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But strenuous exercise might not be the answer ... Amigan writes: " Foxnews.com is reporting another story, based on a study done by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN that significantly cuts in to the number of people claiming to be Carpal Tunnel suffers."
Of course, neither this nor the Canadian study mentioned shortly ago say that people don't suffer from true carpal tunnel afflictions -- only that it may be a widely mis-diagnosed condition.
Please drop quarters into your bedside cable modem kzinti writes: "Over two years ago CmdrTaco posted a story about a video clip archive and an animated short called 'Tripping the Rift' by Chris Moeller of 'King of the Hill.' TTR is a bawdy parody of popular science fiction like Star Trek and Star Wars, and is one of the funniest things you'll ever see. Alas, the clip available in 1999 from the archive (which has since shut down) was small and of poor quality. I recently decided to see if I could find a better quality copy on the net somewhere and struck gold at, wouldn't you know it, trippingtherift.com. Not only does this site have a newly posted, high-quality MPEG edition of TTR, but it also has a couple of DivX versions and links to Quicktime and other versions of TTR. The best news is that a second episode of TTR has been produced and should be available for download 'shortly.' Trip Now!"
Lookin' clever. Regarding Chris DiBona's walk through the recent Society for Information Display expo, SID Attendee writes: "Your SID correspondent missed one of the coolest demos, from eInk. These displays use charged particles with black & white pigments on opposing ends to form a pure reflective display. The contrast and resolution was great, easily like a newspaper. They consume zero power when the display is static, and can be made incredibly thin (less than 1mm). This could be the thing that makes ebooks/webpads for real. Color is on the horizon (they had a very crude color demo at the show).
PS - I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues."
Thanks for the first-hand report.
6 points for Canada! iamklerck writes: "Apparently the Scientology critic who was to go on trial for interfering with a religion has been granted "refugee" status in Canada. I wish him luck, as I'm sure we all do. Perhaps some day he'll be able to return to the U.S. without having his rights violated."
Jane, you ignorant slut. Take even a cursory glance at Scientology's past treatment of its critics and you will see that anyone who publicly opposes it and takes time to protest against it is the very fucking definition of "one more individual who is facing genuine danger for his private beliefs".
Pardon the subject, and i know the slashdot-hypocrite topic is really overdone, but cheering a scientology critic on while hyping a movie that stars a scientology drone? (RE: All the people in the last Katz thread defending Swordfish.)
Not only is it a crap movie about a Ãf¼berhacker, but it promotes the career of a member of a terrorist organization only known to be a true "religion" in the United States, and that
because they infiltrated the IRS.
Again, pardon the venom, but I do not want to see *any* victories to Scientology, not even at the box office. Thank you for your time.
Chao
This comment reminds me of the hindus in India who think Catholics are cannibals because in the sacrament of Holy Communion you "eat the Body of Christ". [This used to be a widespread belief many years ago, and you still find it out in the less educated areas in India.]
And how are they wrong? The Catholic idea of transubstantiation is not some kind of "symbol" like what it got changed to in most other Christian religions; it is that the wine and bread actually turn into the blood and body of Christ through a miracle. That would make them cannibals.
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You suspect a hoax? Why do you suspect a hoax? because you suspect a hoax? No, you need to provide evidence and reasons. But you haven't. As to why you've had your garabage post upgraded, that might be because scientologists have in fact infiltrated the Slashdot moderation system.
Was it self-promotion for Keith Henson when he was sentenced to jail for criticizing scientologists? Was it self-promotion for Keith Henson when he made posts critical of scientologists on a usenet group? Was it self-promotion for Keith Henson when he was arrested at gunpoint by a heavily-armed "fugitive team" in Canada because scientologists lied to the police and said he there was a dangerous man in their midsts?
I wonder what manner of man you are fm6.
I believe he said to pity and ignore them, not hate them. Although, from their actions, CoS people seem to hate their victims.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
It depends on what you're referring to... if you want to refer to the individual media rather than the overall "media" group, you would use "are". Else, you'd use "is".
For instance, "Those are proud people" means that, taken individually, each person in the group you're referring to is proud. "That is a proud people" means the nation or ethnic group in question is, taken as a whole, proud. That is, the majority of the people are proud, but any given individual in the group may or may not be proud.
Same deal with media. (This doesn't fly with most plurals, incidentally... just those which double [no pun intended] as mass names.)
