makes running a mere business department almost child's play.
politics. prima donnas. 80% of people are users. sexual harrassment. achieving short and long term goals. managing the sheer logistics of a well balanced guild. learning to delegate to staff. etc.
I mix it 1/3 to 2/3 port before concerts. My bud basically made it 3/4 everclear to 1/4 port.
I can't drink sweet drinks for flavor any more. If I'm drinking, it's to get intoxicated for a concert or a party. Socially I just have a little suitable wine for the taste.
Diabetes means I need to control sugar & carb intake. I'd like to see pot legalized. I'd probably drink alchohol rarely after that.
However, one of the "how to grow pot video" on the torrent sites appears to be from the netherlands and shows about 20-30 plants under artificial lightning.
Based on the recent BBC special where a reporter spent a month smoking pot there in a coffee shop, I'm going to want the giggly high cannabinoid type over the high THC type. THC dominant produced a much more paranoid unhappy high in the reporter. However, she was also an idiot and when told to "take two puffs" she kept smoking for 10 minutes until the high hit her like a mac truck.
I'm more concerned about the small chance of killing or blinding myself than the 50 bucks.
A half gallon (well.. 1.75 liters) of ever-clear lasts me over a year. It's really just like a double shot of vodka.. except you have to use it sparingly (a friend who didn't said, "gah! My mouth feels drier than before I drank this.") to boost other things.
I have to admit I'm also a little afraid of it's flammability.
I've had some experience with it from "Parlux Fragrances". They used to issue new stock which diluted my shares. It's apparently legal but reduces people's interest in owning your stock.
I'm not sure if a private company can do this to owners however.
But it might.
You have 84% ownership, but the company must issue new shares to expand. Your ownership is diluted. I'm pretty sure I've seen this happen at some venture capital companies. Basically your choices are bankruptcy (wiping out your position) or dilution.
Either way... sounds like time's are a a changin for facebook.
I "play" farmville to maintain connection with a couple friends. I've blocked mafia wars and had the medieval games. I'm not sure if they use flash.
FV has gotten very annoying lately. You click on "send gifts" and it inserts other pages in the flow to force you to participate in the tuscan wedding.
I am down to about 1 day out of 4 now. The recipes and bushels and other activities are starting to sound like EQ trade skilling and don't match my '20 minutes a day' metric.
Even with minimal consumption, if there are too many people, they destroy the earth. OTH, with sufficiently ridiculous consumption, one person could reduce the earth to a dead husk.
In my opinion, with 6 billion+ people, even the lower end of consumption is too high to sustain. US high consumption makes the problem worse but doesn't create the problem.
And ironically, many of my friends and co-workers seem to be dropping cable in favor of Roku and Netflix.
Apparently, you can subscribe to particular stations through Roku?
So they get just the five stations they want plus the downloadable shows plus the mailable movies from a huge catalog and the net price ends up about $40 a month.
Which is about what I'm comfortable paying for cable.
Just keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night.
Low consumption areas with high populations have destroyed their areas (haiti, large parts of india, huge swaths of china).
Could the U.S. consumption be lowered-- absolutely. But that doesn't address the fundamental problem. It just makes the eventual collapse that much more ugly.
Copyright needs to be lowered. I find it amazing that huge industries were unable to extend the patent duration while the entertainment industries were able to extend this to over 100 years from the original 14+14 years.
These cause of those problems is overpopulation. So many humans that we push into every habitat and kill anything dangerous to us that is there. We overfish until nothing is left.
However- unfished and unhunted areas show enormous regeneration abilities in 20-30 year periods.
Stop having more than one child per family and in 100 years, the planet will be a paradise. Then allow people to have 2 children each again. I'd also grant people the right to sell their child right (many people don't want to have children so those who do could purchase from them).
Or we can keep breeding at our current rate until things are absolutely horrible.
All the constrictive laws on our behavior will do no good because any gain will be eaten up by a higher population stabilization point (10 billion instead of 9 billion).
