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Has anybody used Zyban (Buproprion) or Champix (Verenicline)? They probably have different names in other countries. I'd be interested in your experiences if you have. Edit: Zyban is Wellbutrin in the US. Champix is also called Chantix.

If you have frequent images or video to share with the wider world that may interest some then it's probably worth it, For most people, I suspect, it's just an exercise in empty narcissism. Facebook with pictures; It is owned by them. It likely appeals to most people with a big sense of 'I, me, myself': 'I woz 'ere' selfie mindset.

Even though the sleeping brain has less external awareness, it is still probably receiving internal and external environmental cues which may influence the content of dreams. As an example of an internal cue, I had a dream where I was trying to rise through deep water as fast as I could to reach the the surface before I ran out of breath; I woke up, bladder busting for the bathroom. When we are younger, we are, relatively, experientially naive about. life and dreams. I think, being naive, things appear more extreme and frightening simply due to lack of experience and familiarity. Also, the lack of experience blurs the distinction between being awake and dreaming.

Imagine you are sitting on a children's roundabout. You feel you are going much faster on the outside than if you sit near the centre; same with records.

Nailed it.

The music is recorded on to the record at the normal constant rate. The RPM is constant and the modulations of the cut will remain at the original frequencies as the stylus goes inwards because n -no matter where it is in the spiral the modulations will still be modulate at the same rate as the recording. The modulations get tighter as it moves inwards but it also moves proportionally slower, WRT to the stylus, thus keeping the original frequency reproduction. The music,naturally, gets cut onto the record at 1 second/second; compensation is not needed.

Yes, I only appreciated the French films because they were subtitled; which I'm quite at home with. Will have to remember to get the translations for French songs. the films can be quite noir, which the french are pretty good at.

I thought you'd left us. Can't live with us, can't live without is; must be love.

That's a good strategy for getting things done but I think you will agree that knowing something is not necessarily understanding it. if you understand something you can actually manipulate it better to apply to more situations and even find novel applications for it..

Ooh yes, Jane Birkin, you bad boy. I think this one was popular in the UK. I'll say one thing for the French, they know how to make films about love, sex, intrigue and romance. Knocks everyone else out of the park. I love the existential/philosophical angles the characters often take.

I concede to your point JC on the language side. I was actually thinking much earlier than that also along the lines of genetic influences that comes with rape and pillage.

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I don't know. Perhaps one of the more knowledgeable will say something about it.

It might help if you resist thinking of the universe as a discrete object inside a volume i.e. from the outside of the universe because you can't seem to visualise that conceptual space around the universe as merely an aid to objectifying it; you see it as something real. The absolute inescapable fact is that the observer is part of, and within, the universe. The notion of the universe having an overall shape, volume and size is moot and unknowable. When you see representations of the shape of it in science articles they are describing its spatial topology or behaviour/structure of spacetime over a very large sample of the universe.

"The CDC (Centre for Disease Control) writes: "Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed–essentially zero. Incorrect interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host." To summarize, HIV needs really specific conditions to survive outside the body. Typically air tight and climate controlled. As far as inanimate objects, needles are found to be one place the virus can survive a bit longer. This is due to the airtight space between the needle tip and the plunger also known as the "sweet spot"." http://helpline.aidsvancouver.org/what-we-do/helpline/online/how-much-seconds-or-minutes-exactly-hiv-virus-remains-alive-outside-human

The universe can be finite and unbounded I.e. no edge. Ask yourself: where is the furthest point on the surface of a sphere? This is an example of an unbounded but finite plane. Apply that 2D example to 3D. You seem to be making the common mistake that the cosmic expansion is radial with a leading edge. The universe expands equally everywhere where the gravitational force does not overwhelm the expansion; any objects or group of objects, about, more than 200m light years apart. Anything less than that, then gravity is too strong.

I would agree. That's as simple and fundamental an explanation one can have.

His simple analogy there is super and gets to the heart of the problem... he was quite peerless at explaining wasn't he?

Yes, in the bits and books I've read of his, he brings it up fairly regularly pointing to the difficulty in simplifying certain ideas without losing the essence of them, especially when introducing a new idea.

I don't think think anything anyone one says here will convince you. You need to go and get test tested. Or see your doctor.,