Yeah, I figure it's probably something that's logical and makes complete sense that we've just not yet figured out how to see and measure. Somewhere in this thread, I linked a couple of article about filaments. So, we're getting there. I think the phrase Dark Matter is as bad as the God Particle. Well, no... Almost as bad.
Oh, I quite agree that there are other uses. It'd probably always (for some broad definition of always that does not include a million years from now) be the Wrong Thing because there will probably always be people who don't understand so it will probably always be in the treaties or considered socially taboo.
It's okay, I must be out of touch. I could have sworn the treaties signed still allowed for underground testing. I seem to recall Dan Rather (quite specifically though I suppose it might have been the News Hour on PBS) talking about it on the nightly news? Have we ratified any treaties since?
I don't think we're strictly prohibited from testing nuclear weapons in and of itself but I do seem to recall that we've only agreed to end atmospheric and above-ground tests. While we're not prohibited, I don't think (from my limited memory and quick scanning), it would be socially unacceptable behavior. Of course, Starfish Prime might indicate that we're not always worried about being polite or responsible. At least I think that's the project name where we decided setting off nukes in space was a brilliant idea.
Bordering on off-topic but tangentially related, I followed the link to the article and, I confess, I read it. I am sorry. I didn't really mean to but there was nothing posted and I'm not a first post kind of guy normally. Anyhow, it led me (by curiosity) to an "interesting" article on transhumanism. It turns out, it's not what I was expecting and I learned something. I mean something other than they're batshit insane.
That, I think, would have made a better article than this. We could actually have an interesting discussion concerning that. It's a long, but not bad, read. I know, 'tis off-topic (and I'll post as me so you can happily mod me as such as I certainly deserve it) but it is kind of interesting. If I weren't so lazy, I'd submit it. Maybe someone else is interested in it? I'm not so good at that summary thing.
Did I mention they're batshit crazy? They've even got in-fighting and a presidential candidate but it would appear that not many people like him. He has a family and they tolerate him. It's a whole bowl of insanity but it's all very much tech related. It's all about tech, it seems. That and living forever. Oh, and batshit crazy seems to be mandatory. I'd ride around on the bus with him but that's because I'm easily amused. Hell, I'd even donate to his cause to ride around with him if I had time.
Anyhow, if you're bored and want something really tech related then there's an interesting article. I'd never looked into it but I always thought transhumanism was what those furry and vampire people were into. It turns out they're just people who want to augment their body with tech and, mostly, live forever.
I guess I'm not sorry for the OT post (if I was sorry, I'd not do it) but yeah, it's a far more interesting subject than someone editing Wikipedia and getting into a back-stage after-party using mostly social engineering and the people who were there actually opting to tolerate it. I expected it to be a not-so-attentive security guard opting to let them through without checking but it turns out that they did and that the band members let them get away with it. It's not really as exciting as it might have been and will teach me to not read the article. In all fairness, I was bored while awaiting some uploads to finish. FTP is still ungodly slow.
What are the chances of this being enacted and enforced? I hope, like hell, they don't do the whole knee-jerk response thing and end up looking as stupid as my country.
Santa's Village is in New Hampshire, in the White Mountains. I've driven by it but I've never been. I didn't grow up in the area. But, I've seen it. This time of year, it's closed but that's 'cause he's getting ready for the holiday season. I have sent a bunch of school kids there - I was invited to tag along but declined. It was one of the local recreation department things and wasn't fully funded so they weren't going to be able to go. Yeah yeah, I'm a sucker.
You crazy? At the time, there were very few traffic engineers - most worked with things like trains. I hired 'em. It was pretty economical, I must say. I paid 'em well and poached 'em from the university. I got my money's worth.;-)
What they don't show you is that they used duct tape to secure the pointy bits to the big ol' rocket that launched into space. Lots and lots of duct tape!
I have considered that. I take it that you've never worked with managers from the public sector before? No, no... They're number than a twat full of Novocaine. The private sector isn't a whole lot better. As near as I can tell, they're both corrupt at similar levels. I'm not sure why people voted them in or who approved their hires.
