Maybe. So long as it is not mandatory, I do not mind - personally. It might suck to be you, on the other hand. By aiming to ensure the lowest common denominator is safe we're opening up those who are skilled to risk should this becomes mandatory. I can come up with piles of reasons why autonomous vehicles are bad but that's not the subject at hand.
So, well, as long as I can choose to not have to rely on this then I'm okay with it. It may make it more expensive for me but I can afford it. It may, of course, suck to be you if you can't. I don't get to pick society's rules, I just have to live by them.
It looks like Cricket allows the batsman doesn't have to hit the ball in any certain direction. The bowler can also hit the batsman with the ball (or so it seems) without penalty. In baseball, if you keep hitting a foul ball (a hit ball that goes outside of the diamond) you're good to go and can bat indefinitely - in practice. In reality, it's not that easy. If the pitcher hits the batter and the batter is in the batter's box (in baseball) and the batter made no effort to get out of the way, the batter gets to first base.
In baseball the pitcher throws, with the bending elbow, from a static position but only one foot must be on the that correct spot until after the ball leaves his hand. Once the pitcher starts to throw, he must complete the throw or the runner on base gets to advance a base. The pitcher tries to throw through a strike zone. That's basically above the plate and in between the chest and knees. If he does that and the player doesn't hit the ball it's a strike. If not then it is a ball. Even if it is a ball, if the batter swings and misses, it is a strike. 3 strikes and the batter is out. 4 balls and the batter gets to go to first base and anyone who would have to move forward must move forward.
A ball that's hit and then caught means the batter is out. A player who is not on base and is touched with the ball is out. A ball that goes over the fence (a varied distance that depends on the field) and maintains a flight path that is within the diamond is a home run where the batter scores a point as do all the others that were on base at the time. No two people can be on the same base at the same time so one must move forward and this creates a situation where you can be "forced out." That means if the team on the field gets the ball to the base before the runner and that ball is caught and controlled then the runner is out. The runner may also be tagged out but the ball must be controlled during and immediately after this. If a "forced out" is a tie then the tie goes to the runner.
There are quite a few more rules and there are some "house rules" that depend on the field. You know, I'd never realized how difficult it is to explain all these rules in text. There was a recent thread about documentation writing. I imagine they're not entire dissimilar.
The bulls won with just under 20 overs (terminology?) and some Emmit guy scored a lot of runs. A large, almost Caucasian looking, fella bowled near the end but couldn't get Emmit to mess up. He had about 50 runs and was partnered (I think?) with a few different people but the last one was pretty good and just a young guy. They're going to something called Eliminate, I think, and Emmit hit one into the stands. I kind of have it figured out. I also refuse to cheat and use Wikipedia or any other site and figure out the rules. I'll learn by watching.
I saw some Jamaicans playing once and it tweaked my interest but I never figured much out. I did do some batting with them just because they wanted to let the tourist try. I didn't understand the directions well but I played a lot of ball as a kid and I could really crank the ball pretty far. I didn't do any of the running part. I'd like to actually try a game but I am old now. I'd still like to try it. Maybe I'll travel somewhere that it is popular and give it a shot in some sort of pickup type game. I should probably know the rules first.
I've heard good things about putting people in a house with no doors and pushing a candle up against the curtains but, alas, I am not a gamer really. I did enjoy some sim games a while back. I liked Sim Ant, Sim City, and A-Train.
I've seen a number of videos of him. The first was one about the Linux operating system. I've seen others and I'm not entirely sure but I might have seen him speak live at one point. At any rate, he's a little quirky but not a bad orator. He's easy to understand and articulate. If he's the one that I'm recalling seeing live then he's passionate but not really a zealot. So, it might be worth watching the video? I've not done so but I probably will.
I'd watch now but, I confess, I'm watching cricket. I've only figured out a little bit of the game and I promised myself that I'd watch some to try to figure it out. So, I'm watching some Bulls vs. Dynamite match in the BPL.
I think the premise is, and I may be wrong, it's that the Republicans in question had been telling other people that it was wrong to be hedonistic socialist godless UnAmerican things.
