Perhaps it's different in the UK (assumed b/c of spelling/word choice), but where I live, trash collection and water/sewage treatment are done by the municipality but not paid out of taxes - they're fee-for-service. Street lighting is a public service. Public education is another, but the local schools are so bad as to be unusable. My parents paid property taxes for ages, and I've been paying them for quite some time. I never spent a day in the city's schools, nor did my sister, nor did my wife or her brother, nor any of our children, and none of us were rich. My mother made our clothes herself in order to save enough to keep us in private schooling.
We pay for a lot of nominally public services that we don't actually use.
What used to happen is that a syringe of potassium chloride would be pulled off the shelf and injected. Now, all that stuff is in a dispensing machine that records who pulled it out and when. Much harder to be the angel of death. On the bright side, it's harder to kill people anonymously; on the down side, it's much harder to kill people anonymously.
Starvation diets lasting hundreds of days have been successfully conducted. Those on them have reported that hunger usually disappears after the first few days.
There's a better solution: whitelisting. You could really go the extra mile if you like and set up an Asterisk-based PBX to intercept incoming calls and route them based on caller ID - if it's on the whitelist, it rings. If not, you get the number-disconnected beeps or a fax tone, followed after two or three seconds by a prompt to press a number to speak to the inhabitants. Robodialers will never get to you.
Flying VFR on familiar turf with control surfaces you can see... I've never touched a stick and I can think of so many ways that's not like a 747 at 3000 feet AGL in a storm.
I live in one of those places. That money would indeed make you a big fish. But it's really not enough to swing anything I'd call "king", like having your own private jet, multiple houses each with staff, etc.
Um, no, you can't. Let's just make the math simple and say that you will live 50 years on 50 million dollars. That kind of money is - today - just barely the point at which you can afford to begin to live like a king. It doesn't get you private jets, or more than three houses with staff, or yachts. It gets you an upper-middle-class lifestyle that more or less lasts forever, sure. But even though someone's going to mow your grass, you're going to have to write their checks yourself.
Thanks, hadn't heard of MLU. I'm more interested in community - I'm still modestly involved in the Ars Technica forums, but I've completely given up on the front page of the site.
So is there anywhere decent you'd recommend? I used/. for years before signing up for an account, so my userid is pretty high, but I've been here since '98 or so.
Everyone complains that Slashdot sucks these days, but I don't see anyone recommending alternatives.
The antisocial people are the ones who let their dogs roam wild. I've had two cats in my life that were killed by dogs. Both were in my yard. And I've observed other dogs (also off-leash) chase my cat through my yard. I was a kid for the first one, but on both other occasions I reminded the dog owner that they should consider themselves notified that I felt threatened by their pet, and that failure to follow the leash laws and control a dangerous animal was ample grounds for me to defend myself with deadly force. The second time a pet died, it was the neighbor's dogs who did it. They got out all the time, even menaced my wife in the garage (and she's a lifelong dog owner, knows how to handle them well). After I told her that the next time I saw them in my yard, I would return them in the same condition as my cat, they stopped getting out. That was over five years ago. Zero escapes since then. Amazing how that works.
worrying about the TSA thugs rooting through the underwear in their carryon bags
Or just tearing up the boxes of your Christmas gifts in your checked luggage, then packing them back incorrectly. I can see a legit reason someone might want to search bags, but fucking do it in front of me, so I can pack it back correctly.
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Perhaps it's different in the UK (assumed b/c of spelling/word choice), but where I live, trash collection and water/sewage treatment are done by the municipality but not paid out of taxes - they're fee-for-service. Street lighting is a public service. Public education is another, but the local schools are so bad as to be unusable. My parents paid property taxes for ages, and I've been paying them for quite some time. I never spent a day in the city's schools, nor did my sister, nor did my wife or her brother, nor any of our children, and none of us were rich. My mother made our clothes herself in order to save enough to keep us in private schooling.
We pay for a lot of nominally public services that we don't actually use.
