Being introverted is different from being depressed. A very introverted person (someone who doesn't interact with the outside world) is may appear depressed to a lot of people since most humans tend to run towards the middle of the introversion / extroversion axis. Extremely extroverted people tend to be regarded as 'crazy' or some other pejorative. But said introvert can be happy and feel that life is good in that respect.
A hallmark of depression is increasing introversion - a breaking of ties to the external world, but the normative curve for introversion is pretty broad. On top of that, different societies have different tolerances for all sorts of human personality traits so it gets... complicated.
Not surprising at all. Consider Medicaid - if a family of four had to actually pay out of pocket for Medicaid level insurance it would easily cost $20,000 / year. On top of food stamps and other inputs, you can get to 40K pretty fast.
Now, the flip side of this is that most taxpayers get some form of subsidy as well. It can be hidden, but it's there - employer contribution to health care, mortgage deductions, child deductions, indirect and direct subsidies to various industries (e.g., energy, agriculture). Few people end up 'paying their own way' and it's harder to figure out just exactly who these people are.
So the inflammatory statement that welfare recipients get so much money each year is just that, inflammatory. But you need to slow down and consider reality instead of getting all hot and bothered. Doesn't help you much.
Totally wrong. How about "all that arable farm land in the middle of the US will be parched desert and the thin, acidic boreal soils of Canada will be warmer, thin, acidic non boreal soils. And the Canadians might have a less than encouraging view of Iowa trying to annex Alberta.
Even more important - Northern Europe / Northern Asia might feel somewhat put out if several billion Bangladeshis, Indians, Pakastanis and various other refugees tried to come north. And so on.
It is no where as simple nor as anywhere as benign as abandoning coastal human settlements and moving them uptown. You see how much trouble is involved in siting a few million people in the Middle East (the Israeli - Palestinian dispute)? Try that worldwide. Try that worldwide and having the ground rules (so to speak) change over the course of a couple of decades.
THE MAJOR PROBLEM ISN'T THE FACT THAT THE PLANET IS CHANGING. It is that the carrying capacity for Homo Stupidicus is limited and we appear to be bumping up to those limits. We aren't there yet, but we are definitely moving along at a brisk pace. As you do that, your OPTIONS BECOME LIMITED. Moving into your neighbor's house may not go over well with your neighbor. We aren't doing such a stellar job at managing civilization at present, even without a whole lot of hard constraints.
There is a reason that the old prayer 'May no new thing arise' is just that - a prayer.
If you are just concerned about 'life' flourishing, then it doesn't really matter what the climate is or will be. Life will find a way. If, however, you are concerned about keeping the majority of human beings, and especially 'first world' human beings safe and snug in their high tech cocoons, then you should be very concerned about any abrupt change in any one of a number of critical environmental variables - climate, water, air, fossil fuels, food.
If you haven't noticed, our current civilization doesn't like abrupt change. One little hurricane causes significant damage. A multi year drought causes food prices to rise which causes food riots. A modest rise in fuel costs slows the economy down to much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.
And those are tiny little disruptions in the grand scheme of things. Now, dramatically change how and where crops are grown, change how and where water falls and rivers rise and fall. Change major weather patterns. Displace a billion people, And add that to the stresses the system is under.
No, it's not the end of the world, however it may be the end of the world as we know it. The US can't even effectively deal with two large cities (New York, New Orleans) getting inundated in the space of a decade. Now, imagine doubling or tripling the problem. Doesn't look pretty. So yes, the planet has survived larger climate shifts. You, on the other hand, might not be so lucky.
Except that a few newspapers, the NY Times in particular, actually do have original content. You may not agree with the content or it's biases, but it is 'unique'. That presumably has some value and it certainly has a cost.
Diesel burns readily. Doesn't flash. But dragging it up a stairway in minimally closed containers is stupid. Drop 5 gallons in a stairway and you have a real mess even if it didn't burn. It will leak under door frames, it's slippery. Fumes are dangerous. Diesel is really, really hard to clean up after.
This was a bad idea on a number of levels, the fire risk being only one of them.
True, but a spilled 5 gallon bucket of diesel fuel in a dark stairwell with bog-knows-what-else going on sounds really, really, really stupid. That's enough to basically burn the building down not to mention injuring people.
The risk-benefit ratio really doesn't come down on the side of the guy who suggested it.
