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Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Ryan O'Rourke writes "According to a study led by Dr. Sam A. Deadwyler and published by the Public Library of Science Biology, a new drug called CX717 developed by Cortex Pharmaceuticals has been shown to reverse the biological and behavioral effects of sleep deprivation. Tests performed on monkeys that were subjected to 30-36 hours of sleep deprivation revealed an average test performance accuracy drop to 63 percent, but that performance was restored to 84 percent after administering CX717. During normal alert conditions, performance accuracy of the animals was improved from an average of 75 percent to 90 percent after an injection of CX717. It is also believed the drug may help prevent or restore memory loss in Alzheimer's patients."
The 167 hour work week!
wuld it lt me imporv my tiping and speeling after 60 ours playing mmporgs?
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Grad students, rejoice!
...so i can make more money. ...so i can buy more cx717 ...so i can work longer. ...so i can make more money ...so i can buy more cx717 ...so i can...
Finnaly! Now I can play WOW for weeks!
In related news, productivity at EA is up 44%.
I had a Richie Rich comic book, and his dad took a drug EXACTLY LIKE THIS. And he became EVIL. No kidding.
Richie Rich: harbinger of the future.
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I just find it odd that they were able to find monkeys that would volunteer for this experiment.
Because I'm guessing if it's cheap enough they'll start feeding it to Chinese factory workers so they can increase tat output by 100%.
Of course, Kramer also does things like covering himself in butter, and falling asleep in a hot tub, and installing a garbage disposal in his shower so he can spend more time there, so I wouldn't take all of his advice. =P
Oh good, now all those meth addicts can stay up for days without all those pesky shadow people.
Shoot, regarding my above post- is it GHB? I need more sleep- my memory is shot....
Anyhow- I would love to not have to sleep- as long as the workday was still 8 hours. Man, I could get a lot done...
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It doesn't matter what time you go to sleep. It is the time when you wake up that counts.
You could go to sleep at 4am and still be refreshed the next morning... Err... Afternoon. Well.. As long as it's after 2pm and you have to get up to go to the bathroom and can't sleep anymore and since you're in the bathroom you might as well take a shower and maybe since you are already up you might as well check your email... Next thing you know it's 3am and you start to think that maybe you should stop playing WoW at this point, but you're this close to the next level... Argh...
Ah the joys of unemployement... Not that I am talking on personal experience or anything. *coughs*
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-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Women everywhere moan.... as their number two excuse, right after I have a headache, becomes scientifically irrelevant....
I'm too tired honey....
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Blasphemy! Everyone knows the really good shit doesn't start happending until 4 am or 3 hours before you have get to work.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
but People do need REM sleep on a regular basis for our conscience to rest. Though I am sure there are many coders who would try it for a week to get that project done(aka MSFT forcing it on longhorn developers?)
Which would explain the disappearance of Jiminy Cricket from the MS Labs.
And I'm not sure what you've been up to if you've been taxing your conscience enough that it needs a rest...
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
The thing about insomnia is, you are never really asleep, but you are never really awake.
The second rule of fight clib, is don't talk about fight club...
Anyhow, I always try and fall asleep first if there is a woman sleeping in my bed with me- If she falls asleep first, you are likely to hear a terrific fart (women don't fart less than us, they just hold them, while we are proud of them, and as such they are much stinkier and louder) and once you hear a woman fart, the magic is gone....
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Everyone, I did some digging and found that this "CX717" is simply this.
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I read the title as "Drug Reverses Effects of SHEEP Deprivation." I really need to get some sleep...
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More efficient monkeys! I took the grandkids to the zoo recently and the dang monkeys were only operating at 68% effectiveness. Stupid zoo. A little money spent on ex717 and those monkeys could easily have been an extra 15-20% more effective! Hmmmm, I imagine they'll need a bigger dose for the hippo though.
