More urban areas in the US have been getting FiOS to the curb the last few years, including (to my amazement) my neighborhood with its ancient and creaking infrastructure. I have a choice of to FiOS services (although I think both use the same cable), Comcast, or ClearWire's wireless service. The thing we don't have in our neighborhood is DSL, since for historical reasons wiring to the closest switch goes two miles northwest, half a mile east, and two miles south to a shack that I could probably hit with my spud gun from my house.
We buy tomatoes from the supermarket a little green, and then let them ripen on top of the refrigerator. We'll get heirloom tomatoes for making salsa and salads, but for general cooking the others are adequate (except for Romas, which are useless for anything). As soon as the last frost is gone we'll have plants in the ground. Nothing beats a real tomato just off the vine.
I'm old enough to remember why the traditional menu in the Midwest is so bland and homogeneous; there wasn't any alternative. Once the first freeze set in you had a couple of weeks of fresh veggies left, a month or two of fruit, and then you were down to potatoes, carrots, onions, meat, cabbage, and a few apples until late spring. If you wanted anything that wasn't stored in the root cellar you needed to can it in the summer. My mom had a canner, and I still remember sweltering summer days with my mom, grandmothers, aunts and cousins all preparing fruits and veggies by the crate, shelves and boxes of Mason jars in the basement full of beans, peas, and peaches, and the crates of apples that we put in the back corner of the basement and culled every few weeks.
Say what you will about our diet today and the supply chain that supports it, I really LIKE being able to buy tomatoes and grapes in February. Along with hot water, it's one of the great benefits of civilization.
Going vegetarian will have one principle affect; corporations will export more meat than they do now. Meat production is where their capital is invested, so that's what they're going to make their money on. Stop eating meat today and tomorrow your meat will be on its way to China and Korea. An awful lot of vegetarians have o concept of what it costs to set up a farming operation, and how inflexible those resources are.
The people taking LSD, don't even realize that their whole bodies and souls have been damaged, and that is the sole reason for them not experiencing the anxiety and other effects of thinking about their future demise. They took LSD, got high as a mother fucker, hallucinated like crazy on it while their brain grew out of control and into new realms (permenantly altered/damaged brain cells and functions as a result), and now have no ability to even tell they're about to die or not.
Wow. That is so very far from the reality of what was done that we can't even blame it on a crappy summary. From your babbling it's rather obvious that you don't even know anything about what LSD does or how it works. Was that viewpoint generated by the DARE propaganda, or did you come up with that foolishness yourself?
SlashDot has always had far too much of a programmer/developer mindset for my thinking. There are plenty of non-programming technical jobs out there, and personally I think they're a lot more fun. (Having said that, Helpdesk work sucks and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who was older than 19 years old.)
If you've been working in Education you have background and experience creating, scheduling, executing, and managing projects. If you're good at that sort of thing there is a TREMENDOUS dearth of competent Project Managers in the tech industries. I've worked with quite a few PMs, but I've only encountered three or four that could actually do a competent job. Fields that you might want to look at is project management in the security, data, telecom, electrical or HVAC industries. Interesting, challenging, complex work with no end of opportunities in sight for competent people. A PMP certificate (Project Management Professional) is not a necessity, although it does lead to a higher paycheck.
PMs for developers and programmers need to have at least a basic grasp of what the people they work with do to be effective. Although you wouldn't need to know how to configure a security camera or install an AC pump to be able to do the work in the industries that I mentioned I would highly recommend spending as much time in the field as possible, especially early on in the position, so that you can get a feel for the type of labor that goes into the various jobs and the relative competence of the people that you work with.
I administer the access control, security video and alarm systems for a worldwide company with data centers in twenty countries on five continents, a system that grew fifty percent in the last nine months of last year while simultaneously increasing its reliability and functionality and reducing its downtime. In short, you haven't a clue what you're babbling about.
Big deal. I'm 52, don't know a single programming language (well, QuickBasic from 1996), and my scripting is limited to batch files and very low level SQL Server queries. After 10 years as a server/desktop admin I changed to doing physical security (key cards, cameras, alarm systems) 8 years ago. Still learning, still doing technical stuff, still administering servers, still having a great time. There's more to the technical world than just programming.
Plan that I saw quite some time ago included a lander with an RTG on the bottom that could melt its way through the ice, and the probe would drop transponders behind it occasionally as it descended. Don't know how viable the concept was, but it sounded neat. Wonder what frequencies they envisioned that would go through ice to the repeaters.
LSD, no. Morning glory seeds used to be coated with a little strychnine to prevent the plants from self-fertilizing and producing viable seeds, but that's not done any more. To be just a little paranoid you could buy organic morning glory seeds and avoid the issue altogether. Grind them up and mix them with something like peach juice, or let the powder sit in water (or wine) overnight and drink the water. Psilocybin mushrooms grow wild all over the place if you know how to recognize mushrooms. San Pedro is available from any herbalist in any market in Peru/Bolivia/Ecuador. There are several ways to prepare it but don't use the core, there's no mescaline there and it will upset your stomach. Peyote will make you puke no matter what, I've only done it once and don't know how to recognize it anyway.