I find this to be true for most businesses; officially you may be encouraged to stay at home when you are ill, but in reality your manager will "joke" and make references to "man flu" and even mention to you that your amount of sick days are above average for a year.
Easy solution. Next time come up to your supervisor. Nice and close. SNEEZE. Cough. Shake his / her hands. Use their telephone.
my oldest kid was sick literally every 2-3 weeks at one point while in day care. he spent just over a year taking anti-biotics almost non stop
Although it's possible to have a chronic / semi chronic bacterial infection, it's more likely that he had multiple viral illnesses and didn't need antibiotics at all. If that happens again, carefully question the provider about the need for antibiotics. They're not good for you. They can save your life if you need them, but if it's a viral infection then all they can do is give you side effects.
Slow down Cowboy! We've barely managed to keep up a small station in Low Earth Orbit, much less figure out how to build and maintain habitable areas on the moon. It's lots more that just 'cheap propulsion systems'. It is an enormous expense of designing, building and maintaining things in a totally inhospitable environment.
Who is going to 'migrate' there? Where is the economic benefit? Don't go all Kim Stanley Robinson on us, there are incredible financial constraints that are quite real and won't go away. At the rate the economy is going, you're going to be lucky to spend your final days in something stronger than a cardboard box.
From RTFA'ing, it seems that Guatemala and Belize have no mutual legal assistance treat and are, in fact, engaged in a territorial dispute over their border, so I am wondering why Guatemala would bother sending him back to Belize, as opposed to escorting him to the airport and putting him on the next plane out of the country, wherever that might be.
When you are involved in a multinational territorial dispute, both parties just might not want the antics of a batshit insane psychopath to gum up the works. Neither country controls McAfee's behavior (it's not clear that he can control it either). Loose cannons are very problematic. Easier for Guatemala to pack him up and toss him back over the border with a note pinned on his shirt saying "No thanks".
That would contaminate the soil forever. One of the worst things we would possibly do in human history. Because from then on, we could never ever tell if there actually was life on mars, or if it was just something we brought there. It's in one category with global genocide, on the scale of how bad it is.
This video looks a lot more legit than the last one.
But, the displayed machine is remarkably intact.
I'm wondering if this video isn't of a Scan Eagle at an air or weapons show.
I doubt that. That would imply that the Iranians have mastered After Effects (take the generic background and replace it with the Iranian one). They've barely gone past Photoshop 101. Give them a few years....
Back to reality. They could have just leased one on their own. Much easier....
Leasing is becoming a fast-growing business in the drone marketplace, with foreign governments essentially renting the aircraft, ground support and operators through fixed contracts. That relieves foreign governments of costly capital commitments and keeps cutting-edge military technology out of their hands.
That's OK. Their sister organization the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) thinks Marijuana is a Schedule I drug(drugs you can't have anywhere, anytime), right up there with heroin , while the purified form of the active substance in Marijuana, THC (marinol) is a Schedule III drug (drugs with much less of an addictive or medical issue, you can call prescriptions in by phone or fax, get refills of them).
Except those plastics were specifically designed for this purpose (IIRC that's the whole deal with Glocks - 'cheap' simple plastic guns). Not the whatever thermoplastic ribbon you get in a 3 D printer.
Real question: How many different kinds of plastic are available for these things? One of the interesting things about plastics chemistry is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different types available with different properties. Picking the right plastic for the job is a very important thing.
I wonder what having techie types with superior firepower as the societal norm will do to the prevalent stereotype.
Instead of a bunch of smelly, hairy, alcohol fueled crazies running around with guns, you will have a bunch of smell, hairy, meth-addict level Mountain Dew infused crazies (with yellow / orange greasy fingers) running around with guns.
I, for one, welcome our new Mountain Dew swilling overlords.
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Being introverted is different from being depressed. A very introverted person (someone who doesn't interact with the outside world) is may appear depressed to a lot of people since most humans tend to run towards the middle of the introversion / extroversion axis. Extremely extroverted people tend to be regarded as 'crazy' or some other pejorative. But said introvert can be happy and feel that life is good in that respect.
A hallmark of depression is increasing introversion - a breaking of ties to the external world, but the normative curve for introversion is pretty broad. On top of that, different societies have different tolerances for all sorts of human personality traits so it gets ... complicated.
