I eventually decided that the tide was turning against me, so I quit work in London & moved to the US where I'm not the chief architect of a $20bn+ company.
I'm not the chief architect of a $20bn+ company either. I feel your pain.
It would be interesting to see this contrasted with an array of psychedelics as this sort of thing seems to have been well known for quite a while.
I studied this extensively in the late 60s, early 70s. It was very interesting.
However, I studied MDA not MDMA. It was an excellent hallucinogenic on it's own and acid/whatever just made it better. Or the other way around.
We a biochemist in the area who constantly cranked out superbly pure MDA along with anything else he could come up with. Small batches of God knows what would make it onto the street for us volunteer guinea pigs to test.
That finally convinced me to quit dope of every sort. He made a hallucinogenic blotter that kept me awake and tripping for three days. By the end I was so bored I stopped everything, so I guess it did me some good after all.
If you believe in any form of government then you believe in re-distributive taxation. The question from there is not the morality of such a thing, anyone who has agreed that government is necessary has already agreed to that. The real question is what money should be spent on.
But it doesn't have to all or nothing. For me the real question is how much money must be taken from those who work.
Even if a totalitarian State could theoretically direct my life better than I can (and all adults know it can't), I still don't want one.
I had a mommy and daddy when I was a child. I don't want that now. Many people want a totalitarian State to direct their lives, I don't.
That's not the same thing as some Mad Max Sudan. I just happen to think that the best government is the the one that provides for the LEAST amount of structure that helps us to live and work together, not the one that strives to tax and re-distribute as much as possible without an armed insurrection.
I also wouldn't rule out that this is simply another check box on something Obama did that he can undo. It does seem that he is super OCD about trying to undo everything he possibly can that Obama did.
It would be great if libertarian principles applied to vaccines (my base ideology is libertarian), but:
1. Vaccines are not anywhere near 100% effective, so even a fully vaccinated person may be relying on herd immunity.
2. You can't vaccinate a newborn, so everyone relies on herd immunity for the first 6 months or so of their life.
3. Some people can't be vaccinated at all.
So we're left with a social solution, which is vaccinating everyone who can be vaccinated, whether they like it or not.
Not in MN where I live. Here are the vaccinations a child must have at 2 months, more at 4 months and yet more at 6 months:
Rotavirus (oral), Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (HIB), Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13), Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Inactivated Polio Virus
(IPV) and Hepatitis B (HBV).
They might all be needed for the survival of the race, but that's a lot of vaccinations.
Try the massive contamination of drinking water with estrogen from birth control pills as well as the estrogen mimickers such as soy products.
Every time Mr. Skinny Jeans gets a soy Cappuccino along with his Tofu smoothie, goodbye a little of the Mr. and hello a little more of the Ms.
I'm all for reproductive rights, but if you even mention the possibility that all those birth control pills are screwing up the hormonal balance of literally everything that uses water, at least in the U.S., holey moley, the feminists will scream bloody murder.
Repeat after me: "Nothing, nothing on Earth matters more than MY reproductive rights!! Not my health, not your health, not the frogs and fishes health. NOTHING!!!"
"It's almost impossible to get help," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN last month. "And part of the reason you can't get American people is they want full time jobs."
Oh the horror.
Here in MN, the resorts are desperately trying to get more of these types of visa workers. These resorts are only open part of the year and can't give anyone full time jobs, American or foreign.
They actively recruit around the world to try and get workers for a few months. These aren't supposed to be jobs that allow someone to live year round. Often the workers have lodging as part of the deal. Sort of like camp councilors who get paid and work and live in a resort for a few months. Foreign teens and young adults seem to love this arrangement. American youth is often too affluent and/or lazy to do this type of work. There are jobs that aren't supposed to be a career. That's why the so called "living wage" obsession can't be universally applied.
AKA Schedule Chicken. Though hoping the other team crashes and burns first is usually a metaphor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_chicken
Sometimes hoping isn't enough. I worked in the US Midwest in the late '90s for a guy who told me on Wednesday to meet him in Copenhagen Sunday morning to spend a few days with our international partners coders.
When I got there and asked what we were doing, he told me that we were going to screw with the Danish team members because we were way behind schedule and had to disrupt their schedule with tech bullshit. I would't do that, but didn't say anything. He threw what sand he could in the the gears and then we went home.
Did that again about six months later. I never had to do anything unethical and got a couple of free trips to Europe, so it worked out for me personally. The project was a disaster, of course, and my boss was eventually fired.
your body will release insulin in anticipation of the food spiking your blood sugar.
That would take exactly one twenty-minute experiment to prove true/false.
Where's the citations? Anyone....?