The underlying cause is another matter entirely.
Let's see the Mayo clinic did one study, the controls weren't described nor were the methods described and the subjects seemingly were just observed doing their normal jobs so there was no actual experimental plan. Even with that piece of shit methodology 1 in 9 had symptoms and 1 in 25 had severe clinical symptoms. Holy moly does anyone see anything wrong with this???
And oh yeah FOX news is the mouthpiece of the Republican Party - no too much of an agenda there.
OLED's are in diapers. I have no doubt (and I work in the field) the stability problems can be licked.
By performing the Safety Dance live infront of my webcam.
Bowie J. Poag
There(ow!) is no (ouch!)su(owww!!)ch thing as(aagh) (ouch)carpal(owwwww!!) tunnel sy(oww!!)ndrome. Get over (ouch) it.
Bowie J. Poag
You know, you're right: Canadians are greater than Scientologists!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
I was feeling a bit of pain in my shoulders from typing and mousing despite taking care to have 'good posture'. A friend reccomended external rotator exercises (rotator cuff). Do a search on it, you'll find the exercises. Easy to do with light weights, and it has made a big difference.
Blar.
http://familydoctor.org/handouts/265.html has some simpler exercises you can do with those plastic ruberised dumbells. Unless you're huge, 5lb and 8lb weights should be fine.
If you ARE huge check out this one http://www.t-mag.com/html/body_145shldr.html
The writing style is pretty funny.
Blar.
Available at scifi.com at http://www.scifi.com/exposure/frameup/tripping.htm l in Real format.
It works just great over the cable modem at work (but, ah, this isn't the censored version so you probably don't want to watch it someplace where you might attract an audience--Terry Farrell makes lots of "noises" at the end).
We have scientology in Canada too, hope they don't hassle him too much.
Scientology is not as much of a problem for us Canucks (and this is not meant as a cheap shot) is a less litigous society (and legal system).
I dunno, but to relate a Canadian story..
The Alberta Premier granted free bus tickets to tons of welfare applicants several years ago to have them go to B.C. and claim welfare there (dumping them on the B.C. Economy)
How's that for not dealing with you problems?
President Bush can Read!?
I hear that the White House staffers are trying to teach him, so he'll be able to see what those funny squiggles are on his honorary doctorate -- a sad day for universities everywhere, that was...
deus does not exist but if he does
"Destroy them utterly" was a direct quote from L Ron Hubbard, referring to dealing with enemies of his cult.
Close. The actual quote is "ruin him utterly." Same difference, really; it's all Fair Game in the end.
And now that I've said this...let the Dead Agenting from the other side begin!
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
" Gore lost. Bush won. Get over it."
Never forget, never forgive.
War is necrophilia.
There's no such thing as freedom in the People's Republic of California anymore. (I live "next door" to them in Nevada; they're constantly sending their loose screws our way to fsck up this state as badly as they've done their own.)
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
My hand seems to hurt more when I use the mouse alot, but typing doesn't seem to be a problem.
Have you tried something like a touchpad? Unlike mice you don't have to pick'em up and put'em down all the time, so less of a workout for your wrist. Just zip your finger along the surface.
I use the Cirque Glidepoint, and I like it much better than a mouse.
I guess that settles it. Canadians > Scientologists, who would of thought?
How we know is more important than what we know.
This comment reminds me of the hindus in India who think Catholics are cannibals because in the sacrament of Holy Communion you "eat the Body of Christ". [This used to be a widespread belief many years ago, and you still find it out in the less educated areas in India.]
The main criticism here is plain technique. FUD is best reserved for use by the Microsofties, not someone who is supposed to be intelligent.
You've misunderstood. There's no Scientologist religious sacrament involving pets. It's just that one of their standard intimidation techiniques is to kill the pets of those who they view as enemies. This is derived from Hubbard's "Fair Game" doctrine, which states that "Suppressive Persons" (enemies of the CoS) are "Fair Game" for certain tactics. From hour.ca:
You can find a couple of reference to Scientologists attacking the pets of their opponents here (search for "pets", it's near the bottom of the page) and here (Search for "Duke"). You can probably find more by digging around on google or xenu.net.--
"HORSE."
"HORSE."
-Flaming Carrot
>I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
no they're not. They're a company, and definately NOT human. Their employees, CEOs, Bill Gates and even their lawyer are human. calling MS human is like calling a human "carbohydrates and water".
