This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic.
. . . by taking stiff doses of ketamine. You don't want to enter such a difficult level as death without enough experience.
Speaking from experience Ketamine may have been isolating the part of my brain which records long term memories from other parts of the brain, so that the recording from that period was largely noise. The normal clocking which gives us a feeling of time passing was missing so I had no real sense of time but time definitely had an arrow. My visual field was filled with surging fields of coloured dots. I heard a roaring in my ears. I don't want to go back there, but I am not typically a drug user, either.
I didn't see anything resembling stereotypical heaven in there. If that is what life after death is like you can count me out. I imagine it is a lot like being paralysed and brain damaged.
has its overseas subsidiaries license software to its US parent company in return for handsome royalties that get taxed at lower overseas rates
And thats only when you talk about taxes. How about foreign aid projects? Quote the job at domestic rates (it is a subsidy to local industry after all) then outsource the work to your subsidiary at half the cost. Funded internal projects: send your own managers to the offshore site to organise local implementation then invent reasons why the cost is going to rise. Hire consultants at the offshort site who actually work for you to siphon money out of the project. Put the operation on hold for the two days the Big Boss is on site. Keep him/her up all night with prostitutes, etc.
That is an unethical stance, and one easily adopted by sociopaths. To put it bluntly, I don't want to live in that kind of world, so why should I act that way? (meaning in this case: the act of accepting sociopathy as inevitable and acceptable, particularly when given authority.)
The "You" in my post doesn't refer to me. I solved my sociopathic boss problem by bailing out of a job. Not all people have that option all of the time. I don't agree with the morality of the strategy which was employed in the case I was exposed to, but I see it happen enough to accept that it is part of the normal operation of a bureaucracy.
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations.
Excuse me? You make it sound like it's a good thing. Many important jobs are done by sociopaths and many of them may consider sociopathy to be a "benefit" to them. (eg. politicians) Still it is never a benefit to the rest of society. Sociopathy does not perform any useful function in "modern organizations" or modern society despite superficial appearances to the contrary.
You send a sociopath to do a specific job when you want a specific outcome. Not necessarily a good outcome for people in general, but a good outcome for you. These things happen in real organisations. Its not good but it is life.
Its harder to get good photographs of weather at high latitudes because you either have to do it from high altitude and an oblique angle, or from low altitude in a high inclination orbit. Doing it that way you get two passes at the most per day.
Also, maybe they did have weather satellites but the data wasn't released to civilians because high altitude photography was considered secret.
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
So, if a pedophile is in charge, then they will put all the children on the lifeboat first. Hhhm.
Well we have HOT (+60C isn't uncommon) and I have always felt that its easier to stay warm in the cold than cool in the heat but one thing we should agree on is that 1000km in the back country in AU or CA will be harder than 100km in the back country in Finland.
It should be possible to redirect all this the anger and popular hatred from pedophiles to sociopaths
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
Forget the emergency transponder, just plain no Car(it has computers in it). Or using an ATM, or an automatic ticket kiosk (for say mass transit system). Computers are everywhere. His credit cards may even violate that restriction.
Facilities department where I used to work would keep track of the systems we used. They could count PCs and VT240 terminals (because the 240 had a separate base unit) but for them a VT220 was a "monitor" and not counted. They ignored VAX and Alpha servers and such like.
Even if this guy gets caught out using an iPhone, he could probably get away with buying an ARM development kit under the heading of "electronics".
My wife calls her LCD monitor an "computer" and gets confused about why autocad won't run on it when she flips the video input from a windows desktop to the macbook
Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose.
Ah but when I am wifeless I just chuck all the stuff into a convenient pile. Its my wife who wants them folded and would presumably be the market for a machine like this.
This came up on boing boing and somebody said there already are dedicated folding machines, which I assume commercial laundries would use. Just not general purpose robots programmed for the purpose.
An incompetent government is a gift to the people.
I think India is an example of it going a bit too far. India is in desperate need of Chinese style population control. Right now the region is a sitting duck for famine. I wouldn't want to see a billion people starve to death.
in the UK cell phone records have been used as evidence of dangerous driving after fatalities for years
I am sure they would be here too but I am really talking about the fact that use of mobiles without hands free and texting has been illegal here for a long time and both activities are absolutely rampant. I can go out on any street in this city and not be out of sight of a driver doing either of those things at any time.
So something has to be done to put a lid on this behaviour and I think looking at phone records for every incident reported to the police would be one way to do that, and done properly it doesn't have to be expensive either.
The only thing I want is slightly smarter window management. If a non-gnome application opens its icon is highlighted in the task bar as a new window. Clicking on the window minimizes the new window. What I want is a task bar option to never minimize.
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This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic.
. . . by taking stiff doses of ketamine. You don't want to enter such a difficult level as death without enough experience.
Speaking from experience Ketamine may have been isolating the part of my brain which records long term memories from other parts of the brain, so that the recording from that period was largely noise. The normal clocking which gives us a feeling of time passing was missing so I had no real sense of time but time definitely had an arrow. My visual field was filled with surging fields of coloured dots. I heard a roaring in my ears. I don't want to go back there, but I am not typically a drug user, either.
