I left out that part, sorry. Yes, the correlation is between having asthma and the ability to hear higher frequencies, specifically 12-20 kHz. The study is pretty old ('70s), but I haven't seen anything refuting it (not that I've looked).
The old 60Hz CRTs would do this to me. Apparently it's pretty common among asthmatics to be able to hear the high pitched whine of a CRT. I could tell from the sound upon entering a room if the TV/monitor was on and just black, or if it was actually off. I used to think I was just crazy, until another nerdy guy had the same problem.
Also, I found that if I got headaches from looking at a screen (especially if it was mostly white), I could fix it by upping the refresh rate to something that wasn't the same as the frequency of the power grid (or a harmonic thereof). I think it had something to do with the flicker of the lights in the room being in or out of phase with the refresh rate of the screen. Never had the equipment to analyze it better.
It's not so bad now that flat screens are the norm, although now I find myself needing glasses. Probably just getting too damn old.
A little further off-topic, but you mention the sonic stinger. Is there any evidence of low frequencies causing similar symptoms? There's a public facility I visit on a regular basis, and their A/C unit causes one of the rooms to rumble at about 4 or 5 Hz. Obviously too low to "hear" but I can feel it when it kicks on, and I get nauseous shortly thereafter. Who knows?
In all fairness, the USPTO hasn't granted the Halliburton one. But the fact that somebody would even try that is unspeakable. As for IBM, it even calls out patents in the abstract. WTF?! Fortunately it only claims patent trolling on a computer.
Yeah. It's not like America has ever allowed huddled masses from countries experiencing tyranny, violence, famine, poverty, etc. to come into this country yearning to be free. Why should we start now?!
I guess we'll need to give France their statue back.
There's an idea! Just tell RIAA and MPAA that the t'rists are also PIRATES!!!1 Oh NOES!eleven! Then the full might of the world police (fuck yeah) will be upon them.
Leave it to Disney to take a franchise and license it for everything from toothpaste to cell phone ads. They really know how to whore out a movie. Long gone are the days when the worst you would see was a Happy Meal and some action figures. At least the Lego sets are still awesome.
You're telling me they put ads in a game that costs sixty dollars?! Sorry, I haven't played on any of the most recent generations of consoles, so I find this a little appalling (if not surprising). Or are you speaking in generalities?
If I pay $0.00 for a game, I have no beef with ads. Somewhere between free and 99c I go from "sure why not" to "holy motherfucking christ why are these cocksuckers wasting my life with ads!!!!" I suspect it's somewhere around 3.2 cents.
It's a pity NPR has such a negative rep in my neck of the woods. If people would only listen to it, they would hear that it's clearly about as balanced as reporting can get. They frequently lob softballs at Republicans for fear of being accused of being on a witch hunt. I don't know why they bother; the average redneck can't tell the difference between Pacifica Radio and All Things Considered anyway.
I've never had mealworms, but waxworms are delicious. Similar flavor to the lychee fruit. Unfortunately, the wax moth would be a lot harder to deal with than the darkling beetle. So I don't think it would work for a getup like this.
One surprise to me was that many of them were peasants and dumb as dirt. All they really wanted to do was drink and have sex with anyone. No idea how they got over here; they probably didn't know either. So much for stereotypes.
I guess the best way to combat stereotypes is with a new, funnier stereotype!
I've never really understood that either. I have a buddy with security clearance. The FBI interviews me every so often about him. It's always the same stupid questions. The funny thing is, I only see him a few times a year, since we live in different towns. So he could be a complete lunatic 90% of the time, and I'd never know it.
That was very well said. Too many people try something once and decide it's not for them. One of the things my kids have discovered is that things that they didn't like a year ago, they like now. And vice versa. Stuff they used to love, they have lost the taste for.
Of the three vegans I've known, only one of them knew enough about nutrition to keep herself healthy. It isn't a trivial thing to get all the right kinds of protein into a meatless diet.
One of the other lies vegans tell themselves is that no animals died for their food. That's simply foolish. Unless you made it yourself in your own backyard, it's a safe bet that millions of insects and thousands of vertebrate pests were MURDERED for you to eat your "vegan" salad. That doesn't even include the fish that die from pesticide runoff or birds that die from eating pesticide coated insects.
