Very, very true. I'm 18, my favorite artist is quite definitely Nine Inch Nails. I have... countless CDs, a couple of posters, several t-shirts, stickers... all kinds of NIN merchandise. Care to guess how I found out about NIN? When I was 14, I heard a song on the radio, had no clue who it was by or what the name was, but plugged one of the lines into Google. And in those four years since, I've contributed probably hundreds to the music industry (shame on me), directly from that incident. And it could easily be argued that I started listening to a lot of other artists, like Tool, A Perfect Circle, and so on because of listening to NIN. Friends who knew I liked the one band recommended them to me, etc.
I'd love to the the entertainment industry totally screw themselves over by ruining their income sources by doing these things, but sadly, I kinda doubt we'll ever have some great musical utopia.
I really hope not, because I live in Troy, and my dad works at RPI.
I'd actually heard they were going to be attending Rocehster Institute of Technology, anyway, which is where my boyfriend will most likely be going next year.
But hey, this is the internet, and random rumours abound. They could be not going at all, or going somewhere entirely different, and chances are, there'd be some rumour that they were going to just about any large university you care to think of.
I think it's called Super Bust-A-Move or something... excellent game. Different characters, player vs. computer, player vs. player, puzzle mode, alternate puzzle and vs. modes... and hidden characters and stages. I doubt it costs much, and I find it's a lot more fun with a controller, than on a computer, using a keyboard.
I also have the PSX version, which is more arcade-like, and has the excellent time trial mode.
I originally played it years ago on SNES, when my older sister rented it, and I've been hooked ever since.
In which my mother told me she'd been reading something, probably some scientific journal or other, and they had that very theory; that people remember things through language.
Apparently, when I was not even two, I was shown Saturn through a telescope. I had no word for 'planet', or 'Saturn', or anything of the like... but I did know the word 'eye'. I thought that saturn, with its rings open, looked like an eye. When I started talking more, I would incesantly talk about an eye in the sky. It took my mother a long time to realize what I meant. At some point, I saw a photo of Saturn looking much the same way, and reacted to it again, and she realized.
I remember nothing else from that age, except for Saturn. I've always had a bizarre fascination with both Saturn, and eyes. I don't think it's coincidence.:-P
You've explained your thoughts well, get her true, ideas, really talk about it. None of us know her, how can we answer? If it truly means a lot to her, she should tell you. Discuss some alteratives, it may be that she finds there are non-diamond rings she'd prefer anyway. I know plenty of girls who don't like diamonds. And she shouldn't chose somethign just because of what society says is correct, she should be able to get a ring she'll really love, herself. If that means a diamond, then ok!
I liked the idea brought up of getting a Canadian diamond- I'm into fair trade and such, and obviously wouldn't want to help finance terrorism or other violence, so if she DOES want a diamond, perhaps that's the way to go. An antique ring or diamond is also a good idea, though despite what was said elsewhere, they can be extremely expensive. My sister has a platinum ring, from the 1920s, with a one carat diamond, and then something like 50 small diamonds in the setting. Not only was it incredibly expensive, but probably more expensive than a new, similar ring would have been.
Since a few people pointed out that it was stupid that the government is dealing with things like this while we're "fighting a war against terrorism," I felt a need to say something, but didn't want to respond to just one of them.
What do you THINK the terrorists want? To disrupt every-day life, well, at least that's part of what they want to accomplish. Fact is, there's a whole country to be run, no? It's not like everything else can be ignored as long as there are terrorists. At that rate, NOTHING else would get done. That sort of thinking is actually what's allowing this government to get away with things they otherwise wouldn't- the opposition going along with conservative ideas, because "oh, we need to fight terrorism, so we should just let this go through so that we can concentrate on that."
Fact is, the government SHOULDN'T be paying attention only to the "war," and neither should we be.
That said, I don't agree with this either, but I don't think that "they should be paying attention to terrorism, not this" is a good defense. Would you also like the government to ignore welfare? Health care? Everything but war and defense issues?
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Robert Stroud,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
My father was working at the University of Newcastle, as a programmer, during the 80s.:) I shall have to ask my parents if they know the name.
That's an excellent point- I heard that some of the other wind-up/solar stuff that's come out in the past few years (radios, flashlights, etc.) was actually developed with the Third World in mind. I wonder if that was the case with this, or it was simply developed for forgetful Western consumers like myself, who can't remember to charge their phones up.:-p
I'm forgetful and apt to wandering around with friends outside, with a dead cellphone in my bag, since I always forge to recharge it. I think that'd save me from many clashes with my irate parents after they get sick of not knowing where I am for the tenth day in a row... plus I might stop missing dinner and living solely on ramen noodles then.
