I can't speak for everyone who's been in my position, but as someone who has lost a friend to suicide: fuck you. I would have greatly preferred being "placed in the position of choosing to save a life" than not being given that option at all because of the stigma people attach to it.
I think you should re-read the GP again. Might want to retract that "fuck you".
Once you've tolerated it, you're just staving off withdrawal symptoms:
I second that. I was up to three or four cups a day (we made it strong at work, more like petroleum residue than anything else. Stuff was always trying to crawl out of the cup and escape.) Ten years ago, one cup in the morning and I'd be wide awake and buzzing like the loon the GP mentioned. Still, it got to be a pleasant habit to have a couple cups in the morning. Unfortunately, as you say it eventually had no effect (unless I drank an ungodly amount) and I began suffering hypertension. I went cold-turkey (suffering a couple days of withdrawal hell) and found that my blood pressure dropped about 20 mm/hg after a week. I like coffee but it's not worth it.
I had a chemistry professor who took small beads of sodium and dropped them into a tank of water. The pellets immediately buzzed around the tank floating on the steam generated by the heat of the reaction.
Patent? Lithium? It's an element on the periodic table. How could it possibly have ever had a patent filed against it?
Because the actual drug isn't the only thing you can get a patent on. There's a fair bit of technology behind the manufacture and operation of pills and other drug-delivery systems. If a manufacturer managed to come up with a better way to deliver a clinical dose, I'd think it could be patented. And maybe you can't patent an element, but I suspect (given the USPTO's penchant for issuing marginal if not outright bogus patents lately) you could patent that element as a treatment for a specific ailment. Don't confuse what should be unpatentable for what actually isn't. Not anymore.
January 2006, the founders - noted for their poor spelling
Well... that explains a lot. As it happens, I'm an excellent speller (used to win spelling bees in grade school) and I've been having a hard time figuring out why, after all these years, I don't run a major technology company.
I tend to agree. A lot of people I know already refer to the G1 as the "Google Phone" or "Google Android Phone"... if they just made that change pre-emptively it would render a lawsuit moot, I would think. Unless, of course, this Specht individual claims business losses or some such... I suppose Google could still be liable for any damage done to date. I dunno, I'm a lot of things but lawyer isn't one of them.
Generic was probably a poor choice of words. What I meant by generic is it is a not a name that they made up, it is part of the English language and in the dictionary.
So, in other words, if they'd taken then route of Kleenex, Kodak or Xerox and researched their name in dozens or hundreds of languages around the world to make sure that it doesn't have any meaning in any of them, it would not be generic.
The suffix -oid means "like, or similar to". Ergo, an an android is like, or similar to, a man. That opens the possibility of having an anthropoid, which is like, or similar to, a human. Of course, we could then postulate an androgynoid, which would be like, or similar to, a she-male. Or maybe a hermaphrodite.
I have never seen a cable company actually be able to back up their claims of speed, upload or download.
Well, it's getting better for now, thanks to some heavy competition in my local market. Comcast and AT&T U-Verse are going head-to-head around here. I dumped Comcast as soon as U-Verse came into the area (not that I'm a big fan of AT&T but I really detest Comcast.) I've been getting in excess of the claimed speeds (I'm on the 18 mbit/sec tier and I pulled down the latest Kubuntu DVD torrent at 22) so I'm pretty damned happy with it.
But you're right... it's not a cable company either.
The concern is that many cable companies don't have even a minimal firewall in their cable modems.
No argument there. That's really kinda irresponsible, given that most of their customers are going to be Windows users. It's not a lot of extra cost to add a basic Linux firewall.
That blinking may not mean much. Mine blinks (quite furiously) with no network plugged into it...
You're right, it means nothing at all. Why do people always assume that just because they don't happen to be doing anything that the network should be completely idle? You put a bunch of machines on a network and there's constant network management traffic between them, among other things. Sure, they dude's friend could have been pwned... but a blinking LED doesn't prove it.
To paraphrase John W. Campbell, power does not corrupt, if it did, God would be the ultimate in corruption; immunity corrupts, and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
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I can't speak for everyone who's been in my position, but as someone who has lost a friend to suicide: fuck you. I would have greatly preferred being "placed in the position of choosing to save a life" than not being given that option at all because of the stigma people attach to it.
I think you should re-read the GP again. Might want to retract that "fuck you".
Mod parent up.
People who intend to commit suicide tend to talk about it. It means they need help, please try and get them to it/it to them.
Isn't assisting suicide illegal? (in the states at least)
I don't think the GP meant "assist them in committing suicide", he meant "get them the medical help they need so they don't kill themselves.
Once you've tolerated it, you're just staving off withdrawal symptoms:
I second that. I was up to three or four cups a day (we made it strong at work, more like petroleum residue than anything else. Stuff was always trying to crawl out of the cup and escape.) Ten years ago, one cup in the morning and I'd be wide awake and buzzing like the loon the GP mentioned. Still, it got to be a pleasant habit to have a couple cups in the morning. Unfortunately, as you say it eventually had no effect (unless I drank an ungodly amount) and I began suffering hypertension. I went cold-turkey (suffering a couple days of withdrawal hell) and found that my blood pressure dropped about 20 mm/hg after a week. I like coffee but it's not worth it.
