Dumoulin and Thouin’s idea is to use the distribution of shotgun pellets rather than sand or rice (which would presumably be in short supply in the post-apocalyptic world).
really...sand in short supply?
and shotgun shells aren't?
...if you like your 7.1 million sign-ups, you can keep your 7.1 million sign-ups.
just tell him this is the year of desktop linux.
Which is it? Felon or minor drug offense, because it can't be both. Possession is a misdemeanor. Intent to sell is a felony. I seriously doubt your sob story.
seriously doubt this then buddy...
05-2008-CF-XXXXX-AXXX-XX DRUGS REOPEN DISP 03/20/2008 STATE VS [NOPE] DEFENDANT (1) 09/16/19XX ABCDEF
Cnt Record No. Charge Dt Statute Charge Disp Dt Final Disp Citation No.
2 1 03/19/2008 893.13.1.F-T POSSESSION OF HEROIN 04/17/2013 GUILTY 20116366GLK
3 1 03/19/2008 POSSESSION OF ALPRAZOLAM XANAX 04/12/2011 DISPOSED BY PROSECUTOR 20116367GLK
4 1 03/19/2008 POSS OF METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE MDMA 04/12/2011 DISPOSED BY PROSECUTOR 20116368GLK
5 1 03/19/2008 893.13.6.A-AQ POSS OF MORE THAN 20 GRAMS OF CANNABIS 04/17/2013 GUILTY 20116369GLK
6 1 03/19/2008 893.147.1-B USE OR POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA 04/17/2013 GUILTY
7 1 03/19/2008 316.193.1 DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE 04/17/2013 GUILTY 20118737XEC
8 1 03/19/2008 322.34.1 DRIVING W LIC SUSP REV CANC W O KNOWLEDGE 04/17/2013 GUILTY 20116364GLK
9 1 03/19/2008 316.217 DRIVING WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS 01/18/2013 PAID FINE OR CIVIL PENALTY 20116363GLK
the H, and the 20+ grams of weed are all FELONIES...no "sales" .
thank god i kicked the whole mess, but this is basically a life sentence career wise.
my dad was Cuban...came over in '59 when Castro came to power, and made a really good life for himself.
funny thing is...he loved spam...said it was really popular over there.
go figure.
to someone who lives, on a a daily basis, with the discrimination and stigma of being a convicted felon for minor drug offenses, these kind of articles piss me off to no end.
these corporate douchebags can blatantly break federal, state, and international laws and not even lose their jobs, where people like me who got caught with some recreational substance see their entire careers and life go into the toilet.
fuck those HP crooks, AND the DOJ they rode in on.
reading the headline, i thought the story was going to be about people dropping change and dollar bills on smart cars as a way to, i dunno, show their support for eco-friendliness?
...why do people have the ridiculous assumptions that..
1. coding is "fun" and it's something kids/adults would just love spending time doing "if we just exposed them to it"
and
2, that kids/adults want to spend their lives in semi-constant frustration of having to get these damn computers working and to learn and relearn skills every 4 years?
my 12yo daughter encapsulated it perfectly a few months ago..
"dad...you seem really smart...why in the world did you decide to be a programmer and sit behind a computer 10 hours a day instead of doing something cool?"
"i tip my hat to the new constitution
take a bow for the new revolution
smile and grin at the change all around me...
pick up my guitar and play
just like yesterday
when i get on my knees and pray...
we won't get fooled again"
"meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Yeah we might be in a simulation (that's in another simulation and so on) but why do we experience this consciousness thing? Not talking about free will, but the experience of awareness itself.
Are the rules of this universe such that no matter what as long as you have certain processes, consciousness will arise as an emergent phenomenon? And what would those certain processes be?
yeah...wouldn't that be the point of the simulation? i often wonder...do the Sims in the game think they are alive and making "free-will" type decisions? i think they do actually...altho we can never really find out.
Could it be extinguished and yet the person still continues on "living" and moving as before? For example say a person went to sleep, and woke up the next day but never had the consciousness thing anymore - but just walked and talked etc like before as if he/she still had it.
that's a pretty good question...humans seem to be the only creatures (that we know of of course) in this simulation that have achieved the level of consciousness of which you speak, and it's highly probable that through the evolutionary path of Man, at some point our ancestors did *not* have this "consciousness thing" of which you speak, so my guess would be yes.
because we are almost surely living in simulation. and in that simulation, things just have to be so for us to be simulated.
they already have...an infinite numbers of times.
since when do our corporate overlords ever do anything that really saves the consumer money?
a study needs to come out how such a technology will save the corporations billions...then perhaps a change will be made.
Why autism? There are any number of conditions that would then apply? If what you are suggesting were true, then we would see a rise in all of these. More likely, the rise is not from doctors or SSI benefits, but because the DSM has been updated which broadly expanded those things that are now considered autism.
sure...that sounds reasonable too.
it's not hard to imagine that there are several forces at work here to explain the sharply rising incident of Autism prognosis.
no...i am simply making the economic point that once a diagnosis of Autism had embedded into it a financial windfall in the form of generous SSI benefits, that it makes rational sense that parents would work much harder at finding doctors willing to make that diagnosis.
it would hardly require that the "entire medical profession" be in on the "scam".
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
