But the administration (who I voted for and otherwise support) and the NSA are full of people who were conducing what should be illegal and probably are unconstitutional US spying operations IN THE UNITED STATES.
Yeah, have you given some thought to that? This NSA you've been ranting about has been Obama's NSA for over half a decade. He's in charge. He's responsible.
According to this page the average number of bus passengers in the UK is 9, and buses get about 6 MPG. So that is 54 passenger-miles per gallon, which is about as good as one person in an electric car, or two people in a gasoline powered car. But even that overstates the case for buses, since they drive a fixed non-optimal route, where a car goes directly to the passenger's destination, so the "miles" are not equivalent.
So... us "bitter clingers" with our icky big families in our minivans have that beat by a country mile:)
It;s a worse problem that Piketty wanted a certain conclusion, and a segment of the world wanted that same conclusion so badly that it accepted his drivel.
One of the big problems is that anti-psychotic drugs have severe, and sometimes fatal, side effects. (Many of them cause severe weight gain, often enough to lead to diabetes.)
Sure, but the problem is that the illnesses themselves are dangerous.
Suicide attempts are dangerous. Running off, doing and believing weird things is dangerous.
It's not safe to just not treat these illnesses. It's the fallacy of the false alternative, to believe that we could choose to just not treat them and avoid the problem of side effects.
Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.
I don't have the figures for 2004, but I do have the figures for 2012 regarding homelessness. From the US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
On a single night in 2012 there were 633,782 homeless people in the United States[...]
Dividing by the US population in 2012 (312.8 million), we get 0.00202615728, or, 0.2%
So 26.2% of Americans are mentally ill, and 0.2% of Americans are homeless. So no, it's not a "positively idiotic statement." The mentally all are all around us, and perhaps the reason the study can't pin down why they're dying younger is because people are under the impression that you can easily spot someone who's mentally ill. Yeah, a lot of homeless people are mentally ill. But about a quarter of everyone is mentally ill, and trying to put the mentally ill into a box means that most of those people will go untreated because they'll be ashamed of their disease.
Pretty much by definition, the severity of a mental illness is measured by the degree of impairment to your life.
So let's not conflate the large numbers of people diagnosed with relatively mild degrees of mental illness with the seriously mentally ill. The seriously mentally ill are quite disproportionately homeless, unemployed, dependent upon others, etc.
The inability to manage one's own affairs and to get along with others is, not surprisingly, detrimental to other aspects of health.
Certainly, psychotropic medications can have some pretty serious side effects.
On the other hand, they are used to treat very serious illness. Many of the symptoms of mental illnesses are dangerous. As with all medications, there is a trade off between the benefit of the medication and the detriment of the side effects.
The meds you mention, Thorazine and haloperidol, are pretty old school BTW. These days newer atypical antipsychotics would usually be tried first.
If the name doesn't ring a bell to younger Western audiences (and not to be confused with an Asian supermarket chain, apparently), it is now part of Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK):
In addition to the poor choices associated with irrationality... remember that these are diseases of the brain. Complex syndromes that have effects beyond behavior and thinking. For example, depression is associated with pain.
California doesn't regulate the prices of electric vehicles: they require that either 1% of vehicle sales be zero-emission, or that the car manufacturer buy zero-emission credits.
Nobody is forcing Fiat to build an electric car, and nobody is forcing them to sell that car at a loss.
That doesn't make any sense.
"Nobody's forcing you to pay protection money. You could just let Guido here break your legs."
I assume if he had worked somewhere else in the company, and had decided to make his parting gift something like filling gas tanks with concrete, he would have done some prison time too. No reason screwing with computer systems should be any different.
Chicken Little because it isn't going to happen in your lifetime?
I don't get it. This is happening.
If you really thought it was happening - in some crisis-like way, anyway - you'd do something more substantive about it than handwringing and put downs.
I know; have the first lady hold up a hand-lettered sign saying #BringBackOurShore. That seems to be how people "take action" these days.
So, where's the big campaign to switch to nuclear? What's that, no?
2. In practice, humans use 'prosthetic' aids all the time, they just don't imitate limbs all that closely and are often left at the work site.
As do many amputees. Many don't want to wear something that is hot, heavy, and not really part of them all the time. They just don them when they need the tool, do what they need to do, then take them off.
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But the administration (who I voted for and otherwise support) and the NSA are full of people who were conducing what should be illegal and probably are unconstitutional US spying operations IN THE UNITED STATES.
Yeah, have you given some thought to that? This NSA you've been ranting about has been Obama's NSA for over half a decade. He's in charge. He's responsible.
... that just might puncture some inflated egos.
Nah. That would require self-reflection.
Please give me some sort of source to your claim.
According to this page the average number of bus passengers in the UK is 9, and buses get about 6 MPG. So that is 54 passenger-miles per gallon, which is about as good as one person in an electric car, or two people in a gasoline powered car. But even that overstates the case for buses, since they drive a fixed non-optimal route, where a car goes directly to the passenger's destination, so the "miles" are not equivalent.