I owned a medium sized business and that required that I do lots of things. One of those things was reading things like white-papers, market predictions, analytics, etc... I never thought to crunch the numbers but I did reach a few conclusions. I'll share to of them...
They're lying. They're trying to sell you something.
Again, I didn't crunch the numbers but I suspect a good 90% of them were inaccurate in some meaningful way. There were some good ones about clustering and virtual machines and a few predictions that came true but I don't know if I'd have been able to winnow them out of the mix without some help - we were already moving in some direction and they just happened to say we were going in the right direction.
Gartner, bless them, is among the worse. Pew might be tied with them if memory serves. Anyhow, I did not read the article.
Lubuntu is your friend. LXDE is lightweight but easily customizable. If you have older hardware it's plenty fast and it is blisteringly fast on new hardware. It's pretty tightly put together. The default software choices aren't bad but they're trivial to change. The UI is intuitive and you get access to the vast Ubuntu ecosystem by default. It's dead simple to install, repair, and maintain. It's as secure as you're likely to get with the effort you put into it. With repositories and the likes, updating is trivial and as close to automated as can be (and can be disabled if you should really want to do that). It's an official flavor so you get a high likelihood of the OS being their in perpetuity.
Sometimes it is hard for professionals to accept that other people can do their job as well, or better, than they can. The thing is, I openly admit that I don't know what the hell I'm doing - for the most part. I mean, yeah, I get it now but I didn't when I started. I just figured that I'd start acting on the information that people shared and, sure enough, it seems to work.
To tie in with an earlier sentiment, it pays to shut up and listen to smart people. You just have to not have a frail ego and be able to admit that there's things you don't know. There's lots that I don't know. That's why I ask smart people. I gave a couple of good examples and they seemed displeased with them and then refused to listen. Ah well... 'Snot my job to help 'em. They're professionals and know more than me. (Sometimes, the people who speak the loudest aren't the wisest.)
As one of the resident automobile enthusiasts and someone who has not only driven professionally but has taken many, many advanced driving courses, let me inject that ABS is a wonderful thing for the vast majority of folks out there - like you stated. There are some contrived situations where I can demonstrably prove that I am capable of doing better than the ABS but those are rare and, frankly, irrelevant.
An example might be, I'm *very* familiar with driving on snow and ice. Assuming a familiarity with the braking and handling characteristics, I can usually bring the vehicle to a stop much more quickly than the ABS can. What I can't do faster or better is known as "straight line braking" and that's generally the best choice. It is not, however, always the best choice.
To continue with the above, one of the issues I see with autonomous vehicles is them not knowing when such is the best choice and when it is not. Those situations are relatively rare but they do occur. Road conditions are not static and are subject to change at a moment's notice. Add to that a list of priorities, which may also not be static, and you end up with some compute heavy complexity which may be problematic to overcome no matter how eager the zealots are.
That said, there's a lot of safety devices that are fantastic. There are others that I think attempt to mask a problem more than solve it. There are merits to both side of that argument. The solution isn't, entirely, to try to make an automobile as safe as possible. The solution is to stop letting stupid people pilot a giant chunk of metal down the road at death-defying speeds. Nothing will ever be entirely safe. I do suspect that we'll certainly not be doing much to increase driver education requirements so the increased safety devices are probably a requirement.
Also, no - I don't want stability or traction control on all the time. There are times and places where I really enjoy having control and allowing the vehicle to break traction. There are places where I do not want maximum stability. I usually avoid any vehicle that disallows me the choice. If that changes to become mandatory then, well, I've ample options already owned that will satiate my desires to throw the ass-end out sideways.
That makes perfect sense to me. I paid for my education by way of the Marines and the GI Bill and, then, scholarships and working as much as I could. Life has been much different than what I expected when I was a child. I don't think a day passes where I don't think back and ponder the circumstances that got me here. It's easy to say that there was hard work and intelligence involved but, really, much of it just comes down to dumb luck.
Mostly, I was in the right place, at the right time, and able to take risks. It's because of that that I don't look at other people and assume that they should have become something other than what they have. They had different circumstances, choices, and risks to weigh. Life isn't like a Choose Your Own Adventure book where you can flip ahead and then go back and decide which path to take.