I loev wind-up stuff like that anyway, my family has a clock and a flashlight for camping, and they're great.
Did you not read the whole thing? Sure, they used some quotes from the company, but they also pointed out some bad points about it (the light lacking in power, how long it takes to wind up, etc.), and put in their own opinions on how useful it might actually be. To me, that constitutes a review. It gave some information from personal experience that I think I'd take into account...
It's worth noting that the article does actually point out they didn't just decide it's likely the caffeine based on the one study- in fact, most of the article only stresses that coffee was having the possible effect of reducing the chances of Alzheimers. Then it was mentioned that it could be the caffeine, based on the fact that "Laboratory experiments on mice have already pointed to caffeine as a potential treatment for the disease."
I think we all read the article a little biased, after reading Slashdot's headline for it. The article itself really doesn't try to make any assumptions, it more offers a possibility based on a few seperate findings.
Nowhere does it try to claim that that amount of caffeine PREVENTS Alzheimer's- it only says it REDUCES the risk- by 60%, to be exact. And if your mother had other high-risk factors for developing Alzheimer's, or perhaps was drinking weak coffee... well, there are plenty of reasons that could make it even more likely that your mother would develop the disease, despite her coffee intake. Sure, I'm not taking this report as fact either, but just because someone who drank a decent amount of coffee got Alzheimer's doesn't totally disprove it, at all.
Oooooh yes... I've actually been considering writing to the company and seeing if they'd consider making a new version- non-sugar-free Penguin Mints. Really, I'd rather have the disgusting amount of sugar than be eating what basically amount to chunks of sorbitol with caffeine and flavoring. I love them, but they give me the worst stomach aches, so I've simply stopped buying them. I can get my caffeine others ways, if I must.
I don't quite get the point of making them sugar-free anyway, really... after all, they're hardly breath mints. They don't exactly leave you with nice minty-fresh breath. More of a strange caffeine aftertaste.
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Very, very true. I'm 18, my favorite artist is quite definitely Nine Inch Nails. I have... countless CDs, a couple of posters, several t-shirts, stickers... all kinds of NIN merchandise. Care to guess how I found out about NIN? When I was 14, I heard a song on the radio, had no clue who it was by or what the name was, but plugged one of the lines into Google. And in those four years since, I've contributed probably hundreds to the music industry (shame on me), directly from that incident. And it could easily be argued that I started listening to a lot of other artists, like Tool, A Perfect Circle, and so on because of listening to NIN. Friends who knew I liked the one band recommended them to me, etc.
I'd love to the the entertainment industry totally screw themselves over by ruining their income sources by doing these things, but sadly, I kinda doubt we'll ever have some great musical utopia.
I really hope not, because I live in Troy, and my dad works at RPI.
I'd actually heard they were going to be attending Rocehster Institute of Technology, anyway, which is where my boyfriend will most likely be going next year.
But hey, this is the internet, and random rumours abound. They could be not going at all, or going somewhere entirely different, and chances are, there'd be some rumour that they were going to just about any large university you care to think of.
I think it's called Super Bust-A-Move or something... excellent game. Different characters, player vs. computer, player vs. player, puzzle mode, alternate puzzle and vs. modes... and hidden characters and stages. I doubt it costs much, and I find it's a lot more fun with a controller, than on a computer, using a keyboard. I also have the PSX version, which is more arcade-like, and has the excellent time trial mode. I originally played it years ago on SNES, when my older sister rented it, and I've been hooked ever since.
In which my mother told me she'd been reading something, probably some scientific journal or other, and they had that very theory; that people remember things through language. Apparently, when I was not even two, I was shown Saturn through a telescope. I had no word for 'planet', or 'Saturn', or anything of the like... but I did know the word 'eye'. I thought that saturn, with its rings open, looked like an eye. When I started talking more, I would incesantly talk about an eye in the sky. It took my mother a long time to realize what I meant. At some point, I saw a photo of Saturn looking much the same way, and reacted to it again, and she realized. I remember nothing else from that age, except for Saturn. I've always had a bizarre fascination with both Saturn, and eyes. I don't think it's coincidence. :-P
... should be down to you and her, no one else!
