Shulgin's work had nothing to do with weed, addictive drugs or getting a body high. He invented and classified an entire new spectrum of chemicals closely related to the brain's chemicals such as serotonine. He tried to synthesize every possible combination, moving the amino groups around, substituting existing compounds with allyl or methoxy groups, and experimented with all these chemicals on himself with precise procedures to ensure his safety. These chemicals have proven to be extremely powerful consciousness-altering drugs, active at just a few milligrams, producing profound mind-bending effects and providing an unparalleled insight in the inner workings of the mind and its chemical balance. He has provided the public with detailed descriptions of these chemicals, both synthesis and their subjective effects. He never profited financially and risked his life and freedom many times just to chase this knowledge. (And have great sex, as he states in his books). Alexander Shulgin was a genius, and the way society is developing there will probably never be a man like him again.
Exactly. Employ large scale desalinization plants near the coast of western Africa and just keep pumping that water into the Sahara. Africa would have to be recolonized to make it happen in time though.
They will deeply regret this once a weird error on a critical system pops up in a few years time, and nobody is around to give support. Or when the laptops start failing. Or when they hire an incompetent admin from one of these small local companies. Linux is fine for running servers or machines with limited functionality (appliances). But for a full fledged desktop, Linux just doesn't cut it due to many reasons. WHy do you think MacOS restricts itself to a verry narrow hardware profile? Windows is the only complete system able to run userland on so many different configurations.
By your reasoning the US would have to be way cheaper. Still, I get 300/300 mbps, cable tv and telephone for 60 euro/month. Which is about 80 USD. No fast or slow lanes.
These addresses were allocated in the age before The Great IP Shortage. There were no signs that the internet would be used privately by regular people and many sysadmins were clueless as to how IP networking worked. NAT routers were incredibly expensive and the right way to go was to just buy an IP block, distribute it globally across branches and use the router to block traffic from other IP blocks. All major companies in the eighties bought IP blocks, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... . Ofcourse many more companies have settled with 'just' a bunch of class B networks as 64k hosts is not enough if you're aiming to dominate global business. I can actually understand companies like Ford or US Postal to register an A class. Others such as Eli Lily or the UK Gov Dept of Pensions really don't need so many adresses. But now the internet has changed and there are barely enough addresses for all existing devices. So these blocks should be revoked and private networks should be private. Perhaps a nice rule would be : if you want to have a single public IP adress you will need to be online with it for at least 1% of a month. Failure to do so will cause the address to be revoked after 3 months. And for B and A classes. If the networks do not route and cannot be accessed through their gateway, the block grant should be revoked and NAT or VPN should be used instead. This should give us a few more years until we come up with a radical replacement of the current internet. Not that IPv6 crap..
No, it's now "With an IOS device". The phone related patent was claimed a few years back by a competitor, but clearly should not apply in Apple's case..
The software obviously wasn't ready when the probe launched. They needed nine more years to develop it. Had they waited, the probe wouldn't be near the comet in time. So it's a rather smart decision.
There is a larger market for Firefox in Windows Metro users than in Linux desktop users. Heck, the installed base of Windows 8 is larger than all Mac OS flavors combined. So why keep developing for these inferior audiences and ignore the big fish? This smells like anti-MS propaganda.
I remember implementing tel:// uri's which could be clicked by the user, which would then run a phone dialer. Somewehere around 2003, though it was not on a 'mobile device' but on windows boxen. I may still have the source code.
The only area I can image this technology to be succesful in is surveillance. I really hate all the electronic snooping, sniffing and profiling. Can we please have a revolution?
Given the toll on our highways shown to arise from distracted drivers, is this responsible corporate behavior to protect their product, or an unethical endangering of lives?
I'm glad the this is a neutrally worded question. I've got a similar one. Given the massive breach of our childrens online privacy, do you think underages should be free to visit whatever smut they want on the internet, or is it better to have the ISP install filters for all our safety?
