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You don't feel sad or threatened because you assume the press you like has virtues that gawker didn't, won't make mistakes like gawker did, and therefore won't be brought down in the same way gawker was. That's a just world fallacy.

It's really not. One would have to reason back from the result, not forward from the cause to engage in that fallacy. Reasoning forward from the cause is known as "accountability." We have courts to prevent such fallacious reasoning while providing accountability. Do I really need to march you through this court's decision?

Whatever news sources you favor is run by humans who will have their own foibles and will make mistakes. If they're actually doing journalism, they will be making enemies too, who have a blueprint for how to take down news organizations they don't like. The journalism you like is more vulnerable to these type of attacks than you're willing to admit.

The journalism I like must be accountable for its mistakes as well. The fact that the journalism that I like tends to be more careful than Gawker is merely a bonus. Other journalism that I dislike (e.g., Fox News) also tends to be more careful than Gawker so that's an ideological wash.

If consumers wanted to demonstrate a preference for local products they have options. Such a trend would be recognized. That is why you find various "greener" products at the grocery store nowadays, consumers started voting with their dollars and stores responded.

By this, are you referring to organic produce? And by greener, are you referring to environmentalism?

If so, you're basically being sold the scam of the century, and being suckered hook, line, and sinker. And in fact, stores like whole foods, which have picked up popularity as of late, are the grocery store scam of the century. The first giveaway should be the fact that they sell homeopathic medicine, but if you look at their ban list, it's basically nonsensical. For example, they ban monosodium-glutamate while allowing monopotassium-glutamate (contrary to popular belief, MSG is harmless at worst, and beneficial at best.) That store also sells a ton of junk food advertised as being healthy (i.e. blue sky sodas...it's natural, so it's good for you! Nevermind that it's loaded with sugar, cuz it's REAL sugar! And nevermind that cane sugar is no better or worse than HFCS.)

You know what though? Walmart refuses to sell raw organic alfalfa sprouts due to their well known high risk for foodborn illness (and yes, many people have died from eating these when bought elsewhere,) meanwhile whole foods will happily sell them to you. But remember kids, MSG is bad even though nobody has ever gotten sick from it, and organic raw alfalfa sprouts are good because they're natural, and natural is always good for you. https://psychcentral.com/lib/t...

Anyways I'm sure that somebody who disagrees with me is going to post a response that includes links from any one of naturalnews.com, mercola.com, foodbabe.com, foodrenegade.com, Dr. Oz, or some other well known quack source, but please don't bother because I consider clicking these kinds of links a total waste of time.

But the relationship between addiction and depression is a very real one:
https://psychcentral.com/lib/d...

People stay on the most common addictive substances to keep depression at bay.

I object to it because when you get caught with "your finger off your number" and goof up, my experience is that you're going to be screaming in supersonic frequencies about how "unfair" it all is. A little imagination and empathy isn't too much to ask of someone. And yes, I'm aware you will be indignant and angry with my observations. Not that I'll give one whit about that, either.

Welcome to Slashdot, where the really important thing is how smart AlanObject is and there's nothing else to discuss, because of course the world is just.

Getting drunk and doing stupid things is not racist, alchohol fucks everyone up, just in different ways, none good and many lethal. Now if only dude had been stoned, sure he could likely have shot himself whilst stoned trying to clean his second favourite toy but at least he would not have shot someone else. Guns and alchohol do not mix https://psychcentral.com/news/.... That is all that this story is about, once drunk, all logic and reason is gone to be replaced by alcohol fuelled depression and stupidity. Shooting people whilst drunk is either racist or xenophobic, it is simply alchohol fuelled stupidity. Would it have happened sober, no. Would it have happened stoned, no.

The reality is alcohol cost far more in losses to society than the profit it provides. Out suffering and wallets, are alchohol industry profits. For every dollar you spend buying alchohol, that alchohol will be spending another dollar in wasted taxes paying for the damage alchohol causes.

People are self medicating with all sorts of crap as a result of the stresses of psychopathic capitalism, it is time to ensure the mendicants do not cause more harm than good (people have a right to feel good, even if via intoxicants and fuck any sick fuck who demands people must fucking suffer, they must be fucking miserable, that they must slave and die on the inside every day, those people who demand it are disgusting).

