Some of the medical benefits 'shrooms provide are already well studied and known.
For example, we know that aerobic exercise is good for you. Which is just the kind of exercise you get when running from the angry bull or cows in the field, or the farmer, or....
When a species has successfully evolved to remain unbuggered and hasn't been buggered at all, it takes quite a few generations to re-start the evolution process....
I don't have any Earl Grey Tea in my house right now, but if you show up on my door step and offer me $50 to make you a cup of it, I *do* know where I can go look to find it.
Lots of places have info on you (and me, and everyone else) that you've never given them, but you have given others.
How many times have you gotten spam email or one of the outlook virus emails from someone because some 3rd party had your address in their contact list? That is basically what happened here...
Umm... FB didn't give the "advertiser" the number or access to it. The advertiser said "target this phone number". Wonder what would happen if you were to do similar for all of the area code combos (other than toll/toll free numbers) and 867-5309 ?
Heck, almost wish I didn't have to worry about money just so I could do it, and run an ad asking for Jenny...
I'm on 6mb DSL (768k up) and only got that recently after some fiber was run. Prior I could get 3mb DSL but I was on the edge of service for that, and S:N ratio kept me from having a decent connection - I'd loose connection every 5-10 minutes. So 1.5mb DSL.
While my phone co (Windstream) has been making massive improvements in connectivity where I am (mostly rural, N Central Fl) I'm still on the edge of connectivity for my AT&T cell/data. As in, I may have 3g, or 4g. Or LTE. I may have one dot on connection meter, or two. Or mostly none. Depending on where I am in the house or what part of the "yard" (5 acres) I'm in.
So no, when lack of density prevents cable or DSL from being available, you can't always depend on cellular - until AT&T et al start building more towers.
For school, text books on project management and agile management.
For work, technical documentation
For fun, I've been re-re-reading a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff as well as a lot of excellent Discworld fan fiction from AA Pessimal on fanficton.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1... . If you like Pratchett and all things DIscworld, Pessimal's stuff isn't to be missed.
Not even university. At the community college I work for I often ask myself in meetings "are we working with adults in college or are we going to treat them like it is grade 13 and 14?"
What is sad is that we have dual enrollment students - juniors and seniors in high school who are completing half or all of an AA degree by the time they finish high school, real college credits not AP courses. Often times, they are more on the ball and in with it than the "traditional" students. Most older folks who are working and doing school are usually on top of things, and students in the military or just out of the military are extremely well organized and on top of their school work (no surprise).
"In the fragile reality of Discworld, and with the gods who like to play games, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.
Traditionally, one has to say "it's a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!" to invoke this rule. It also has to be exactly a million to one - none of this fiddly "995,351 to 1" business, or whatever other number you might end up with. So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accomplish with odds a few percentage points off in either direction is probably a lot longer and involves a lot more fatalities.
The deity of the Million-to-one chance (and all the other ones as well) is The Lady. Just... don't invoke her directly. "
Hybrid models where advertisers pay to have them put in front of potential customers works though, and hte service ends up being free-as-in-beer for the consumer the advertisers want to reach. If that model didn't work, then OTA TV broadcast wouldn't have lasted very long, nor would OTA radio.
Hell my wife buys bottled spring water, and it is usually from the bottling company 20 miles away that pulls water from the same aquifer our house well pulls from.
I'm hoping it is the convenience of the packaging and being able to send the kids off to school and not worry about them remembering to bring back a reusable bottle...
Run your own mail server or use a mail service that supports some extended addressing character - the default is typically + but I've seen a lot of "address validation" scripts that choke on that, so I use a hyphen -
This means I can be me@mydomain and give addresses out like me-radiocontest@. Mail comes to my regular inbox, tagged with the extra part of the address used, the address can be filtered on, everyone you do business with gets their own address. When you get spam you know who leaked your addy, and you can create a rule to bounce or re-forward that particular extended address
I no-showed the first day of a new job. But it was a total BS job (grill cook at a waffle house) and I applied for the job as a bet with a friend who was whining that he couldn't get any kind of job.
Not the job for me, I already had a job and other commitments, but it was paying almost 2x min wage in the late 80s... my friend could have done OK working it for a few months until he figured out where he was going and what he was doing.
I'm the Canvas admin (course management system) and the guy that integrates HonorLock, ProctorU and all the other LTIs we use - off hand, TurnItIn is the only other one we have designed to catch "cheating".
We have an agreement with the other 28 non-research state colleges in Florida for in-person proctoring at on-campus testing centers. We offer proctoring on campus, and our online instructors can schedule entire sections or have students come in by appointment.
I help faculty design courses. I encourage project based grading when it is appropriate. Some things really do come down to multiple choice testing. In that case, we encourage shorter time limits, like 45 seconds to a minute per question with a couple of extra minutes added. A second exam with a separate time limit for a few short essay questions and you have something workable if not ideal.
I teach classes - both face to face and online. Again, I use project based grading, and exams are done online, un proctored, and come to 20-35% of the final grade depending on which class. Exam scores average out to 85% if you take out the 0s from students who forgot to take the exam...
