I wish I could have this mindset--I really do. But I can't. The inefficiency drives me crazy. Despite the job security issue, I have done things like teach a lot of my clients (the smarter ones who aren't likely to make things worse) how to fix little issues on their own. They may not have to call me as often, but they also can get their jobs done a lot more smoothly, and they like/respect me for that.
While humans don't use pheromones as actively as other animals, the sense of smell still plays a big part in arousal (and in stopping arousal, to be fair). Good smells make sex better.
Agreed--however, it's interesting how you don't *need* a sense of smell for this. The sex pheromone bit actually bypasses the olfactory nerves and goes to a different part of the brain, that controls sexual response. Even people with a sense of smell can't actively detect them. It's fascinating stuff.
The Zicam topical cold sore zinc gel stuff works well, too. I think the product in question here works, it's just that applying that much zinc directly to your sensitive nasal areas has extremely unpleasant side effects.
Exactly... there are just so many unknown factors. We may know the primary or most obvious function of a particular gene, but who knows what else it may control? It's like the admittedly limited example of how people with sickle-cell anemia are immune to malaria. For all we know, there is some hidden, important, balanced trait associated with the gene for red hair, or nearsightedness, or any number of things. There is no telling what we could cause.
All you idiots who are so delighted to jump in with your religion-hate-speech, chill. It's an expression, and I think anybody with common sense can understand the point.
Man, now I kind of wish I HAD gotten a call from them, so I could mess with them this way... Let's see them try to discuss the warranty on my '74 Dodge Dart:D
"wacky revolutions" are how oppressive governments are overthrown, though. "sitting on your ass and indignantly, but peacefully, waving a white flag" sound nice, but you end up being pushed over.
Ugh, yes. I got blackout curtains to make my room darker, which worked wonders, but it makes this blue blinking light even more noticeable. I took my external Seagate drive and leaned it up against the front of the PC, longways, in an attempt to block the light from the power button itself. Helped a tiny bit, but it's so bright it actually shines through the other holes in the case, around drives and etc, and STILL makes blinky blue patterns on my ceiling all night.
I'm actually considering the unheard of option of powering it off at night (when I'm not leaving something running or downloading, anyway). Horrors!
I really love technologizer.com; there are some terrific articles on there, and lots of "top n lists". Quite nice to browse if you have downtime at work--you can learn a lot and get some laughs too. Another fun read from these guys, keep it up!
If I had mod points, I'd give you one for sure. Very few people realize this.
A few years ago, I had a horrible kidney infection that had progressed to the point where I had to be hospitalised for a night. I was between jobs at the time and did not have medical insurance. I ended up applying for some program I didn't even know existed until they told me about it--they called it a "hospital sponsorship". Basically, they got the funds from somewhere to pay most of my bills, and the hospital was able to write it off later on. I noticed that the costs were *considerably* lower than they would have been if I'd had insurance. I was intensely curious about this so I did some research, some asking around... turns out they had charged the "base price" amounts for my care, and one guy actually admitted that they "pretty much charge what they want" when they know an insurance company will be paying whatever they ask.
Generally, I agree with the sentiment of your statement. There is just one point I want to make about this:
However, the elderly do make up a tiny portion of the electronics-using population.
I think this number will rise sharply as the people who are in their teens, twenties, thirties now and use computers on a daily basis begin to age. I, for one, plan to use my technological devices until the day I die, if at all possible. That being said, I don't expect the computers and communications devices to be the same as they are now. It's continuously changing, and the problem may very well be dealt with by the time the majority of us reach our senior-citizen years. But the point of this article is that we need to focus on the future by starting now on these advancements, and we can't rely on the fact that few elderly folks today (who didn't grow up with these things) use computers.
There's plenty of people who recognize that, as humans, they can screw up and lose G-d's support.
The message made it more of a father/child relationship, though. He would punish them, as you would your son or daughter, because you love them and want to steer them in the right direction. It wasn't "losing God's support", at least not in a turning-his-back kind of way.
But how many of those cars from 1989 are not on the road because their owner had to have the latest model 3-5 years later, rather than the car actually *needing* to be replaced?
Because the pharmaceutical industry can scare everybody into paying them billions of dollars. Yes, billions.
God, it's so nice to find someone else who doesn't buy into the bullshit.
...and that is that even new folks coming into a modern job may need to support older programs and need to understand the language it is written in. I am not in programming, but as another type of example, my clients run software from the 90's and some of their hardware is at least that old. Having the knowledge of those "obsolete" programs is a necessity.
Agreed... I don't know about the rest of you, but I type much, much faster than I write. Even on my phone, texting with T9 (no QWERTY keyboard on my phone, ya sissies) I can tap out a message much more quickly and tirelessly than waving my phone around for ages.
Also, I could see this having huge problems. Even on the Nintendo DS, where the stylus actually touches the screen, it doesn't recognise the way I write a few letters and numbers. I would think the margin for error is even worse in the air, when you can't actually see what you've written. Nice idea, but likely just frustrating in the end.
This is assuming that another race, another species, another planet would have the same sense of morality that we do. There is no telling what their perception of right and wrong may be, or if they in fact even care about such things.
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I wish I could have this mindset--I really do. But I can't. The inefficiency drives me crazy. Despite the job security issue, I have done things like teach a lot of my clients (the smarter ones who aren't likely to make things worse) how to fix little issues on their own. They may not have to call me as often, but they also can get their jobs done a lot more smoothly, and they like/respect me for that.