Saudi's have it nowhere as bad as the North Koreans. Look up the Kaechon prison:
(wikipedia) ".. anyone found guilty of committing a crime, which could be as simple as trying to escape North Korea, would be sent to the camp along with that person's entire family. The subsequent two generations of family members would be born in the camp and must also live their entire lives and die there."
Now THAT is a brutal regime. And if you ask me, it's China's responsibility to step in before too many people have died.
I'm sure you can somehow change your DNS cache to flush immediately. Run a local DNS server on the same machine for extra points. I bet the cheat authors will respond by implementing their own DNS lookup.
I am a consumer. I have lots of rights or Steam wouldn't be allowed to take my money. I don't care about their terms when they are illegal. If they think they can take drastic measures they'd better be well prepared for consumer watchdog hell to be unleashed. Especially for a service which is rumored to bring in over a billion dollar in yearly revenue.
That means, if Johnny Random wants to be able to play the game in a certain way (getting achievements), that I cannot play the game in the way that I want to. Only the way the game developers intend to.
The best way to combat such government behavior is a real life DDOS. Everyone should report at Heathrow claiming to know Snowden, Assange and de Miranda. Carry encrypted thumb drives with you (chockfull with vile porn ofcourse). Refuse to decrypt without a court order. This will overload the system within 24 hours. It would be even funnier if millions of ordinary citizens would end up on the no fly list. Report all government personnel and officials for spying! After all, they are part of a government with a broad illegal spying program targeted against their own population. So report them at home and overseas so they end up on no fly lists. Once a critical mass of people disallowed to fly has been reached, especially public servants, these programs will quickly get a review.
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I don't expect that you will be allowed to have such a laboratory in your house anymore.
Shulgin's work had nothing to do with weed, addictive drugs or getting a body high.
He invented and classified an entire new spectrum of chemicals closely related to the brain's chemicals such as serotonine. He tried to synthesize every possible combination, moving the amino groups around, substituting existing compounds with allyl or methoxy groups, and experimented with all these chemicals on himself with precise procedures to ensure his safety. These chemicals have proven to be extremely powerful consciousness-altering drugs, active at just a few milligrams, producing profound mind-bending effects and providing an unparalleled insight in the inner workings of the mind and its chemical balance.
He has provided the public with detailed descriptions of these chemicals, both synthesis and their subjective effects. He never profited financially and risked his life and freedom many times just to chase this knowledge. (And have great sex, as he states in his books). Alexander Shulgin was a genius, and the way society is developing there will probably never be a man like him again.
Exactly. Employ large scale desalinization plants near the coast of western Africa and just keep pumping that water into the Sahara. Africa would have to be recolonized to make it happen in time though.
They will deeply regret this once a weird error on a critical system pops up in a few years time, and nobody is around to give support. Or when the laptops start failing. Or when they hire an incompetent admin from one of these small local companies. Linux is fine for running servers or machines with limited functionality (appliances). But for a full fledged desktop, Linux just doesn't cut it due to many reasons. WHy do you think MacOS restricts itself to a verry narrow hardware profile? Windows is the only complete system able to run userland on so many different configurations.
By your reasoning the US would have to be way cheaper. Still, I get 300/300 mbps, cable tv and telephone for 60 euro/month. Which is about 80 USD. No fast or slow lanes.
These addresses were allocated in the age before The Great IP Shortage. There were no signs that the internet would be used privately by regular people and many sysadmins were clueless as to how IP networking worked. NAT routers were incredibly expensive and the right way to go was to just buy an IP block, distribute it globally across branches and use the router to block traffic from other IP blocks. All major companies in the eighties bought IP blocks, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... . Ofcourse many more companies have settled with 'just' a bunch of class B networks as 64k hosts is not enough if you're aiming to dominate global business. I can actually understand companies like Ford or US Postal to register an A class. Others such as Eli Lily or the UK Gov Dept of Pensions really don't need so many adresses. But now the internet has changed and there are barely enough addresses for all existing devices. So these blocks should be revoked and private networks should be private.
