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Re:morons (2288 comments)
In Australia, (some) retailers do both (some do inches + metric, others do just metric, no-one does just imperial), but I still have an easier time with inches when it comes to screen size. A lot of the problem stems from the fact that they're made for American markets, so the model number will usually have the inch measurement in it (eg, an AL2216W is 22 inches across).
Re:New World War (185 comments)
regardless of whether the insurance industry's death panels approve.
The death panels that Palin and others talked about
I think that was his point. Insurance companies refuse to insure people depending on their health - in other words, a textbook definition of the "death panels" that Palin & Co were scaremongering about.
insurance companies can't hold a candle to the number of rejected claims by Medicare. Go ask an old person. Medicare has always been the number one denier of claims!
Sampling bias, anyone? The people who can get private health insurance are generally healthier (they have enough money, which indicates that they're gainfully employed, which indicates that they're healthy and young enough to work). As you say, ask any old person. Plus, there's side benefits of having money - you can afford to eat healthily, see a GP for check-ups (and not just emergencies), and live in a safe and healthy area.
On second thought
You have to have a first thought before you can have a second thought. If you try really hard, maybe one day a thought might pop into your tiny little brain!
Re:Options (789 comments)
riding is a choice.
That's a flimsy argument - driving is a choice. In fact, for some people, biking is the only choice (I'm talking about people too poor to afford cars, or areas with unreliable public transport and no parking, or people disqualified from driving, or people with health problems which prevent them from getting a license but not from biking).
Cyclists should not be allowed on congested major roads if they can not keep up.
Are you talking about the law, or courteousness? Let's say you were talking about courteousness. I'm guessing that cycling is not an option for you - you may live too far away, or it's too hilly, or you work a job that demands you can come in quickly (eg, on-call sysadmin), or health reasons, or bad climate, or any other number of reasons. I don't begrudge your choice/need to drive - but realise that not everyone's situation is like yours. I'm lucky in that I can do either; but what you're basically saying is that you want to enforce laws that would make cycling illegal for all intents and purposes. That's unreasonable and unfair. So if your attitude is such that you're not willing to reach a compromise that would allow both groups of people to use the road, then how can you expect cyclists to compromise?
But perhaps you were talking legally. Well, I checked the laws in my jurisdiction; whilst there is a uniform minimum legal limit, there's an exemption for bikes so long as they keep to the edge of the outside lane where possible, and don't go on roads where bikes are explicitly disallowed (motorways, etc). Though quite frankly, that doesn't matter. I've never seen anyone get a ticket for riding a bike too slowly, nor can I imagine one being issued (apart from anything, it'd be pretty easy for the offender to get away - no plates to record, more maneuverability than a cop in a car, and faster than a cop on foot).
You said it yourself; "cyclists should not be allowed on congested roads". As the old adage goes - "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride". We can either sit here arguing all day about what should be, or we can talk about what can be. If you continue to talk about what should be, then the problem will never go away. And if you're not interested in an actual solution, one that benefits both parties, then there's no point in talking to you.
You missed a major point in your acceleration theory; cars have much more power than bicycles which more than compensates for the weight difference. I have never been out-accelerated by a bicycle for more that 40 feet(and I do not drive a hot car). Now I am on the cyclist's bumper and limited by the cyclist's speed. The same thing can be said for every other driver in the line that was passed at the stop by the cyclist.
I can usually do nearer 40 meters before anyone accelerating from the lights at a normal rate comes back up on my bum(per). Yes, if they put the pedal to the floor in a halfway decent car, they'll match or best my acceleration. But that's not how most people drive (even if it is technically possible), and they certainly can't take the moral high ground if that's how they're driving. And if they need more than 60m (let's say plus 20m to cancel out the advantage) before the next turn or light, then you're right, they shouldn't have pulled ahead. But it's been my experience that the roads only start to get thin (enough that cars can't easily pass) at the city limits, by which point the traffic's already bad enough that you're not going to get a 60m run.
Re:Options (789 comments)
What annoys me most about cyclists is when they sometimes act like motor vehicles and sometimes act like pedestrians depending on which mode is more advantageous; riding through crosswalks; riding on sidewalks to get around traffic.
That's a shitty thing to do; but sometimes it's necessary. When the weather's nice, I cycle, and the amount of improvising necessary due to shitty planning and non-stop construction/roadworks is ridiculous. I do sympathise with drivers' frustrations (I don't want to get hit either - plus, I hate those self-righteous lycra-wearing jerks as much as you; they treat "casual" cyclists like shit too, and I cop all of the hatred that those jerks should rightly receive). But sometimes it's simply not possible to cycle 100% legally and 100% considerately.
They basically state that if you can not keep up with the normal flow of traffic you should not be there. Cyclists are not exempt from these laws.
That's a perfect example. As you point out, it's illegal for cyclists to drive on the road, and it's also illegal to ride on the footpath. What should be done? You may think the ideal solution is for us to just drive - but with the hellish peak-hour crawl, do you really want more cars on the road slowing you down and taking your car parks (we're used to leaving home earlier, so we'll be there before you)? Putting all the cyclists behind the wheel is the difference between making you 10 minutes early and 10 minutes late - have you ever noticed how the traffic's especially bad on days with inclement-but-just-as-drivable weather? It's in both our interests to get a decent bike thoroughfare, one that disrupts neither cars nor pedestrians. If cyclists bother you, tell your elected officials to get them their own lane, so they aren't in yours. I realise that this comes across as rewarding bad behaviour, but bad cyclist behaviour is not necessarily born of maliciousness.
Another issue passing on the right when traffic is stopped at a light; I just spent time trying to get around you and now you illegally pass me while I am at a light so I have to do it again.
It may seem like a jerk move, but it's actually the most considerate option in the situation. It's simple physics - a bike has low mass and low power, so they can accelerate quickly but hit top speed almost straight away. A car, on the other hand, has slow acceleration (due to a high mass), but a high top speed. Now, presumably, your proposal is to have cyclists wait between cars, as a car would. But now, when the light turns green, the cyclist can only accelerate as fast as the car in front, but, s/he still has the same (slow) top speed. Pretty frustrating for everyone behind the cyclist. On the other hand, if the cyclist gets to the front of the light, s/he can use the rapid acceleration advantage to race ahead of the motorists, thus impeding traffic much less.
