It's the burning hoop that gets me. As someone said above, Ice Cream only cools the pain if you put it in your ass.
There are 2 places Haberneros are edible that I've found: A piece of raw pepper eaten in the same mouthful as a piece of meatball, and when made into saurkraut. When made into saurkraut, they really aren't hot at all. I'd put them way under the hotness level of a jalapeno. I don't know why. Maybe it's because all the capsaicin gets leached out? But then the kraut would be too hot you'd think.....
I don't know... I do know that if you put a burning candle into a microwave oven that because the fire is a conductive plasma, that its sort of like putting metal into the microwave. The conductive plasma gets inflated by the energy of the microwaves to like the size of a grapefruit or larger. And it's bright too! Way fun.
Well, bombs miss. And sometimes they are fired by insane Kim Jong Il types from far away. ( Yes I know that the missle would almost certainly be shot out of the sky ). And I didn't see any substantial roof over the rod ponds in the reactor building design. If a jet hit those, I think they'd be open to the air.
With the number of hands in the pot that there are, it's amazing these things don't blow up every day.
I wonder if the fact that excessive numbers of rods were kept packed tightly together in temporary cooling pools IN THE SAME BUILDING as the reactors was due to the fact that more approved ponds were, due to the excessive regulation insisted upon by NIMBYs, prohibitively expensive.
If it were easier to get storage space, then perhaps the rods would have been stored far enough apart that even without water there would have been no serious problem.
OFTEN common sense is sacrificed to satisfy bureaucrats need to fill in checkboxes.
That said, I don't think there can ever be a nuke plant that is safe should it become the target of a military attack. Wars happen every so often. ExpectedTimeTill(War) = 100 years seems reasonable for a given location. Power plants are definately valid military targets seeing as they provide power to everything else.
Can you scale your nuclear power plant down to the size of a matchbox car and hand it to a five year old with a hammer, and be confident of it's safety?
( Actually because of critical mass requirements, I should say can you scale up a five year old and give them a scaled up hammer, and allow them to go to town on your nuke plant? ) Ok, they'd be crushed under their own weight. Whatever - you get my point..
Here's what I would do if I could send messages to the past:
I'd build a web proxy server that would store all sent http requests for a configuable period of time and then send them out to the internet at that time. Responses would then be sent back in time to me.
Given enough memory for storing my web requests, this would let me browse the web of the future. Sending messages to the future is merely storing them on the hard drive for later retrieval.
Anyway, I'd use my advantage to win the lotto, play the stock market and avoid disasters.
You can murder all day and get away with it easy as pie as long as you don't get accused.
Once they accuse you you stand a fair chance of being convicted whether or not you did it, and you stand a fair chance of being accused if it is obvious that you might benefit from an especially timely death.
So put all your efforts in just not getting accused - whether or not you actually murder people. Don't worry about keeping a gun with bodies on it. Just keep the police from ever knocking on your door.
This means for one thing, that you don't murder your enemies. If anything you actively try to prevent them from being murdered. Instead you murder people you barely know so as to steer events subtly toward favoring the realization of you r goals always remaining far removed from the fray.
And you don't murder much if ever, since rarely is it the best way to accomplish your goals, however the apparent rashness of the act may cloak the perpetrator from unwanted suspicion when the benefit to the perpetrator is very small compared with the gravity of taking a life. For instance, someone might be murdered for their parking space.
And remember kids: Murder is bad m'kay. Don't murder. Just say no to murdering.
Ah, memories of watching Tom Baker followed by an episode of 'The Tripods' then to be lulled to sleep by 'The Star Hustler'.... On Fridays and Saturdays I could stay up WAY past 9:00...
I seem to remember that episodes starring his immediate predecessor weren't bad either.
Before that it was black and white. I think I only ever saw Dr #1 discover the daleks, and Dr #2 probably wasn't bad, but he did look like one of the Three Stooges...
I also remember not liking to watch Doctor Who anymore starting with the Fifth Doctor there may have been more doctors? I stopped caring.
Then as an adult, starting with Christopher E. , I've been a fan again. I've really enjoyed every one of the new Doctors since then.
