning people who use this example as an arguement should try deducing both sides of a quarter from a single coin flip.