Man! The best female superpower my friend and I could come up with was the ability to cloud men's minds. I guess those two are related though...
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The disappointing thing is that since the sun is ~8.5 light-minutes away, we won't even get to enjoy seeing it explode before we burn to a crisp.
Re:Just Drop Into the Sun from Sail Ship
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The fact of the matter is that from Earth it's much more economical to eject things out of the solar system than into the sun, which is really counter-intuitive. Since most people we know of would ultimately be starting the journey at Earth, it doesn't particularly matter how they manage that last drop into the sun, you still have to ditch all your angular momentum, which takes loads of energy.
That's funny, cause I explicitly avoid those top reviewer labels. I find them overwrought and too full of praise most of the time. If a review doesn't have both something positive and something negative to say about a book, then I simply click the "No this review was not helpful" button and ignore it.
I've heard that the same thing goes on in some graduate admissions offices with letters of recommendation. If the recommender doesn't have something bad to say, then it's assumed they don't know you well enough.
I have mod points, but I don't see a "Factually Inaccurate" option, so I'll just have to reply.
I have friends who are really into the hip hop scene, and they regularly get sent tracks of just the beats to songs from the artists themselves. Most of the time, the artist is hoping it'll get passed around and used and heard by multiple people for the publicity. Just because you can't buy it at Best Buy doesn't mean the artists don't release them.
I have a friend in the same situation. There's exactly six people with his last name in North America and they're all close relatives, so I can google and find out not only the name of his high school soccer team and his past research, but also his father's and older brother's research interests and younger brother's musical instrument of choice. It's kinda fun. Certainly can't do that with my name.
Even better. I know a place called Singapore, where they sell the exact same textbooks for half the price. Sometimes even cheaper when they're sold in international paperback editions. Somebody I know brought a whole case of books back one year and just charged $10 on top of his cost - so like still 50-60% of the cost here - to pay for his ticket. I think that's where a good number of the rediculously cheap "Like New" used books on amazon come from.
Worse yet, I had a gynocologist tell me once that she had a patient come in because she had forgotten to take her last tampon out....more than a week and thirty men ago. She said an ER nurse passed out from the smell when it was taken out and swears she doesn't understand how the patient didn't get toxic shock.
I'm no doctor, but I'd think that some treatments for people who have or are at risk for vericose veins, since they're due to poor circulation in the legs, would be similar. Exercise should strengthen the vein walls while clearing lymph out of the feet in particular, which would improve circulation. This page mentions that lack of exercise is a risk factor for poor circulation, but so is diabetes, smoking and a lot of other stuff. You should probably just ask your doctor what you could do if it bothers you a lot. I exercise a lot and still get the mild cold hands and feet thing so it's not like I know what I'm talking about.
I think it'd be way funnier to organize a campaign where thousands of people started visiting with lynx. Just imagine their techies trying to figure that one out.
Seems like 3 years is an excessively long time to keep a $17,000 piece of equipment, whether it's obsolete now or not. If the police confiscated your car as evidence and then never charged you with anything but kept the car in storage, you'd expect your car back and compensation, wouldn't you? Seems like all you guys who still haven't gotten your equipment back years later should sue to get it back and/or get compensation for replacement hardware.
I've read about these experiments and always kinda wanted to try it myself. I imagine I'd be on the floor within 10 seconds clinging to it desperately, but man would it be an experience!
My Mom got bifocal contacts (one lens for near, one for far), and she gets headaches and nausea when she switches between those and her normal bifocal glasses simply from her brain having to readjust to which eye to use for certain tasks. When she puts her glasses on, her brain is still trying to sample one eye for near and one for far when it no longer works that way and vice versa.
Compound that with the motion (the other stuff he projects onto his screen is no longer floating over the real world image) and I guess that could be pretty miserable.
Doesn't that company VeriChip already sell implants to track your kids in case of kidnapping? I wonder if those set off the post-9-11 extra-sensitive metal detectors. Wouldn't that be an unpleasant surprise later? Sorry, can't get on the plane with Mommy honey, because Mommy is paranoid that someone will take you from her.
I was wondering what kind of tugging they were doing to rip the electrodes out and cause bleeding. The way I picture the situation, that was either an exaggeration or maliciousness on the part of the guys doing the search. I'd probably be pretty frustrated with this guy, too, at that point, but it does seem pretty silly considering the fact that my step-dad had a metal pump implanted in his abdomen and got through airports just fine with a doctor's note. It's not like he's the only guy in the world with metal inside him. Seems like he just made a big fuss over the computer.
Yeah, I live in Texas, too, and I've wondered about that myself. It seems like increasing the size of the database randomly has to just increases the search time without increasing the number of matches a whole heck of a lot in return.
