Your call for Islam and Christianity to 'go' is nonsense. I think in the next 30 years Islam is going to go through a transformation, it may take longer but my prediction is we're in the information age and the barriers to change are not so significant as they used to be. Once the printing press came about Christianity went through a pretty significant transformation. I live in Utah, the Christians (Mormons) around here are mostly split on the war, the Mormon authorities don't take any position, and the church members I talk to have their opinions, a surprising number of them think that war is bad and that is paramount, even despite the crimes against humanity over there in the middle east. It goes to show that religion does not represent the thoughts of the members as a whole. The problems in the middle east could have more to do with the government, nevermind the religious influence on govt. If you look at Iran as a government, without any religious influence, it is a corrupt one. The younger generation will eventually transform Iran into a more people-friendly government, and the hate speech you were talking about earlier can be censored. Eventually Islam will mature, both Christianity and Islam will become less of an influencing factor on society.
It's interesting to see this playing out in Iraq right now, with this constitution under scrutiny, it's sortof like experimenting with this in action. Will they subdue corrupt pseudo-religious interests? That is the question I'm asking.
More and more kids have cell phones these days. They get used to it. The real problem you're gonna see is the kid who types with one hand because he's busy with the other hand.
Why not just knock down satellites from a ground based laser? They already have them.
Besides they probably have a missile pointed at every satellite in orbit. Be more concerned with the nuclear warheads coming from the satellites, which is what the OTHER Airborne Laser project is meant to take care of, the one in the 747.
You would actually be better off with some sort of ceramic surface that can absorb all the heat and diffuse it in the air running past the missile than you would reflecting it. Nothing reflects light perfectly.
They need a +1 Stupid funny, seriously. That's the kind of thing a little kid says when he's playing army with his friends. "Dude, I shot you!" "No you didn't, I used my turbo boosters, your bullets can't hit me!", "No dude, I shot you with my LASERS!", "Well I had a mirror and I shot it back at you!", "NO FAIR!"
You fell in to the trap idsofmarch. I wasn't talking about history, I was talking about your life experiences. You never hear about Christian terrorists, yet some are hell bent on destroying Christianity. Go ahead and point to history, I can point to plenty of instances where Christianity did the world good, it was the central authority in Europe during the most progressive times.
This aint no insight here, parent. This is bullshit. Less Nobel prize winners!??! You have to be shitting me! Don't you know what kind of people win the Nobel Prize?!?! The people giving out the nobel prize are award winning stupid fucks.
As for deficit, who says we're ever going to repay it? As far as I know there are no plans to repay the deficit in this country. You send us all your goods and we'll give you these magic things called Dollars, which keep going down in value. Works out pretty well for us if you ask me.
Why do you nutcases all refer to global warming as a fact? There is no facts to support that. You're a nut.
There, the BBC can complain about inaction in America all it wants. When are they going to shake up their own country? God damn, ingrates! We'd all be much better off if everyone else made HALF the effort we American capitalists make!
I gotta give a shout out to our capitalist brothers over there in Japan though, we like Japan and Japan likes us, Australia you're cool too.
I'm not training for a triathlon or anything, but I'm not overweight, I walk around the corner to buy lunch most days, I have dogs I walk a couple times a week, I do yard work on the weekends. I hiked about 6.5 miles last saturday which left my legs feeling sore, I went to sleep at 3 or 4am that night, like most friday and saturday nights although like you say I'm sure I would have been able to sleep earlier. My wife hardly does anything physical during the day, she falls asleep during almost every movie we watch at home, takes her 60 seconds to fall asleep in bed. She sleeps TOO good, she went to see a doctor about it but doc says she's fine, she just needs to get more physical activity. Go figure.
So what I'm saying is there is a biological difference between us, your 90/10 figures I think are off, I'd say 1 in 4 people have some degree of insomnia, another 1 in 4 maybe sleep too well, perhaps half of society has a perfect sleep at night.
It was Amitriptyline, generic for Elavil. It's not as powerful of an anti-depressant, being in an older class called tri-cyclics, I didn't notice any of the effects the newer SSRI's have (looks like trazodone is an SSRI). You may want to give it a try, it's dirt cheap.
