Pvp is too dependent on gear; a person with average gear is helpless in pvp, regardless of their personal skill.
I disagree. I'm a semi casual player. I only play about 5-10 hours a week MAX. Sometimes less. I have a 70 hunter with nothing spectacular gear wise (no purples, and only a few blues) and I hold my own in PvP. In the BGs I am almost always in the top 3 in DPS and do a fair job of helping my team. The worst part of this is I'm a PVP noob. I only played PVP when I got to 68, aside from a couple BGs at 19 and 29 where I got smoked by twinks.
I believe the argument for saving the whales is their scarcity. We, as humans, have already killed many species to the point of extinction: tazmanian tiger, dodo, etc. We have many protections for MANY other endangered species: manatee, elephants, etc. I think this debate is to whether a species is worth preserving from extinction, even if that dictates that a culture may have to rescind a practice or two in the process.
Because you posted as an Anonymous Coward. No one likes ACs;)
Seriously though the link you posted was extremely intriguing and I am going to try some. I am concerned about the liver issues it may pose, but it may be worth the risk (checking with my Dr. of course) until Modafinil is available cheaply.
I went through the night time portion (the one listed in my original post). This doesn't help diagnose narcolepsy as it helps eliminate a number of night time sleep dysfunctions such as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can look like narcolepsy w/o cataplexy in the sense that they both cause excessive daytime sleepiness. The next day I took a Multiple Sleep Latency Test which essentially is a number of forced naps during the day which measures how fast you will fall asleep and how deep you will sleep during the day even with the 8 hours of sleep that you have gotten the night before. This is what caused them to diagnose the narcolepsy. As you can see on that chart on the wikipedia page a normal person will take a while to sleep and their sleep will be light if it comes. It took me an average of 4 minutes to sleep each time, with REM (deep) sleep coming in one of the naps I took. My sleep doctor said this was typical of a narcolepsy patient.
The insurance company will allow me to purchase Modafinil, but it is under a classification where they only cover it at 50% of cost. This would mean I would pay @ 250$ a month for the meds, which I can't afford.
Fortunately my doctor never dismissed me, but it took a WHILE before I got to a diagnosis. Went through a number of tests on various maladies such as a thyroid condition and the B12 deficiency you outlined. Was on B12 injections for a number of months, though without any improvement in my life. Only after being monitored during a sleep study was I able to get a diagnosis.
In this day and age it seems as if most people exist on six hours a night, with eight being a luxury, and greater than that considered lazy. Unfortunately for me, I have narcolepsy (though fortunately the kind sans cataplexy). Six hours of sleep for me is no more than a tease, and more often I'd be better off just trying to stay up. Eight hours for me is how I'd imagine six hours would feel for someone normal: enough to make you feel as if you had slept, without being refreshing in any meaningful way. My body simply does not function well on less than ten hours sleep. On the weekends I've slept as much as sixteen hours a day (depending how much sleep I got during the weekdays). This would not be so bad if it were not for all the horrible life effects that sleeping as much as this has. I essentially can not have what normal people consider a social life. My wife feels like she hardly sees me. A friend of mine will ask me to go play some pool or something and I never end up going because I get ribbed for being an "old man" for NEEDING to go to bed by 10 or 11 PM on a WEEKEND. Anything greater would throw off my sleep schedule for the following week. I did find some nice medicine that helped GREATLY (only needed the normal 7-8 hours a night like anyone else!) but is unfortunately not covered by my insurance, and is thus out of my financial reach. (As an aside, you think software patents are bad? You should see the harm caused by some pharmacological patents. See that article for some detail). The alternative medication, that is covered, amounts to little more than legal meth which turns me into a zombie who doesn't need his sleep as much, but am otherwise intolerable. So be happy with your 6-8 hours, it could be worse.
I say this as somebody who daily used the train that got blown up in Madrid (though wasn't on it at that time), had a classmate die there, and a friend who was in it, but wasn't hurt. I don't give a damn about the terrorists. I still use that same train.
And bravo to you sir for doing so. People seem to forget that the terrorist's goal, at least in part, is to alter what we do through fear. Their very namesake implies that they impart terror. The best way to counteract a terrorist is to not let them scare you into stopping your everyday life.
Worse, he's a GREEDY dinosaur. Has anyone seen his "reality" show? My wife loves it, but I can't stand it because it's all about him trying to sell Kiss' collective souls for as much profit as possible. The guy seems like he cares much more about making money than enjoying life. He comes off as loving money more than his family. I would not look to him for advice on what a good compromise in a new market economy is when it comes to digital distribution. If his show is any indication, that man would make you pay $50 a Kiss record and thank him for the privilege if he thought he'd get away with it.
Which reminds me of the old business adage that far too many businesses and customers forget these days. "It is only a good deal when both sides think so."