I'm kind of hoping there's a limit. The things I'm guilty of are things that are fairly common among the people who'd be electing me. However, yes, I could actually envision a situation were people competed to be the worst. In my case, I figured being open and honest was the best solution. It also helps to prevent surprises. I don't really have any great big skeletons in my closet because the closet door has been opened.
Some time back, probably 2008 or 2009, I was "doxxed." Someone posted my tax information online. It was pretty invasive feeling and I got some hate mail and things like that. I even got some snail mail. Most of that came from people who were pissed that I wasn't donating to their favorite cause or things like that. I donate a fair amount of money, the taxes show this, and I don't support groups like PETA or Greenpeace. I actually got hate mail for not doing so.
I'm sure the information is cached somewhere. I didn't over-react. I was already in the process of moving to a new location. I changed my phone numbers and my credit was already locked down. I know technology enough to know that I can't stop it and the genie doesn't go back in the bottle. It seemed really invasive even though tax information is public information.
I'm still unsure of how they compiled the information to get it but it was accurate and they did, at least, share it in unedited form so it was accurate. Yes, yes I donated a bunch of money and used it to reduce my tax burden. No, I did not support everyone's cause but spent it on causes that I approve of. I still do.
At any rate, the two may seem unrelated but it made me realize that, yeah, you can't please everyone and some folks just want to be pissed off. If I just tell you the reasons to be pissed off then it's easier than dealing with you saying that you not only are pissed off but that I was hiding that. It's not like they were going to like me no matter what I did and, in this case, they weren't going to vote for me.
Which, to make a short story long, is how I ended up deciding to go about creating this document for the purposes of informing people that I'll be on the ballot. I didn't, and still don't, have political aspirations but I've been asked to run by enough people and have decided that such is my duty. If they feel that I'm the right person for the job then I'll accept that position and do it to the best of my ability. If not then, well, I really have more interesting things to do with my time even if it means that I'm just sitting here and typing out long-winded replies on Slashdot.
The touchpad isn't too bad until a flair-up and then it's probably worse as the natural position is elevated above. To solve that, I use (when I'm smart enough) a wrist-rest. I even carry one with me in my laptop bag. The trackball is worse, think of the motions as you move your fingers. The trackpoint, I kind of like and would like something similar but disconnected and not in the typical Toshiba spot. I did have a laptop where there was one just below the space bar, that wasn't bad. Unfortunately, it wasn't very good hardware.
I've known multiple people who have had very similar surgeries to the one which I'd have. Out of all of them, they all say that they have pain more often than before except for one who is quite happy. Oddly, they had their surgery years ago. The others are much more recent. I've known a bunch of others who have had surgeries that went poorly. With poorly meaning, yes, it solved some of the problem(s) but it introduced others and leaves lingering other pains.
I have thought of going overseas for it. There's some good RSI specialists in Japan. There are some fine ones in the US as well. It's not life-threatening so I've not looked at it with any intensity. I do tend to look and think about it more during a flair up. I have tiny, almost delicate, hands and wrists. (I'm like 172 pounds and 5' 11", not a big person.) I spent countless hours at a keyboard when they still required force. I've broken that wrist before. I still worked with it while it was healing.
So, yeah, it sucks but I have't opted to go with the surgery route because it's not yet so bad that it's stopping me from doing anything for the most part. It won't get much worse and the surgery won't change if it does get worse. If anything, it will become a more successful surgery as time progresses. I've had it checked, multiple times, imaged, poked, prodded, etc... I let them do the Cortisone shot once. Not only did that not help one bit, it hurt for *ages* afterwards. I've done physical therapy. I had one doctor who hooked me up with a TENS unit (I think that's the name) and that does help alleviate pain when it flairs up but I don't carry it with me.
No, it might not make complete sense but it kind of, sort of, works for me. For some definition of works. It's currently in the midst of easing up a bit - it was pretty rough for a few days. I use the touchpad, wrist-rest, wrap, and ice.