No sir, the number of times I've heard, "Well, I've got a friend who..." Lemme just tell ya, you don't want to hear that in a municipal setting and you sure as hell don't want to hear it in the private sector. It's slightly worse in the public arena because those are your tax dollars.
You might think these people are smart, and a few of them are, but they're really not that smart. It's a damned shame, really. I've found the people working for a project manager are usually much smarter than the PM themselves. If they're elected officials? Oh, they must have (I'm assuming) some specific domain knowledge about something or other but damned if I can tell what it is.
Just 'cause they're "your betters" doesn't mean they're all that bright. They might even have some pretty documents on the wall that indicate that they know what they're talking about. Well, I've got one of those too and I'm not even all that bright. If *I* am smarter than you then you've got problems, son. The thing is, so many of them are even dumber than that. We're talking dumb enough to the point where stringing two simple concepts together, clearly, and describing how they interacted didn't do a damned bit of good.
No, they might be our betters but they sure as hell aren't all that bright. Hell, sit through a city council meeting some time. One might think a small town would be worse and one might be wrong. Alas, I was usually in larger areas or dealing with State governments and their highway departments. Sometimes, and worse, I'd have to deal both with marketing and operations. No sir, they're not that smart.
I don't really know. I think the majority of the ones that I've known who were seemingly more than nominally Christian seemed *mostly* sane and not zealots. Even the Jehovah's Witnesses aren't generally *that* bad. They're just annoying. I've had them come all the way to my house in the mountains of Maine on a snowy Saturday. So, there's that. But, I'm not a Christian or anything so I don't really expose myself to a lot of them as far as I know. I don't generally ask what people have for a religion.
I'm pretty sure that's not everything. For example, I can't remember the moon being legitimately owned. Or, if you want, there are much closer things that have probably never fully been in the hands of either government or a private business. An iceberg comes to mind, I think those are free for the taking. My thoughts, I kind of hope those are mine. That sort of thing.
I think Carter's the only person on the planet that has done more good when he wasn't president than when he was. I can't think of any other world leader who has done the same thing after their term in office.
You know, it's comments like yours that make me think about no longer donating and no longer do the right thing. I do the right thing, no because I have to but because it is the right thing to do. I don't owe you anything - except taxes, which I pay in full, to slightly more than is dictated as dictated by law and I pay someone pretty good money to ensure that every single tax is paid.
Yet, rough guess, I probably donated between 15 and 40 times your yearly income last year and wrote very little of it off because I'm kind of lazy like that and I prefer to make anonymous donations so that I'm not plagued by folks looking to have me support their various causes by intruding on my tranquility.
I don't owe you shit. Every single penny I have was earned legally and without any ethical concerns. I've paid every single obligation, ever. I owe nothing to anyone even if you facilitated my accumulation of wealth. You have no right to it. If you didn't want to then you shouldn't have helped. We've set up society to act like this. My obligation, what I owe, is in the form of taxation and that is paid in full, on time, and rounded to the highest dollar value (for State and Federal taxes).
I give because I want to. I give because I think I'm obligated to do so. I give because I can. I don't *have* to. I just feel like I have to. I don't owe you a damned thing. I don't have nearly as much accumulated wealth as this person but they don't owe you a damned thing beyond their mandated taxes. And before you chirp about taxes, tax avoidance is legal - some might even say ethical. The contract is clear - it is taxes. I pay every single obligated cent. I owe nothing beyond that in any sense of the word. I feel like I do but I am not.
Just because you lack the means to help others does not mean that someone else is obligated to do it in your stead. You do not have a right to my property. You do not have a right to dictate what I spent my money on other than taxes and, err, illegal goods and maybe a few things that I'm skipping. But no, you don't have a right to my money just as I don't have a right to yours. You are far more wealthy than the a very sizable number of others. Start by giving away your wealth but don't think you've got a right to mine. I share because I want to, not because I'm forced to. Pray I don't alter the deal any further.