This is northwest Arkansas. It's lily-white and rural. Not that that doesn't have its own pathologies, but being the hood isn't one of them.
But if the hospital's ethics committee disagrees with the agent and directive, it can get very hairy very fast.
What used to happen is that a syringe of potassium chloride would be pulled off the shelf and injected. Now, all that stuff is in a dispensing machine that records who pulled it out and when. Much harder to be the angel of death. On the bright side, it's harder to kill people anonymously; on the down side, it's much harder to kill people anonymously.
Fentanyl is apnea in a vial.
Starvation diets lasting hundreds of days have been successfully conducted. Those on them have reported that hunger usually disappears after the first few days.
There's a better solution: whitelisting. You could really go the extra mile if you like and set up an Asterisk-based PBX to intercept incoming calls and route them based on caller ID - if it's on the whitelist, it rings. If not, you get the number-disconnected beeps or a fax tone, followed after two or three seconds by a prompt to press a number to speak to the inhabitants. Robodialers will never get to you.
Those bastards got it blocked from the labs. But if you had a Unix account you could play TCP/IP sgixdoom on the Irixes in the science building...
Flying VFR on familiar turf with control surfaces you can see... I've never touched a stick and I can think of so many ways that's not like a 747 at 3000 feet AGL in a storm.
No, not really. Muscular veins aren't visible in anyone; you test for them by aspirating.
Those are intramuscular injections, not IV's. You're trying to avoid a vein with those.
I live in one of those places. That money would indeed make you a big fish. But it's really not enough to swing anything I'd call "king", like having your own private jet, multiple houses each with staff, etc.
live like a fucking king for the rest of your life.
$1M/year is a very comfortable lifestyle. It is not like a king.
Um, no, you can't. Let's just make the math simple and say that you will live 50 years on 50 million dollars. That kind of money is - today - just barely the point at which you can afford to begin to live like a king. It doesn't get you private jets, or more than three houses with staff, or yachts. It gets you an upper-middle-class lifestyle that more or less lasts forever, sure. But even though someone's going to mow your grass, you're going to have to write their checks yourself.
Thanks, hadn't heard of MLU. I'm more interested in community - I'm still modestly involved in the Ars Technica forums, but I've completely given up on the front page of the site.
So is there anywhere decent you'd recommend? I used /. for years before signing up for an account, so my userid is pretty high, but I've been here since '98 or so.
Everyone complains that Slashdot sucks these days, but I don't see anyone recommending alternatives.
The antisocial people are the ones who let their dogs roam wild. I've had two cats in my life that were killed by dogs. Both were in my yard. And I've observed other dogs (also off-leash) chase my cat through my yard. I was a kid for the first one, but on both other occasions I reminded the dog owner that they should consider themselves notified that I felt threatened by their pet, and that failure to follow the leash laws and control a dangerous animal was ample grounds for me to defend myself with deadly force. The second time a pet died, it was the neighbor's dogs who did it. They got out all the time, even menaced my wife in the garage (and she's a lifelong dog owner, knows how to handle them well). After I told her that the next time I saw them in my yard, I would return them in the same condition as my cat, they stopped getting out. That was over five years ago. Zero escapes since then. Amazing how that works.
It's enough for plausible deniability about why there is dirt and a shovel in the bed of your truck.
worrying about the TSA thugs rooting through the underwear in their carryon bags
Or just tearing up the boxes of your Christmas gifts in your checked luggage, then packing them back incorrectly. I can see a legit reason someone might want to search bags, but fucking do it in front of me, so I can pack it back correctly.
Just freefall, not actual weightlessness.
The metabolic pathway for sucrose begins with hydrolysis. No other way to use it.
My usual goal is 10-20 g carb content. I read the labels.
FWIW, I went cold turkey.
HFCS is no worse than sucrose. But sucrose isn't harmless.
If you really want to lose weight, take your sugar and starch consumption and cut it to zero.
No, they're in the same room. The console sits in the corner of the OR.