21486 pts ยท February 13, 2012
Computer programmer, lives in the SW hills of Portland, has teh depression.
Bizarrely, that's actually the remit of "Customs and Border Protection" (CBP), which is a separate entity in the Department of Homeland Security. You may wonder, then, why we have "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (ICE).
It was...okay. It tasted weird. Kinda floral and with a subtle spice note. Reminded me a little of those old violet pastiles, if you've ever had those. Could definitely have been modeled after a spray someone's grandparents had to cover bathroom odors. If you were expecting Pepsi, it wasn't a good approximation of that.
You could, y'know, tie.
You know, I once knew a man from Nantucket. Let's just say the stories about him were greatly exaggerated. --Homer Simpson
Every escape room I've been to, they explicitly tell us what to do if one of us needs to leave to use the bathroom. They really want to be able to reset the room quickly for the next guests when you're done, and that gets a lot harder if you have an accident.
You can see the respirator right after he unclamps the glue-ups.
Yeah, I'm familiar with the speech jammer effect. But she describes her "ray" by saying "a device that can shift your balance by passing an electric current through your head. By rapidly changing direction it can instantly induce nausea," and at that moment she literally shows a side view of her head with an electrode below the ear. She's definitely talking about galvanic vestibular stimulation, which would use exactly such an electrode. She makes no mention of audio.
I mean, she's not "one of the top legal minds in the country," though. That's the thing. He can't get actually talented people to work for him anymore, precisely because they all see how this works. But he's got endless depths of sleazy lawyers he can muck through until he finds one like her who will play the role. He probably even had options with more actual legal experience, but he pretty specifically wanted a blonde. It's a nauseating situation, though, to be sure.
I haven't read the book, but I think it's basically "instrumental convergence." Robert Miles has a great video on this: https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q
This is what I was thinking too. The rat did not seem like it was responding normally to the presence of a person and cat. I hope the kitty is okay.
I appreciate your getting the word out about this. I only recently learned about these things, the hard way. It's just one of those basic maintenance things that nobody ever tells you. The powered rods are particularly nice.
It doesn't sound like this is an audio thing, though. The description she uses, and the photo of her with a gel electrode below her ear, suggest that it's just galvanic vestibular stimulation, which is a well-known technology, just one without a lot of great uses. I'm not clear on why she's calling it a "ray," though.
OP provided a link to an NBC News story covering the situation. But yeah. We're all exhausted.
The article says that New York State law doesn't allow a state case if there's already been a federal case, because of double jeopardy, but obviously state law can't prevent the feds from trying him afterwards, so it doesn't talk about that. Getting around this by rushing the state case to trial before the already declared date of the federal trial probably complies with the letter of that law, but it sure seems like it violates the spirit of it. I can understand why he's emotional about that.
He installed it again when he got into the office again. https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/donald-trump-coke-button
I'm sorry for your loss. She reminds me of my kitty Bebop, who disappeared two years ago on Christmas Eve. I miss him every day too.
"Summer of Soul" and "20 Feet from Stardom" are both pretty great. (Sorry for the double-post, I initially mistyped "30 Feet")
That's definitely a good tip, but they do say "I shred my lettuce then dress it with an Italian vinaigrette" in the text. Still, good call. Ethan Chlebowski has a great video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmrZZj1Hjs ) about why deli sandwiches taste can better than home made, and this is one of his great suggestions. I also think that adding a garlic spread like toum really elevates the whole proceedings, but not everyone is as into garlic as I am.
This was my first thought too, until I realized it's just sitting in a tupperware in its house and watching the rollercoaster on TV.
I'm kinda disappointed we don't get to hear the raw audio from the bass-in-a-drainpipe instrument, and only get this heavily distorted and flanged version.
A quote from the original dev: "Like they keep saying things like 'well, they had to replace the screen and cpu! it's just doom running a SHELL of a pregnancy test! it's like sticking a microcontroller in a potato and saying 'LOOK MY POTATO PLAYS DOOM'!' And all I'm hearing is that I need to go buy some potatoes and waterproofing gel." Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/yes-doom-is-playable-on-a-pregnancy-test?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=B So, yeah, neither is original.
Reminds me of Skwerl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
Yeah, the old guy was like...the foreman? And they all worked in a tree? God, ads are weird.
"My Breakfast with Keanu"
Yeah, I can be really shy too. From an outsider's perspective, the fact that in that situation he's already asked you to dance suggests that he's interested in dancing with you and would respond positively to you asking back, but I get how it can feel really different from inside the situation.
My exchange student stayed in my room when I was in high school, and I stayed in my sister's room. (Sis was at college.) When the student went back to Japan, I moved back to my room, but didn't realize she had forgotten her Ultraman alarm clock. The next morning I was awakened by the sound of a man screaming in Japanese. I was extremely startled and confused. I think it may have been this one: https://youtu.be/rta51m-iMQY?t=129
In the dance situation, if the guy has asked and you declined, then the guy not asking again is being polite. If you want to dance with him later, go ask him. He'll almost certainly say yes. But yeah, as a non-neurotypical person myself, I am generally just not comfortable approaching anyone under any circumstances unless we're explicitly at a "come meet new people" event or something, so I do get it. The "want to dance" area thing is nice in that way.
