HEH! HEH! The cause: my bad judgement and stupidity without a doubt: a prolonged drinking binge with bad vodka.
I was off work on Workman's Comp form an injury, awaiting surgery, and too much time on my hands. Incidentally, that coincides with a dramtic increase to my/. 'foes' list, and getting many messages I was added to numerous/.'ers 'foes' lists!
My age was 51? I think. as an added note I have had a heart attack back in 1998 also.
Strokes are serious and wildly variable in their effects and outcome.
Keep close watch on your blood pressure, and manage it as necessary. this seems to be a big factor in preventing strokes. Hypertension is your enemy here. Talk to your doctor about it, really.
The reason I called mine 'mild' was the resulting damage was limited to slightly impaired fine motor skills, and a mild speech impairment: I can't always get said what is in my mind to say, almost like my mouth disconnects from my brain. Also, I cannot stay awake for prolonged periods like I used to (LAN Parties!). After I am awake about 14-15 hours, I become impaired as if I had been drinking, slurred speech, unsteady balance and more impaired motor functions. Cheap Date! Don't need to drink, just stay awake!
All but the sleep thing has steadily improved with use, but there can be frustrating times.:-)
Try to take care of your health while young and it pays big dividends as you age!
I can accept that. I had actually debated myself which way it would go and my mental coin flip came up 'drifting away'.:-)
I was unsure if the moon's 'pull' on earth weakened enough to be s significant factor (assuming a loss of moon mass from mining/harvesting/) compared to earth's pull on the moon.
I should have compared the moon's mass with earth's mass, and realized the moon's mass changing would be insignificant in this context.
I know that is the subject discussed, and I happen to agree with their conclusions, but what about gaming.
I had a 'mild' stroke about 4 years ago, and one of the things affected was my fine motor skills. Pre-stroke, I enjoyed working with my hands...model building, carpentry, welding/fabricating, leather-work, etc. I also had neat, legible handwriting....not any more.:-(
I was also heavily involved with Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, both playing and making mods.
That endeavor really suffered!...but it was also the very best therapy I found, by far. I am back up to my prior abilities (more Skyrim now though) with the gaming, modding, and my Blender and GIMP skills are improving even more from the added confidence.
So I'm grateful for that, and now depend HEAVILY on my various spell checkers to keep from appearing an illiterate idiot.
Alas, all is not roses... I had to put my joystick away. I cannot regain enough hand to eye coordination to fly in games or simulators. (I used to be an extremely deadly and precise 'pilot' in BF 1942 and it's Desert Combat mod-especially the AH-64 Apache; and kept a Win 98se box around just to play my favorite all time sim: SU-27 Flanker ver. 1.5 Squadron Commander's Edition"...the box is stored with the joystick now)
On a practical and related note, several years running their was a guy I worked with that would buy several young steers and pigs to raise to butchering size. He had the perfect setup at his home to do this.
We would all chip in a modest fee to support the feeding and raising, he would take them to be 'processed and give us a call to come pick up our meat.
He got his 'free' for the work, and we all got range free, and range fed pork and beef at about 40% of current 'but it in the supermarket prices', and it was some AWESOME eating...everyone made out like a bandit.
You might inquire around your area for a similar arrangement.Call it a kickstarter campaign to be 'trendy'.;-)
*BTW, the 'WHOOOSH' did not escape me...LOL.*
When it comes to quality food, I really miss my youth, growing up on farms and ranches. The food was superb, and FRESH! Well worth the little extra effort, and much cheaper by cutting a slew of middlemen and feedlots out of the loop.;-)
Yes, since the first comment came up, I was looking for this very comment.
My first thought when I read the article was...'Hmmm, it didn't work out too well for the Neandrathals inbreeding just like it did not work for the Hapsburgs either.
It is not really a question of you being right or wrong, it is more an issue of you just seeing the 'surface', and not the underneath workings.
'On the surface', you are correct in all of your statements/arguments, but 'on the surface' you are not accounting for the 'underneath workings' of how livestock are feed for market, and the greenhouse contributions caused indirectly from that process.
It takes considerable energy to plant, grow, harvest, process, and transport the 'plants' (think high protein 'plants' like grains (here in the USA, primarily corn) to the feed lots where thousands of animals are confined and force fed.
Do a little research on feedlots, and you will start seeing a bigger picture.
If the food animals were free roaming, and just eating what's naturally growing, you would be correct, but that's not the case.