It's been long enough since watching the old Tom Baker episodes that I don't remember the plots anymore, but having gone back and watched a few on Netflix, I don't see myself watching any more of them.
The special effects are very dated of course. I mean, green slime covered green lightbulbs wrapped in bubble wrap skin are obviously just what I described. But that's not the real reason. I just don't think the old episodes have much to offer someone who can/has viewed the new ones. The best of the old is part of the new character and plotwise, with HOUR long episodes to flesh things out more deeply.
Oh and ANOTHER snack I know of that is good is salty licorice fish. I guess these are common in Sweden ( it was a Swede who introduced me to them ) but they OUGHT to be available in convenience stores next to the regular 'Swedish Fish'.
Thanks Internet for making them available ( though not conveniently )
My brother, while living in Japan, would sometimes send me packages full of items from convenience stores/grocery stores/100 yen shops that he thought I'd get a kick out of.
Many of the packages had no english on them, so I had no idea what they were until I ate them. ( his note did basically inventory what stuff he sent, but I had to guess which was which )
Some stuff, like the squid and/or fish jerky was obvious, ( I have a picture of my daughter with dried tentacles hanging out of her mouth when she was three, chewing on squid jerky - it's kind of sweet, not bad actually. I'd never get her to eat squid or octopus now that she's five, and she won't eat fish except for smelts or fishsticks nowadays, though she does like steamed clams ).
It's my fault for not having fish enough I guess.
Anyway, I open this package of brown ovals, thinking they were chocolates, and pop one into my mouth. I chew, and realize it's certainly NOT chocolate. It tastes like a Slim Jim. I take it out of my mouth and look - it's full of... yolk!. It's a Slim-Jim-ized Hard Boiled Quail-Egg. Once I knew what it was, and wasn't expecting Chocolate, it wasn't bad. I think they might actually sell in the US if Slim-Jim made them and aired comical commercials with pro wrestlers popping egg bombs or something. With the right marketing it could be another snack on the shelf next to the cash register.
The only thing he sent that I found inedible were these red pickled plums. Echh. Awful! I can't imagine why anyone would like them.
For wierd plums that actually ARE worth eating try googling Saladitos. these are plum pits ( I dunno if the whole plum is there or if it's just the pit left over after the pitting machine has depitted a plum destined to be a prune. They are very sour and very SALTY. It takes some time to warm up to the level of salt, but they are GOOD. The problem I have is that the first 5 or 6 are the best, and then you eat most of a bag of them. What I've taken to doing is ordering a bag of them, and hiding handfuls in sock drawers around the house. Then I go through the bag, but have the pleasure of the first 5 or 6 as I rediscover my hidden plum troves over the next few months.
It seems they made mice lacking working telomerase and gave them a drug that fixed the problem. I'd like to see if normal mice given that drug live 10 years.
The Wii does everything I could ask... Maybe I'd care about resolution if I decided to ditch the laptop and just have a TV, a console with a web browser and a remote keyboard but I REALLY hate the idea of being dependent on a proprietary console for even that much.. it's coming though... We're all going to be prisoners of proprietary devices until ALL the devices can do everything you could ask for and are dirt cheap and there is no incentive to stick with a device maker that, how did the poster above put it? approach it ass first.
For me, gaming on the computer tends to be flash stuff. I love little puzzle games.
I just downloaded 'World of Goo' for Wii and I've been playing that - even my 5 year old can play it and it's fun for me too. This stuff isn't shovelware, it's the real reason for having a Wii. Deer captor for 5 bucks worth of Wii Points. Mario 1, 2, and 3 (NES emulated on Wii), a Zelda, Mario Cart, Mario Galaxy, and Netflix. I'm going to unsubscribe from most of my Dish subscription and save 30 bucks a month. I might let it go completely once my Dish contract runs out and get a minimum package cable setup ( for faster internet not for the channels! OR NOT, DSL seems plenty fast enough for me and I've got Ooma VOiP, a computer, and use it for Netflix... ). Netflix is a TV killer. Nielsen mailed me five one dollar bills and a TV diary. I mailed it back saying I watched NO TV. I've watched netflix exclusively since I figured out how to get my Wii to do it a few months ago.