Actually, divorce is declining and was never 50% for 1st marriages. Statistically your most likely to stay married until death. 2nd and 3rd marriages seem to fail more often and drive up the numbers.

citation (with plenty more on google): http://psychcentral.com/lib/th...

Ignorant self-serving rubbish. He hasn't won a goddamn thing yet.

Earth to Shane_Optima: the fat lady has sung :

Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans. This is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for and I'm sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country.

the electors are entirely free to vote for Clinton or some other person if they so choose

Wow! Still stuck on denial? That's unhealthy, man. Most of your kind are well into the the depression stage already... MoveOn, so to speak.

Ah, reefer madness, still alive and well... I'll wait until next week, when another study debunking that one comes out, like when you all tried to pull the schizophrenia gag. And either way, continued criminalization is wrong, rationalized by pure politics and gangland economics, with no more science than you will find in astrology.

Also, when you do the test, a score of 0-29 is labeled with No autism, 30 - 33 = Possible autism, 34 & up = Autism likely.

It seems the scores of around 22 for men and 19 for women are much ado about nothing. Both those still fall squarely in the "No autism" range.

21.9 isn't the maximum. I just took the quiz online and I scored a 36. The quiz I took said that anything 34 or above meant that Autism was likely. (My son was diagnosed with high functioning autism and we're sure I'm undiagnosed autistic as well.) When my wife (who is definitely not on the spectrum) took the test once, she scored about 10 or 11.

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...

But where I first heard of th econnection was in a fascinating book written by Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt) called "The Eden Express". In th elate 60's early 70's, he was living the good hippie life in Western Canada, and went schizophrenic, twice. He was eventually cured - dunno if that was the right word - but he's now a pretty well known pediatrician. But his issues largly stemmed from diet along with a predisposition to the issue. He noted that the cruel aspect of it was that it started by trying to be "good", and not cruel, so eating meat was a bad thing. So he got into a positive feedback loop

Here's an old article from People magazine 1975 : http://www.people.com/people/a...

I play golf once a week, and for me it is a time to turn my brain off.

Turning your brain "off" may also increase your intelligence.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2...

I guess these Ph.Ds need to stop using the term then.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...
http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...
http://www.webmd.com/mental-he...

Oh, and they need to remove it from the DSM
http://dsm.psychiatryonline.or...

So now your limit is 50 per day, huh? Just a few weeks ago, you were claiming that Slashdot wouldn't let you post more than 25 times in a 24-hour period.

Wow! That exchange in your last link was un be fucking lievable. This Karmashock dude has some serious mental issues. How someone can go that long with his hands clasped to his ears shouting "NA NA NA" is...it's just inexplicable. I'm going to go with a diagnosis of a incredibly acute case of BPD.

This is not true there are documented negative effects from placebos;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/08/21/the-other-side-of-the-placebo-effect/

Links corrected.

Did you actually do any research?

On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... develop a debilitating mental illness ...

The likelihood of developing a mental illness increases with age

"According to a rigorous health survey conducted by the CDC in 2004, an estimated 25 percent of adults in the U.S. reported having a mental illness in the previous year. Lifetime prevalence rates of mental illness in the U.S. were around 50 percent when measured back in 2004. That means in a family of four, one of you likely has a mental illness.

However, mental illness is greatly weighted toward our senior years, when things start looking pretty bleak.

On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... develop a debilitating substance addiction ...

use of illegal drugs is increasing in the 50+ group. In other words, the older you are, the higher the risk.

On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... commit suicide ...

The first peak in suicide rates is 15-24 years old. Given that you're not hiring high school or junior college students, we can ignore this group. Suicide rates drop for the next age cohort, and then increase with age. Specifically, suicide rates are highest for women aged 45-54, and for men aged 75 and older.

Also, men are 4x more likely to successfully commit suicide, so to continue your line of thought, maybe employers should only hire women :-)

Oh that would be ... let's see ... fantasizing about success.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder. But diagnosis is nothing compared to treatment. Do scroll down to the "When to see a doctor" and "Treatment" sections of those pages sometime.

Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder continued:

* Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

Previously

This isn't anything new . Also people with epilepsy have it particularly bad

Too bad the article is just plain sloppy journalism, written from the company's press release. The first inpatient Internet addiction treatment program opened up back in 2008:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/08/treating-internet-addiction-is-new/

And in 2009, another inpatient treatment center also claimed to be 'the first' inpatient treatment program... for a disorder that doesn't even officially exist!

Ah, it's Fox News... Nevermind.

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Too bad the article is just plain sloppy journalism, written from the company's press release. The first inpatient Internet addiction treatment program opened up back in 2008:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/08/treating-internet-addiction-is-new/

And in 2009, another inpatient treatment center also claimed to be 'the first' inpatient treatment program... for a disorder that doesn't even officially exist!

Ah, it's Fox News... Nevermind.

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The recent proposed changes to the DSM 5 are not yet fully vetted from what I understand. I suppose if you were splitting hairs finely enough you could make your argument, you just have to ignore the previous several decades of medical science. Of course there are those who are quite opposed to changing it from a mental illness to a disorder as their are legal implications.

That being said, unless your a psychiatrist or transgender yourself, your really probably just talking out of your ass with no clue in the world. I've wasted too much of my time with you already.

It's true that a stressful environment can indeed contribute to the risk of depression, and also that for most people, modern life is indeed stressful in a lot of new ways. To support your point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
""Nothing that we tried," Alexander wrote, "... produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment.""

I'd agree there are many factors involved in depression, including all the factors that may stand in the way of eating better (including lack of money for healthier food, misinformation, initial lack of motivation, peers, time, negative self-talk, misinformed professionals, chemical dependencies, bad relationships, difficult working or living conditions, no access to nature, social status, etc.). So, yes, even when you know you should eat better, there can still be a lot of hurdles in the way. A related film including a truck driver trying to get out of a downward spiral:
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

You could think of nutrition as like your car's tires, which are the interface between the car and the reality of the road. If your tires are bald, you are most likely going to have an accident on slippery roads, no matter how good the rest of the car is. But if your tires are bald, maybe you spend so much time paying for car repairs that you don't have money or time to go to the tire shop for new ones? And it is hard to think about investing in new tires when all the mechanics at car repair places that you go to (which don't sell tires for some reason) are telling you (based on years of their own training) that the reason you are having so many accidents is because you need an oil change, or a new transmission, or need to install all wheel drive, or remove the roof to make the car into a convertible. Still, it is true you'd probably have less accidents even with bald tires if, say, the roads were not so windy or made of slippery glass due to bad public policy... So, yes, depression is multi-factored in that sort of way (and more, since, following the analogy, how grippy your bald tires are might still be some function of exactly how you turn the steering wheel perhaps to make the most of some remaining patches of tread near the edges perhaps).

Still, please do your own research on diet and mood and you may be surprised. A starting point: https://www.google.com/search?q=diet+and+mood

From the first result:
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/food-to-balance-your-mood
"In a study of 200 people done in England for the mental health group known as Mind, participants were told to cut down on mood "stressors" they ate, while increasing the amount of mood "supporters." Stressors included sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and chocolate (more of that coming up). Supporters were water, vegetables, fruit, and oil-rich fish. Eighty-eight percent of the people who tried this reported improved mental health. Specifically, 26% said they had fewer mood swings, 26% had fewer panic attacks and anxiety, and 24% said they experienced less depression."

I know, one can quibble about whether they had a control group, whether that was "double blind" experiment, and so on.

Or another:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/28/healthy-diet-can-improve-mood/50908.html
"The results showed a strong day-to-day relationship between more positive mood and higher fruit and vegetable consumption, but not other foods."

Consider, if someone cruel were to take a rat and feed it nothing but sugar water, the poor abused rat is going to sicken and die, and probably be pretty cranky throughout the process of dying. Rats need a variety of nutrients. Why expect anything different

Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

so does marajuana use, so therefore belief in god must correlate with marajuana use :P

Actually, the opposite effect on mental health is probably more likely for marijuana.

It's just no covered by the mental health systems in most place, predominantly due to mandatory treatment being outlawed as a violation of civil rights.