Perhaps a nice rule would be : if you want to have a single public IP adress you will need to be online with it for at least 1% of a month. Failure to do so will cause the address to be revoked after 3 months. And for B and A classes. If the networks do not route and cannot be accessed through their gateway, the block grant should be revoked and NAT or VPN should be used instead. This should give us a few more years until we come up with a radical replacement of the current internet. Not that IPv6 crap..
No, it's now "With an IOS device". The phone related patent was claimed a few years back by a competitor, but clearly should not apply in Apple's case..
H.265? "H.265 is said to double the data compression ratio compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC at the same level of video quality"
The software obviously wasn't ready when the probe launched. They needed nine more years to develop it. Had they waited, the probe wouldn't be near the comet in time. So it's a rather smart decision.
Yeah, better kill the ones that have a good life in nature as well, these animals must sure be darn tasty.
Sure, until the DNS steering comittee becomes headed by the representatives of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and Jemen.
There is a larger market for Firefox in Windows Metro users than in Linux desktop users. Heck, the installed base of Windows 8 is larger than all Mac OS flavors combined. So why keep developing for these inferior audiences and ignore the big fish? This smells like anti-MS propaganda.
I remember implementing tel:// uri's which could be clicked by the user, which would then run a phone dialer. Somewehere around 2003, though it was not on a 'mobile device' but on windows boxen. I may still have the source code.
The only area I can image this technology to be succesful in is surveillance. I really hate all the electronic snooping, sniffing and profiling. Can we please have a revolution?
"Water table depletion" .. you have obviously spent too many hours with Simcity.
This is a nice reason to go back to the moon for a mission to collect the remains of this 15 ton meteorite.
Given the toll on our highways shown to arise from distracted drivers, is this responsible corporate behavior to protect their product, or an unethical endangering of lives?
I'm glad the this is a neutrally worded question. I've got a similar one. Given the massive breach of our childrens online privacy, do you think underages should be free to visit whatever smut they want on the internet, or is it better to have the ISP install filters for all our safety?
Saudi's have it nowhere as bad as the North Koreans. Look up the Kaechon prison:
(wikipedia) ".. anyone found guilty of committing a crime, which could be as simple as trying to escape North Korea, would be sent to the camp along with that person's entire family. The subsequent two generations of family members would be born in the camp and must also live their entire lives and die there."
Now THAT is a brutal regime. And if you ask me, it's China's responsibility to step in before too many people have died.
net stop dnsclient
I'm sure you can somehow change your DNS cache to flush immediately.
Run a local DNS server on the same machine for extra points. I bet the cheat authors will respond by implementing their own DNS lookup.
I am a consumer. I have lots of rights or Steam wouldn't be allowed to take my money. I don't care about their terms when they are illegal. If they think they can take drastic measures they'd better be well prepared for consumer watchdog hell to be unleashed. Especially for a service which is rumored to bring in over a billion dollar in yearly revenue.
It would be much easier to replace your ipconfig executable (or disallow access to it from steam)
That means, if Johnny Random wants to be able to play the game in a certain way (getting achievements), that I cannot play the game in the way that I want to. Only the way the game developers intend to.
Will you be crafting DNS request packets by hand? If not, then you will still go through the windows IP stack, regardless of your DNS server.
The best way to combat such government behavior is a real life DDOS. Everyone should report at Heathrow claiming to know Snowden, Assange and de Miranda. Carry encrypted thumb drives with you (chockfull with vile porn ofcourse). Refuse to decrypt without a court order. This will overload the system within 24 hours.
It would be even funnier if millions of ordinary citizens would end up on the no fly list. Report all government personnel and officials for spying! After all, they are part of a government with a broad illegal spying program targeted against their own population. So report them at home and overseas so they end up on no fly lists. Once a critical mass of people disallowed to fly has been reached, especially public servants, these programs will quickly get a review.