On the other hand, being a vegetarian has a much lower carbon footprint than being a carnivore. So there's more to it than just considering the animals.
By golly my daughter's applesauce pouch and baby wipes sure got me in trouble. You would have thought I was Osama bin Laden himself the way I was treated. The TSA at IAH terminal A has got to be the shittiest bunch of megalomaniacs in the nation. I've flown all over the place, and by far these guys were the worst. Tulsa, LAX, Atlanta, DC, Denver, Phoenix, Honolulu, even the other terminals of IAH. I've never had problems like I did there. Lines were almost an hour long, and the screeners were clearly not looking for weapons or explosives. They were just trying to agitate as many passengers as possible. Complete insanity. I wonder if they have a minimum number of reports they have to file, so they just try to get people to do something stupid.
women acting irrationally because they are menstruating.
This is not a "lame trope," it is a fairly reasonable generalization. If you are married, or have spent any length of time with women, you have witnessed it firsthand. Look, if your body was trying to destroy a part of itself from the inside, you probably would have a bad temper, too. I'll probably get modded as flamebait for this one, but most (like 90%) of my friends growing up were girls. Even the biggest brainiac nerdy chick would go completely apeshit for a few days. It's part of life. You just give them space, and be a grown up about it.
Also, the thing about men thinking with their dicks is true for most of us. That doesn't make it a bad thing. It's just how we evolved. Luckily, most of us have learned how to be polite and respectful of others, so we maintain a level of decorum in public (this post to the contrary).
Ah. I didn't realize that was a thing. So there's somebody keeping score of this stuff? Is it there a clearinghouse for people's scores? As I mentioned in response to the troll below, I'm a strictly industrial guy. For us it's more about showing off technologies and explaining why customers' current ways of doing things aren't that great. It's still scientific research, but the motivation is probably different.
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I left out that part, sorry. Yes, the correlation is between having asthma and the ability to hear higher frequencies, specifically 12-20 kHz. The study is pretty old ('70s), but I haven't seen anything refuting it (not that I've looked).
Oh. I thought you were just going to leave a case of bottles out in the sun. EM is EM, right?
The old 60Hz CRTs would do this to me. Apparently it's pretty common among asthmatics to be able to hear the high pitched whine of a CRT. I could tell from the sound upon entering a room if the TV/monitor was on and just black, or if it was actually off. I used to think I was just crazy, until another nerdy guy had the same problem.
Also, I found that if I got headaches from looking at a screen (especially if it was mostly white), I could fix it by upping the refresh rate to something that wasn't the same as the frequency of the power grid (or a harmonic thereof). I think it had something to do with the flicker of the lights in the room being in or out of phase with the refresh rate of the screen. Never had the equipment to analyze it better.
It's not so bad now that flat screens are the norm, although now I find myself needing glasses. Probably just getting too damn old.
A little further off-topic, but you mention the sonic stinger. Is there any evidence of low frequencies causing similar symptoms? There's a public facility I visit on a regular basis, and their A/C unit causes one of the rooms to rumble at about 4 or 5 Hz. Obviously too low to "hear" but I can feel it when it kicks on, and I get nauseous shortly thereafter. Who knows?
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In all fairness, the USPTO hasn't granted the Halliburton one. But the fact that somebody would even try that is unspeakable. As for IBM, it even calls out patents in the abstract. WTF?! Fortunately it only claims patent trolling on a computer.
Yeah. It's not like America has ever allowed huddled masses from countries experiencing tyranny, violence, famine, poverty, etc. to come into this country yearning to be free. Why should we start now?!
I guess we'll need to give France their statue back.
There's an idea! Just tell RIAA and MPAA that the t'rists are also PIRATES!!!1 Oh NOES!eleven! Then the full might of the world police (fuck yeah) will be upon them.
Oh how I wish that were a joke. Even my Republican friends are like, "Oh crap, maybe we shouldn't have elected $latest_whackadoo_to_make_the_news$"
Take me to your lizard!!
Hell, that's possibly the best argument in opposition to Unicode on Slashdot I've ever read!!
Leave it to Disney to take a franchise and license it for everything from toothpaste to cell phone ads. They really know how to whore out a movie. Long gone are the days when the worst you would see was a Happy Meal and some action figures. At least the Lego sets are still awesome.
