I still remember the local woman who died on the air during a talk radio program that had a contest to see who could drink the most water in the shortest span of time.
A small nitpick... my recollection of informal research is that caffeine is only safe to a certain point. Too much caffeine, like too much testosterone or steroidals, can be dangerous.
There is a rough observational way to tell if someone truly "needs" a stimulant to compensate for ADD traits (to achieve the mean behavior): the effect or threshold of the compound will be different for that person than for a neurotypical one. Their brain and body won't metabolize it the same. A more objective test than observation would be nice, though.
I don't disagree with your ethical assessment. Even good nutrition versus malnutrition could be misconstrued as an "unfair" advantage.
So how many candidates are being excluded this time? Is the percentage of excluded candidates still larger than the percentage of those allowed to participate?
Also, a nitpick FWIW, it's not a debate between Presidents, it's a debate between candidates.
And so that's an excuse to put the discretion of them in the hands of the very entities who have a vested interest in NONE of them being allowed? Your reasoning has its problems when you despise lawyers so much that you can't see straight.
This is OLD news: the announcement from PayPal went out over a month ago, and I mailed a signed opt-out declaration back to Paypal myself more than four weeks ago.
More important is that fact that Paypal actually had the decency - ??? - to include the opt-out exception in the first place. Do you have any idea how pervasive these clauses are now? ALL the corporate kids are doing it. If it's a business that provides a service and uses one-to-many type contracts - service agreements, terms of service, etc. - to establish the service, then you can bet such a clause is imminent if not already present. Valve added one months ago, AT&T did the same before PayPal, etc. EVERY service agreement will have one by the end of this year.
It's all thanks to yet another corporate-friendly ruling last year from the same Supreme Court that gave us the Citizens United ruling and allowed the upcoming election cycle to be fully bought.
You are optimistically assuming that the controller logic and everything else but the NAND media itself doesn't fail. When that happens it's anything but a graceful failure.
Catastrophic failure of the internal controller circuit is one possibility. It happened to me with a small G.Skill SSD. That wasn't my judgment of what happened, that was G.Skill's. The data might have still been there, but I had no way to access it. As far as the computer was concerned, the physical device still existed but the media and partition didn't.
That was one of two SSDs that I have bought, so from my perspective it's a 50 percent failure rate for the technology. Here's the irony: I have a Conner Peripherals 170 MEGAbyte IDE platter drive - from about 1992? - that still works. I have a small box full of old magnetic platter drives like that one that still work. In 25 years of using platter drives, I've had perhaps three physically fail. Am I going to be able to say the same thing about the SSDs I have now in 20 years, especially given their guaranteed obsolescence? Not a chance. YMMV, but not by much.
It might have been luck rather than sheer skill or persistence. How many Politburo insiders tried before him? How many party system insiders have tried and failed here? How long will we have to wait for our own Gorbachev?
Yes, science fiction books, which my high school English teacher declared were unfit to be described as literature and refused to allow book reports that relied upon one. Not any one specific science fiction book, though, but rather many of them collectively; considered together as a whole they have a truly profound impact on a person who reads many of them, as I did. I dare not play favorites except to single out science fiction in general; the only other book that was perhaps transformative was the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which I acquired my sophomore year in high school, but the damage had already been done long before by all the SF books I had already consumed.
I was also deeply affected by the movies Swiss Family Robinson and Silent Running, the latter which while still science fiction was obviously not a book.
Oh... and I suppose I was influenced by the inconsistencies and weirdness in the Christian Bible to be an early non-theist and naturalist. The SF books certainly helped guide me to that conclusion, too.
... when said system is so rigged that an outsider can barely manage to get on a ballot, but then also get equal time and wide enough exposure to actually get elected? Not likely.
Let the revolution begin. Hopefully it's one that would make Ghandi proud, but that may not be possible.
This corporate-allied Supreme Court is certain to allow what amounts to economic double jeopardy: allowing rights holders and manufacturers to profit not just once from production of an item but every single time it changes hands. Doesn't that sound vaguely familiar? It should: it's almost like a subscription.
Why is this marked as Troll, when the Congress of the United States passed a law, which the President then signed, that granted legal immunity to American telecom corporations for illegally conspiring with the NSA and other agencies to monitor and collect the communications of the entire nation? How exactly is that so very different from what is alleged that Huawei and ZTE are or might be doing?
