I'm not speaking on behalf of people who have legitimately been prescribed medications and need them for legitimate medical reasons. I'm speaking simply as someone who has in the past used these types of drugs specifically for they benefits they offer in the context of academics and cognitive enhancements in general. Maybe it's a more stereotypical case of abuse but I think there's a lot to be said for that spectrum of the argument.

these medications is they provide an escape for learning things when someone doesn't have the self-motivation to propel themselves through the task. As you continue to use the substance, it becomes the primary means for information uptake. "I don't feel like studying right now, I'll just take a little dose of this to enhance my motivation/interest" becomes the de facto fallback. A hefty majority of life is learning to spark your own interest; when you're constantly doing it through rose-colored glasses, it becomes much more difficult to achieve on an even keel. At least, this has been my experience with the situation.

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He said he had RAID0 on his Mac. Since this is his lowest level device, he would be looking for the highest performance while allowing for the best disk space utilization. He backs it up regularly with Timemachine which provides his backup needs and since it is run so often, his only worry is that it hasn't run in the near past. His most data-safe level is a RAID10 set up which is a mirrored and striped setup providing write performance and strong redundancy.

The issue is that the United States was founded on the principal of expanding outward and populating as much territory as possible. This philosophy has proven to result in some huge drawbacks with outward expansion still financially incentivized as opposed to a focus on maintaining and supporting infrastructure. This has caused an extreme disparity in land use per person in relation to most european cities. As a result we see begin to see the core of many cities become dilapidated and unmaintained as well as a huge influx of systems to support the personal transit means of each individual that has become all but a necessity. Disregarding the impact of that many more vehicles on the roads, it becomes a lot easier for social segregations to be reinforced with no foreseeable future of remedying the gap.

I for one would like to see this discouraged as much as possible and would more than welcome alternatives to everyone securing their own means of personal transportation. I know I've digressed a bit from the topic of the article but I would say that google's attempts to make public transit more transparent and viable to someone who may have overlooked the option is a step in the right direction; even if they haven't hit the nail on the head.

The fundamental problem arises form land usage and policy regarding expansion. In most cases, it's financially more intelligent to continue expanding outward. As we continue to expand outwards and emphasize the dream of owning a place of one's own (not to mention the amount of real estate as a symbol of status), travel means become much harder to account for. The preferred method necessarily becomes personal transportation. This leads to more routes for this transportation and accounting for parking of this transportation. Ideally, we should incentivize infrastructure and the modernization of what already exists. Mass-transit is arguably a better means but as long as everyone is encouraged and in the habit of regularly using their own means, it won't be the trend. Incentivized urban sprawl has many consequences that don't get considered enough in expansion/land appropriation.

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They should countersue for the time they lost watching the movie.

Is the W3C reporting on the compatibility of a standard they refuse to endorse until they've come to a consensus. Sending mixed signals...

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