Well when I looked at my download today it was going at 115 KB/s, but as soon as I started to surf the net, it went back down to 20 again, and isn't going back up. It didn't go above 30 the entire day yesterday.
I think I have a direct connection to the internet, I'm not running through a...
My bittorrent program (µTorrent) only runs at about 30 KB/s even though I have a 1.5 mbps connection.
Here are the error messages that apply to me:
What does "Error opening Windows Firewall: 0x800706D9" mean?
This means that µTorrent was unable to add itself as an exception to the...
IMO, age has everything to do with it. You rarely see physicists accomplish much after their thirties (other than perhaps Richard Feynman, but even his accomplishments slowly declined in the end). I suspect it has more to do with psychology than pure reason. It is this very experience and...
The last couple days in Sociology have been very argumentative. Here's why
Why Race Exists As a Valid Means of Classification
We humans have created a device to help classify and recognize the physical differences between living organisms. This identification system was created in order...
I suggest you follow some of Steven Johnsons writings. He is the Emerging Technology columnist for Discover magazine. He wrote a book based around the Flynn effect, Everything Good is Bad for you: how popular culture is actually making us smarter. He has a blog at www.stevenberlinjohnson.com...
That document is full of misleading statements... although I do know that it causes schizophrenia in people who already have the condition, isn't it pretty rare? I've never read any statistics on that.
First off, the
part is just bull****. As a member of the CannabisCulture forums, I can...
They WILL dissappear. If you legalized it, the prices would go way way down. How many tobacco and alcohol dealers do you see on the streets? None. They don't do it because they wouldn't be able to make enough money from it.
Now how many alcohol dealers did you see during prohibition...
I agree with selfAdjoint on both points. Politicians do seem to use revenge, which I think is entirely pointless. Also, even if there wasn't a death penalty, they would still get life.
I liked the article. I did my current events for social studies on the pink section of the article about Lawrence Summers, the Harvard president. My teacher wrote some stuff about it that I question, so if I am not too lazy I might post it tonight to see what ya'll think of it.