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Hints on buying scales...
Try hock shops. Cash Converters.
When purchasing balances 2ndhand, specially of that degree of accuracy, pls remember you will need to calibrate them occasionally.
*Do they come with instructions?
*Can you get instructions online if they aren't in the box with the scales?
*Do they have a calibration kit with them or *Do they require any specialised attention to calibrate? ie do you have to send them away for calibration?
*What % precision/ accuracy are they...if you are routinely weighing 1mg samples requiring great precision and yr balance is accurate +/- 1mg then you'r measurements may be suss- specially if you haven't calibrated the balance lately
Shotgun cartridge reloading scales were readily avail & cheap at about $110 a couple of years ago. While you still require a bigger footprint, a touch more time, and a ready reckoner for grain/ gram conversion they were a cheap and easy way to reasonably accurately weigh up to 0.00647g ( 1/10 grain ) for notta lotta $$.
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Originally posted by Psilo_smylin:
Only a month ago I had the exact same idea, even used almost identical words.
Spooky. Was that here? The Bug isn't online but she does have good etherphone reception
4,000 hippies at a time could be deployed by parachute over over troubled areas
Excuse my cynicism, but massed hippies are likely to bond together & form a conglomerate ( coagulant? ) government, called an Hypocrisy. Mind you, they'd strip any designated area faster than a plague of locusts, smoke your lawn and eat all the bacon out of yr fridge when your back was turned, so I guess they'd be a sort of biological weapon
Best of all stressed men/women etc will be kidnapped and held hostage at 5 star gold coast resorts
Pick me! Pick me! Though the notion of sending actual ppl to the Gold Coast for re-education seems somewhat cruel and uneccessary, I do so enjoy room service
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Originally posted by Torsten:Politics here is almost a form of masochism. We keep bringing back the bastards that are hurting us just because of the fear of the unknown I think.
What scares me is that many countries display the masochistic tendency to repeatedly elect the group that hurts them in the delusion that the pain must be doing them good. Sorta like ppl rooly believe that if someone is belting them, it must be for some good reason, and b/c they don't have the guts to belt themselves.
Mind you it *was* kinda sad when Jo got voted out after having been premier of Qld since the late Carboniferous era
. He was a fossilised archetype of all that is wrong with the " You- tell- me- what- it- is- and- I'll- tell- you- whether- you're- right- or- not " Westminster system. Or any other purported democracy. Generations of Australian schoolchildren have since grown up without understanding exactly why Jo was so horrible and macabre. And how easily such a parody could rise to power somewhere else.
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Who votes for these arseholes anyway? I certainly don't, nobody I know does, and I'm almost positive none of you out there do either.
Either there is a conspiracy to nationally jury rig the ballot boxes, or there are a hell of a lot of ppl I don't know ( and I reckoned til now I knew a fairly representative phonebook sized number of ppl ) whho have motivations and interests I cannot even begin to fathom.
In a country where such long running favorites as " Home And Away" still dominate prime time telly I am beginning to suspect the latter. However it does not rule out the former, nor does it negate the possibility of a combined effort.
C'mon, you lot. Fess up. If any of this is your fault we want to know why. If any of you voted lib/nats today we deserve to understand your reasoning
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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:I doubt that Howard would have the election if he still had those big, bushy eyebrows.
Indeed. I wonder where he keeps them tethered?
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Originally posted by ziebonka:To be REAL happyists we should offer them tea and CONES.
Perhaps you could form a splinter group ( in a State and place where such practices are legal of course
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My mate the Bug suggests we all form loose, non-aligned groups of ppl called happyists.
Instead of wreaking terror on the populace at large, happyists would drop in unannounced and offer them tea and scones and make them laugh at the merely frivolous. If nothing else it will confuse ppl enough so they'll forget whatever it was they were cross about.
Bug is an inestimable fount of such good sense and always knows the wherabouts of precisely the right shade of glitter nailpolish. She also designs great tattoos. I fully support all her efforts in this and other fields, though it does mean I will have to provide clean crockery for an as yet uncalculated number of strangers.
Well, at least its raining properly here. Something had to go right today.