Quite true. I was more thinking of a strict definition for peaceful which, to my mind, would mean *mostly* pacifistic in nature. The main idea being that peace just isn't going to happen as long as there are humans in the mix. As I look back at history, something that I've an almost scholarly interest in, I really have to conclude that, for the most part, peace is what's occasionally interrupts chaos. That's taking the larger picture into account and, of course, there are isolated exceptions to the rule.
We seem to do okay at the tribal level. A small community could work with any one of a number of the pure political and economic platforms. Communism, Randian Capitalism, Democracy, even a Totalitarian Dictatorship can all be successful at some level and for some level of population. In their pure forms? Well, they don't always scale out very well. At least that's my observation.
With this, of course, comes violence. Those small communities seem to end up having conflicts when they interact with others. They say that humans are social animals and that's certainly true but I don't think, and this is speculation, that we've quite evolved to do so on a large scale with diverse groups.
I would consider that but it's kind of a race between a friend and I, the details of which I can't explain as it is expressly forbidden. The one of us who gets there first gets a reward, which is also not to be mentioned. Nor can I mention the actual goal but I can say it's not malicious. There must be a *something* and it must be organic and it must do *something* and it must not cost *something* with the winner getting *something* nice. We duel at dawn (or the 1st of the year) and it runs for a set period of time. Preparation is allowed.
Yes, yes we might have been smoking when we came up with the idea. I'm quite certain that he'll cheat. Our significant others are to spy on us for the other person and to ensure the rules are followed. The *something* nice is actually not that significant but it's the game and the fact that it will be lorded over the other as a victory that is important.
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One is current, the other is not. I play guitar better than Hendrix. I think better than Einstein. I write better than Plato. They're all dead.
Of course, we're all better than Hitler too. He's not really anything, he's dead.
Everyone alive is worse than Hitler. He's dead.
Maybe. So long as it is not mandatory, I do not mind - personally. It might suck to be you, on the other hand. By aiming to ensure the lowest common denominator is safe we're opening up those who are skilled to risk should this becomes mandatory. I can come up with piles of reasons why autonomous vehicles are bad but that's not the subject at hand.
So, well, as long as I can choose to not have to rely on this then I'm okay with it. It may make it more expensive for me but I can afford it. It may, of course, suck to be you if you can't. I don't get to pick society's rules, I just have to live by them.
It looks like Cricket allows the batsman doesn't have to hit the ball in any certain direction. The bowler can also hit the batsman with the ball (or so it seems) without penalty. In baseball, if you keep hitting a foul ball (a hit ball that goes outside of the diamond) you're good to go and can bat indefinitely - in practice. In reality, it's not that easy. If the pitcher hits the batter and the batter is in the batter's box (in baseball) and the batter made no effort to get out of the way, the batter gets to first base.
In baseball the pitcher throws, with the bending elbow, from a static position but only one foot must be on the that correct spot until after the ball leaves his hand. Once the pitcher starts to throw, he must complete the throw or the runner on base gets to advance a base. The pitcher tries to throw through a strike zone. That's basically above the plate and in between the chest and knees. If he does that and the player doesn't hit the ball it's a strike. If not then it is a ball. Even if it is a ball, if the batter swings and misses, it is a strike. 3 strikes and the batter is out. 4 balls and the batter gets to go to first base and anyone who would have to move forward must move forward.
A ball that's hit and then caught means the batter is out. A player who is not on base and is touched with the ball is out. A ball that goes over the fence (a varied distance that depends on the field) and maintains a flight path that is within the diamond is a home run where the batter scores a point as do all the others that were on base at the time. No two people can be on the same base at the same time so one must move forward and this creates a situation where you can be "forced out." That means if the team on the field gets the ball to the base before the runner and that ball is caught and controlled then the runner is out. The runner may also be tagged out but the ball must be controlled during and immediately after this. If a "forced out" is a tie then the tie goes to the runner.
There are quite a few more rules and there are some "house rules" that depend on the field. You know, I'd never realized how difficult it is to explain all these rules in text. There was a recent thread about documentation writing. I imagine they're not entire dissimilar.