You're telling me they put ads in a game that costs sixty dollars?! Sorry, I haven't played on any of the most recent generations of consoles, so I find this a little appalling (if not surprising). Or are you speaking in generalities?
If I pay $0.00 for a game, I have no beef with ads. Somewhere between free and 99c I go from "sure why not" to "holy motherfucking christ why are these cocksuckers wasting my life with ads!!!!" I suspect it's somewhere around 3.2 cents.
It's a pity NPR has such a negative rep in my neck of the woods. If people would only listen to it, they would hear that it's clearly about as balanced as reporting can get. They frequently lob softballs at Republicans for fear of being accused of being on a witch hunt. I don't know why they bother; the average redneck can't tell the difference between Pacifica Radio and All Things Considered anyway.
I've never had mealworms, but waxworms are delicious. Similar flavor to the lychee fruit. Unfortunately, the wax moth would be a lot harder to deal with than the darkling beetle. So I don't think it would work for a getup like this.
One surprise to me was that many of them were peasants and dumb as dirt. All they really wanted to do was drink and have sex with anyone. No idea how they got over here; they probably didn't know either. So much for stereotypes.
I guess the best way to combat stereotypes is with a new, funnier stereotype!
Assuming there was something wrong with you and you were home-schooled, you'd still take the same exams.
I don't understand your meaning. In the UK is there normally something wrong with home-schooled kids?
I've never really understood that either. I have a buddy with security clearance. The FBI interviews me every so often about him. It's always the same stupid questions. The funny thing is, I only see him a few times a year, since we live in different towns. So he could be a complete lunatic 90% of the time, and I'd never know it.
That was very well said. Too many people try something once and decide it's not for them. One of the things my kids have discovered is that things that they didn't like a year ago, they like now. And vice versa. Stuff they used to love, they have lost the taste for.
Actually, a pound and a half of kidney beans for a whole day doesn't sound too bad. I'm a little surprised.
Of the three vegans I've known, only one of them knew enough about nutrition to keep herself healthy. It isn't a trivial thing to get all the right kinds of protein into a meatless diet.
One of the other lies vegans tell themselves is that no animals died for their food. That's simply foolish. Unless you made it yourself in your own backyard, it's a safe bet that millions of insects and thousands of vertebrate pests were MURDERED for you to eat your "vegan" salad. That doesn't even include the fish that die from pesticide runoff or birds that die from eating pesticide coated insects.
On the other hand, being a vegetarian has a much lower carbon footprint than being a carnivore. So there's more to it than just considering the animals.
Yeah! That darn Democrat George W. Bush!!
By golly my daughter's applesauce pouch and baby wipes sure got me in trouble. You would have thought I was Osama bin Laden himself the way I was treated. The TSA at IAH terminal A has got to be the shittiest bunch of megalomaniacs in the nation. I've flown all over the place, and by far these guys were the worst. Tulsa, LAX, Atlanta, DC, Denver, Phoenix, Honolulu, even the other terminals of IAH. I've never had problems like I did there. Lines were almost an hour long, and the screeners were clearly not looking for weapons or explosives. They were just trying to agitate as many passengers as possible. Complete insanity. I wonder if they have a minimum number of reports they have to file, so they just try to get people to do something stupid.
I thought that story ended up being fake, and that some Han just decided to kill a couple of Uighurs over some stupid fight.
women acting irrationally because they are menstruating.
This is not a "lame trope," it is a fairly reasonable generalization. If you are married, or have spent any length of time with women, you have witnessed it firsthand. Look, if your body was trying to destroy a part of itself from the inside, you probably would have a bad temper, too. I'll probably get modded as flamebait for this one, but most (like 90%) of my friends growing up were girls. Even the biggest brainiac nerdy chick would go completely apeshit for a few days. It's part of life. You just give them space, and be a grown up about it.
Also, the thing about men thinking with their dicks is true for most of us. That doesn't make it a bad thing. It's just how we evolved. Luckily, most of us have learned how to be polite and respectful of others, so we maintain a level of decorum in public (this post to the contrary).
Ah. I didn't realize that was a thing. So there's somebody keeping score of this stuff? Is it there a clearinghouse for people's scores? As I mentioned in response to the troll below, I'm a strictly industrial guy. For us it's more about showing off technologies and explaining why customers' current ways of doing things aren't that great. It's still scientific research, but the motivation is probably different.