No thanks. Besides the fact that in Canada doctors really don't care about psychological issues. They mumble something about personality disorders and invite you to go see a psy-something. Medicare doesn't cover that. Plus I can get anti-depressant effects from SAM-e pills. Which curiously you can no longer find easily. So fuck em all.
I think depression is a symptom, not a disease. It's a symptom that I should get different work, move, etc... But I've managed to ignore the telltale signs and just plow ahead in my miserable choices.
That's right, at 15 I was able to learn anything, eat anything, and do anything. I could ride a 100K on a bike, go to bed and wake up like nothing happened.
The years 15-30 were fantastic as your 20s are the peak of everything. 30s is coasting, then everything is downhill. Why is this such a problem?
You think 40-55 is going to be great? I just LOOK at older people and get angry at the thought that the same will happen to me. The pear shaped belly, the bloated, jowly face, the stupid jokes and inability to learn. Then past that, the total decay of old age?
I've seen it all and can't build up much of an excitement for anything. I can't imagine that my Dad is 90 and my Mom 86 and they're both not showing signs of going anytime soon.
Just my luck to be stuck with depression *and* longevity. I keep telling people that I'm 25 years away from my best years in the past, but I don't think I can last another 25 just to live through the decay of everything I used to enjoy.
These idiots better work on getting rid of aging, not just clocking in more years.
We already do. It's just that a lot of that money is also used to support a crony system of administrators and textbook companies, and that needs to stop.
Maybe you didn't grow up in the West? Radio Shack was all over the place here in Montreal when I was a kid. It must have been all over North America as well.
I was a Sony fanboi back then and having one of the first MZ-1s was like being a space alien. Just ejecting the disc on the Metro (subway) was a reason for complete strangers to ask what it is! Fun times.
Sony, like me, now appears to be a grumpy middle-aged man with graying hair denying that it's 2015...
" I conclude that doing actual R&D on the leading edge of stuff is itself daring."
In the 1960s, companies hired you and they paid YOU to do R&D.
Today, universities are the R&D branch of corporations. Universities soak up public money (most of it funneled into textbook companies and top-heavy administration) and students pay the university,.
Then the students can get some nice debt, and go begging for the few technical jobs left out there.
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Maybe that's why I'm depressed.
No thanks. Besides the fact that in Canada doctors really don't care about psychological issues. They mumble something about personality disorders and invite you to go see a psy-something. Medicare doesn't cover that.
Plus I can get anti-depressant effects from SAM-e pills. Which curiously you can no longer find easily. So fuck em all.
Everything breaks the Adobe reader. Get rid of it and install Sumatra PDF.
This kind of cross-link?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or did you mean how the same gene expresses a protein used in my fingernails as well as my brain? (I made that up to illustrate)
I think depression is a symptom, not a disease. It's a symptom that I should get different work, move, etc... But I've managed to ignore the telltale signs and just plow ahead in my miserable choices.
That's right, at 15 I was able to learn anything, eat anything, and do anything. I could ride a 100K on a bike, go to bed and wake up like nothing happened.
The years 15-30 were fantastic as your 20s are the peak of everything. 30s is coasting, then everything is downhill. Why is this such a problem?
You think 40-55 is going to be great? I just LOOK at older people and get angry at the thought that the same will happen to me. The pear shaped belly, the bloated, jowly face, the stupid jokes and inability to learn. Then past that, the total decay of old age?
Fuck that.
I'm 40 and I'm ready to check out. DNR, etc.
I've seen it all and can't build up much of an excitement for anything. I can't imagine that my Dad is 90 and my Mom 86 and they're both not showing signs of going anytime soon.
Just my luck to be stuck with depression *and* longevity. I keep telling people that I'm 25 years away from my best years in the past, but I don't think I can last another 25 just to live through the decay of everything I used to enjoy.
These idiots better work on getting rid of aging, not just clocking in more years.
50? Try 40.
I have a Commodore 64 setup here with a 1581 and two SFD-1001s... That's about 2.8 megs of floppy storage space I can free up.
How much you want to pay?
or "you have job security"! Or "don't worry, take a few sick days!" or "you have health coverage" or "you can retire at 65". etc
from crt tv sets
They weighed it?
Any reason I got +5 for saying the same thing before?
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
We already do. It's just that a lot of that money is also used to support a crony system of administrators and textbook companies, and that needs to stop.
Frederik Pohl's "Assassins" that live in a kugelblitz?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe you didn't grow up in the West? Radio Shack was all over the place here in Montreal when I was a kid. It must have been all over North America as well.
If they abandoned hydrogen in a money-be-damned Cold War project like the SR-71, that should tell us something.
I'm not a programmer, that is, I never took any university classes on algorithms, discrete logic, etc. I'm a hardware guy.
I don't know why I took on LO, it's a very simplistic IDE and quite frustrating, and the online help is useless.
I picked up a french book on LO oooBasic and I'm getting along nicely, I think.
Well, look at it this way: your comment is very well encrypted from the point of view of the other thread.
Why don't you tell us how much Toyota and "American Hydrogen Systems" stock you own?
"So current cars are about efficiency? Of course not, they are about convenience. "
It would be convenient to have a supermarket inside every home so I don't need to go anywhere.
For some reason I start playing with that. :)
Any jobs out there?
Let the competition flail around with dead-end hydrogen technology while Toyota works on a secret battery electric car?
Guess what the price of the MZ-1 was 22 years ago?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.minidisc.org/part_S...
Well, it was 1200$ in Canada....
I was a Sony fanboi back then and having one of the first MZ-1s was like being a space alien. Just ejecting the disc on the Metro (subway) was a reason for complete strangers to ask what it is! Fun times.
Sony, like me, now appears to be a grumpy middle-aged man with graying hair denying that it's 2015...
" I conclude that doing actual R&D on the leading edge of stuff is itself daring."
In the 1960s, companies hired you and they paid YOU to do R&D.
Today, universities are the R&D branch of corporations. Universities soak up public money (most of it funneled into textbook companies and top-heavy administration) and students pay the university,.
Then the students can get some nice debt, and go begging for the few technical jobs left out there.
"hey've rented and ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FIX THINGS! If you're not allowed even to put holes in the wall"
LOL, you think it's better in a condo!?? You "own" that, but can't do squat!