They have a natural/God-given right to do so and no law passed by any number of people in the society can take away that right.
As I said it's a cultural thing, whether you believe it or not the vast majority of Aussies would strongly disagree with your statement as would the citizens of many (but not all) EU countries.
It may also surprise you that the laws here in Oz were promoted and enacted by John Howard who was the most conservative right wing prime minister we've had since the 60's. There is no discernible left/right divide over gun laws and socialised health in Oz, decades of surveys consistently report 80+% of the population support both initiatives (which is why the right wing embraced socialised health as a "God-given right" back in the 80's).
Disclaimer: A close relative of mine owned a hand gun collection of about 30 pieces under these laws for about 10yrs, he had a safe concreted into the floor, he had the cops knock and ask to look about 2-3 times in those 10yrs. None of this particularly bothered him, what caused him to sell his collection to a licensed dealer was his eldest son's heroine addiction.
Personally I don't see random inspections of private armouries as "tyranny" any more than I see random breath test as "tyranny", I actually see those two things as protecting MY right not to be killed/maimed by a drunk with a car/gun.
I for one do stare at black holes and wonder what's inside?
Coincidently Conway's game of life got me interested in programming way back in the mid 80's. The original argument you pose is of course the same one posed in the matrix. Douglas Adams does the best version of the counter argument.
From an Aussie POV it looks like Americans are paying caviar prices and being served dog food. The Aussie health system has statistically better results that the US system, however a 'single breadwinner" Aussie family of four is paying about one tenth what a similar American family pays for health insurance. To add irony to injury, one tenth of what the US family spends on health is already included in their tax bill and spent on government health schemes.
It's been said that the measure of a nation is found in how it treats it's weakest citizens - the US does rather badly on that score compared to other (modern) western countries.
You do realise there are 27 nations in the EU, dozens of different languages and hundreds if not thousands of provinces, all of whom have been at war with each other for at least the last 2000yrs. Agree the US is far more diverse than most non-American's realise but it's diversity was inherited from Europe, not only via the early settlers, but also the gold rush days, and the two world wars.
I think the best way to go is to stop everyone but the police and the military from carrying guns, just like they do in Mexico.
That's odd, I haven't noticed an increase in local warlords since we implemented similar hand gun laws here in Oz about 25yrs ago. It's definitely a cultural thing, hand guns have never been popular in Oz or the UK. Even when they were legal if you claimed you needed a gun to protect yourself you were seen by "polite society" as a either thug or a coward, probably both. This is also reflected in Australian law since "self defence" is no longer a valid reason to own a gun, "hunting" and "sport" are ok. Under the heading of "sport" you can own a handgun for target shooting, provided you keep it at the range, or submit to "surprise" inspections of your home armoury by the cops.
He has clearly stated it was his mistake. The third option you hint at is of course "Admit nothing", it's the preferred option for 10/10 corporations, governments, religions. This guy is an engineer, one who's moral compass points to option 2, he has stood up publically and owned his mistake so others can be aware of the problem and do something about (coincidently "what to do about HB" was the topic of discussion at work today).
It doesnt take a genius to figure out 2 is the best option.
Correct, doing the "right thing" doesn't require brains, it requires principles and the balls to live up to them.
You seem to be arguing against a different quote than the one you posted? Also "weather" is the correct term since he speaking in the ignorant words of his antagonist's voice.
It's silly to tell me I can't agree to it right off the bat.
From a "big picture" POV, there are two schools of thought, the first says if you reduce everyone's hours there will be more jobs, the other says it will just shrink the economy, both schools of thought have valid points. I suspect the answer is somewhere in-between the two schools, neither is a clear "winner" because we are dealing with a very complex system called the economy.