So your "science" classes used Time magazine as a textbook? A Time reporter encountered the idea of Milencovitch Cycles, garbled some quotes from the few climatologists actually working then, and created that entire scenario out of whole cloth. Actual scientists never claimed that we were heading into another ice age, and I don't recall any actual textbooks making the claim either.
The goat herd would probably have said, "Can we talk about this later? Damn goats are climbing the neighbor's olive trees again and I'd better get them down before they much the shit out of them."
Depends on the context. Where I am, what I am doing, where my head is. Mushrooms for walking in the Pacific Northwest rain forest, morning glory seeds hiking in the Andean altiplano or playing in our garden, LSD when staying indoors, San Pedro at Lake Titicaca or visiting pre-Colombian ruins, etc.
For you. For other people there are other routes that may be more appropriate. For one guy that I knew years ago it was the experience of falling through the ice on Lake Michigan that seemed to open him up to the other possibilities in what had previously been a very rigid and constrained life. For some it's a near-death experience, or even just an extremely lucid dream(s). YMMV
Shit weed? Just the discarded leaf from today's weed is stronger than the Acapulco Gold bud we used to pay premium prices for back in the '70s. The average no-name bud sold in Seattle now is stronger than the Thai Stick or Maui Wowie used to be.
I take it you haven't done any of these, since the effects of LSD is **NOT** identical to the effects of psilocybin mushrooms or mescaline-containing cacti. I have done all three, and all three are dramatically different from each other. For that matter, a trip from San Pedro cacti is different than a peyote trip, and a chemically-generated LSD trip is different than a morning glory seed generated LSD trip.
Citation needed. I mean really, that's incredibly cool. If you're talking about the molestus mosquito, the Wikipedia entry seems self-contradictory in places and unclear how the thing is spreading across the ocean to other subway systems.
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More urban areas in the US have been getting FiOS to the curb the last few years, including (to my amazement) my neighborhood with its ancient and creaking infrastructure. I have a choice of to FiOS services (although I think both use the same cable), Comcast, or ClearWire's wireless service. The thing we don't have in our neighborhood is DSL, since for historical reasons wiring to the closest switch goes two miles northwest, half a mile east, and two miles south to a shack that I could probably hit with my spud gun from my house.
We buy tomatoes from the supermarket a little green, and then let them ripen on top of the refrigerator. We'll get heirloom tomatoes for making salsa and salads, but for general cooking the others are adequate (except for Romas, which are useless for anything). As soon as the last frost is gone we'll have plants in the ground. Nothing beats a real tomato just off the vine.
I'm old enough to remember why the traditional menu in the Midwest is so bland and homogeneous; there wasn't any alternative. Once the first freeze set in you had a couple of weeks of fresh veggies left, a month or two of fruit, and then you were down to potatoes, carrots, onions, meat, cabbage, and a few apples until late spring. If you wanted anything that wasn't stored in the root cellar you needed to can it in the summer. My mom had a canner, and I still remember sweltering summer days with my mom, grandmothers, aunts and cousins all preparing fruits and veggies by the crate, shelves and boxes of Mason jars in the basement full of beans, peas, and peaches, and the crates of apples that we put in the back corner of the basement and culled every few weeks.
Say what you will about our diet today and the supply chain that supports it, I really LIKE being able to buy tomatoes and grapes in February. Along with hot water, it's one of the great benefits of civilization.
slightly better track record
Keeping in mind where Project Mockingbird was headquartered, of course . . .
If he never tried to go through Congress he didn't try to go through channels.
So which congresscritter do you work for? That's the only explanation that I can imagine for such an absurd comment.
Going vegetarian will have one principle affect; corporations will export more meat than they do now. Meat production is where their capital is invested, so that's what they're going to make their money on. Stop eating meat today and tomorrow your meat will be on its way to China and Korea. An awful lot of vegetarians have o concept of what it costs to set up a farming operation, and how inflexible those resources are.
I don't think that the Pentagon needed PowerPoint's help in becoming stupid.
The people taking LSD, don't even realize that their whole bodies and souls have been damaged, and that is the sole reason for them not experiencing the anxiety and other effects of thinking about their future demise. They took LSD, got high as a mother fucker, hallucinated like crazy on it while their brain grew out of control and into new realms (permenantly altered/damaged brain cells and functions as a result), and now have no ability to even tell they're about to die or not.
Wow. That is so very far from the reality of what was done that we can't even blame it on a crappy summary. From your babbling it's rather obvious that you don't even know anything about what LSD does or how it works. Was that viewpoint generated by the DARE propaganda, or did you come up with that foolishness yourself?