Re:What is the issue? (319 comments)
Eventually, the software industry is just going to have to face the fact that the days of artificial scarcity are over.
There isn't any artificial scarcity because there isn't any scarcity. The number of possible programs left to write is practically infinite. For starters, we haven't invented a program that can write programs (artificial intelligence) (though realistically the problem would be supplying motivation in a non-programming language), so there's still that to be done. Also, computer programs help nearly every other field (niche/domain specific programs) - so saying that there are no new programs to write implies that no other field is advancing and changing. Thirdly, programs for entertainment (video games, social networking, online games, etc) are a practically inexhaustible domain - you can keep making them until kingdom come. Finally,
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.
You're not the first to express this sentiment, and you're not the first to be wrong about it, either.
Re:This study is nothing but Communist propaganda (961 comments)
I guess I don't even particularly like the 'entertainer' argument.
I for one would like to see how far this argument can be applied. I wonder if you could (literally) shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater and later get off scot-free, claiming "It was just for laughs"? What would happen if you quietly announced yourself as an "entertainer", as all these pundits (both Left and Right) do?
Re:Are you serious? Do you even know who phk is? (298 comments)
With this level of reading comprehension, you must be in serious contention for the position of slashdot editor. No-one called Poul-Henning Kamp a doof. GP was saying that Poul-Henning Kamp was calling OTHER people doofs (implicit/paraphrase), as indicated by preceding "article summary" and the quotation marks.
(On-topic:) This article headline was nicked from a reddit thread from yesterday (Poul-Henning Kamp has commented on this thread; or at least someone claiming to be him has).
It would have been nice if the submitter/editors here had read the article instead of re-phrasing the more-accurate "You're doing it wrong" headline. Poul-Henning Kemp is expressing his exasperation at the fact that no-one has noticed this optimisation technique in the ~40 years that it's been valid, and attributes it to a failure in the programing culture and programming education. conspirator57's summary may be a little ruder than the article (which is astonishingly un-antagonistic), but conciseness always sacrifices pleasantries.
Re:SELL! (643 comments)
I very much suspect that the panic would work AGAINST the workaholic trader.
Firstly, the only people left trading are also banking on the world not to end, so they're not going to sell cheap (or at all, your scheme relies on a bear market). The only shares that would be sold would be ones for companies that aren't expected to recover from the panic, which causes their share price to plummet, which means that if they weren't going to recover before they CERTAINLY won't recover now.
Secondly, even if they could get money, it's extremely unlikely that it would be worth anything. Any retailers who own large stocks of supplies would either horde, or gouge (to take advantage of the massive surge demand that resulted from the panic, the decrease in supply from some of your competitors choosing to horde, and to compensate for the inherent risk of trading during a panic). Now, mix a panicky and stressed crowd, the anger from being charged more than usual, and the fact that there's no consequence for crime, and you've got yourself one fine recipe for a massive looting spree. Hell, even if the retailer were totally honest, the crowd might loot them for the fun of it, or because they're the only honest retailer in town and the crowd is upset that they're out of stock.
Even if the world DIDN'T end, the people who have money after the crisis would become pariahs (they only have money because they stole it and/or hoarded it), and popular opinion would demand the complete devaluation of pre-crisis money; a full financial reset. A lot of infrastructure was destroyed during the crisis (either by neglect or violence), so the financial reset would be but a drop in the bucket. (By the way, the clean-up is the time to quietly profit - there's a whole lot of property with corpses or social outcasts for owners, and the restoration of state-sanctioned property rights means you don't have to worry about guarding your possessions). Of course, this all depends how much warning was given for the end of the world.
Re:SELL! (643 comments)
It reminds me a little of a throwaway comment Stephen Hawking made in the recent series Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - he was asked not to speculate on the end of the universe in a certain lecture series for fear that it would affect the stock market. Really? Even if the universe was going to end in our lifetime, and no-one had noticed before now (oops), what kind of fool would hear the news and immediately worry about his or her stock portfolio? What are you going to do with your money after the universe ends? You would think (if people behaved rationally) that the stock market would grind to a halt when every trader says "Screw this, I haven't got much time left and I'm not going to waste it here".
Re:Why? (295 comments)
there is no extra step called profit
I think you misunderstand the point of Scientology, friend. The ONLY step is called "profit".
Politician's "thinking" (735 comments)
Do stupid laws and frivolous lawsuits make you too afraid to help someone in trouble? No problem, we'll just pass another ill-thought law! What could possibly go wrong?
Re:It depends where you want to draw the line. (256 comments)
Apart from maintaining cross-system compatibility (and/or preventing a peculiar form of psychological lock-in by training your users to not understand foreign interfaces), there are certain realities that just make the interface conform to a particular standard. For instance;
Now, where do you put a sidebar? Well, unless you want it to get in the way of applications and interrupt workflow, you put it somewhere discrete - ie, to the side.
Your circular spoke idea is interesting, but it wouldn't work as a primary or default menu. Having said that, I'd be interested in seeing it as an optional hotkey-triggered overlay at the centre of the screen - perhaps you can have two (either as two different circles, or as concentric circles). Maybe if it dynamically "grew" (radial increase) to accommodate menu expansions, that'd be neat. If I weren't so busy/lazy, I'd write a compiz plugin (hopefully someone less lazy/busy will read your idea and pick up the slack
Re:a game that tells the truth about religion (523 comments)
Cyberax (705495) posted:
Nope. It's religion. Every religion breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
During the Black Plague, the disease was spread by the fleas which rats carried. Back then, people blamed (amongst other things) rats. These days, however, we (correctly) blame the fleas for being the actual carrier. See,
Where am I going with this? Surprise! This is an analogy for religion/extremism. Religion/rats may be a common carrier of extremism/fleas+plague, but it's not technically correct to blame rats/religion. Congratulations, you think as those you have disdain for (medieval-ers are a subset of religious folk)! Paradox!
If that explanation didn't sway you, try this -
Nope. It's ________ . Every ________ breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
Nope. It's politics . Every political alignment breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
Nope. It's sports teams. Every sports team breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
Nope. It's text editors. Every text editor breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
Nope. It's skub . Every jar of skub breeds extremism. So the blame's well placed.