Probably by using an ocean-going dredging machine that shoots the material up onto the beach and then use that. At least for the time being. Or we'll just move 'em. It's not like we're gonna just let 'em drown or anything. It's pretty much a given that someone will take them in and someone will fund it. Hell, I might even help a little now that I'm aware of this particular problem. I'll look into it in the morning before we head off to the museum again. Who knows?
Anyhow, per your tire burning comment above. Err... Are you saying that I should stop that? 'Cause, man, smelly soot and ruined clothing and coughing fits are what I live for!!! Seriously, even way back in my youth, I never understood why some idiot would throw a tire on a fire. I've seen it done but, frankly, why??? It's not even that spectacular.
I also went out "cow tipping" as a youth. As near as I can tell, you can't really tip a cow over very easily. The tire burning and cow tipping are about as interesting as snipe hunting. I don't see the attraction.
I'm pretty tolerant and easy going but when it was so obviously habitual and ingrained, just by the way it was enacted, it was simply not something that I was going to accept nor have as a part of my life. The first time, I can forgive and forget. The second was not long after and was clearly showing that it was a character flaw. The reality is that she was with me for the money and, not to stroke my ego - it's not nor does it, I kind of have a bit.
If she'd been smart, she'd have at least pretended better. She'd have made far more in the long run. I have since surmised that she was of the opinion that she was better than other people and that she was doing me a favor by gracing me with her presence and sexual favors. Sure, I can agree to part of that but let's negotiate a price first.
She was a cutie and mostly made of plastic and silicone bits. She'd done some model work and then returned home with a black eye and a kid. That's where I came in. The people, the locals, who knew her did not warn me. It turns out, she has a history. Last I knew, she was in NM and doing something to someone for money, I'm sure. I kind of feel bad for the kid but that's not my job.
So, on advice of a lawyer, I got a restraining order and then proceeded to fund her trip through my lawyer where she agreed that, in return for the money, she'd go away. She was supposed to leave the car, however. I guess, I didn't really give her enough money for a replacement car but, again, not my job. I didn't even have to give her the money to go away. Not counting the car, I think I paid her $10,000 to just go away. The car was an older (2007ish) Honda so no big loss. I do, sort of, miss the car. It was pretty nice for the price.
The current missus looked over my shoulder (I don't hide shit now that we know each other well enough) and asked what she'd get when I got sick of her. What a horrible term, "current missus." Oh well. I told her as long as she's not a crazy psychopath then we'll not need to worry about such things. When we first met, there was no indication that I'd managed to accumulate a few dollars. I didn't lie about it nor did the question, directly, come up so I opted to not disclose it until after we'd resolved some issues and she seemed like a legitimate human being. So far so good but she does whack me once in a while. Abuse I tell you! Abuse! (Which is why she whacked me.)
There's something to be said for dating a woman nearly forty years your junior.
True, I was basing it off a summary and comments here on Slashdot. I can cope with 300 miles for *most* use. I can't do what I'm doing now with that but I can usually make use of such at home. If I can get 350 I'll be good for the vast majority of driving that I'd do in that type of car.
Yip. I like to remind the kids that once upon a time I upgraded my RAM and buying 4 MB of RAM was $400 USD. My first laptop was something like $7000 except I bought some external storage (I seem to recall it was some proprietary tape format) so it was a bit more (like nearly $9000) and didn't actually have a battery in it. At least, I think that was the first one. *sighs* There have been so many over the years.
I didn't really touch much in the way of a microcomputer until the early 1980s. I did go to a school where we used an HP 9100 in the classroom but that's not really what I'll call a microcomputer. At any rate, I was a bit old. I can imagine the temptations and frustrations for a kid during those times. I can imagine them looking at those prices and thinking they'd never be able to afford them.