"unless it would be a chemical to stop rational thinking"
Holy water?!!
Beer.
Evil anti-capitalist politicians disagree.
Evil pro-capitalist politicians might also.
Sodium might go boom, potasium will.
I had a chemistry professor who took small beads of sodium and dropped them into a tank of water. The pellets immediately buzzed around the tank floating on the steam generated by the heat of the reaction.
At my local airport there's a sign saying "you should drink 1 litre of water for every flight hour"
I regularly fly trans-atlantic to the US west coast. A 9.5 hour flight.
Fail.
Yeah, you really have to wonder from whose ass those kinds of numbers are pulled.
Wow potatoes contain lithium ? That must be why the Irish are so easy going.
Yes, but the problem is that they imbibe heavily and have lots of drunken sex.
Hm. I think I need more potatoes in my diet.
I don't deny women my essence though.
and that is why you will always fear the bomb. yours in abstinence, dr strangelove
This thread has gone from Star Wars, to Serenity, and then all the way back to How I learned to stop worrying and Love the Bomb in one easy lesson.
And a universally delivered mood stabilizer makes for a conveniently complacent population. Get your propaganda goggles on for this one.
"Soma! Soma! Soma! Soma! Soma! Soma! Soma!"
You do realize the proverbial asswhipping you're going to receive on /. by confusing Miranda and Alderaan, right? ;-)
Yeah ... never mix canon between two groups of fanatics, especially when there's significant overlap.
Patent? Lithium? It's an element on the periodic table. How could it possibly have ever had a patent filed against it?
Because the actual drug isn't the only thing you can get a patent on. There's a fair bit of technology behind the manufacture and operation of pills and other drug-delivery systems. If a manufacturer managed to come up with a better way to deliver a clinical dose, I'd think it could be patented. And maybe you can't patent an element, but I suspect (given the USPTO's penchant for issuing marginal if not outright bogus patents lately) you could patent that element as a treatment for a specific ailment. Don't confuse what should be unpatentable for what actually isn't. Not anymore.
January 2006, the founders - noted for their poor spelling
Well ... that explains a lot. As it happens, I'm an excellent speller (used to win spelling bees in grade school) and I've been having a hard time figuring out why, after all these years, I don't run a major technology company.
Now I know. Damn.
I tend to agree. A lot of people I know already refer to the G1 as the "Google Phone" or "Google Android Phone" ... if they just made that change pre-emptively it would render a lawsuit moot, I would think. Unless, of course, this Specht individual claims business losses or some such ... I suppose Google could still be liable for any damage done to date. I dunno, I'm a lot of things but lawyer isn't one of them.
Generic was probably a poor choice of words. What I meant by generic is it is a not a name that they made up, it is part of the English language and in the dictionary.
So, in other words, if they'd taken then route of Kleenex, Kodak or Xerox and researched their name in dozens or hundreds of languages around the world to make sure that it doesn't have any meaning in any of them, it would not be generic.
There are a number of real businesses named "Cyberdyne Systems." Good luck to any of them trying to enforce a trademark on the name.
No kidding. Let alone the fact that anything with "cyber" in it just sounds stupid.
No, "andros" specifically means "male."
"Anthropos" means "human."
The suffix -oid means "like, or similar to". Ergo, an an android is like, or similar to, a man. That opens the possibility of having an anthropoid, which is like, or similar to, a human. Of course, we could then postulate an androgynoid, which would be like, or similar to, a she-male. Or maybe a hermaphrodite.
But that's a different story.
I have never seen a cable company actually be able to back up their claims of speed, upload or download.
Well, it's getting better for now, thanks to some heavy competition in my local market. Comcast and AT&T U-Verse are going head-to-head around here. I dumped Comcast as soon as U-Verse came into the area (not that I'm a big fan of AT&T but I really detest Comcast.) I've been getting in excess of the claimed speeds (I'm on the 18 mbit/sec tier and I pulled down the latest Kubuntu DVD torrent at 22) so I'm pretty damned happy with it.
... it's not a cable company either.
But you're right
The concern is that many cable companies don't have even a minimal firewall in their cable modems.
No argument there. That's really kinda irresponsible, given that most of their customers are going to be Windows users. It's not a lot of extra cost to add a basic Linux firewall.
What's next, a seven-bladed razor?
No, it's worse than that.
That blinking may not mean much. Mine blinks (quite furiously) with no network plugged into it...
You're right, it means nothing at all. Why do people always assume that just because they don't happen to be doing anything that the network should be completely idle? You put a bunch of machines on a network and there's constant network management traffic between them, among other things. Sure, they dude's friend could have been pwned ... but a blinking LED doesn't prove it.
Either they're really going to regret promising that, or they're hiding some dirty little secret...
At a minimum, read the fine print.
Yeah. Cablevision is notorious for some shady "stealth capping" policies
Ha. Are we talking about Cablevision here or Comcast?
Why? Because it's generally the homophobic types who are making those statements. No assumptions needed.
To paraphrase John W. Campbell, power does not corrupt, if it did, God would be the ultimate in corruption; immunity corrupts, and absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.
To what, exactly, is God not immune?