You are incorrect about the origin of prescription opiates in the US. A small portion of opiates prescribed are fully synthetic: methadone, pethidine, fentanyl are the only relevant ones. By volume of prescriptions as well as sheer number of products, opiates synthesized from poppy constituents (if not extracted directly from poppy) are way more: codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone,...
Letting cheaters continue to cheat if they decide to pay a fee would piss off the legit players way more than just deleting the accounts. Not that the cheaters would be cool with having to pay extra either.
When did you hit 40? It might just be the job market going to shit. It dropped off the first big cliff in the dot-com boom, and it dropped of a second, arguably bigger cliff in the banking crisis.
Deleted my Facebook account in January (after 6 months of not using it, to be sure I wouldn't become a quit-and-return) and haven't looked back.
Had to do literally 10 captchas (not because I failed, but because they make you jump through 10 of them) and click through pages and pages of warnings for them to tell me they'll delete my account in a week or two... that's AFTER finding the deletion link, which I didn't even get through their site, but had to Google for. Delete now before they just take away the option altogether.
The top three reasons are application support, application support, and application support. Things like video games and production-grade multimedia software are the big ones, but you also have a lot of lower profile programs that are highly specialized and will only run on Windows. Hardware support is an issue too. Not as much as it was 10 or 15 years ago, but you still can't pull any random peripheral off the shelf and be confident it works in Linux without checking. Even components that do technically function will have power management issues, which can range anywhere in severity from "minor annoyance" to "complete showstopper" for laptops.
Somehow, I think that if MS started using a more Apple-like release schedule where support for old systems might get dropped 18 months after release, people would scream bloody murder... and if you want something more like Linux's rolling releases, why not just use Linux? One of the main selling points of Windows has historically been backwards compatibility. In some scenarios that matters, in some it doesn't. Look at your needs and pick the OS that fits.
"Presence" is an illusion that is no sturdier than your suspension-of-disbelief when watching a movie. Higher resolutions can make a prettier experience, but they will not improve "presence".
From a functional perspective, not much. You can go faster on many roads, it's less likely to break down. You plug it into a charger instead of a pump to fuel it up. That's about it.
This is great news for me, in a few weeks I'll be trying to run this on a GTX 275 (once the torrents clear up - fakes weeded out, latest-patch versions get well-seeded, copyright-notice attention dies down). This year I encountered the first game it's had trouble running on default settings, which was Wolfenstein: The New Order. Which did run smoothly on low settings. Rockstar has a frankly shitty track record of PC games, so I was still worried despite my card's demonstrated competence. But this post has given me hope that it will run acceptably.
I'm not sure that this would work, charging for restroom use is not a thing in the USA. Even in a big city they'd just find the nearest Taco Bell or gas station and shit there. There's a reason why they're called "gas stations"...
Is the Model M a ps/2 keyboard? If so, have you had trouble finding a computer to plug it into? (Serious questions, the last computer I built in 2007 has PS/2 ports but I don't know about the market today.)
Google Fights are not a valid method of research. If you look at the actual statistics of gender reassignment surgery, there are greater numbers of MTF transsexuals than FTM transsexuals. Of course, it would be a mistake to attribute this entirely to how men are treated - I think that's a part of it, but there's also the fact that the two surgical procedures aren't equally difficult, or have equally successful outcomes. Not to mention a bunch of other psychological factors. Transgenderism is at its core a psychological issue, despite the accepted narrative being that it is a "gender issue", as if gender and psychology are unrelated. The "LGBTQ" alphabet soup is a convenient way to group various political issues together and push through legislation regarding it (legislation I mostly approve of) but equating sexual attraction to a specific gender with the desire to become another gender is a huge mistake.
"STEM" also means a hell of a lot of things, many of which these days do not equate to money. The politicians talk about "STEM" because they know you equate that with researchers, startup executives, or at worst hotshot sysadmins. Think more like Geek Squad, and tech support.
how do you think Google maps have declined over the past decade?
(1)There is no longer a clear way to go between Street View and the normal view ,
(2) Buttons that used to be clearly labelled with text (like "Link" to get a shortened link URL) are now esoteric icons that give no indication as to what they do until you click them,
(3) Zooming behavior is pretty funky - when zooming, the maps at the new zoom level will load patchily or sometimes not load at all until you move to yet another zoom level.
For some people, 'politics' are 100% drive by religion, and are indistinguishable.
This deserves to be doubled. Think of the arrangement that the word "theocracy" was made to describe. In addition to the modern, primarily Islamic theocracies, you have even more examples going down through history. You even had transnational governing bodies like the Catholic church. Like the modern EU, Catholic rules applied to all "member states"... until some of those states got sufficiently pissed and formed, for example the Church of England... another example of the convergence of state and religion.
The UIs in 1997 were often better than the latest text-free tablet-oriented junk. Not sure about AOL specifically, since I never used it, but everything from Google maps to Windows to Office to video games have had regressions in UI over the past decade.
I have a 2001 Ranger and the key definitely costs triple digits to duplicate and includes the RFID-type chip. Of course this is the XLT model with automatic everything, the base models could be different.
I'm not sure about California, but going between Austin and Houston and New Orleans I'm able to drive 80 or 90 mph. (Posted speed limits are between 60 and 75, but we're talking actual speed not theoretical speed.) The roads would allow me to maintain a faster speed, but I don't go higher in the interest of fuel economy. If my car had a fifth gear to go into, I probably would.
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The southern border doesn't have much, but there are quite a few not-so-well-off countries to the north...
I'd tell you why it uses that motor... but then I'd have to kill you.