Sometimes there's more than one! https://m.xkcd.com/2650/
https://m.xkcd.com/2758/
Bizarrely, that's actually the remit of "Customs and Border Protection" (CBP), which is a separate entity in the Department of Homeland Security. You may wonder, then, why we have "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (ICE).
It was...okay. It tasted weird. Kinda floral and with a subtle spice note. Reminded me a little of those old violet pastiles, if you've ever had those. Could definitely have been modeled after a spray someone's grandparents had to cover bathroom odors. If you were expecting Pepsi, it wasn't a good approximation of that.
You could, y'know, tie.
You know, I once knew a man from Nantucket. Let's just say the stories about him were greatly exaggerated. --Homer Simpson
Every escape room I've been to, they explicitly tell us what to do if one of us needs to leave to use the bathroom. They really want to be able to reset the room quickly for the next guests when you're done, and that gets a lot harder if you have an accident.
You can see the respirator right after he unclamps the glue-ups.
Yeah, I'm familiar with the speech jammer effect. But she describes her "ray" by saying "a device that can shift your balance by passing an electric current through your head. By rapidly changing direction it can instantly induce nausea," and at that moment she literally shows a side view of her head with an electrode below the ear. She's definitely talking about galvanic vestibular stimulation, which would use exactly such an electrode. She makes no mention of audio.
I mean, she's not "one of the top legal minds in the country," though. That's the thing. He can't get actually talented people to work for him anymore, precisely because they all see how this works. But he's got endless depths of sleazy lawyers he can muck through until he finds one like her who will play the role. He probably even had options with more actual legal experience, but he pretty specifically wanted a blonde. It's a nauseating situation, though, to be sure.
I haven't read the book, but I think it's basically "instrumental convergence." Robert Miles has a great video on this: https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q
This is what I was thinking too. The rat did not seem like it was responding normally to the presence of a person and cat. I hope the kitty is okay.
I appreciate your getting the word out about this. I only recently learned about these things, the hard way. It's just one of those basic maintenance things that nobody ever tells you. The powered rods are particularly nice.
It doesn't sound like this is an audio thing, though. The description she uses, and the photo of her with a gel electrode below her ear, suggest that it's just galvanic vestibular stimulation, which is a well-known technology, just one without a lot of great uses. I'm not clear on why she's calling it a "ray," though.
OP provided a link to an NBC News story covering the situation. But yeah. We're all exhausted.
The article says that New York State law doesn't allow a state case if there's already been a federal case, because of double jeopardy, but obviously state law can't prevent the feds from trying him afterwards, so it doesn't talk about that. Getting around this by rushing the state case to trial before the already declared date of the federal trial probably complies with the letter of that law, but it sure seems like it violates the spirit of it. I can understand why he's emotional about that.
He installed it again when he got into the office again. https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/donald-trump-coke-button
I'm sorry for your loss. She reminds me of my kitty Bebop, who disappeared two years ago on Christmas Eve. I miss him every day too.
"Summer of Soul" and "20 Feet from Stardom" are both pretty great. (Sorry for the double-post, I initially mistyped "30 Feet")
That's definitely a good tip, but they do say "I shred my lettuce then dress it with an Italian vinaigrette" in the text. Still, good call. Ethan Chlebowski has a great video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmrZZj1Hjs ) about why deli sandwiches taste can better than home made, and this is one of his great suggestions. I also think that adding a garlic spread like toum really elevates the whole proceedings, but not everyone is as into garlic as I am.
This was my first thought too, until I realized it's just sitting in a tupperware in its house and watching the rollercoaster on TV.
I'm kinda disappointed we don't get to hear the raw audio from the bass-in-a-drainpipe instrument, and only get this heavily distorted and flanged version.
A quote from the original dev: "Like they keep saying things like 'well, they had to replace the screen and cpu! it's just doom running a SHELL of a pregnancy test! it's like sticking a microcontroller in a potato and saying 'LOOK MY POTATO PLAYS DOOM'!' And all I'm hearing is that I need to go buy some potatoes and waterproofing gel." Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/yes-doom-is-playable-on-a-pregnancy-test?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=B So, yeah, neither is original.
Reminds me of Skwerl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
Yeah, the old guy was like...the foreman? And they all worked in a tree? God, ads are weird.
"My Breakfast with Keanu"
Yeah, I can be really shy too. From an outsider's perspective, the fact that in that situation he's already asked you to dance suggests that he's interested in dancing with you and would respond positively to you asking back, but I get how it can feel really different from inside the situation.
My exchange student stayed in my room when I was in high school, and I stayed in my sister's room. (Sis was at college.) When the student went back to Japan, I moved back to my room, but didn't realize she had forgotten her Ultraman alarm clock. The next morning I was awakened by the sound of a man screaming in Japanese. I was extremely startled and confused. I think it may have been this one: https://youtu.be/rta51m-iMQY?t=129
In the dance situation, if the guy has asked and you declined, then the guy not asking again is being polite. If you want to dance with him later, go ask him. He'll almost certainly say yes. But yeah, as a non-neurotypical person myself, I am generally just not comfortable approaching anyone under any circumstances unless we're explicitly at a "come meet new people" event or something, so I do get it. The "want to dance" area thing is nice in that way.
Sometimes there's more than one! https://m.xkcd.com/2650/
https://m.xkcd.com/2758/