You've just reinforced my point -- that most people can (and to a certain extent, DO) drive on auto-pilot. It's why they have the brain CPU cycles left to do things like navigate, get in the correct lane, know that the light up ahead is most likely NOT going to stay green, etc. This is not limited to automatics, it works every bit as well with a manual. My point was that once you get the mechanics of driving down to the point of doing it on auto-pilot, mental illness is not going to strip you of that ability. It doesn't matter if you drive an automatic Civic, or a 10-gear Peterbilt.
As long as insanity does not cripple the body, a person who drove stick for years then "lost it" would probably have no trouble at all continuing to drive stick. Once it's learned, it's burned in the motor cortex. I would imagine someone hallucinating would have concentration problems, but actions performed by muscle memory sorta just happen. Have you ever reached down to shift from fourth to fifth (or fifth to sixth if you have it) and found out that you ALREADY HAD, about five seconds prior -- or try to downshift, only to find that you never upshifted in the first place (and that this was the correct action)?
How many elite athletes have been or are absolutely stark raving loony? Mental illness does not have to interfere with learning new skills or putting old ones to use.
Simply put, it is not only possible but dead simple to hold two objects in one hand -- say, a sandwich and the steering wheel. When the shifting hand is available, either the sandwich is moved to that hand, or the shifting hand steers. Think of it as slow-motion juggling.
It could easily be argued this isn't very sanitary, since your steering wheel is probably one of the nastiest things you handle for extended periods. It may be a bad idea on this, and other levels, but it's very possible.
I remember back in school that we made our messes with gummi bears. Hold one in your hand for a while and it will soften up and get sticky. Not too long, you don't want it to melt from the sweat of your hand, but you want it nice and mushy. Then throw it at something as hard as you can and I bet it sticks. We did this mostly on ceilings, but it's just as effective on the parts of walls that are difficult to reach.
Most of the time they would fall down in a matter of minutes. Occasionally they would take hours, and we'd be long gone when they would randomly drop -- quite possibly on someone's head. A very few never came down. Much like the famous picture of the lane marker painted over the dead armadillo, they'd just be painted over if they didn't fall down when the paint roller hit them. I'd bet some of them are still there over 20 years later.
No, but they may be making fundamental assumptions about the data being received that are no longer valid. As such, some details may be getting ignored (not even noted in the first place) so maybe it's time to break out the old timey analog recorders. There may be stuff in this signal that cannot be recovered later if it's digitized on the fly.
Unfortunately, what was a good part of town yesterday may be a bad one today. These changes happen relatively slowly in meatspace, but can happen more or less instantly in cyberspace. It's just not possible to ever be sure where the bad parts of town are. You could work on a whitelist of only trusted sites, but you'd end up blocking 95% of the Internet, most of which is harmless.
The main problem here is that the Internet is only MOSTLY harmless.
I try to minimize the number of keys I carry -- front door, front door deadbolt (don't ask me why these could not be consolidated), apartment lobby door, apartment stairwell/elevator doors, laundry room, and mailbox, and that doesn't even count a car key or any other building. One I decided to drop was my laundry key, which I keep on a string tied to the bottle of laundry detergent. This works well enough. Then I dropped the front door (not deadbolt) key because it's pointless to lock something I know can be picked in a matter of seconds by anyone with a Swiss army knife. I know because I've done it.
Unfortunately, the non-use of the main door lock led to it getting rusted up. No big deal if I'm not using it, right? But the building inspectors don't know I don't use/lock it, and they locked it behind them after an inspection. Because of the rusting up, I was unable to jimmy it (actually bent my blade trying). The building managers were not home. I ended up unlocking my deadbolt and KICKING IN MY OWN FRONT DOOR. I was amazed how easy this was. Two not-so-hard kicks and the door was a complete mess and there were parts of the lock in my BEDROOM a good 15 feet from the door.
Now the door is patched and the actual latch mechanism is GONE (not enough door left to keep it from falling out). At least I don't have to worry about it being locked again, but now I am on the hook for a new door when it's time to move.
Anyhow, the point is that sometimes we do not get to choose what keys we have to carry, and there can be significant unintended consequences for failing to do so.
Hopefully someone is recording all of this. Even if we can't decode it NOW, chances are that we can at some point -- assuming it's real but mistranslated data and not just random garbage. Why not let BOINC clients chew on some of it and see what they come up with, or divert a small fraction of SETI clients. At least in this case, we KNOW it's trying to communicate with us. This should be a good opportunity to see if we have the capabilities to decipher it.