Sort of. I participated in a class once that did something along these lines as a demonstration of insulin reaction (indirectly, using blood sugar as a metric) to selected foods.
Several guinea pig class members, I was one, used a glucometer and recorded serum glucose levels then we ate a bit of three different foods.
One guy ate 1/2 a Snickers candy bar, one of ate a plain rice cake and I ate some ham. We waited a bit, took another blood sugar sample. Waited a bit more and took a final blood sugar test. Then we reported on how we felt
The ham guy, me, had almost no change. The Snickers guy saw his blood sugar rise then drop below baseline, got some energy then crashed a little. The greatest reaction, by far, was the plain rice cake. That person had the greatest rise in blood sugar followed by a greater drop and actually got a little shaky.
The point of the experiment was to show some misconceptions. Everyone thought the rice cake was healthy and the candy bar and fatty ham was unhealthy.
Wrong, at least from an insulin flooding standpoint. The rice cake is pure sugar. Starch is just glucose chained together. It turns out that the candy bar, poor nutritionally as it was, had a milder effect because of the fat it contains. Fat seems to blunt the insulin response. Doesn't make the sugar any less, but moderates the insulin reaction. The rice cake hadn't that moderator so it produced the most dramatic reaction.
That's why restaurants like to start you off with bread while you're perusing the menu. It ain't just being hospitable. They want your blood sugar to be plummeting when you order.
There are a million things you're not allowed to buy. Your freedom of choice is basically an illusion. For instance, you're not allowed to buy a car that violates all kinds of safety rules. You can't buy many dangerous chemicals. You can't buy a bazooka.
You can in the United States. A bazooka is a NFA regulated weapon with a $200 transfer tax just like a fully automatic rifle.
The "gun control" crazies never seem to get that Americans have always been allowed ownership of all sorts of weapons without significant problems.
I agree that there are far too many homicides in the U.S. but that rate has declined even as the total numbers of firearms in civilian hand has increased dramatically over the last decade.
Personally, if my gov't gets to the point where they're rounding up small arms I'm not going to be able to do much about it. I wouldn't last 5 minutes against a modern military.
I agree. Let's keep our government from growing to the point of being able to collect our guns.
Would also be interesting to know how they got the gun. Seems like you need a licence to drive a car but apparently not to operate a deadly weapon.
Actually, neither statement is quite true. One only needs a license to drive a car outside private property and only needs a licence to carry a gun outside private property in MN, where this happened.
The shooting occurred on private property where they could have also driven a car around in circles in the yard without a license or insurance.
Overpopulation. The planet has 7.5 billion people, all of whom want to live the good life as seen in Hollywood movies and TV.
The bastards! How dare people want to live the good life!
The birth rate for those wasteful U.S. and Europeans has been dropping for some time now. Japan's birth rate is plummeting. Even Catholic Italy can't keep making enough new Italians.
It would appear that the very thing you complain about is the answer to growing population. Achieve the good life as seen on Hollywood movies and TV and the breeding slows down. It's a win-win for all concerned.
What? You think brutal dictators have the consent of the governed? You don't need consent when people are cowed by fear.
You are missing that governments can rule by force, without the broad people's consent, and that when something is made illegal, doing it anyway can bring on harsh consequences.
That's still consent. No dictator can rule a populace without participation from informers, etc. Every member of the secret police in Crapalvania is a Crapalvanian mother's son. Just looking the other way is consent.
The best quote: And we burned...
My wife has one. One of her physicians told her that he wants to see how much she is sleeping, how many steps she is taking, etc.
What passes for doctors these days is pitiful.
No matter the ailment, s/he'll just prescribe more statins and say exercise more.
And if the device thinks she's sleeping too much or not enough, she'll get anti-depressants.
With this tech the elevators become cars on a vertical railway and can take on passengers without blocking shafts. Big gain.
If you don't mind having to get off at one floor to transfer to another lift to get to the top floor since I doubt the system would allow the bottom car to go to the top floor unless you used that sideways feature to shunt cars out of the way.
But then one looks at real doctors and see how they push statins and anti-depressants and the crappy dietary advice that has lead to massive increase in diabetes. That's terrible medicine as well.
If the goofy snake oil body stickers don't actually poison the suckers that buy them, they might be better off.
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I don't understand why techies have never figured out that government and business have similar goals.
Government and big business have similar goals in a Fascist State.
Government and true free market business, not so much.
I eventually decided that the tide was turning against me, so I quit work in London & moved to the US where I'm not the chief architect of a $20bn+ company.
I'm not the chief architect of a $20bn+ company either. I feel your pain.
It would be interesting to see this contrasted with an array of psychedelics as this sort of thing seems to have been well known for quite a while.