Remember that back when that was written most people believed that things that appeared in the sky were gods in their own right, particular importance was placed on the sun and the moon because of the influence they have on the seasons and the timing of animal migrations and fish spawning's. Understanding these cycles is critical to forming a civilization as evidenced by massive structures like stone henge dotted all over the planet, these are basically gigantic "farmer's almanac calculators", telling the owners when to plant, harvest, look for salmon runs, birds eggs, etc. They certainly did not think of the Moon as a lifeless rock circling the Earth, it was the physical manifestation of a God in the heavens. The bible changed all this by claiming there was one true God and what went on in the heavens was his doing.
There was no such thing as astronomy and the claims made in your post would appear to be gibberish to them, they could see with their own eyes that the gods played in the heavens that encircled the Earth [hamburgeruniverse.com]. The idea of the dome is reflected in the domes of temples and churches. Genesis waffles on about god separating the waters above from the waters below with a dome, not sure if that's referring to rain, the fact that the sky is blue, or something else.
As an old fart "gamer" I find temper tantrums and trolls in the chat window of most games are relatively easy to ignore but the constant flow of bullshit does get in the way of useful communication between teammates. I like the common gaming feature where you can quickly filter a particular troll/spammer out of the chat window by clicking "ignore" on their name. It's a simple and very effective way to clean up the chat window on the spot. I don't use audio chat but it wouldn't surprise me if it had a similar feature.
Win, lose, or draw, I call 'gg' when I die, a lot of kids don't understand old fashioned "sportsmanship" so it sometimes confuses them and they respond with something like - "How is it gg? We lost!". Problem is, if they are old/sober enough to type coherent comments into a chat window and still don't get the "play nice" thing, they probably never will.
There are two mutually exclusive sets of frequencies, "can hear" and "can't hear".
Max(can hear) = 20k.
Therefore 320k and uncompressed (above 20k) are both in the "can't hear" set
IMO the "right" thing to do is either release the source or provide full API and file format specs. Also, if we are going to grant software patents as well as copyright, an "implementation" requirement should be added to the patent - (electronically) attach the source/specs to the patent. I don't thing corporate bean counters will like any of those options, but as someone who has spent 20+yrs developing commercial software I think they are "cutting their nose off to spite their face". Anyone who has ever pinpointed an unknown bug in someone else's proprietary O/S or application will know just how much time and effort goes into just finding the "other geek" in the different department/company who can understand what the hell you are talking about, let alone convince them it's a bug that needs fixing in their code. Fortunately we developers don't see much of that activity, just the delays, missed deadlines, and contradictory requirements that flow from it.
However it must be said that in cases where public safety is an issue suppliers board members, managers and "principle engineers" are often in the legal crosshairs if it can be shown they were "negligent" (eg:Y2K issues). The gaping hole in this approach is an ISO (or similar) audit once every few years is generally enough to get you off the hook. In my experience such an audit can be anything from a full day inquisition with detailed and relevant questions to "I was audited? When?"
OT: Truth be known most IT corporates would love to have a "developer pool" just like the old "typing pool", ie: cheap, replaceable cogs. I'm only 10yrs from retirement, so I doubt it will affect me personally, however IBM's "Watson" is starting to look like a viable way to send many relatively expensive "IT knowledge workers" to the unemployment scrap heap along side the secretaries, typists, telegraph operators, tea ladies, bank tellers, etc. Now may be a good time in history for ambitious young developers to become an expert in the "art" of developing/training expert systems such as Watson.
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Under current copyright law, Microsoft could make a good faith case
Ever heard of software "clean rooms"? - If a thousand monkeys did actually manage to recreate the windows source code they would not be infringing copyright, monkeys can't read so obviously they cannot be guilty of copying anything belonging to MS.
You might think they are making decisions like stupid morons, but very likely it is a calculated response
Indeed, my point was that their calculations are based on a different worldview, one that equates informed and uninformed opinion. One of the key words in Sagan's quote is "knowledgeably".
Send a sperm bank and a handful of (very dedicated) women, deter first cousins or closer from breeding, population remains low it doesn't expand until the ship nears it's destination, it then expands at a predetermined rate to provide the workforce needed to construct the colony upon arrival.