I know I'd be willing to let my machine ruminate on Voyager 2 data packets when it's running and I don't need the CPU time myself.
And when they push for control over said employees' personally owned equipment, they have to be prepared for some push-back. I'm sure the IT guys expected the reaction, and probably hoped employees would push back. It's much easier to administer a standardized set of assigned hardware than it is to configure every random pile of parts someone brings in.
That depends too. Are they an employee of the garage, or contracted to do work on its behalf? If the latter, it makes sense that they would provide their own tools. Also, there is a difference between having the OPTION of providing one's own tools, and being REQUIRED to do so. Since there is no security issue involved in using your own 10 mm socket (aside from someone possibly stealing it, or it ending up in the shop's tool box), the issue just doesn't exist.
Yes I care. I don't give money to Scientologists, no matter whether I like what they're doing or not. This means I don't buy albums from Beck or Chick Corea, didn't see Valkyrie, and refused to buy Pulp Fiction on DVD for someone when that's what they asked for -- because some of that money would go to John Travolta, and then into the CoS coffers.
Change the toy policy -- any meal valued at more than (say) $5 gets a toy on request (subject to stock on hand) at some nominal charge. It doesn't matter if the food is for the parent or the kid. This decouples the toy from the McFood as the county board desires, but the parents and kids still get what THEY want.
Jack in the Box will give out their antenna balls to anyone that asks, but that's near-free advertising.
On the contrary, ATMs DO talk. They even have headphone jacks for this specific purpose. In addition to that, there is no cost-effective reason to strip the Braille and talking abilities from a drive-up ATM. The physical layout is a bit different, but there's no reason the software or basic hardware needs to be.
I would rather handle my banking needs personally rather than by proxy. I don't see why a blind person would be any different. Say they're pulling up to the ATM in a taxi. Do YOU trust a cabbie to handle your transaction? Really? Even if you can trust them to be honest, can you trust them not to make a mistake? Do you want them knowing your PIN if you should ever leave your wallet in their cab?
Wouldn't happen in the good ol' USA... the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids this type of douchebaggery. We even have braille keyboards on drive up ATMs!
For good reason. Who said the person using the ATM has to be the driver?
This is fine for containers loaded and unloaded on their watch. It does nothing for containers already on board or picked up after leaving the port with the scanning equipment -- and you know that is exactly how weapons are going to get on board. Don't try to get them past security in the U.S., as that is costly at best and disastrous at worst. Load them in Nassau or Monrovia (Liberia, not California) or Havana.
How is this any different from using an ox to pull a plow, except that now the ox is physically separated from the plow? The animal still does the work.
Here's an example, one even non-musicians should be able to get.
Tap eighth notes with your left hand. Tap triplets with the right hand at the same time. At first you'll probably trip over this, but after a while you'll figure out that it's a pattern that goes ||:[both]-[pause]-[right-left-right]-[pause]:||. That is, the two previously separate patterns become just one pattern using both hands.
The third brake light is not useless, even if we have gotten used to it.
For one thing, I see plenty of vehicles on the road with one or even two brake lights not functioning. If this is how people are going to be about vehicle maintenance, I'd rather they have three to increase the odds that at least ONE of them will work.
Second, some recent vehicles flash the third light rather than putting it on solid when the brake is only lightly depressed. This is also very useful, all the more so AFTER you get used to it. It makes it easier to read the intentions of the driver ahead of you.
Every issue of the Parts Express catalog has a homebrew speaker build featured. Some theory is included with each one. All you have to do to get this catalog sent to you is buy something. You might even be able to do it by request without buying anything. You'll also find them a good source for odds and ends like connectors, cables, crimp tools, velcro cable wraps, and the other things that make life easier.
My own memories of ketamine experiences are pretty good -- I'd say I can at least recall the general pattern of a ketamine experience, even more than a decade later. At the time, I noted that I was remembering two out of three "trips" reasonably well.
As with all things, it takes practice to do something like this well. If you WANT to remember, and you WORK on remembering (possibly at the slight expense of the experience itself), you can improve at it. After a while you WON'T have to work on it. You will just remember by default.
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Time to apply the Crocodile Dundee test!
