Sorry, you're right. It's just that they can't find any pilots that are willing to fly the thing.
It's an awesome piece of machinery, it seriously is, but they need to figure out what's wrong with it rather than just some poorly designed valves in the pressure garment - 4 years to diagnose that? come on...
And I've had 1.5 litres (2 750cl bottles of 100 proof vodka) without vomiting as a 16 year old with no ill effect other than a rather severe telling off from my parents from coming home too late
1 litre of 80 proof won't put much of dent on many people if it's a one off. Done on a daily basis for several years however...Please note my sig though (and excuse the smiley crap)
Pot isn't meant to get you better, it is meant to make life more livable, be it through the relaxin qualities or the appetite inducing qualities.
Smoking too much pot on a daily basis WILL fuck you up, no doubt. Same goes for alcohol. Same goes for water. That's the definition of "too much".
Sure GP was being generalistic, but if you look at somewhere like Holland where cannabis is decriminalise, very few locals actually smoke it (good luck finding someone who's not a tourist in an Amsterdam coffee shop unless they work there).
I'm far from perfect. I drink too much too often. I occasionally smoke some weed and have tried a fair range of drugs in my student days. But your points are somewhat nonsensical. Find me one person who is smoking pot for the first time and has "too much" and has a reaction which is worse than throwing up then falling asleep.
A large number of illegal drugs have a point where the person doesn't WANT anymore (example MDMA) - if the initial dose and wait time for it to hit is adequate then damage caused is far lower and at a much smaller cost to society than an obese idiot eating another cheap, over-salted, sugar-bunned, processed cheese covered burger. Get quality ingredients and savour them.
Crack would be the most I would say, cocaine probably slightly less than nicotine (and yes, I do know the two are very much related). Heroin is a different beast - most addiction that I have seen is not to the drug but to the escape from hell. Know several people that have died from it and thankfully many more that have quit. The people who died were almost all (one unfortunate exception) from terrible families with little or no support and nothing but scorn for their use. Those that quit did so easily one their families stepped in on an emotional level to fix the underlying problems the people were having.
I've never tried it myself (though have tried Cocaine, Extasy, pure Speed, pure MDMA, shrooms - only thing i still do is occasionally smoke a bit of weed and have too many beers) but I have spent 6 months on a morphine drip (extreme burns as a 12 year old - no drugs involved) and the week long comedown off that was a different type of hell.
The thing is, I don't want to touch any of that stuff again (wouldn't mind MDMA again once I meet the right girl, sex on it is meant to be unbelievable) other than weed and alcohol. Coming off morphine was a bitch, but once you're over withdrawals you are fine (guess the same with Heroin if you life isnt hell). Coming off nicotine... My father currently has small cell lung cancer and still smokes. His father died from cancer. I still smoke. Explain addiction to me please.
There was once this fantastic little tea shop in a small village in Switzerland, did amazing business
They specialized in Green Teas, had varieties from all over the world, extremely good quality and extremely expensive.
You bought your tea and they gave you the choice of giving your address with a perculiar little tick box.
You don't tick the box or don't give your address and you get a lovely little bag with nicely packed green tea.
You do and a few hours later a courier delivers an Amazon package to your door (still don't know where they sourced THAT) containing a specific quantity of something else that was green.
Great little business, too bad it's gone now... Owner apparently retired a very wealthy man.
I know this is an exception rather than the rule but a very close friend of my brother studied History of Art as he was passionate on the subject. He published several graffiti magazines (all profitable) during his degree and as part of his studies published an art book - photography of derelict urban sites, old hospitals, prisons, mental asylums, train yards, factories, etc. That was also rather profitable.
A degree like that gives you time to pursue something outside of the degree, something related perhaps, or something completely seperate.
Doing something you are passionate about, especially if you have the means, is much more fulfilling than doing a degree that you hate just to get a job.
That said, I studied Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics and now work as a Trader. I hated my degree (went from boring, to tedious, to purely abstract - Something I would enjoy as a hobby, but not on a schedule) but every bank wanted a degree to consider you for employement. I love my job, though lack of free time is a bit of a drain (and my bonsais have suffered, as has free time to dabble with computers) and am constantly challenged. My brothers friend is currently in washington working for Al Jazeera (he is a proper, proper Brit oddly enough) and loving it too. Different paths but both ending in careers that we are both happy with. Albeit by very different routes.
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I think the most elegant example is using a pencil vs developing a "space pen" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen
Sorry, you're right. It's just that they can't find any pilots that are willing to fly the thing.
It's an awesome piece of machinery, it seriously is, but they need to figure out what's wrong with it rather than just some poorly designed valves in the pressure garment - 4 years to diagnose that? come on...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/04/1251246/air-force-claims-to-have-solved-fatal-f-22-oxygen-riddle
Never say never (or always, every, etc...)
It's comments like that that can drive ignorance and mass retardation.
CO2 emissions are NOT bad. Upsetting the carbon cycle is bad. Almost all living (for a given level of living) things emit CO2.
http://www.thefix.com/content/10-hardest-addictive-drugs-to-kick7055#slide1
Was wrong on heroin, otherwise correct according to the study they are referring to.
http://www.bcliving.ca/health/top-5-drugs-most-likely-to-ruin-your-life
I've read a fair bit about it in the past but cant find the paper at the moment
Use of Weapons by Iain Banks. The ending just killed me.
