Comment Re:Sounds like a psychedelic experience (Score 1) 237
Appeal to nature. Appeal to tradition. Look 'em up.
Appeal to nature. Appeal to tradition. Look 'em up.
Instead, we should focus on a more permanent solution, that of removing people from environments that would necessitate putting an electrode in their brains.
As a 25+ year sufferer, I agree with you somewhat; it's best to put the puzzle piece where it fits rather than take scissors to it. The problem is that sometimes that environment is society itself and it's just not very realistic to remove oneself from society aside from death, which also doesn't technically solve anything.
I often feel like I need to move off the grid somewhere and live a simpler, "natural" life without all the schedules, pressures and expectations of a normal life. Long term survival in the wild would probably stress most people out, but to me it's every day pressures and decisions that are complicated and confusing.
I moved from the woods of upstate NY to St Louis in 2010. It was exciting for a few months but the buzz of the city, even a small city like STL, slowly burned me out. I moved back this past fall.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some highly dysfunctional hermit: I function rather well in modern society, there's just no contentment in it. Only hiking brings me any significant peace.
So I am leery of any predictions that go far into the future when we can all agree that weathermen's (climatologists) predictions are basically a joke.
Weathermen are meteorologists, not climatologists. There's some relation but it's a significant difference.
Also in the 1970s these same climatologists were claiming that the ice age was right around the corner.
In the 70s a small number of climatologists predicted a cooling period was underway and, even though they were refuted by the vast majority, the news papers and magazines ran with the story as an imminent ice age because that sounds scarier.
I am absolutely not equipped to say that they are right or wrong. What I will say is that they are often wrong about what is going to happen tomorrow. So I place zero value of what they say will happen years into the future.
You don't have to believe their predictions; you can look at the recent records and see that it's hotter now than it's been since the "Medieval Warm Period" which we shot past 5 or so years ago.
Your rights are granted to you by society (i.e. the people, i.e. you).
Ha, that is most certainly not true. If it was, how do you justify saying "slavery was wrong"? Or don't you? Because if rights are only granted by society, then if society as a whole decides certain people don't deserve certain rights, then they don't get those rights and that is perfectly justified (if what you say is true). Perhaps you meant to add certain qualifiers.
You have to say there are certain rights that humans possess by being human. And then there are certain rights that society can grant later. Basic health care would be a good example: it isn't a basic human right, but it can be granted as a right by a society that passes a certain stage of wealth and medical technology.
You are both wrong because rights are not given or granted; they are taken from those who would deny them.
Want free speech? Speak freely and with no regard for those who would silence you.
Rights are a matter of opinion. The ones the majority agrees upon are the ones that are recognized. There are people who believe they have the right to kill and there are people who believe we don't have the right to say things that offend them. The only thing that makes both of them wrong is that they do not have the numbers to force the issue.
If you believe you have a right that is not recognized then find ways to convince others that you are correct. Racial equality and women's rights both got where they are because people protested, made noise, made arguments and gradually convinced the majority that they were right. Gay rights isn't there yet but is following the same model.
Also, what's with the stupid launch defaults? I close Firefox when I want a clean slate, not a glorified minimize. "Restore my windows and tabs from last time" is antithetical to the whole idea of closing all the tabs!
I've just spent 5 hours experimenting with customizing the installer for a company deployment and so I've repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, deleting %appdata%\Mozilla each time. Every time I started it up, it would open about:home and nothing else. It puts a button at the bottom of that screen to restore your last session, but that's it.
Also, we live in an age of large LCD displays. I can spare a few pixels of screen space to keep the bookmarks and buttons I use all day long visible instead of burying them somewhere underneath gloss and shiny.
The bookmarks toolbar? Click the Bookmarks button and check View Bookmarks Toolbar. In the time you took to whine about it, you could have turned it on and off 20x.
One last gripe: Tools > Add-ons should take me to Extensions, not the "Wonderful World of Stuff You Could Bloat Your Firefox With."
Again, based on my work with the installer today, it only defaults to Get Add-ons if you don't have any already installed. If you have extensions, it goes there by default. If you don't, what would the point of going there be?
Speaking of which, can we finally make Firefox ask before allowing programs (like nearly every AV, Skype, whatever) to hang their useless (or worse, Google-search-invading) lampshade in Extensions?
This was added in 8.0.
I hope you mean 1.25x. Getting paid a quarter of your normal salary to be a 24h slave is a shit deal.
This isn't the first time I've heard the "don't unsubscribe" wisdom. It's logical but doesn't reflect reality.
At my last job, I was asked frequently about the volume of spam. I got less than almost anyone else in the office despite having one of the most widely publicized email addresses. Why? Because I unsubscribed whenever I got something. When I was able to convince others to unsubscribe, they saw drastic decreases in spam.
This theory relies on the idea that spammers stop spamming people they don't get a reply from, and that's lunacy. The only time they give up on an address is if the email is rejected or if they cease operations. That being the case, there's no harm in trying to unsubscribe.
To address the initial question, if this company is so notorious why aren't they blocked at the SMTP server? Your IT people ought to be able to blacklist them with very little effort.
a few examples...
DarkPlaces
Tenebrae
ioquake3
World of Padman
OpenArena
Tremulous
Space trader
Smoking guns
Urban terror (used to be a Q3 mod but made standalone with the source release)
Even a pacifistic Buddhist interpretation, would be the prez seems inevitably toward reincarnation as a dung beetle at best; most would consider being a dung beetle as an "injurious" condition for the prez.
Hinduist, not Buddhist
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
What's a soldier to do when those two statements are in conflict with each other? Personally, I'm glad he chose the first. Few of us would have the courage.
Last time I got to name a large quantity of servers, I named them all after WW2 planes (mustang, lightning, zero, typhoon, tempest, spitfire, etc). My manager immediately made me change them all to (app01, app02, app03...) which made me wonder why he let me name them in the first place.
At home all my machines have been named after Starcraft units: lurker, raven, overlord, overseer, goliath, baneling, interceptor...
The USA has hundreds of military basses
Are they ill-tempered?
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
