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'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common
runamock writes "The Los Angeles Times is running a story on the growing use of 'mind drugs':
'Forget sports doping. The next frontier is brain doping. ... Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions. Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills.'" There's an interesting comment on this topic in Fresh Air's top cultural trends of 2007 broadcast.
So I'm getting a kick out of all these replies... //Fark
Wait. wrong web-site.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
it comes over the tv. it narrows yOUR thinking to include almost nothing that is relevant to yOUR survival.
/.) continues to attempt to shed some light on yOUR foibles;
micro management has never worked. it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.
we're intending for the corepirate nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.
fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way.
the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.
after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?
for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available after the big flash.
vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.
some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.
it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.
concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.
'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
meanwhile, the life0cidal philistines continue on their path of death, debt, & disruption for most of US;
gov. bush denies health care for the little ones
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/bush.veto/index.html
whilst demanding/extorting billions to paint more targets on the bigger kids
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/bush.war.funding/index.html
& pretending that none of it is happening
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3086937.ece
all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven
yOUR elected) president al gore (deciding not to wait for the much anticipated 'lonesome al answers yOUR questions' interview here on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3046116.ece
Oh and as for agriculture being a sign of intelligence: Egyptians (which have a largely "black" makeup with "southwest asian" influences) also mastered it. And yet they are not a superpower today. Funny that, isn't it?
Fohootvil for life! EAST SIDE! wh00t! You know how we do in the FHV, reconize bitch!
Seriously. The new comment system is WORSE THAN HITLER. I don't know how I can state my feelings more clearly than that. I set my User-Agent to IE to get the old comment system back. Whoever came up with the new comment system is one stupid fucking nigger. If you're going to change something, you should IMPROVE it. The new comment system is a huge step backward. Digg's original comment system was better than Slashdot's new comment system, and that's saying a lot.
Can we please cut the ethical implication posts and have some how-to guides and risk/benefit lists?
I'm afraid I don't have any experience in the field myself.
I have been wondering lately whether recreational use of nicotine patches would work.
It is the holidays, most of us aren't hovering over Slashdot like we normally do, but on a somewhat different note,
Why does Dune and its subsequent novels always get the low-budget treatment whenever they are done for film or miniseries? The sci-fi channel stuff is passable in most cases, the acting is generally good, but the sets and the costumes suffer tremendously. How hard is it to film in an actual desert? Computer generated sand looks TERRIBLE and what is with the multicolor still suits that look nothing like the natural environment? Dune has been done badly so many times now that one wonders if it will EVER get the Steve Jackson treatment ala LOTR...sigh well we can hope I suppose.