There was an advert for an Optical Express laser clinic, with a competition for free treatment, so I clicked. It's probably the only time I've ever clicked, and this was at work with no Ad-block installed.
Here, you've admitted to two newbie mistakes that culminate in your tale of woe.
Top of Slashdot today? Adverts for laser eye surgery at Optical Express.
These ads (and the attack/tracking vector they signify) will persist until you properly secure your browser.
In fact, every blinking website I visit at work is trying to show me adverts for Optical Express.
In Firefox, open about:config and set browser.blink_allowed to False. If the blinking continues, return to Optical Express and demand a refund.
Voting for a third party is voting for the guy you hate the most.
Only if one is voting from a swing state; if your state is historically/reliably loyal to D or R (at the exclusion of the other), voting third-party is a smart and responsible thing to do.
These three are the US master clock's stratum-1 servers. They most likely will not run out of bandwidth. The last one isn't (intended) for civilian users, so don't come to me if an aircraft carrier, F/A-18 Hornet, etc. smashes through your front door.
If someone attacks you, like in WWII, you go kick ass and then come home. Don't go around the world picking fights because sooner or later you're gonna meet something that's bigger than you. Friends come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. So don't accumulate enemies.
Analysts have said again and again that part of the terrorism problem was due to former antagonism by the U.S., [...]
I find it unlikely that sweeping changes to established US foreign policy would be undertaken without duress, never mind anyone in a position of influence conceding to this idea.
[...] and another large part due to simple failure of U.S. intelligence regarding the matter, over a decade or more.
The apparent solution to which consists, in part, of DHS, fusion centers, NSLs, misguided FBI stings of questionable efficacy, rampant increase in domestic surveillance, and the curtailment of guaranteed civil liberties.
I also highly recommend the 2008 doctoral thesis by Max Abrahms, entitled "What Terrorists Really Want". It is available for download with a bit of searching, and it is very enlightening.
Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...
Firstly, that sorry-looking excuse for a cheeseburger is an insult to human dignity. Poor kid's gonna need that stiff upper lip to bite into that son of a bitch as-is. If the time, effort, and expense is going to be put forth to make cheeseburgers, you put some ketchup, lettuce and onion on there at a bare minimum in order to normalize the flavor and provide a texture conducive to it being eaten, especially when the burgers are deployed on those nasty little miscible, hygroscopic buns, as opposed to proper rolls that can maintain cohesion while providing a dry, frictive containment/handling envelope.
Regarding healthfulness: Having done time as an American public school student, I could not care less about the healthfulness of kids' school lunch. Food safety is certainly of maximal importance. With that, lunchtime represents one half-hour or so break in dealing with eight hours of authoritarians, bullies, test-teaching, sport, and nowadays, police response to incidences of child behavior. Not unlike television in "correctional" facilities, the fat, salt, sugar and abundance of watt-seconds provided by school lunches are important for maintaining the mental well-being of students/inmates, and possibly the physical well-being of the employees. Allow me to spin this from another angle: The function of school lunch is to provide food kids will eat, not to assuage (what I sense to be) a misguided sense of guilt or wrongdoing by those of us funding/serving it.
[TFS] points out that the child is currently, after being homeschooled, a below average reader. That nugget of information makes it sound like the homeschoolers are not competent teachers, which asks the question "Why are they homeschooling"?
The submitter readily admits these shortcomings in the child's education, and no tutoring was mentioned. If I were to make an assumption, it might be that this is a low-income family with a sick child, trying to make the best of a bad situation. I'm not going to make any assumptions about the submitter's situation, however... I'll leave that to those who are apparently able to divine facts from missing/incomplete data.
More like disappointed. Despite being atheist, I find the idea of knowing the bible to be wholly inappropriate, especially if it's a library book. It's unsanitary, and it makes the pages stick together.
The most empirically supported type of talk therapy, CBT, is effective only in anxiety disorders.
I didn't know talking was involved... maybe screaming... but I figure for a lot of guys, you gotta be really fucking depressed before CBT starts to look like a cure.
This exhibit displays human remains of Chinese citizens or residents which were originally received by the Chinese Bureau of Police. The Chinese Bureau of Police may receive bodies from Chinese prisons. Premier cannot independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons.
You continue:
I'd say anybody who can't see a pretty clear difference between the two should probably spend a little quiet time reflecting on what intrinsic flaw they possess that makes them incapable of seeing a difference.
Maybe you should spend a little time verifying your claims and less time critiquing other peoples' supposed shortcomings.
Anti-virus software companies need to acquire, profile, and create removal code for new threats before they can do much to mitigate it. Now obviously, that's going to take genuine time and effort in cases where they didn't write the virus themselves.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator. The first time I heard one in an office I was amazed at how quite it was.