I don't see why it's not just defined as "one of your pathetic so-called English yards, plus a tenth for good luck."
Did anyone else read this while imagining the French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail saying it? If not, I recommend it you silly English k-nnnnniggets!
I think another key is to capture Australia or (less preferably due to its dual entries) South America early. Stay the heck out of Europe and Asia (except to prevent a monopoly). Don't thin yourself out too much. Like you said, kill weakest first, mainly to steal their cards.
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You've been reading too much xkcd.
You misunderstand, having a girlfriend is like living in a police-state.
What does SubVersion have to do with it?
Not here in Nautilus under Ubuntu Hardy.
I vote we rename it gNonsense.
I believe the argument for saving the whales is their scarcity. We, as humans, have already killed many species to the point of extinction: tazmanian tiger, dodo, etc. We have many protections for MANY other endangered species: manatee, elephants, etc. I think this debate is to whether a species is worth preserving from extinction, even if that dictates that a culture may have to rescind a practice or two in the process.
Because you posted as an Anonymous Coward. No one likes ACs ;)
Seriously though the link you posted was extremely intriguing and I am going to try some. I am concerned about the liver issues it may pose, but it may be worth the risk (checking with my Dr. of course) until Modafinil is available cheaply.
I apologize. I had put it in a reply to another child of my original post. I took an overnight sleep study, followed by a daytime sleep study.
I went through the night time portion (the one listed in my original post). This doesn't help diagnose narcolepsy as it helps eliminate a number of night time sleep dysfunctions such as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can look like narcolepsy w/o cataplexy in the sense that they both cause excessive daytime sleepiness. The next day I took a Multiple Sleep Latency Test which essentially is a number of forced naps during the day which measures how fast you will fall asleep and how deep you will sleep during the day even with the 8 hours of sleep that you have gotten the night before. This is what caused them to diagnose the narcolepsy. As you can see on that chart on the wikipedia page a normal person will take a while to sleep and their sleep will be light if it comes. It took me an average of 4 minutes to sleep each time, with REM (deep) sleep coming in one of the naps I took. My sleep doctor said this was typical of a narcolepsy patient.
The insurance company will allow me to purchase Modafinil, but it is under a classification where they only cover it at 50% of cost. This would mean I would pay @ 250$ a month for the meds, which I can't afford.
Fortunately my doctor never dismissed me, but it took a WHILE before I got to a diagnosis. Went through a number of tests on various maladies such as a thyroid condition and the B12 deficiency you outlined. Was on B12 injections for a number of months, though without any improvement in my life. Only after being monitored during a sleep study was I able to get a diagnosis.
In this day and age it seems as if most people exist on six hours a night, with eight being a luxury, and greater than that considered lazy. Unfortunately for me, I have narcolepsy (though fortunately the kind sans cataplexy). Six hours of sleep for me is no more than a tease, and more often I'd be better off just trying to stay up. Eight hours for me is how I'd imagine six hours would feel for someone normal: enough to make you feel as if you had slept, without being refreshing in any meaningful way. My body simply does not function well on less than ten hours sleep. On the weekends I've slept as much as sixteen hours a day (depending how much sleep I got during the weekdays). This would not be so bad if it were not for all the horrible life effects that sleeping as much as this has. I essentially can not have what normal people consider a social life. My wife feels like she hardly sees me. A friend of mine will ask me to go play some pool or something and I never end up going because I get ribbed for being an "old man" for NEEDING to go to bed by 10 or 11 PM on a WEEKEND. Anything greater would throw off my sleep schedule for the following week. I did find some nice medicine that helped GREATLY (only needed the normal 7-8 hours a night like anyone else!) but is unfortunately not covered by my insurance, and is thus out of my financial reach. (As an aside, you think software patents are bad? You should see the harm caused by some pharmacological patents. See that article for some detail). The alternative medication, that is covered, amounts to little more than legal meth which turns me into a zombie who doesn't need his sleep as much, but am otherwise intolerable. So be happy with your 6-8 hours, it could be worse.
Especially since the real Zombie, Kerry isn't running.
Pennies are mostly Zinc.
Let me guess? WoW mod? :)
Maybe his code is compliling.
Which reminds me of the old business adage that far too many businesses and customers forget these days. "It is only a good deal when both sides think so."
IIRC Simpsons Hit & Run was more Crazy Taxi than GTA.
So in soviet russia attacks blog you?
I don't see why it's not just defined as "one of your pathetic so-called English yards, plus a tenth for good luck." Did anyone else read this while imagining the French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail saying it? If not, I recommend it you silly English k-nnnnniggets!
I think another key is to capture Australia or (less preferably due to its dual entries) South America early. Stay the heck out of Europe and Asia (except to prevent a monopoly). Don't thin yourself out too much. Like you said, kill weakest first, mainly to steal their cards.