Today? I've got more compute power in my phone. I've just given away things like tablets and computers that weren't even thought of back then. Hell, I have a stack (somewhere over a half dozen) tablets that I don't even use or like. I keep trying to like that form factor but I just can't. I only have the number I have because I sent a couple off to someone that seemed interesting online.
Well, to be honest, Dilaudid by IV is absolutely wonderful. Well it was, for a long time. I need something stronger as my tolerance is that of a monster and, today, it would't break through the Suboxone.
I am an opiate addict though I no longer use IV (very often) and am on Suboxone. I did first take opiates for the pain, they handed 'em out like candy back then. However, that's not why I stuck with it. I used them because I like the warm embrace. I like being able to sleep. I like not really caring a whole lot. The world is full of stupid people who say stupid things and I find it easier to deal with them when I'm high. Dealing with them was a requirement.
I was a functional addict for years. I still am, really. Though I don't need to function as much. I shot up for years and years.
I guess my point is that it's nice that it solves the pain problem but some of us used it for greater therapies than pain and just plain recreation. I know it bothers many people to let others do what they want but, even as an addict that's no longer using illegal drugs, I'm still a huge fan of legalization. Bad behavior is already criminalized and prohibition has caused more harm than good. (I believe we're in agreement there.)
So, there's more than one use for opiates. It's not just about physical pain. Sometimes, it's just nice to be wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket and not give a shit that the person you're talking to is borderline retarded and somehow managed to be either elected or appointed. (I did a lot of work for the government.)
Oddly, most people think that posts must all be arguments. I'll add that this is not really an attempt to do so but rather to shed light on some additional usage patterns. I'm still on a monster dose of 32mg of Suboxone with an extra 16 available as needed. I was fond of extracting Fentanyl from the mylar patches and shooting that. To put that in perspective, Fentanyl is about the most potent thing meant to go into a human and is about 80 times more powerful than pure heroin/diacetylmorphine.
I'd wager that fewer than 6 learned anything specific and long-term from this. Out of those 600 infected devices, I bet they're owned by people who will have infections again in the near future because they failed to change their practices. Were there a way to prove this, I'd be willing to place money on it.
Well, to be fair, I don't think we've ever had such a situation where the "everything" was owned by a private entity. I somehow don't think that will ever happen. This isn't a statement of anything more than it says. It just hasn't ever happened, ever, as far as I know.
Well, I guess you could postulate that there's a $deity who owns everything, including thoughts? I'd also postulate that nothing, ever, has resulted in "anything desirable for everyone." Not even the end of slavery was desirable for everyone, to find an extreme example. Hell, not even eradicating polio was desirable for everyone or so I presume. I'm sure some nitwit was rather displeased with it - they probably sold leg braces.
As stated above. None. Not even on an infant. You need a lot more air then the movies would have you believe. You'd probably have to simultaneously use tens and thousands of these for it to be harmful. There is, literally, no measurable risk here unless you want a contrived situation where somehow someone affixes tens of thousands of these things across their body, in just the right spots, at just the right depths, and manages to fire them all at once. You'd have better luck harming yourself with a stick of butter.
Depending on your insulin needle, you'll need to inject at least two of them, full of air, directly into the bloodstream, to be at risk unless you manage to get it into an artery in which case you'll need about.5 mL before you're even remotely at risk.
This does not mean inject air. This means that you're better of using safe injection practices and spending that time making sure your kit is clean than getting every tiny bubble out of the rig. I no longer, often, use IV for my ingestion because I'm using sublingual Suboxone but I have made a great deal of study out of this. I always figured the doctor used a needle when they wanted the best bioavailability, why not learn how?
There is, of course, some risk but it's very overstated and justifiably so but there's no real reason to be worried unless you're injecting a bunch of air straight into your bloodstream. Feel free to look this up. I have. You can probably also ask your doctor, I have, but they might look at you funny. My doctor knows that I'm an addict. If I can't be honest with them then why bother having them?
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Yeah, I figure it's probably something that's logical and makes complete sense that we've just not yet figured out how to see and measure. Somewhere in this thread, I linked a couple of article about filaments. So, we're getting there. I think the phrase Dark Matter is as bad as the God Particle. Well, no... Almost as bad.
