Also, if you're in a restaurant and you're choking to death, you can say the magic words, "Heimlich maneuver." If you're just coughing and got some, you say, "Heimlich maneuver," and all will be well. The trouble is, it's very difficult to say "Heimlich maneuver" when you're choking to death. Yeah.
( mumbling and coughing )
"Your hymen’s been removed?"
"No no. ( more mumbling and coughing )
"You need it removed? Right"
I don't know how you remove a hymen... But yeah. No, Heimlich maneuver,developed by Dr. Heimlich who woke up one night, obviously, and went,
"A fist, a hand, hoocha hoocha hoocha... lobster! Yes, Hilda! Hilda! Wake up, Hilda!"
"Oh, what is it, Dr. Heimlich?"
"Why are you calling me Dr. Heimlich? I'm you're husband, for fuck's sake! Loosen up, don't be so bloody Prussian."
"Well, what is it, Günther?"
"I have invented a maneuver!"
"What are you, a bloody tank commander now?"
"No! My name is going to be famous in restaurants!"
I don't think he actually did it that way. I don't think it was ( snaps fingers ) a wing and a prayer, I think he must have experimented. He was German, organized.
( German accent ) "Ok, Hans, I want you to swallow this golf ball..."
( choking and coughing ) “I cannot breath."
“I know you cannot breath. I will now make you breath with the cunning use of..." ( muffled shot)
“I still cannot breath."
"Ok, maybe not, maybe this will ( muffled shot )
“Jesus fucking Christ!”
"Ok, then maybe with a frying pan..." Pow!
( Hans coughing throughout, as Dr Heimlich smacks him )
"Must be a combination. No, ok "
"Ok, two frying pans Frying pan in the bollocks Bollocks stop
"Frying pan"
( Hans collapses to the floor )
"Oh, he's dead."
Other doctors are going,
"How's it coming along, Dr. Heimlich?"
"Well, not very well at the moment. It's not really a maneuver at the moment. It's more of a gesture."
"One would never leave a car parked at a gas station right at the pump and the same rule applies with Superchargers," read Tesla's announcement. How will one know that it's done and you need to scoot? Why, one will get an alert on one's phone, of course, via the Tesla app. One already does, in fact. So one never had any excuse.
I was just thinking that this "One" guy seems pretty jerky, but he could just be busy dealing with his alternate selves from the multiverse while his car is charging.
At the meeting, Trump introduced billionaire Wilbur Ross, his Commerce secretary pick, and Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn, his choice for director of the National Economic Council.
i mean technically if you overfill a swamp with foetid detritus...
Sounds like you're describing a bog - in more ways than one.
Get some perspective. Christ almighty you lefties are so full of hatred and anger that you can't even see straight.
Wait. Are you trying to be funny or ironic? Because there's been a LOT of hate and anger expressed this election cycle and it's been coming from Trump and his followers. Liberals are simply frightened about real damage the Trump administration, Republicans and Conservative with seriously backward, narrow-minded, phobic, agendas, could have. (You *know* I'm right about those things -- just look at Ohio's attempt to ban abortions at 6 weeks after conception.)
You know, just like the unrealistic fears and hysteria Conservatives had when Obama was elected - because he was black and "not an American".
Of course, perhaps everyone should just relax. So far Trump has backed out or reduced most of his campaign promises, so he'll probably flake on everything else too.
I'm sure the vehicle speed will be among the telemetry data, which will be so useful to LEOs - who will undoubtedly record your data. Why rely on radar when your vehicle will simply narc on you. Maybe some historical data will be available too, so they can nail you for speeding earlier.
Okay. How'd you do it and what do you do with your time? What are the things to look out for? I would seriously like to know. I'm 53, debt-free and financially independent. Not "fuck you" money, mind you, but enough to last me ~60 years on my current budget (plus discretionary allowances) -- not counting any future SSI or capital gains. I'm still working 3/4 to full time (by choice) but am thinking about a change.
As I posted above, I'm in this position because I was very happily married to a wonderful woman, who was 19 years older than me, for 20 years and we lived responsibly accounting for the fact that she would retire before me. Instead, she died, literally in my arms, of a brain tumor in Jan 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. I'm still a bit lost and without direction because she was all that really mattered... Remember Sue...
I've had people tell me for years the same thing: "If I had Bill Gates' money I'd quit working". Okay, then you would *never* get Bill Gates' money because you would quit long before you had billions of dollars.