See how easy it is? I'm sorry if that screws with your pre-conceived notions, but the fact is that religion is merely a manifestation of the problem, not the problem itself.
Anonymous Coward posted:
And religion easily provides the most convenient excuse to do so. Prohibitions against killing obviously don't work. Rational arguments are useless against someone who claims that god has spoken to him because he has it on higher authority than anyone else. Religion goes well with the uneducated because it teaches people to take things on faith - once you get people to swallow that, you can pretty much tell them anything.
No other system comes close. Education is the best way for some immunity against religions and quasi-religious cults (see the comment on Stalinism elsewhere). I'm close to defining religion as any system that doesn't put humans first.
Bang, hit the nail on the head. If I hadn't posted here, I'd mod this up (though if I hadn't posted, you wouldn't have replied, so it's self-defeating prophecy). Yes, the largest problem with religion is it's almost tailor-made for exploitation. You could try crafting another system of exploitation, but it would end up being another incarnation of religion (see: Cults of Personality, which operate exactly as exploitative religions do). The mind-boggling irony is that although the vast majority of modern mainstream religions preach peace, they seem to have been twisted into weapons of hate. If I made bets, I'd bet that the promise of peace is the "bait" and the hatred is the "switch". But I digress.
Re:a game that tells the truth about religion (523 comments)
There's an obvious difference here. The Christians persecute others to spread their religion. Atheists persecute others for other reasons. In this case, it was to spread political ideas rather than religious ones. Religion is a direct cause of many murders while atheism cannot be blamed for it because there's nothing in the ideology about committing murder in the name of any superstition.
Besides which, this should have rang alarm bells:
Atheists persecute others for other reasons
Quite frankly, I don't care if they're persecuting others to spread religion, spread ideology, or to sell chocolates. I don't care what they call themselves. The whole damn problem is the persecution. The reason, by comparison, is unimportant and interchangeable - that's the whole friggin' idea behind Skub vs anti-Skub.
Re:Should they get off tax-free? (511 comments)
I'm not GP, but this really bugs me:
So you're argument is pretty much bunk. Rich people don't pay as much taxes as the poor or middle class right now, and my proposal is not to keep to the status qou. The opposite in fact.
So, you've basically said
Really, this kind of black-and-white "not A therefore B" extremism (which is really a large family of bad arguments) is perhaps the biggest generator of problems in our democratic/capitalistic (ie, the masses decide) society. To wit:
I don't see why we need to punish the successful.
Tax is not a "punishment". (In theory) tax should be "We (the government) need money for services that are (arguably) untenable in or unsuited to private enterprise, how are we going to get it?". It's not "Hey, I don't like that guy, let's rob him! *cackle maniacally*". You are again making the "NOT A THEREFORE B" mistake by conflating "tax" with "punishment", because they both fit into the broader category "authorised arbitrated unpleasantness based on behaviour". But just as a motorbike is not an automobile (despite their many similarities), TAX IS NOT A PUNISHMENT, IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE NECESSITY.
I don't see why we need to punish the successful. Especially, those who worked damned hard to get it.
Some people are poor because they deserve to be.
Not every poor person is a lazy bum, and not every rich person is a hard worker. Now whilst I have no specific moral objections to tax in and of itself (I don't like it, but don't find it immoral), you regard it as a "punishment", and therefore imagine that you're "punishing" people simply for being poor - and conversely, rewarding people for being rich. Which would be fine if everyone who was poor deserved it - but for the third time, NOTHING IS THAT BLACK AND WHITE (even you admit there's not 100% correlation). Is it that you have no ethical quarrel with "punishing" people for probably being lazy (in which case, you are a frighteningly heartless person), or do you simply ignore corner cases (ie, another incarnation of the black-and-white mistake)?
As for the actual point you were trying to make about tax reform, I'm not going to enter into that. I'm merely going to point out that
means a MUCH smaller tax revenue (unless you plan to simply make the figures your tax proposal extremely high, which will probably create a black market and public outcry). Although many here might support reducing tax and reducing services (and this is an argument I *DEFINITELY* don't want to enter into), no government would never agree to it, in the same way that no employee would ever agree to take a massive pay cut just to make a moral stand (especially when morals are highly subjective - an argument I don't want to enter into because anyone who argues for universal morality is a damned moron, and I have better things to do than argue with morons).
Re:Well, duh! (194 comments)
R.E.M. - ItEoTWAWKi(AIFF).mp3
ftfy, ac.
Re:Tough Shit. (1259 comments)
I mean shit, except of the very latest tech(which they don't teach in schools anyways) most things you can just buy a good book on... ok, buy the cheaper one published in India
Perhaps universities are being phased out as the gatekeepers of knowledge; however, that doesn't mean that they're no longer useful.
Do your own damn work (169 comments)
Why do reporters think they're better than everyone else? No-one else has access to a high-ranking developer just to hold their hands and walk them through a project when that information is already out there (the other users seem to get along fine, or you wouldn't have heard of the project). Just because you're the modern equivalent of the loud-mouthed town gossip, doesn't make you special. Regardless of what journalist screed (the number of articles I've seen of journalists portraying themselves as fantastic heroes and the amount of journalistic fraternity/nepotism makes me sick) and corporate PR departments (they're using you, duh) say, you're not special. No-one gives a flying fuck about your "deadline". Deadlines are your problem and you should take it up with your boss if it's unworkable. There are millions of bored schoolkids with blogs chomping at the bit to take your place. If you're to stand a chance of staying afloat you have to offer something they won't - quality research (which takes time and effort). Remember that you're here to serve us, and you have more to gain than us*, not the other way around. [/rant]
* You may think that reporters are vital for "The Year Of The Linux Desktop", but I'm not buying it. Firstly, large F/OSS projects like mainstream distros do have many, many press avenues, and yet 2009 still isn't YOTLD. Secondly, YOTLD is an utopia us *nixers want where we get all of the good stuff associated with popularity (better hardware vendor support, mainstream acceptance of F/OSS principles, increased interoperability, richer software library, more developers/code contributors/bug fixers) without any of the bad stuff (malware, brainless users, bigger stakes on the developer Ego Wars, more hardware/software support nightmares, more pressure, more "boring bits" and less coding fun, etc). If YOTLD is delivered by reporters (instead of by technical merit and word-of-mouth), it will be because they dumbed it down, and we'd get mostly disadvantage and only a few of the advantages. Basically, YOTLD is a wet dream where society changes to be more computer literate, and most/all of our current IT nightmares die because everyone's using their brain. This is not as unlikely as you think - nowadays everyone's kid is a techno-wiz. Even if "techno-wiz" only means "I can work the myspace and the msn", the perception of ability alone might be enough to overcome their trepidation of computing, and allow them to try new things (ie, Linux).