Pro tip: Not that it applies here but I always taught my CS students to code "defensively" by making it a habit to put constants on the LHS of a comparison, because...
if ( constant=variable) - Throws a compiler error, cannot become an application bug.
if (variable=constant) - At best a compiler warning, at worst an application bug.
That was back in the early 90's, many compilers back then did not issue a warning for the second case because it's valid syntax. Nowadays most compilers will issue an explicit warning for assignment in a conditional expression. Still, it's a good habit to cultivate since compiler warnings can be ignored/missed by others but compiler errors can't.
who goes "oh, whatever, we'll just match against whatever?"
As someone else suggested it's probably debug code that found its way into production. It's not a lack of skill problem it's a process problem, code reviews should have picked it up but obviously didn't, how it got as far as customers is the question MS should be asking.
More depressing clips: A guy called ClimateBrad has a large collection of clips from US politicians doing their very best to make up their own facts and rules of logic.
Up until I reached my 40's I thought people like Senator Inhofe in the US and Tony Abbot here in Oz were uneducated, stupid, or more likely both. They are none of those things, they're just plain immoral by normal western standards when it comes to honesty (even the good ones). To paraphrase Shaun Micallef - "The media is called the fourth estate but behaves like a fifth wheel", like the political system it revels in conflict and is trained in the (in)humanities. If it can't find controversy in a story then it invents some (say) by equating a "one jump away" lobbyist's press release from one of their major sponsors to a meticulous scientific report. The Iraq war and "Climategate" are both prime examples of commercial media being worse than useless in clarifying a complex issue, particularly in the US.
The honest self-skepticisim required to be successful in the scientific and engineering world is a career killer in the political world. They have a different worldview that says everything boils down to an opinion, and all opinions are equal. Therefore social skills are more important than evidence and manipulation is more useful than reason. OTOH we have way too many Phd's in the hard sciences who have never stepped foot in a "Ph" class in their life and would not know Popper from Popoff.
Thing is, the political worldview is our natural behaviour, it's instinctual and we all do it to some degree because...well..it almost works. Critical thinking is a learned behaviour that basically refines "common-sense" using agreed rules of evidence and logic, it is the foundation of The Enlightenment, a radical shift in human behaviour barely 500yrs old. It's unsurprising that it hasn't permeated to everyone in the modern world that the "age of reason" created with extraordinary speed over the last 50-100yrs.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." - Sagan, Demon Haunted World (Science as a candle in the dark)
Indeed, may I add one caveated to that, educate yourself on what the professional advises, read the labels and be aware of the side-effects of anti-anxiety pills such as Zoloft, mixed with regular alcohol I've seen at least 4 middle aged friends have their lives totally wrecked by that particular combination, two of whom ended up spending time in jail, not to mention the distress caused to their partners and kids. This is because we need some stress, it's the bodily signal that tells you what you are doing is wrong/dangerous, unfortunately I was too slow to make the connection in my ex-wife's behaviour to save my own 20yr marriage.
So my advise is seek professional help from a qualified psychiatrist who will probably recommend a good counsellor. Do not accept a script from an ordinary GP, ask for a referral to a physiatrist for a second opinion. Above all educate yourself enough about any drugs you are given, especially the unwanted side-effects that can be far worse than the anxiety attacks. Used properly the drugs are effective, I have more friends that have benefited from their correct use than have suffered from incorrect use.
Did this to my i5 about 18 months ago and was pleasantly surprised at the performance boost, it's now as responsive (and in some cases more so) than my i7. Having said that the SSD died after less than 6 months of use. It was replaced under warranty and has been running for about a year now, but the experience reinforced their reputation for poor reliability in my mind and I still don't quite trust it.
