I used to think it was normal to sit in infront of my PC and have to remember why I sat down
I cant tell you how many times a day something similar happens to me. I can walk into a shop to get a tool, forget what tool i need, walk to what i was working on to find out what tool i needed and forget why i was even in the vicinity of the equipment to start with. If its not that, then I know what i need, and go straight to it ignoring everything else in my path because im so focused on it, OR becuase i know if i dont get it RIGHT NOW ill forget what i was doing.
Whats worse? Ill tell you, its when i intend to do a number of very important things (for instance, turning on a water inlet feeding a pump, after i turn on an air compressor in a different room, and before i go to ANOTHER room to activate somethign else). If i turn on the pump, and someone interrupts me on my way to the inlet, ill go straight to my next goal: an air compressor. Ive burned up a $350 pump this way once, and almost done it twice more. Anytime i have a number of thigns to do and i get distracted, im fucked.
theres even more, but thats some of the worst. What else is bad is when im watching TV or eating dinner or working on something and my kids try to get my attention...theyre 2 and 4, and have to yell at me because i have focused so intensely on what im doing that i have no idea anything else is going on. Im not a diagnosed ADD/ADHD but i have read alot about it, and exhibit a number of the symptoms on a *very* regular basis.
shorter dvd release times affect me significantly. that and lack of good options. ill take the wife to something if she wants to go out, but theres not much i itch to see. i have a netflix account and usually just tack stuff on to that and get it a week or two after the dvd release, which now is only a couple of months after theater release anyway
im not so happy, though i have limited experience. i bought a amsung mp3 player, the model number escapes me, and one day after i pulled it out of my pocket the lcd had smashified....
i liked my rio more, but i lost it. however, it DID have a hard plastic over the lcd, something i didnt realize was so nice to have:/
Furthermore they use as almost their sole source of information a few large media-conglomerates
thats *if* they get information to begin with. you realize, of course, alot of people dont pay much attention to actual politics and vote down a party-line or based on maybe a couple of key issues? My dad, a longtime republican, is not stupid. He went to college and has successfully operated his own business for almost 25 years.
But he doesnt pay attention to politics. I couldnt see the guy voting anything other than a straight republican ticket if his life depended on it. Sure he'll watch cnn sometimes or the daily show or read the papers, but to actually care what it says, get into it, and vote based on that?
i read, i think it was, a findlaw bit on repealling the 17th amendment which would put state legislatures selecting senators again. would that do any good?
I thought Carl Sagan's idea in "Dragons of Eden", that myths and pictures of flying dragons could likely have come from dreams. We do still dream of alot of very strange things, and many people do, even now, put alot of credit in dreams to be real or to mean something. Hell, a few weeks ago I had a dream I remember vividly, that had, as major characters, several humans, who had an insect carapcice, with working, wiggling legs, growing our of the back of their skull, and somewhat resting on their back.
Imagine, a tribal leader, who nobody would or could replace, waking up from a startling dream about some lizard, or serpentine creature, with wings and breathing fire at him, who was, perhaps, slightly mentally ill, and thought it was a real vision, or perhaps just something noteworthy enough to show others because he could remember it so vividly and it was so unusual.
of course, i only recent began to read some of sagans books, and that one is rather old even for that, so we may be well past that, but i still thought it interesting:P
i have a vision....early humans, not running TO food, but away, and at the same time hearing, from Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, the knights as they ran away from their castle assault as they were being pelted by cows: "run away! ruuun away!" in an effort to escape.
remember kids, you dont have to run faster than the predator, just faster then the guy next to you.
those silly front-load washing machines (what kind of idiot trusts a rubber seal to contain the water when there's gravity there? How long will the seal last before the machine starts leaking and gets pitched?)
Im a drycleaner, and its normal for commercial cleaning operations to use a front-loading washer, be it for laundry or dry-cleaning. I can not, in the last 15 years, recall even *once* having to replace a door-seal, even on a dry-cleaning machine that used a rather volatile solvent; nevermind a washing machine that uses water and a carefully balanced chemical mixture.