The bulls won with just under 20 overs (terminology?) and some Emmit guy scored a lot of runs. A large, almost Caucasian looking, fella bowled near the end but couldn't get Emmit to mess up. He had about 50 runs and was partnered (I think?) with a few different people but the last one was pretty good and just a young guy. They're going to something called Eliminate, I think, and Emmit hit one into the stands. I kind of have it figured out. I also refuse to cheat and use Wikipedia or any other site and figure out the rules. I'll learn by watching.
I saw some Jamaicans playing once and it tweaked my interest but I never figured much out. I did do some batting with them just because they wanted to let the tourist try. I didn't understand the directions well but I played a lot of ball as a kid and I could really crank the ball pretty far. I didn't do any of the running part. I'd like to actually try a game but I am old now. I'd still like to try it. Maybe I'll travel somewhere that it is popular and give it a shot in some sort of pickup type game. I should probably know the rules first.
I've heard good things about putting people in a house with no doors and pushing a candle up against the curtains but, alas, I am not a gamer really. I did enjoy some sim games a while back. I liked Sim Ant, Sim City, and A-Train.
I've seen a number of videos of him. The first was one about the Linux operating system. I've seen others and I'm not entirely sure but I might have seen him speak live at one point. At any rate, he's a little quirky but not a bad orator. He's easy to understand and articulate. If he's the one that I'm recalling seeing live then he's passionate but not really a zealot. So, it might be worth watching the video? I've not done so but I probably will.
I'd watch now but, I confess, I'm watching cricket. I've only figured out a little bit of the game and I promised myself that I'd watch some to try to figure it out. So, I'm watching some Bulls vs. Dynamite match in the BPL.
Heh... I saw "more connected and responsive" and my first thought was, "connected and responsive to whom?"
I think the premise is, and I may be wrong, it's that the Republicans in question had been telling other people that it was wrong to be hedonistic socialist godless UnAmerican things.
I owned a medium sized business and that required that I do lots of things. One of those things was reading things like white-papers, market predictions, analytics, etc... I never thought to crunch the numbers but I did reach a few conclusions. I'll share to of them...
They're lying.
They're trying to sell you something.
Again, I didn't crunch the numbers but I suspect a good 90% of them were inaccurate in some meaningful way. There were some good ones about clustering and virtual machines and a few predictions that came true but I don't know if I'd have been able to winnow them out of the mix without some help - we were already moving in some direction and they just happened to say we were going in the right direction.
Gartner, bless them, is among the worse. Pew might be tied with them if memory serves. Anyhow, I did not read the article.
[citation needed] for the first sentence. No, I'll need actual proof, not speculation.
Lubuntu is your friend. LXDE is lightweight but easily customizable. If you have older hardware it's plenty fast and it is blisteringly fast on new hardware. It's pretty tightly put together. The default software choices aren't bad but they're trivial to change. The UI is intuitive and you get access to the vast Ubuntu ecosystem by default. It's dead simple to install, repair, and maintain. It's as secure as you're likely to get with the effort you put into it. With repositories and the likes, updating is trivial and as close to automated as can be (and can be disabled if you should really want to do that). It's an official flavor so you get a high likelihood of the OS being their in perpetuity.
Sometimes it is hard for professionals to accept that other people can do their job as well, or better, than they can. The thing is, I openly admit that I don't know what the hell I'm doing - for the most part. I mean, yeah, I get it now but I didn't when I started. I just figured that I'd start acting on the information that people shared and, sure enough, it seems to work.
To tie in with an earlier sentiment, it pays to shut up and listen to smart people. You just have to not have a frail ego and be able to admit that there's things you don't know. There's lots that I don't know. That's why I ask smart people. I gave a couple of good examples and they seemed displeased with them and then refused to listen. Ah well... 'Snot my job to help 'em. They're professionals and know more than me. (Sometimes, the people who speak the loudest aren't the wisest.)
It's obviously Photoshopped. I've seen Venus in a telescope and it's not black and white.
Which laws are those? I'd be interested in reading them.
They've already proven that they can't write secure software and you want us to give them our credit card?
