Active dosage, you halfwit. I'm having a hard time believing you're this stupid. This is beginning to smell like a troll. Oh well, at least it was fun! I'm turning off email notification, and I will not be revisiting this thread. Have fun talking to yourself. I'm sure you will.
The original context of this argument is normal dosages, not the exact scientific active dose for each indervidual person. This should have been obvious.
Haha! First you say "same." Now "normal?" Get it together. You keep changing your tune and claiming that it should have been obvious. I know what we've been discussing. You're the one who's trying to figure it out, remember?
That's a very generalised statement, so I hope you have some evidence to back it up, or clarify it.
The evidence is out there. Like I said, go read something. I can't bear to carry on any longer. You know where I stand. I know where you've shifted your stance to and from. That's really all there is to say. You can't expect me to write a research paper for you just because you don't believe common knowledge.
Our disagreement is based on the idea caffeine is (me) or is not (you) addictive for all humans provided that they have been consuming an active dosage not an equal dosage.
Bottom line:
If you're feeling the effects of a chemical, AND said chemical is known to be physically addictive; then you WILL experience withdrawal symptoms.
Please go away.
You're right about one thing. Dosage is obviously an important factor of our disagreement. The "same" dosage, though? No. This is where you tried to twist the arguement into something that it was not...and failed. Your point is dead. Go read something.
Where did I say anything about dosage? Oh, that's right. I didn't.
For the record, of course I know that dosage response varies from human to human. If you knew anything about addiction, however, you'd know that dosage really isn't the only contributing factor. Consistency of use is often equally or even more important as long as the dosage being used is active.
It is addictive for everyone. This is a cold, hard fact. You are in denial. That's all I really have to say about caffiene. Herion, though....
Some people, for instance, can take heroin and quit cold-turkey with hardly any problems.
This is a dangerous lie which demostrates the lengths to which you will go in just making up total BS to support your position of denial. As a human, if you have dopamine receptors in your brain, you will become physically addicted to opiates after consistant usage.
Others, of course, are the opposite and get addicted to many drug very easly.
Do you even have a concept of the differentiation between mental and physical dependencies? Here, you're describing the mental characteristics that define an addictive personality. The idea of an addictive personality has absolutely no bearing what-so-ever on a person's susceptibility to physical withdrawal symptoms.
Do the world a favor and stop spewing dangerous lies... If you don't have a solid base of knowledge, just don't talk about it. Making shit up sucks.
Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said headaches. Withdrawals have other symptoms. General lack of energy, mild stomach ache/feelings of hunger, slight body aches. Face it, it is a chemical, and it is affecting your body the same way it affects every other human body. Maybe not as drastically, but your body feels the effects even if your brain is too dense to understand what the body is feeling.
You're just not noticing the symptoms and/or chalking them up to generic headaches that have no cause.
The withdrawals are real. I ignored/didn't notice them for years.
As someone who plays games, how do you not research LCD monitors enought to figure this out before buying one. Did you go out and buy a wireless mouse 3 years ago, also?
I've been waiting for an LCD that doesn't do this for years... Now that they finally exist in the marketplace, I'm waiting for the price to drop.
When I was 17-19 or so I had a few hardware mishaps that cut off my access to the internet for a period of about a month each time... Rather than feeling withdrawals, I actually felt a feeling of relief during that time. I've come to view my computer as a life-sucking beast that I am uncontrollably drawn to. When I'm given a break from it, it makes me very happy.
Does anyone else find it strange that these 'preview releases' were released on the heels of the announcement of a major exploit that affected Firefox and Thunderbird? Added to that fishiness, they made a public push for 1,000,000 downloads to help insure that all of the regular Firefox users would be compelled to upgrade, therefore protecting themselves against the vulnerability...
In reality, it seems like they might have just thrown together a "preview" for the sake of not having to announce it as a fix for a major exploit. Neat tactic...if not a tad unsavory. Looks like it worked, anyway!
Certainly the infrastructure to do that will be in place, but getting the movie industry to make a complete shift is going to take a little bit longer than 10 years, I think....