I don't use the balance board I have, and I don't play many games. Only a few games are paced appropriately for a 5 year old's hand eye coordination level, but that is likely to change soon as she gets older.
This xmas or soon thereafter, I might look into getting a swordfighting game. I got the fancy motion thingy last xmas without knowing I had no games that required it and I want to get a fencing game that is realistic and fun for little ones.
During the 1770s 1780s, common practice was for college bound 13-15 year olds to just attend college. I'm not sure what the supposed need for high school is, other than to give people 4 more years to learn what they ought to have learned in middle school / grammar school.
Maybe whatever the bitter principle in gentain is, it diffuses throughout the body and remains bitter. Then by eating it, it would make YOU ( including your lungs ) 'taste bitter'. For instance aspertame tastes sweet, and is eliminated through urine without being metabolised. I suppose that if you ate human meat of a human who'd consumed lots of diet soda, they might taste sweet. Might there be bitter substances that operate the same way? Is gentain one of them? BTW, I don't have asthma.
Maybe some herbalist could devise a spray of Gentain ( very bitter ) extractives and experiment inhaling it themselves. If they don't die, maybe they could put it in a spray 'flavor spray' 'food'. Then by word of mouth it might spread through the Asthmatic community that it works better than standard inhalers ( if indeed it did work ), displacing them. Nobody would need to make claims as to inhaled gentain extract's supposed drug qualities.... Maybe it doesn't need to be inhaled. If not, they could maybe add it to a soda..
Scabies is curable for humans, but not animals. Untreated, it's a serious illness. It can make a squirrel into a chupacabra, and it would do the same to a human.
Years ago I had a case of scabies, and the doctor gave me some (pyrethrin?) goop to rub all over from head to toe which cured it. I remember how god awful itchy I was, ( and for a few weeks after the cure as the dead mites and droppings imbedded in my skin slowly migrated toward the outer layers to be sloughed off. The alergic reaction continues making you not quite sure if the cure worked until about a month later.
If there had been no cure, I don't think I could have lived with it. I think I would have made the trip to Wal*Mart and bought a cheap 12 guage and ended my misery eventually.
Which got me to thinking... Scabies has been around forever. What did people do in the olden days to cure it? I can't envision people walking around madly scratching all day in say the 1800s. But wouldn't uncurable scabies tend to run rampant through the whole population? You'd think everyone would have it.
Book of Eli time: You come down with scabies, what do you do? The active ingredient in horse fly spray is the same as that in the goop I used. I'd see if I could find some in an old farm supply store and rub it from head to toe. I think it would probably work without killing me. I'd try RAID too and risk being poisoned if the choice was between that and living with scabies. But suppose there were no such thing, the shelves are bare and even RAID is not to be found.
Then what? The insecticide permethrin/pyrethrin, I believe is based on a chemical found in crythanthemums/geraniums/tansy plants. I'd crush up a bunch of tansies and try rubbing myself down with those.
Would that work? I dunno.. What did they do back in the olden days?
I can get a My Documents heirarchy without there being a such a user detectable concept in the OS. Programs, either badly designed, or designed to comply with an ill concieved guideline tend to default to saving somewhere in the My Documents heirarchy. I want them to defautl to saving in the last place I saved something in that program. If there were no 'My Documents' concept in Windows, then it wouldn't be there to glom onto.
The unpresupposing 'desktop' concept is good enough as a default when the user hasn't ever used the program. It has the advantage that when something is saved 'to the desktop' it appears there where the user can see it giving helpful feedback that saving has created a document that has now appeared on the computer's destop.
When the user is annoyed with the clutter they can investigate the process of saving documents elsewhere devising their own document storage heirarchy ( probably folders on the desktop ). What do you want to bet it won't have 'My Documents' in the path.
I guess it feels like they've changed more than they have. The big change was when it became apparent to me that it was more trouble to keep my stuff in c:\mystuff than it was to submit to the oppressive desire of programs to save things in the c:\Long\ass\path with spaces\to\the\Users\username\crappyfolder\Desktop\My Documents\morecrap folder. And then after I've finished crying, they have the nerve to change it again!
