Glad to see I'm not alone in that. The usual knights and dragons were fun, but at times it was even more so to transplant the concept into something a bit askew from it. Both in ravenloft and spelljammer, one of my favorite parts was the whole idea of taking things familiar to one setting (beholders, mind flayers, thri-keen) and tossing away a large amount of what players were expecting. I wish it would have lasted a bit longer, and gone into more detail on how the different worlds got along. It would have been fun, for example, to get some information about the relations of normal gnomes and dragonlance gnomes.
Somehow I doubt that. I'm very familiar with my debian setup, I'm used to how the developers of most of the applications I use think. I never feel like I'm fighting with my OS. If anything, I'd have a hard time getting used to OSX, which does things in a slightly different manner than what I'm used to. I've only used OSX a few times, but it's enough to know I'd have to sit down for quite a while before the interface felt natural to me. Don't get me wrong, I 'like' OSX, but I think it gets a bit of an unfair reputation of telepathically reading the users mind when it comes to usability.
Jesse Ventura, not backed by a party, nor was he backed by millions and he was elected governor of Minnesota and he had enough name recognition he could have gone farther.
Which I think is the point you're ignoring. He had name recognition, which had been built up by millions of dollors before he had even the foggiest idea of ever running, and which had been gathering momentum since then.
And when the two parties have practically the same opinion?
And that's the main reason I'd love to see a Libertarian in the presidential debate. There's many things which both parties would rather not talk about, and I'd love to see them both called out. In particular, the issue of extreme punishment for use of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
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Which is of course, why I'll be into provigil as soon as I can get easy access to some.
Oh, Modafinil! I used to use that back in my early school days, when I was also blessed with enough extra money to afford importing it. I was going on pretty short hours, and I found it amazingly helpful. Even on higher doses I never had that jittery effect from coffee, and it didn't feel like I was drugged as caffeine did for me - it just made me go from tired to normal. Hm, now that you've brought it up, I could sure go for some more as well!
90% of any working population I'd wager. I stopped using anything with caffeine after really watching my coworkers in a generic little office while at the same time wading through studies looking at performance hits from caffeine withdrawl. As much as I know there's also some social component to relaxing around the coffee pot as it brews up, it was a little too similar to people standing in line for methadone to not disturb me just a little.
I'd hazzard a guess that you're most likly just addicted to the point where you've built up a strong tolerence for it. Combined with the somewhat low amount of caffeine contained in soda, about 1/4 that of coffee. You'd have to go through around 8-16 500ml bottles within an hour of each other before getting what I'd consider a strongly psychoactive dose, and that'd be 'without' having much tollerence. Try two 200mg caffeine pills to see what people are talking about in regards to the stimulent effects.
One trait we've selected for in particular I find interesting is their ability to understand and comunicate with humans. I've heard it said that dogs have a better intuitive understanding of human body language than even other primates. While I'm not sure of the truth of that, it certainly seems that humans have done a remarkable job in casting a quite genetically different species into our own image.
It's funny, but more and more I find myself hearing people say they only keep a tv around for the daily show. I'm in nearly the same position, though like yourself, there's also adult swim for me. Paying the cable bill is always an annoying reminder that I'm putting out all that money for just three or four shows. And aside from the daily show, these are ones which at most are only going to be four new episodes per month, and more likly less than that.
While I agree with others that leaving an actual letter with a lawyer is more practical for saying goodbyes to loved ones....this could be a lot of fun. I think we all have people in our lives whom we email occasionally but rather dislike. Bosses, coworkers, exes who keep sending us chain letters. Foreknowledge of creepy, post death, emails could provide a lot of amusement as death approaches. I know I've had coworkers I'd love to have receive an occasional email of "I saw what you did Thursday. I see everything now. Woooooooooooo.". And on TLPD, one could even have a slight variation "Yar, I'll eat yer soul for that day you didn't refill the coffee pot!".
Very much so. The series begins with a young girl commiting suicide. Shortly after the main character, and some of her schoolmates, begin receiving cryptic emails from the dead girl.
Besides, running to Canada would be the pussy's way out. You should stay here and fight for your right if you feel it should be a right.
Fighting a battle one can't win is pointless. There's only two parties with any chance of having the influence to do anything about the issue. Both are strongly opposed to doing so for differing idiological reasons.
That's like saying, "I'm moving to England because Cricket just ain't popular enough here."
No, it's like saying "I'm moving to England, because if I play Cricket here they'll throw me in a rape room for a decade and not allow me to receive federal loans or grants for school.