When you hold someone involuntarily, it's limited to a 72 hour hold, and it take an extreme act by the person for that yo last beyond 72 hours - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(Involuntary_psychiatric_hold) . The typical reaction is treat-and-turf (get them back on their medication in the 72 hour window, then throw them out), or worst case, extended to a 5250: a 14 day hold, with the same results, or a T-Con (Temporary Conservatorship or 5270, which is a 30 day hold), also with the same results. If that doesn't work out for the worst cases, a so-caled permanent conservatorship can be initiate, so called because it constitutes a 1 year hold. Most psychiatric treatment personnel won't ever go that far for fear of a lawsuit.

This originated with a cost reduction measure under Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, signed in 1967 and phasing into full effect in 1972: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman–Petris–Short_Act .This successful cost reduction measure was adopted by other states, modeled on the California law, and quickly gained adoption in most Blue states, particularly where there was a high homeless population of mentally ill persons self-medicating with alcohol, marijuana, and other substances, rather than getting real treatment.

In any case, it typically means no treatment for psychiatric disorders.

My mother was a psychiatric social worker in a red state (Weber County Mental Health in Ogden, Utah). It took them a long time to adopt these measures, and they continued to treat patients (they were euphemistically referred to as clients), but they finally did so in the late 1980's and phasing in through the early 1990's. The reason they adopted them was also cost cutting, but it was mostly driven by Colorado convincing their mentally ill persons to accept a one way bus ticket to Utah - which was Colorado addressed the problem.

Ironically, you could call Weber County Mental health, and report a person who was off their medication -- those on Lithium for Schizophrenia frequently decompensated on their medications when diet drinks came out, since Aspartame bonds to N-Dopamine receptors making the treatment less effective, and mentally ill persons frequently have accompanying body image issues which drives them to diet drinks -- and their case worker would show up and talk them in.

I tried this same things with Santa Clara County Mental Health in the last couple of years, and they were totally uninterested in a man outside a subway who was arguing with his voices. No dice. My options, according to the social worker, was to call the cops on the guy -- the last thing someone in that state needs -- and run them through police system to get him a 5150 to get his medication. Santa Clara County absolutely does not care about their mentally ill the way Weber County does.

Although Obama's Affordable Care Act gives better access to treatment options for mentally ill persons: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/06/29/what-the-affordable-care-act-means-to-mental-health/ in actual practice, it's probably not going to matter if these people do not choose to avail themselves of treatment, and without reform of the laws governing mental illness treatment practices, it's most likely to remain a 72 hour hold, stabilization, and throwing them out after they have been on their medication long enough to ave their symptoms temporarily alleviated.

The end result is that it will likely not address the issue, and certainly without forced medication, it won't stop criminal gun violence or suicides, since as soon as they feel better, they're going off their medication again.

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Download a copy of Wordpress to an outsourced web server hosting account (many secure options available for ~$100/year). It takes 3 minutes to setup.

Wordpress's backend interface is the easiest to use and understand for folks who just need to share information and documents with others. There isn't the level of complexity (out of the box, but it's available if needed) that other CMSs have (like Drupal). Drupal is not recommended if you're not already familiar with Drupal.

Then pick one of the attractive themes from the thousands available, load in a few helpful plugins, and give accounts to folks who may be responsible for different areas of content.

Wordpress can easily grow if your needs grow. But out-of-the-box, it's so easy to use and manage, it's the no-brainer choice.

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Plenty of info here: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2007/03/12/light-and-dark/

"Hare writes that the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy may "reflect the user's views on the origins and determinates of the disorder." The term sociopathy may be preferred by sociologists that see the causes as due to social factors. The term psychopathy may be preferred by psychologists who see the causes as due to a combination of psychological, genetic, and environmental factors."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Research suggests that, “psychopaths are a stable proportion of any population, can be from any segment of society, may constitute a distinct taxonomical class forged by frequency-dependent natural selection, and that the muting of the social emotions is the proximate mechanism that enables psychopaths to pursue their self-centered goals without felling the pangs of guilt. Sociopaths are more the products of adverse environmental experiences that affect autonomic nervous system and neurological development that may lead to physiological responses similar to those of psychopaths. Antisocial personality disorder is a legal/clinical label that may be applied to both psychopaths and sociopaths” (Walsh & Wu, 2008).
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/07/sociopathy-vs-psychopathy/

And if you want a bit more about the history of socio/psychopaths, reading this article about sherlock holmes not being a sociopath might also be helpful.