I studied this extensively in the late 60s, early 70s. It was very interesting.
However, I studied MDA not MDMA. It was an excellent hallucinogenic on it's own and acid/whatever just made it better. Or the other way around. We a biochemist in the area who constantly cranked out superbly pure MDA along with anything else he could come up with. Small batches of God knows what would make it onto the street for us volunteer guinea pigs to test.
That finally convinced me to quit dope of every sort. He made a hallucinogenic blotter that kept me awake and tripping for three days. By the end I was so bored I stopped everything, so I guess it did me some good after all.
Just add an ATM and you're ready to go. Cards are issued as part of the permit application.
Nothing new here. 1000's of years of construction has seen it all, even if it looks different to an outsider.
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If you believe in any form of government then you believe in re-distributive taxation. The question from there is not the morality of such a thing, anyone who has agreed that government is necessary has already agreed to that. The real question is what money should be spent on.
But it doesn't have to all or nothing. For me the real question is how much money must be taken from those who work.
Even if a totalitarian State could theoretically direct my life better than I can (and all adults know it can't), I still don't want one.
I had a mommy and daddy when I was a child. I don't want that now. Many people want a totalitarian State to direct their lives, I don't.
That's not the same thing as some Mad Max Sudan. I just happen to think that the best government is the the one that provides for the LEAST amount of structure that helps us to live and work together, not the one that strives to tax and re-distribute as much as possible without an armed insurrection.
Or this is about people who genuinely want the right to fight for their country.
It can also be about people who want their country to PAY for a very expensive treatment both during service and after.
I also wouldn't rule out that this is simply another check box on something Obama did that he can undo. It does seem that he is super OCD about trying to undo everything he possibly can that Obama did.
Works for me.
What's the experiment? There have been transgender people living in the world as long as there have been people.
Really? I missed the history class that showed how the Romans and Celts, etc. had the surgical and hormonal treatments for switching genders.
Please cite this so I can be as educated as you. Thanks.
It would be great if libertarian principles applied to vaccines (my base ideology is libertarian), but: 1. Vaccines are not anywhere near 100% effective, so even a fully vaccinated person may be relying on herd immunity. 2. You can't vaccinate a newborn, so everyone relies on herd immunity for the first 6 months or so of their life. 3. Some people can't be vaccinated at all.
So we're left with a social solution, which is vaccinating everyone who can be vaccinated, whether they like it or not.
Not in MN where I live. Here are the vaccinations a child must have at 2 months, more at 4 months and yet more at 6 months:
Rotavirus (oral), Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (HIB), Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13), Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Inactivated Polio Virus (IPV) and Hepatitis B (HBV).
They might all be needed for the survival of the race, but that's a lot of vaccinations.
Exactly what I was going to post
Fat = more estrogen = less sperm
Not to mention the other parts of our diet.
Try the massive contamination of drinking water with estrogen from birth control pills as well as the estrogen mimickers such as soy products.
Every time Mr. Skinny Jeans gets a soy Cappuccino along with his Tofu smoothie, goodbye a little of the Mr. and hello a little more of the Ms.
I'm all for reproductive rights, but if you even mention the possibility that all those birth control pills are screwing up the hormonal balance of literally everything that uses water, at least in the U.S., holey moley, the feminists will scream bloody murder.
Repeat after me: "Nothing, nothing on Earth matters more than MY reproductive rights!! Not my health, not your health, not the frogs and fishes health. NOTHING!!!"
Estrogen
Estrogen
Estrogen
"It's almost impossible to get help," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN last month. "And part of the reason you can't get American people is they want full time jobs."
Oh the horror.
Here in MN, the resorts are desperately trying to get more of these types of visa workers. These resorts are only open part of the year and can't give anyone full time jobs, American or foreign.
They actively recruit around the world to try and get workers for a few months. These aren't supposed to be jobs that allow someone to live year round. Often the workers have lodging as part of the deal. Sort of like camp councilors who get paid and work and live in a resort for a few months. Foreign teens and young adults seem to love this arrangement. American youth is often too affluent and/or lazy to do this type of work. There are jobs that aren't supposed to be a career. That's why the so called "living wage" obsession can't be universally applied.
AKA Schedule Chicken. Though hoping the other team crashes and burns first is usually a metaphor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_chicken
Sometimes hoping isn't enough. I worked in the US Midwest in the late '90s for a guy who told me on Wednesday to meet him in Copenhagen Sunday morning to spend a few days with our international partners coders.
When I got there and asked what we were doing, he told me that we were going to screw with the Danish team members because we were way behind schedule and had to disrupt their schedule with tech bullshit. I would't do that, but didn't say anything. He threw what sand he could in the the gears and then we went home.