You are incorrect about the origin of prescription opiates in the US. A small portion of opiates prescribed are fully synthetic: methadone, pethidine, fentanyl are the only relevant ones. By volume of prescriptions as well as sheer number of products, opiates synthesized from poppy constituents (if not extracted directly from poppy) are way more: codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, ...
Letting cheaters continue to cheat if they decide to pay a fee would piss off the legit players way more than just deleting the accounts. Not that the cheaters would be cool with having to pay extra either.
November 2004 is when the open beta started I believe, and the "final" version (not including all the subsequent updates) was a month later.
When did you hit 40? It might just be the job market going to shit. It dropped off the first big cliff in the dot-com boom, and it dropped of a second, arguably bigger cliff in the banking crisis.
Deleted my Facebook account in January (after 6 months of not using it, to be sure I wouldn't become a quit-and-return) and haven't looked back.
Had to do literally 10 captchas (not because I failed, but because they make you jump through 10 of them) and click through pages and pages of warnings for them to tell me they'll delete my account in a week or two... that's AFTER finding the deletion link, which I didn't even get through their site, but had to Google for. Delete now before they just take away the option altogether.
The top three reasons are application support, application support, and application support. Things like video games and production-grade multimedia software are the big ones, but you also have a lot of lower profile programs that are highly specialized and will only run on Windows. Hardware support is an issue too. Not as much as it was 10 or 15 years ago, but you still can't pull any random peripheral off the shelf and be confident it works in Linux without checking. Even components that do technically function will have power management issues, which can range anywhere in severity from "minor annoyance" to "complete showstopper" for laptops.
Somehow, I think that if MS started using a more Apple-like release schedule where support for old systems might get dropped 18 months after release, people would scream bloody murder... and if you want something more like Linux's rolling releases, why not just use Linux? One of the main selling points of Windows has historically been backwards compatibility. In some scenarios that matters, in some it doesn't. Look at your needs and pick the OS that fits.
Pipes and cigarettes aren't typically tapered in the manner of a joint (and these turbines).
And yes, Slashdot is a bunch of potheads. Smoke weed every day!
"Presence" is an illusion that is no sturdier than your suspension-of-disbelief when watching a movie. Higher resolutions can make a prettier experience, but they will not improve "presence".
From a functional perspective, not much. You can go faster on many roads, it's less likely to break down. You plug it into a charger instead of a pump to fuel it up. That's about it.
This is great news for me, in a few weeks I'll be trying to run this on a GTX 275 (once the torrents clear up - fakes weeded out, latest-patch versions get well-seeded, copyright-notice attention dies down). This year I encountered the first game it's had trouble running on default settings, which was Wolfenstein: The New Order. Which did run smoothly on low settings. Rockstar has a frankly shitty track record of PC games, so I was still worried despite my card's demonstrated competence. But this post has given me hope that it will run acceptably.
I'm not sure that this would work, charging for restroom use is not a thing in the USA. Even in a big city they'd just find the nearest Taco Bell or gas station and shit there. There's a reason why they're called "gas stations"...
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Is the Model M a ps/2 keyboard? If so, have you had trouble finding a computer to plug it into? (Serious questions, the last computer I built in 2007 has PS/2 ports but I don't know about the market today.)
Google Fights are not a valid method of research. If you look at the actual statistics of gender reassignment surgery, there are greater numbers of MTF transsexuals than FTM transsexuals. Of course, it would be a mistake to attribute this entirely to how men are treated - I think that's a part of it, but there's also the fact that the two surgical procedures aren't equally difficult, or have equally successful outcomes. Not to mention a bunch of other psychological factors. Transgenderism is at its core a psychological issue, despite the accepted narrative being that it is a "gender issue", as if gender and psychology are unrelated. The "LGBTQ" alphabet soup is a convenient way to group various political issues together and push through legislation regarding it (legislation I mostly approve of) but equating sexual attraction to a specific gender with the desire to become another gender is a huge mistake.
"STEM" also means a hell of a lot of things, many of which these days do not equate to money. The politicians talk about "STEM" because they know you equate that with researchers, startup executives, or at worst hotshot sysadmins. Think more like Geek Squad, and tech support.
Just be sure you don't get the Iggy Azalea Freestyle Machine, they're terrible. Try to brew way too fast than they can manage.
how do you think Google maps have declined over the past decade?
(1)There is no longer a clear way to go between Street View and the normal view
, (2) Buttons that used to be clearly labelled with text (like "Link" to get a shortened link URL) are now esoteric icons that give no indication as to what they do until you click them,
(3) Zooming behavior is pretty funky - when zooming, the maps at the new zoom level will load patchily or sometimes not load at all until you move to yet another zoom level.
What then is a true quantum computer?
For some people, 'politics' are 100% drive by religion, and are indistinguishable.
This deserves to be doubled. Think of the arrangement that the word "theocracy" was made to describe. In addition to the modern, primarily Islamic theocracies, you have even more examples going down through history. You even had transnational governing bodies like the Catholic church. Like the modern EU, Catholic rules applied to all "member states"... until some of those states got sufficiently pissed and formed, for example the Church of England... another example of the convergence of state and religion.
The UIs in 1997 were often better than the latest text-free tablet-oriented junk. Not sure about AOL specifically, since I never used it, but everything from Google maps to Windows to Office to video games have had regressions in UI over the past decade.
I have a 2001 Ranger and the key definitely costs triple digits to duplicate and includes the RFID-type chip. Of course this is the XLT model with automatic everything, the base models could be different.
I'm not sure about California, but going between Austin and Houston and New Orleans I'm able to drive 80 or 90 mph. (Posted speed limits are between 60 and 75, but we're talking actual speed not theoretical speed.) The roads would allow me to maintain a faster speed, but I don't go higher in the interest of fuel economy. If my car had a fifth gear to go into, I probably would.