There are a lot of other factors involved, but this should be enough to get you started.
I apologize for not explaining better, but best I could do this early in the day.:-) I hope this clears up your question.
Fascinating idea you have there....mind if I play with it?
What if you could, while doing your color correction, also add other functions as well: lens focus corrections, strabismus correction, etc.?
Eliminate the need for corrective lenses, mitigating 'colour blindness', the ability to project useful overlays (maps and similar), and still be able to be plugged into your media device as per the stated use FTFA. *nerdgasm!* That would be awesomely cool, IMHO!
The tech involved in all of this subject is way out of any fields of expertise or knowledge I have, so I don't know if any of it is feasible, but I can hope it will come to pass.
Or maybe, just MAYBE, they are afraid of being lumped in with the clueless bunch that are brandishing the term 'cyber' for everything, like it was some demented talisman to ward against evil net spirits.
I mean everybody knows that a 'CyberSecurity Specialist' is only a small and mostly accidental step away from a 'CyberBully', or 'CyberTerrorist', or OMG!!! Cyborg!!!
"Why yes, I'm a Terminator for the NSA, DHS, and in my spare time, the FBI and CIA! I'm a hit at all the parties!"
Well, that actually accounts for eight of the twelve steps.
I suggest some modding: 1. round up politicians and remaining lawyers 2. add them to the "web 2.0" crowd 3. line them up 4. Shoot 'em 5. cover with lime 6. bulldoze 'em into a ditch 7. repeat (you can never be too careful here)
A SAW is a Squad Automatic Weapon. It is meant to be carried and operated by one person, man-portable.
A.50 cal M2 Browning MG (Machine Gun) is a crew served weapon, and classed as a Heavy Machine Gun. It takes a crew of people just to transport it, and setting it up, and keeping it in operation.
The 'swivel mount' is known as a 'pintle mount'.
Finally, you don't want reactive armor at your SAW, or HMG, unless the guns are remote operated. You DO NOT want to be near reactive armor stopping rounds as designed. Good way to become hamburger.
Having said that, I also would like a.50 cal BMG (or several) turret-mounted on my vehicle!:-)
That was a refreshing comment to read. Thanks for expressing it so well.
It's a legitimate concern, if you let your kids break down the walls that hold you in they might go somewhere you can't follow, but it could probably be better dealt with by addressing your own problems rather than creating problems for your children.
A mark of a good teacher, is when the students surpass the teacher. IMHO, and so I was led to believe. (as in 'we stand on the shoulders of giants.')
I've helped raise/teach a stepdaughter, that both myself and her mom are proud of.
I was taught to be skeptical, examine all of the data(don't be biased about the source! ALL the data!) for ourselves, and make up our own minds. Be wary of strong feelings about a subject, it may be an emotional response instead of a rational one. Ask questions, lots of questions. Don't be satisfied until you understand it.(a bit problematic, where do you stop?) Don't be afraid to learn about something...the more challenging the subject, the greater reward on understanding.(this was from the POV that 'learning was fun', not a dull chore)
I tried to pass this on to my stepdaughter, and it took root!
I truly hope she passes me by, then will I feel I have done my part here.
That's the creationist side as seen by someone on the side of science, [...].
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Thanks for a well written presentation from that POV. That explains o lot of mysteries I've encountered with those people.:-)
I will be the first to admit that religion helped form and maintain civilizations. Back when, we did not have 'science' as we now understand it. We did have the concept of 'cause and effect' on a rudimentary level. (ex:fire=hot!) But, many 'effects' observed could not be explained....that was a major problem, as we seem to be 'hardwired' to be curious and to seek understanding. Religions could temporarily patch the holes.
We now have the concept of 'science', and our need for religion to help explain the 'unexplainable' is just hurdle to be overcome in our progress as a species. Unfortunately, in this specific case(it is a strength and weakness both), the human species seems to be 'hardwired' for both stubbornness, and determination. It will take at least another century to rid ourselves of this foolishness...if not more.
That's my thoughts and opinions, for what they are worth.
Having read Genesis, I have had a question that no one has been able to answer to my satisfaction, since I was 8 years old.
Genesis 4:17 "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch." Where did Cain's wife come from? We have Adam (allegedly made by God), then God anesthetizes him to extract a rib to make Eve.(cloning?) Then Adam and Eve have Cain, then Abel. Cain kills Abel, God marks him and 'runs him out of town'. Then Cain gets married...and has a kid, then builds a city. Married to who? Eve?(at this stage Eve is the ONLY female on the planet, supposedly) Then Cain built a city. A city? For whom? WTF is going on here?