Maybe but I was specifically referencing their actions after their presidency and worded it poorly.
Oh, I quite agree that there are other uses. It'd probably always (for some broad definition of always that does not include a million years from now) be the Wrong Thing because there will probably always be people who don't understand so it will probably always be in the treaties or considered socially taboo.
It's okay, I must be out of touch. I could have sworn the treaties signed still allowed for underground testing. I seem to recall Dan Rather (quite specifically though I suppose it might have been the News Hour on PBS) talking about it on the nightly news? Have we ratified any treaties since?
Hmm... Unless I am not reading something properly, Wikipedia agrees with me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't think we're strictly prohibited from testing nuclear weapons in and of itself but I do seem to recall that we've only agreed to end atmospheric and above-ground tests. While we're not prohibited, I don't think (from my limited memory and quick scanning), it would be socially unacceptable behavior. Of course, Starfish Prime might indicate that we're not always worried about being polite or responsible. At least I think that's the project name where we decided setting off nukes in space was a brilliant idea.
Bordering on off-topic but tangentially related, I followed the link to the article and, I confess, I read it. I am sorry. I didn't really mean to but there was nothing posted and I'm not a first post kind of guy normally. Anyhow, it led me (by curiosity) to an "interesting" article on transhumanism. It turns out, it's not what I was expecting and I learned something. I mean something other than they're batshit insane.
http://www.theverge.com/a/tran...
That, I think, would have made a better article than this. We could actually have an interesting discussion concerning that. It's a long, but not bad, read. I know, 'tis off-topic (and I'll post as me so you can happily mod me as such as I certainly deserve it) but it is kind of interesting. If I weren't so lazy, I'd submit it. Maybe someone else is interested in it? I'm not so good at that summary thing.
Did I mention they're batshit crazy? They've even got in-fighting and a presidential candidate but it would appear that not many people like him. He has a family and they tolerate him. It's a whole bowl of insanity but it's all very much tech related. It's all about tech, it seems. That and living forever. Oh, and batshit crazy seems to be mandatory. I'd ride around on the bus with him but that's because I'm easily amused. Hell, I'd even donate to his cause to ride around with him if I had time.
Anyhow, if you're bored and want something really tech related then there's an interesting article. I'd never looked into it but I always thought transhumanism was what those furry and vampire people were into. It turns out they're just people who want to augment their body with tech and, mostly, live forever.
I guess I'm not sorry for the OT post (if I was sorry, I'd not do it) but yeah, it's a far more interesting subject than someone editing Wikipedia and getting into a back-stage after-party using mostly social engineering and the people who were there actually opting to tolerate it. I expected it to be a not-so-attentive security guard opting to let them through without checking but it turns out that they did and that the band members let them get away with it. It's not really as exciting as it might have been and will teach me to not read the article. In all fairness, I was bored while awaiting some uploads to finish. FTP is still ungodly slow.
What are the chances of this being enacted and enforced? I hope, like hell, they don't do the whole knee-jerk response thing and end up looking as stupid as my country.
Santa's Village is in New Hampshire, in the White Mountains. I've driven by it but I've never been. I didn't grow up in the area. But, I've seen it. This time of year, it's closed but that's 'cause he's getting ready for the holiday season. I have sent a bunch of school kids there - I was invited to tag along but declined. It was one of the local recreation department things and wasn't fully funded so they weren't going to be able to go. Yeah yeah, I'm a sucker.
You crazy? At the time, there were very few traffic engineers - most worked with things like trains. I hired 'em. It was pretty economical, I must say. I paid 'em well and poached 'em from the university. I got my money's worth. ;-)
What they don't show you is that they used duct tape to secure the pointy bits to the big ol' rocket that launched into space. Lots and lots of duct tape!
(I'm not a rocket surgeon.)
