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Comment: Re:You know... (Score 1) 611

by Lucidus (#39066223) Attached to: Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought
And yet, there are many, many people who have used amphetamines every day for years without running into these problems that you claim to be inevitable. Front line troops and military pilots, for example, are routinely expected to self-medicate to optimize their performance. ADHD patients get Adderall from their doctors (when supplies permit). And I have personally known many ordinary people who have used speed recreationally while maintaining their jobs, health, and relationships. Demonizing it is just not helpful.

Comment: Re:So just like the old Sears crap? (Score 2) 532

by Lucidus (#38873021) Attached to: Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors

I'm genuinely surprised, and faintly horrified, to find someone using Best Buy as an example of good retail practice. In the past few years they have been caught misrepresenting products, selling used products as new, setting up a fake website with inflated prices, and otherwise behaving like dishonest scum.

Comment: Re:The Original (Score 1) 192

by Lucidus (#38231594) Attached to: Typically, I touch N computer keyboards daily:

My bad - I posted after reading the existing comments. and I guess I lost track of that important detail.

However, my piano is a digital Roland, hooked up to all sorts of MIDI stuff and to my computer, so it may still qualify.

I'd much rather it were a 1920's Steinway, but I have neither the space nor the budget for a really nice piano.

Comment: Re:Good test. (Score 1) 204

by Lucidus (#37355078) Attached to: Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail

U.S. postal regulations explicitly state that if you receive unsolicited goods in the mail, they are yours to do with as you wish - you have no obligation to the sender. The liability is always with the sender. This is to discourage certain obvious scams.

If something is delivered to you which is clearly intended for someone else (i.e., right address, wrong name), things might get more complicated. I don't know the legalities in that case.

Star Wars Prequels

George Lucas At It Again->

Submitted by Lucidus
Lucidus writes "George Lucas has apparently decided to make further changes to the original Star Wars movies when they are released on Blu-Ray, according to Time magazine. "The most egregious and lamented of the purported changes: when Darth Vader throws Emperor Palpatine to his death in Return of the Jedi, he now cries a superfluous (and silly-sounding) 'Noooo!'""
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