Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

zagubov

Lots of my students have chillout mixes playing when they revise. There's lots of it out there.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes.

You see, my point was that I was wondering if Mozart would help their brain function?

I'll see if I can find some research papers..............

There is no stopping Joe's brain function now that he has found the right place to study, ok he will always have autism and difficulties socialising but compared to even a very short while ago, his potential is far greater than it was.

Hard to think that this time two years ago I was having to have all those meetings at school as he was punching walls, hurting himself, was paralysed by anxiousness and stress, had completely withdrawn and was failing...and all because his high school decided to not provide his statemented help because it cost too much and the funds would be better off directed elsewhere.

Their loss, his current college now have the pleasure and bragging rights of a very bright student who is in the top 3 in his year group (sometimes he is top, sometimes second, sometimes third...three of them are competing against each other and taking turns at the top).

Not sure I would be able to convince him to listen to Mozart though, if Joe doesn't want to do something, Joe doesn't do and no amount of nagging works :rotfl:

Josh listens to lots of classical music including Mozart though as he is a music student and it is a requirement for his course.

James prefer classical strings music....and Sinatra!

CKhalvashi

Can't sleep, don't know why, taking the rest of the week off.....

Not sure if it's the best idea or not, but there we are

oldandhappy

Thats always been the worse thing for me at times...even had sleeping tablets for long periods that start off fine but become so addictive that then you cannot sleep without them. I would say with me its about the brain ticking over too much and then not be able to relax the thoughts...I use to take 5HTP mainly from Holland and Barrett they worked quite good on me....I would think you have ideas of your issue with the zzzzzzz's so maybe you will find a way of sorting this problem. When you start reading up you realise how common it is and that brain of ours is so complex ...best wishes Dianne

SingleSue

Ooopps, think I went into rant mode last night...sorry everyone!

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Ooopps, think I went into rant mode last night...sorry everyone!

Rant mode? :huh:

Didn't notice any rant mode!

Did I miss something?

Generali

Pyxis wrote: »

Rant mode? :huh:

Didn't notice any rant mode!

Did I miss something?

I missed it too.

I had an interesting day at work today looking into the markets for landmines and cluster munitions. It's not every day you print out a bunch of munitions catalogues and browse through them at your desk.

It's pretty bloody stuff though. A B1 bomber can carry 30 Textron cluster bombs each of which carries 40 'mini' bombs (each mini-bomb weighs about 45lb and would easily destroy a suburban single garage).

To pass the US ethical laws on cluster bombs, each bomblet must have only a 1% chance of surviving the bombing process by accident. That means each time a B1 bomber drops its load it will drop 12 45lb bomblets which will end up lying on the floor still live waiting for a child to play cricket with it. That's assuming that the bomblets are compliant which many claim they are not.

The UK neither makes nor sells cluster munitions I'm glad to say, ditto Australia.

Pyxis

Blimey Generali! :eek:

I don't know whether to ask what you do or not!....................:eek:

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

I missed it too.

I had an interesting day at work today looking into the markets for landmines and cluster munitions. It's not every day you print out a bunch of munitions catalogues and browse through them at your desk.

It's pretty bloody stuff though. A B1 bomber can carry 30 Textron cluster bombs each of which carries 40 'mini' bombs (each mini-bomb weighs about 45lb and would easily destroy a suburban single garage).

To pass the US ethical laws on cluster bombs, each bomblet must have only a 1% chance of surviving the bombing process by accident. That means each time a B1 bomber drops its load it will drop 12 45lb bomblets which will end up lying on the floor still live waiting for a child to play cricket with it. That's assuming that the bomblets are compliant which many claim they are not.

The UK neither makes nor sells cluster munitions I'm glad to say, ditto Australia.

Do these things switch themselves off after a while? I thought the whole point of them was not necessarily to explode on impact, but to lie around and deny the area to the opposition?

Generali

Pyxis wrote: »

Blimey Generali! :eek:

I don't know whether to ask what you do or not!....................:eek:

I can tell you.......



......but I might have to kill you.


Only joking!!! I'm what's known as an ESG Equity Analyst and I do a whole bunch of things. At the moment, one of the things I am doing is trying to inform the decision as to whether or not a whole bunch of funds we run for our biggest client should be invested in companies that make cluster munitions and landmines.

I think not but there is an argument that if a company makes precision metals for innocuous uses but then one of those metal plates is used to make a cluster bomb then they're okay.

That's where it gets complex. Should we invest in Boeing that makes B1 bombers that keep us safe but also can deliver cluster munitions. What about the company that makes the seats for the B1. A what about the company that makes the dye that colours the thread that makes the seat for the B1 bomber that drops the cluster bomb?

Morals aren't simple to apply to business.