I have considered that. I take it that you've never worked with managers from the public sector before? No, no... They're number than a twat full of Novocaine. The private sector isn't a whole lot better. As near as I can tell, they're both corrupt at similar levels. I'm not sure why people voted them in or who approved their hires.
No sir, the number of times I've heard, "Well, I've got a friend who..." Lemme just tell ya, you don't want to hear that in a municipal setting and you sure as hell don't want to hear it in the private sector. It's slightly worse in the public arena because those are your tax dollars.
You might think these people are smart, and a few of them are, but they're really not that smart. It's a damned shame, really. I've found the people working for a project manager are usually much smarter than the PM themselves. If they're elected officials? Oh, they must have (I'm assuming) some specific domain knowledge about something or other but damned if I can tell what it is.
Just 'cause they're "your betters" doesn't mean they're all that bright. They might even have some pretty documents on the wall that indicate that they know what they're talking about. Well, I've got one of those too and I'm not even all that bright. If *I* am smarter than you then you've got problems, son. The thing is, so many of them are even dumber than that. We're talking dumb enough to the point where stringing two simple concepts together, clearly, and describing how they interacted didn't do a damned bit of good.
No, they might be our betters but they sure as hell aren't all that bright. Hell, sit through a city council meeting some time. One might think a small town would be worse and one might be wrong. Alas, I was usually in larger areas or dealing with State governments and their highway departments. Sometimes, and worse, I'd have to deal both with marketing and operations. No sir, they're not that smart.
I don't really know. I think the majority of the ones that I've known who were seemingly more than nominally Christian seemed *mostly* sane and not zealots. Even the Jehovah's Witnesses aren't generally *that* bad. They're just annoying. I've had them come all the way to my house in the mountains of Maine on a snowy Saturday. So, there's that. But, I'm not a Christian or anything so I don't really expose myself to a lot of them as far as I know. I don't generally ask what people have for a religion.
I'm pretty sure that's not everything. For example, I can't remember the moon being legitimately owned. Or, if you want, there are much closer things that have probably never fully been in the hands of either government or a private business. An iceberg comes to mind, I think those are free for the taking. My thoughts, I kind of hope those are mine. That sort of thing.
I think Carter's the only person on the planet that has done more good when he wasn't president than when he was. I can't think of any other world leader who has done the same thing after their term in office.
You know, it's comments like yours that make me think about no longer donating and no longer do the right thing. I do the right thing, no because I have to but because it is the right thing to do. I don't owe you anything - except taxes, which I pay in full, to slightly more than is dictated as dictated by law and I pay someone pretty good money to ensure that every single tax is paid.
Yet, rough guess, I probably donated between 15 and 40 times your yearly income last year and wrote very little of it off because I'm kind of lazy like that and I prefer to make anonymous donations so that I'm not plagued by folks looking to have me support their various causes by intruding on my tranquility.
I don't owe you shit. Every single penny I have was earned legally and without any ethical concerns. I've paid every single obligation, ever. I owe nothing to anyone even if you facilitated my accumulation of wealth. You have no right to it. If you didn't want to then you shouldn't have helped. We've set up society to act like this. My obligation, what I owe, is in the form of taxation and that is paid in full, on time, and rounded to the highest dollar value (for State and Federal taxes).
I give because I want to. I give because I think I'm obligated to do so. I give because I can. I don't *have* to. I just feel like I have to. I don't owe you a damned thing. I don't have nearly as much accumulated wealth as this person but they don't owe you a damned thing beyond their mandated taxes. And before you chirp about taxes, tax avoidance is legal - some might even say ethical. The contract is clear - it is taxes. I pay every single obligated cent. I owe nothing beyond that in any sense of the word. I feel like I do but I am not.
Just because you lack the means to help others does not mean that someone else is obligated to do it in your stead. You do not have a right to my property. You do not have a right to dictate what I spent my money on other than taxes and, err, illegal goods and maybe a few things that I'm skipping. But no, you don't have a right to my money just as I don't have a right to yours. You are far more wealthy than the a very sizable number of others. Start by giving away your wealth but don't think you've got a right to mine. I share because I want to, not because I'm forced to. Pray I don't alter the deal any further.