I blame microsoft for actively trying to encourage computer illiteracy in an attempt to create lucrative 'features' people are ever so grateful for but which actually provide less than what the user could have achieved themself with just a modicum of computer literacy.
Every time a new version of windows comes out, the folder structure changes. Fuck 'My Documents' and all it's ever shifting directory of welded into the OS subfolders right in the Goat-Ass!
Every time a new version of windows comes out, I have to look up on the internet how to show all files, even the hidden ones so that select-all/copy/paste works as expected to back stuff up. Every time a new version of windows comes out, I need to ask google how to show the file extensions of files, and adjust file associations.
Basic info like: 'Where is "My computer"?', 'Where is "the C: drive"', 'What is "the path to the folder that actually contains the items on the desktop"', are also subject to change/disappear/move EVERY FUCKING TIME a new version of windows comes out.
Shit like, Dammit! I used Skype for one fucking call, and now it starts up every time I start windows slowing things down needlessly, How do I remove it from the startup items? Oh, dammit, now there's no such thing, I have to adjust a setting IN THE PROGRAM ( which will be different in every program so I need to search it out for each program, and god forbid I install something a little bit shady and reluctant NOT to start up and splash me with spam every time I boot... Any bit of knowledge a user gets that gives them an advantage in getting stuff done themselves is promptly made useless so that a solution can be sold to them for money.
Once upon a time 'backing up' was as simple as 'Select All' 'Copy' and then 'Paste' onto any disk with the space. There is NO reason, ABSOLUTELY no reason why this can't still be the case. It's 10000% easier than any of the hundereds of convenient backup solutions devised since. I seriously remember when everything, OS and all fit on a COPYABLE floppy disk. It actually profited a user if they knew what a directory heirarchy was, and where their files were saved. The OS was designed to educate the user about this.
Now, most users can't find their documents, so they can't back them up. The documents come up in a drop down list whenever they open their favorite program, and they select from that. They never click on the document and have the program open. Or if they have figured out how to get to their documents and click on them from the desktop, then they can't find their disk drives.
Most non-free efforts to 'make computers easier' just introduce a new way to do less than what you could do before, while at the same time making it less convenient to do things the way you used to.
Free software doesn't have this problem. New ways of doing things don't ruin old ways, but compete on an even field to be preferred.
Ok, if a white hole were really the opposite of a black hole, wouldn't stuff come popping out of the white hole and then start orbiting, with the orbit getting gradually larger?
Either incandescents are less available, or the regulation is a nullop.
As for the last statement, I'd like to know what it's supposedly propaganda for, since I just made it up. It's the conclusion I draw from the fact that the market operates efficiently on it's own. There's nowhere to go from there but downhill. Of course 'efficiently' is a word with lots of wiggle room. I'd prefer to define it as everyone giving all their stuff to me, but others might take issue with that definition. Environmentalists might mention externalities that are not priced into the market. Regulations make the economy operate inefficiently - the size of it is thereby reduced. Fortunately? the 'environmental regulations' do have the desired effect of protecting the environment, but rather than operating as most would guess by increasing efficiency, they protect the environment by destroying the fruits of human activity. Much the same effect could be achieved by taxing, and then using the money to dig holes with hand shovels and then fill them in, or by random carpet bombing.
CFLs, which are actually superior to incandescents by most measures will be used naturally in almost all areas except those few where incandescents are truely superior ( such as heating - I've seen them used for instance to heat a box housing baby chicks - a use for which a cfl would not do ). The law would have that person buy a heater and a cfl bulb at greater expense to do both jobs. Laws simply can not mandate true efficiency. They can only EVER a) redirect resources and/or b) decrease efficiency.
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It's the burning hoop that gets me. As someone said above, Ice Cream only cools the pain if you put it in your ass.