The root problem is continued childbirth rates over replacement. And right now, we are probably 2-3 billion above carrying capacity and doing damage.
We have a long time on this planet- there is no need to have 9 billion now-- we could have 3 billion over 60 years and have similar scientific advance (perhaps better with 3 billion fully educated and actualized humans instead of 9 billion mostly impoverished humans.
My dropped and missed calls rate is much higher than 1.4%.
There's a reason for this. I work on the 5th floor of a two building complex on the inside of the complex. While my bars sometimes go to 5 bars, they also drop to zero bars frequently. As a novice, I have no clue why it can vary so dramatically but if I go down to the first floor on the other end of the building, the signal locks at 3 bars and I get reliable calls.
Twice in my life, something besides antibiotics has killed my gut bacteria.
The first time it took me 8 weeks to realize. Basically felt terrible, real trouble digesting food, etc. etc. Finally bought acidopholis pills from whole foods (yellow bottle, purple bottle: about $20). One of the pills (2 billion germs) each and I was cured the next morning.
Next time took about 2 weeks to figure out- had the same result.
Antibiotics do this too and if no good stuff is present, bad stuff will move in.
Over time, you develop things to digest particular food (re article on japanese ability to digest seaweed).
It's also important to eat dirt and other things as a child but thats a different matter- it can prevent you from getting an inflamed stomach because we are wired to need a certain parasitic infection (some of us anyway) at least once in our lives.
You might if the laptop stealer posted things like...
Just some stats... Just some stats...... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days.. yawn.
---
Plus RIAA folks and artists worked themselves into a greed based frenzy (not enough to be rich and make good money- we have to be super cocaine and bimbos rich!)
We played "war" with real rocks. No protective gear except our cardboard forts. Someone could have been hurt badly (perhaps even killed). It's a percentage game. Used to be if 1:100,000 kids was killed or hospitalized, the activity continued. Now if 1:1,000,000* kids are killed or hospitalized the activity is banned. Everyone involved is sued for large amounts of money.
* numbers somewhat smelly since pulled out of my ass. But the point is we did a lot of reckless crap in the 70's, were unsupervised for hours at a time almost every day. I'm certain some kids died, were crippled, were kidnapped and killed. But we got to live and pretend and take risks that wouldn't be considered today.
They do have trouble going low enough. I had a professor notorious for failing or causing to drop 85% of his classes. I asked him, "what is a *trivial* example ? He gstarted teaching that way and at least that semester 90% of us passed with Cs or better (I got an "A").
On the 401k, what I mean is all they have to do is raise taxes and you end up paying taxes on your 401k money at a higher rate than you avoided as it went in.
Yes-- room mates can drive you crazy. I do not even have any live in girlfriends. I could do that at one time but now I've been a bachelor too long.
Mr AC, it's not impossible to do- it IS called front running and they are getting away with it. If they weren't doing it with computers or they weren't so big, they would have been prosecuted for this.
Google "front running" and "Goldman Sachs". You'll find numerous articles on the subject starting a few months back as people realized what they were doing.
Slashdot Mirror
makes running a mere business department almost child's play.
politics.
prima donnas.
80% of people are users.
sexual harrassment.
achieving short and long term goals.
managing the sheer logistics of a well balanced guild.
learning to delegate to staff.
etc.
I mix it 1/3 to 2/3 port before concerts.
My bud basically made it 3/4 everclear to 1/4 port.
I can't drink sweet drinks for flavor any more. If I'm drinking, it's to get intoxicated for a concert or a party. Socially I just have a little suitable wine for the taste.
Diabetes means I need to control sugar & carb intake. I'd like to see pot legalized. I'd probably drink alchohol rarely after that.
However, one of the "how to grow pot video" on the torrent sites appears to be from the netherlands and shows about 20-30 plants under artificial lightning.
Based on the recent BBC special where a reporter spent a month smoking pot there in a coffee shop, I'm going to want the giggly high cannabinoid type over the high THC type. THC dominant produced a much more paranoid unhappy high in the reporter. However, she was also an idiot and when told to "take two puffs" she kept smoking for 10 minutes until the high hit her like a mac truck.