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
I use a computer quite often and have had no probles with carpal tunnel. Yes its been for many years. i think its as with anything, bad if it is overdone, but ergonometry is not the answer supprisingly. I believe it lies within the systems and application. While working, i find that i spend more time doing repetitious motions with trying to fix software (gAOL, MSFT). Now to my linux side, i barely use linux, and everything i do under windows, (except games) is done under linux as well. Did i say everything? No, not quite. I hate windows with a passion but i still use it for one reason, the software. I enjoy playing around with new toys, audio programs, niftly little toolz, and things, more than i actually enjoy getting work done. The overboard computer usage by a company is the problem. Can it be cut in half, yes. Do i suggest only linux, why not? If there is a program that exists on linux, or can be made for it, use it instead of the windows alternative. Sure, your employees will have less down time, and less time messing around if they set it up right. Having limits is what computer industry people have said "NO" to for a long time. Try using some limits when working on a machine, not duration. The root comes first, the benefits follow.
"If a man watches 3 football games in a row he should be declared leagaly dead" - A
This short actually made it onto the SciFi Channel's "Exposure" shorts thingy some months ago. Of course, it was edited for content a bit (naked clown's girlfriend and things were edited over). But full props to them for getting it out there.
Nope - Keith was tried on 2 charges of "misdemenour terrorism" (for joking on the 'net about "Tom Cruise Missiles") and one of "interfering with a religion" (for exercising his 1st ammendment rights by picketing their compound in the desert)
I noticed that this page quoted the same professor and referred to the National Post article.
So this one guy will have a great deal of impact on industrial policy in the US.
That is assuming that President Bush hadn't made up his mind without reading any publication.
The timing is certainly convenient.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
In addition, from what I have read, there is no proof that Judge Swearinger's dog's drowning was related to the case he was currently on. Nor is there proof that his tires being slashed is related to the case he was currently on. Judges are involved in hundreds or thousands of cases, and almost certainly make enemies. There is nothing to tie these incidents together, and no proof that it was remotely related. There is also no reason to think that this wasn't done by an antagonist in order to get someone blamed.
In addition, even if it were true, ONE incident does not make something "standard technique".
Sure sounds like FUD to me.
The only other incident I can find, the Youngs, simply states:The illogic of this is astounding. A dog was missing, so 'someone stole it'. He was injured, possibly by a vehicle or another animal, so 'he was beaten.' This story involves quite a few assumptions. If they had had ANY kind of proof, they could have sued. The law is clear regarding cruelty to animals, is it not?
Hello little man. I will destroy you!
You mean people have a natural propensity to do what their told, even flying in the face of reason?
Even seemingly flying in the face of "humanity"?
Looks like Milgran and the Stanford Prison Experiment were on the money...
Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 276865 hours , 59 minutes ago. No need to try again.
If you had read the story you would know the DA is almost certainly a Clam and the Judge is a suspected Clam.
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...then ergonomic keyboards and mice are just a marketing ploy! Damn you marketing professionals, and all the money I gave you for stuff you convinced me I needed!
I am !amused.
I don't know if any of you noticed this, but the voice of Choad was Stephen Root. He was Mr James in the TV Show News Radio. He also played Milton in the underrated Office Space. Just kinda interesting....
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
I'm surprised to see the comment that the OLED displays were less than impressive ... is this just unrealistic expectations (LCDs are very mature, OLEDs are still in diapers) or a sign that LCDs may be around longer than everybody wants?
Just got my GameBoy Advance today, and as with everybody else I'm disappointed with the very dim screen. I figure Nintendo will probably release an OLED version in a few years, which would be great -- *if* these problems with OLEDs get worked out.
ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
Their organization was convicted many times in Canada, of slander, infiltrating government agencies, you name it. They are a little woozy up there. People aren't as cowed by them up there. No doubt they have plants worming their careers through useful places right now, but they don't have the critical mass they have here in the U.S in the State Department and various D.A. offices and police departments.
KH's death threat was a "Tom Cruise Missile" joke, and the phrase "Destroy them utterly." "Destroy them utterly" was a direct quote from L Ron Hubbard, referring to dealing with enemies of his cult. KH has spent the last several years of his life trying to make the world a better place by exposing a vicious, money-grubbing cult.
No, I'm not a Scientologist. I've never met one and couldn't care less about them either way.
