I tend to agree. If I'm remembering my biology correctly, fear in animals typically invokes the 'fight or flight' response. If faced with a dangerous situation and you neither fight or flee, then you're like the deer in the road that stares mesmerized by the truck headlights until he's splattered all over the hood. So yeah, most times fear is a good thing.
OTOH, I have a pretty acute case of acrophobia and would love to be rid of it. I'm wondering (didn't RTFA) if this can be designed to target certain fear centers, or just all fear in general.
If the delivery system is a can of Reddy Whip, I can tell you from experience that it works. Well, actually not me, but I knew these guys in school that used to sneak in the cafeteria cooler...
I don't know if your comment is a troll or not, but I'll bite anyway. Travel to Cuba is strictly limited under US law. The laws were created under authority granted to the President's office via the 'Trading with the Enemy' act. You must obtain a license in order to travel Cuba legally. Licenses are only granted for scientific, educational, humanitarian and family visit puroses. More detail on the current law and it's history is here http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/87354. pdf (pdf warning). I'm not evoking boogeymen, but simply pointing out that a lot of posts here indicate a cavalier attitude towards travel to Cuba which is unwise if you live in the US.
A friend of mine (yeah, like I'm gonna post his peronal data on/.) travelled to Cuba via the Dominican Republic nearly 2 years ago. The State Department found out about it and he was fined over $1,700. That's a pretty hefty vacation tax. Bring back a couple of Cuban cigars and most likely, no one's going to notice it. Try bringing back a case and, at best it can be confiscated. At worst, you're looking at potential fines and prosecution. Like I said, the Customs and Homeland Security folks take their jobs pretty seriously.
That's one of the most insightful posts I've seen on this topic.
Why aren't the many thousand's of naturalized chinese in the US screaming for an embargo against their homeland? Probably because they realize that it really harms the innocent while it benefits neither side. I wish the Cuban exile community saw it this way. But as many have said already, Big Sugar also has a lot to do with the continued embargo.
Point taken on Viet Nam, but we never officially warred with Cuba either.
I mentioned the Cuban exiles, but one thing I forgot to mention is 'Big Sugar'. The cane sugar industry in the southeast and particularly in Florida is, for the most part, tightly held by a few very wealthy and influential parties. But it is a huge and powerful industry with tremendous political clout. They have absoluetly no desire to see cheap Cuban sugar dumped on US markets so that they can continue to keep their sugar prices artificially high. (This amounts to a defacto subsidy for US Sugar BTW and is kind of a hidden tax on every sugar consumer.)
IMHO, the embargo continues only because of these interests and those of the exiles.
Then you have the problem of proving their authenticity. Where I live it's close to the Carribean and there are already a ton of counterfeit made cojibas floating around, usually made in the Dominican Republic. Interestingly, the government doesn't pursue these counterfeiters very vigorously, probably because they think it just hurts Cuba.
Back on topic though, the blockade is stupid and should have been lifted years ago. The main reason it hasn't is the very conservative and very vocal Cuban exile community. I mean, we even fought a war with Viet Nam and we lifted our embargo and travel restrictions with them years ago.
If you've travelled abroad lately from the US, you know that the folks at Homeland Security take their jobs very seriously. Also, the State Department has been nailing US citizens who have visited Cuba without authorization with very stiff fines. When they do find out you've visited there from a 3rd country (and they will), expect a registered letter or summons to appear in federal court. It's happened to people I know. Fines and court fees can run in the thousands of dollars.
Cuban products are also considered contraband in the US and therefore are just as illegal as if you were smuggling pot or cocaine. If you are found with cuban made cigars, rum, etc. on your person that you have not declared, you can be detained, prosecuted, fined, and possibly jailed if you get a nasty prosecutor. Not at all worth it for an authentic mojito and a few cojibas IMHO.
Yes, what atmosphere Mars has is mostly CO2, but what atmosphere Mars has is actually a pretty decent approximation of vacuum; the thickest parts of it are barely 1% of typical atmospheric pressure on earth.
I've often wondered about this. If you did manage to create an atmosphere on Mars, would there be sufficient gravity there to keep it in place, or would it simply drift off into space?
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"Over the kitchen table, she said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard," he laughs.
"it will be more interesting to look at vulnerability statistics once Vista becomes more popular than XP, and the target of more hackers."
I for one am glad Microsoft releases fixes for XP problems in a more timely fashion than Vista. I would expect that when Vista deployments outnumber XP, the situation will reverse itself. So where's the story here?
I bought a $15 refill kit, got it home and then quickly found out in the instructions that the cartridge for my HP was one of the most difficult to refill that was ever made. It was pretty much like trying to stand on your head and stack BB's. Long story short after spilling our more ink than I was getting into the cartridge, I finally gave up.
I did find out recently that our local Walgreens store has a refill-while-you-wait service now that's a fraction of the cost of a new cartridge. I keep meaning to take mine in, but it's been sitting by the front door for a couple of weeks now and I just forget. But I really don't print that much stuff anymore, most everything is pretty much stored electronically somewhere so I maybe fire up the printer once every month or two now.
I dunno, maybe same way we did it on the moon? The orbiter stays in orbit (hence it's name) while a smaller landing module exits and lands on the surface. That way, you're not making round trips through Mars gravity with a lot of stuff you don't need on the surface. When you're done, leave most of what you brought on the surface and return to the orbiter in the landing module carrying little else but the astronauts and their samples. Fuel demands for this are a small fraction of what it would take for an entire craft.