Not surprising at all. Consider Medicaid - if a family of four had to actually pay out of pocket for Medicaid level insurance it would easily cost $20,000 / year. On top of food stamps and other inputs, you can get to 40K pretty fast.
Now, the flip side of this is that most taxpayers get some form of subsidy as well. It can be hidden, but it's there - employer contribution to health care, mortgage deductions, child deductions, indirect and direct subsidies to various industries (e.g., energy, agriculture). Few people end up 'paying their own way' and it's harder to figure out just exactly who these people are.
So the inflammatory statement that welfare recipients get so much money each year is just that, inflammatory. But you need to slow down and consider reality instead of getting all hot and bothered. Doesn't help you much.
Totally wrong. How about "all that arable farm land in the middle of the US will be parched desert and the thin, acidic boreal soils of Canada will be warmer, thin, acidic non boreal soils. And the Canadians might have a less than encouraging view of Iowa trying to annex Alberta.
Even more important - Northern Europe / Northern Asia might feel somewhat put out if several billion Bangladeshis, Indians, Pakastanis and various other refugees tried to come north. And so on.
It is no where as simple nor as anywhere as benign as abandoning coastal human settlements and moving them uptown. You see how much trouble is involved in siting a few million people in the Middle East (the Israeli - Palestinian dispute)? Try that worldwide. Try that worldwide and having the ground rules (so to speak) change over the course of a couple of decades.
THE MAJOR PROBLEM ISN'T THE FACT THAT THE PLANET IS CHANGING. It is that the carrying capacity for Homo Stupidicus is limited and we appear to be bumping up to those limits. We aren't there yet, but we are definitely moving along at a brisk pace. As you do that, your OPTIONS BECOME LIMITED. Moving into your neighbor's house may not go over well with your neighbor. We aren't doing such a stellar job at managing civilization at present, even without a whole lot of hard constraints.
There is a reason that the old prayer 'May no new thing arise' is just that - a prayer.
If you are just concerned about 'life' flourishing, then it doesn't really matter what the climate is or will be. Life will find a way. If, however, you are concerned about keeping the majority of human beings, and especially 'first world' human beings safe and snug in their high tech cocoons, then you should be very concerned about any abrupt change in any one of a number of critical environmental variables - climate, water, air, fossil fuels, food.
If you haven't noticed, our current civilization doesn't like abrupt change. One little hurricane causes significant damage. A multi year drought causes food prices to rise which causes food riots. A modest rise in fuel costs slows the economy down to much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.
And those are tiny little disruptions in the grand scheme of things. Now, dramatically change how and where crops are grown, change how and where water falls and rivers rise and fall. Change major weather patterns. Displace a billion people, And add that to the stresses the system is under.
No, it's not the end of the world, however it may be the end of the world as we know it. The US can't even effectively deal with two large cities (New York, New Orleans) getting inundated in the space of a decade. Now, imagine doubling or tripling the problem. Doesn't look pretty. So yes, the planet has survived larger climate shifts. You, on the other hand, might not be so lucky.
Except that a few newspapers, the NY Times in particular, actually do have original content. You may not agree with the content or it's biases, but it is 'unique'. That presumably has some value and it certainly has a cost.
Diesel burns readily. Doesn't flash. But dragging it up a stairway in minimally closed containers is stupid. Drop 5 gallons in a stairway and you have a real mess even if it didn't burn. It will leak under door frames, it's slippery. Fumes are dangerous. Diesel is really, really hard to clean up after.
This was a bad idea on a number of levels, the fire risk being only one of them.
True, but a spilled 5 gallon bucket of diesel fuel in a dark stairwell with bog-knows-what-else going on sounds really, really, really stupid. That's enough to basically burn the building down not to mention injuring people.
The risk-benefit ratio really doesn't come down on the side of the guy who suggested it.
I find this to be true for most businesses; officially you may be encouraged to stay at home when you are ill, but in reality your manager will "joke" and make references to "man flu" and even mention to you that your amount of sick days are above average for a year.
Easy solution. Next time come up to your supervisor. Nice and close. SNEEZE. Cough. Shake his / her hands. Use their telephone.
What comes around, goes around.
my oldest kid was sick literally every 2-3 weeks at one point while in day care. he spent just over a year taking anti-biotics almost non stop
Although it's possible to have a chronic / semi chronic bacterial infection, it's more likely that he had multiple viral illnesses and didn't need antibiotics at all. If that happens again, carefully question the provider about the need for antibiotics. They're not good for you. They can save your life if you need them, but if it's a viral infection then all they can do is give you side effects.
