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"War rooms" connect with men's egos
Admit it. When you were a boy, you played with your GI Joe action figures and pretended to shoot each other with sticks and odd things you found around the house. But now you're all grown up and trying to write software for a living. Wouldn't it be nice to reconnect with that bit of your child hood and recapture a bit of those preadolescent cravings for a postadolescent testosterone rush?
It's not just a placebo effect. Numerous medical studies indicate that people behave differently in war-geared situations, even in times of peace. If you can convince software-developers to tap into their subconscious desire for conquest, then they can even begin to forgo sleep and food (though interestingly, not sex), in a pursuit of the artificially placed goal set by the company.
Building special "war rooms" both placates men's self-images (power-seeking) and provides a modicum of logistic support to enhance the illusion (nurture-seeking). Rather than discourage competition, today's companies are elevating it to the highest ideal, unmasking sublimated urges and unleashing great profit potential. -
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"Probably not from carrot juice though... beta-carotene is often used to dye lemonade"
Beta Carotene was first isolated from carrots, and is the main pigment that gives their roots an orange color. At lower concentrations, Beta Carotene can give a yellowish appearance, as it does in Golden Rice.
From WebMD.com:
"...Your friend's yellow-orange skin hue is a tell-tale sign of a beta carotene overdose from his hefty carrot juice consumption."
From Mywellness.com:
"Drink too much carrot juice and your skin will begin to turn orange. This won't harm you, Diekman says, but it's a sign that you are probably getting more than your body needs."
From Hallelujah Acres:
"Carotenemia is the medical term for increased blood levels of the pigment carotene, a vitamin-A precursor found mainly in the fruits and vegetables, especially carrots and sweet potatoes. The excess carotene is deposited in the skin, where it imparts that distinctive hue. High blood levels of carotene are harmless, and enzymes in the body limit that nutrient's conversion to vitamin A so the vitamin won't reach toxic levels. If you don't like the orange color, cut down on the carrots or supplements. Your skin color will return to normal after a few weeks." -
Read this - You need the full story.
Come on, people make mistakes. They shouldn't have to die just because they fell off a goddamn cliff.
Excuse me: despite all the new hippie-ass candidates for president declaring that smoking up mellows you out and puts you in harmony with nature, it's a fact that weed contains carcinogens, is mildly hallucinogenic, and reduces inhibitions.
So says scientific studies.
Umm, Jumping off a cliff is a far cry from smoking weed, considering there has never been a recorded case of a marijuana overdose. The carcinogens can be considered negligable (all smoked plant matter contains carcinogens) as researchers at John Hopkins University have been unable to link smoked marijuana to any form of cancer, see this study. Furthermore, it has been shown that long term marijuana smokers show no more (in fact less, although not significant) cognitive decline than non smokers over a 15 year period. (Constantine G. Lyketsos, et al., "Cannabis Use and Cognitive Decline in Persons Under 65 Years of Age," American Journal of Epidemiology, May 1999, vol. 149, p. 794-800
Canadian judges have ruled (in official findings of fact) that marijuana (if not used in the conjunction with operating heavy equipment) poses nearly no significant harm to either the individual or society, see this here.
You should look at the mortality rate due to cocaine, written here at this report. The rate is 4 per 100,000 users! Compare to alcohol at 150, and marijuana is certainly safer than cocaine.
Moreover, it's not like kids don't _know_ drugs are bad for them. Most of the ones I know are like "yeah, fuck that
See above. I smoked dope in High School, and graduated with several academic awards. (and 46 hours of college credit going in) I am just glad I wasn't dumb enough to drink like so many of my peers, hell, I am 37 times more likely to die from that than cocaine.
They're not stupid, they _willingly_ commit said error. After constantly being told that they should not. I mean, name one kid who has not seen hundreds of "drugs are bad" posters and commercials in their life. Who hasn't seen the crack addicts in the airports.
Again, see above.
Kids know better, and if some of them are still stupid enough to smoke up, they need punishment, not help.
I think people who enforce this unscientific crap need punishment. Come back with some references and we will talk.
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Who cares about media... IPO is still eB2BHot!
FuckedCompany.com says everything you need to know about the IPO/.COM insanity.
It's possibly the most clever website I've ever seen... Vote on your favorite shitty "eCommerceIntegrationBizPortal"... When it dies, you get points! Or something.
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BS!I commend you for trying to help people with Manic Depression on your website. However, I do have a problem with all of these articles that tend to glorify bipolar disorder. I'm not saying that people should not tell anyone or talk about Manic Depression if they have it, it's just that this is not a "good" thing to have, especially just for the goal of "writing code," and it definitely should be treated if it's true mania and depression. A lot of these articles are VERY misleading, especially for people who don't have any background in psychology. One of the people in the articles (I don't know if it's the same guy as who wrote the article) writes: "I can work effectively even when I'm wigging, even when I'm hallucinating, even when I'm severely depressed." While this may be out of context, in which case it's the article writer's fault, but this is AGAINST one of the very DEFINITIONS of bipolar disorder. While it may be true for this specific person, it's definitely not common. If a mental attitude is not debilitating in any way, it's not a "mental disorder." There are also some more quotes: "A life that I am convinced will be filled only with despair for the rest of my existence becomes serene and even joyful. The CIA stops tapping my phone." and "The mania snakes out of control like a runaway locomotive--restlessness, irritability, maybe violence or those voices that sound like they're coming from a cheap transistor radio, and eventually, lockdown." These are completely misleading. Hallucinations, and even delusions, are VERY uncommon for people who have bipolar disorder and, in fact, warrant a completely different diagnosis altogether. The "maybe violence" is, again, very misleading in that violence in a manic phase is EVEN MORE UNCOMMON than violence while hypomanic or "normal." There's obviously some confusion here between manic depression and schizophrenia, and random stories in movies and TV about what "mad" people do. Remember that although these may be very interesting, they're very rare in terms of "mental disorders" while other affective disorders (like depression itself) and others are much more common than these romanticized disorders. There's also a large lacking in the mention that bipolar disorder is largely, if not exclusively, hereditary. These articles are written by somewhat uninformed people who are writing to get "human interest" out of their audience. Even the citations come from self-help books instead of psychology literature. If you're interested in learning about manic depression read a psychology text or read some medical websites like WebMD or OnHealth. And remember, most of all, it's not cool to be mentally ill.
- Jeremy Fuller
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Start complaining if you use Netscape <= 4.6
Click this text: "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed." Now click okay! Now you can only get a cookie if the server sending you the HTML (or whatever) page is sending it.
Thanks for bringing this up. This is exactly the text given for that option in Netscape Communicator 4.6, which I also use. The text is 100% wrong and misleading. "The page being viewed" may be WebMD.com, but the cookie attached to the ad banner comes from DoubleClick.net.
If you don't believe me, quit Netscape, rename your ~/.netscape/cookies file, restart Netscape, go to my.webmd.com, verify for yourself that the banner ad comes from doubleclick.net, quit Netscape, and "grep doubleclick ~/.netscape/cookies".
As Gerv points out, Netscape 4.7 finally makes this option read: "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server." This is technically accurate, but 99.9+% of the audience will still not understand that they'll be tracked from site to site across the internet.
Jamie McCarthy