Probably by using an ocean-going dredging machine that shoots the material up onto the beach and then use that. At least for the time being. Or we'll just move 'em. It's not like we're gonna just let 'em drown or anything. It's pretty much a given that someone will take them in and someone will fund it. Hell, I might even help a little now that I'm aware of this particular problem. I'll look into it in the morning before we head off to the museum again. Who knows?
Anyhow, per your tire burning comment above. Err... Are you saying that I should stop that? 'Cause, man, smelly soot and ruined clothing and coughing fits are what I live for!!! Seriously, even way back in my youth, I never understood why some idiot would throw a tire on a fire. I've seen it done but, frankly, why??? It's not even that spectacular.
I also went out "cow tipping" as a youth. As near as I can tell, you can't really tip a cow over very easily. The tire burning and cow tipping are about as interesting as snipe hunting. I don't see the attraction.
I'm pretty tolerant and easy going but when it was so obviously habitual and ingrained, just by the way it was enacted, it was simply not something that I was going to accept nor have as a part of my life. The first time, I can forgive and forget. The second was not long after and was clearly showing that it was a character flaw. The reality is that she was with me for the money and, not to stroke my ego - it's not nor does it, I kind of have a bit.
If she'd been smart, she'd have at least pretended better. She'd have made far more in the long run. I have since surmised that she was of the opinion that she was better than other people and that she was doing me a favor by gracing me with her presence and sexual favors. Sure, I can agree to part of that but let's negotiate a price first.
She was a cutie and mostly made of plastic and silicone bits. She'd done some model work and then returned home with a black eye and a kid. That's where I came in. The people, the locals, who knew her did not warn me. It turns out, she has a history. Last I knew, she was in NM and doing something to someone for money, I'm sure. I kind of feel bad for the kid but that's not my job.
So, on advice of a lawyer, I got a restraining order and then proceeded to fund her trip through my lawyer where she agreed that, in return for the money, she'd go away. She was supposed to leave the car, however. I guess, I didn't really give her enough money for a replacement car but, again, not my job. I didn't even have to give her the money to go away. Not counting the car, I think I paid her $10,000 to just go away. The car was an older (2007ish) Honda so no big loss. I do, sort of, miss the car. It was pretty nice for the price.
The current missus looked over my shoulder (I don't hide shit now that we know each other well enough) and asked what she'd get when I got sick of her. What a horrible term, "current missus." Oh well. I told her as long as she's not a crazy psychopath then we'll not need to worry about such things. When we first met, there was no indication that I'd managed to accumulate a few dollars. I didn't lie about it nor did the question, directly, come up so I opted to not disclose it until after we'd resolved some issues and she seemed like a legitimate human being. So far so good but she does whack me once in a while. Abuse I tell you! Abuse! (Which is why she whacked me.)
There's something to be said for dating a woman nearly forty years your junior.
True, I was basing it off a summary and comments here on Slashdot. I can cope with 300 miles for *most* use. I can't do what I'm doing now with that but I can usually make use of such at home. If I can get 350 I'll be good for the vast majority of driving that I'd do in that type of car.
True. I always thought that Hobbs had a better outlook and philosophy.
Yip. I like to remind the kids that once upon a time I upgraded my RAM and buying 4 MB of RAM was $400 USD. My first laptop was something like $7000 except I bought some external storage (I seem to recall it was some proprietary tape format) so it was a bit more (like nearly $9000) and didn't actually have a battery in it. At least, I think that was the first one. *sighs* There have been so many over the years.
I didn't really touch much in the way of a microcomputer until the early 1980s. I did go to a school where we used an HP 9100 in the classroom but that's not really what I'll call a microcomputer. At any rate, I was a bit old. I can imagine the temptations and frustrations for a kid during those times. I can imagine them looking at those prices and thinking they'd never be able to afford them.