Slow down Cowboy! We've barely managed to keep up a small station in Low Earth Orbit, much less figure out how to build and maintain habitable areas on the moon. It's lots more that just 'cheap propulsion systems'. It is an enormous expense of designing, building and maintaining things in a totally inhospitable environment.
Who is going to 'migrate' there? Where is the economic benefit? Don't go all Kim Stanley Robinson on us, there are incredible financial constraints that are quite real and won't go away. At the rate the economy is going, you're going to be lucky to spend your final days in something stronger than a cardboard box.
From RTFA'ing, it seems that Guatemala and Belize have no mutual legal assistance treat and are, in fact, engaged in a territorial dispute over their border, so I am wondering why Guatemala would bother sending him back to Belize, as opposed to escorting him to the airport and putting him on the next plane out of the country, wherever that might be.
When you are involved in a multinational territorial dispute, both parties just might not want the antics of a batshit insane psychopath to gum up the works. Neither country controls McAfee's behavior (it's not clear that he can control it either). Loose cannons are very problematic. Easier for Guatemala to pack him up and toss him back over the border with a note pinned on his shirt saying "No thanks".
Of course, if you're the Belize authorities, you can sit back, smoke a couple and wait for the idiot to tell the entire world where he is.
Complex spy novel level planning notwithstanding.
Invigilated.
Slashdot's word of the day. Never heard of the critter.
Thanks!
That would contaminate the soil forever. One of the worst things we would possibly do in human history. Because from then on, we could never ever tell if there actually was life on mars, or if it was just something we brought there. It's in one category with global genocide, on the scale of how bad it is.
No more re runs of Prometheus for you.
And if the laptop has a firewire port, i'm fairly certain RAM can be dumped on ANY operating system.
Ah, this must be the reason that Apple is dropping Firewire in it's laptops. Always looking out for us. Thanks Steve! (wherever you are)
Hey, cut that out. That's my luggage combination!
Or they just rented the stupid thing.
This video looks a lot more legit than the last one.
But, the displayed machine is remarkably intact.
I'm wondering if this video isn't of a Scan Eagle at an air or weapons show.
I doubt that. That would imply that the Iranians have mastered After Effects (take the generic background and replace it with the Iranian one). They've barely gone past Photoshop 101. Give them a few years....
The military one usually have a pilot.
A little, tiny pilot? How does that work?
Back to reality. They could have just leased one on their own. Much easier....
Leasing is becoming a fast-growing business in the drone marketplace, with foreign governments essentially renting the aircraft, ground support and operators through fixed contracts. That relieves foreign governments of costly capital commitments and keeps cutting-edge military technology out of their hands.
That's OK. Their sister organization the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) thinks Marijuana is a Schedule I drug(drugs you can't have anywhere, anytime), right up there with heroin , while the purified form of the active substance in Marijuana, THC (marinol) is a Schedule III drug (drugs with much less of an addictive or medical issue, you can call prescriptions in by phone or fax, get refills of them).
Dumb and Dumber!
Except those plastics were specifically designed for this purpose (IIRC that's the whole deal with Glocks - 'cheap' simple plastic guns). Not the whatever thermoplastic ribbon you get in a 3 D printer.
Real question: How many different kinds of plastic are available for these things? One of the interesting things about plastics chemistry is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different types available with different properties. Picking the right plastic for the job is a very important thing.
I wonder what having techie types with superior firepower as the societal norm will do to the prevalent stereotype.
Instead of a bunch of smelly, hairy, alcohol fueled crazies running around with guns, you will have a bunch of smell, hairy, meth-addict level Mountain Dew infused crazies (with yellow / orange greasy fingers) running around with guns.
I, for one, welcome our new Mountain Dew swilling overlords.
And the fix would trash half of the rest of the system, create a new dependency, break a couple of old ones.
TANSTAAFL.
In US military projects and military software, the term "Joint" has the same meaning as your observation about "Enterprise".
Maybe the US military ought to start using the same definition of 'joint' as everyone else.
That would work on so many levels.
What the fuck am I reading?
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BMO
Psychotria pyschosis?
(Sounds like a toe fungus.)