[This message has been edited by Darklight (edited 10 November 2001).]
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Locals hereabouts try to protect frost sensitive plants by hosing the frozen surface of the leaves before the sun strikes them, or before the freezing process has a chance to burst the cells ( depending on who you ask ).
Never tried it myself. But would light misting at the right time be a possible way to protect plants inadvertantly exposed to frosts? Wouldn't want to do it regularly of course as it means standing outside each am in the freezing ;
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Originally posted by NOB:That sounds positive, I wonder why the pharmaceutical companies have't got a preparation on the market.
Are you being sarcastic here or what?
The whole point of keeping the plant prices down to only cover research costs was so that the multifaceted medicinal benefits of kratom are available to everyone equally rather than as a pharmaceutical product whose marketing & availablity is mediated by multinational interests.
NOB, I'm sorry I bimboe'd out in a multitasking window frenzy and pressed the edit button on yr post, rather than the reply-with-quote button. Yr post accidetally got edited but I hope I restored it fully. Tried to email you but yr profile doesn't list an addy. Apologies again. I shouldn't multitask with only half a brain running
Torsten I know you're busy but can sometime before EB2 can I pleeeeease have a copy of yr Kratom etc presentation online at the EB2001 site
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Sleep
in Chill Space
I'd recommend using the same GP you get tryptophan from as they're prolly more likely to be open to alternative solutions.
I told mine exactly what I wanted them for: I keep long hours,and often have trouble sleeping. I prefer melatonin to conventional sedatives as melatonin doesn't seem to intefere with my dream cycles.
My GP couldn't find melatonin in the MIMMS so he asked me to email him some info, which I did. He then gve me a script for a year's worth, cos he knew I'd have to order them in from OS
Melatonin is a perfectly respectable request to make.
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Sleep
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Originally posted by MrBumpy:if it was a homeopathic remedy of melatonin...wouldn't it make you stay awake and stuff?
I always thought so too. *sigh*
The melatonin they sell commercially is synthetic. It's highly unlikely to be of biological origin these days anyhow. Ask if you aren't sure
When recommending ANYTHING for use in assisting in comedowns please ensure you consider the range of substances ( including alcohol & prescription medications ) that ppl may have ingested on the previous evening.
Peeps have a wide range of reactions to the same things and a wide margin for error should be allowed for as a matter of course, until the ppl concerned gain sufficient experience to determine their *own* margin of error.
Anything less is bloody irresponsible. And possibly dangerous.
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From the website
" Their area extends from the Clarence River near Grafton in the north, west to Guyra and Ben Lomond, and South to Scotts Head, northern New South Wales, Australia "
I'd put the full addy in but the only page I know on the language contains so little information and so many broken links its embarrassing. And it ain't hosted in Australia either, it's Dutch.
Torsten, I finally found Em's poem here: http://www.fatsil.org/LOTM/dec96.htm. I like the first translation better than the second, but that raises the whole issue of language translation generally and would send this post off topic into space
At least Gumbaynggir language is now an HSC approved subject. I recently heard of someone who graduated, last year I think, who studied it as a topic.
Sheesh, fancy living somewhere and not knowing how to speak the language. Or even *one* of them. It's embarrassing...
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You'd be best specifically identifying & noting which language your translation came from. And its only polite.
I'm currently trying to key out a spp which was identified by a member of one language group, while living in an area owned by the next language group. The two laguages aren't even similar, so its back to good ole Latin botanical names.
Koorie & Murray languages are unbelievably sophisticated in terms of development, inter-relationships, origins, infelctions and grammar. Last count it was estimated tat there were 625 laguages here pre-contact and there are only 325 or so left today. A hell of a lot of ways of expressing life, emotions, processes and externalities are now lost forever. Please consider the Sybilline books as a metaphor ( and look the phrase up if it doesn't make sense already, I hate spoonfeeding ppl)
Maybe even consider that genetic groups of plants, or even that the same group grown under different conditions in separate regions may also contain different compounds. This may affect local names for the same spp also.