PS: The little tool bundled with windows that rates the performance of the PC is very handy, it tells you exactly where the bottleneck is in very simple terms and you would be correct in saying that on most machines it points to disk latency.
we don't take over places for strategic or tactical advantage
The post war history of Russia looks very similar. Sure you don't add territory, that would mean the conquered would have US constitutional protections. Rather they both install puppet regimes and pull the cash/power strings. Supposedly the cold war is over but if you look carefully many of the world's trouble spots are also points of disagreement between the veto wielding powers in the UNSC.
The democratic thing to do now is to let Russia have Crimea, that's what the majority of Crimea's people want. Do not create a new generation of exploding humans by punishing the ordinary people of Crimea in the same way the Palestinians have been punished for electing Hamas in overwhelming numbers.
Speaking of history, future text books will blame the Arab spring and in particular the Syrian civil war not on "social media" but on the preceding record drought years in the fertile crescent and across most of N. Africa. A drought that saw large internal displacements as people abandoned dry farms for work in the cities, cities that then saw food riots and social tensions between city dweller and refugee farmers. The leaked diplomatic cables will form part of the academic evidence and show how diplomats had worried about the tensions to the point of correctly predicting the city where the civil war ignited.
Of course once the shooting starts it becomes a "winner takes all" water war. The individual battles may be over a military base and the soldiers motivation may be preventing the slaughter of "his people". The Syrian civil war itself is about water, the problem is that this fairly obvious kernel of reason is buried deep inside an onion of political layers and is virtually ignored when discussing Syria, Egypt, Lybia, et-al. These people did not after 30yrs suddenly realise they were oppressed after signing up to facebook, they could not put enough food on the table to stop their stomachs rumbling. The stress was so great people started setting fire to themselves in protest, this is where social media came in and helped re-organise the deck chairs but did nothing to solve the problem.
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They have a natural/God-given right to do so and no law passed by any number of people in the society can take away that right.
As I said it's a cultural thing, whether you believe it or not the vast majority of Aussies would strongly disagree with your statement as would the citizens of many (but not all) EU countries.
It may also surprise you that the laws here in Oz were promoted and enacted by John Howard who was the most conservative right wing prime minister we've had since the 60's. There is no discernible left/right divide over gun laws and socialised health in Oz, decades of surveys consistently report 80+% of the population support both initiatives (which is why the right wing embraced socialised health as a "God-given right" back in the 80's).
Disclaimer: A close relative of mine owned a hand gun collection of about 30 pieces under these laws for about 10yrs, he had a safe concreted into the floor, he had the cops knock and ask to look about 2-3 times in those 10yrs. None of this particularly bothered him, what caused him to sell his collection to a licensed dealer was his eldest son's heroine addiction.
Personally I don't see random inspections of private armouries as "tyranny" any more than I see random breath test as "tyranny", I actually see those two things as protecting MY right not to be killed/maimed by a drunk with a car/gun.
I for one do stare at black holes and wonder what's inside?
Coincidently Conway's game of life got me interested in programming way back in the mid 80's. The original argument you pose is of course the same one posed in the matrix. Douglas Adams does the best version of the counter argument.
From an Aussie POV it looks like Americans are paying caviar prices and being served dog food. The Aussie health system has statistically better results that the US system, however a 'single breadwinner" Aussie family of four is paying about one tenth what a similar American family pays for health insurance. To add irony to injury, one tenth of what the US family spends on health is already included in their tax bill and spent on government health schemes.
It's been said that the measure of a nation is found in how it treats it's weakest citizens - the US does rather badly on that score compared to other (modern) western countries.
when said europeans have never lived it.
You do realise there are 27 nations in the EU, dozens of different languages and hundreds if not thousands of provinces, all of whom have been at war with each other for at least the last 2000yrs. Agree the US is far more diverse than most non-American's realise but it's diversity was inherited from Europe, not only via the early settlers, but also the gold rush days, and the two world wars.
I think the best way to go is to stop everyone but the police and the military from carrying guns, just like they do in Mexico.