Re:How do you define evil? (527 comments)
First of all, actions do not embody good or evil.
I'd strongly disagree with this. A person is known by their actions. I can confidently describe Stalin or Pol Pot or Hitler as evil, yet I have no way of seeing their intentions (I can infer them from their actions, but there's always a chance I could be wrong in my inference). In your example, you say "what if I swerved" (blah blah blah) - any impartial onlooker would realise you were essentially choice-less (and chose what you regarded as the lesser of two evils), and therefore not vindictive. Or, with the person praying for the blind kid to be hit by a bus - if he does nothing about it, how could you know if he wants it? And if he doesn't believe what he thinks is evil, and no-one else knows, how can you say it's evil?
Here, you can either claim that evil is a moral absolute, or accept that morality is at least somewhat relative, and therefore is decided by consensus (usually societal consensus). I would argue that absolute morality is both impossible and ridiculous. For example, was it evil of cavemen to slaughter animals in a crueller way than we do now, or even evil of them to enjoy the thrill of the hunt (a thrill which is almost certainly responsible for our current existence)? Is the morality of wartime unjustifiable by the morality of peacetime? What about someone with obsessive thoughts (obsessive-compulsive people suffer from horrible thoughts, many of which may be considered "evil", and use compulsion to deal with it)? Furthermore, how can you be certain that your morality is the right morality? Even 100 years ago, society considered itself civilised, yet practised discrimination - and don't claim we don't still discriminate against some people, I'm sure there are thousands of people with paedophilic thoughts/desires who'd disagree if they had the guts to admit their desires.
However, you raise an interesting point. My gut definitely tells me that what all your examples think are evil, but I suspect that it has more to do with recognising the precursor to evil actions than the thoughts themselves being evil in and of themselves. Until they act on it, I wouldn't call their thoughts evil, simply the precursor to evil. I would agree that evil takes a measure of intention, but intention alone is not enough - not only can it not be measured, but in many cases, it's necessary and/or involuntary.
This work's primary benefit is to get people to think about the nature of evil.
Well that I'd agree with. But I suspect that Bringsjord is fully aware of that. Evil is an important tenet of the human psyche, for better or worse, and AI research could do with insights into the human psyche (which is unfortunately the only sufficiently intelligent thing we have to work with).


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- Generalized estimating equations, a statistical method for estimating parameters of a regression model
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- Gée, a commune in France
- Al Giardello (often called "Gee"), a fictional character on the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street
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"Regardless of whether justified of not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature." - Joe B Fricks. Member: 01 FFL, GOFFA, NRA, GOA, IAVA, VFW, ABATE of Iowa D15.
However, Bobby was with his father or other legal guardian, and his father was legally eligible to obtain the handgun as a gift for Bobby, his father would fill out Form 4473, undergo the NICS check, and assume legal responsibility for the transaction and the gun. Bobby's father could truthfully complete the Form 4473 to indicate that he is the actual purchaser because he would take title to the weapon and then transfer the firearm to Bobby as a gift. From the ATF website:http://www.atf.gov/training/firearms/ffl-learning-theater/episode-4.html
If you stamp a reciever with safe semi auto it doesnt make it a full auto reciever. The word rifle or pistol doesnt make it such. According to the atf assembling a ar15 reciever for the first time into a pistol format makes it a pistol forever more. Same with a rifle. A stripped reciever or frame with a serial number is "other" in the eyes of the batfe at the time of sale. Assembling a rifle stamped lower into pistol format is probably not wise and can lead to you having to prove a negative or some other fiction. But we arent talking about reality just about what the atf considers goes on a transfer of a reciever. A reciever regardless of contents is considered other by the atfe unless its a complete working firearm. Put a stock or pistol buffer complete internals its still verbotten to sell to under 21 because it isnt a functional gun with barrel upper reciever and bolt to make it a rifle. Its just a serial numbered reciever neither pistol nor rifle. Same is true for things like savage model 10 recievers and other rifle recievers shotgun recievers pistol frames all are other and not for sale to under 21. The batfe says they arent a rifle or pistol unless completely constructed. What you intend to do with it and whats stamped on the reciever other than the serial number has nothing to do with its status as unclassified other at time of transfer If you want to be a test case and take it to the supreme court and help out the cause. I will root for ya
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." L. Neil Smith The problem with being stupid is you cannot simply decide to stop doing dumb things... "I crapped my pants to avoid the draft!!" -Ted Nugent
It would be interesting to know exactly how many "straw man" cases are prosecuted when it involves this type of purchase, meaning a parent purchasing for an under-age child where the child pays for it and the parent does the paperwork. Scratch that. I would like to know how many times it becomes an issue at all! My bet would be that it is seldom if ever made a case for the simple fact that when the transaction takes place and the kid pulls the money out of their pocket to pay, the FFL knows that it is not "wrong" versus technically illegal. At worst I could imagine that the FFL might tell the family the technical legalities of the transaction and ask the parent to pay with a credit card or something. Anybody know any stats on this? Several years ago my then-14-year-old son won a Savage 110 by scoring 97% on his hunter safety test. I did all of the paperwork and paid the DROS fee, but he technically "paid" for it through his high score. By the letter of the law that would be a straw man purchase but not when put into context of what is right.
Not many but it does happen. Depends on the ffl person and how willing they are to put their business at risk for a transfer fee...
With the prices of AR coming down (compared to 2 years ago), why not just buy an AR and get it over with?
Amendment II: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Life Member NRA Life Member NAHC Former President of the ECPT (Eifel Combat Pistol Team)


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The adventure of travel: the moon casts shadows and spells
Seattle Times NWTraveler editor Kristin R. Jackson recalls her first time in an airplane: "When I took my first flight as a little kid in the early 1960s, my mother and I dressed up in freshly ironed skirts, freshly pin-curled hair and even gloves."