But most of Bill Gates money came (comes) from his investments in Microsoft, not from salary, etc... so He could have quit whenever he wanted to and still made his billions. Same for many of the rich people mention in this thread.
My experience, at first was cool, it was something new. Quickly wore off, now I'm at the point where I only interact with family and 1 friend IRL and I find myself feeling deeply depressed. I have no goals, no motives, and that's just no life to live. I wake up feeling sad, like another day of nothing. I love going to sleep because I get a break from my boring life. I truly believe this experiment has left me with clinical depression. When I worked I was never this sad. Never was my sleep schedule so off when I worked.
I'm in a similar position, though not of my choosing, and completely understand what you mean. I'm 53, debt-free and financially independent for my current and foreseeable future (looking 50+years out) according to my budget, even without a job, so don't need to work. I still do work 3/4 to full time because I think I'd be bored and have also never been w/o a job. I'm in this position because I was very happily married to a wonderful woman, who was 19 years older than me, for 20 years and we lived responsibly accounting for the fact that she would retire before me. Instead, she died, literally in my arms, of a brain tumor in Jan 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. I'm still a bit lost and without direction because she was all that really mattered... The only thing I can really disagree with you is that my experience was never cool.
... when talking about the "too cool for school" crowd who refuse to learn new things...
I was also thinking, but didn't state clearly, of people that lack easy (easier) opportunity to learn new and/or different things. People getting by, working hard for less, may not be particularly able or enthusiastic about spending money or time they can ill afford in the short term for the benefit of the long(er) term. It's a tough needle to thread. Of course, this doesn't apply to those who had choices, chose poorly and are being left behind.
The kernel is only a very small part of systemd at this point. Nothing to get too worked up about now. Wait until kerneld and kernelctl get to version 1.0...
older people are harder to train and have a harder time learning new things.
Sweeping generalization, that may not even be true. I'm a 53 year old systems programmer and administrator and I learn new things all the time. I know plenty of older people that learn just as well, if not better, perhaps because of their experience, than younger people. One small study points out the following:
Older people may be able to learn more from visual information than their younger counterparts, according to a study published today in the journal Current Biology.
“The take-home message the study authors gave was that healthy older people are good at learning,” said Professor Henry Brodaty, co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW. “They have the same plasticity, but they’re not as good at filtering out other information.”
The brain needs to be able to easily learn new information (plasticity), and filter out irrelevant information (stability). The experiment was designed to test whether ageing affects the brain’s plasticity, stability, or both.
Of course, I imagine that mileage may vary - a lot. Perhaps people just learn different things in different ways and/or based on how it's taught. It's possible that people go into jobs based on how easily they learn the associated information and that it's switching the type of job that is the problem. Electrician to Tech Support rather than Electrician to Plumber.
Some, perhaps much, of what you say may be true, but I think you're painting with too wide a brush. I think Van Jones said it better on the Dec 5th episode of The Daily Show:
“You have a core of people who were actually delighted by some of those inflammatory comments,” Jones said of Trump supporters. “Those people, I would call bigots. But then there were the people who found Trump’s words distasteful, but not disqualifying, because they had so much other economic pain and problems that were not being talked to, and those were the people that cost us the election.”
On those who “felt that the elite had sold them down the river in both parties,” Jones admitted, “They weren’t wrong. We did not give them an opportunity to come to our side the way we should have.”
“Everybody that voted for Trump was not voting for every crazy thing he said,” Jones added, saying that many voters were “holding their noses” when they cast their ballots on both sides of the aisle. Because of that, he said he has faith that they will stand up to Trump if and when he tries to enact some of his more outrageous policies.
“Listen, Trump is much worse than anybody in this country is willing to accept,” he said, “but a lot of his voters are much better and I don’t want to give them away.”
I have friends currently taking entry level classes and the professor says the intro classes are designed to weed people out from going further and graduating...
All classes are designed to do that - you know: assignments, projects, tests, grades... Those that understand things continue; those that don't - don't.
Given that Trump is about to use the NSA to get back at people who have argued with him over the years it is hardly surprising that people are getting out before he gets inaugurated.
Luckily, we can just block the NSA on Twitter. Problem solved.
Say something that people agree with emotionally, not factually, get +5, and now everyone has this opinion reinforced. People on the fence are swayed because it was agreed with by at least 3 others. And the worst part, factual replies are buried because they have had less time to be moderated. So rebuttals don't appear as prominently.