Well in my mind there's no question that tobacco is far worse than marjiuana, claiming there's no bad side effects at all is always a risky claim to make. There have been studies that indicate that's not the case as it leads to increased risk of schizophrenia, especially when used by adolescents.

I'm not even claiming that's a strong enough reason to keep it banned, just that there are bad side effects.

Yes, that and the fact that the underlying research supporting this entire company is weak at best:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/06/05/the-new-snake-oil-brain-training-brain-fitness/

Here's one article on the subject: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/07/10/suicide-barriers-are-effective/

All of your points (with the possible exception of #3) implicitly assume that porn is sex. It isn't, as anyone who has actually had sex can tell you.

My kids (all under the age of 13) know about sex. They know that their parents have sex. They've seen pictures of childbirth. I let them watch The Big Bang Theory, where it's mentioned and even implied all the time. They've been to art galleries regularly since they were 2, where there's plenty of nudity.

I don't have a problem with sex and nudity. The problem with porn is that it's not sex. It's not that it's too explicit, it's that it's not nearly explicit enough. It invariably contains no emotion, nothing about relationships, nothing about negotiation... it leaves out everything that's good about sex beyond the purely mechanical. And that's leaving aside the the fact that it compounds existing dysfunctions in our society like body image dysmorphia.

There's a lot of emerging evidence that young adults who watched a lot of porn have problems with intimate relationships. It makes intuitive sense when you think about it, like how exclusively using Visual Basic teaches you bad programming habits, or eating a diet of junk food gives you bad dietary habits and can even permanently affect your physiology.

That there exists "good" porn is beside the point. The vast majority of it is bad for a developing brain. They would be far better off with trashy erotic romance novels than they would be with porn, because at least they contain some actual emotional content.

Anecdote: My daughter (when she was eight) and I were passing an "adult shop". She asked what it was. I thought about it for a moment and said: You know the annoying boys at your school who tell dumb, unfunny, stupid jokes? It's like that, only sex.

Sure but zapping the whole brain nowadays is still "dark ages" stuff.

We should be looking more into stuff like this:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/09/04/tns-electrical-stimulation-helps-depression/17732.html
TMS, TDCT or similar.

Zap the parts that need to be zapped, not the entire brain! Sticking to zapping the whole brain because it works in many cases without trying to figure out which part you actually need to zap (and why it works) is "dark ages" science.

Scientific studies, researchers and clinicians do not divide depression into "rational" and "un-rational" depression. All depression is irrational -- by its very definition. If there's a cause for the depression, it is usually diagnosed as an adjustment disorder first. Clinical depression has little reason, just like most mental disorders.

You don't call people with cancer, "cancerives" or "cancerites," so why would you call people with depression 'depressives'?? That's just reinforcing the prejudice and stigma against people with a mental illness.

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http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/09/16/why-are-cell-phone-conversations-so-distracting/

Unfortunately, that website has it completely wrong. If you go and look at the NHTSA study they're quoting, those are the statistics for ANY distraction while driving (not just eating).

Eating is a distraction, contributing up to 2.15 percent of the risk in crashes and near-crashes according to the study. Nowhere near what that web page is claiming.

That's why a critical eye is needed when reading stuff online. You can't just find something that agrees with your point of view and take it face value without digging a little deeper.

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And worse, it's not even a particularly new finding from this research team. They reported on something similar 3 YEARS ago:

http://pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Last, neurofeedback -- a technique that's been around and well-understood for 2 decades now -- isn't likely to teach anyone a skill like juggling. It can help guide you to better understand your bodily responses and reflexes, but it's not like you can imprint one fMRI image onto another person. Neurofeedback takes time and practice, so it's nothing like the Matrix.