I'm more concerned about the small chance of killing or blinding myself than the 50 bucks.
A half gallon (well.. 1.75 liters) of ever-clear lasts me over a year. It's really just like a double shot of vodka.. except you have to use it sparingly (a friend who didn't said, "gah! My mouth feels drier than before I drank this.") to boost other things.
I have to admit I'm also a little afraid of it's flammability.
I think in some cases it can dilute your earnings, value, or ownership.
Wiki seems to support that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_dilution
I've had some experience with it from "Parlux Fragrances". They used to issue new stock which diluted my shares.
It's apparently legal but reduces people's interest in owning your stock.
I'm not sure if a private company can do this to owners however.
But it might.
You have 84% ownership, but the company must issue new shares to expand. Your ownership is diluted. I'm pretty sure I've seen this happen at some venture capital companies. Basically your choices are bankruptcy (wiping out your position) or dilution.
Either way... sounds like time's are a a changin for facebook.
Legal pot states
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881
1. Alaska 98 1 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)
2. California 96 8 oz usable; 18 plants (6 mature, 12 immature)**
3. Colorado 00 2 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)
4. Hawaii
5. Maine
6. Michigan
7. Montana
8. Nevada
9. New Jersey
10. New Mexico
11. Oregon
12. Rhode Island
13. Vermont
14. Washington
Several recently (2006-2010) so it is probably gaining momentum.
I "play" farmville to maintain connection with a couple friends. I've blocked mafia wars and had the medieval games. I'm not sure if they use flash.
FV has gotten very annoying lately. You click on "send gifts" and it inserts other pages in the flow to force you to participate in the tuscan wedding.
I am down to about 1 day out of 4 now. The recipes and bushels and other activities are starting to sound like EQ trade skilling and don't match my '20 minutes a day' metric.
Mafia Wars, etc?
It's a bit of both isn't it?
Even with minimal consumption, if there are too many people, they destroy the earth.
OTH, with sufficiently ridiculous consumption, one person could reduce the earth to a dead husk.
In my opinion, with 6 billion+ people, even the lower end of consumption is too high to sustain.
US high consumption makes the problem worse but doesn't create the problem.
And ironically, many of my friends and co-workers seem to be dropping cable in favor of Roku and Netflix.
Apparently, you can subscribe to particular stations through Roku?
So they get just the five stations they want plus the downloadable shows plus the mailable movies from a huge catalog and the net price ends up about $40 a month.
Which is about what I'm comfortable paying for cable.
Just keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night.
Low consumption areas with high populations have destroyed their areas (haiti, large parts of india, huge swaths of china).
Could the U.S. consumption be lowered-- absolutely. But that doesn't address the fundamental problem. It just makes the eventual collapse that much more ugly.
Copyright needs to be lowered. I find it amazing that huge industries were unable to extend the patent duration while the entertainment industries were able to extend this to over 100 years from the original 14+14 years.
These cause of those problems is overpopulation. So many humans that we push into every habitat and kill anything dangerous to us that is there. We overfish until nothing is left.
However- unfished and unhunted areas show enormous regeneration abilities in 20-30 year periods.
Stop having more than one child per family and in 100 years, the planet will be a paradise. Then allow people to have 2 children each again. I'd also grant people the right to sell their child right (many people don't want to have children so those who do could purchase from them).
Or we can keep breeding at our current rate until things are absolutely horrible.
All the constrictive laws on our behavior will do no good because any gain will be eaten up by a higher population stabilization point (10 billion instead of 9 billion).
The root problem is continued childbirth rates over replacement. And right now, we are probably 2-3 billion above carrying capacity and doing damage.
We have a long time on this planet- there is no need to have 9 billion now-- we could have 3 billion over 60 years and have similar scientific advance (perhaps better with 3 billion fully educated and actualized humans instead of 9 billion mostly impoverished humans.