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You've just reinforced my point -- that most people can (and to a certain extent, DO) drive on auto-pilot. It's why they have the brain CPU cycles left to do things like navigate, get in the correct lane, know that the light up ahead is most likely NOT going to stay green, etc. This is not limited to automatics, it works every bit as well with a manual. My point was that once you get the mechanics of driving down to the point of doing it on auto-pilot, mental illness is not going to strip you of that ability. It doesn't matter if you drive an automatic Civic, or a 10-gear Peterbilt.
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As long as insanity does not cripple the body, a person who drove stick for years then "lost it" would probably have no trouble at all continuing to drive stick. Once it's learned, it's burned in the motor cortex. I would imagine someone hallucinating would have concentration problems, but actions performed by muscle memory sorta just happen. Have you ever reached down to shift from fourth to fifth (or fifth to sixth if you have it) and found out that you ALREADY HAD, about five seconds prior -- or try to downshift, only to find that you never upshifted in the first place (and that this was the correct action)?
How many elite athletes have been or are absolutely stark raving loony? Mental illness does not have to interfere with learning new skills or putting old ones to use.
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Simply put, it is not only possible but dead simple to hold two objects in one hand -- say, a sandwich and the steering wheel. When the shifting hand is available, either the sandwich is moved to that hand, or the shifting hand steers. Think of it as slow-motion juggling.
It could easily be argued this isn't very sanitary, since your steering wheel is probably one of the nastiest things you handle for extended periods. It may be a bad idea on this, and other levels, but it's very possible.
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I remember back in school that we made our messes with gummi bears. Hold one in your hand for a while and it will soften up and get sticky. Not too long, you don't want it to melt from the sweat of your hand, but you want it nice and mushy. Then throw it at something as hard as you can and I bet it sticks. We did this mostly on ceilings, but it's just as effective on the parts of walls that are difficult to reach.
Most of the time they would fall down in a matter of minutes. Occasionally they would take hours, and we'd be long gone when they would randomly drop -- quite possibly on someone's head. A very few never came down. Much like the famous picture of the lane marker painted over the dead armadillo, they'd just be painted over if they didn't fall down when the paint roller hit them. I'd bet some of them are still there over 20 years later.
Because some of us don't really feel like going down the stairs, and Grandma hates snow.
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No, but they may be making fundamental assumptions about the data being received that are no longer valid. As such, some details may be getting ignored (not even noted in the first place) so maybe it's time to break out the old timey analog recorders. There may be stuff in this signal that cannot be recovered later if it's digitized on the fly.
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Unfortunately, what was a good part of town yesterday may be a bad one today. These changes happen relatively slowly in meatspace, but can happen more or less instantly in cyberspace. It's just not possible to ever be sure where the bad parts of town are. You could work on a whitelist of only trusted sites, but you'd end up blocking 95% of the Internet, most of which is harmless.
The main problem here is that the Internet is only MOSTLY harmless.
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I try to minimize the number of keys I carry -- front door, front door deadbolt (don't ask me why these could not be consolidated), apartment lobby door, apartment stairwell/elevator doors, laundry room, and mailbox, and that doesn't even count a car key or any other building. One I decided to drop was my laundry key, which I keep on a string tied to the bottle of laundry detergent. This works well enough. Then I dropped the front door (not deadbolt) key because it's pointless to lock something I know can be picked in a matter of seconds by anyone with a Swiss army knife. I know because I've done it.
Unfortunately, the non-use of the main door lock led to it getting rusted up. No big deal if I'm not using it, right? But the building inspectors don't know I don't use/lock it, and they locked it behind them after an inspection. Because of the rusting up, I was unable to jimmy it (actually bent my blade trying). The building managers were not home. I ended up unlocking my deadbolt and KICKING IN MY OWN FRONT DOOR. I was amazed how easy this was. Two not-so-hard kicks and the door was a complete mess and there were parts of the lock in my BEDROOM a good 15 feet from the door.
Now the door is patched and the actual latch mechanism is GONE (not enough door left to keep it from falling out). At least I don't have to worry about it being locked again, but now I am on the hook for a new door when it's time to move.
Anyhow, the point is that sometimes we do not get to choose what keys we have to carry, and there can be significant unintended consequences for failing to do so.
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Hopefully someone is recording all of this. Even if we can't decode it NOW, chances are that we can at some point -- assuming it's real but mistranslated data and not just random garbage. Why not let BOINC clients chew on some of it and see what they come up with, or divert a small fraction of SETI clients. At least in this case, we KNOW it's trying to communicate with us. This should be a good opportunity to see if we have the capabilities to decipher it.
