It's what I wish I had known back then. I really wish I had stuck with the first anti-depressants when I was 15, but I bought into all the stories and gave up after a week. I don't know all of what I missed, but I can imagine a lot that would have been different.
Nope, I'm pulling the "shouldn't drive nails with a screwdriver" thing. Maybe for/. "shouldn't use Windows 98 as an edge router".
The goal of the meds, as explained by my doctor, psychologist and counselor are to get me to where I know what "well" feels like. Then consider slowly coming off them. They're a means to an end, not the end itself. A lobotomy tends to be the end. Maybe we'll disagree on this point, but I'm okay with that.
You mentioned that there's a chance that one medication isn't the right thing and that it's a coin toss. I won't argue that. I have a friend whose bipolar meds effectively turned him into Rip Van Winkle, which wasn't so good for his family life. However, when the medication works, it works great! That's the piece that so many folks miss because of the scary stories or comparisons made with a lobotomy (which tends to be very final).
This may be more than I should post in a public forum, but I'm tired of the horror stories over antidepressants. I bought into that for nearly 20 year and just about lost my life for it.
When I started taking my meds, my blood pressure was 200/140. I was significantly overweight and also had no energy. I would tell people that I was not a morning person and sleep until noon or later. I had no self confidence and no social life. I would cry unconsolably for the most minute things. I was a mess and there wasn't really anything that I could do to break the cycle.
Today, about a year and a half later, I have normal blood pressure (it dropped to normal during the first month!). I regularly get up at 5:30/6:00. I have interest in going places and doing things, I even got out and sang karaoke in public. I feel great, I have lots of energy and am losing weight. I've even gotten back into some of the interests that have waned over the years. In short, my life has been improving despite very trying circumstances (my wife decided that she would be better off without me in January and filed for divorce after 11 years and 5 children).
Certainly not a lobotomy. I'd say anyone experiencing that is on the wrong medication and needs to find something that works.
My favorite was the one related to me by my mother.
The officer in question happened to be parked on the sensor for the light (parking lot entrance). As a result it was red for nearly five minutes. One of the other vehicles, decided he'd waited long enough and proceeded to run the red light.
Needless to say, the cop pulled out right away, lights and sirens going to get the horrible lawbreaker. Wouldn't you know though, shortly after he pulls out, the light changes to green...
Actually Trademark law would prevent calling it WinUX. It's too close to Linux and it's in direct competition (the same reason Microsoft tried to sue Lindows). Other than the name, though, you are perfectly correct.
It's not too surprising. Here's what the ARRL has to say at helloradio.org:
In those early days, every station occupied the same wavelength-or, more accurately perhaps, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers. Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area.
That's true, but a professional theif certainly has $9K in their pocket to make stealing a car simpler and easier. In fact, the profits from parting out a single car would probably net more than that amount.
I guess since this is a thread about secure VOIP though, it should be pointed out that HAM radio is not a secure communication channel. It's definitely better than nothing when you need it, but not going to keep a private conversation private.
That's correct. I only mentioned the problems with the company as a real world example of how communications break down in times of emergency. I don't know what the current plan is for disaster communications for the business, but it certainly doesn't involve HAM radio.
Well, there is one service that doesn't fail. That's HAM radio. Here's an article that excerpts some of the gov't reports from Katrina that illustrate how important the Amateur Radio Service was during a true disaster.
On a closer to home note, our company found out the hard way relying on cell phones doesn't work during an earthquake. All cellular channels were immediately switched to route emergency traffic (police, fire, etc.), our staff emergency personnel were completely cut off (NexTel radios and Verizon cells at the time).
It's never been easier to get a HAM radio license either. The technician license requires an easy 35 question test (no morse requirement). You can get a good 2m radio for about the same price as many of the newer cell phones.
The NexTel bands suck inside buildings. Our facilities team uses them and if we stood in the halways of our old building you couldn't get a signal. Another example is that in my current building, I have an office with a southern facing window (points directly at the closest nextel tower btw), if I am seated at the back of the office, 25 feet from the window, I don't get any of my phone calls or direct connects.
I certainly wouldn't expect the IDEN network to work well for first responders, and I would definitely not want my life dependant on the current network.
What would be really nice would be for the images to include metadata about when they were taken.
For example, the pictures of my home, are the same photos used by Google, and they are at least 3 years old (there is a bridge that has been hand drawn into the image on both maps).
However, the "Birds Eye View" of my workplace is a recent picture (within the past years, probably a Saturday or Sunday during the past summer).
It would be especially useful to know if the images you are looking at are recent or if things have changed significantly since that time. Some things, ie housing developments, change rather quickly compared to the photography.
Bert
Actually in some areas, the title specifically states that the bank or financier owns the car. For example, Washington State's title/registration has an area for "Legal Owner" and "Registered Owner". Until the car is paid off, the legal owner is listed as the bank, credit union or financial owner. That is why if you fail to make a payment, they can have the car repossessed without your permission and sell it.
I too had visions of using an old laptop for some inexpensive portable computing.