My dropped and missed calls rate is much higher than 1.4%.
There's a reason for this. I work on the 5th floor of a two building complex on the inside of the complex. While my bars sometimes go to 5 bars, they also drop to zero bars frequently. As a novice, I have no clue why it can vary so dramatically but if I go down to the first floor on the other end of the building, the signal locks at 3 bars and I get reliable calls.
AT&T is my carrier.
Twice in my life, something besides antibiotics has killed my gut bacteria.
The first time it took me 8 weeks to realize. Basically felt terrible, real trouble digesting food, etc. etc.
Finally bought acidopholis pills from whole foods (yellow bottle, purple bottle: about $20).
One of the pills (2 billion germs) each and I was cured the next morning.
Next time took about 2 weeks to figure out- had the same result.
Antibiotics do this too and if no good stuff is present, bad stuff will move in.
Over time, you develop things to digest particular food (re article on japanese ability to digest seaweed).
It's also important to eat dirt and other things as a child but thats a different matter- it can prevent you from getting an inflamed stomach because we are wired to need a certain parasitic infection (some of us anyway) at least once in our lives.
The pirate bay taunted them (and every other company that sent them C&D letters) mercilessly. They made it personal with RIAA.
That's a quote from the pirate bay to one of the lawyers who sent them a letter.
I think TPB have huge brass balls. But confronting people with a billion dollars makes them willing to spend 16 million to collect 300 thousand.
You might if the laptop stealer posted things like...
Just some stats... ... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days .. yawn.
Just some stats...
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
---
Plus RIAA folks and artists worked themselves into a greed based frenzy (not enough to be rich and make good money- we have to be super cocaine and bimbos rich!)
It depends tho.
You can "rent" a movie earlier for $4. Then later for $1.
Buying it will cost you $15 today... or $5 without special features a few months later.
There are clear signs that even the media we "buy" won't be playable within our lifetimes.
However, netflix does appear to be one of the ways to go now.
A lot of this stuff just prices itself out of my interest.
Cable at $100 a month is $12,000 in 10 years- that's a new car.
Friend of mine's autistic daughter learned a lot from horses.
No idea why it worked better than humans. I'm not autistic.
Perhaps it doesn't work for you or your child but it worked for her.
We played "war" with real rocks. No protective gear except our cardboard forts. Someone could have been hurt badly (perhaps even killed). It's a percentage game. Used to be if 1:100,000 kids was killed or hospitalized, the activity continued. Now if 1:1,000,000* kids are killed or hospitalized the activity is banned. Everyone involved is sued for large amounts of money.
* numbers somewhat smelly since pulled out of my ass. But the point is we did a lot of reckless crap in the 70's, were unsupervised for hours at a time almost every day. I'm certain some kids died, were crippled, were kidnapped and killed. But we got to live and pretend and take risks that wouldn't be considered today.
Which is amazingly similar to democracy as well. And I think we have lost a lot of that over th last 30 years.
They do have trouble going low enough. I had a professor notorious for failing or causing to drop 85% of his classes. I asked him, "what is a *trivial* example ? He gstarted teaching that way and at least that semester 90% of us passed with Cs or better (I got an "A").
Good Luck. You can find people who share your interests at meetup.com
On the 401k, what I mean is all they have to do is raise taxes and you end up paying taxes on your 401k money at a higher rate than you avoided as it went in.
Yes-- room mates can drive you crazy. I do not even have any live in girlfriends. I could do that at one time but now I've been a bachelor too long.
Mr AC, it's not impossible to do- it IS called front running and they are getting away with it. If they weren't doing it with computers or they weren't so big, they would have been prosecuted for this.
Google "front running" and "Goldman Sachs". You'll find numerous articles on the subject starting a few months back as people realized what they were doing.
Here...
http://seekingalpha.com/article/150397-flash-trading-goldman-sachs-front-running-everyone-else
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/is-goldman-stealing-100-million-per-trading-day/