Certainly we changed a number of seals on other parts, but on the front-loading doors? Thats your concern? Honestly, how silly. Besides, a rubber door seal, should it ever *need* replacing, can be replaced EASILY with
wait for it...more rubber. or, as is used on on drycleaning washer/extractor and similarly on the solvent reclaimer: a cork seal, which is going on use for 5 years this easter and isnt showing a sign of a problem.
Nevermind the other benefits of a front-loading machine, such as less used space (imagine a washing machine large enough to do 60lbs of laundry as a top-fill machine, itd be rather large) and it would need more water to do the same job. Remember, in a top-fill you have to fill it with water completely over the level of the clothing; not so with a front-loading washer (i believe the models we use fill something like 60% or so of the drum) and you get a better cleaning, because theres more agitation, because theres more room, unless you absolutely stuff it full, for the clothes to move around. In addition, you can clean large items like blankets and comforters or long items like tablecloths and such without the risk of them tangling around the vertical agitator and causing the damned things to sieze (odd enough, my manager recently tried washing her comforter at home in a large top-loading washer and ruined it, of all the people...)
Is it because the voice of the people/opposing parties just don't hold that much power? Do opposite parties not have significant influence to have memebers of parliament removed?
as i recall, according to our constitution, to remove a member of either house of congress requires a two-shirds majority vote (though i cant recall if its of all memebers present for the vote, or of all memebers, present or otherwise) to remove a member from their office, which probably wouldnt happen unless an investigation took place, which would probably have to be instigated by one of the houses of congress, in which case, finger-pointing would probably start and wed find out that most of the politicians should be removed from their office, which means none of them will be.
or something like that, the republicans have a majority in the house and senate, but not a two-thirds majority, and so much happens along party lines or so close to them that anyone calling for the removal a member would have a hell of a time getting them removed.
One species "morphing" into another has not only been observed in real time, as well as shown to have happened in the past, but we understand in great detail the genetic mechanisms that make it happen
youd be helping greatly by posting a source, if youve got a link. id enjoy reading more about this, as, Im sure, would others not familiar with your example.
I mean, yeah, you have to suck it up. If you want a job, you have to do it. But can't we have a little sympathy for someone who works long days, has other things going on in his life (don't we all?), and is frustrated by the job-search process? When he asks for help, can't we offer something more productive than name-calling?
are you new to the entire internet? that doesnt happen here. you cant make excuses for not doing something unless someone in your immediate family has died, or you were in a car accident or some such. if the guy has time on the weekends, sick days left, vacation days waiting or time to post to slashdot, hes not allowed any excuses.
a number of readers and posters here know whats its like to have a killer job that drains you and consumes most of your time, they have to deal with it to. perhaps the guy was hoping for some miraculous way to find a job.
but in reality, i imagine that since hes familiar with the site, and the culture surrounding it, he knew that ANY time you post a problem on the internet youre going to get heavily criticized for not being entirely perfect and thought it was more than worth being yelled ay by people he DOESNT KNOW to see if he could find a few new ideas to mull over to help him find a better job.
i imagine that if you could see statistics for WIC vouchers, child tax credits, and how much medicaid spends each year on pregnancy costs and delivering babies, youd probably realize alot of women are already not AT ALL concerned with getting pregnant.
hell, my sister and her husband have a few grand saved up in the bank, he has a job (albeit a crappy one, despite a 4 year degree and that he had an opportunity to make 40k/year recently and passed it over) and when she got pregnant, because of their joint income, *they* got medicaid. pays for all doctors visits, ultrasounds, all of it, and delivery, AND epidural during deilvery, and immediate nursery expenses where the baby is delivered, AND 1 year of medical checkups for the newborn.
the could have afforded it all, but the pregnancy wasnt planned, and they didnt want to deplete their savings. so, you and i get to pay for it, nice, eh?
want more? theres a 33 year old woman where i work, who has 3 kids. she has never been married to any of the fathers, makes maybe 8 bucks an hour (at about 25 hours/wk) and of course gets food stamps and medicaid. she got married last year, to a guy who almost immediately spent 14 months in prison (im not sure for what, he works part-time somewhere now) and THEY plan to have a kid together, so she can get more food stamps. im not guessing about that, i actually heard her say it. sometimes, people just dont really care about getting pregnant at all, or if they do, its not too much because hey....the guvment pays for it, and you get a cute-as-hell kid out of the deal, so its not so bad, is it?
im not sure how i feel about population control and forced sterilization, after all, shouldnt it be someones right to have kids if they want them? i havent even got a good answer to that, part of me says yes, its their right as a human to reproduce, part of me says no, because i sure as hell dont want to pay for someone else's kid when i have my own to take care of.