Maybe you should care - the COS is as famous as Cantor and Seigel for making the net a worse place. They started with an attempted rmgroup to silence their critics. It looks as if they then escalated to cancels of critic's posts, then auto-generated spam floods, cross-posts to Nazi hate groups, and now seem to be trying child porn floods of alt.religion.scientology (probably to later claim it is a haven for pedophiles.) Fear those that try to drown the free exchange of ideas.
There's an excellent book called "The Seven Minute Rotator Cuff Solution." After a rotator cuff tear, I got only fair results from physical therapy. The exercises in that book helped a lot, and by following their recommendations I've also avoided further problems.
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Now this is untrue. Don't you know that Co$ books don't get to used bookstores? They're all returned directly to the publisher (Bride Publications, another Co$ holding) to be redistributed, so that they can keep them as high on the bestsellers list as possible.
And, just to prevent the dissent, I have experienced this myself. I've worked at a number of bookstores, from large chains to single-storefront independents and at each of them seen obviously used books arrive on the truck, and, in some cases, actually arrive with price tags from other bookstores still attached. And this is in North Carolina, which is hardly a hotbed of Co$ activity.
Fuck 'im up, Tim! His views are invalid! -Pirate Corp$
If they diagnose CTS, give you some exercise, drugs, ergonomics, and it goes away then it's CTS. But, it could be something else that responded to the treatment. Doctors apply a scientific method to diagnosis as one would apply with programming. They don't develop a theory and test the theory for that diagnosis. Doctors will throw multiple treatments at a problem, and if it solves that problem they declare the diagnosis correct. Doctors generally do not perform the testing and analysis to make a definitive diagnosis.
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Given the amount of self-promotion Keith Henson indulges in, I suspect a hoax.
Just to establish my credentials as a non-Scientologist: L. Ron Hubbard was a Hack!
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2. No Pets. Scientologists like to release the "Thetans" in Pets. By killing them.
This comment reminds me of the hindus in India who think Catholics are cannibals because in the sacrament of Holy Communion you "eat the Body of Christ". [This used to be a widespread belief many years ago, and you still find it out in the less educated areas in India.]
The main criticism here is plain technique. FUD is best reserved for use by the Microsofties, not someone who is supposed to be intelligent.
I really dislike seeing FUD used by folks. Just a pet peeve. I greatly admire intelligent argument based on issues.
Philosophy is an Operating dSystem for the Mind. You have your OS, I have Mine. They have theirs. When was the last time you even looked at your own source code? For most people, it is spaghettifried code like you would never imagine. Some modules never fire up correctly.
(man - i got to get a job. Let's Play Quake Instead! ok ..)
They apparently succeed just because they have some kind of system for inspecting code. Just something, somehow. So they say in their own way. [They haven't gone away in fifty years, and they seems to be growing.]
Never mind if you would never agree to the design principals, or whatever. or are horrifried by what they do. If you want to rant and rave and spit blood, fine.
You probably know how to pull apart a piece of source code and criticise it from a design viewpoint. You can use that here in this context.
Saying "MS code sucks" is a lame statement. Being able to say how and why under what functionality is far more useful. Now applying that to the Operating System of the Mind could be useful.
You could critique various systems usefully, instead of FUDding around. You could what functionality would be useful, and which should be dropped.
Heck, it would even be an intelligent debate.
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"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Basically it goes into the profound similarity between in cultural situations where group X says Group Y is horrible, evil, etc. It is a revelation to recognize it as a profound group psychosis. It has nothing to do with politics or religion in the common sense of the word. It is a revelation to see it in oneself and to overcome it.
I have lived over seas, and I have also seen it in the middle east. The fact of the hate itself I consider a psychosis. Two psychotics do not make either side a saint.
I have seen a man reading the bible, interjecting racist remarks into the plain text, convinced that what he was saying was in fact in the text. When it wasn't there at all.
Fundamentally, I throw out and throw away anything that walks down the road of foam at the mouth these guys or those guys or them guys over there are PURE evil.
One of the things that Wiesenthall (a WWII deathcamp survivor and famed Nazi hunter) said about the Nazis was the sheer shock that he discovered that they were human, too. Simply human. That there was no more monster there then there was in anyone else.
All too much of this takes the witch hunt attitude of "we will search for evidence of evil"; it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and down the toilet you go. I have seen some of the stuff you are talking about, and the wacko gleam in the eye obsession is there in an awful lot of the writing.