You've explained your thoughts well, get her true, ideas, really talk about it. None of us know her, how can we answer? If it truly means a lot to her, she should tell you. Discuss some alteratives, it may be that she finds there are non-diamond rings she'd prefer anyway. I know plenty of girls who don't like diamonds. And she shouldn't chose somethign just because of what society says is correct, she should be able to get a ring she'll really love, herself. If that means a diamond, then ok!
I liked the idea brought up of getting a Canadian diamond- I'm into fair trade and such, and obviously wouldn't want to help finance terrorism or other violence, so if she DOES want a diamond, perhaps that's the way to go. An antique ring or diamond is also a good idea, though despite what was said elsewhere, they can be extremely expensive. My sister has a platinum ring, from the 1920s, with a one carat diamond, and then something like 50 small diamonds in the setting. Not only was it incredibly expensive, but probably more expensive than a new, similar ring would have been.
Since a few people pointed out that it was stupid that the government is dealing with things like this while we're "fighting a war against terrorism," I felt a need to say something, but didn't want to respond to just one of them.
What do you THINK the terrorists want? To disrupt every-day life, well, at least that's part of what they want to accomplish. Fact is, there's a whole country to be run, no? It's not like everything else can be ignored as long as there are terrorists. At that rate, NOTHING else would get done. That sort of thinking is actually what's allowing this government to get away with things they otherwise wouldn't- the opposition going along with conservative ideas, because "oh, we need to fight terrorism, so we should just let this go through so that we can concentrate on that."
Fact is, the government SHOULDN'T be paying attention only to the "war," and neither should we be.
That said, I don't agree with this either, but I don't think that "they should be paying attention to terrorism, not this" is a good defense. Would you also like the government to ignore welfare? Health care? Everything but war and defense issues?
One of the replies was ended with the signature Robert Stroud, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. My father was working at the University of Newcastle, as a programmer, during the 80s. :) I shall have to ask my parents if they know the name.
That's an excellent point- I heard that some of the other wind-up/solar stuff that's come out in the past few years (radios, flashlights, etc.) was actually developed with the Third World in mind. I wonder if that was the case with this, or it was simply developed for forgetful Western consumers like myself, who can't remember to charge their phones up. :-p
I'm forgetful and apt to wandering around with friends outside, with a dead cellphone in my bag, since I always forge to recharge it. I think that'd save me from many clashes with my irate parents after they get sick of not knowing where I am for the tenth day in a row... plus I might stop missing dinner and living solely on ramen noodles then.
I loev wind-up stuff like that anyway, my family has a clock and a flashlight for camping, and they're great.
Did you not read the whole thing? Sure, they used some quotes from the company, but they also pointed out some bad points about it (the light lacking in power, how long it takes to wind up, etc.), and put in their own opinions on how useful it might actually be. To me, that constitutes a review. It gave some information from personal experience that I think I'd take into account...
It's worth noting that the article does actually point out they didn't just decide it's likely the caffeine based on the one study- in fact, most of the article only stresses that coffee was having the possible effect of reducing the chances of Alzheimers. Then it was mentioned that it could be the caffeine, based on the fact that "Laboratory experiments on mice have already pointed to caffeine as a potential treatment for the disease."
I think we all read the article a little biased, after reading Slashdot's headline for it. The article itself really doesn't try to make any assumptions, it more offers a possibility based on a few seperate findings.
Nowhere does it try to claim that that amount of caffeine PREVENTS Alzheimer's- it only says it REDUCES the risk- by 60%, to be exact. And if your mother had other high-risk factors for developing Alzheimer's, or perhaps was drinking weak coffee... well, there are plenty of reasons that could make it even more likely that your mother would develop the disease, despite her coffee intake. Sure, I'm not taking this report as fact either, but just because someone who drank a decent amount of coffee got Alzheimer's doesn't totally disprove it, at all.
Oooooh yes... I've actually been considering writing to the company and seeing if they'd consider making a new version- non-sugar-free Penguin Mints. Really, I'd rather have the disgusting amount of sugar than be eating what basically amount to chunks of sorbitol with caffeine and flavoring. I love them, but they give me the worst stomach aches, so I've simply stopped buying them. I can get my caffeine others ways, if I must. I don't quite get the point of making them sugar-free anyway, really... after all, they're hardly breath mints. They don't exactly leave you with nice minty-fresh breath. More of a strange caffeine aftertaste.