I think it's amusing as hell to see Bitcoin is just another invention of the military-industrial-intel complex.
Good point, and the plug of freshly refrozen water behind the probe would be a good conduit.
SlashDot has always had far too much of a programmer/developer mindset for my thinking. There are plenty of non-programming technical jobs out there, and personally I think they're a lot more fun. (Having said that, Helpdesk work sucks and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who was older than 19 years old.)
If you've been working in Education you have background and experience creating, scheduling, executing, and managing projects. If you're good at that sort of thing there is a TREMENDOUS dearth of competent Project Managers in the tech industries. I've worked with quite a few PMs, but I've only encountered three or four that could actually do a competent job. Fields that you might want to look at is project management in the security, data, telecom, electrical or HVAC industries. Interesting, challenging, complex work with no end of opportunities in sight for competent people. A PMP certificate (Project Management Professional) is not a necessity, although it does lead to a higher paycheck.
PMs for developers and programmers need to have at least a basic grasp of what the people they work with do to be effective. Although you wouldn't need to know how to configure a security camera or install an AC pump to be able to do the work in the industries that I mentioned I would highly recommend spending as much time in the field as possible, especially early on in the position, so that you can get a feel for the type of labor that goes into the various jobs and the relative competence of the people that you work with.
Good luck!
I administer the access control, security video and alarm systems for a worldwide company with data centers in twenty countries on five continents, a system that grew fifty percent in the last nine months of last year while simultaneously increasing its reliability and functionality and reducing its downtime. In short, you haven't a clue what you're babbling about.
Big deal. I'm 52, don't know a single programming language (well, QuickBasic from 1996), and my scripting is limited to batch files and very low level SQL Server queries. After 10 years as a server/desktop admin I changed to doing physical security (key cards, cameras, alarm systems) 8 years ago. Still learning, still doing technical stuff, still administering servers, still having a great time. There's more to the technical world than just programming.
Plan that I saw quite some time ago included a lander with an RTG on the bottom that could melt its way through the ice, and the probe would drop transponders behind it occasionally as it descended. Don't know how viable the concept was, but it sounded neat. Wonder what frequencies they envisioned that would go through ice to the repeaters.
LSD, no. Morning glory seeds used to be coated with a little strychnine to prevent the plants from self-fertilizing and producing viable seeds, but that's not done any more. To be just a little paranoid you could buy organic morning glory seeds and avoid the issue altogether. Grind them up and mix them with something like peach juice, or let the powder sit in water (or wine) overnight and drink the water. Psilocybin mushrooms grow wild all over the place if you know how to recognize mushrooms. San Pedro is available from any herbalist in any market in Peru/Bolivia/Ecuador. There are several ways to prepare it but don't use the core, there's no mescaline there and it will upset your stomach. Peyote will make you puke no matter what, I've only done it once and don't know how to recognize it anyway.
So your "science" classes used Time magazine as a textbook? A Time reporter encountered the idea of Milencovitch Cycles, garbled some quotes from the few climatologists actually working then, and created that entire scenario out of whole cloth. Actual scientists never claimed that we were heading into another ice age, and I don't recall any actual textbooks making the claim either.
Or are you just making shit up again?
The goat herd would probably have said, "Can we talk about this later? Damn goats are climbing the neighbor's olive trees again and I'd better get them down before they much the shit out of them."
Really have no clue what you're talking about, do you?
Depends on the context. Where I am, what I am doing, where my head is. Mushrooms for walking in the Pacific Northwest rain forest, morning glory seeds hiking in the Andean altiplano or playing in our garden, LSD when staying indoors, San Pedro at Lake Titicaca or visiting pre-Colombian ruins, etc.
For you. For other people there are other routes that may be more appropriate. For one guy that I knew years ago it was the experience of falling through the ice on Lake Michigan that seemed to open him up to the other possibilities in what had previously been a very rigid and constrained life. For some it's a near-death experience, or even just an extremely lucid dream(s). YMMV
Shit weed? Just the discarded leaf from today's weed is stronger than the Acapulco Gold bud we used to pay premium prices for back in the '70s. The average no-name bud sold in Seattle now is stronger than the Thai Stick or Maui Wowie used to be.
I take it you haven't done any of these, since the effects of LSD is **NOT** identical to the effects of psilocybin mushrooms or mescaline-containing cacti. I have done all three, and all three are dramatically different from each other. For that matter, a trip from San Pedro cacti is different than a peyote trip, and a chemically-generated LSD trip is different than a morning glory seed generated LSD trip.
Neat, thanks for the citations, very interesting. Especially the second one. I hadn't heard of that before.
Citation needed. I mean really, that's incredibly cool. If you're talking about the molestus mosquito, the Wikipedia entry seems self-contradictory in places and unclear how the thing is spreading across the ocean to other subway systems.
I've already got it own as a condition with my wife
Good luck with that. . .