There is always independent film. The truly good ones will usually find a moderate audience as independant films. The truly great ones usually will get picked up and possibly re-released by a major studio (Donnie Darko, for instance)...
Also, I always giggle when people burn a 1 MB Word document on a 800 MB CD-R to bring it to work.
I always giggle when people fail to realize that an 700mb CDR is, in the case of a thrifty shopper, cheaper than a 1.44mb floppy disk. Sure, it's not reusable, but at 10 cents a pop is it really a big deal? I never pay more than $5 for a 50pk of high quality CDR's. Glancing at pricewatch, just now, I noticed that a 25pk of generic 1.44mb floppies is $7.00. Not to mention, CDRW discs... CDs aren't the end-all-be-all solution, but they've effectively buried the floppy disk as a useful form of media in my world.
Blockbuster's new netflix clone fixes that problem. In addition to the 3 movie-at-a-time-by-mail allowance, they also allow you 3 free in-store rentals as a part of the plan for the same price as netflix.
There was no tone that I could see. It appears you read it in for the sake of being offended. So typical of today's world....
I suppose that because, in your opinion, the books mentioned are based on absurd presumptions, that they should be banned? That's what your "tone" suggests! Or am I reading it in?
"...its my recollection that it was pretty much a disappointment to most people."
Since when is this type of thing even remotely important? I can probably name off 1000 amazing flicks that were pretty much a disappointment to most people when they came out. The fact that it takes multiple viewings to appreciate a movie is part of what makes it so great. There's a balance between having an immediate impact and having a solid foundation of earth-shattering ideas that will fly straight over most people's heads, and a lot of movies shoot for that balance. The truly great movies attempt to minimize former while maximizing the latter to heights unimaginable. These are the movies that stand up to the test of time. These are the greatest movies of all time. These are the movies that most people just don't get...ever, much less on their first viewing.
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Active dosage, you halfwit. I'm having a hard time believing you're this stupid. This is beginning to smell like a troll. Oh well, at least it was fun! I'm turning off email notification, and I will not be revisiting this thread. Have fun talking to yourself. I'm sure you will.
The original context of this argument is normal dosages, not the exact scientific active dose for each indervidual person. This should have been obvious.
Haha! First you say "same." Now "normal?" Get it together. You keep changing your tune and claiming that it should have been obvious. I know what we've been discussing. You're the one who's trying to figure it out, remember?
That's a very generalised statement, so I hope you have some evidence to back it up, or clarify it.
The evidence is out there. Like I said, go read something. I can't bear to carry on any longer. You know where I stand. I know where you've shifted your stance to and from. That's really all there is to say. You can't expect me to write a research paper for you just because you don't believe common knowledge.
Our disagreement is based on the idea caffeine is (me) or is not (you) addictive for all humans provided that they have been consuming an active dosage not an equal dosage.
Bottom line:
If you're feeling the effects of a chemical, AND said chemical is known to be physically addictive; then you WILL experience withdrawal symptoms. Please go away.
You're right about one thing. Dosage is obviously an important factor of our disagreement. The "same" dosage, though? No. This is where you tried to twist the arguement into something that it was not...and failed. Your point is dead. Go read something.
This question seems to be popping up, a lot. Well, there's a very obvious answer:
Asteroids
Where did I say anything about dosage? Oh, that's right. I didn't.
For the record, of course I know that dosage response varies from human to human. If you knew anything about addiction, however, you'd know that dosage really isn't the only contributing factor. Consistency of use is often equally or even more important as long as the dosage being used is active.
It is addictive for everyone. This is a cold, hard fact. You are in denial. That's all I really have to say about caffiene. Herion, though....
Some people, for instance, can take heroin and quit cold-turkey with hardly any problems.
This is a dangerous lie which demostrates the lengths to which you will go in just making up total BS to support your position of denial. As a human, if you have dopamine receptors in your brain, you will become physically addicted to opiates after consistant usage.
Others, of course, are the opposite and get addicted to many drug very easly.
Do you even have a concept of the differentiation between mental and physical dependencies? Here, you're describing the mental characteristics that define an addictive personality. The idea of an addictive personality has absolutely no bearing what-so-ever on a person's susceptibility to physical withdrawal symptoms.