This page says that California, Colorado, Hawaii and Georgia also require it, and I've read that when it was still just optional in California they would lift the prints from the forms of people who refused. That's kinda scary.
I don't know about you, but I have no withdrawl symptoms when I go from two Dr. Pepper's a day down to none. It's quite a different story going from more than that down to nothing: withdrawl headaches all the way. I agree that the article title was misleading, all mainstream media coverage of scientific results is like that, but I can't argue with the actual results they found.
I have to argue with you here. I get migraines: I feel nauseous, see auras, etc etc. but taking advil or excedrin works for me....eventually, after an hour or so being miserable. Just because it's treatable with over the counter medicine doesn't mean can't be just a mild migraine.
Better than simply drugs or sketchy chiropractors I think is simply identifying the triggers. A lot of migraines are caused by either stress, like mine, or reaction to trigger foods. Knowing what often causes mine, then when I start getting migraines I know I need to work more de-stressing type stuff like exercise into my schedule. Then the frequency goes down to nil.
I've found that if I drink less than two caffinated beverages per day (my choice one being Dr. Pepper) then I don't get headaches when I suddenly skip a day or a week or more. So I'd recommend to someone getting down to two a day for a few weeks before going cold turkey and then you probably won't even have to deal with the headache side effect.
I understand you on the migraine issue. For mine I actually like to take Excedrin migraine, which is a cocktail of aspirin, tylenol and (yea!) caffeine, which knocks it out real quick. Works for me way better and faster than the handful of advil I'd use otherwise, and it doesn't make me feel like I just had a shot of caffeine. I don't even work for excedrin.
Yeah, just what we need, an elevator inside the world's tallest lightening rod. And it's long enough (outside even geosynchronous orbits) that most space junk can hit it. Wonderful idea.
Perhaps you could post your document classes somewhere so that others can start doing this as well. I'm in physics and this system sounds pretty appealling.
I totally agree. Most Americans don't understand the longterm consequences of foreign policy decisions. Even worse, most never acknowledge that some countries have good reasons for disliking us. We usually write those people off as crazy, since why would anyone sane dislike our policies? Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that those policies fuck some people over bigtime.
Bush walking all over our allies to get this war to happen is just another example of the shortsightedness of this administration.
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Man! The best female superpower my friend and I could come up with was the ability to cloud men's minds. I guess those two are related though...
The disappointing thing is that since the sun is ~8.5 light-minutes away, we won't even get to enjoy seeing it explode before we burn to a crisp.
The fact of the matter is that from Earth it's much more economical to eject things out of the solar system than into the sun, which is really counter-intuitive. Since most people we know of would ultimately be starting the journey at Earth, it doesn't particularly matter how they manage that last drop into the sun, you still have to ditch all your angular momentum, which takes loads of energy.
That's funny, cause I explicitly avoid those top reviewer labels. I find them overwrought and too full of praise most of the time. If a review doesn't have both something positive and something negative to say about a book, then I simply click the "No this review was not helpful" button and ignore it.
I've heard that the same thing goes on in some graduate admissions offices with letters of recommendation. If the recommender doesn't have something bad to say, then it's assumed they don't know you well enough.
I have mod points, but I don't see a "Factually Inaccurate" option, so I'll just have to reply.
I have friends who are really into the hip hop scene, and they regularly get sent tracks of just the beats to songs from the artists themselves. Most of the time, the artist is hoping it'll get passed around and used and heard by multiple people for the publicity. Just because you can't buy it at Best Buy doesn't mean the artists don't release them.
I have a friend in the same situation. There's exactly six people with his last name in North America and they're all close relatives, so I can google and find out not only the name of his high school soccer team and his past research, but also his father's and older brother's research interests and younger brother's musical instrument of choice. It's kinda fun. Certainly can't do that with my name.
Even better. I know a place called Singapore, where they sell the exact same textbooks for half the price. Sometimes even cheaper when they're sold in international paperback editions. Somebody I know brought a whole case of books back one year and just charged $10 on top of his cost - so like still 50-60% of the cost here - to pay for his ticket. I think that's where a good number of the rediculously cheap "Like New" used books on amazon come from.
Nope, at least not on expert level. I freaking die all the time on the first click.
Worse yet, I had a gynocologist tell me once that she had a patient come in because she had forgotten to take her last tampon out....more than a week and thirty men ago. She said an ER nurse passed out from the smell when it was taken out and swears she doesn't understand how the patient didn't get toxic shock.