So....my take on all of this is: Adam is screwing his gender-changed clone, and making babies; the baby boy is screwing either his mother, or his imagination, and they have a kid. So, all humans come from this mess?
Or... Quantum physics has been getting weaker all of this time...back then there were people popping into existence, now we only get sub-atomic particles popping in, soon to be 'nothing' popping in, then the process reverses?
Or.... Recreational drugs were much better back when this book was written, than they were in the 1960's and 1970's.
Whew!!!! Enoch's family tree looks like a coconut tree...straight trunk, no branches, and just a few nuts at the top. Holy Hapsburgs, Batman!
And that's just the first handful of chapters in this book so many people have tried to get me to take seriously all of my remembered life! No thanks!!!
And don't even get me started on the biggest con job ever pulled on a husband....Immaculate Conception! "Honest dear hubby, it was either that toilet seat in Jerusalem, or God did it!"
Hmmmm...Does this mean Jesus was a bastard? Oh, the Irony!
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HEH! HEH!
The cause: my bad judgement and stupidity without a doubt: a prolonged drinking binge with bad vodka.
I was off work on Workman's Comp form an injury, awaiting surgery, and too much time on my hands. /. 'foes' list, and getting many messages I was added to numerous /.'ers 'foes' lists!
Incidentally, that coincides with a dramtic increase to my
My age was 51? I think. as an added note I have had a heart attack back in 1998 also.
Strokes are serious and wildly variable in their effects and outcome.
Keep close watch on your blood pressure, and manage it as necessary. this seems to be a big factor in preventing strokes. Hypertension is your enemy here. Talk to your doctor about it, really.
The reason I called mine 'mild' was the resulting damage was limited to slightly impaired fine motor skills, and a mild speech impairment: I can't always get said what is in my mind to say, almost like my mouth disconnects from my brain. Also, I cannot stay awake for prolonged periods like I used to (LAN Parties!). After I am awake about 14-15 hours, I become impaired as if I had been drinking, slurred speech, unsteady balance and more impaired motor functions. Cheap Date! Don't need to drink, just stay awake!
All but the sleep thing has steadily improved with use, but there can be frustrating times. :-)
Try to take care of your health while young and it pays big dividends as you age!
I can accept that. :-)
I had actually debated myself which way it would go and my mental coin flip came up 'drifting away'.
I was unsure if the moon's 'pull' on earth weakened enough to be s significant factor (assuming a loss of moon mass from mining/harvesting/) compared to earth's pull on the moon.
I should have compared the moon's mass with earth's mass, and realized the moon's mass changing would be insignificant in this context.
Thanks.
I know that is the subject discussed, and I happen to agree with their conclusions, but what about gaming.
I had a 'mild' stroke about 4 years ago, and one of the things affected was my fine motor skills. :-(
Pre-stroke, I enjoyed working with my hands...model building, carpentry, welding/fabricating, leather-work, etc. I also had neat, legible handwriting....not any more.
I was also heavily involved with Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, both playing and making mods.
That endeavor really suffered!...but it was also the very best therapy I found, by far.
I am back up to my prior abilities (more Skyrim now though) with the gaming, modding, and my Blender and GIMP skills are improving even more from the added confidence.
So I'm grateful for that, and now depend HEAVILY on my various spell checkers to keep from appearing an illiterate idiot.
Alas, all is not roses...
I had to put my joystick away. I cannot regain enough hand to eye coordination to fly in games or simulators.
(I used to be an extremely deadly and precise 'pilot' in BF 1942 and it's Desert Combat mod-especially the AH-64 Apache; and kept a Win 98se box around just to play my favorite all time sim: SU-27 Flanker ver. 1.5 Squadron Commander's Edition"...the box is stored with the joystick now)
I think Pink Floyd beat you to it long ago....
"I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon." [snippet of lyrics]
I'm no scientist here, ....
Same here.
I would think that less moon mass would do one of two things:
1.) like you said, pull Luna into Earth eventually
2.) or the moon's reduced mass WEAKENS the gravitational attraction and it drifts away (what my 1st thought was)
Astrophysics is just an interest and informal hobby (I'm a 'NASA brat'), but my knowledge on the subject is strictly amateur.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can constructively comment on this and help us both out! ;-)
I was under the impression there were already treaties in place to prevent nationalizing the moon by any nation?