Today? I've got more compute power in my phone. I've just given away things like tablets and computers that weren't even thought of back then. Hell, I have a stack (somewhere over a half dozen) tablets that I don't even use or like. I keep trying to like that form factor but I just can't. I only have the number I have because I sent a couple off to someone that seemed interesting online.
Well, to be honest, Dilaudid by IV is absolutely wonderful. Well it was, for a long time. I need something stronger as my tolerance is that of a monster and, today, it would't break through the Suboxone.
I am an opiate addict though I no longer use IV (very often) and am on Suboxone. I did first take opiates for the pain, they handed 'em out like candy back then. However, that's not why I stuck with it. I used them because I like the warm embrace. I like being able to sleep. I like not really caring a whole lot. The world is full of stupid people who say stupid things and I find it easier to deal with them when I'm high. Dealing with them was a requirement.
I was a functional addict for years. I still am, really. Though I don't need to function as much. I shot up for years and years.
I guess my point is that it's nice that it solves the pain problem but some of us used it for greater therapies than pain and just plain recreation. I know it bothers many people to let others do what they want but, even as an addict that's no longer using illegal drugs, I'm still a huge fan of legalization. Bad behavior is already criminalized and prohibition has caused more harm than good. (I believe we're in agreement there.)
So, there's more than one use for opiates. It's not just about physical pain. Sometimes, it's just nice to be wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket and not give a shit that the person you're talking to is borderline retarded and somehow managed to be either elected or appointed. (I did a lot of work for the government.)
Oddly, most people think that posts must all be arguments. I'll add that this is not really an attempt to do so but rather to shed light on some additional usage patterns. I'm still on a monster dose of 32mg of Suboxone with an extra 16 available as needed. I was fond of extracting Fentanyl from the mylar patches and shooting that. To put that in perspective, Fentanyl is about the most potent thing meant to go into a human and is about 80 times more powerful than pure heroin/diacetylmorphine.
I'd wager that fewer than 6 learned anything specific and long-term from this. Out of those 600 infected devices, I bet they're owned by people who will have infections again in the near future because they failed to change their practices. Were there a way to prove this, I'd be willing to place money on it.
Well, to be fair, I don't think we've ever had such a situation where the "everything" was owned by a private entity. I somehow don't think that will ever happen. This isn't a statement of anything more than it says. It just hasn't ever happened, ever, as far as I know.
Well, I guess you could postulate that there's a $deity who owns everything, including thoughts? I'd also postulate that nothing, ever, has resulted in "anything desirable for everyone." Not even the end of slavery was desirable for everyone, to find an extreme example. Hell, not even eradicating polio was desirable for everyone or so I presume. I'm sure some nitwit was rather displeased with it - they probably sold leg braces.
As stated above. None. Not even on an infant. You need a lot more air then the movies would have you believe. You'd probably have to simultaneously use tens and thousands of these for it to be harmful. There is, literally, no measurable risk here unless you want a contrived situation where somehow someone affixes tens of thousands of these things across their body, in just the right spots, at just the right depths, and manages to fire them all at once. You'd have better luck harming yourself with a stick of butter.
Depending on your insulin needle, you'll need to inject at least two of them, full of air, directly into the bloodstream, to be at risk unless you manage to get it into an artery in which case you'll need about .5 mL before you're even remotely at risk.
This does not mean inject air. This means that you're better of using safe injection practices and spending that time making sure your kit is clean than getting every tiny bubble out of the rig. I no longer, often, use IV for my ingestion because I'm using sublingual Suboxone but I have made a great deal of study out of this. I always figured the doctor used a needle when they wanted the best bioavailability, why not learn how?
There is, of course, some risk but it's very overstated and justifiably so but there's no real reason to be worried unless you're injecting a bunch of air straight into your bloodstream. Feel free to look this up. I have. You can probably also ask your doctor, I have, but they might look at you funny. My doctor knows that I'm an addict. If I can't be honest with them then why bother having them?