That's odd, I haven't noticed an increase in local warlords since we implemented similar hand gun laws here in Oz about 25yrs ago. It's definitely a cultural thing, hand guns have never been popular in Oz or the UK. Even when they were legal if you claimed you needed a gun to protect yourself you were seen by "polite society" as a either thug or a coward, probably both. This is also reflected in Australian law since "self defence" is no longer a valid reason to own a gun, "hunting" and "sport" are ok. Under the heading of "sport" you can own a handgun for target shooting, provided you keep it at the range, or submit to "surprise" inspections of your home armoury by the cops.
Well, he hasnt admitted to anything.
He has clearly stated it was his mistake. The third option you hint at is of course "Admit nothing", it's the preferred option for 10/10 corporations, governments, religions. This guy is an engineer, one who's moral compass points to option 2, he has stood up publically and owned his mistake so others can be aware of the problem and do something about (coincidently "what to do about HB" was the topic of discussion at work today).
It doesnt take a genius to figure out 2 is the best option.
Correct, doing the "right thing" doesn't require brains, it requires principles and the balls to live up to them.
You seem to be arguing against a different quote than the one you posted? Also "weather" is the correct term since he speaking in the ignorant words of his antagonist's voice.
It's silly to tell me I can't agree to it right off the bat.
From a "big picture" POV, there are two schools of thought, the first says if you reduce everyone's hours there will be more jobs, the other says it will just shrink the economy, both schools of thought have valid points. I suspect the answer is somewhere in-between the two schools, neither is a clear "winner" because we are dealing with a very complex system called the economy.
In my 20s, I'd have accepted it. I'm wiser now.
Exactly, it's one of the reasons why soldiers have been predominately 16-25yo males since the dawn of time, they are much easier to indoctrinate.
maybe a wizard did it.
Remember that back when that was written most people believed that things that appeared in the sky were gods in their own right, particular importance was placed on the sun and the moon because of the influence they have on the seasons and the timing of animal migrations and fish spawning's. Understanding these cycles is critical to forming a civilization as evidenced by massive structures like stone henge dotted all over the planet, these are basically gigantic "farmer's almanac calculators", telling the owners when to plant, harvest, look for salmon runs, birds eggs, etc. They certainly did not think of the Moon as a lifeless rock circling the Earth, it was the physical manifestation of a God in the heavens. The bible changed all this by claiming there was one true God and what went on in the heavens was his doing.
There was no such thing as astronomy and the claims made in your post would appear to be gibberish to them, they could see with their own eyes that the gods played in the heavens that encircled the Earth [hamburgeruniverse.com]. The idea of the dome is reflected in the domes of temples and churches. Genesis waffles on about god separating the waters above from the waters below with a dome, not sure if that's referring to rain, the fact that the sky is blue, or something else.
As an old fart "gamer" I find temper tantrums and trolls in the chat window of most games are relatively easy to ignore but the constant flow of bullshit does get in the way of useful communication between teammates. I like the common gaming feature where you can quickly filter a particular troll/spammer out of the chat window by clicking "ignore" on their name. It's a simple and very effective way to clean up the chat window on the spot. I don't use audio chat but it wouldn't surprise me if it had a similar feature.
Win, lose, or draw, I call 'gg' when I die, a lot of kids don't understand old fashioned "sportsmanship" so it sometimes confuses them and they respond with something like - "How is it gg? We lost!". Problem is, if they are old/sober enough to type coherent comments into a chat window and still don't get the "play nice" thing, they probably never will.
There are two mutually exclusive sets of frequencies, "can hear" and "can't hear".
Max(can hear) = 20k.