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those links look quite interesting, but im never going to be able to make my way through it :/
I cant tell you how many times a day something similar happens to me. I can walk into a shop to get a tool, forget what tool i need, walk to what i was working on to find out what tool i needed and forget why i was even in the vicinity of the equipment to start with. If its not that, then I know what i need, and go straight to it ignoring everything else in my path because im so focused on it, OR becuase i know if i dont get it RIGHT NOW ill forget what i was doing.
Whats worse? Ill tell you, its when i intend to do a number of very important things (for instance, turning on a water inlet feeding a pump, after i turn on an air compressor in a different room, and before i go to ANOTHER room to activate somethign else). If i turn on the pump, and someone interrupts me on my way to the inlet, ill go straight to my next goal: an air compressor. Ive burned up a $350 pump this way once, and almost done it twice more. Anytime i have a number of thigns to do and i get distracted, im fucked.
theres even more, but thats some of the worst. What else is bad is when im watching TV or eating dinner or working on something and my kids try to get my attention...theyre 2 and 4, and have to yell at me because i have focused so intensely on what im doing that i have no idea anything else is going on. Im not a diagnosed ADD/ADHD but i have read alot about it, and exhibit a number of the symptoms on a *very* regular basis.
shorter dvd release times affect me significantly. that and lack of good options. ill take the wife to something if she wants to go out, but theres not much i itch to see. i have a netflix account and usually just tack stuff on to that and get it a week or two after the dvd release, which now is only a couple of months after theater release anyway
im hardly a republican, but if thats the premise of the movie, id still pass. christ.
i liked my rio more, but i lost it. however, it DID have a hard plastic over the lcd, something i didnt realize was so nice to have :/
thats *if* they get information to begin with. you realize, of course, alot of people dont pay much attention to actual politics and vote down a party-line or based on maybe a couple of key issues? My dad, a longtime republican, is not stupid. He went to college and has successfully operated his own business for almost 25 years.
But he doesnt pay attention to politics. I couldnt see the guy voting anything other than a straight republican ticket if his life depended on it. Sure he'll watch cnn sometimes or the daily show or read the papers, but to actually care what it says, get into it, and vote based on that?
no way.
i read, i think it was, a findlaw bit on repealling the 17th amendment which would put state legislatures selecting senators again. would that do any good?
ive never heard sirius, but my brother has had xm for over a year and it has *always* sounded good.
you mean, it sounds bad if they happened to say "my vd really chaps my ass sometimes"? yeah, i can see that.
Imagine, a tribal leader, who nobody would or could replace, waking up from a startling dream about some lizard, or serpentine creature, with wings and breathing fire at him, who was, perhaps, slightly mentally ill, and thought it was a real vision, or perhaps just something noteworthy enough to show others because he could remember it so vividly and it was so unusual.
of course, i only recent began to read some of sagans books, and that one is rather old even for that, so we may be well past that, but i still thought it interesting :P
remember kids, you dont have to run faster than the predator, just faster then the guy next to you.
Im a drycleaner, and its normal for commercial cleaning operations to use a front-loading washer, be it for laundry or dry-cleaning. I can not, in the last 15 years, recall even *once* having to replace a door-seal, even on a dry-cleaning machine that used a rather volatile solvent; nevermind a washing machine that uses water and a carefully balanced chemical mixture.
Certainly we changed a number of seals on other parts, but on the front-loading doors? Thats your concern? Honestly, how silly. Besides, a rubber door seal, should it ever *need* replacing, can be replaced EASILY with
wait for it...more rubber. or, as is used on on drycleaning washer/extractor and similarly on the solvent reclaimer: a cork seal, which is going on use for 5 years this easter and isnt showing a sign of a problem.