There are 2 places Haberneros are edible that I've found: A piece of raw pepper eaten in the same mouthful as a piece of meatball, and when made into saurkraut. When made into saurkraut, they really aren't hot at all. I'd put them way under the hotness level of a jalapeno. I don't know why. Maybe it's because all the capsaicin gets leached out? But then the kraut would be too hot you'd think.....
I don't know... I do know that if you put a burning candle into a microwave oven that because the fire is a conductive plasma, that its sort of like putting metal into the microwave. The conductive plasma gets inflated by the energy of the microwaves to like the size of a grapefruit or larger. And it's bright too! Way fun.
Well, bombs miss. And sometimes they are fired by insane Kim Jong Il types from far away. ( Yes I know that the missle would almost certainly be shot out of the sky ). And I didn't see any substantial roof over the rod ponds in the reactor building design. If a jet hit those, I think they'd be open to the air.
With the number of hands in the pot that there are, it's amazing these things don't blow up every day.
I wonder if the fact that excessive numbers of rods were kept packed tightly together in temporary cooling pools IN THE SAME BUILDING as the reactors was due to the fact that more approved ponds were, due to the excessive regulation insisted upon by NIMBYs, prohibitively expensive.
If it were easier to get storage space, then perhaps the rods would have been stored far enough apart that even without water there would have been no serious problem.
OFTEN common sense is sacrificed to satisfy bureaucrats need to fill in checkboxes.
That said, I don't think there can ever be a nuke plant that is safe should it become the target of a military attack. Wars happen every so often. ExpectedTimeTill(War) = 100 years seems reasonable for a given location. Power plants are definately valid military targets seeing as they provide power to everything else.
Can you scale your nuclear power plant down to the size of a matchbox car and hand it to a five year old with a hammer, and be confident of it's safety?
( Actually because of critical mass requirements, I should say can you scale up a five year old and give them a scaled up hammer, and allow them to go to town on your nuke plant? ) Ok, they'd be crushed under their own weight. Whatever - you get my point..
Here's what I would do if I could send messages to the past:
I'd build a web proxy server that would store all sent http requests for a configuable period of time and then send them out to the internet at that time. Responses would then be sent back in time to me.
Given enough memory for storing my web requests, this would let me browse the web of the future. Sending messages to the future is merely storing them on the hard drive for later retrieval.
Anyway, I'd use my advantage to win the lotto, play the stock market and avoid disasters.
I doubt these are still being manufactured and used.
You can murder all day and get away with it easy as pie as long as you don't get accused.
Once they accuse you you stand a fair chance of being convicted whether or not you did it, and you stand a fair chance of being accused if it is obvious that you might benefit from an especially timely death.
So put all your efforts in just not getting accused - whether or not you actually murder people. Don't worry about keeping a gun with bodies on it. Just keep the police from ever knocking on your door.
This means for one thing, that you don't murder your enemies. If anything you actively try to prevent them from being murdered. Instead you murder people you barely know so as to steer events subtly toward favoring the realization of you r goals always remaining far removed from the fray.
And you don't murder much if ever, since rarely is it the best way to accomplish your goals, however the apparent rashness of the act may cloak the perpetrator from unwanted suspicion when the benefit to the perpetrator is very small compared with the gravity of taking a life. For instance, someone might be murdered for their parking space.
And remember kids: Murder is bad m'kay. Don't murder. Just say no to murdering.
Ah, memories of watching Tom Baker followed by an episode of 'The Tripods' then to be lulled to sleep by 'The Star Hustler'.... On Fridays and Saturdays I could stay up WAY past 9:00...
I seem to remember that episodes starring his immediate predecessor weren't bad either.
Before that it was black and white. I think I only ever saw Dr #1 discover the daleks, and Dr #2 probably wasn't bad, but he did look like one of the Three Stooges...
I also remember not liking to watch Doctor Who anymore starting with the Fifth Doctor there may have been more doctors? I stopped caring.
Then as an adult, starting with Christopher E. , I've been a fan again. I've really enjoyed every one of the new Doctors since then.
It's been long enough since watching the old Tom Baker episodes that I don't remember the plots anymore, but having gone back and watched a few on Netflix, I don't see myself watching any more of them.