I'm taking online classes, and most of the major grades have been project based or written papers, not multiple choice exams. Most of the "traditional" type exams I've taken in online courses have been small quizzes designed to make sure we are doing the textbook reading. Often graded discussion is used for this as well.
As for using services like this, I'm of two minds. Plenty of other options for having an exam proctored - if I had to take a proctored exam I would use a testing center. And I understand how some may not be able to do so. However, I would like to see more effort made to inform students of exactly what the software does, and how to totally disable it and remove it and reset any other settings it tweaked when it is no longer needed. Even to set up the LTIs I had to install a chrome extension that did some pretty serious spying - did it on a lab machine with Deep Freeze on it so I could reboot and be sure it was all removed.
No, but finding a local one and becoming personally involved is too much work for a lot of folks. Not sure on the work part, but yes, it is time consuming.... but if you want to be truly charitable...
Yeah this. Been programming a long time, and like another comment said being able to quickly put some db result into a webpage was a BIG deal.
And yes, I've gone back and looked at my own PHP code from 15-20 years ago and said "uuugghh....". But the only reason I've not said that sooner is because the code - crappy as it is - still works for what we needed it to do.
Also not sure what I would replace it with. What else is relatively light, easy to get up and running, is meant for the web, and isn't client side?
Heck, I'm not even sure if I could ask for a replacement technology - ITS still has me working on PHP 5.3 because one of their applications hasn't been upgraded yet. All of my stuff isn't using php7x features, but it is all ready to move to a php7x server (replaced mysql_ calls with PDO, etc).
Mr Miller's untaxed FA tommy gun was also involved in the case.
Now if the government would just be somewhat consistent in its arguing over almost a century, the machine gun portion of the NFA registry would be reopened or even abolished.
(govnt in Miller vs. re: NFA '34 argued that the tommy gun and sawed off shotgun weren't suitable for military use, hence not part of a properly equipped militia members stuff, so not protected by 2A, and therefor taxable at $200 per item....)
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"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
license costs, sometimes confusing license requirements, adware, malware, ride-alongs, hijacking settings, leaving trial versions and nagware, etc.
I'll deal with apt and adding the occasional 3rd party repo or working with a tarball... seems much more sane.
Some of the medical benefits 'shrooms provide are already well studied and known.
For example, we know that aerobic exercise is good for you. Which is just the kind of exercise you get when running from the angry bull or cows in the field, or the farmer, or ....
Except many race cars don't have power steering, vacuum assisted brakes, etc. so they can take some physical strength to drive.
When a species has successfully evolved to remain unbuggered and hasn't been buggered at all, it takes quite a few generations to re-start the evolution process....
Nope, but they are often available on public web pages
I would except that my iPhone is incredibly good about not installing an update when I say "don't install this update".
I can almost get behind forced security updates, but never behind sneaky or forced OS updates.
The one good thing about the Win10 upgrade insanity though is that MS finally can update an OS from version to version and have it mostly work...
I don't have any Earl Grey Tea in my house right now, but if you show up on my door step and offer me $50 to make you a cup of it, I *do* know where I can go look to find it.
Lots of places have info on you (and me, and everyone else) that you've never given them, but you have given others.
How many times have you gotten spam email or one of the outlook virus emails from someone because some 3rd party had your address in their contact list? That is basically what happened here...
Umm... FB didn't give the "advertiser" the number or access to it. The advertiser said "target this phone number". Wonder what would happen if you were to do similar for all of the area code combos (other than toll/toll free numbers) and 867-5309 ?
Heck, almost wish I didn't have to worry about money just so I could do it, and run an ad asking for Jenny...
I'm on 6mb DSL (768k up) and only got that recently after some fiber was run. Prior I could get 3mb DSL but I was on the edge of service for that, and S:N ratio kept me from having a decent connection - I'd loose connection every 5-10 minutes. So 1.5mb DSL.
While my phone co (Windstream) has been making massive improvements in connectivity where I am (mostly rural, N Central Fl) I'm still on the edge of connectivity for my AT&T cell/data. As in, I may have 3g, or 4g. Or LTE. I may have one dot on connection meter, or two. Or mostly none. Depending on where I am in the house or what part of the "yard" (5 acres) I'm in.
So no, when lack of density prevents cable or DSL from being available, you can't always depend on cellular - until AT&T et al start building more towers.
In order to avoid the wave action, a few meters below the surface is all you need to get.
Yup, 3 Steves in my department - often hear one say to the other "forwarding mail, think it is for you instead". All 3 do fairly different jobs...
The BBC Radio production of it is really good. And if you like Pratchett, check out AA Pessimal on fanfiction.net -- https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1...
For school, text books on project management and agile management.
For work, technical documentation
For fun, I've been re-re-reading a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff as well as a lot of excellent Discworld fan fiction from AA Pessimal on fanficton.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1... . If you like Pratchett and all things DIscworld, Pessimal's stuff isn't to be missed.
Not even university. At the community college I work for I often ask myself in meetings "are we working with adults in college or are we going to treat them like it is grade 13 and 14?"