ANYTHING that tastes good, makes us feel good, makes us stronger, gives us a better memory or helps us concentrate or otherwise gives us any kind of advantage over someone not ingesting said drug is dangerous and must have hidden side effects. Some nutjobs might argue that a drug that might improve our memories dramatically and thus advance the productivity and technology of our civilization would be beneficical. However, any drug that does this is bound to be toxic, addictive, and otherwise damaging and even if it kills 1 person out of a million. Even if that one person who dies took thirty times the recommended dosage we must ban it because the only acceptable use of ingestible non-food substances should be to cure disease.
That being said, there is a horrible drug plaguing our streets known as 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine. It is lethal in doses as small as 3.2 grams. It is consumed compulsivley by a growing number of American addicts. It can cause psychomoter agitation, rambling flow of though and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia. Large evil megacorps are trying to poison our childrens lives with them by getting them addicted to it early and it is even being distributed in schools by their dealers! Some people even say it helps them concentrate and lets them stay up longer but these benefits pale in comparison to the evils of this psychotropic drug. The Deaths piling up because of this drug should lead us to ban it immediately! We should also ban a substance often taken in conjunction with this awful drug known as DHMO.
Soon the human race will become dependant on this just as we are on caffinee.
So when do I get my sweet glowing blue eyes?
Or worse yet... imagine that you couldn't forget the horrible visage that is tubgirl.
I noted that the summary stated that it could restore memory loss in Alzheimer's patients.
Darn'd grandma. Her memory is improving again. Time to restore her memory loss.......
Ok, this is sort of scary....
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"It's absolutely fantastic." Buzzeye says as he scrapes away the skin around his eyes with a rusty nail-puller. "I've never felt better, and my productivity is way up." When asked if there were any side-effects, Buzzeye replied "None whatsoever. Since I killed my wife and sold my children to Satan, who happens to live two doors down, things have been great. Now if I could only get the snakes to stop eating my feet, I'd be one hundred percent. Oh, could you get the door, I think it's Napoleon. He's a real bitch, and he likes to steal my aluminum brainguard."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...sleep deprived, drugged up monkeys running amok.
In this society, we are powerfully encouraged to discharge that energy as quickly as possible through orgasm. According to some, sexual energy, once thus spent, is collected and consumed by etheric beings who exist in a higher level of reality and keep the human race like cattle for this purpose, (among others). True or not, you don't get to use your sexual energy once it's been given up through orgasm.
On the other hand, sexual energy can also be saved up and used in other ways. People who have a lot of regular sex tend to be exhausted and dim behind the eyes because their primary source of 'income' energy is much reduced. One's level of awareness and the availability of energy are directly linked to one another.
This is not to say that having orgasms is 'bad'. Physical sex is part of why we all came to this reality. It's fun, and it can be used to link in very powerful ways to other people, as well as link to otherwise difficult to access knowledge. But for the most part, people are instructed by the media to channel away their sexual energy immediately before it can be effectively used for anything else. In the morning, people often wake up in states of heightened arousal. This has nothing to do with holding back urination as conventional medicine tells us, (you don't get a woody any other time during the day when you need to 'go'. And it happens for women as well, who don't have the same plumbing) Sexual energy is there to be used as you wish.
In any case, sleep is the way this energy finds its way into us from the Universal source. Drugs which prevent sleep are, I assume, accessing stored wells of energy, which cannot last forever. There is a reason why they say, "Speed Kills". --Of course, there are other ways in which to draw energy from the world around us other than sleep, including drawing energy from the earth through grounding meditations and exercises, (good!) Eating food and consuming life force, (standard), energetic vampirism through direct and indirect methods of torturing others, (nasty and ultimately self-destructive.). But above all of these, Sexual energy is potent and pure and freely available to anybody who can catch 40 winks.
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I don't mean to be facetious, but have you tried an hour of yoga and a good spliff?
Or failing that, Russel & Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"? My university-long insomnia cure - never could get more than four pages in before I dropped off...
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It's not like they really need to purge a bunch of 'food, chase the mouse, take a dump, lick butt, repeat' memories each day.
Quite to the contrary, if I spent the day licking my own butt, I'd probably need my memory erased every night, too.
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