I wouldn't want sleeping pills, I'd go for a replacement for my morning cup of coffee. I was prescribed pain killers, ultram which is not opiod more like an anti-depressant, and I take them for a wake up more often than I take them for knee pain (in moderation of course, maybe once every two weeks when I feel I need a good work day). A while back I was prescribed a tri-cyclic anti-depressant which was to help me sleep at night (doc thought the insomnia might be related to some form of depression), I forget the name of it but it works as a sleeping pill, so I know the groggy feeling in the morning, like there's ambisol in your head.
There is a drug called modafinil (provigil) that looks really attractive, but you know, I don't want to be taking pills the rest of my life, even if it is healthier than coffee. I like the taste of coffee.:)
You couldn't be more wrong. Sitting at the computer until my eyes water is one of the things that helps me sleep. You light sleeper types just don't understand, you're not the same as us. I have tricks I use to go to sleep, I have to wear my brain out at night before I can sleep, I have to be tired of thinking or I won't sleep. If I go lay down in bed with something on my mind, I think about it as hard as I possibly can until I'm ready to sleep (which usually comes unexpectedly). We can't just lay down and turn off like you people.
My suspicion is we should just operate at a +4-6 hour day, wake up at 2PM and go to sleep at 5AM. I would prefer that, but doesn't work out well for a programmer unless I'm self employed. I think there should be some laws to make life easier for the so called insomniacs. (I prefer to be called a night person).
Some of us are jealous of the relative ease with which the rest of you fall asleep.
I hear ya bro. Me and my boss both have the same problem as you. We were talking about it the other day and we came to an interesting agreement, that staying up until 5AM and then going to sleep works out better for us. My boss owns his own business, he goes to sleep at 5AM and comes in to work at around 3:30 or 4:00PM. I tend to do that on the weekends, but I have to be here at 9 (which usually works out to 10:50) and I stay up until 2AM, which makes sleep easier.
If you go out on the web and do some research you can find info on how the human sleep cycle is tuned to the wavelengths of light you're getting. There may be better ways of fooling your brain, but you're like a plant, your brain chemistry changes according to the type of light you're encountering. Do you find flourescent lights to be extremely annoying, causing incessant yawning? Your brain probably just needs more darkness in order to adjust. There's some advise you can experiment with, I can't say anything for certain, but I've found if I spend 3 or 4 hours at night in a dark room, with just my laptop LCD screen on low contrast, I can fall asleep easier.
This is exactly what the doctor asks me when I tell him I can't sleep at night. What I want are drugs to help me sleep! (Or to stay awake like the poster 2 levels up explained)
But the beer and wine before bed sounds like it might work, I'll tell the wife!
You would need 1kw if you were running 20 or so hard drives. When you turn on the computer they all spin up, each drawing a few amps, and if there isn't enough power they *all* fail, and your system doesn't boot. I know a guy who does the MythTV thing and he just buys more and more hard drives, and bigger and bigger power supplies to power them.
It depends, are you counting the time it takes to load the toolbar, or for the toolbar to index your messages, what about the other indirect delays, like the time it takes google to send data back and forth between its servers, or the extra time it takes to load windows with the extra startup tasks, or the worse disk performance by having extra crap to defrag.
I have 79,000 messages in my outlook inbox and I can search through them all in about 3 seconds.
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Reminds me of when I bought the original Quake for $5, and someone STOLE IT!
If I can remember correctly, the biggest hurdle in the development of the X-33 was the strength of the composite LOX tanks. Apparently this is exactly what they need, just wrap this ribbon around the tank and double the storage capacity. Hell make the whole spacecraft out of this stuff.
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You just smacked down the declaration of independence! You need to get your thoughts together hippy.
It's interesting to see this playing out in Iraq right now, with this constitution under scrutiny, it's sortof like experimenting with this in action. Will they subdue corrupt pseudo-religious interests? That is the question I'm asking.
God damn, you really hate this country don't you?
More and more kids have cell phones these days. They get used to it. The real problem you're gonna see is the kid who types with one hand because he's busy with the other hand.
Besides they probably have a missile pointed at every satellite in orbit. Be more concerned with the nuclear warheads coming from the satellites, which is what the OTHER Airborne Laser project is meant to take care of, the one in the 747.