What is sad is that we have dual enrollment students - juniors and seniors in high school who are completing half or all of an AA degree by the time they finish high school, real college credits not AP courses. Often times, they are more on the ball and in with it than the "traditional" students. Most older folks who are working and doing school are usually on top of things, and students in the military or just out of the military are extremely well organized and on top of their school work (no surprise).
"In the fragile reality of Discworld, and with the gods who like to play games, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.
Traditionally, one has to say "it's a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!" to invoke this rule. It also has to be exactly a million to one - none of this fiddly "995,351 to 1" business, or whatever other number you might end up with. So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accomplish with odds a few percentage points off in either direction is probably a lot longer and involves a lot more fatalities.
The deity of the Million-to-one chance (and all the other ones as well) is The Lady. Just... don't invoke her directly. "
Hybrid models where advertisers pay to have them put in front of potential customers works though, and hte service ends up being free-as-in-beer for the consumer the advertisers want to reach. If that model didn't work, then OTA TV broadcast wouldn't have lasted very long, nor would OTA radio.
Hell my wife buys bottled spring water, and it is usually from the bottling company 20 miles away that pulls water from the same aquifer our house well pulls from.
I'm hoping it is the convenience of the packaging and being able to send the kids off to school and not worry about them remembering to bring back a reusable bottle...
Run your own mail server or use a mail service that supports some extended addressing character - the default is typically + but I've seen a lot of "address validation" scripts that choke on that, so I use a hyphen -
This means I can be me@mydomain and give addresses out like me-radiocontest@. Mail comes to my regular inbox, tagged with the extra part of the address used, the address can be filtered on, everyone you do business with gets their own address. When you get spam you know who leaked your addy, and you can create a rule to bounce or re-forward that particular extended address
I no-showed the first day of a new job. But it was a total BS job (grill cook at a waffle house) and I applied for the job as a bet with a friend who was whining that he couldn't get any kind of job.
Not the job for me, I already had a job and other commitments, but it was paying almost 2x min wage in the late 80s... my friend could have done OK working it for a few months until he figured out where he was going and what he was doing.
I'm the Canvas admin (course management system) and the guy that integrates HonorLock, ProctorU and all the other LTIs we use - off hand, TurnItIn is the only other one we have designed to catch "cheating".
We have an agreement with the other 28 non-research state colleges in Florida for in-person proctoring at on-campus testing centers. We offer proctoring on campus, and our online instructors can schedule entire sections or have students come in by appointment.
I help faculty design courses. I encourage project based grading when it is appropriate. Some things really do come down to multiple choice testing. In that case, we encourage shorter time limits, like 45 seconds to a minute per question with a couple of extra minutes added. A second exam with a separate time limit for a few short essay questions and you have something workable if not ideal.
I teach classes - both face to face and online. Again, I use project based grading, and exams are done online, un proctored, and come to 20-35% of the final grade depending on which class. Exam scores average out to 85% if you take out the 0s from students who forgot to take the exam...
I'm taking online classes, and most of the major grades have been project based or written papers, not multiple choice exams. Most of the "traditional" type exams I've taken in online courses have been small quizzes designed to make sure we are doing the textbook reading. Often graded discussion is used for this as well.
As for using services like this, I'm of two minds. Plenty of other options for having an exam proctored - if I had to take a proctored exam I would use a testing center. And I understand how some may not be able to do so. However, I would like to see more effort made to inform students of exactly what the software does, and how to totally disable it and remove it and reset any other settings it tweaked when it is no longer needed. Even to set up the LTIs I had to install a chrome extension that did some pretty serious spying - did it on a lab machine with Deep Freeze on it so I could reboot and be sure it was all removed.
No, but finding a local one and becoming personally involved is too much work for a lot of folks. Not sure on the work part, but yes, it is time consuming.... but if you want to be truly charitable...
Depending on the actual flash content, it is likely that someone could raise a stink related to the ADA ...
Yeah this. Been programming a long time, and like another comment said being able to quickly put some db result into a webpage was a BIG deal.
And yes, I've gone back and looked at my own PHP code from 15-20 years ago and said "uuugghh....". But the only reason I've not said that sooner is because the code - crappy as it is - still works for what we needed it to do.
Also not sure what I would replace it with. What else is relatively light, easy to get up and running, is meant for the web, and isn't client side?
Heck, I'm not even sure if I could ask for a replacement technology - ITS still has me working on PHP 5.3 because one of their applications hasn't been upgraded yet. All of my stuff isn't using php7x features, but it is all ready to move to a php7x server (replaced mysql_ calls with PDO, etc).
Mr Miller's untaxed FA tommy gun was also involved in the case.
Now if the government would just be somewhat consistent in its arguing over almost a century, the machine gun portion of the NFA registry would be reopened or even abolished.
(govnt in Miller vs. re: NFA '34 argued that the tommy gun and sawed off shotgun weren't suitable for military use, hence not part of a properly equipped militia members stuff, so not protected by 2A, and therefor taxable at $200 per item....)