A HEPAair cleaner is a smart replacement for an electromechanical white-noise generator, performing an added useful function upon the air its moving, and improving the service life/reliability of lungs and electronic/electromechanical.devices. They are rated in the June, 2012 issue of Consumer Reports.
Chris Liebing releases a 1-2hr track by different artists, (himself included) every Monday, all mostly similar to the schranz genre he's known for. He talks for a moment at the beginning, midpoint and end. Registration was recently mandated, which I avoid by downloading directly from the release directory; just decrement/increment the 000-padded release number for past/future releases. The current track is http://daten.clr.net/pod/CLRSR170.mp3
One of the artists featured on CLR, Speedy-J, has a page on SoundCloud* with seven lengthy single-track sets available for direct-download. The nine-hour 2010 NYC set is particularly good, though it takes a while to get going; the intro is a good thirty minutes long. =)
Ektoplazm features hundreds of full-CDs, all immediately and freely downloadable as MP3, FLAC and/or WAV, as well as streamed. Most electronica genres are represented here.
* SoundCloud is a good source of truly free music of all genres, though I can't speak to the quality of non-electronic genres. I have no qualms about file-sharing copyrighted works, but I find it fortunate that RIAA seems to have a particular disinterest in electronic music, though not for lack of its available quantity or quality.
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There was an advert for an Optical Express laser clinic, with a competition for free treatment, so I clicked. It's probably the only time I've ever clicked, and this was at work with no Ad-block installed.
Here, you've admitted to two newbie mistakes that culminate in your tale of woe.
Top of Slashdot today? Adverts for laser eye surgery at Optical Express.
These ads (and the attack/tracking vector they signify) will persist until you properly secure your browser.
In fact, every blinking website I visit at work is trying to show me adverts for Optical Express.
In Firefox, open about:config and set browser.blink_allowed to False . If the blinking continues, return to Optical Express and demand a refund.
I'm sure it must happen to everyone, everywhere.
I assure you, that is not the case.
[I]t's still full price for the popcorn with genuine simulated butter kinda-sorta-flavored grease which puts you in mind of melted crayons
The "butter" flavor is already there in that salty yellow powder. The "butter" that's applied when you request butter is simply heated canola oil.
Minion level cards do not get access to the second-floor gym or the breakroom, but can still use the reference library. Take advantage of it!
If you think I'm going to climb a flight of stairs to get to a gymnasium, you're out of your damn mind.
Voting for a third party is voting for the guy you hate the most.
Only if one is voting from a swing state; if your state is historically/reliably loyal to D or R (at the exclusion of the other), voting third-party is a smart and responsible thing to do.
These three are the US master clock's stratum-1 servers. They most likely will not run out of bandwidth. The last one isn't (intended) for civilian users, so don't come to me if an aircraft carrier, F/A-18 Hornet, etc. smashes through your front door.
tick.usno.navy.mil
tock.usno.navy.mil
ntp.usno.navy.mil
More information.
The real crime here is that Tetris is still protected under copyright.
Yes, but have a bomb-repelling rock that protects me when I walk down a crowded city street, so I'm only concerned when I get on an airplane....
Lisa, ...
Hey kids, want to hear how Cancer Man got bitten by a radioactive spider?
I thought Cancer Man was burned by a pissed-off dragon...
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tickling_the_Dragons_Tail
What's with the DEC logo?
If someone attacks you, like in WWII, you go kick ass and then come home. Don't go around the world picking fights because sooner or later you're gonna meet something that's bigger than you. Friends come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. So don't accumulate enemies.
Well said. Here is an interesting and disheartening partial diagram of USA's worldwide mischief: http://killinghope.org/images/interventions_map.png
Analysts have said again and again that part of the terrorism problem was due to former antagonism by the U.S., [...]
I find it unlikely that sweeping changes to established US foreign policy would be undertaken without duress, never mind anyone in a position of influence conceding to this idea.
[...] and another large part due to simple failure of U.S. intelligence regarding the matter, over a decade or more.
The apparent solution to which consists, in part, of DHS, fusion centers, NSLs, misguided FBI stings of questionable efficacy, rampant increase in domestic surveillance, and the curtailment of guaranteed civil liberties.
I also highly recommend the 2008 doctoral thesis by Max Abrahms, entitled "What Terrorists Really Want". It is available for download with a bit of searching, and it is very enlightening.
Thanks for the recommendation.
http://aa.usembassy.or.kr/jun2008/in20.pdf is a good copy. At least one other copy online is of very poor (OCR-resisted, raster) quality.
Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...
Firstly, that sorry-looking excuse for a cheeseburger is an insult to human dignity. Poor kid's gonna need that stiff upper lip to bite into that son of a bitch as-is. If the time, effort, and expense is going to be put forth to make cheeseburgers, you put some ketchup, lettuce and onion on there at a bare minimum in order to normalize the flavor and provide a texture conducive to it being eaten, especially when the burgers are deployed on those nasty little miscible, hygroscopic buns, as opposed to proper rolls that can maintain cohesion while providing a dry, frictive containment/handling envelope.