They need a +1 Stupid funny, seriously. That's the kind of thing a little kid says when he's playing army with his friends. "Dude, I shot you!" "No you didn't, I used my turbo boosters, your bullets can't hit me!", "No dude, I shot you with my LASERS!", "Well I had a mirror and I shot it back at you!", "NO FAIR!"
Iraqi soldiers killed from helicopter
You fell in to the trap idsofmarch. I wasn't talking about history, I was talking about your life experiences. You never hear about Christian terrorists, yet some are hell bent on destroying Christianity. Go ahead and point to history, I can point to plenty of instances where Christianity did the world good, it was the central authority in Europe during the most progressive times.
Fuck ya we spend so much money these days on litigation, theres nothing left for more useful endeavors.
Nevermind Islam. Christianity never did you any harm.
As for deficit, who says we're ever going to repay it? As far as I know there are no plans to repay the deficit in this country. You send us all your goods and we'll give you these magic things called Dollars, which keep going down in value. Works out pretty well for us if you ask me.
Why do you nutcases all refer to global warming as a fact? There is no facts to support that. You're a nut.
You're an idiot Simon.
I gotta give a shout out to our capitalist brothers over there in Japan though, we like Japan and Japan likes us, Australia you're cool too.
So what I'm saying is there is a biological difference between us, your 90/10 figures I think are off, I'd say 1 in 4 people have some degree of insomnia, another 1 in 4 maybe sleep too well, perhaps half of society has a perfect sleep at night.
It was Amitriptyline, generic for Elavil. It's not as powerful of an anti-depressant, being in an older class called tri-cyclics, I didn't notice any of the effects the newer SSRI's have (looks like trazodone is an SSRI). You may want to give it a try, it's dirt cheap.
It's a fix for the insomnia, which I've had as long as I can remember. I only started drinking coffee around age 19, when I started my career.
There is a drug called modafinil (provigil) that looks really attractive, but you know, I don't want to be taking pills the rest of my life, even if it is healthier than coffee. I like the taste of coffee. :)
My suspicion is we should just operate at a +4-6 hour day, wake up at 2PM and go to sleep at 5AM. I would prefer that, but doesn't work out well for a programmer unless I'm self employed. I think there should be some laws to make life easier for the so called insomniacs. (I prefer to be called a night person).
Some of us are jealous of the relative ease with which the rest of you fall asleep.
I hear ya bro. Me and my boss both have the same problem as you. We were talking about it the other day and we came to an interesting agreement, that staying up until 5AM and then going to sleep works out better for us. My boss owns his own business, he goes to sleep at 5AM and comes in to work at around 3:30 or 4:00PM. I tend to do that on the weekends, but I have to be here at 9 (which usually works out to 10:50) and I stay up until 2AM, which makes sleep easier.
If you go out on the web and do some research you can find info on how the human sleep cycle is tuned to the wavelengths of light you're getting. There may be better ways of fooling your brain, but you're like a plant, your brain chemistry changes according to the type of light you're encountering. Do you find flourescent lights to be extremely annoying, causing incessant yawning? Your brain probably just needs more darkness in order to adjust. There's some advise you can experiment with, I can't say anything for certain, but I've found if I spend 3 or 4 hours at night in a dark room, with just my laptop LCD screen on low contrast, I can fall asleep easier.
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But the beer and wine before bed sounds like it might work, I'll tell the wife!
You would need 1kw if you were running 20 or so hard drives. When you turn on the computer they all spin up, each drawing a few amps, and if there isn't enough power they *all* fail, and your system doesn't boot. I know a guy who does the MythTV thing and he just buys more and more hard drives, and bigger and bigger power supplies to power them.
I have 79,000 messages in my outlook inbox and I can search through them all in about 3 seconds.
Reminds me of when I bought the original Quake for $5, and someone STOLE IT!
Hey, it's made valve a fortune, I'm sure.
If I can remember correctly, the biggest hurdle in the development of the X-33 was the strength of the composite LOX tanks. Apparently this is exactly what they need, just wrap this ribbon around the tank and double the storage capacity. Hell make the whole spacecraft out of this stuff.
A condom that powers itself on vaginal discharge to create a stimulating electrical current!