That's ridiculous. I've known a lot of people who have done acid. A lot of people who've done lots of acid. I've been to acid parties. I've hosted acid parties. All of this is to say, I've got some experience with it. And I've never had a flashback. I've asked many former users, directly, "have you ever had a flashback?" Not a single person has ever said "yes" or even "maybe".
Don't get me wrong, it's got some (semi?) permanent effects--primarily, you will never forget the first time you really trip. I've also noticed that decisions made while tripping seem to "stick" more. At least for me. In my early 20s, I told myself a hundred times that I need to slow down, but somehow when it came time to party I was always up for it. Then, once, I came to the same conclusion while tripping. After that, the temptation to party when I shouldn't was greatly decreased. I can't really explain it, it was just easy to just have a couple beers and go to bed at 2:00 AM instead of getting hammered and staying up until dawn. I didn't even really feel like I was missing out like I did before. It helped me get over an ex-girlfriend that I was being a dramatic teenager about. One night--bam--"hey, she doesn't like you, deal with it, there's plenty of girls out there" and I woke up the next day and it was like I'd been single for a year. It also showed me that there's definite limits to how fucked up I enjoy being.
There was also other stuff. I'd get a phrase stuck in my head while tripping, and then find myself overusing it for weeks after. Cigarettes had that "acid" feel for a couple days (smokers who have tripped will know what I mean), and weed would make me feel like I was tripping, sometimes a week or more later although that could have been my imagination. I think it permanently gave me a better sense of perspective and empathy, and it gave me the "feel" for looking at a problem from a different angle. The "feel" thing is hard to explain too--it's like how when you're learning to water-ski, when you start out, you don't know how things are supposed to feel in order to stay up. Once you've done it though, you know what you're aiming for. Any potential negative effects aside (I really can't say I have any, but then again how would I know?), it's absolutely had a net positive effect on my life.
But one thing I've definitely never experienced or heard of anyone experiencing, is a flashback. Ask anyone--the most frequent response you'll get is, "Damn, I wish."
Yeah, no big deal. So some people were wrongly convicted of a life-disrupting and extremely socially unacceptable crime? Big whoop, get over it ya cry-babies.
OCD is always a liability, by definition. If it's not a liability, it doesn't qualify as a disorder, and you don't have OCD, you're just particular. Or pedantic. Or whatever you want to call it, but you're not suffering from a clinical mental disease.
Don't forget the six fucking hours he spends on the phone every weekday, on average. That's fucking crazy.
That said, the consistency of the dinner gap is just as impressive. I certainly don't manage to make time like that for my friends and family, and I'm a single guy with a 9-5.
For the humor impaired, this was an intentional parody of the moronic chain posts on Facebook, complete with terrible math, ambien-level hyperbolic drama, and random capitalization, inspired by the dumbass Facebook-post-esqe quoted paragraph.
You'd think I'd know better than to try a gag like this on Slashdot (or the internet in general) by now.
Somewhere right now their is a young guy sitting somewhere who has an idea in the back of his head which will become the next great innovation in gaming. It will require a lot more computing power than the current generation of PC's, much less consoles. If he were to pitch it at EA, he would be laughed at. If he tried to explain it at a Game Developers Conference, he would be greeted by blank stares and derision. He's probably already used to hearing responses like "That can't be done", "Who would want THAT?", "That could never be done on a console", etc. But one day people will look back and say "Wow, how could they *not* have seen that that was the future?" and "How could they have been so arrogant as to think that gaming had peaked with the millionth variation of the FPS?".
68% of you won't re-post this, but the 42% of you with VISION will. Our voices will be heard! No fees for gaming, or we'll QUIT VIDEOGAMES!
A compiler takes your high-level language instructions, and generates the many, many low-level instructions it might take to express a given high-level instruction. The thing is, much like there's many ways to write a cover letter for a resume, there's a lot of different ways to do that high->low expression, but a compiler writer is unlikely to bother with more than one way, or maybe a couple others if there's some benefit to doing so.
A person on the other hand, will have all sorts of random variations in what they write. Oh, they'll come up with certain ruts, and have a certain style, but the won't be exactly the same every single time.