While humans don't use pheromones as actively as other animals, the sense of smell still plays a big part in arousal (and in stopping arousal, to be fair). Good smells make sex better.
Agreed--however, it's interesting how you don't *need* a sense of smell for this. The sex pheromone bit actually bypasses the olfactory nerves and goes to a different part of the brain, that controls sexual response. Even people with a sense of smell can't actively detect them. It's fascinating stuff.
The Zicam topical cold sore zinc gel stuff works well, too. I think the product in question here works, it's just that applying that much zinc directly to your sensitive nasal areas has extremely unpleasant side effects.
I don't either... and I *am* a woman. I know, weird, right?
Basically, who are we to decide what is best?
Exactly... there are just so many unknown factors. We may know the primary or most obvious function of a particular gene, but who knows what else it may control? It's like the admittedly limited example of how people with sickle-cell anemia are immune to malaria. For all we know, there is some hidden, important, balanced trait associated with the gene for red hair, or nearsightedness, or any number of things. There is no telling what we could cause.
All you idiots who are so delighted to jump in with your religion-hate-speech, chill. It's an expression, and I think anybody with common sense can understand the point.
Man, now I kind of wish I HAD gotten a call from them, so I could mess with them this way... Let's see them try to discuss the warranty on my '74 Dodge Dart :D
"wacky revolutions" are how oppressive governments are overthrown, though. "sitting on your ass and indignantly, but peacefully, waving a white flag" sound nice, but you end up being pushed over.
Yes. Microsoft has a great track record of learning from their mistakes and resolving them before the next version. Oh, wait...
This is awesome. I literally laughed aloud, making my coworkers give me the O_o face. Oh well... nice.
Ugh, yes. I got blackout curtains to make my room darker, which worked wonders, but it makes this blue blinking light even more noticeable. I took my external Seagate drive and leaned it up against the front of the PC, longways, in an attempt to block the light from the power button itself. Helped a tiny bit, but it's so bright it actually shines through the other holes in the case, around drives and etc, and STILL makes blinky blue patterns on my ceiling all night.
I'm actually considering the unheard of option of powering it off at night (when I'm not leaving something running or downloading, anyway). Horrors!
I really love technologizer.com; there are some terrific articles on there, and lots of "top n lists". Quite nice to browse if you have downtime at work--you can learn a lot and get some laughs too. Another fun read from these guys, keep it up!
If I had mod points, I'd give you one for sure. Very few people realize this.
A few years ago, I had a horrible kidney infection that had progressed to the point where I had to be hospitalised for a night. I was between jobs at the time and did not have medical insurance. I ended up applying for some program I didn't even know existed until they told me about it--they called it a "hospital sponsorship". Basically, they got the funds from somewhere to pay most of my bills, and the hospital was able to write it off later on. I noticed that the costs were *considerably* lower than they would have been if I'd had insurance. I was intensely curious about this so I did some research, some asking around... turns out they had charged the "base price" amounts for my care, and one guy actually admitted that they "pretty much charge what they want" when they know an insurance company will be paying whatever they ask.
I think he was trying to be funny...
However, the elderly do make up a tiny portion of the electronics-using population.
I think this number will rise sharply as the people who are in their teens, twenties, thirties now and use computers on a daily basis begin to age. I, for one, plan to use my technological devices until the day I die, if at all possible. That being said, I don't expect the computers and communications devices to be the same as they are now. It's continuously changing, and the problem may very well be dealt with by the time the majority of us reach our senior-citizen years. But the point of this article is that we need to focus on the future by starting now on these advancements, and we can't rely on the fact that few elderly folks today (who didn't grow up with these things) use computers.
There's plenty of people who recognize that, as humans, they can screw up and lose G-d's support.
The message made it more of a father/child relationship, though. He would punish them, as you would your son or daughter, because you love them and want to steer them in the right direction. It wasn't "losing God's support", at least not in a turning-his-back kind of way.
But how many of those cars from 1989 are not on the road because their owner had to have the latest model 3-5 years later, rather than the car actually *needing* to be replaced?
Or the olive leaf, which has been effective for years and years, is natural, and has no bad side effects.
... then someone with an agenda of their own just comes and edits straight over it?
Unless I'm missing something here, that just seems like a waste.
Because the pharmaceutical industry can scare everybody into paying them billions of dollars. Yes, billions.
God, it's so nice to find someone else who doesn't buy into the bullshit.
...and that is that even new folks coming into a modern job may need to support older programs and need to understand the language it is written in. I am not in programming, but as another type of example, my clients run software from the 90's and some of their hardware is at least that old. Having the knowledge of those "obsolete" programs is a necessity.
Agreed... I don't know about the rest of you, but I type much, much faster than I write. Even on my phone, texting with T9 (no QWERTY keyboard on my phone, ya sissies) I can tap out a message much more quickly and tirelessly than waving my phone around for ages.
Also, I could see this having huge problems. Even on the Nintendo DS, where the stylus actually touches the screen, it doesn't recognise the way I write a few letters and numbers. I would think the margin for error is even worse in the air, when you can't actually see what you've written. Nice idea, but likely just frustrating in the end.
blasphemy! The dark chocolate one, at least, is phenomenal.
But now he's a more efficient socially awkward pedantic nerd. -nods-
This is assuming that another race, another species, another planet would have the same sense of morality that we do. There is no telling what their perception of right and wrong may be, or if they in fact even care about such things.