I'm no doctor, but I'd think that some treatments for people who have or are at risk for vericose veins, since they're due to poor circulation in the legs, would be similar. Exercise should strengthen the vein walls while clearing lymph out of the feet in particular, which would improve circulation. This page mentions that lack of exercise is a risk factor for poor circulation, but so is diabetes, smoking and a lot of other stuff. You should probably just ask your doctor what you could do if it bothers you a lot. I exercise a lot and still get the mild cold hands and feet thing so it's not like I know what I'm talking about.
I think it'd be way funnier to organize a campaign where thousands of people started visiting with lynx. Just imagine their techies trying to figure that one out.
Someone needs to get Turner Classic Movies. Great movies, commercials only between the movies, or at most one ad at intermission for long ones.
Seems like 3 years is an excessively long time to keep a $17,000 piece of equipment, whether it's obsolete now or not. If the police confiscated your car as evidence and then never charged you with anything but kept the car in storage, you'd expect your car back and compensation, wouldn't you? Seems like all you guys who still haven't gotten your equipment back years later should sue to get it back and/or get compensation for replacement hardware.
I've read about these experiments and always kinda wanted to try it myself. I imagine I'd be on the floor within 10 seconds clinging to it desperately, but man would it be an experience!
My Mom got bifocal contacts (one lens for near, one for far), and she gets headaches and nausea when she switches between those and her normal bifocal glasses simply from her brain having to readjust to which eye to use for certain tasks. When she puts her glasses on, her brain is still trying to sample one eye for near and one for far when it no longer works that way and vice versa.
Compound that with the motion (the other stuff he projects onto his screen is no longer floating over the real world image) and I guess that could be pretty miserable.
Doesn't that company VeriChip already sell implants to track your kids in case of kidnapping? I wonder if those set off the post-9-11 extra-sensitive metal detectors. Wouldn't that be an unpleasant surprise later? Sorry, can't get on the plane with Mommy honey, because Mommy is paranoid that someone will take you from her.
I was wondering what kind of tugging they were doing to rip the electrodes out and cause bleeding. The way I picture the situation, that was either an exaggeration or maliciousness on the part of the guys doing the search. I'd probably be pretty frustrated with this guy, too, at that point, but it does seem pretty silly considering the fact that my step-dad had a metal pump implanted in his abdomen and got through airports just fine with a doctor's note. It's not like he's the only guy in the world with metal inside him. Seems like he just made a big fuss over the computer.
Yeah, I live in Texas, too, and I've wondered about that myself. It seems like increasing the size of the database randomly has to just increases the search time without increasing the number of matches a whole heck of a lot in return.
This page says that California, Colorado, Hawaii and Georgia also require it, and I've read that when it was still just optional in California they would lift the prints from the forms of people who refused. That's kinda scary.
I don't know about you, but I have no withdrawl symptoms when I go from two Dr. Pepper's a day down to none. It's quite a different story going from more than that down to nothing: withdrawl headaches all the way. I agree that the article title was misleading, all mainstream media coverage of scientific results is like that, but I can't argue with the actual results they found.
I have to argue with you here. I get migraines: I feel nauseous, see auras, etc etc. but taking advil or excedrin works for me....eventually, after an hour or so being miserable. Just because it's treatable with over the counter medicine doesn't mean can't be just a mild migraine.
Better than simply drugs or sketchy chiropractors I think is simply identifying the triggers. A lot of migraines are caused by either stress, like mine, or reaction to trigger foods. Knowing what often causes mine, then when I start getting migraines I know I need to work more de-stressing type stuff like exercise into my schedule. Then the frequency goes down to nil.
I've found that if I drink less than two caffinated beverages per day (my choice one being Dr. Pepper) then I don't get headaches when I suddenly skip a day or a week or more. So I'd recommend to someone getting down to two a day for a few weeks before going cold turkey and then you probably won't even have to deal with the headache side effect.
I understand you on the migraine issue. For mine I actually like to take Excedrin migraine, which is a cocktail of aspirin, tylenol and (yea!) caffeine, which knocks it out real quick. Works for me way better and faster than the handful of advil I'd use otherwise, and it doesn't make me feel like I just had a shot of caffeine. I don't even work for excedrin.
Yeah, just what we need, an elevator inside the world's tallest lightening rod. And it's long enough (outside even geosynchronous orbits) that most space junk can hit it. Wonderful idea.
Perhaps you could post your document classes somewhere so that others can start doing this as well. I'm in physics and this system sounds pretty appealling.
I totally agree. Most Americans don't understand the longterm consequences of foreign policy decisions. Even worse, most never acknowledge that some countries have good reasons for disliking us. We usually write those people off as crazy, since why would anyone sane dislike our policies? Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that those policies fuck some people over bigtime.
Bush walking all over our allies to get this war to happen is just another example of the shortsightedness of this administration.