On a practical and related note, several years running their was a guy I worked with that would buy several young steers and pigs to raise to butchering size. He had the perfect setup at his home to do this.
We would all chip in a modest fee to support the feeding and raising, he would take them to be 'processed and give us a call to come pick up our meat.
He got his 'free' for the work, and we all got range free, and range fed pork and beef at about 40% of current 'but it in the supermarket prices', and it was some AWESOME eating...everyone made out like a bandit.
You might inquire around your area for a similar arrangement.Call it a kickstarter campaign to be 'trendy'. ;-)
*BTW, the 'WHOOOSH' did not escape me...LOL.*
When it comes to quality food, I really miss my youth, growing up on farms and ranches. The food was superb, and FRESH! Well worth the little extra effort, and much cheaper by cutting a slew of middlemen and feedlots out of the loop. ;-)
Yes, since the first comment came up, I was looking for this very comment.
My first thought when I read the article was...'Hmmm, it didn't work out too well for the Neandrathals inbreeding just like it did not work for the Hapsburgs either.
* Adjusts bra strap*
*Audio message plays*
"You will need to reboob Windows Bra for the changes to take effect....Reboob now? Cancel?"
So how am I wrong here?
I will give it a shot...
It is not really a question of you being right or wrong, it is more an issue of you just seeing the 'surface', and not the underneath workings.
'On the surface', you are correct in all of your statements/arguments, but 'on the surface' you are not accounting for the 'underneath workings' of how livestock are feed for market, and the greenhouse contributions caused indirectly from that process.
It takes considerable energy to plant, grow, harvest, process, and transport the 'plants' (think high protein 'plants' like grains (here in the USA, primarily corn) to the feed lots where thousands of animals are confined and force fed.
Do a little research on feedlots, and you will start seeing a bigger picture.
If the food animals were free roaming, and just eating what's naturally growing, you would be correct, but that's not the case.
There are a lot of other factors involved, but this should be enough to get you started.
I apologize for not explaining better, but best I could do this early in the day. :-)
I hope this clears up your question.
Fascinating idea you have there....mind if I play with it?
What if you could, while doing your color correction, also add other functions as well: lens focus corrections, strabismus correction, etc.?
Eliminate the need for corrective lenses, mitigating 'colour blindness', the ability to project useful overlays (maps and similar), and still be able to be plugged into your media device as per the stated use FTFA.
*nerdgasm!* That would be awesomely cool, IMHO!
The tech involved in all of this subject is way out of any fields of expertise or knowledge I have, so I don't know if any of it is feasible, but I can hope it will come to pass.
The uplifting thought...
Uplifting indeed! Thanks for that. :-)
Is that anything like FidoNet? ;-)
I don't think a strongly worded protest/condemnation and/or sanctions will be noticed by an incoming asteroid. ;-)
The existence of black hole "firewalls"...
This is the firewall I have been wanting for my home LAN.
But I'm guessing it may be tricky to implement without sucking everything out of my network, including me...
Or maybe, just MAYBE, they are afraid of being lumped in with the clueless bunch that are brandishing the term 'cyber' for everything, like it was some demented talisman to ward against evil net spirits.
I mean everybody knows that a 'CyberSecurity Specialist' is only a small and mostly accidental step away from a 'CyberBully', or 'CyberTerrorist', or OMG!!! Cyborg!!!
"Why yes, I'm a Terminator for the NSA, DHS, and in my spare time, the FBI and CIA! I'm a hit at all the parties!"
You forgot the standard prefix to your comment, comrade:
"In Soviet Russia...."
So, no fish for you, bad dolphin... ;-)
U mist dis one:
or these...
lowest quality educations at the highest proces. I do not want to here excuses.....
*emphasis mine
WTF? 'proces'? Prices? Process? Proctoscope?
I don't know for sure what is meant by 'proces'.
Thanks for the 'heads up', as I'm trapped here in Oklahoma. I need to move to the coast...out on a beach.
I, for one, do not want to miss out on this opportunity!
5. Repeat
Well, that actually accounts for eight of the twelve steps.
I suggest some modding:
1. round up politicians and remaining lawyers
2. add them to the "web 2.0" crowd
3. line them up
4. Shoot 'em
5. cover with lime
6. bulldoze 'em into a ditch
7. repeat (you can never be too careful here)
And there's your 12 step program!
I stand corrected, and heartily approve.