Plus, Canada's not as lenient as you would think. Pot is still illegal up there, too. Dumbass.
True, but there's at least a chance of change up there, the laws are 'far' less severe, and police more likly to turn a blind eye on someone possessing small amounts for personal use.
So your theorem that the system is proven not to work is wrong. Or at least partly so, because the system seems to work very well here.
If by here, you mean America, I strongly disagree. I consider the majority of my public education to be a process of self instruction, and if it wasn't for some small measure of self motivation I doubt I'd have taken much from it beyond some basic math and the ability to read and write. While I'm willing to accept that not all public schools were as bad as mine, I think the majority are. Mine was just a normal suburban high school, one no one would bat an eye at. Talking to other former suburbanites, most seem to have had the same experience. When the subject is below that economic class, things get worse than that already pretty bad state.
Once I got out of there and started traveling more, my outlook on public education became even more dour. If one's out of the area around a university, the actual grasp of 'any' subject is pretty dismal. I think a lot of people get their idea of their nations state of education just from the social groups they spend their time with. After being seperated from that, and spending time in towns better representing the nation as a whole, I really don't think 'anything' could make the current education system much worse. As far as I'm concerned, public school isn't even an option anymore if the goal is to actually educate a child. Aside from the earliest skills like reading and writing, it's already only a choice between private and home schooling as far as I'm concerned. The idea of every child getting a quality education is a wonderful one, but I don't think it's either the truth nor something which could become a reality any time soon.
There's a big difference though. In the case of Esperanto, there were allready a huge number of officially spoken languages, sometimes multiple even within the same country. The process of formalising sign language is, as I understand it, very recent. The main thing which seems to have stopped it from crossing cultures is the usual 'not invented here' bias.
I had the same reaction. The only consolation is that I have doubts anything but a real rpg could really live up to the name. I'm just hoping it does well enough to spawn something like that for a console more able to handle it. Or does well enough for a company to snatch up the torg license as genre-bending competition.
Or, while we're dreaming of things that would be great but which will never happen short of revolution, an end or severe modification to the electoral college.
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I've always been curious about the interaction, or lack of interaction, betwean cats dogs and a new aibo. I've never seen mention of it by an owners though, suggesting that it might fall more into the lack of interaction catagory than the hilarious section.
I think jumping to any conclusions is a little premature at this point. While I've only been picking up tidbits of information in this area, I was under the impression that we're only just now getting to the point of understanding the actual mechanism of action behind the health benefits provided by red wine. This article seemed to imply that the study is working under the assumption that all or most of the benefit is being provided by it acting as an antioxident. While I'm certainly not going to dismiss any benefit from antioxidents, I do think they get a little more positive press than deserved based on most studies.
Ah, so that explains it. I finally got enough ram to keep freenet going 24/7, and was surprised to find it so unreliable. I wasn't expecting a speed demon, but I was expecting that links to files on freesites would work if the site itself was. That, so far, has seldom been the case. Are there any other similar projects going on?
Keep in mind too that a linux distro is very up to date with the latest technologies. WindowsXP is pretty long in the tooth at this point, and even that wasn't all 'that' much different than Windows 2000. I imagine a linux distro from back then would run at a pretty swift speed as well.
This is a question I've wanted to ask every PSA urging me to 'rock the vote'. I'm not living in a swing state, we have a HUGE majority to the point where there's not 'any' chance of my state not coming out as the other party. So why should I, and the huge number of other people in my position, take time out of work and school to vote when it's not going to even be counted towards the election?
I'm almost entirly in agreement with you. Everything I've seen seems to indicate that no one is immune to the kind of advertising popular today, no matter how much we want to believe that we're the exception to the rule. I'm willing to think there's a chance the parent might be though, just because he seems determined enough that he might in fact conciouslly recall the name of every advertiser, company, and product he's seen. If one were able to remember every single one of those, and keep a mental list which would be gone through every time he goes to the store, I think it might work. If this ever did take effect I'd at least try to do just that. On the other hand I live in a hick town which couldn't afford this kind of technology for at least thirty years after it's initial release. So untill then I'm pretty safe.
I agree that's what should be done, and like to think I would do exactly as you suggest. I have a feeling there won't be enough people doing so to make a difference though. The reason for my pessamisim is movies. Everyone I know gets annoyed by the commercials at the beggining of them, but 99.9% also just passively sit through them instead of arriving fifteen minutes late or just leaving for a while when the theater darkens.