The special effects are very dated of course. I mean, green slime covered green lightbulbs wrapped in bubble wrap skin are obviously just what I described. But that's not the real reason. I just don't think the old episodes have much to offer someone who can/has viewed the new ones. The best of the old is part of the new character and plotwise, with HOUR long episodes to flesh things out more deeply.
Oh and ANOTHER snack I know of that is good is salty licorice fish. I guess these are common in Sweden ( it was a Swede who introduced me to them ) but they OUGHT to be available in convenience stores next to the regular 'Swedish Fish'.
Thanks Internet for making them available ( though not conveniently )
My brother, while living in Japan, would sometimes send me packages full of items from convenience stores/grocery stores/100 yen shops that he thought I'd get a kick out of.
Many of the packages had no english on them, so I had no idea what they were until I ate them. ( his note did basically inventory what stuff he sent, but I had to guess which was which )
Some stuff, like the squid and/or fish jerky was obvious, ( I have a picture of my daughter with dried tentacles hanging out of her mouth when she was three, chewing on squid jerky - it's kind of sweet, not bad actually. I'd never get her to eat squid or octopus now that she's five, and she won't eat fish except for smelts or fishsticks nowadays, though she does like steamed clams ).
It's my fault for not having fish enough I guess.
Anyway, I open this package of brown ovals, thinking they were chocolates, and pop one into my mouth. I chew, and realize it's certainly NOT chocolate. It tastes like a Slim Jim. I take it out of my mouth and look - it's full of ... yolk!. It's a Slim-Jim-ized Hard Boiled Quail-Egg. Once I knew what it was, and wasn't expecting Chocolate, it wasn't bad. I think they might actually sell in the US if Slim-Jim made them and aired comical commercials with pro wrestlers popping egg bombs or something. With the right marketing it could be another snack on the shelf next to the cash register.
The only thing he sent that I found inedible were these red pickled plums. Echh. Awful! I can't imagine why anyone would like them.
For wierd plums that actually ARE worth eating try googling Saladitos. these are plum pits ( I dunno if the whole plum is there or if it's just the pit left over after the pitting machine has depitted a plum destined to be a prune. They are very sour and very SALTY. It takes some time to warm up to the level of salt, but they are GOOD. The problem I have is that the first 5 or 6 are the best, and then you eat most of a bag of them. What I've taken to doing is ordering a bag of them, and hiding handfuls in sock drawers around the house. Then I go through the bag, but have the pleasure of the first 5 or 6 as I rediscover my hidden plum troves over the next few months.
It seems they made mice lacking working telomerase and gave them a drug that fixed the problem. I'd like to see if normal mice given that drug live 10 years.
I thought there were no advantages to HDMI over the 5 wire cables other than less wires to tangle up. Am I wrong?
The Wii does everything I could ask... Maybe I'd care about resolution if I decided to ditch the laptop and just have a TV, a console with a web browser and a remote keyboard but I REALLY hate the idea of being dependent on a proprietary console for even that much.. it's coming though... We're all going to be prisoners of proprietary devices until ALL the devices can do everything you could ask for and are dirt cheap and there is no incentive to stick with a device maker that, how did the poster above put it? approach it ass first.
For me, gaming on the computer tends to be flash stuff. I love little puzzle games.
I just downloaded 'World of Goo' for Wii and I've been playing that - even my 5 year old can play it and it's fun for me too. This stuff isn't shovelware, it's the real reason for having a Wii. Deer captor for 5 bucks worth of Wii Points. Mario 1, 2, and 3 (NES emulated on Wii), a Zelda, Mario Cart, Mario Galaxy, and Netflix. I'm going to unsubscribe from most of my Dish subscription and save 30 bucks a month. I might let it go completely once my Dish contract runs out and get a minimum package cable setup ( for faster internet not for the channels! OR NOT, DSL seems plenty fast enough for me and I've got Ooma VOiP, a computer, and use it for Netflix... ). Netflix is a TV killer. Nielsen mailed me five one dollar bills and a TV diary. I mailed it back saying I watched NO TV. I've watched netflix exclusively since I figured out how to get my Wii to do it a few months ago.