Therefore 320k and uncompressed (above 20k) are both in the "can't hear" set
IMO the "right" thing to do is either release the source or provide full API and file format specs. Also, if we are going to grant software patents as well as copyright, an "implementation" requirement should be added to the patent - (electronically) attach the source/specs to the patent. I don't thing corporate bean counters will like any of those options, but as someone who has spent 20+yrs developing commercial software I think they are "cutting their nose off to spite their face". Anyone who has ever pinpointed an unknown bug in someone else's proprietary O/S or application will know just how much time and effort goes into just finding the "other geek" in the different department/company who can understand what the hell you are talking about, let alone convince them it's a bug that needs fixing in their code. Fortunately we developers don't see much of that activity, just the delays, missed deadlines, and contradictory requirements that flow from it.
However it must be said that in cases where public safety is an issue suppliers board members, managers and "principle engineers" are often in the legal crosshairs if it can be shown they were "negligent" (eg:Y2K issues). The gaping hole in this approach is an ISO (or similar) audit once every few years is generally enough to get you off the hook. In my experience such an audit can be anything from a full day inquisition with detailed and relevant questions to "I was audited? When?"
OT: Truth be known most IT corporates would love to have a "developer pool" just like the old "typing pool", ie: cheap, replaceable cogs. I'm only 10yrs from retirement, so I doubt it will affect me personally, however IBM's "Watson" is starting to look like a viable way to send many relatively expensive "IT knowledge workers" to the unemployment scrap heap along side the secretaries, typists, telegraph operators, tea ladies, bank tellers, etc. Now may be a good time in history for ambitious young developers to become an expert in the "art" of developing/training expert systems such as Watson. .
The invisible hand has America by the balls. It feels good, for a while...
Under current copyright law, Microsoft could make a good faith case
Ever heard of software "clean rooms"? - If a thousand monkeys did actually manage to recreate the windows source code they would not be infringing copyright, monkeys can't read so obviously they cannot be guilty of copying anything belonging to MS.
You might think they are making decisions like stupid morons, but very likely it is a calculated response Indeed, my point was that their calculations are based on a different worldview, one that equates informed and uninformed opinion. One of the key words in Sagan's quote is "knowledgeably".
Send a sperm bank and a handful of (very dedicated) women, deter first cousins or closer from breeding, population remains low it doesn't expand until the ship nears it's destination, it then expands at a predetermined rate to provide the workforce needed to construct the colony upon arrival.
Pro tip: Not that it applies here but I always taught my CS students to code "defensively" by making it a habit to put constants on the LHS of a comparison, because...
if ( constant=variable) - Throws a compiler error, cannot become an application bug.
if (variable=constant) - At best a compiler warning, at worst an application bug.
That was back in the early 90's, many compilers back then did not issue a warning for the second case because it's valid syntax. Nowadays most compilers will issue an explicit warning for assignment in a conditional expression. Still, it's a good habit to cultivate since compiler warnings can be ignored/missed by others but compiler errors can't.
who goes "oh, whatever, we'll just match against whatever?"
As someone else suggested it's probably debug code that found its way into production. It's not a lack of skill problem it's a process problem, code reviews should have picked it up but obviously didn't, how it got as far as customers is the question MS should be asking.
More depressing clips: A guy called ClimateBrad has a large collection of clips from US politicians doing their very best to make up their own facts and rules of logic.
Up until I reached my 40's I thought people like Senator Inhofe in the US and Tony Abbot here in Oz were uneducated, stupid, or more likely both. They are none of those things, they're just plain immoral by normal western standards when it comes to honesty (even the good ones). To paraphrase Shaun Micallef - "The media is called the fourth estate but behaves like a fifth wheel", like the political system it revels in conflict and is trained in the (in)humanities. If it can't find controversy in a story then it invents some (say) by equating a "one jump away" lobbyist's press release from one of their major sponsors to a meticulous scientific report. The Iraq war and "Climategate" are both prime examples of commercial media being worse than useless in clarifying a complex issue, particularly in the US.
The honest self-skepticisim required to be successful in the scientific and engineering world is a career killer in the political world. They have a different worldview that says everything boils down to an opinion, and all opinions are equal. Therefore social skills are more important than evidence and manipulation is more useful than reason. OTOH we have way too many Phd's in the hard sciences who have never stepped foot in a "Ph" class in their life and would not know Popper from Popoff.