Oblig
http://xkcd.com/325/
Innocent until proven guilty, I love that about America, perp walks and all...
Mod this UP! Good luck getting a new liver if they find a trace of evidence you are still drinking...
And I've had 1.5 litres (2 750cl bottles of 100 proof vodka) without vomiting as a 16 year old with no ill effect other than a rather severe telling off from my parents from coming home too late
1 litre of 80 proof won't put much of dent on many people if it's a one off. Done on a daily basis for several years however...Please note my sig though (and excuse the smiley crap)
Pot isn't meant to get you better, it is meant to make life more livable, be it through the relaxin qualities or the appetite inducing qualities.
Smoking too much pot on a daily basis WILL fuck you up, no doubt. Same goes for alcohol. Same goes for water. That's the definition of "too much".
Sure GP was being generalistic, but if you look at somewhere like Holland where cannabis is decriminalise, very few locals actually smoke it (good luck finding someone who's not a tourist in an Amsterdam coffee shop unless they work there).
I'm far from perfect. I drink too much too often. I occasionally smoke some weed and have tried a fair range of drugs in my student days. But your points are somewhat nonsensical. Find me one person who is smoking pot for the first time and has "too much" and has a reaction which is worse than throwing up then falling asleep.
A large number of illegal drugs have a point where the person doesn't WANT anymore (example MDMA) - if the initial dose and wait time for it to hit is adequate then damage caused is far lower and at a much smaller cost to society than an obese idiot eating another cheap, over-salted, sugar-bunned, processed cheese covered burger. Get quality ingredients and savour them.
Kudos
I prefer Iain Banks' utopia. It's much deeper than it seems.
The Culture got it right, the US is getting it very, VERY wrong...
Agreed, but it is up there.
Crack would be the most I would say, cocaine probably slightly less than nicotine (and yes, I do know the two are very much related). Heroin is a different beast - most addiction that I have seen is not to the drug but to the escape from hell. Know several people that have died from it and thankfully many more that have quit. The people who died were almost all (one unfortunate exception) from terrible families with little or no support and nothing but scorn for their use. Those that quit did so easily one their families stepped in on an emotional level to fix the underlying problems the people were having.
I've never tried it myself (though have tried Cocaine, Extasy, pure Speed, pure MDMA, shrooms - only thing i still do is occasionally smoke a bit of weed and have too many beers) but I have spent 6 months on a morphine drip (extreme burns as a 12 year old - no drugs involved) and the week long comedown off that was a different type of hell.
The thing is, I don't want to touch any of that stuff again (wouldn't mind MDMA again once I meet the right girl, sex on it is meant to be unbelievable) other than weed and alcohol. Coming off morphine was a bitch, but once you're over withdrawals you are fine (guess the same with Heroin if you life isnt hell). Coming off nicotine... My father currently has small cell lung cancer and still smokes. His father died from cancer. I still smoke. Explain addiction to me please.
There was once this fantastic little tea shop in a small village in Switzerland, did amazing business
They specialized in Green Teas, had varieties from all over the world, extremely good quality and extremely expensive.
You bought your tea and they gave you the choice of giving your address with a perculiar little tick box.
You don't tick the box or don't give your address and you get a lovely little bag with nicely packed green tea.
You do and a few hours later a courier delivers an Amazon package to your door (still don't know where they sourced THAT) containing a specific quantity of something else that was green.
Great little business, too bad it's gone now... Owner apparently retired a very wealthy man.
Yet the US has capital punishment... Right...
Completely with you on keeping electronic goods until they break HOWEVER - what is the cost of property per square metre/foot in you area?
When you are looking at expensive cities/areas (over $10,000 for 1m^2) replacing a large CRT with an LCD/Plasma makes a LOT of sense...
Can people stop selling it as 3D, it's sterescopic. The picture does not change when you move.
Using that logic every game is also optional.
640 qubits ought to be enough for anybody
Theyre also cutting subsidies for solar from spring next year
Read the post again. German company buying power from Norway.
I know this is an exception rather than the rule but a very close friend of my brother studied History of Art as he was passionate on the subject. He published several graffiti magazines (all profitable) during his degree and as part of his studies published an art book - photography of derelict urban sites, old hospitals, prisons, mental asylums, train yards, factories, etc. That was also rather profitable.
A degree like that gives you time to pursue something outside of the degree, something related perhaps, or something completely seperate.
Doing something you are passionate about, especially if you have the means, is much more fulfilling than doing a degree that you hate just to get a job.
That said, I studied Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics and now work as a Trader. I hated my degree (went from boring, to tedious, to purely abstract - Something I would enjoy as a hobby, but not on a schedule) but every bank wanted a degree to consider you for employement. I love my job, though lack of free time is a bit of a drain (and my bonsais have suffered, as has free time to dabble with computers) and am constantly challenged. My brothers friend is currently in washington working for Al Jazeera (he is a proper, proper Brit oddly enough) and loving it too. Different paths but both ending in careers that we are both happy with. Albeit by very different routes.
How about a few hundred metres underwater a few tens of kilometres out to sea?
The markets react.
Shares of E.ON and RWE are getting hammered, Renewable Energy Corp, Vestas Wind, etc are up sharply today.
I'm still thinking of whether its worth going back to my 22" flat(screen) LaCie CRT currently in the attic.
2048*1536 - just glorious, but space is a constaint...