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I tend to agree. If I'm remembering my biology correctly, fear in animals typically invokes the 'fight or flight' response. If faced with a dangerous situation and you neither fight or flee, then you're like the deer in the road that stares mesmerized by the truck headlights until he's splattered all over the hood. So yeah, most times fear is a good thing.
OTOH, I have a pretty acute case of acrophobia and would love to be rid of it. I'm wondering (didn't RTFA) if this can be designed to target certain fear centers, or just all fear in general.
Hmm. I didn't know they made dual core children.
I personally would much rather see a vertically challenged, palm-reading, murderer escape from jail.
The headline would be....wait for it...
"Small Medium at Large"
I hope you never get jock itch.
If the delivery system is a can of Reddy Whip, I can tell you from experience that it works. Well, actually not me, but I knew these guys in school that used to sneak in the cafeteria cooler...
All my cells are filled with emo-globin.
I don't know if your comment is a troll or not, but I'll bite anyway. Travel to Cuba is strictly limited under US law. The laws were created under authority granted to the President's office via the 'Trading with the Enemy' act. You must obtain a license in order to travel Cuba legally. Licenses are only granted for scientific, educational, humanitarian and family visit puroses. More detail on the current law and it's history is here http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/87354. pdf (pdf warning). I'm not evoking boogeymen, but simply pointing out that a lot of posts here indicate a cavalier attitude towards travel to Cuba which is unwise if you live in the US.
/.) travelled to Cuba via the Dominican Republic nearly 2 years ago. The State Department found out about it and he was fined over $1,700. That's a pretty hefty vacation tax. Bring back a couple of Cuban cigars and most likely, no one's going to notice it. Try bringing back a case and, at best it can be confiscated. At worst, you're looking at potential fines and prosecution. Like I said, the Customs and Homeland Security folks take their jobs pretty seriously.
A friend of mine (yeah, like I'm gonna post his peronal data on
I stand by my remarks.
That's one of the most insightful posts I've seen on this topic.
Why aren't the many thousand's of naturalized chinese in the US screaming for an embargo against their homeland? Probably because they realize that it really harms the innocent while it benefits neither side. I wish the Cuban exile community saw it this way. But as many have said already, Big Sugar also has a lot to do with the continued embargo.
But only if I can get it in Zune brown.
Point taken on Viet Nam, but we never officially warred with Cuba either.
I mentioned the Cuban exiles, but one thing I forgot to mention is 'Big Sugar'. The cane sugar industry in the southeast and particularly in Florida is, for the most part, tightly held by a few very wealthy and influential parties. But it is a huge and powerful industry with tremendous political clout. They have absoluetly no desire to see cheap Cuban sugar dumped on US markets so that they can continue to keep their sugar prices artificially high. (This amounts to a defacto subsidy for US Sugar BTW and is kind of a hidden tax on every sugar consumer.)
IMHO, the embargo continues only because of these interests and those of the exiles.
Then you have the problem of proving their authenticity. Where I live it's close to the Carribean and there are already a ton of counterfeit made cojibas floating around, usually made in the Dominican Republic. Interestingly, the government doesn't pursue these counterfeiters very vigorously, probably because they think it just hurts Cuba.
Back on topic though, the blockade is stupid and should have been lifted years ago. The main reason it hasn't is the very conservative and very vocal Cuban exile community. I mean, we even fought a war with Viet Nam and we lifted our embargo and travel restrictions with them years ago.
Good luck with that.
If you've travelled abroad lately from the US, you know that the folks at Homeland Security take their jobs very seriously. Also, the State Department has been nailing US citizens who have visited Cuba without authorization with very stiff fines. When they do find out you've visited there from a 3rd country (and they will), expect a registered letter or summons to appear in federal court. It's happened to people I know. Fines and court fees can run in the thousands of dollars.
Cuban products are also considered contraband in the US and therefore are just as illegal as if you were smuggling pot or cocaine. If you are found with cuban made cigars, rum, etc. on your person that you have not declared, you can be detained, prosecuted, fined, and possibly jailed if you get a nasty prosecutor. Not at all worth it for an authentic mojito and a few cojibas IMHO.
No silly. It's "In Google Kenya, Safari browses you!"
Never mind what OS it runs. What I want to know is if it will include a bottle opener and corkscrew.
A man's gotta have his priorities.
I dunno, but I'm going there right now and looking up 'DOS Boot' before they get to it.
Was that a tag, or a comment? Either way, it fits.
It would certainly explain this http://www.livinginperu.com/news-4132-peru-bill-ga tes-present-inti-raymi-festival-peru-cameron-diaz- not
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Silly AC. All my posts are created using recycled ink.
I bought a $15 refill kit, got it home and then quickly found out in the instructions that the cartridge for my HP was one of the most difficult to refill that was ever made. It was pretty much like trying to stand on your head and stack BB's. Long story short after spilling our more ink than I was getting into the cartridge, I finally gave up.
I did find out recently that our local Walgreens store has a refill-while-you-wait service now that's a fraction of the cost of a new cartridge. I keep meaning to take mine in, but it's been sitting by the front door for a couple of weeks now and I just forget. But I really don't print that much stuff anymore, most everything is pretty much stored electronically somewhere so I maybe fire up the printer once every month or two now.
I dunno, maybe same way we did it on the moon? The orbiter stays in orbit (hence it's name) while a smaller landing module exits and lands on the surface. That way, you're not making round trips through Mars gravity with a lot of stuff you don't need on the surface. When you're done, leave most of what you brought on the surface and return to the orbiter in the landing module carrying little else but the astronauts and their samples. Fuel demands for this are a small fraction of what it would take for an entire craft.
Hah!
I'll just counter-attack the Landroids using my LandLord(TM). It will send them home penniless and humiliated.