Language is a key area for determining social complexity. Anyone who thinks Koories and Murrays are primitive people is a naiive loser using this definition alone. If I had a spare life I'd learn at least Bundjalung and Gumbaynggir. Unfortunately I don't and consider myself the poorer for it
psycho0, go to that little extra trouble, its worth it, and it's only polite.
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Originally posted by gomaos:It's just that in our "modern" society religion is more under the control of politics and therefore can't do as much damage as it can in many islamic countries...
Er...did anyone see the Foreign Correspondent prog on ABC last week about Uzbekistan and neighbouring Afghani countries? Secular govts have made a point of oppressing Islamic teachings to the point where clerics who don't tow the party line in preaching are liable to disappear...
And claims of Moslem women weaaring traditional headscarfs in secularly governed Turkey are under real pressure also...something about them losing places at Uni? Can't remember really...anyone confirm?
To be a real arsehole, you only need a doctrine, and a certain inflexible approach as to what nameless and unknown ppl other than yourself are doing which bothers you. It ain't rocket science kids, and you can obtain instructions for such behaviours in many places online. Or even in real life.
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Forget it, its illegal.
Please consider the a-hole, especially yours, where many, many hardened criminals will be delighted to spend time forcing their extremities, should your frivolous attitude to legal issues expand from this forum into real life, and land you in trouble.
I'm sure that those considered and careful forum members who have heard of, or experienced k in a place where it is legal to do so will be able to provide you with insights they gained from their own legitimate experimentation
[This message has been edited by Darklight (edited 09 October 2001).]
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Originally posted by NordicRituals:I haven't enrolled. Maybe I never will. Hopefully they won't catch me.
If you don't vote, then don't whinge about the result I reckon.
The system we live under isn't perfect,ad there are other ways to work for the changes you want which may be more appropriate. But voting is also a voice, a single step in the right direction.
It only takes about an hour, including commuting, for most ppl. I don't know why so many ppl refuse to vote, but complain about the govt and simultaneously pursue change in ways that are equally long term and possibly less effective. Each to their own of course. It just stumps me...
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Rev, yer a legend
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Yeah OK rk
I checked biopsychiatry.com and the only solid refs were for a whole pile of opioid receptors I couldn't decypher. Also implicated were the acetylcholine, catecholamine, serotonin systems and something called substance P which no-one is quite sure of yet. If I haave to cover those as well we'lll be here for ages...
So more information, in words of one syllable or less, will be greatly appreciated
Re OCD and neurotransmitters...I prolly won't do more than skim over it. I've been postponing dopaminergic stuff til last cos there is just so much stuff to cover, it seems too difficult to edit it down to basics.
Its only meant to be a basic guide, I'm worried that if I don't set it out well it will put ppl off
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At last I have something sensible to say...
Coin & I are looking at setting up web pages based around neurotransmitters & their precursors involved in mood changes, drug use etc. Some of it will draw from the discussions here on tryptophan, tyrosine etc.
Basically its a harm-minimisation effort as much as it is a self help thing. But the one thing I am completely clueless on is the neurochemistry of opiod use.
I know opiod receptors are involved, (d'oh) but are any of the precursors we have discussed here useful in the specific treatment of opiod use or addiction? Aside from the collateral damage to serotonin levels etc, which you can get from many sources including depression, is there any receptor specific damage or depletion which can be directly addressed via amino acid or vitamin supplementation?
So far I've identified dopamine, serotonin and nor-adrenaline levels as the ones most important to address. And the common substances affected by their imbalance are the usual suspects....pot, mdma & co, acid, speed & coke, maybe even alcohol. But I hadn't thought of opiods and I don't want to spend the next zillion years reading up unless I have to.
Biopsychiatry.com might have something, but do any of you lot have a paragraph or two that may be useful?
Gosh I feel all clever now
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After much deliberation and worthwhile airing of views from all sides the answer is clear.
I was premature, not to say hasty, in calling a ban on binge posts.
Okay, now I've said it. Binge away, me hearties. Providing its within the normal constraints of forum guidelines you can continue to graphically depict your excesses and resultant exudates for our collective enlightenment.