An AST Premium Exec 386SX/25, that I got for free out of an old box of givaway stuff. That's right a 386, with a whopping 8MB of ram and an 800MB HD shoehorned from another busted 486 laptop.
I put Tiny Linux on the machine, but since my floppy drive on my home desktop shredded about every 5th floppy, I resorted to a network install. Old 56K external serial modem did the job, albeit very slowly.
Once installed, getting X on the old 6" B&W screen was the biggest hassle. I wound up having to create custom timings for my x86config file. FVWM as a window manager, and the system was good to go, well, as good as it gets.
Alas, although I still have the machine, a good slashdot post is about all it's good for now too (I later purchased a PII 200 laptop to run Gentoo/Mandrake/SuSE/Ubuntu).
Just don't try and continue to live you're life while you are "asleep and waiting". When you wake up and try to find out everything that happened while you were asleep, you'll be in violation of someone's patented storyline (unless of course you slept longer than the patent term).
I understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think your choice of words make it clear.
For example, most people want to buy a car from a member of the "automotive industry", most folks would prefer their doctor participate in the "medical industry", most people, I'd even go so far as to say most of them here on slashdot, have little wrong with the idea of industries, it's when they are abusive or controlled by monopoly powers that people begin to feel cheated, wronged, misled, etc.
It would probably be better expressed as "music...from the 'music monopoly'".
Actually, they never settled the Lindows case. What happened is Microsoft was about to have their trademark ruled invalid, so they brought suit in another country (I can't recall which at the moment and too lazy to look it up). Lindows was subject to a permanent injunction against selling their product in said country. Lindows didn't have huge sums of money to fight the suit in multiple countries simultaneously, so they changed their name to Linspire. It's sad too, they had a really strong case built for revoking the Windows trademark.
I'm assuming you mean that you get ISO's for you distro's by bittorrent; or is there a distro that all the files are hosted entirely on bittorrent, including updates, etc?
Actually, what happens without power steering is very dependant on the vehicle being driven.
Case in point, our 87 Toyota Van. We had the power steering belt snap completely (read no power steering at all). It was two days later that my wife complained that it had become burdensome to turn, yet she continued to drive it the 30 miles to the mechanic.
It all depends on how they engineered the vehicle to failover when the power assisted systems failed. Pushing cars into and out of a shop, you get a really good feel for how different cars behave when the power brakes aren't available. Some you barely notice, others you have to stand on the pedal with both feet.
What does the lifecycle determine? It sounds like the distro is built to be constantly maintained, similar to Gentoo. Or does it mean that in 3-5 years it will be so outdated, that you'll be thrilled to upgrade?
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It's what I wish I had known back then. I really wish I had stuck with the first anti-depressants when I was 15, but I bought into all the stories and gave up after a week. I don't know all of what I missed, but I can imagine a lot that would have been different.
Nope, I'm pulling the "shouldn't drive nails with a screwdriver" thing. Maybe for /. "shouldn't use Windows 98 as an edge router".
The goal of the meds, as explained by my doctor, psychologist and counselor are to get me to where I know what "well" feels like. Then consider slowly coming off them. They're a means to an end, not the end itself. A lobotomy tends to be the end. Maybe we'll disagree on this point, but I'm okay with that.
You mentioned that there's a chance that one medication isn't the right thing and that it's a coin toss. I won't argue that. I have a friend whose bipolar meds effectively turned him into Rip Van Winkle, which wasn't so good for his family life. However, when the medication works, it works great! That's the piece that so many folks miss because of the scary stories or comparisons made with a lobotomy (which tends to be very final).
This may be more than I should post in a public forum, but I'm tired of the horror stories over antidepressants. I bought into that for nearly 20 year and just about lost my life for it.
When I started taking my meds, my blood pressure was 200/140. I was significantly overweight and also had no energy. I would tell people that I was not a morning person and sleep until noon or later. I had no self confidence and no social life. I would cry unconsolably for the most minute things. I was a mess and there wasn't really anything that I could do to break the cycle.
Today, about a year and a half later, I have normal blood pressure (it dropped to normal during the first month!). I regularly get up at 5:30/6:00. I have interest in going places and doing things, I even got out and sang karaoke in public. I feel great, I have lots of energy and am losing weight. I've even gotten back into some of the interests that have waned over the years. In short, my life has been improving despite very trying circumstances (my wife decided that she would be better off without me in January and filed for divorce after 11 years and 5 children).
Certainly not a lobotomy. I'd say anyone experiencing that is on the wrong medication and needs to find something that works.
And they grow GREAT sweet basil and catnip and peppers.
So that's what they call it now...
Why, oh why, do I never have the mod points when something like is it posted. This needs to be modded up.
* Oddzon
* Cap Candy
And while Wizards currently produces the Avalon Hill line, it was purchased by Hasbro before Wizards was a part of the company.