Compilers also do useless stuff. For a car analogy, it's kind of like the tow hooks under your bumper--most of the time they aren't used. A person isn't going to bother to put them there if they're not currently needed or they can envision a need for them--a compiler never forgets to put those hooks there, and sometimes puts them there even when it's redundant. Optimization gets rid of that kind of thing, but no compiler is perfect, and they're often conservative.
Why's that so hard to believe? I've been programming almost exclusively in object-oriented languages for 15 years now, give or take. Chances are no matter what language I write in, whatever I write is going to include many object-oriented features. If I was working with a complex assembly project, a type system would be one of the first things I came up with. From there, it's not much of a stretch to imagine you'd want to associate data with instances of that type, and functions that can operate on them. Bam! Object-oriented assembly. Private members and inheritance are just small steps from there.
Good for you. I bet everybody will thank you for loudly and horribly singing over that guy having a phone conversation. I mean, the almighty gall of that guy. Talking! In public! Ugh.
People are allowed to talk, or make whatever noise they want to in public.
No they aren't. If it's excessive it's a breach of the peace.
So you're calling somebody speaking on the cell phone a breach of the peace? Man, I thought I excessively used hyperbole.
Which includes buses.
No it doesn't. Despite the fact that they're called "public transport" they're legally more like a bar or shopping mall, in so much as you're only allowed on them with the consent of the operator and under certain conditions. Usually there's a clause about not disturbing other passengers.
And man, there's nothing that ruins my good time at a bar or shopping mall like some asshole yammering away on their cell phone. I mean yeah, legally there's nothing I can do about it since the owners don't even care enough about it to put up a sign like they do in a theater let alone ask somebody to stop, but illegally, I can get a cell phone jammer and stop that rat fuck from... talking. God. It's just so annoying. All those people, talking to each other, sometimes when they're not even physically next to each other! The nerve!
And? They're right! People are allowed to talk, or make whatever noise they want to in public. Which includes buses. Sorry bub, but if you're too timid to ask someone to keep it down, you're going to find that people don't whisper all the time on the off chance that it might irritate somebody. You know what happens if you ask somebody to be quiet who's bothering everybody around and they yell at you? The other people who were bothered will probably speak up at that time. If that doesn't happen, chances are fair that it's you that's being an asshole.
Is there some "right to sleep in public" I'm unaware of? What if your snoring annoys the everloving shit out of me? (it does) Can I blast an air horn every time you drift off and start cutting wood? Or does your right to sleep in public outweigh everybody else's rights?
Here's a hint: There's no right to stop anything just because it annoys you. If there were, me alone exercising my rights would depopulate the earth, and dingbats who think they own the commons would be the first to go. Lucky for you, I'm not allowed to do that.
Why does this bother people? It's so strange. Do you really expect to hear a pin drop on the bus? I can't imagine the noise is your complaint, there's so much noise out in public as it is. Is this an extrovert thing? Is hearing half a phone conversation more irritating than hearing a full in-person conversation? Is hearing a full in-person conversation irritating as well? I believe in minding my own business, so I tune out other people's conversations whenever possible. And how does privacy come into it? If they're not worried about people overhearing their conversation, why are you worried about it?
I really, truly do not understand, at all, why this is a bother to anyone.
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There are lots of things that work without the benefit of science, lots of things that science is not yet able to measure, and lots of things that science does not yet understand. That includes many things that we take advantage of daily -- even before we start on the stuff which is ridiculed by people like you.
What happens when someone comes in behind you in the arrival lane? Since any FTL communication would by necessity be based on this unless yet another way to break the speed of light was discovered, you can't even send a "get the fuck out of the way, I'm coming in!" message without killing everyone in the arrival lane.
Well yeah, you could do that. Or, since literally no browser warns about changed certificates in their default configuration, you could just do whatever is easiest.
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Heh. Try holding a few hits of acid in your hand for an hour or two sometime.
That's ridiculous. I've known a lot of people who have done acid. A lot of people who've done lots of acid. I've been to acid parties. I've hosted acid parties. All of this is to say, I've got some experience with it. And I've never had a flashback. I've asked many former users, directly, "have you ever had a flashback?" Not a single person has ever said "yes" or even "maybe".
