I quit caffeine cold turkey 3.5 years ago. First few days were not great, but not horrible either. Haven't touched coffee since that moment. Also heavily reducing refined sugars and most important of all: artificial sweeteners!
The sugar habbit is much more difficult to beat than the caffeine one IMHO.. you arrive at points that you can't believe you ever liked those very sweet soda's, pies 'n cakes*, etc.
* Now I make my own, much much better tasting and with farrr less sugar!:-D
According to the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, who has done some very interesting research, time is a form of spiraling energy.
Even seems to connect to the time-wave theory of Terence McKenna..
**
"Concerning the Silvertooth experiment: The Michelson-Morley experiment, which did not show any translational motion through an aether or other medium of propagation, was later shown to have a fundamental flaw: The standing waves that are reflected back onto a mirror become phase locked on the mirror, and hence to its motion through space. Silvertooth built a standing wave experiment that avoids the phase locking encountered in the Michelson-Morley setup. It uses a configuration similar to the Sagnac experiment, which many years ago did detect motion relative to an aether. Silvertooth's addition was a sensor capable of measuring the spacing between standing wave nodes.
This spacing is dependent upon the orientation of the apparatus relative to the Earth's motion, and this fact made the Earth's motion measurable. Silvertooth measured the 378 km/s motion of the Earth in this experiment. Some references are: Silvertooth, E.W., "Experimental Detection of the Ether", Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol.10, No.1, page 3 (1987) In that same issue beginning on page 9, is an excellent "Plain English" summary by H. Aspden entitled 'On the Silvertooth Experiment'." [We are heading toward the Constellation Leo.]
You might be interested in reading the work of Oxford-trained researcher Jospeh P. Farrell, especially if you're not yet familiar with him.
There's also plenty on YouTube and various radio stations, interview wise..
He goes into the strangeness of the U.S. never testing the uranium bomb before actually dropping it on Japan, how a German submarine was capture (or given away as decoy while some head honchos escaped) wit on-board two Japanese people.. and infrared
I cannot copy/paste from it unfortunately, but check e.g. this book:
If even a FRACTION of Farrell's work is correct, quite a few history books in school are missing some very, VERY big issues and a lot of high strangeness.
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Compared to formats supported by the Sony:
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Awesome video material, no doubt about that! It's great to see this amazing machine from these perspectives. Especially after the SRB's were disconnected with their jets still flaming while falling away.. jaw dropping!
Also I'd like to recommend to the Space Shuttle fans the videos you can find online with a launch from an airliner.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been using Python since 1998. This email from Thanos Vassilakis, then a programmer for NYSE, highlights the reliability, manageability, and ease of use enjoyed by Python programmers (not to mention family life!):
On the New York Stock Exchange we use three languages in production to deliver serious trading services to the Specialists: c, C++, Python.
Perl, tcl/tk, Java are used but for scripting, tools, and minor services where performance and memory foot print are not an issue. Yes, used correctly Python meets our performance, security and reliability requirements.
We have had Java projects and launched Java services, they have all failed. We have many in the pipeline (thanks Big Blue) but NYSE's only serious internet based service is written in Python, and was launched in 1998. It is still up in it's sixth version, with no down time! The fifth version was rewritten in Java, 6 months overdue, failed, and replaced by python ( which took two weeks).
Here at SIAC and NYSE Python is recognized by management to give results that other languages just can't achieve.
For performance we have extended Python with our own specialized c objects, and we have used swig extensively to integrate to our legacy code, and middleware.
Thanks Python, you let me get home to my kids.
thanos
NYSE has run Python since 1998, when it rolled out its first internet application. It has experienced no downtime and has enjoyed Python's significant backward-compatability character ever since.
Slashdot Mirror
.. are said to be b-b-b-b-bad to the bone. ;-)
James May, a presenter on the BBC car show "Top Gear" did a documentary called "James May On the Moon".
In this documentary he took a ride on a U2 spy plane. And what an awesome view you get on those altitudes!
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmYItnlY5M
Even worse.. Intel was also helping to create the "Plug & Play" standard... make you wonder eh?
I've removed the desire for soda by drinking fruit juice and smoothies. Lovin' it! :-D
Home made in large batches.. awesome, healthy and much much less of a sugar crash :-)
Same here!
I quit caffeine cold turkey 3.5 years ago. First few days were not great, but not horrible either. Haven't touched coffee since that moment. Also heavily reducing refined sugars and most important of all: artificial sweeteners!
The sugar habbit is much more difficult to beat than the caffeine one IMHO.. you arrive at points that you can't believe you ever liked those very sweet soda's, pies 'n cakes*, etc.
* Now I make my own, much much better tasting and with farrr less sugar! :-D
Cake hacking FTW ;-)
That would be awesome!
Spice > Coffee! ^_^
Your comment reminds me of this, IMHO, very interesting cartoon:
Orwell vs Huxley:
http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html
And the fancy banks could give away iPads! ;D :D
According to the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, who has done some very interesting research, time is a form of spiraling energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Aleksandrovich_Kozyrev
Which ties in to torsion physics (Tesla, Schauberger, etc), the zero-point energy field or (do I dare say it? yes!), the aether! **
CHAPTER 01: THE BREAKTHROUGHS OF DR. N.A. KOZYREV
http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/books-free-online/20-the-divine-cosmos/95-the-divine-cosmos-chapter-01-the-breakthroughs-of-dr-na-kozyrev
http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/books-free-online/20-the-divine-cosmos/103-the-divine-cosmos-chapter-09-harnessing-torsion-waves-and-consciousness
Even seems to connect to the time-wave theory of Terence McKenna..