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Glad to see I'm not alone in that. The usual knights and dragons were fun, but at times it was even more so to transplant the concept into something a bit askew from it. Both in ravenloft and spelljammer, one of my favorite parts was the whole idea of taking things familiar to one setting (beholders, mind flayers, thri-keen) and tossing away a large amount of what players were expecting. I wish it would have lasted a bit longer, and gone into more detail on how the different worlds got along. It would have been fun, for example, to get some information about the relations of normal gnomes and dragonlance gnomes.
Somehow I doubt that. I'm very familiar with my debian setup, I'm used to how the developers of most of the applications I use think. I never feel like I'm fighting with my OS. If anything, I'd have a hard time getting used to OSX, which does things in a slightly different manner than what I'm used to. I've only used OSX a few times, but it's enough to know I'd have to sit down for quite a while before the interface felt natural to me. Don't get me wrong, I 'like' OSX, but I think it gets a bit of an unfair reputation of telepathically reading the users mind when it comes to usability.
Jesse Ventura, not backed by a party, nor was he backed by millions and he was elected governor of Minnesota and he had enough name recognition he could have gone farther.
Which I think is the point you're ignoring. He had name recognition, which had been built up by millions of dollors before he had even the foggiest idea of ever running, and which had been gathering momentum since then.
And when the two parties have practically the same opinion?
And that's the main reason I'd love to see a Libertarian in the presidential debate. There's many things which both parties would rather not talk about, and I'd love to see them both called out. In particular, the issue of extreme punishment for use of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
Which is of course, why I'll be into provigil as soon as I can get easy access to some. Oh, Modafinil! I used to use that back in my early school days, when I was also blessed with enough extra money to afford importing it. I was going on pretty short hours, and I found it amazingly helpful. Even on higher doses I never had that jittery effect from coffee, and it didn't feel like I was drugged as caffeine did for me - it just made me go from tired to normal. Hm, now that you've brought it up, I could sure go for some more as well!
90% of any working population I'd wager. I stopped using anything with caffeine after really watching my coworkers in a generic little office while at the same time wading through studies looking at performance hits from caffeine withdrawl. As much as I know there's also some social component to relaxing around the coffee pot as it brews up, it was a little too similar to people standing in line for methadone to not disturb me just a little.
I'd hazzard a guess that you're most likly just addicted to the point where you've built up a strong tolerence for it. Combined with the somewhat low amount of caffeine contained in soda, about 1/4 that of coffee. You'd have to go through around 8-16 500ml bottles within an hour of each other before getting what I'd consider a strongly psychoactive dose, and that'd be 'without' having much tollerence. Try two 200mg caffeine pills to see what people are talking about in regards to the stimulent effects.
One trait we've selected for in particular I find interesting is their ability to understand and comunicate with humans. I've heard it said that dogs have a better intuitive understanding of human body language than even other primates. While I'm not sure of the truth of that, it certainly seems that humans have done a remarkable job in casting a quite genetically different species into our own image.
It's funny, but more and more I find myself hearing people say they only keep a tv around for the daily show. I'm in nearly the same position, though like yourself, there's also adult swim for me. Paying the cable bill is always an annoying reminder that I'm putting out all that money for just three or four shows. And aside from the daily show, these are ones which at most are only going to be four new episodes per month, and more likly less than that.
While I agree with others that leaving an actual letter with a lawyer is more practical for saying goodbyes to loved ones....this could be a lot of fun. I think we all have people in our lives whom we email occasionally but rather dislike. Bosses, coworkers, exes who keep sending us chain letters. Foreknowledge of creepy, post death, emails could provide a lot of amusement as death approaches. I know I've had coworkers I'd love to have receive an occasional email of "I saw what you did Thursday. I see everything now. Woooooooooooo.". And on TLPD, one could even have a slight variation "Yar, I'll eat yer soul for that day you didn't refill the coffee pot!".
Is there some relevance?
Very much so. The series begins with a young girl commiting suicide. Shortly after the main character, and some of her schoolmates, begin receiving cryptic emails from the dead girl.
Besides, running to Canada would be the pussy's way out. You should stay here and fight for your right if you feel it should be a right.
Fighting a battle one can't win is pointless. There's only two parties with any chance of having the influence to do anything about the issue. Both are strongly opposed to doing so for differing idiological reasons.
That's like saying, "I'm moving to England because Cricket just ain't popular enough here."
No, it's like saying "I'm moving to England, because if I play Cricket here they'll throw me in a rape room for a decade and not allow me to receive federal loans or grants for school.
Plus, Canada's not as lenient as you would think. Pot is still illegal up there, too. Dumbass.