The not so implicit point of the parent comment is that the United States would like to maintain its "right" to monitor and track and control and deny the ability to any other government that it perceives as hostile. Isn't that quite hypocritical of this government to consider other governments as hostile when it is repeatedly treating its own citizens as hostile with excessive secrecy, acts of Congress, Presidential orders, creation of whole new intelligence bureaucracies, legitimization of wiretapping, and more?
I'm not the best person to ask, but there is some interoperability between LiberTree and one or two other projects like Friendica; I've seen people "cross-posting", so I can "like" those posts. I don't know if I can also friend/follow those users.
And if the beginning parameters of the model were off from actual history by even the tiniest fraction, the extrapolated results won't be worth much. We pretend otherwise, but we really still don't know the current state and composition of the universe, much less how it started... assuming it started. There's a reason that they're called theories.
Diaspora has spawned other projects that attempt to carry on and refine the original goals. LiberTree is one of them, for instance. Just because the original team didn't succeed brilliantly doesn't mean that the original goals weren't worthy or attainable.
... and build a microwave cannon to take out the car stereos. They're the problem, not your hearing nor your windows. It's a massive social ethics problem, aided and abetted by every single car manufacturer, who now preinstall sound systems capable of rattling entire neighborhoods. You might wanna avoid zapping the fire trucks. They have a good reason for making lots of noise. Unless your city has the highest per capita arsonists, you can probably survive the fire trucks once the boom box cars are silent.
Sadly, no one even bothers insulting the third party candidates.
People don't want their heartfelt insults to be wasted.
Only two things will "help our electoral process"....
You left out random selection, which will give us superior candidates 99% of the time. The other 1% is when we randomly get... well, the same One Percenters we get now. Maybe we can set a cap on income for the random selection.
Yes, let's all resort to juvenile, emotional, hyperbolic name-calling, then make no reasoned arguments at all to follow it. Let's make sure we ignore and apologize for everyone that does it to the candidates we don't like and cry foul only when it's done to the candidate we lionize. That will surely help our electoral process.
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Or teach the table how to lighten up and just hold its breath for a moment until it passes.
I still remember the local woman who died on the air during a talk radio program that had a contest to see who could drink the most water in the shortest span of time.
A small nitpick... my recollection of informal research is that caffeine is only safe to a certain point. Too much caffeine, like too much testosterone or steroidals, can be dangerous.
There is a rough observational way to tell if someone truly "needs" a stimulant to compensate for ADD traits (to achieve the mean behavior): the effect or threshold of the compound will be different for that person than for a neurotypical one. Their brain and body won't metabolize it the same. A more objective test than observation would be nice, though.
I don't disagree with your ethical assessment. Even good nutrition versus malnutrition could be misconstrued as an "unfair" advantage.
... and I'll show you a misleading marketing campaign worthy of a Presidential election.
Ain't no such thing yet. Possibly never will be. Prescribing neuroactive drugs now is like playing darts blindfolded.
So how many candidates are being excluded this time? Is the percentage of excluded candidates still larger than the percentage of those allowed to participate?
Also, a nitpick FWIW, it's not a debate between Presidents, it's a debate between candidates.
And so that's an excuse to put the discretion of them in the hands of the very entities who have a vested interest in NONE of them being allowed? Your reasoning has its problems when you despise lawyers so much that you can't see straight.
Who'd want him? Darl McBride? Now there's a gay marriage made in heaven.
This is OLD news: the announcement from PayPal went out over a month ago, and I mailed a signed opt-out declaration back to Paypal myself more than four weeks ago.
More important is that fact that Paypal actually had the decency - ??? - to include the opt-out exception in the first place. Do you have any idea how pervasive these clauses are now? ALL the corporate kids are doing it. If it's a business that provides a service and uses one-to-many type contracts - service agreements, terms of service, etc. - to establish the service, then you can bet such a clause is imminent if not already present. Valve added one months ago, AT&T did the same before PayPal, etc. EVERY service agreement will have one by the end of this year.
It's all thanks to yet another corporate-friendly ruling last year from the same Supreme Court that gave us the Citizens United ruling and allowed the upcoming election cycle to be fully bought.
You are optimistically assuming that the controller logic and everything else but the NAND media itself doesn't fail. When that happens it's anything but a graceful failure.
Catastrophic failure of the internal controller circuit is one possibility. It happened to me with a small G.Skill SSD. That wasn't my judgment of what happened, that was G.Skill's. The data might have still been there, but I had no way to access it. As far as the computer was concerned, the physical device still existed but the media and partition didn't.