Nevermind the other benefits of a front-loading machine, such as less used space (imagine a washing machine large enough to do 60lbs of laundry as a top-fill machine, itd be rather large) and it would need more water to do the same job. Remember, in a top-fill you have to fill it with water completely over the level of the clothing; not so with a front-loading washer (i believe the models we use fill something like 60% or so of the drum) and you get a better cleaning, because theres more agitation, because theres more room, unless you absolutely stuff it full, for the clothes to move around. In addition, you can clean large items like blankets and comforters or long items like tablecloths and such without the risk of them tangling around the vertical agitator and causing the damned things to sieze (odd enough, my manager recently tried washing her comforter at home in a large top-loading washer and ruined it, of all the people...)
And now you know ;)
doesnt the smithsonian have a shuttle prototype already? something that was used for aerodynamic testing or some such?
as i recall, according to our constitution, to remove a member of either house of congress requires a two-shirds majority vote (though i cant recall if its of all memebers present for the vote, or of all memebers, present or otherwise) to remove a member from their office, which probably wouldnt happen unless an investigation took place, which would probably have to be instigated by one of the houses of congress, in which case, finger-pointing would probably start and wed find out that most of the politicians should be removed from their office, which means none of them will be.
or something like that, the republicans have a majority in the house and senate, but not a two-thirds majority, and so much happens along party lines or so close to them that anyone calling for the removal a member would have a hell of a time getting them removed.
if someone had my last 8 years of email theyd too would wish for a larger hard drive...for all that porn.
sounds like you shouldnt piss it off. you wouldnt want some kind of, ahem, accident, now would you? *wink wink, nudge nudge* know what i mean?
ive spent near zero time trying to surf anonymously, or though proxies from within other countries.
help?
im seeing 2 legless camels on rocks in front of a patchwork tent. ;)
1 - build segway that nobody in the developed world wants
2 - build electricity/water generator for 3rd world to help develop new cities...
3 - around the segway
4 - profit!
are the percentages of people driving SUV's based on people driving, or an entire national population?
youd be helping greatly by posting a source, if youve got a link. id enjoy reading more about this, as, Im sure, would others not familiar with your example.
accurate, goddamnit :(
wouldnt you have been damned accurace it youd left out "on the internet" ? ;)
are you new to the entire internet? that doesnt happen here. you cant make excuses for not doing something unless someone in your immediate family has died, or you were in a car accident or some such. if the guy has time on the weekends, sick days left, vacation days waiting or time to post to slashdot, hes not allowed any excuses.
a number of readers and posters here know whats its like to have a killer job that drains you and consumes most of your time, they have to deal with it to. perhaps the guy was hoping for some miraculous way to find a job.
but in reality, i imagine that since hes familiar with the site, and the culture surrounding it, he knew that ANY time you post a problem on the internet youre going to get heavily criticized for not being entirely perfect and thought it was more than worth being yelled ay by people he DOESNT KNOW to see if he could find a few new ideas to mull over to help him find a better job.
hell, my sister and her husband have a few grand saved up in the bank, he has a job (albeit a crappy one, despite a 4 year degree and that he had an opportunity to make 40k/year recently and passed it over) and when she got pregnant, because of their joint income, *they* got medicaid. pays for all doctors visits, ultrasounds, all of it, and delivery, AND epidural during deilvery, and immediate nursery expenses where the baby is delivered, AND 1 year of medical checkups for the newborn.
the could have afforded it all, but the pregnancy wasnt planned, and they didnt want to deplete their savings. so, you and i get to pay for it, nice, eh?
want more? theres a 33 year old woman where i work, who has 3 kids. she has never been married to any of the fathers, makes maybe 8 bucks an hour (at about 25 hours/wk) and of course gets food stamps and medicaid. she got married last year, to a guy who almost immediately spent 14 months in prison (im not sure for what, he works part-time somewhere now) and THEY plan to have a kid together, so she can get more food stamps. im not guessing about that, i actually heard her say it. sometimes, people just dont really care about getting pregnant at all, or if they do, its not too much because hey....the guvment pays for it, and you get a cute-as-hell kid out of the deal, so its not so bad, is it?
im not sure how i feel about population control and forced sterilization, after all, shouldnt it be someones right to have kids if they want them? i havent even got a good answer to that, part of me says yes, its their right as a human to reproduce, part of me says no, because i sure as hell dont want to pay for someone else's kid when i have my own to take care of.