Dexamphetamine sulphate is currently available in Australia via the pharmaceutical benefits scheme for narcolepsy (PBS listing). I don't know where we get it, but it perhaps suggests an alternative supply exists... Of course, this may mean you have to move to Australia.
John, I guess you played the game where you tried to find out what TECO result your name would cause? I used to edit all my CS homework with ed, because nothing else would survive the 100bps I could squeeze out of my home-built modem, trickling down from a Sun 3 to my Commodore 128. Ah, the terror of needing to type 1,$p because I'd forgotten where something was...
(Can't edit comment, alas.) nroff and troff and groff, and then, oh joy, TeX. As a mathematician, it was nice to be able to do arithmetic in troff, but TeX is practically Turing-complete! Now it's pdftex on my (old, dated, behind the curve) G4 powerbook, and nothing ever gets printed at all.
I started "setting type" using a Mac Plus and Ready, Set, Go! in 1990, then jumped to Quark and Illustrator in 91, working cash in hand for an "advertising company" that mostly did signage: most of my time was spent matching or redrawing type and logos; Nancy, I still play the "which face" game at the cinema. Fanzines were all laser-printed for me, although quite early on in my fannish life I was privileged to learn from John Foyster and Allan Bray how to get my knees purple, and I still recall the smell of the electrostenciller cutting away. I have a manual Gestetner duplicator in storage, and a few tubes of ink and some paper here somewhere... I guess that means I'm in Charlie's generation.
BSc in pure mathematics, abandoned MSc, currently thrashing at PhD in mathematics, teaching freshman calculus. (Lecturing, tutor, demonstrator, bully, the works...)
I submit that we already see water-driven conflict. The West Bank and the Golan Heights represent approximately 10% of the Jordan River catchment. See also the Southeastern Anatolia Development Project.
I was amazed when I lived in Austin that many houses did not have gutters to catch rainfall on roofs, let alone tanks to store the water. And so much lawn! Truly, then, I know that America was rich. Water just being left to run over the ground!
How is agricultural irrigation managed? Here in South Australia we are trying to encourage farmers to embrace the high technology of the pipe, rather than using open ditches...
(Some photos here.)
So, you all know what komodo dragons used to eat, right? Like, before there were people and goats and chickens? Because they didn't just grow big on spinach...
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