For those that don't speak the language, that's Welsh for, "Hello."
Which is why there is a preview option. Depending on how you use Slashdot, it may even be mandatory.
As one of the resident automobile enthusiasts and someone who has not only driven professionally but has taken many, many advanced driving courses, let me inject that ABS is a wonderful thing for the vast majority of folks out there - like you stated. There are some contrived situations where I can demonstrably prove that I am capable of doing better than the ABS but those are rare and, frankly, irrelevant.
An example might be, I'm *very* familiar with driving on snow and ice. Assuming a familiarity with the braking and handling characteristics, I can usually bring the vehicle to a stop much more quickly than the ABS can. What I can't do faster or better is known as "straight line braking" and that's generally the best choice. It is not, however, always the best choice.
To continue with the above, one of the issues I see with autonomous vehicles is them not knowing when such is the best choice and when it is not. Those situations are relatively rare but they do occur. Road conditions are not static and are subject to change at a moment's notice. Add to that a list of priorities, which may also not be static, and you end up with some compute heavy complexity which may be problematic to overcome no matter how eager the zealots are.
That said, there's a lot of safety devices that are fantastic. There are others that I think attempt to mask a problem more than solve it. There are merits to both side of that argument. The solution isn't, entirely, to try to make an automobile as safe as possible. The solution is to stop letting stupid people pilot a giant chunk of metal down the road at death-defying speeds. Nothing will ever be entirely safe. I do suspect that we'll certainly not be doing much to increase driver education requirements so the increased safety devices are probably a requirement.
Also, no - I don't want stability or traction control on all the time. There are times and places where I really enjoy having control and allowing the vehicle to break traction. There are places where I do not want maximum stability. I usually avoid any vehicle that disallows me the choice. If that changes to become mandatory then, well, I've ample options already owned that will satiate my desires to throw the ass-end out sideways.
That makes perfect sense to me. I paid for my education by way of the Marines and the GI Bill and, then, scholarships and working as much as I could. Life has been much different than what I expected when I was a child. I don't think a day passes where I don't think back and ponder the circumstances that got me here. It's easy to say that there was hard work and intelligence involved but, really, much of it just comes down to dumb luck.
Mostly, I was in the right place, at the right time, and able to take risks. It's because of that that I don't look at other people and assume that they should have become something other than what they have. They had different circumstances, choices, and risks to weigh. Life isn't like a Choose Your Own Adventure book where you can flip ahead and then go back and decide which path to take.
I'm kind of hoping there's a limit. The things I'm guilty of are things that are fairly common among the people who'd be electing me. However, yes, I could actually envision a situation were people competed to be the worst. In my case, I figured being open and honest was the best solution. It also helps to prevent surprises. I don't really have any great big skeletons in my closet because the closet door has been opened.
Some time back, probably 2008 or 2009, I was "doxxed." Someone posted my tax information online. It was pretty invasive feeling and I got some hate mail and things like that. I even got some snail mail. Most of that came from people who were pissed that I wasn't donating to their favorite cause or things like that. I donate a fair amount of money, the taxes show this, and I don't support groups like PETA or Greenpeace. I actually got hate mail for not doing so.
I'm sure the information is cached somewhere. I didn't over-react. I was already in the process of moving to a new location. I changed my phone numbers and my credit was already locked down. I know technology enough to know that I can't stop it and the genie doesn't go back in the bottle. It seemed really invasive even though tax information is public information.
I'm still unsure of how they compiled the information to get it but it was accurate and they did, at least, share it in unedited form so it was accurate. Yes, yes I donated a bunch of money and used it to reduce my tax burden. No, I did not support everyone's cause but spent it on causes that I approve of. I still do.
At any rate, the two may seem unrelated but it made me realize that, yeah, you can't please everyone and some folks just want to be pissed off. If I just tell you the reasons to be pissed off then it's easier than dealing with you saying that you not only are pissed off but that I was hiding that. It's not like they were going to like me no matter what I did and, in this case, they weren't going to vote for me.