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FLYING USED to be something special, almost magical, when I was young. And this photo of a jet, flying in front of a super-full moon in California, brings back those memories.
These days, flying is cattle-class, and some Americans travel in what looks like pajamas. But when I took my first flight as a little kid in the early 1960s, my mother and I dressed up in freshly ironed skirts, freshly pin-curled hair and even gloves. Stewardesses (they were called that back then) were kindly; the food came on real plates with real silverware. I gazed out the window, spellbound by vast stretches of land and ocean and mountains of white clouds.
We were flying to Europe. For me, it could have been a flight to the moon, as it was so unknown and so far away. I had heard, somewhere, that the water and food were really different in Europe. Maybe, my child's mind feared, the air was different, too. What if I couldn't breathe very well?
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To my pleasure, I found that I could breathe just fine on the plane. And in Europe. And, maybe, if I'm ever lucky and rich enough to be a space tourist, on the moon.
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Medical claims processors work in doctors' offices or at insurance companies to handle insurance claims from patients. It is the job of the claims processor to analyze and process the insurance claim, checking it for validity. Medical claims processors are not required to have any formal education, but some training courses may help to attain the recommended certification through the Certified Medical Reimbursement Specialist exam.
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Yesterday we presented the Gummy Award winners of the "Favorite TV Show" category, and it was very exciting. Lots of great TV shows in there. And now, to make things even more exciting if you can even handle it, we would like to present your "Favorite Viral Video" Gummy winners! GREAT! Similar to what we spoke about with the TV category, it has been a very good year for viral videos. Almost too good of a year. For instance, just last week we had BOTH the "Georgia On My Mind" whistler and a very memorable trampoline accident. JUST LAST WEEK! So choosing ten videos out of the millions and millions and millions of great videos we watched during 2011 was obviously a difficult decision. But we did it! And we picked ten great ones! And then you voted on which of those were the best! Great job to all of us and, of course, great job to all of the viral videos. A round of applause, please, as we see how all of our old pals made out.
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Ok, so. First of all, great job on voting for these videos. You had great choices and you made great decisions. It's been a big year for "Dancing With Swords" and they definitely deserve it and I wish them all the best. Same with the motivational bike kid, I'm sure we ALL feel happy of himself right now. But, uh, did you guys maybe get the number 10 confused with the number 1? And that's why "More Sand," the most perfect viral video of all time let alone simply the year 2011, is at number 10 rather than number 1? I mean, I know that you at no point had to write out the numbers "10″ or "1″ during the voting process, but I'm really trying to come up with a better explanation and I CAN'T! GUYS? Whatever. I love it enough for all of you. Congratulations to the rest of the lucky winners! You're all wonderful!
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Das war definitiv eine große Video, aber die virale Kampagne ruiniert das Video für mich. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FrSXifJKOog#!
The Internet has come a loooong way since 1998′s best viral video, 311 pays fans $311 who drink an entire gallon of milk without puking.
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Guys, I'm a little worried about 2011. I mean, more sand and dancing with swords sure …. but just look back to how good 2010 was: http://videogum.com/259262/the-best-viral-videos-of-2010-a-retrospective/webjunk/ … maybe it's just that last year was sooo good (here's look at you man on gurney with house on fire), but i am a little dissapointed
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Had a pleasant, slow sail from Panama to Bahia to Caraquez. Much better than we thought it might be based on Cornell's book. We had none of the nasty convectional activity he mentions. The Humboldt Current and ITCZ were certainly interesting. We left Panama and had a couple of days of favorable currents (light to no wind) and then came to a wide area of overfalls along with a wind shift from NE to SW and lots of clouds. The current meant that we were moving 35 degrees to the right of where we were pointing (close-hauled). We were aiming at Bahia which is half way down the coast toward Peru but were heading pretty much to the border of Ecuador and Colombia. When we got within about 40 miles of the coast, the current pretty much was on the nose but not very strong.
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Here's how the border crossing works:-
On the Timor-Leste side:
- 1. First stop – go the frontier booth, fill-out a departure form and persuade the officer to accept it and stamp your passport, if you can wake him up.
- 2. Then backtrack slightly to get the Carnet (bike passport) stamped out of the country by TL Customs.
- 3. Have a brief interview with the frontier guards – that consists of a gang of three outwardly friendly blokes who seem a bit bored with their lot in life. A smile and an exchange of two or three jokes seemed warm things up and do the 'let me pass through' trick.
- 4. Get the Carnet stamped into Indonesia by Indo Customs.
- 5. Complete an entry form and have passport stamped in. We already had 60-day visas – arranged with the London Indonesian Embassy back in July – so the admission process was straightforward and a formality for us.
- 6. Get interviewed by the Indo Army. Not sure why?
- 7. Get interviewed again, this time by the Indo Police. Not sure what this was all about either?
The whole process, from start to finish, takes just over an hour – no doubt a bit longer, if you have to queue at any stage, which we didn't.
So we were on our way again and heading in a general south-westerly direction by around 1:30pm. We were in a hurry to get to Kupang City; thinking at this stage that we had a fairly good chance of reaching our destination before dark.
Well, it took another seven hours, over and around some of the twistiest mountain roads you can imagine. The last 2½ hours of which, from Soe to Kupang, was ridden in total darkness. Feeling weary, with no street lighting whatsoever anywhere along the way; harassed by frantic, impatient road users – equals Not Good! But arriving in Kupang by around 8:30pm, we somehow managed to find our hotel, located deep into the city, without the benefit of a fully functioning SatNav-GPS unit on the very first attempt, perhaps more by luck than my good judgement.
First Impressions of Indonesia? Nearly everyone's a millionaire in this country. The currency exchange rate beggars belief. 10,000 Rupiah is worth [ahem] .. about 75p! My first ATM withdrawal was for Rp ONE MILLION, or 75 quids' worth (c. US$121). As a result, I'm an instant millionaire on my first day in this brand new (to me) country .. eat your heart out Del-Boy!