Don't get me wrong, it's got some (semi?) permanent effects--primarily, you will never forget the first time you really trip. I've also noticed that decisions made while tripping seem to "stick" more. At least for me. In my early 20s, I told myself a hundred times that I need to slow down, but somehow when it came time to party I was always up for it. Then, once, I came to the same conclusion while tripping. After that, the temptation to party when I shouldn't was greatly decreased. I can't really explain it, it was just easy to just have a couple beers and go to bed at 2:00 AM instead of getting hammered and staying up until dawn. I didn't even really feel like I was missing out like I did before. It helped me get over an ex-girlfriend that I was being a dramatic teenager about. One night--bam--"hey, she doesn't like you, deal with it, there's plenty of girls out there" and I woke up the next day and it was like I'd been single for a year. It also showed me that there's definite limits to how fucked up I enjoy being.
There was also other stuff. I'd get a phrase stuck in my head while tripping, and then find myself overusing it for weeks after. Cigarettes had that "acid" feel for a couple days (smokers who have tripped will know what I mean), and weed would make me feel like I was tripping, sometimes a week or more later although that could have been my imagination. I think it permanently gave me a better sense of perspective and empathy, and it gave me the "feel" for looking at a problem from a different angle. The "feel" thing is hard to explain too--it's like how when you're learning to water-ski, when you start out, you don't know how things are supposed to feel in order to stay up. Once you've done it though, you know what you're aiming for. Any potential negative effects aside (I really can't say I have any, but then again how would I know?), it's absolutely had a net positive effect on my life.
But one thing I've definitely never experienced or heard of anyone experiencing, is a flashback. Ask anyone--the most frequent response you'll get is, "Damn, I wish."
Yeah, no big deal. So some people were wrongly convicted of a life-disrupting and extremely socially unacceptable crime? Big whoop, get over it ya cry-babies.
Prosecutor's office? How about the defense attorneys! Holy crap I'd be pissed off if my lawyer let something like this slide.
OCD is always a liability, by definition. If it's not a liability, it doesn't qualify as a disorder, and you don't have OCD, you're just particular. Or pedantic. Or whatever you want to call it, but you're not suffering from a clinical mental disease.
Don't forget the six fucking hours he spends on the phone every weekday, on average. That's fucking crazy.
That said, the consistency of the dinner gap is just as impressive. I certainly don't manage to make time like that for my friends and family, and I'm a single guy with a 9-5.
Have you seen the claws on a rabbit's back feet? Raking those things down an unprotected belly with legs as strong as their hind legs are ... yikes.
Impossible. Hipsters don't have the upper-body strength to swing a knife.
For the humor impaired, this was an intentional parody of the moronic chain posts on Facebook, complete with terrible math, ambien-level hyperbolic drama, and random capitalization, inspired by the dumbass Facebook-post-esqe quoted paragraph.
You'd think I'd know better than to try a gag like this on Slashdot (or the internet in general) by now.
Somewhere right now their is a young guy sitting somewhere who has an idea in the back of his head which will become the next great innovation in gaming. It will require a lot more computing power than the current generation of PC's, much less consoles. If he were to pitch it at EA, he would be laughed at. If he tried to explain it at a Game Developers Conference, he would be greeted by blank stares and derision. He's probably already used to hearing responses like "That can't be done", "Who would want THAT?", "That could never be done on a console", etc. But one day people will look back and say "Wow, how could they *not* have seen that that was the future?" and "How could they have been so arrogant as to think that gaming had peaked with the millionth variation of the FPS?".
68% of you won't re-post this, but the 42% of you with VISION will. Our voices will be heard! No fees for gaming, or we'll QUIT VIDEOGAMES!
A compiler takes your high-level language instructions, and generates the many, many low-level instructions it might take to express a given high-level instruction. The thing is, much like there's many ways to write a cover letter for a resume, there's a lot of different ways to do that high->low expression, but a compiler writer is unlikely to bother with more than one way, or maybe a couple others if there's some benefit to doing so.
A person on the other hand, will have all sorts of random variations in what they write. Oh, they'll come up with certain ruts, and have a certain style, but the won't be exactly the same every single time.
Compilers also do useless stuff. For a car analogy, it's kind of like the tow hooks under your bumper--most of the time they aren't used. A person isn't going to bother to put them there if they're not currently needed or they can envision a need for them--a compiler never forgets to put those hooks there, and sometimes puts them there even when it's redundant. Optimization gets rid of that kind of thing, but no compiler is perfect, and they're often conservative.