Thing is, the political worldview is our natural behaviour, it's instinctual and we all do it to some degree because...well..it almost works. Critical thinking is a learned behaviour that basically refines "common-sense" using agreed rules of evidence and logic, it is the foundation of The Enlightenment, a radical shift in human behaviour barely 500yrs old. It's unsurprising that it hasn't permeated to everyone in the modern world that the "age of reason" created with extraordinary speed over the last 50-100yrs.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." - Sagan, Demon Haunted World (Science as a candle in the dark)
When you were 13
1972 - Back then "John Wayne" and "Ringo Star" were cool names. Now get off my lawn you insensitive clod.
Indeed, may I add one caveated to that, educate yourself on what the professional advises, read the labels and be aware of the side-effects of anti-anxiety pills such as Zoloft, mixed with regular alcohol I've seen at least 4 middle aged friends have their lives totally wrecked by that particular combination, two of whom ended up spending time in jail, not to mention the distress caused to their partners and kids. This is because we need some stress, it's the bodily signal that tells you what you are doing is wrong/dangerous, unfortunately I was too slow to make the connection in my ex-wife's behaviour to save my own 20yr marriage.
So my advise is seek professional help from a qualified psychiatrist who will probably recommend a good counsellor. Do not accept a script from an ordinary GP, ask for a referral to a physiatrist for a second opinion. Above all educate yourself enough about any drugs you are given, especially the unwanted side-effects that can be far worse than the anxiety attacks. Used properly the drugs are effective, I have more friends that have benefited from their correct use than have suffered from incorrect use.
Did this to my i5 about 18 months ago and was pleasantly surprised at the performance boost, it's now as responsive (and in some cases more so) than my i7. Having said that the SSD died after less than 6 months of use. It was replaced under warranty and has been running for about a year now, but the experience reinforced their reputation for poor reliability in my mind and I still don't quite trust it.
PS: The little tool bundled with windows that rates the performance of the PC is very handy, it tells you exactly where the bottleneck is in very simple terms and you would be correct in saying that on most machines it points to disk latency.
we don't take over places for strategic or tactical advantage
The post war history of Russia looks very similar. Sure you don't add territory, that would mean the conquered would have US constitutional protections. Rather they both install puppet regimes and pull the cash/power strings. Supposedly the cold war is over but if you look carefully many of the world's trouble spots are also points of disagreement between the veto wielding powers in the UNSC.
The democratic thing to do now is to let Russia have Crimea, that's what the majority of Crimea's people want. Do not create a new generation of exploding humans by punishing the ordinary people of Crimea in the same way the Palestinians have been punished for electing Hamas in overwhelming numbers.
Speaking of history, future text books will blame the Arab spring and in particular the Syrian civil war not on "social media" but on the preceding record drought years in the fertile crescent and across most of N. Africa. A drought that saw large internal displacements as people abandoned dry farms for work in the cities, cities that then saw food riots and social tensions between city dweller and refugee farmers. The leaked diplomatic cables will form part of the academic evidence and show how diplomats had worried about the tensions to the point of correctly predicting the city where the civil war ignited.
Of course once the shooting starts it becomes a "winner takes all" water war. The individual battles may be over a military base and the soldiers motivation may be preventing the slaughter of "his people". The Syrian civil war itself is about water, the problem is that this fairly obvious kernel of reason is buried deep inside an onion of political layers and is virtually ignored when discussing Syria, Egypt, Lybia, et-al. These people did not after 30yrs suddenly realise they were oppressed after signing up to facebook, they could not put enough food on the table to stop their stomachs rumbling. The stress was so great people started setting fire to themselves in protest, this is where social media came in and helped re-organise the deck chairs but did nothing to solve the problem.
The US already have a mandatory treatment program for non-violent addicts and pot heads, they put them in jail.