Nearly all goods and services are priced around 25%-30%, tops, of aussie costs. Gasoline /petrol is about Rp 5,000 per litre; that's 0.38p /l (AU$0.58), which can't be all bad. What a welcome change. Looks like I just might have some money left over when I get back to England by around the middle of next month – that's mid-October 2011.
[The Currency Exchange Calculator on the right-hand column of this page is proving useful.]
Very noticeably bank notes are kept in circulation for far too long though .. and get real scruffy [filthy], as a result. Yuk in your wallet.
Sunday, September 11th
The 10th anniversary of 9/11, not that anyone around here seemed to give a toss. This is another place – a world far removed from my normal world in 'The West'. People just want to grind on with their daily lives here in Indonesia. "Fcuk the West" (in a totally non-belligerent way, of course.)
Down at Kupang's ferry port, otherwise known as 'Bolok' – I kid you not.
Crowds soon gather around the bike, like bees around the proverbial honeypot. See, BIG bikes are an unusual sight in SE Asia. Motorcycle engines here rarely have a displacement exceeding 250cc. Not that my trusty Transalp is a big bike; at 650cc it's more of a 'mid-ranger' by western standards.
Nevertheless they were fascinated. Moreover, a brave few seemed very keen to practice their schoolboy English .. and spoke-up, "How big is engine Meestir?" – "How many speeds it has?" – "Where you come from?" – "Ooph! New Zealand is plenty far-away place" – "What bike cost, eh?" [answer = I dunno for sure, and can't be bothered to work it out mate – shed loads of Rupiah millions, no doubt] – "All way to England you say?" – "Ha Ha .. you mad Meestir!" – etceteras, etc. You get the general drift.
Which reminded me: Timor-Leste courtesy flag .. now exchanged for an Indo one.
Even the hall porter, back at the hotel before checking out, pestered me to take his picture sat on said Alp. When I agreed to his request he instantly took-on the persona of a gleeful young child .. Bless him. The Man from England called 'Meestir', he say "YES" …
Inside the not-swept-this-century ferry terminal's waiting room ..
One last piece of decent nosh before embarkation – of an especially tasty and juicy corn on the cob. Why so? Well, because they cook corn here with the outer leaves still wrapped on, which means all the taste and goodness stays inside the natural green package throughout the cooking process.
Normally I smother my corn in melted butter, salt and loads of pepper, just to add some flavour. All of these additives, however, are entirely unnecessary when the cobs are cooked 'au natural avec les feuilles'. And that's the way it's gonna always be done for me from now on – BBQ'd cobs excepted.
Our rat and cockroach infested rust-bucket of a ferry, the not-so-good ship Kendaraan Gol II, pulls alongside the jetty by about 11:30am .. and
.. by 12:30pm and we're all aboard.The Alp looks comparatively huge down on the vehicle deck alongside the other Indo bikes that are also ferrying up north to the eastern end of Flores Island.
[I'll explain why we're in such a rush to get to Flores later.]
Then shortly thereafter, said ferry starts to really fill-up. What a circus.
GAWD! This voyage could be interesting, methought
Baby chick hatchlings, no more than a day or two old, are carted-on all boxed-up in the thousands .. cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep. [Friggin' little bustards better not keep me awake during the night!]
JEEZ! Ponies too. Not in a horse box, but just led on by the nose. Shit?! .. I thought, for more than one reason!
Mayhem ensued. Folk were even pitching camp for the night down on the vehicle deck. Right around .. and even ON-TOP of the defenceless Alp.
Then out comes the grub .. consisting of mainly rice as usual. The pannier lids obviously make an ideal work top, so I was later informed!
This is better entertainment than watching the weekend ominibus edition of Coronation Street.
Walking upstairs I turn around and snap a pic of this Muslim woman.
Up inside the main communal cabin deck, it's Carnival Time too. Here are some more pics of the cast:
Ellen takes a shine to a particularly handsome young Indo man.
Oh-so cool – Hunk du Jour - who loves the camera.
I did make he laugh though! .. :-)
By five o'clock we had been at sea, making our way north, for well over 1½ hours. Even in 'Klas-1', where we had reserved our padded seats, folk are already starting to claim their sleeping pitch for the night.
Dusk falls quickly here, from around 6:00pm. By 6:30pm it's completely dark. I'm thinking at this stage that it could be a long night.
Eventually all the young'uns ..
and ..
.. the old'uns settle down ..
.. including this poor ol' fella.
Monday, September 12th
05:45am, Mon-12th – Landfall Flores ..
.. and the rising sun paints the sky and lingering clouds, along with the low-lying mountains to our east in gold, orange, mauve and dark blue. We distribute a handful of freshly plucked Baby Wipes to our immediate waking neighbours, which are gratefully received.
Met and greeted by Mans and Theresa, of whom I say more later, at Lanrantuka's quayside .. we disembark the mayhem and make our way eastwards along the town's solitary main road to our pre-booked hotel, the Fortuna. Our local hosts and guides for the next few days, Mans & Theresa, thoughtfully and gracefully then leave us alone, simply to gather our thoughts and general orientation. We were tired, and they could clearly see it. After the last 36 hours, we had accumulated a sleep debt that needed paying back. Horizontal peace and quiet .. and a Fortuna soft pillow, would be the best remedy.
Tuesday, September 13th
Allow me to introduce to you three fine people:
Firstly 'Mans' – short for Mansetus – the Managing Director of Motorcycle Outreach.
Secondly, 'Threes' – short for Theresa – a recently retired local English teacher, and our interpreter for the rest of the week, and
finally, 'Eman' – short for Emmanuel – the Finance Manager of Motorcycle Outreach.
And this is the reason why we busted a gut to get down to Kupang City by Saturday night: we really wanted to catch the Kupang/Bolok --> to Larantuka, Flores-bound ferry the following day, Sunday-11th. You see, the ferry crossing occurs just twice a week – and with this in mind, had we missed the Sun-11 ferry, then the next opportunity to get up to Larantuka would have been Thursday-15th, arriving Fri-16, which would have been just a tad on the late'ish side for our planned itinerary* going forward.
[* @ Theresa, for your info – according to the Lonely Planet two-way dictionary, the equivalent Indonesian wording is: 'rencana perjalanan']
What is Motorcycle Outreach (MoR) all about? Well, it's a registered UK Charity that we got to know more about earlier in the year. I guess you could say that we volunteered ourselves to act as 'envoys' for the Charity, particularly as we had always planned to pass through Larantuka, Flores, in the Nusa Tenggara Timur territory – a beautiful, region of Indonesia – which is where MoR operates from.