I know I'd be willing to let my machine ruminate on Voyager 2 data packets when it's running and I don't need the CPU time myself.
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Problem is, some people support one war and not the other, and end up where they didn't want to be.
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And when they push for control over said employees' personally owned equipment, they have to be prepared for some push-back. I'm sure the IT guys expected the reaction, and probably hoped employees would push back. It's much easier to administer a standardized set of assigned hardware than it is to configure every random pile of parts someone brings in.
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That depends too. Are they an employee of the garage, or contracted to do work on its behalf? If the latter, it makes sense that they would provide their own tools. Also, there is a difference between having the OPTION of providing one's own tools, and being REQUIRED to do so. Since there is no security issue involved in using your own 10 mm socket (aside from someone possibly stealing it, or it ending up in the shop's tool box), the issue just doesn't exist.
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In this case it is the obligation of the employer to provide you with the equipment to do so.
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Yes I care. I don't give money to Scientologists, no matter whether I like what they're doing or not. This means I don't buy albums from Beck or Chick Corea, didn't see Valkyrie, and refused to buy Pulp Fiction on DVD for someone when that's what they asked for -- because some of that money would go to John Travolta, and then into the CoS coffers.
Change the toy policy -- any meal valued at more than (say) $5 gets a toy on request (subject to stock on hand) at some nominal charge. It doesn't matter if the food is for the parent or the kid. This decouples the toy from the McFood as the county board desires, but the parents and kids still get what THEY want.
Jack in the Box will give out their antenna balls to anyone that asks, but that's near-free advertising.
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On the contrary, ATMs DO talk. They even have headphone jacks for this specific purpose. In addition to that, there is no cost-effective reason to strip the Braille and talking abilities from a drive-up ATM. The physical layout is a bit different, but there's no reason the software or basic hardware needs to be.
I would rather handle my banking needs personally rather than by proxy. I don't see why a blind person would be any different. Say they're pulling up to the ATM in a taxi. Do YOU trust a cabbie to handle your transaction? Really? Even if you can trust them to be honest, can you trust them not to make a mistake? Do you want them knowing your PIN if you should ever leave your wallet in their cab?
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For good reason. Who said the person using the ATM has to be the driver?
This is fine for containers loaded and unloaded on their watch. It does nothing for containers already on board or picked up after leaving the port with the scanning equipment -- and you know that is exactly how weapons are going to get on board. Don't try to get them past security in the U.S., as that is costly at best and disastrous at worst. Load them in Nassau or Monrovia (Liberia, not California) or Havana.
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How is this any different from using an ox to pull a plow, except that now the ox is physically separated from the plow? The animal still does the work.
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Here's an example, one even non-musicians should be able to get.
Tap eighth notes with your left hand. Tap triplets with the right hand at the same time. At first you'll probably trip over this, but after a while you'll figure out that it's a pattern that goes ||:[both]-[pause]-[right-left-right]-[pause]:||. That is, the two previously separate patterns become just one pattern using both hands.
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The third brake light is not useless, even if we have gotten used to it.
For one thing, I see plenty of vehicles on the road with one or even two brake lights not functioning. If this is how people are going to be about vehicle maintenance, I'd rather they have three to increase the odds that at least ONE of them will work.
Second, some recent vehicles flash the third light rather than putting it on solid when the brake is only lightly depressed. This is also very useful, all the more so AFTER you get used to it. It makes it easier to read the intentions of the driver ahead of you.
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Mel Brooks got there first, with the blind servant's "reading material" in Robin Hood, Men In Tights.
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Every issue of the Parts Express catalog has a homebrew speaker build featured. Some theory is included with each one. All you have to do to get this catalog sent to you is buy something. You might even be able to do it by request without buying anything. You'll also find them a good source for odds and ends like connectors, cables, crimp tools, velcro cable wraps, and the other things that make life easier.
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My own memories of ketamine experiences are pretty good -- I'd say I can at least recall the general pattern of a ketamine experience, even more than a decade later. At the time, I noted that I was remembering two out of three "trips" reasonably well.
As with all things, it takes practice to do something like this well. If you WANT to remember, and you WORK on remembering (possibly at the slight expense of the experience itself), you can improve at it. After a while you WON'T have to work on it. You will just remember by default.
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