So ... us "bitter clingers" with our icky big families in our minivans have that beat by a country mile :)
why can't google and everyone else support public transportation?
lobby SF and California to build some train tracks and stops at the big corporate parks to start and build out from there to the smaller towns.
i'm all for car ownership and driving on weekends but when you have the same trip that so many people take everyday there should be a public option
1. Freedom.
2. Groceries.
3. Children.
Not necessarily in that order.
Beats just ate MOG, which I actually liked a lot. The Beats interface sucked so bad that I didn't bother subscribing after the trial.
It;s a worse problem that Piketty wanted a certain conclusion, and a segment of the world wanted that same conclusion so badly that it accepted his drivel.
Doors close, it starts to drive by itself, there is no steering wheel or pedals, aiyeeeeee!
One of the big problems is that anti-psychotic drugs have severe, and sometimes fatal, side effects. (Many of them cause severe weight gain, often enough to lead to diabetes.)
Sure, but the problem is that the illnesses themselves are dangerous.
Suicide attempts are dangerous. Running off, doing and believing weird things is dangerous.
It's not safe to just not treat these illnesses. It's the fallacy of the false alternative, to believe that we could choose to just not treat them and avoid the problem of side effects.
Your comment is completely misinformed.
From the National Institute of Mental Health:
Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.
I don't have the figures for 2004, but I do have the figures for 2012 regarding homelessness. From the US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
On a single night in 2012 there were 633,782 homeless people in the United States[...]
Dividing by the US population in 2012 (312.8 million), we get 0.00202615728, or, 0.2%
So 26.2% of Americans are mentally ill, and 0.2% of Americans are homeless. So no, it's not a "positively idiotic statement." The mentally all are all around us, and perhaps the reason the study can't pin down why they're dying younger is because people are under the impression that you can easily spot someone who's mentally ill. Yeah, a lot of homeless people are mentally ill. But about a quarter of everyone is mentally ill, and trying to put the mentally ill into a box means that most of those people will go untreated because they'll be ashamed of their disease.
Pretty much by definition, the severity of a mental illness is measured by the degree of impairment to your life.
So let's not conflate the large numbers of people diagnosed with relatively mild degrees of mental illness with the seriously mentally ill. The seriously mentally ill are quite disproportionately homeless, unemployed, dependent upon others, etc.
The inability to manage one's own affairs and to get along with others is, not surprisingly, detrimental to other aspects of health.
Certainly, psychotropic medications can have some pretty serious side effects.
On the other hand, they are used to treat very serious illness. Many of the symptoms of mental illnesses are dangerous. As with all medications, there is a trade off between the benefit of the medication and the detriment of the side effects.
The meds you mention, Thorazine and haloperidol, are pretty old school BTW. These days newer atypical antipsychotics would usually be tried first.
If the name doesn't ring a bell to younger Western audiences (and not to be confused with an Asian supermarket chain, apparently), it is now part of Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
And? Plenty of heart disease research is funded by makers of heart medications.
In addition to the poor choices associated with irrationality ... remember that these are diseases of the brain. Complex syndromes that have effects beyond behavior and thinking. For example, depression is associated with pain.
Some interesting reading: Peter Kramer's Against Depression.
You mean, treating environmental issues pragmatically instead of as a new religion works better? Who knew?
California doesn't regulate the prices of electric vehicles: they require that either 1% of vehicle sales be zero-emission, or that the car manufacturer buy zero-emission credits.
Nobody is forcing Fiat to build an electric car, and nobody is forcing them to sell that car at a loss.
That doesn't make any sense.
"Nobody's forcing you to pay protection money. You could just let Guido here break your legs."
I assume if he had worked somewhere else in the company, and had decided to make his parting gift something like filling gas tanks with concrete, he would have done some prison time too. No reason screwing with computer systems should be any different.
Does this mean that we will need to find some other means of energy rather than burning dead dinosaurs? God forbid.
Yes, nuclear. Let us know when you're ready.
The US is so heterogeneous that you have to look at different groups, or you are just being stupid.
So ... the Spanish stopped them from littering?
I assume they mean ... radioactivity-free, not "radiation free"?
I gotta carry my regular wallet anyway.
shocked to find systems flaws are of great complexity and cannot be solved by simply shitting large sums of money into education.
Hmm, wow, perhaps we could draw some sort of broader conclusion from th ... ow, ow, the down mods, it burns!
Chicken Little because it isn't going to happen in your lifetime?
I don't get it. This is happening.
If you really thought it was happening - in some crisis-like way, anyway - you'd do something more substantive about it than handwringing and put downs.
I know; have the first lady hold up a hand-lettered sign saying #BringBackOurShore. That seems to be how people "take action" these days.
So, where's the big campaign to switch to nuclear? What's that, no?
2. In practice, humans use 'prosthetic' aids all the time, they just don't imitate limbs all that closely and are often left at the work site.
As do many amputees. Many don't want to wear something that is hot, heavy, and not really part of them all the time. They just don them when they need the tool, do what they need to do, then take them off.
'The scientific community now accepts to some degree that this contact may occur in the next 50 to 100 years,'
Based on .... what, exactly? The complete, utter, absolute, comprehensive lack of any previous contact?
... the latest five year plan is going smashingly, and steel production is up 5000%.
Hello, it's Russia.