The kindness of our hosts has been second to none. Mans, Threes and Eman have taken us under their wings and shown us their facilities ..
.. including MoR's ageing fleet of motorcycles.
Presented us with traditional Flores 'ikat' sashes, which is a hand-woven tie-dye material made from locally grown cotton. We shall treasure these.
We have ridden with them to places where only a few westerners have visited, over miles and miles of unclassified roads (in other words dusty bumpy tracks). As an example of the many kms over which we've travelled, take a look at this video:
In the Tracks of Motorcycle Outreach
Where we met some of the local medical staff ..
.. who selflessly, and with a smile, provide hugely valuable healthcare to Flores' remoter village communities.
Refreshments flow throughout.
On Tuesday we were invited to share a Flores-type lunch in a MoR supporter's home, out in 'the sticks'. Dani and Sisilia Kerans offered us typical Indonesian fare, which comprises of boiled (sometime fried) rice, fish and veges .. plus homemade hot chilli paste, IF your palate can cope with the fiercesome heat.
Cashew nuts grow out in their back yard, which they harvest, dry, and then sell-on to the Sub-Continent (mainly India)
[Ahhh .. so that's how Cashews grow!]
Along with various types of Chilli.
No running water or other utilities is/are available.
Fresh water is hauled out of each home-owner's privately-owned well. Example above - six metres to the water supply. [Ellen looking down same .. and seeing her reflection on the well water's surface.]
Tuesday-13, evening:
We visit a small local cottage factory, that manufacture the ikat cloth I mentioned earlier ..
.. and see how it's made. From beginning to end, the process of piecing together a medium-sized woman's shawl takes a whole month.
As dusk approached we were invited to attend a pre-wedding ceremony. Here's the happy groom-to-be, who's carting an ivory tusk over his shoulder, which is his symbolic gift to the bride's family.
Such a lovely, happy ambience going on. What a rare privilege indeed for a couple of stray westerners, like us, to witness.
More (practical) gifts follow. Here's a small truckload of stuff, including rice, fruit & veg, firewood .. and there's even a live pig down there in the bottom righ-hand corner of the butt.
The kids are having a great time too.
To try and pick-up on the atmosphere I took some video footage:
And now for something completely different. Let's talk ablutions, because I bet you've often wondered how it all works out here; I'll admit that I have. Well now you're about to find out:
This is our bathroom at the Hotel Fortuna. There's no constant running water throughout the day; instead you have to fill-up your own private store of cold water when the supply is turned on, only for a brief period, usually during the very early part of the morning. Heated water is a rare luxury, so a cold shower is only possible during mornings' supplied periods. Miss the said period, and it's simply a question of scooping-up some water in your own 'mandi' - the green plastic pan you see - and throwing it over your body. The first mandi-full is the worst, and quite a shock; after that you really do get used to the uncustomary temperature.
There's no flushing loo neither. Ya just do your business .. after which you throw down a few mandi-fulls of water into the bowl on 'completion'. We're lucky, I guess, to have a western-style toilet bowl in our en-suite room. And no toilet paper. Use the side sprinkle hand-shower (running water time only); or use the bleedin' mandi .. again?!
Teeth are brushed with aid of a scoop of mandi water too; or alternatively, a plastic beaker.
♫ "I've got a crush on you, mandi - I hope you feel the way that I do." ♫
'Crush' by Mandy Moore - Released: August 28, 2001
[PS - Okay, so now you know the colour of my knickers!]
Similar - but somewhat different - here's the inside of a typical outlying village home's bathroom. A dirt floor, and no western-style loo. And they've never heard of Andrex!
So as you can imagine, we're very pleased to be stopping at the Hotel Ventura, in downtown Larantuka. Pure bloody luxury mate!
Wednesday, September 14th
Another day, another excursion - this time to a smaller outlying island called Solor. As my 'BIG' bike is large and heavy to man-handle onto the ferry, I am riding one of MoR's machines.
I get some practise in before we embark upon the ferry.
Like nothing works on the darn thing, except the engine and brakes (thank gawd!) There's no properly functioning clutch mechanism; no lights, no instrumentation that work, no horn, no indicators .. and WTF's a rear brake light?
On the ferry ride, about an hour in duration, we meet:
A Muslim woman selling her wares to the passengers
A young mother, another English teacher ..
.. and her sleepy child.
Disembarking the ferry at the island's jetty.
We rode along rough and broken unkempt tracks for almost an hour before arriving at the Hospital and Health Care Community Centre where medical treatments, including minor operations, are carried out.
Here's the Director of the Centre
.. and we held a long conversation with the local doctor; the charming and very witty Dr Ronny Hadyento, a young 27 year old from Java on a six month secondment. He advised us of the importance of the work undertaken on Solor, the medical care covering many thousand souls from babes to the elderly. He also treats Leprosy patients.
We met our host and chieftain of the Kaha tribe - Nicholas Oran Kaha ..
.. and his lovely wife.
One of the local hospital helpers.
After another fine lunch it was time to hand-out smiley stickers and a couple more inflatable globes to the local children. The kids are shy, but soon warmed-up and seemed fascinated by our fair skin and grey hair.
We receive the usual "Thank you Meestir"
It's five o'clock before we get back to mainland Flores.
'Tis been another grand day out.
Today is Friday-16th, and we've caught up on all our outstanding chores, including updates to our journals and this blog. Tonight we shall have a farewell dinner with Mans, Threes and Eman. Good people.
Tomorrow, Saturday-17th, we'll be outta Larantuka for sure .. and head for the middle of Flores, to the Lakes of Kelimutu in particular, a huge volcano containing the famous three coloured lakes.
Can't wait to get back on the road.
Having seen first hand the lack of transport and the conditions that the village people live in, we felt that our financial support is vital to the well being of these folk, and to the maintenance of Motorcycle Outreach's targets.
With this in mind we hope to carry out some fund raising activities with the aim of replacing MoR's fast deteriorating stock of well worked motorbikes, the cost will be in the region of GB£1,600.00 per bike. Our target therefore is approximately GB£20,000.00, should we exceed this, our next project would be to build them their own office with a supply water and electricity.