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The following is what I could dig up on the effects of multi-lingualism. It does impact the brain in many different areas and there appears to be a growing belief that learning a new language at any age will have a pronounced impact on your ability to think and reason, but that if taught young the improvements are far more dramatic still. I didn't want to clutter the submission with this stuff, especially as these studies don't have nearly the same level of rigour as the MRI scans of the taxi drivers (where a whole host of variables can now be examined directly versus the somewhat more indirect studies done on polyglots). They're also a bit more controversial, with opposing studies claiming that the benefits either don't exist or don't exist in the way that is claimed.

http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0012brain.html
http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=brainbriefings_thebilingualbrain
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/11/10/cognitive-ability-improved-when-bilingual/20740.html

(Press coverage adds yet another level of indirectness and potential sources of errors, but there's still some useful info here)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/science/31conversation.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3739690.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/18/bilingual-alzheimers-brain-power-multitasking

The impact of music on learning is also not very well studied - I can find press links that talk about the research, but not much actual research.

http://www.livescience.com/5327-music-memory-connection-brain.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801122226.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3095807.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12135590

However, the story gets MUCH more complicated...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15791973
http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/amnesia.html

There IS a fascinating "reverse" case, where alteration of the brain resulted in a remarkable alteration in musical ability, but as far as I know there has been no real work done on what changes the brain has undergone as a consequence of the new obsession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cicoria

If anyone can add to the list, that would be great, especially for the different areas you were mentioning.

I've had both 1st and 2nd generation Kindles and have flown with them each dozens of times. Which means they've been each X-rayed dozens of times.

They both work fine and have never had to be reset. With the 3G radio off, a single charge on either of them lasts weeks, even with daily use.

Kindles are bullet-proof, hardy devices that you can read in direct sunlight. I've even dropped them both, with no damage to either.

This is exactly what an e-reader should be.

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http://www.changemakers.com/node/113512/comments

See also: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2010/bipolar-disorder-and-nutrition/

Good luck with it. Everyone has something...

Still, as I say here:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/reading-between-the-lines.html
"In the end, what I have learned about suicide is that it is ironically a hopeful act and a sign of great faith. It is hope things could get better, and faith that one's actions can make one's world a better place. Anyone even thinking of it has the seeds within themselves for something much more life-affirming. "

Why is that?

2 quick points in case you still read this:
- Recognition is easier than recall.

- Artificial languages are much, much more difficult than natural ones.

So there's nothing in the recall-based, artificial language of the CLI that makes it user-friendly. The Archy project tried to alleviate both in a CLI-like-ish interface that didn't suffer those problems so badly.

Nope... your opinion doesn't count as a decent scientific reference, if you could link to something that would be great, thanks.

I detect just a small amount of sarcasm there, which means you must be at least familiar with the stuff. I'd like you to turn that sarcasm detector up a notch or two, reread the posts, and then see what you think. Here, I'll help (without sarcasm, I promise):

We're actually in agreement. My original post references the sample bias that can lead to counterintuitive statistical trends when you look at the introduction of protective gear. There are plenty of examples of this: helmets and head injuries in WWI, Abraham Ward's observations about bomber damage in WWII, body armor and limb injuries in present day conflicts, etc. We're basically talking about protective equipment providing the opportunity to treat people after some event rather than bury them. Your anecdote is an excellent example of that. It boggles my mind that someone would willing choose to forgo a helmet when cycling at 20 mph or so, let alone forgo a seat belt at 60. However, there are people that feel very strongly about it, and they always seem to have some twisted statistic in their pocket to justify it. My original post was a sarcastic jab at both.

More importantly, the judgment found something glossed over in the summary -- the court did not recognize Righthaven as an entity that had any significant rights in the copyright, and therefore could not sue in the first place.

That's because the agreement with Stephens Media was so specific in carving out Righthaven's rights to the copyright that the only right they really had, according to the court, was the right to sue others to protect the copyright. This is not a recognized transferable right.

That's a pretty big finding. You can't just assign your copyrights to another company for the sole purpose of suing others.

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Google will still support all older browsers on its search engine. It wouldn't make sense to discriminate there.

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To fair I am not sure the Google search site would deny any web browser, as it would still make them money.

As usual, the summary leaves out an important modifier -- this only applies to Google APPS, not Google.

From TFA:

For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version is released, we’ll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.

Google will still support all older browsers on its search engine. It wouldn't make sense to discriminate there.

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An interesting study was done at my alma mater, CWRU, that found that while reading was closely tied to heredity, math ability was influenced by nurture.

So I'm sorry, someone basically took the Miserable Users hack for vBulletin originally released in 2004 and -- 7 years later -- ported it to Drupal??

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59727&page=8

Astounding. Neither original, nor news, nor particularly interesting.

There are many powerful, easy-to-use and easy-to-develop for open source CMS systems available; Drupal is not one of them.

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