That plan sounds eminently functional, and well balanced.
Oh, how I wish that was possible here in the USA!
If we can't start correcting this starting with the next elections, then our options seem to narrow dramatically.
Bend over and take it, or a forcible sacking.
I could not ignore this mistake.
A SAW is a Squad Automatic Weapon. It is meant to be carried and operated by one person, man-portable.
A .50 cal M2 Browning MG (Machine Gun) is a crew served weapon, and classed as a Heavy Machine Gun. It takes a crew of people just to transport it, and setting it up, and keeping it in operation.
The 'swivel mount' is known as a 'pintle mount'.
Finally, you don't want reactive armor at your SAW, or HMG, unless the guns are remote operated. You DO NOT want to be near reactive armor stopping rounds as designed. Good way to become hamburger.
Having said that, I also would like a .50 cal BMG (or several) turret-mounted on my vehicle! :-)
That was a refreshing comment to read.
Thanks for expressing it so well.
It's a legitimate concern, if you let your kids break down the walls that hold you in they might go somewhere you can't follow, but it could probably be better dealt with by addressing your own problems rather than creating problems for your children.
A mark of a good teacher, is when the students surpass the teacher. IMHO, and so I was led to believe. (as in 'we stand on the shoulders of giants.')
I've helped raise/teach a stepdaughter, that both myself and her mom are proud of.
I was taught to be skeptical, examine all of the data(don't be biased about the source! ALL the data!) for ourselves, and make up our own minds.
Be wary of strong feelings about a subject, it may be an emotional response instead of a rational one.
Ask questions, lots of questions. Don't be satisfied until you understand it.(a bit problematic, where do you stop?)
Don't be afraid to learn about something...the more challenging the subject, the greater reward on understanding.(this was from the POV that 'learning was fun', not a dull chore)
I tried to pass this on to my stepdaughter, and it took root!
I truly hope she passes me by, then will I feel I have done my part here.
That's the creationist side as seen by someone on the side of science, [...].
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Thanks for a well written presentation from that POV. :-)
That explains o lot of mysteries I've encountered with those people.
I will be the first to admit that religion helped form and maintain civilizations. Back when, we did not have 'science' as we now understand it. We did have the concept of 'cause and effect' on a rudimentary level. (ex:fire=hot!)
But, many 'effects' observed could not be explained....that was a major problem, as we seem to be 'hardwired' to be curious and to seek understanding. Religions could temporarily patch the holes.
We now have the concept of 'science', and our need for religion to help explain the 'unexplainable' is just hurdle to be overcome in our progress as a species.
Unfortunately, in this specific case(it is a strength and weakness both), the human species seems to be 'hardwired' for both stubbornness, and determination.
It will take at least another century to rid ourselves of this foolishness...if not more.
That's my thoughts and opinions, for what they are worth.
Having read Genesis, I have had a question that no one has been able to answer to my satisfaction, since I was 8 years old.
Genesis 4:17 "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch."
Where did Cain's wife come from?
We have Adam (allegedly made by God), then God anesthetizes him to extract a rib to make Eve.(cloning?)
Then Adam and Eve have Cain, then Abel. Cain kills Abel, God marks him and 'runs him out of town'.
Then Cain gets married...and has a kid, then builds a city.
Married to who? Eve?(at this stage Eve is the ONLY female on the planet, supposedly) Then Cain built a city. A city? For whom? WTF is going on here?
So....my take on all of this is:
Adam is screwing his gender-changed clone, and making babies; the baby boy is screwing either his mother, or his imagination, and they have a kid.
So, all humans come from this mess?
Or...
Quantum physics has been getting weaker all of this time...back then there were people popping into existence, now we only get sub-atomic particles popping in, soon to be 'nothing' popping in, then the process reverses?
Or....
Recreational drugs were much better back when this book was written, than they were in the 1960's and 1970's.
Whew!!!! Enoch's family tree looks like a coconut tree...straight trunk, no branches, and just a few nuts at the top. Holy Hapsburgs, Batman!
And that's just the first handful of chapters in this book so many people have tried to get me to take seriously all of my remembered life! No thanks!!!
And don't even get me started on the biggest con job ever pulled on a husband....Immaculate Conception!
"Honest dear hubby, it was either that toilet seat in Jerusalem, or God did it!"
Hmmmm...Does this mean Jesus was a bastard? Oh, the Irony!
95%?
Where did that data emerge from?
But what I really want to know is...so what?