We both felt humbled. We in the west have more than enough - and they have, by comparison, so little.
From Ellen's journal: click on this link → Onwards to Indonesia and Reminiscences


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Scranton aims to defend title in LPGA Legends event at Inglewood Golf Club
After a hurried nine holes on a course she had never seen before, Scranton won last year with a 2-under-par 71.
Special to The Seattle Times
LPGA Legends Swing for the Cure
What: 18-hole tournament with 30 LPGA veterans age 45 and older.
When: Sunday.
Where: Inglewood Golf Club, Kenmore (off Juanita Drive).
Time: Gates open 9 a.m., first tee time 10:30 a.m., final tee time 12:50 p.m.
Purse: $150,000 ($15,000 to winner).
Parking: Parking is free at Kenmore Village and Old Kenmore Park and Ride and includes complimentary shuttle ride to the course. No on-site parking at the club.
Admission: $20 for adults, 17-and-under free, military free with ID.
Charity beneficiary: Puget Sound affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Website: www.thelegendstour.com.
10:30: Nancy Harvey, Cindy Miller; 10:40: Anne Marie Palli, Mieko Nomura; 10:50: Kathryn Young Robyn, Jenny Lidback; 11: Jane Crafter, Lori West; 11:10: Cathy Johnston-Forbes, Patti Rizzo; 11:20: Allison Finney, Shelley Hamlin; 11:30: Elaine Crosby, Cindy Figg-Currier; 11:40: Gail Graham, Kris Tschetter; 11:50: Dawn Coe-Jones, Cindy Rarick; Noon: Christa Johnson, Sandra Palmer; 12:10: Jane Blalock, Barb Mucha; 12:20: Danielle Ammaccapane, Val Skinner; 12:30: Sherri Turner, Jan Stephenson; 12:40: Patty Sheehan, Rosie Jones; 12:50: JoAnne Carner, Nancy Scranton.
Five to watch: Nancy Scranton (defending champion has won nearly $200,000 on the Legends Tour); Alison Dibos (shot 70 and beat Scranton in a playoff in last Legends tourney in Roswell, Ga.); JoAnne Carner (Kirkland native needs a Legends win to punctuate her Hall of Fame career); Patty Sheehan (three-time winner of the Safeco Classic at Meridian Valley, tied for second last year, one stroke back); Rosie Jones (tied with Scranton for most Legends wins with five, tied for second here last year).
Jim Riley
KENMORE — After a successful LPGA career that included three wins and one major championship, Nancy Scranton has discovered less is more on the Legends Tour.
Her unique formula: Less practice and fewer rounds equals more wins.
Last year, Scranton came into the inaugural Swing for the Cure Legends tournament at Inglewood Golf Club without having touched a club in months. After a hurried nine holes on a course she had never seen before, Scranton won with a 2-under-par 71.
Scranton used a similar strategy to win her fifth Legends Tour title in April, tying her for the most career wins with Rosie Jones. Scranton's surge comes despite taking care of eight-year old twins — Luke and Libby — that limits her practice time.
"That's what I do, I'm a mom," Scranton said by phone as she prepared to fly in from her home in Tampa, Fla. to defend her title at Sunday's Swing for the Cure 18-hole tourney at Inglewood. "It doesn't leave much time for golf. That's OK. When I do play, I really enjoy it."
Scranton said the lack of practice and preparation time leaves her fresh and ready to go.
"I just go into these events without a lot of expectations," Scranton said. "My mind is clear and I just go out and work on the fundamentals."
Scranton, 52, retired from the LPGA Tour after 21 seasons in 2008 with winnings of more than $3 million and 66 top-10 finishes. Scranton won $15,000 out of a $150,000 purse at Inglewood last year and has 11 top-10 finishes in 21 senior tournaments.
"When I played the LPGA Tour it was all about the wins and the money," she said. "Now it's not a job. I have other things in my life."
Although both she and husband Mark Williams, the director of communications for the men's Champion's Tour, are immersed in the game, Luke and Libby haven't yet acquired their parents' passion for golf.
"Both have clubs, but they are more interested in soccer and tennis," she said.
Scranton's major win came in the du Maurier Classic in 1991 in Vancouver, B.C., but she said her highlight was representing the United States in the Solheim Cup in 2000.
Two LPGA hall of fame members will be in the field. Patty Sheehan, who finished second by one stroke last year, is in the next to last group with Kirkland native JoAnne Carner in the final pairing with Scranton.


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If you're like me, you want quick, yet effective ways to become the person you dream of being. Your ideal self, happy and comfortable with who you are. Effortlessly achieving your goals. Well compensated for your work. Beautifully balanced work and home life. Perfectly fit, sexually satisfied, in a fulfilling relationship and raising healthy, happy children. Did I leave anything out?
You are not alone. Little snippets of self-help catch our eye online, at the supermarket, the bookstore or on morning TV. We try these tips, they don't work or they do work, but not for long. We devote precious time to reading an entire book that promises whole-self transformation and we take away a few meager tips – cursing what seems like too little for the time we invested. We may even begin to poo-poo anything claiming to improve our lives and decide to wallow in our junk because nothing really works.
Self-help advice can be good, if used well and wisely. If you dive beneath the surface, you will uncover a deeper truth waiting to be acknowledged. What might be in order is a new, more realistic perspective. Start with the understanding that personal development is a process. We move thru cycles and stages of need from the time we're born until the day we die. Often we spiral around the same issues – at different times and stages, with different levels of awareness, understanding, acceptance and motivation.
In today's hyperactive world, we also get tangled up in "the doing," believing that is what will make our life better. Eat more (a), read (b), do more (c) and you'll be (d). Over functioning is the new normal for women in the US. It boosts our egos – our ability to feel like super women, but it destroys our spirit and sense of peace and balance.
We seek out more and more doing, but feel less and less satisfied. All or nothing. On or off. The either-or dichotomy has us trapped…locked in its depleting death-grip.
What's behind our over functioning, overdoing? LIES. What Labels, Illusions, Excuses and Stories are limiting us from the quality of life we long for – a life that is balanced, free, fulfilled?