And you just explained the Trump campaign and victory.
For example, fundamentally, both candidates agreed with rust belt voters that jobs were fewer and declining. Clinton told them about progress and that those jobs were probably gone for good, but they would get help learning and getting new jobs that would be better suited to the changing world. Trump blamed job losses on immigrants, greed and (in general) "others" and told them he would get their (same) jobs back. Clinton's statements are (probably) more based in reality, but Trump's makes people feel better - about themselves and their future - and reassures them that they just can keep going like before -- without having to learn new skills, get more education or be better prepared for the future. (I sympathize, but who among us here doesn't understand the need for continuing education and learning new, possibly different, skills to stay relevant in the workforce?)
Then, to digress a bit, Trump and Pence bribe Carrier with $7M (over 10 years) in tax breaks to save ~1000 jobs and the employees rejoice - ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
... given that among the authors of the Nature paper are R. C. Wolf and C. Biedermann.
Didn't those guys die in a car accident while frantically racing to report a comet that wouldn't impact for well over a year?
[ Truly, one of the dumbest moments in a movie full of dumb things. Though, I did enjoy: (a) Morgan Freeman's line, as the President, "Now, it may seem like we have each other over the same barrel, Ms Lerner, but it just seems that way." and (b) Téa Leoni's reaction when she figures out what E.L.E. means. ]
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The Heimlich Gesture
Also, if you're in a restaurant and you're choking to death, you can say the magic words, "Heimlich maneuver." If you're just coughing and got some, you say, "Heimlich maneuver," and all will be well. The trouble is, it's very difficult to say "Heimlich maneuver" when you're choking to death. Yeah.
( mumbling and coughing )
"Your hymen’s been removed?"
"No no. ( more mumbling and coughing )
"You need it removed? Right"
I don't know how you remove a hymen... But yeah. No, Heimlich maneuver,developed by Dr. Heimlich who woke up one night, obviously, and went,
"A fist, a hand, hoocha hoocha hoocha... lobster! Yes, Hilda! Hilda! Wake up, Hilda!"
"Oh, what is it, Dr. Heimlich?"
"Why are you calling me Dr. Heimlich? I'm you're husband, for fuck's sake! Loosen up, don't be so bloody Prussian."
"Well, what is it, Günther?"
"I have invented a maneuver!"
"What are you, a bloody tank commander now?"
"No! My name is going to be famous in restaurants!"
I don't think he actually did it that way. I don't think it was ( snaps fingers ) a wing and a prayer, I think he must have experimented. He was German, organized.
( German accent ) "Ok, Hans, I want you to swallow this golf ball..."
( choking and coughing ) “I cannot breath."
“I know you cannot breath. I will now make you breath with the cunning use of..." ( muffled shot)
“I still cannot breath."
"Ok, maybe not, maybe this will ( muffled shot )
“Jesus fucking Christ!”
"Ok, then maybe with a frying pan..." Pow!
( Hans coughing throughout, as Dr Heimlich smacks him )
"Must be a combination. No, ok "
"Ok, two frying pans Frying pan in the bollocks Bollocks stop
"Frying pan"
( Hans collapses to the floor )
"Oh, he's dead."
Other doctors are going,
"How's it coming along, Dr. Heimlich?"
"Well, not very well at the moment. It's not really a maneuver at the moment. It's more of a gesture."
So... they re-invented the chroot?
Sounds more like UnionFS.
"One would never leave a car parked at a gas station right at the pump and the same rule applies with Superchargers," read Tesla's announcement. How will one know that it's done and you need to scoot? Why, one will get an alert on one's phone, of course, via the Tesla app. One already does, in fact. So one never had any excuse.
I was just thinking that this "One" guy seems pretty jerky, but he could just be busy dealing with his alternate selves from the multiverse while his car is charging.
However, you should get legal advice from a lawyer, not from the internet.
You must be new. People get everything from the Internet now - dates, porn, news, fake news, etc...
Hell, people even try to get medical advice - on 4chan.
At the meeting, Trump introduced billionaire Wilbur Ross, his Commerce secretary pick, and Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn, his choice for director of the National Economic Council.
i mean technically if you overfill a swamp with foetid detritus ...
Sounds like you're describing a bog - in more ways than one.
Get some perspective. Christ almighty you lefties are so full of hatred and anger that you can't even see straight.