I don't use the balance board I have, and I don't play many games. Only a few games are paced appropriately for a 5 year old's hand eye coordination level, but that is likely to change soon as she gets older.
This xmas or soon thereafter, I might look into getting a swordfighting game. I got the fancy motion thingy last xmas without knowing I had no games that required it and I want to get a fencing game that is realistic and fun for little ones.
If you help me find the Time Masheen, I'll pay you like 4 billion dollars.
During the 1770s 1780s, common practice was for college bound 13-15 year olds to just attend college. I'm not sure what the supposed need for high school is, other than to give people 4 more years to learn what they ought to have learned in middle school / grammar school.
Maybe whatever the bitter principle in gentain is, it diffuses throughout the body and remains bitter. Then by eating it, it would make YOU ( including your lungs ) 'taste bitter'. For instance aspertame tastes sweet, and is eliminated through urine without being metabolised. I suppose that if you ate human meat of a human who'd consumed lots of diet soda, they might taste sweet. Might there be bitter substances that operate the same way? Is gentain one of them?
BTW, I don't have asthma.
I meant to say that it's not curable in WILD animals since wild animals don't have access to vet care or medicines.
Maybe some herbalist could devise a spray of Gentain ( very bitter ) extractives and experiment inhaling it themselves. If they don't die, maybe they could put it in a spray 'flavor spray' 'food'. Then by word of mouth it might spread through the Asthmatic community that it works better than standard inhalers ( if indeed it did work ), displacing them. Nobody would need to make claims as to inhaled gentain extract's supposed drug qualities.... Maybe it doesn't need to be inhaled. If not, they could maybe add it to a soda..
Scabies is curable for humans, but not animals. Untreated, it's a serious illness. It can make a squirrel into a chupacabra, and it would do the same to a human.
Years ago I had a case of scabies, and the doctor gave me some (pyrethrin?) goop to rub all over from head to toe which cured it. I remember how god awful itchy I was, ( and for a few weeks after the cure as the dead mites and droppings imbedded in my skin slowly migrated toward the outer layers to be sloughed off. The alergic reaction continues making you not quite sure if the cure worked until about a month later.
If there had been no cure, I don't think I could have lived with it. I think I would have made the trip to Wal*Mart and bought a cheap 12 guage and ended my misery eventually.
Which got me to thinking... Scabies has been around forever. What did people do in the olden days to cure it? I can't envision people walking around madly scratching all day in say the 1800s. But wouldn't uncurable scabies tend to run rampant through the whole population? You'd think everyone would have it.
Book of Eli time: You come down with scabies, what do you do? The active ingredient in horse fly spray is the same as that in the goop I used. I'd see if I could find some in an old farm supply store and rub it from head to toe. I think it would probably work without killing me. I'd try RAID too and risk being poisoned if the choice was between that and living with scabies. But suppose there were no such thing, the shelves are bare and even RAID is not to be found.
Then what? The insecticide permethrin/pyrethrin, I believe is based on a chemical found in crythanthemums/geraniums/tansy plants. I'd crush up a bunch of tansies and try rubbing myself down with those.
Would that work? I dunno.. What did they do back in the olden days?
I can get a My Documents heirarchy without there being a such a user detectable concept in the OS. Programs, either badly designed, or designed to comply with an ill concieved guideline tend to default to saving somewhere in the My Documents heirarchy. I want them to defautl to saving in the last place I saved something in that program. If there were no 'My Documents' concept in Windows, then it wouldn't be there to glom onto.
The unpresupposing 'desktop' concept is good enough as a default when the user hasn't ever used the program. It has the advantage that when something is saved 'to the desktop' it appears there where the user can see it giving helpful feedback that saving has created a document that has now appeared on the computer's destop.
When the user is annoyed with the clutter they can investigate the process of saving documents elsewhere devising their own document storage heirarchy ( probably folders on the desktop ). What do you want to bet it won't have 'My Documents' in the path.