Along with many others here I shall continue to squirm and chide in response. As moderator here I can:
a) reply in a condescending and superior manner resorting to angstful and baroque phraseology
b)wonder why you thought we'd be interested
c)wish you'd found a better way to describe your experience that didn't set ppls teeth on edge
d) hope you'd take more care next time
But you won't be banned for it, unless it contains other naughty stuff.
Extreme cases may prompt me to travel to your place of residence and follow you around, humming tunelessly, until you realise the error of your ways. You have been warned
I'd better go and unlock that thread. Play nicely with it, grrls and boys, Baiting The Moderator isn't a capital offence or CS would have been plucking harpstrings months ago. But it's hardly sporting
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Originally posted by reville:Darklights been very accomodating, can you please show some willingness to find your half of the solution?
Gosh, you're making me out to be some kinda monster
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Personally I think we should have a special CS archive...I'd hate to miss a marketing opportunity
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Show me where anybody but you has said they think binge stories should be banned
Me. I did. However I changed my mind once I realised the implications of such a ban and I realised I'd been waaay too hasty. Call it a learning curve.
Many people have alse expressed ambivalence or discomfort to binge posts, which helped mme in my temporary delusio. Maybe its not so much a matter of wanting binge posts banned as wishing they'd go away.But in hindsight, the ban was wrong.
Im gonna print this out and staple it to my wall so I have a place to spit next time I gag from some edit-happy moderator thinking he can bully people for exercising free will.
You mean me, love? I've probably chided you more than anyone here but hell you're no angel and if you agree to the conditions of membership don't be surprised if your wrist gets slapped when you break them
I wouldn't silence your voice for quids matey...stuff a sock down your throat from time to time, but that's for recreational purposes only
No chem I would boot you for being an asshole. Theres a difference.
Not on this forum you don't. In fact under the forum rules it would be really difficult to justify either. IMO one of the reasons the rules are so thin on the ground here is to prevent exactly this kind of arbitrary behaviour happening.
And every now and again I get serious twinges of nausea...ppl occasionally present moderator activities a though we are a kind of Illuminati, a unified force, tapping at our keyboards in darkened rooms, in constant contact, with a malevolent unspoken and shared purpose. It bugs me to hear you talk like that too SB, I may be being paranoid on this as it only takes a hint of it to set my alarms off but you're a mod too and should be careful with it.
Like I said, moderators don't travel in packs, though a cup of cofffee two or three times a year is a nice idea. It's amazing how little contact we have with each other and when we do its rarely about forum issues. Collusion happens only when necessary, like with the mulga thing, and doesn't take long to sort out.
So for those of you out there who imagine that we constitute some kind of powerful uber-class dispensing an unknowable justice and a muttered commentary on daily forum activities and sub-plots, I commend your imaginative prowess but must remind you that the truth is vastly more mudane. Sorry.
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Originally posted by ?SaToriBluE?:We all know the moderators are just going to have to suspend your posting rights again sooner or later anyway,
I would in no way assume no such thing. OK CS is a high- maintenance kinda guy
Please don't presume my responses to anything. Moderators don't necessarily travel in packs. This ain't my space either...it's everyones. I have admin duties here, it's not the same as posession.
We put a ban on binge stories today and tomorrow it's a ban on [insert current privillege] and so on.
Not necessarily so. One act does not necessarily imply another. But I can imagine that further restrictions may become necessary if laws were to change and I hope that in that event any changes would be handled with good grace. But really, I'm against putting extra rules in here cos I'm a lazy bitch who has to spend hours making you all behave
Stop hassling CS, SB, you know better. And you'll regret it in a day or so when you read back over your posts anyhow I reckon. Don't threaten anyone in this forum, and if you have personal differences between you please take them to email. CS I know you're being reasonable here- at the moment
Voodoo
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I've often wondered to what extent the enitrely virtuous idea of karma is used to justify a lack of otherwise necessary action....
....and to what extent ppl's refusal to take responsibility for a situation which would be better served by direct intervention fuels their own inertia driven karma....
...and to ponder how it is that some ppl feel so detached from the rest of the universe that they feel that somehow, someone or something else will take care of a situation for them. It sounds a tad beaurocratic. Or an excuse for laziness...