Wait. Are you trying to be funny or ironic? Because there's been a LOT of hate and anger expressed this election cycle and it's been coming from Trump and his followers. Liberals are simply frightened about real damage the Trump administration, Republicans and Conservative with seriously backward, narrow-minded, phobic, agendas, could have. (You *know* I'm right about those things -- just look at Ohio's attempt to ban abortions at 6 weeks after conception.)
You know, just like the unrealistic fears and hysteria Conservatives had when Obama was elected - because he was black and "not an American".
Of course, perhaps everyone should just relax. So far Trump has backed out or reduced most of his campaign promises, so he'll probably flake on everything else too.
... Go..ogle ...
The sexy version of the ancient Chinese board game that's exciting to watch.
I'm sure the vehicle speed will be among the telemetry data, which will be so useful to LEOs - who will undoubtedly record your data. Why rely on radar when your vehicle will simply narc on you. Maybe some historical data will be available too, so they can nail you for speeding earlier.
... and he occasionally writes here on reddit ...
Um, I know things have slipped a bit here in recent years, but this is actually /. :-)
[ But I wouldn't mind a link to some of his threads so I can read what he's written. ]
Whose going to retire in 20 or 30 years? We'll all be busy fighting over who runs Bartertown.
Years? Try ~30 *days* from now. :-)
Okay. How'd you do it and what do you do with your time? What are the things to look out for? I would seriously like to know. I'm 53, debt-free and financially independent. Not "fuck you" money, mind you, but enough to last me ~60 years on my current budget (plus discretionary allowances) -- not counting any future SSI or capital gains. I'm still working 3/4 to full time (by choice) but am thinking about a change.
As I posted above, I'm in this position because I was very happily married to a wonderful woman, who was 19 years older than me, for 20 years and we lived responsibly accounting for the fact that she would retire before me. Instead, she died, literally in my arms, of a brain tumor in Jan 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. I'm still a bit lost and without direction because she was all that really mattered... Remember Sue...
I wonder how many millionaire introverts spend their days posting on Slashdot
I hope that number is zero. There are zillions of better ways to spend your days in isolation. ;^)
At least one. But I don't post all or every day.
I've had people tell me for years the same thing: "If I had Bill Gates' money I'd quit working". Okay, then you would *never* get Bill Gates' money because you would quit long before you had billions of dollars.
But most of Bill Gates money came (comes) from his investments in Microsoft, not from salary, etc... so He could have quit whenever he wanted to and still made his billions. Same for many of the rich people mention in this thread.
My experience, at first was cool, it was something new. Quickly wore off, now I'm at the point where I only interact with family and 1 friend IRL and I find myself feeling deeply depressed. I have no goals, no motives, and that's just no life to live. I wake up feeling sad, like another day of nothing. I love going to sleep because I get a break from my boring life. I truly believe this experiment has left me with clinical depression. When I worked I was never this sad. Never was my sleep schedule so off when I worked.
I'm in a similar position, though not of my choosing, and completely understand what you mean. I'm 53, debt-free and financially independent for my current and foreseeable future (looking 50+years out) according to my budget, even without a job, so don't need to work. I still do work 3/4 to full time because I think I'd be bored and have also never been w/o a job. I'm in this position because I was very happily married to a wonderful woman, who was 19 years older than me, for 20 years and we lived responsibly accounting for the fact that she would retire before me. Instead, she died, literally in my arms, of a brain tumor in Jan 2006, just seven weeks after diagnosis. I'm still a bit lost and without direction because she was all that really mattered... The only thing I can really disagree with you is that my experience was never cool.
Remember Sue...
... when talking about the "too cool for school" crowd who refuse to learn new things ...
I was also thinking, but didn't state clearly, of people that lack easy (easier) opportunity to learn new and/or different things. People getting by, working hard for less, may not be particularly able or enthusiastic about spending money or time they can ill afford in the short term for the benefit of the long(er) term. It's a tough needle to thread. Of course, this doesn't apply to those who had choices, chose poorly and are being left behind.
You don't know what a kernel is, do you?
The kernel is only a very small part of systemd at this point. Nothing to get too worked up about now. Wait until kerneld and kernelctl get to version 1.0 ...
older people are harder to train and have a harder time learning new things.