That was one of two SSDs that I have bought, so from my perspective it's a 50 percent failure rate for the technology. Here's the irony: I have a Conner Peripherals 170 MEGAbyte IDE platter drive - from about 1992? - that still works. I have a small box full of old magnetic platter drives like that one that still work. In 25 years of using platter drives, I've had perhaps three physically fail. Am I going to be able to say the same thing about the SSDs I have now in 20 years, especially given their guaranteed obsolescence? Not a chance. YMMV, but not by much.
It might have been luck rather than sheer skill or persistence. How many Politburo insiders tried before him? How many party system insiders have tried and failed here? How long will we have to wait for our own Gorbachev?
Yes, science fiction books, which my high school English teacher declared were unfit to be described as literature and refused to allow book reports that relied upon one. Not any one specific science fiction book, though, but rather many of them collectively; considered together as a whole they have a truly profound impact on a person who reads many of them, as I did. I dare not play favorites except to single out science fiction in general; the only other book that was perhaps transformative was the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which I acquired my sophomore year in high school, but the damage had already been done long before by all the SF books I had already consumed.
I was also deeply affected by the movies Swiss Family Robinson and Silent Running, the latter which while still science fiction was obviously not a book.
Oh... and I suppose I was influenced by the inconsistencies and weirdness in the Christian Bible to be an early non-theist and naturalist. The SF books certainly helped guide me to that conclusion, too.
... when said system is so rigged that an outsider can barely manage to get on a ballot, but then also get equal time and wide enough exposure to actually get elected? Not likely.
Let the revolution begin. Hopefully it's one that would make Ghandi proud, but that may not be possible.
I wish I had a mod point right now to help this Coward counter the simplistic stupidity of the grandparent post.
This corporate-allied Supreme Court is certain to allow what amounts to economic double jeopardy: allowing rights holders and manufacturers to profit not just once from production of an item but every single time it changes hands. Doesn't that sound vaguely familiar? It should: it's almost like a subscription.
Why is this marked as Troll, when the Congress of the United States passed a law, which the President then signed, that granted legal immunity to American telecom corporations for illegally conspiring with the NSA and other agencies to monitor and collect the communications of the entire nation? How exactly is that so very different from what is alleged that Huawei and ZTE are or might be doing?
The not so implicit point of the parent comment is that the United States would like to maintain its "right" to monitor and track and control and deny the ability to any other government that it perceives as hostile. Isn't that quite hypocritical of this government to consider other governments as hostile when it is repeatedly treating its own citizens as hostile with excessive secrecy, acts of Congress, Presidential orders, creation of whole new intelligence bureaucracies, legitimization of wiretapping, and more?
You were setting up your own tree/pod/whatever? That's not absolutely required, you can just join an existing one. That is all I have done so far.
I'm not the best person to ask, but there is some interoperability between LiberTree and one or two other projects like Friendica; I've seen people "cross-posting", so I can "like" those posts. I don't know if I can also friend/follow those users.
And if the beginning parameters of the model were off from actual history by even the tiniest fraction, the extrapolated results won't be worth much. We pretend otherwise, but we really still don't know the current state and composition of the universe, much less how it started... assuming it started. There's a reason that they're called theories.
Yes, that too.
Diaspora has spawned other projects that attempt to carry on and refine the original goals. LiberTree is one of them, for instance. Just because the original team didn't succeed brilliantly doesn't mean that the original goals weren't worthy or attainable.
I've never heard of the Bilderberg group or its annual meetings. Honest!
... and build a microwave cannon to take out the car stereos. They're the problem, not your hearing nor your windows. It's a massive social ethics problem, aided and abetted by every single car manufacturer, who now preinstall sound systems capable of rattling entire neighborhoods. You might wanna avoid zapping the fire trucks. They have a good reason for making lots of noise. Unless your city has the highest per capita arsonists, you can probably survive the fire trucks once the boom box cars are silent.
Sadly, no one even bothers insulting the third party candidates.
People don't want their heartfelt insults to be wasted.
Only two things will "help our electoral process"....
You left out random selection, which will give us superior candidates 99% of the time. The other 1% is when we randomly get... well, the same One Percenters we get now. Maybe we can set a cap on income for the random selection.
Yes, let's all resort to juvenile, emotional, hyperbolic name-calling, then make no reasoned arguments at all to follow it. Let's make sure we ignore and apologize for everyone that does it to the candidates we don't like and cry foul only when it's done to the candidate we lionize. That will surely help our electoral process.