Why's that so hard to believe? I've been programming almost exclusively in object-oriented languages for 15 years now, give or take. Chances are no matter what language I write in, whatever I write is going to include many object-oriented features. If I was working with a complex assembly project, a type system would be one of the first things I came up with. From there, it's not much of a stretch to imagine you'd want to associate data with instances of that type, and functions that can operate on them. Bam! Object-oriented assembly. Private members and inheritance are just small steps from there.
Doesn't matter. We're a first-to-file country now, and there's no such thing as "obvious".
Good for you. I bet everybody will thank you for loudly and horribly singing over that guy having a phone conversation. I mean, the almighty gall of that guy. Talking! In public! Ugh.
No they aren't. If it's excessive it's a breach of the peace.
So you're calling somebody speaking on the cell phone a breach of the peace? Man, I thought I excessively used hyperbole.
No it doesn't. Despite the fact that they're called "public transport" they're legally more like a bar or shopping mall, in so much as you're only allowed on them with the consent of the operator and under certain conditions. Usually there's a clause about not disturbing other passengers.
And man, there's nothing that ruins my good time at a bar or shopping mall like some asshole yammering away on their cell phone. I mean yeah, legally there's nothing I can do about it since the owners don't even care enough about it to put up a sign like they do in a theater let alone ask somebody to stop, but illegally, I can get a cell phone jammer and stop that rat fuck from ... talking. God. It's just so annoying. All those people, talking to each other, sometimes when they're not even physically next to each other! The nerve!
And? They're right! People are allowed to talk, or make whatever noise they want to in public. Which includes buses. Sorry bub, but if you're too timid to ask someone to keep it down, you're going to find that people don't whisper all the time on the off chance that it might irritate somebody. You know what happens if you ask somebody to be quiet who's bothering everybody around and they yell at you? The other people who were bothered will probably speak up at that time. If that doesn't happen, chances are fair that it's you that's being an asshole.
Is there some "right to sleep in public" I'm unaware of? What if your snoring annoys the everloving shit out of me? (it does) Can I blast an air horn every time you drift off and start cutting wood? Or does your right to sleep in public outweigh everybody else's rights?
Here's a hint: There's no right to stop anything just because it annoys you. If there were, me alone exercising my rights would depopulate the earth, and dingbats who think they own the commons would be the first to go. Lucky for you, I'm not allowed to do that.
Why does this bother people? It's so strange. Do you really expect to hear a pin drop on the bus? I can't imagine the noise is your complaint, there's so much noise out in public as it is. Is this an extrovert thing? Is hearing half a phone conversation more irritating than hearing a full in-person conversation? Is hearing a full in-person conversation irritating as well? I believe in minding my own business, so I tune out other people's conversations whenever possible. And how does privacy come into it? If they're not worried about people overhearing their conversation, why are you worried about it?
I really, truly do not understand, at all, why this is a bother to anyone.
Well, then you're one step ahead of management.
Anyone found to have downloaded, listened to, performed (including whistling, humming, and spoken-word), mentioned, or remembered, whether intentionally, unintentionally, or involuntarily, any music that cannot be proven to not be covered by copyright or potentially covered by copyright in the future, or anyone in possession of any digital copies of music without a DRM spinal shunt, will be required to send their virgin daughters upon reaching age 16 for inspection to:
Royal Canadian Music Industry Headquarters
Mount Doom, Canada
Any daughters found to be desirable will be held until no longer useful. If your daughter is held, you will be responsible for a $4,000 monthly sustenance fee until such time as she is released. Anyone not in compliance with the above policies will be sued unto death or capitulation.
I drive better when I'm texting.
There are lots of things that work without the benefit of science, lots of things that science is not yet able to measure, and lots of things that science does not yet understand. That includes many things that we take advantage of daily -- even before we start on the stuff which is ridiculed by people like you.
Name one thing.
What happens when someone comes in behind you in the arrival lane? Since any FTL communication would by necessity be based on this unless yet another way to break the speed of light was discovered, you can't even send a "get the fuck out of the way, I'm coming in!" message without killing everyone in the arrival lane.
A chicken died to make a McNugget to provide the calories for that post.
Well yeah, you could do that. Or, since literally no browser warns about changed certificates in their default configuration, you could just do whatever is easiest.
Well then why put the > 0 check in there if you're not worried about dates prior to 1582?