True, but there's at least a chance of change up there, the laws are 'far' less severe, and police more likly to turn a blind eye on someone possessing small amounts for personal use.
So your theorem that the system is proven not to work is wrong. Or at least partly so, because the system seems to work very well here.
If by here, you mean America, I strongly disagree. I consider the majority of my public education to be a process of self instruction, and if it wasn't for some small measure of self motivation I doubt I'd have taken much from it beyond some basic math and the ability to read and write. While I'm willing to accept that not all public schools were as bad as mine, I think the majority are. Mine was just a normal suburban high school, one no one would bat an eye at. Talking to other former suburbanites, most seem to have had the same experience. When the subject is below that economic class, things get worse than that already pretty bad state.
Once I got out of there and started traveling more, my outlook on public education became even more dour. If one's out of the area around a university, the actual grasp of 'any' subject is pretty dismal. I think a lot of people get their idea of their nations state of education just from the social groups they spend their time with. After being seperated from that, and spending time in towns better representing the nation as a whole, I really don't think 'anything' could make the current education system much worse. As far as I'm concerned, public school isn't even an option anymore if the goal is to actually educate a child. Aside from the earliest skills like reading and writing, it's already only a choice between private and home schooling as far as I'm concerned. The idea of every child getting a quality education is a wonderful one, but I don't think it's either the truth nor something which could become a reality any time soon.
There's a big difference though. In the case of Esperanto, there were allready a huge number of officially spoken languages, sometimes multiple even within the same country. The process of formalising sign language is, as I understand it, very recent. The main thing which seems to have stopped it from crossing cultures is the usual 'not invented here' bias.
I had the same reaction. The only consolation is that I have doubts anything but a real rpg could really live up to the name. I'm just hoping it does well enough to spawn something like that for a console more able to handle it. Or does well enough for a company to snatch up the torg license as genre-bending competition.
Or, while we're dreaming of things that would be great but which will never happen short of revolution, an end or severe modification to the electoral college.
I've always been curious about the interaction, or lack of interaction, betwean cats dogs and a new aibo. I've never seen mention of it by an owners though, suggesting that it might fall more into the lack of interaction catagory than the hilarious section.
I think jumping to any conclusions is a little premature at this point. While I've only been picking up tidbits of information in this area, I was under the impression that we're only just now getting to the point of understanding the actual mechanism of action behind the health benefits provided by red wine. This article seemed to imply that the study is working under the assumption that all or most of the benefit is being provided by it acting as an antioxident. While I'm certainly not going to dismiss any benefit from antioxidents, I do think they get a little more positive press than deserved based on most studies.
Ah, so that explains it. I finally got enough ram to keep freenet going 24/7, and was surprised to find it so unreliable. I wasn't expecting a speed demon, but I was expecting that links to files on freesites would work if the site itself was. That, so far, has seldom been the case. Are there any other similar projects going on?
I don't have the link on hand, but there is a spellcheck plugin for firefox called spellbound.
Keep in mind too that a linux distro is very up to date with the latest technologies. WindowsXP is pretty long in the tooth at this point, and even that wasn't all 'that' much different than Windows 2000. I imagine a linux distro from back then would run at a pretty swift speed as well.
This is a question I've wanted to ask every PSA urging me to 'rock the vote'. I'm not living in a swing state, we have a HUGE majority to the point where there's not 'any' chance of my state not coming out as the other party. So why should I, and the huge number of other people in my position, take time out of work and school to vote when it's not going to even be counted towards the election?
And one I never see mentioned, spellbound. It allows one to right click on a webpages text entry box, and do a spellcheck on what has been typed.
I'm almost entirly in agreement with you. Everything I've seen seems to indicate that no one is immune to the kind of advertising popular today, no matter how much we want to believe that we're the exception to the rule. I'm willing to think there's a chance the parent might be though, just because he seems determined enough that he might in fact conciouslly recall the name of every advertiser, company, and product he's seen. If one were able to remember every single one of those, and keep a mental list which would be gone through every time he goes to the store, I think it might work. If this ever did take effect I'd at least try to do just that. On the other hand I live in a hick town which couldn't afford this kind of technology for at least thirty years after it's initial release. So untill then I'm pretty safe.
I agree that's what should be done, and like to think I would do exactly as you suggest. I have a feeling there won't be enough people doing so to make a difference though. The reason for my pessamisim is movies. Everyone I know gets annoyed by the commercials at the beggining of them, but 99.9% also just passively sit through them instead of arriving fifteen minutes late or just leaving for a while when the theater darkens.