Regarding healthfulness: Having done time as an American public school student, I could not care less about the healthfulness of kids' school lunch. Food safety is certainly of maximal importance. With that, lunchtime represents one half-hour or so break in dealing with eight hours of authoritarians, bullies, test-teaching, sport, and nowadays, police response to incidences of child behavior. Not unlike television in "correctional" facilities, the fat, salt, sugar and abundance of watt-seconds provided by school lunches are important for maintaining the mental well-being of students/inmates, and possibly the physical well-being of the employees. Allow me to spin this from another angle: The function of school lunch is to provide food kids will eat, not to assuage (what I sense to be) a misguided sense of guilt or wrongdoing by those of us funding/serving it.
[TFS] points out that the child is currently, after being homeschooled, a below average reader. That nugget of information makes it sound like the homeschoolers are not competent teachers, which asks the question "Why are they homeschooling"?
The submitter readily admits these shortcomings in the child's education, and no tutoring was mentioned. If I were to make an assumption, it might be that this is a low-income family with a sick child, trying to make the best of a bad situation. I'm not going to make any assumptions about the submitter's situation, however... I'll leave that to those who are apparently able to divine facts from missing/incomplete data.
My early chemistry researches were finding household chemicals that could blow things up. I found them. YMMV
Yes. Unfortunately, a lot of households these days lack basic essentials like aluminum and iron oxide powders, and magnesium ribbon.
Optimal firing solution computed: https://alphachemicals.com/products
And I knew the Bible, too.
u mad?
More like disappointed. Despite being atheist, I find the idea of knowing the bible to be wholly inappropriate, especially if it's a library book. It's unsanitary, and it makes the pages stick together.
After the first line of your post, I'm rather dismayed that the link you provided didn't start, "https://" ... :(
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The most empirically supported type of talk therapy, CBT, is effective only in anxiety disorders.
I didn't know talking was involved... maybe screaming... but I figure for a lot of guys, you gotta be really fucking depressed before CBT starts to look like a cure.
SSRIs are garbage compared to tricyclics. Everyone I know for whom SSRIs have failed, has had success with tricyclics.
I feel your pain, brother. This post seems to be the most comprehensive, quoting a good bus analogy by someone claiming to have RTFA. ;o)
The BODIES museum [...] uses bodies which are donated to science, through a conscious decision by the owner of the body [...]
From http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/newyork/disclaimer.html:
This exhibit displays human remains of Chinese citizens or residents which were originally received by the Chinese Bureau of Police. The Chinese Bureau of Police may receive bodies from Chinese prisons. Premier cannot independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons.
You continue:
I'd say anybody who can't see a pretty clear difference between the two should probably spend a little quiet time reflecting on what intrinsic flaw they possess that makes them incapable of seeing a difference.
Maybe you should spend a little time verifying your claims and less time critiquing other peoples' supposed shortcomings.
Anti-virus software companies need to acquire, profile, and create removal code for new threats before they can do much to mitigate it. Now obviously, that's going to take genuine time and effort in cases where they didn't write the virus themselves.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator. The first time I heard one in an office I was amazed at how quite it was.
A HEPA air cleaner is a smart replacement for an electromechanical white-noise generator, performing an added useful function upon the air its moving, and improving the service life/reliability of lungs and electronic/electromechanical.devices. They are rated in the June, 2012 issue of Consumer Reports.
And it is doubly important when you're working in a bullpen with a bunch of over-caffeinated, Asperger-ish software engineers.
My god, man! Never mind the noise, I'd demand hazard pay for working in a bullpen! Do they at least have marshmallows on the tips of their horns?
Chris Liebing releases a 1-2hr track by different artists, (himself included) every Monday, all mostly similar to the schranz genre he's known for. He talks for a moment at the beginning, midpoint and end. Registration was recently mandated, which I avoid by downloading directly from the release directory; just decrement/increment the 000-padded release number for past/future releases. The current track is http://daten.clr.net/pod/CLRSR170.mp3
One of the artists featured on CLR, Speedy-J, has a page on SoundCloud* with seven lengthy single-track sets available for direct-download. The nine-hour 2010 NYC set is particularly good, though it takes a while to get going; the intro is a good thirty minutes long. =)
Ektoplazm features hundreds of full-CDs, all immediately and freely downloadable as MP3, FLAC and/or WAV, as well as streamed. Most electronica genres are represented here.
* SoundCloud is a good source of truly free music of all genres, though I can't speak to the quality of non-electronic genres. I have no qualms about file-sharing copyrighted works, but I find it fortunate that RIAA seems to have a particular disinterest in electronic music, though not for lack of its available quantity or quality.
What is a "hayseed bank"?
Rural sperm bank.