For the pedantic, companies acquired by Wizards before the Hasbro buyout:
* TSR
* Five Rings Publishing
* Last Unicorn Games
The officer in question happened to be parked on the sensor for the light (parking lot entrance). As a result it was red for nearly five minutes. One of the other vehicles, decided he'd waited long enough and proceeded to run the red light.
Needless to say, the cop pulled out right away, lights and sirens going to get the horrible lawbreaker. Wouldn't you know though, shortly after he pulls out, the light changes to green...
Actually Trademark law would prevent calling it WinUX. It's too close to Linux and it's in direct competition (the same reason Microsoft tried to sue Lindows). Other than the name, though, you are perfectly correct.
In those early days, every station occupied the same wavelength-or, more accurately perhaps, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers. Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area.
That's true, but a professional theif certainly has $9K in their pocket to make stealing a car simpler and easier. In fact, the profits from parting out a single car would probably net more than that amount.
I guess since this is a thread about secure VOIP though, it should be pointed out that HAM radio is not a secure communication channel. It's definitely better than nothing when you need it, but not going to keep a private conversation private.
That's correct. I only mentioned the problems with the company as a real world example of how communications break down in times of emergency. I don't know what the current plan is for disaster communications for the business, but it certainly doesn't involve HAM radio.
On a closer to home note, our company found out the hard way relying on cell phones doesn't work during an earthquake. All cellular channels were immediately switched to route emergency traffic (police, fire, etc.), our staff emergency personnel were completely cut off (NexTel radios and Verizon cells at the time).
It's never been easier to get a HAM radio license either. The technician license requires an easy 35 question test (no morse requirement). You can get a good 2m radio for about the same price as many of the newer cell phones.
To me it read "Bad Food" and makes me think of "Eating your own dogfood"
I certainly wouldn't expect the IDEN network to work well for first responders, and I would definitely not want my life dependant on the current network.
For example, the pictures of my home, are the same photos used by Google, and they are at least 3 years old (there is a bridge that has been hand drawn into the image on both maps).
However, the "Birds Eye View" of my workplace is a recent picture (within the past years, probably a Saturday or Sunday during the past summer).
It would be especially useful to know if the images you are looking at are recent or if things have changed significantly since that time. Some things, ie housing developments, change rather quickly compared to the photography. Bert
Actually in some areas, the title specifically states that the bank or financier owns the car. For example, Washington State's title/registration has an area for "Legal Owner" and "Registered Owner". Until the car is paid off, the legal owner is listed as the bank, credit union or financial owner. That is why if you fail to make a payment, they can have the car repossessed without your permission and sell it.
An AST Premium Exec 386SX/25, that I got for free out of an old box of givaway stuff. That's right a 386, with a whopping 8MB of ram and an 800MB HD shoehorned from another busted 486 laptop.
I put Tiny Linux on the machine, but since my floppy drive on my home desktop shredded about every 5th floppy, I resorted to a network install. Old 56K external serial modem did the job, albeit very slowly.
Once installed, getting X on the old 6" B&W screen was the biggest hassle. I wound up having to create custom timings for my x86config file. FVWM as a window manager, and the system was good to go, well, as good as it gets.
Alas, although I still have the machine, a good slashdot post is about all it's good for now too (I later purchased a PII 200 laptop to run Gentoo/Mandrake/SuSE/Ubuntu).
Just don't try and continue to live you're life while you are "asleep and waiting". When you wake up and try to find out everything that happened while you were asleep, you'll be in violation of someone's patented storyline (unless of course you slept longer than the patent term).
For example, most people want to buy a car from a member of the "automotive industry", most folks would prefer their doctor participate in the "medical industry", most people, I'd even go so far as to say most of them here on slashdot, have little wrong with the idea of industries, it's when they are abusive or controlled by monopoly powers that people begin to feel cheated, wronged, misled, etc.
It would probably be better expressed as "music...from the 'music monopoly'".
Actually, they never settled the Lindows case. What happened is Microsoft was about to have their trademark ruled invalid, so they brought suit in another country (I can't recall which at the moment and too lazy to look it up). Lindows was subject to a permanent injunction against selling their product in said country. Lindows didn't have huge sums of money to fight the suit in multiple countries simultaneously, so they changed their name to Linspire. It's sad too, they had a really strong case built for revoking the Windows trademark.
You had me right up to the word "blog". Then everything got really confusing...
I'm assuming you mean that you get ISO's for you distro's by bittorrent; or is there a distro that all the files are hosted entirely on bittorrent, including updates, etc?
Case in point, our 87 Toyota Van. We had the power steering belt snap completely (read no power steering at all). It was two days later that my wife complained that it had become burdensome to turn, yet she continued to drive it the 30 miles to the mechanic.
It all depends on how they engineered the vehicle to failover when the power assisted systems failed. Pushing cars into and out of a shop, you get a really good feel for how different cars behave when the power brakes aren't available. Some you barely notice, others you have to stand on the pedal with both feet.
What does the lifecycle determine? It sounds like the distro is built to be constantly maintained, similar to Gentoo. Or does it mean that in 3-5 years it will be so outdated, that you'll be thrilled to upgrade?