Do the world a favor and stop spewing dangerous lies... If you don't have a solid base of knowledge, just don't talk about it. Making shit up sucks.
Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said headaches. Withdrawals have other symptoms. General lack of energy, mild stomach ache/feelings of hunger, slight body aches. Face it, it is a chemical, and it is affecting your body the same way it affects every other human body. Maybe not as drastically, but your body feels the effects even if your brain is too dense to understand what the body is feeling.
You're just not noticing the symptoms and/or chalking them up to generic headaches that have no cause. The withdrawals are real. I ignored/didn't notice them for years.
As someone who plays games, how do you not research LCD monitors enought to figure this out before buying one. Did you go out and buy a wireless mouse 3 years ago, also?
I've been waiting for an LCD that doesn't do this for years... Now that they finally exist in the marketplace, I'm waiting for the price to drop.
How can any slashdot reader not root for our collective idol, the almighty John Carmack, and his crew over at Armadillo Aerospace?
When I was 17-19 or so I had a few hardware mishaps that cut off my access to the internet for a period of about a month each time... Rather than feeling withdrawals, I actually felt a feeling of relief during that time. I've come to view my computer as a life-sucking beast that I am uncontrollably drawn to. When I'm given a break from it, it makes me very happy.
Sounds reasonable enough. Thanks for the explanation.
Does anyone else find it strange that these 'preview releases' were released on the heels of the announcement of a major exploit that affected Firefox and Thunderbird? Added to that fishiness, they made a public push for 1,000,000 downloads to help insure that all of the regular Firefox users would be compelled to upgrade, therefore protecting themselves against the vulnerability...
In reality, it seems like they might have just thrown together a "preview" for the sake of not having to announce it as a fix for a major exploit. Neat tactic...if not a tad unsavory. Looks like it worked, anyway!
Certainly the infrastructure to do that will be in place, but getting the movie industry to make a complete shift is going to take a little bit longer than 10 years, I think....
There is always independent film. The truly good ones will usually find a moderate audience as independant films. The truly great ones usually will get picked up and possibly re-released by a major studio (Donnie Darko, for instance)...
I like the seperate folders for each pop3 account... I think it's good that they provide the option, though...
Devices should be named for whatever the strongest reason for carrying them is...for most people. In this case...phone works.
Also, I always giggle when people burn a 1 MB Word document on a 800 MB CD-R to bring it to work.
I always giggle when people fail to realize that an 700mb CDR is, in the case of a thrifty shopper, cheaper than a 1.44mb floppy disk. Sure, it's not reusable, but at 10 cents a pop is it really a big deal? I never pay more than $5 for a 50pk of high quality CDR's. Glancing at pricewatch, just now, I noticed that a 25pk of generic 1.44mb floppies is $7.00. Not to mention, CDRW discs... CDs aren't the end-all-be-all solution, but they've effectively buried the floppy disk as a useful form of media in my world.
Blockbuster's new netflix clone fixes that problem. In addition to the 3 movie-at-a-time-by-mail allowance, they also allow you 3 free in-store rentals as a part of the plan for the same price as netflix.
There was no tone that I could see. It appears you read it in for the sake of being offended. So typical of today's world....
I suppose that because, in your opinion, the books mentioned are based on absurd presumptions, that they should be banned? That's what your "tone" suggests! Or am I reading it in?
I was so sad when I lost my copy of that unlockable Quake CD.
"...its my recollection that it was pretty much a disappointment to most people."
Since when is this type of thing even remotely important? I can probably name off 1000 amazing flicks that were pretty much a disappointment to most people when they came out. The fact that it takes multiple viewings to appreciate a movie is part of what makes it so great. There's a balance between having an immediate impact and having a solid foundation of earth-shattering ideas that will fly straight over most people's heads, and a lot of movies shoot for that balance. The truly great movies attempt to minimize former while maximizing the latter to heights unimaginable. These are the movies that stand up to the test of time. These are the greatest movies of all time. These are the movies that most people just don't get...ever, much less on their first viewing.
"Linux does not exist" would be a good one, also...
The point is you can say it as long as you don't mean it.