Sweeping generalization, that may not even be true. I'm a 53 year old systems programmer and administrator and I learn new things all the time. I know plenty of older people that learn just as well, if not better, perhaps because of their experience, than younger people. One small study points out the following:
Older people may be able to learn more from visual information than their younger counterparts, according to a study published today in the journal Current Biology.
“The take-home message the study authors gave was that healthy older people are good at learning,” said Professor Henry Brodaty, co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW. “They have the same plasticity, but they’re not as good at filtering out other information.”
The brain needs to be able to easily learn new information (plasticity), and filter out irrelevant information (stability). The experiment was designed to test whether ageing affects the brain’s plasticity, stability, or both.
Of course, I imagine that mileage may vary - a lot. Perhaps people just learn different things in different ways and/or based on how it's taught. It's possible that people go into jobs based on how easily they learn the associated information and that it's switching the type of job that is the problem. Electrician to Tech Support rather than Electrician to Plumber.
Some, perhaps much, of what you say may be true, but I think you're painting with too wide a brush. I think Van Jones said it better on the Dec 5th episode of The Daily Show:
“You have a core of people who were actually delighted by some of those inflammatory comments,” Jones said of Trump supporters. “Those people, I would call bigots. But then there were the people who found Trump’s words distasteful, but not disqualifying, because they had so much other economic pain and problems that were not being talked to, and those were the people that cost us the election.”
On those who “felt that the elite had sold them down the river in both parties,” Jones admitted, “They weren’t wrong. We did not give them an opportunity to come to our side the way we should have.”
“Everybody that voted for Trump was not voting for every crazy thing he said,” Jones added, saying that many voters were “holding their noses” when they cast their ballots on both sides of the aisle. Because of that, he said he has faith that they will stand up to Trump if and when he tries to enact some of his more outrageous policies.
“Listen, Trump is much worse than anybody in this country is willing to accept,” he said, “but a lot of his voters are much better and I don’t want to give them away.”
I have friends currently taking entry level classes and the professor says the intro classes are designed to weed people out from going further and graduating ...
All classes are designed to do that - you know: assignments, projects, tests, grades... Those that understand things continue; those that don't - don't.
Given that Trump is about to use the NSA to get back at people who have argued with him over the years it is hardly surprising that people are getting out before he gets inaugurated.
Luckily, we can just block the NSA on Twitter. Problem solved.
Trump doesn't need the NSA. He just hired Santa, and Santa knows who's been naughty or nice.
Santa is a flying immigrant with a beard. He won't be allowed into the U.S. - duh.
Say something that people agree with emotionally, not factually, get +5, and now everyone has this opinion reinforced. People on the fence are swayed because it was agreed with by at least 3 others. And the worst part, factual replies are buried because they have had less time to be moderated. So rebuttals don't appear as prominently.
And you just explained the Trump campaign and victory.
For example, fundamentally, both candidates agreed with rust belt voters that jobs were fewer and declining. Clinton told them about progress and that those jobs were probably gone for good, but they would get help learning and getting new jobs that would be better suited to the changing world. Trump blamed job losses on immigrants, greed and (in general) "others" and told them he would get their (same) jobs back. Clinton's statements are (probably) more based in reality, but Trump's makes people feel better - about themselves and their future - and reassures them that they just can keep going like before -- without having to learn new skills, get more education or be better prepared for the future. (I sympathize, but who among us here doesn't understand the need for continuing education and learning new, possibly different, skills to stay relevant in the workforce?)
Then, to digress a bit, Trump and Pence bribe Carrier with $7M (over 10 years) in tax breaks to save ~1000 jobs and the employees rejoice - ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
If a company gets $1 when the taxpayers lose $1000, it's still pure profit.
Finally, a simple explanation for recent Trump/Pence and Carrier deal in Indiana.
... given that among the authors of the Nature paper are R. C. Wolf and C. Biedermann.
Didn't those guys die in a car accident while frantically racing to report a comet that wouldn't impact for well over a year?
[ Truly, one of the dumbest moments in a movie full of dumb things. Though, I did enjoy: (a) Morgan Freeman's line, as the President, "Now, it may seem like we have each other over the same barrel, Ms Lerner, but it just seems that way." and (b) Téa Leoni's reaction when she figures out what E.L.E. means. ]
Windscale in a milk pail. Chernobble in a bottle.
"Star In a Jar" sounds like a David Blaine stunt until you realize that it wouldn't meet most definitions of either "star" or "jar".