I didn't see anything resembling stereotypical heaven in there. If that is what life after death is like you can count me out. I imagine it is a lot like being paralysed and brain damaged.
I had a weird experience when my arm was set but that was just the Ketamine.
The "Post anon" checkbox can take focus when you tab from the subject to the message body.
It amazes me that this bunch of clowns can't keep a license server working.
has its overseas subsidiaries license software to its US parent company in return for handsome royalties that get taxed at lower overseas rates
And thats only when you talk about taxes. How about foreign aid projects? Quote the job at domestic rates (it is a subsidy to local industry after all) then outsource the work to your subsidiary at half the cost. Funded internal projects: send your own managers to the offshore site to organise local implementation then invent reasons why the cost is going to rise. Hire consultants at the offshort site who actually work for you to siphon money out of the project. Put the operation on hold for the two days the Big Boss is on site. Keep him/her up all night with prostitutes, etc.
Endless fun.
Thats interesting. Any thoughts on why the Russians weren't first on this?
That is an unethical stance, and one easily adopted by sociopaths. To put it bluntly, I don't want to live in that kind of world, so why should I act that way? (meaning in this case: the act of accepting sociopathy as inevitable and acceptable, particularly when given authority.)
The "You" in my post doesn't refer to me. I solved my sociopathic boss problem by bailing out of a job. Not all people have that option all of the time. I don't agree with the morality of the strategy which was employed in the case I was exposed to, but I see it happen enough to accept that it is part of the normal operation of a bureaucracy.
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations.
Excuse me? You make it sound like it's a good thing. Many important jobs are done by sociopaths and many of them may consider sociopathy to be a "benefit" to them. (eg. politicians) Still it is never a benefit to the rest of society. Sociopathy does not perform any useful function in "modern organizations" or modern society despite superficial appearances to the contrary.
You send a sociopath to do a specific job when you want a specific outcome. Not necessarily a good outcome for people in general, but a good outcome for you. These things happen in real organisations. Its not good but it is life.
Its harder to get good photographs of weather at high latitudes because you either have to do it from high altitude and an oblique angle, or from low altitude in a high inclination orbit. Doing it that way you get two passes at the most per day.
Also, maybe they did have weather satellites but the data wasn't released to civilians because high altitude photography was considered secret.
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
So, if a pedophile is in charge, then they will put all the children on the lifeboat first. Hhhm.
Yeah thats what a priest would do.
Yes.
Well we have HOT (+60C isn't uncommon) and I have always felt that its easier to stay warm in the cold than cool in the heat but one thing we should agree on is that 1000km in the back country in AU or CA will be harder than 100km in the back country in Finland.
Would you prefer not to have name spaces? C is pretty crap you know. "import" is pretty easy in Java too.
8th largest country in Europe
Well okay but thats not very big by world standards.
It's scarcely populated, even by world standards.
It has seven or eight times the population density of Australia and nowhere near the issues of distance which we face in au.
It should be possible to redirect all this the anger and popular hatred from pedophiles to sociopaths
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
Forget the emergency transponder, just plain no Car(it has computers in it). Or using an ATM, or an automatic ticket kiosk (for say mass transit system). Computers are everywhere. His credit cards may even violate that restriction.
Facilities department where I used to work would keep track of the systems we used. They could count PCs and VT240 terminals (because the 240 had a separate base unit) but for them a VT220 was a "monitor" and not counted. They ignored VAX and Alpha servers and such like.
Even if this guy gets caught out using an iPhone, he could probably get away with buying an ARM development kit under the heading of "electronics".
My wife calls her LCD monitor an "computer" and gets confused about why autocad won't run on it when she flips the video input from a windows desktop to the macbook
Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose.
Especially if you want them to be really private.
8th largest country in Europe
Well okay but thats not very big by world standards.
Don't everyone's grandparents put steganographic checksums for enclosed money in the text of their letter? :P
Who's your Grandfather? Alan Turing?
Oh wait...
Ah but when I am wifeless I just chuck all the stuff into a convenient pile. Its my wife who wants them folded and would presumably be the market for a machine like this.
This came up on boing boing and somebody said there already are dedicated folding machines, which I assume commercial laundries would use. Just not general purpose robots programmed for the purpose.
An incompetent government is a gift to the people.
I think India is an example of it going a bit too far. India is in desperate need of Chinese style population control. Right now the region is a sitting duck for famine. I wouldn't want to see a billion people starve to death.
in the UK cell phone records have been used as evidence of dangerous driving after fatalities for years
I am sure they would be here too but I am really talking about the fact that use of mobiles without hands free and texting has been illegal here for a long time and both activities are absolutely rampant. I can go out on any street in this city and not be out of sight of a driver doing either of those things at any time.
So something has to be done to put a lid on this behaviour and I think looking at phone records for every incident reported to the police would be one way to do that, and done properly it doesn't have to be expensive either.
The only thing I want is slightly smarter window management. If a non-gnome application opens its icon is highlighted in the task bar as a new window. Clicking on the window minimizes the new window. What I want is a task bar option to never minimize.
...an early April Fool's joke.
Early? Your post is dated 2010-04-01 10:29 here.