I guess it feels like they've changed more than they have. The big change was when it became apparent to me that it was more trouble to keep my stuff in c:\mystuff than it was to submit to the oppressive desire of programs to save things in the c:\Long\ass\path with spaces\to\the\Users\username\crappyfolder\Desktop\My Documents\morecrap folder. And then after I've finished crying, they have the nerve to change it again!
I blame microsoft for actively trying to encourage computer illiteracy in an attempt to create lucrative 'features' people are ever so grateful for but which actually provide less than what the user could have achieved themself with just a modicum of computer literacy.
Every time a new version of windows comes out, the folder structure changes. Fuck 'My Documents' and all it's ever shifting directory of welded into the OS subfolders right in the Goat-Ass!
Every time a new version of windows comes out, I have to look up on the internet how to show all files, even the hidden ones so that select-all/copy/paste works as expected to back stuff up. Every time a new version of windows comes out, I need to ask google how to show the file extensions of files, and adjust file associations.
Basic info like: 'Where is "My computer"?', 'Where is "the C: drive"', 'What is "the path to the folder that actually contains the items on the desktop"', are also subject to change/disappear/move EVERY FUCKING TIME a new version of windows comes out.
Shit like, Dammit! I used Skype for one fucking call, and now it starts up every time I start windows slowing things down needlessly, How do I remove it from the startup items? Oh, dammit, now there's no such thing, I have to adjust a setting IN THE PROGRAM ( which will be different in every program so I need to search it out for each program, and god forbid I install something a little bit shady and reluctant NOT to start up and splash me with spam every time I boot... Any bit of knowledge a user gets that gives them an advantage in getting stuff done themselves is promptly made useless so that a solution can be sold to them for money.
Once upon a time 'backing up' was as simple as 'Select All' 'Copy' and then 'Paste' onto any disk with the space. There is NO reason, ABSOLUTELY no reason why this can't still be the case. It's 10000% easier than any of the hundereds of convenient backup solutions devised since. I seriously remember when everything, OS and all fit on a COPYABLE floppy disk. It actually profited a user if they knew what a directory heirarchy was, and where their files were saved. The OS was designed to educate the user about this.
Now, most users can't find their documents, so they can't back them up. The documents come up in a drop down list whenever they open their favorite program, and they select from that. They never click on the document and have the program open. Or if they have figured out how to get to their documents and click on them from the desktop, then they can't find their disk drives.
Most non-free efforts to 'make computers easier' just introduce a new way to do less than what you could do before, while at the same time making it less convenient to do things the way you used to.
Free software doesn't have this problem. New ways of doing things don't ruin old ways, but compete on an even field to be preferred.
Ok, if a white hole were really the opposite of a black hole, wouldn't stuff come popping out of the white hole and then start orbiting, with the orbit getting gradually larger?
I learned of Feynman's Sprinkler from this post:
http://www.natscience.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/physics/33265/Possible-to-win-the-Powerball-Lotto-using-antimatter
Prolly applies to white-holes/black-holes too.
Either incandescents are less available, or the regulation is a nullop.
As for the last statement, I'd like to know what it's supposedly propaganda for, since I just made it up. It's the conclusion I draw from the fact that the market operates efficiently on it's own. There's nowhere to go from there but downhill. Of course 'efficiently' is a word with lots of wiggle room. I'd prefer to define it as everyone giving all their stuff to me, but others might take issue with that definition. Environmentalists might mention externalities that are not priced into the market. Regulations make the economy operate inefficiently - the size of it is thereby reduced. Fortunately? the 'environmental regulations' do have the desired effect of protecting the environment, but rather than operating as most would guess by increasing efficiency, they protect the environment by destroying the fruits of human activity. Much the same effect could be achieved by taxing, and then using the money to dig holes with hand shovels and then fill them in, or by random carpet bombing.
CFLs, which are actually superior to incandescents by most measures will be used naturally in almost all areas except those few where incandescents are truely superior ( such as heating - I've seen them used for instance to heat a box housing baby chicks - a use for which a cfl would not do ). The law would have that person buy a heater and a cfl bulb at greater expense to do both jobs.
Laws simply can not mandate true efficiency. They can only EVER a) redirect resources and/or b) decrease efficiency.