Which, to make a short story long, is how I ended up deciding to go about creating this document for the purposes of informing people that I'll be on the ballot. I didn't, and still don't, have political aspirations but I've been asked to run by enough people and have decided that such is my duty. If they feel that I'm the right person for the job then I'll accept that position and do it to the best of my ability. If not then, well, I really have more interesting things to do with my time even if it means that I'm just sitting here and typing out long-winded replies on Slashdot.
The touchpad isn't too bad until a flair-up and then it's probably worse as the natural position is elevated above. To solve that, I use (when I'm smart enough) a wrist-rest. I even carry one with me in my laptop bag. The trackball is worse, think of the motions as you move your fingers. The trackpoint, I kind of like and would like something similar but disconnected and not in the typical Toshiba spot. I did have a laptop where there was one just below the space bar, that wasn't bad. Unfortunately, it wasn't very good hardware.
I've known multiple people who have had very similar surgeries to the one which I'd have. Out of all of them, they all say that they have pain more often than before except for one who is quite happy. Oddly, they had their surgery years ago. The others are much more recent. I've known a bunch of others who have had surgeries that went poorly. With poorly meaning, yes, it solved some of the problem(s) but it introduced others and leaves lingering other pains.
I have thought of going overseas for it. There's some good RSI specialists in Japan. There are some fine ones in the US as well. It's not life-threatening so I've not looked at it with any intensity. I do tend to look and think about it more during a flair up. I have tiny, almost delicate, hands and wrists. (I'm like 172 pounds and 5' 11", not a big person.) I spent countless hours at a keyboard when they still required force. I've broken that wrist before. I still worked with it while it was healing.
So, yeah, it sucks but I have't opted to go with the surgery route because it's not yet so bad that it's stopping me from doing anything for the most part. It won't get much worse and the surgery won't change if it does get worse. If anything, it will become a more successful surgery as time progresses. I've had it checked, multiple times, imaged, poked, prodded, etc... I let them do the Cortisone shot once. Not only did that not help one bit, it hurt for *ages* afterwards. I've done physical therapy. I had one doctor who hooked me up with a TENS unit (I think that's the name) and that does help alleviate pain when it flairs up but I don't carry it with me.
No, it might not make complete sense but it kind of, sort of, works for me. For some definition of works. It's currently in the midst of easing up a bit - it was pretty rough for a few days. I use the touchpad, wrist-rest, wrap, and ice.
Quite true. I was more thinking of a strict definition for peaceful which, to my mind, would mean *mostly* pacifistic in nature. The main idea being that peace just isn't going to happen as long as there are humans in the mix. As I look back at history, something that I've an almost scholarly interest in, I really have to conclude that, for the most part, peace is what's occasionally interrupts chaos. That's taking the larger picture into account and, of course, there are isolated exceptions to the rule.
We seem to do okay at the tribal level. A small community could work with any one of a number of the pure political and economic platforms. Communism, Randian Capitalism, Democracy, even a Totalitarian Dictatorship can all be successful at some level and for some level of population. In their pure forms? Well, they don't always scale out very well. At least that's my observation.
With this, of course, comes violence. Those small communities seem to end up having conflicts when they interact with others. They say that humans are social animals and that's certainly true but I don't think, and this is speculation, that we've quite evolved to do so on a large scale with diverse groups.
Ah well... *shrugs* I dunno.
I would consider that but it's kind of a race between a friend and I, the details of which I can't explain as it is expressly forbidden. The one of us who gets there first gets a reward, which is also not to be mentioned. Nor can I mention the actual goal but I can say it's not malicious. There must be a *something* and it must be organic and it must do *something* and it must not cost *something* with the winner getting *something* nice. We duel at dawn (or the 1st of the year) and it runs for a set period of time. Preparation is allowed.
Yes, yes we might have been smoking when we came up with the idea. I'm quite certain that he'll cheat. Our significant others are to spy on us for the other person and to ensure the rules are followed. The *something* nice is actually not that significant but it's the game and the fact that it will be lorded over the other as a victory that is important.
Heh... I clicked your link which led me to find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm sure there's some science to be had in that video but that's not even remotely important.