I am sorry. I reject that obsession with hate and the urge to detroy. I have lost family due to such hate (I am not jewish)
I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
Go ahead. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them more thoroughly, despise them as completely as possible, until there is no room in your soul for anything else. Forever.
And see where it leaves you.
It is not a place I recommend. But you can live there if you want.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I'm getting it from playing too much Game Boy Advance. And I'm going blind from squinting at the dim screen to boot!
-- dR.fuZZo
The fact that Henson has "won" isn't really true YET. Just remember, that just because he's in Canada, it doesn't mean he's untouchable. So, for as long as it takes for this CULT to implode, he'll have to abide by the following rules...
1. NO Personality tests. Period.
2. No Pets. Scientologists like to release the "Thetans" in Pets. By killing them.
3. He won't be able to visit used bookstores, as Scientologists will undoubtedly recognize him from LRH's next book (from the grave) "The Enemy".
4. He'll have to deal with getting picketed.
5. He'll have to explain to his neighbors that NO, He's not a pedophile, and a rapist, and involved with the Occult. (anymore)
However, he should be able to Drive, buy bathing products, eat normally, AND live in a *gasp* house. All ideas that a normal scientologist loses when one of those videos SUCKS the INTELLIGENCE right out of em...
I think I killed a xenu once... I threw his familiar out the window, and he couldn't survive the system shock. That was a LONG time ago though.
ciao`... krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
i cannot WAIT to e-wheatpaste my e-ink e-paper display to the side of my G6 in a few years. i should go earn some e-millions to pay for it, no?
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They should compare computer users to the Amish (or some other group of total non-computer users) if they want a fair study.
CTS (and other such hand injuries) are not only caused by typing, there are other professions too. Generally, people who work a lot with their hands. Can't think of any common ones right now though. Piano playing comes to mind, but thats not too common.
This is as good an immediate outcome as could be hoped for. Some alternatives were that he could have been kept in jail longer, or booted back across the border to the US. For more info and updates, see here.
The KP spam attack on a.r.s. is a red herring. It's been hitting nanau and a.h.m just as hard.
It's not scientologists and it's not the owner of the domain being spammed that's doing this. It's just the same kiddies who put Steve Gibson offline.
What's really worrying about that attack is that it's a covergence of a remote trojan (on @home and uswest broadband users) and Hipcrime's NewsAgent, a newsgroup flooding program. Broadband providers abuse desks are either non-existant or understaffed, compounding the problem.
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Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Yet another Carpal write-up at http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1728 .81330
"Office workers can 'breathe a sigh of relief,' according to a Mayo Clinic researcher. Contrary to popular belief, a new study shows that using a computer doesn't appear to increase the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome"
Remembers the seen from Total Recall with the receptionist and her color pallet, hmm it may be closer then we think.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Jeez, just imagine 1980s moron-in-a-suit-with-pagemaker DTP design crimes, but everywhere!
No, I think that was one of the lamest studies I've seen -- either that, or the article was not thorough. In order to make it a valid study, you'd have to put in some controls. Namely, you'd need a 80's style environment where people sit in poorly adjusted chairs with keyboard set up too high and tilted the wrong way. Study this for several years with the same people, and see how many CTS reports there are.
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Why is it I can write insightful comments but can't come up with a clever signature?
...is quite the character, wouldn't you say?
You have a right to criticize religion; it falls under Free Speech. California's judges really should've looked into that fact.
I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues
Of course Organic LEDs have short lifespans. There's only how long an array of fireflies will live...
I've been hearing about all this e-ink stuff for a while, and recall the actual manufacturing process dosn't take much more money per square foot than paper. That is great, because I would love to have a Wall-Wide High Definition TV for my room, but I was more interested in the technology.With those little microcapsules, I would imagine it quite easy to get over the obsticles to plastering them all over everything. From what Ive heard, its a one way display, but I was thinkin that millions of tiny mirrors or something mixed in with the E-Ink would provide a stable color. Just think about it - turning your car into some visualization for Winamp, or dying your hair with microcapsules. The ladies would be happy with easily changable color-nailpaint and makeup, maybe even have them tatood into you for turning your skin colors. I could spend all day thinking of little things like this.. please stop me
My hand seems to hurt more when I use the mouse alot, but typing doesn't seem to be a problem.
I don't know if I have Carpal Tunnel.. but I do have pain..
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