**
"Concerning the Silvertooth experiment: The Michelson-Morley experiment, which did not show any translational motion through an aether or other medium of propagation, was later shown to have a fundamental flaw: The standing waves that are reflected back onto a mirror become phase locked on the mirror, and hence to its motion through space. Silvertooth built a standing wave experiment that avoids the phase locking encountered in the Michelson-Morley setup. It uses a configuration similar to the Sagnac experiment, which many years ago did detect motion relative to an aether. Silvertooth's addition was a sensor capable of measuring the spacing between standing wave nodes.
This spacing is dependent upon the orientation of the apparatus relative to the Earth's motion, and this fact made the Earth's motion measurable. Silvertooth measured the 378 km/s motion of the Earth in this experiment. Some references are: Silvertooth, E.W., "Experimental Detection of the Ether", Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol.10, No.1, page 3 (1987) In that same issue beginning on page 9, is an excellent "Plain English" summary by H. Aspden entitled 'On the Silvertooth Experiment'." [We are heading toward the Constellation Leo.]
You might be interested in reading the work of Oxford-trained researcher Jospeh P. Farrell, especially if you're not yet familiar with him.
There's also plenty on YouTube and various radio stations, interview wise..
He goes into the strangeness of the U.S. never testing the uranium bomb before actually dropping it on Japan, how a German submarine was capture (or given away as decoy while some head honchos escaped) wit on-board two Japanese people .. and infrared
I cannot copy/paste from it unfortunately, but check e.g. this book:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4092510/Joseph-Farell-Reich-of-the-Black-Sun
If even a FRACTION of Farrell's work is correct, quite a few history books in school are missing some very, VERY big issues and a lot of high strangeness.
Not sure if the Sony device is the most open. Have you seen the BeBook yet?
http://mybebook.com/index.html
It supports:
[...] the most popular eBook formats such as: EPUB*, PDF*, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, CHM, PDB, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF (*including Adobe DRM, compatible with Adobe Digital Editions)
Compared to formats supported by the Sony:
* DRM Text : ePub (Adobe DRM protected), PDF (Adobe DRM protected), BBeB Book (PRS DRM protected)
* Unsecured Text : ePub, BBeB Book, PDF, TXT, RTF, Micrsoft® Word, (Conversion to the Reader requires Word installed on your PC)
"I'd say that's a far more appropriate reference than anything from Asimov"
Yes, Shelley or Walter Rohrl! :-D _O_
Awesome video material, no doubt about that! It's great to see this amazing machine from these perspectives. Especially after the SRB's were disconnected with their jets still flaming while falling away.. jaw dropping!
Also I'd like to recommend to the Space Shuttle fans the videos you can find online with a launch from an airliner.
E.g.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv5J5cBwwFc
So familiar
E.g. something along the line of:
"Would you like chocolade or cake?"
"Yes!"
Sshhhh... don't tell our secret to too many people!
;-P
;-)
There was a Python instructional video which said: "Let the snake be your teacher!"
Just a few people, like you, got the double meaning of that expression
;-)
Nice addition:
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been using Python since 1998. This email from Thanos Vassilakis, then a programmer for NYSE, highlights the reliability, manageability, and ease of use enjoyed by Python programmers (not to mention family life!):
On the New York Stock Exchange we use three languages in production to deliver serious trading services to the Specialists: c, C++, Python.
Perl, tcl/tk, Java are used but for scripting, tools, and minor services where performance and memory foot print are not an issue. Yes, used correctly Python meets our performance, security and reliability requirements.
We have had Java projects and launched Java services, they have all failed. We have many in the pipeline (thanks Big Blue) but NYSE's only serious internet based service is written in Python, and was launched in 1998. It is still up in it's sixth version, with no down time! The fifth version was rewritten in Java, 6 months overdue, failed, and replaced by python ( which took two weeks).
Here at SIAC and NYSE Python is recognized by management to give results that other languages just can't achieve.
For performance we have extended Python with our own specialized c objects, and we have used swig extensively to integrate to our legacy code, and middleware.
Thanks Python, you let me get home to my kids.
thanos
NYSE has run Python since 1998, when it rolled out its first internet application. It has experienced no downtime and has enjoyed Python's significant backward-compatability character ever since.
http://python.about.com/b/2006/11/17/the-new-york-stock-exchange-nyse-and-python.htm
Why... do I suddenly have this mental picture of Star Trek' Borg adjusting their shields instantly to phasers being fired at them. ;-)
The first goes down, the rest keeps walking towards you...
Mebibotnet, Mebibotnet.. Maybe it's a Mebibotnet, maybe.. ;p
That's no moon! :O
(Obligatory, please forgive me..)
I think... you might just have collapsed a certain probability wave which governs the object of your affection. ;P
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_start
No, I nearly died choking on my lunch when I read your reply. ;O
I'm suddenly seeing the expression "GO TO Hell" from a completely new perspective, lol. :)
One needed to rule them all. :)
In space no one can hear you scream!