Did that again about six months later. I never had to do anything unethical and got a couple of free trips to Europe, so it worked out for me personally. The project was a disaster, of course, and my boss was eventually fired.
your body will release insulin in anticipation of the food spiking your blood sugar.
That would take exactly one twenty-minute experiment to prove true/false.
Where's the citations? Anyone....?
Sort of. I participated in a class once that did something along these lines as a demonstration of insulin reaction (indirectly, using blood sugar as a metric) to selected foods. Several guinea pig class members, I was one, used a glucometer and recorded serum glucose levels then we ate a bit of three different foods. One guy ate 1/2 a Snickers candy bar, one of ate a plain rice cake and I ate some ham. We waited a bit, took another blood sugar sample. Waited a bit more and took a final blood sugar test. Then we reported on how we felt
The ham guy, me, had almost no change. The Snickers guy saw his blood sugar rise then drop below baseline, got some energy then crashed a little. The greatest reaction, by far, was the plain rice cake. That person had the greatest rise in blood sugar followed by a greater drop and actually got a little shaky.
The point of the experiment was to show some misconceptions. Everyone thought the rice cake was healthy and the candy bar and fatty ham was unhealthy.
Wrong, at least from an insulin flooding standpoint. The rice cake is pure sugar. Starch is just glucose chained together. It turns out that the candy bar, poor nutritionally as it was, had a milder effect because of the fat it contains. Fat seems to blunt the insulin response. Doesn't make the sugar any less, but moderates the insulin reaction. The rice cake hadn't that moderator so it produced the most dramatic reaction.
That's why restaurants like to start you off with bread while you're perusing the menu. It ain't just being hospitable. They want your blood sugar to be plummeting when you order.
There are a million things you're not allowed to buy. Your freedom of choice is basically an illusion. For instance, you're not allowed to buy a car that violates all kinds of safety rules. You can't buy many dangerous chemicals. You can't buy a bazooka.
You can in the United States. A bazooka is a NFA regulated weapon with a $200 transfer tax just like a fully automatic rifle.
Bazooka,
The "gun control" crazies never seem to get that Americans have always been allowed ownership of all sorts of weapons without significant problems.
I agree that there are far too many homicides in the U.S. but that rate has declined even as the total numbers of firearms in civilian hand has increased dramatically over the last decade.
The mistake they made was not using the entire encyclopedia, Aardvark through Zygote.
Personally, if my gov't gets to the point where they're rounding up small arms I'm not going to be able to do much about it. I wouldn't last 5 minutes against a modern military.
I agree. Let's keep our government from growing to the point of being able to collect our guns.
Would also be interesting to know how they got the gun. Seems like you need a licence to drive a car but apparently not to operate a deadly weapon.
Actually, neither statement is quite true. One only needs a license to drive a car outside private property and only needs a licence to carry a gun outside private property in MN, where this happened.
The shooting occurred on private property where they could have also driven a car around in circles in the yard without a license or insurance.
Overpopulation. The planet has 7.5 billion people, all of whom want to live the good life as seen in Hollywood movies and TV.
The bastards! How dare people want to live the good life!
The birth rate for those wasteful U.S. and Europeans has been dropping for some time now. Japan's birth rate is plummeting. Even Catholic Italy can't keep making enough new Italians.
It would appear that the very thing you complain about is the answer to growing population. Achieve the good life as seen on Hollywood movies and TV and the breeding slows down. It's a win-win for all concerned.
What? You think brutal dictators have the consent of the governed? You don't need consent when people are cowed by fear.
You are missing that governments can rule by force, without the broad people's consent, and that when something is made illegal, doing it anyway can bring on harsh consequences.
That's still consent. No dictator can rule a populace without participation from informers, etc. Every member of the secret police in Crapalvania is a Crapalvanian mother's son. Just looking the other way is consent. The best quote: And we burned...
My wife has one. One of her physicians told her that he wants to see how much she is sleeping, how many steps she is taking, etc.
What passes for doctors these days is pitiful.
No matter the ailment, s/he'll just prescribe more statins and say exercise more. And if the device thinks she's sleeping too much or not enough, she'll get anti-depressants.
With this tech the elevators become cars on a vertical railway and can take on passengers without blocking shafts. Big gain.
If you don't mind having to get off at one floor to transfer to another lift to get to the top floor since I doubt the system would allow the bottom car to go to the top floor unless you used that sideways feature to shunt cars out of the way.
Even slighter nitpick. There are quite a few subsonic caliber rounds available, e.g., 9mm, etc.
If the goofy snake oil body stickers don't actually poison the suckers that buy them, they might be better off.