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  1. Re:Oh come on on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 0

    Also, the only ADHD people I know directly are females, so the point about young males is a bit of an illustration of how this abuse of diagnosis came to be - irresponsible parents and publicity for something -> Mass hypochondria.

  2. Re:Oh come on on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 0

    tl;sr (too long, sadly read)
    Abuse of diagnosis, thanks for illustrating my point. The condition still exists, if you were misdiagnosed, it's horrible, but there's no need to go the whole way around. Neuroscience when you were young was a baby. As for the swine flu shot, it's like any other flu shot, most likely a placebo or maybe something that works but is only useful because it taps into a fear that comes from your granparents. The disease exists. In both cases.

  3. Re:Democratic? on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 1

    The point was to make a strawman?

  4. Re:Democratic? on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    -1 Strawman

  5. Re:Operational security? on Navy Scientists Develop Laser For Underwater Communication · · Score: 1

    Giving your position away to everyone when wants to know sometimes feels like it's been a mainstay of the US submarine service since the 60s, If they really give a damn that their subs will be even noisier when everyone else is working on making them as stealthy as possible, they'd probably build a few non-nukes.

  6. Re:It could be on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 1

    Oh, well, that one was wrong (that doesn't change part 2 a lot, and by then the great ape with the wooden club and the bone arrow for natural weapons was getting pretty equipped for the job).

  7. Re:It could be on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ADHD is not kids acting like kids, it's kids acting like hyperactive goldfishes. There have been abuses in diagnosis, but the condition itself exists. The earliest humans were, in fact, scavengers, were not contemporary with saber toothed tigers and hunting/gathering was a group activity that requires fairly little time in the day compared to the workload of settled civilizations, besides the fact that most of the food needs come from trapping, fishing, light hunt (unless you have a party of 50, you ain't going for mastodon) and plants. So get off your ignorant high horse, abuse of diagnosis =/= the disease doesn't exist.

  8. Re:Slashdot Surreality on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    Customer lock-in is a breach of the non-aggression principle.
    Large properties, and plenty of corporations' existence is also a breach of the non-aggression principle, in the past and present.

  9. Re:Free press on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    and all (90%) the french media is divided between Power Corp and Quebecor (Desmarais and Péladeau) who happen to branch off a lot in the english media too.

  10. Re:This is as bad as the Quebec referenda on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    And that didn't make the parent to my reply right - the PQ has stated they wouldn't launch a referendum without a house majority, which in the current system doesn't exactly require the majority of votes if we check the last few elections for every party.

  11. Re:This is as bad as the Quebec referenda on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    The Bloc Quebecois is a federal quebecois nationalist party.
    The Party Quebecois is a separatist quebecois nationalist party at the provincial level.
    There's some overlap between both, but there's also a strong group of non-separatist nationalists in the Bloc who once in the province are party-agnostic (esp. as the only alternatives to the PQ right now are Tory-lite and Duplessis-wannabe) - admittedly the pushes of the conservatives in Quebec indicates that they're weakening slightly, but the reason there hadn't been a single tory elected in Quebec since 1995 was basically that.
    The last time around, I was 11 and the question was pretty damn clear to me - "are you giving to power to government to negotiate an arrangement that can go from confederation to complete independence". Was it vast and overreaching, yes and that was an issue, but unclear was ridiculous grasping at straws.

  12. Re:Do I smell a lawsuit? on Parental Control Software Datamines Kids' Online Conversations · · Score: 1

    I'd add IANAL

  13. Re:Do I smell a lawsuit? on Parental Control Software Datamines Kids' Online Conversations · · Score: 1

    Contract law is also based on the principle that you can't agree to something illegal: i.e. if you agreed to it, unless it led to you doing something illegal, the person who made you sign the contract ("you will be my slave" for example) is liable for it and at least this clause of the contract is voided.

  14. Re:This is as bad as the Quebec referenda on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    Years, it's been 14.

  15. Re:Extreme, extreme expense? on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    TBH, the music instrument costs money - but not enormously more. The priciest I know of is the bassoon, and that's about 10.000$, which is the equivalent to a year of tuition in many colleges. Studios and techs can easily be rented and there's a small "cottage studio" industry (and there's a few labels) in classical music because you're usually moving the equipment around a lot instead of having one recording studio staying always in the same place. Add to that that there's also some cases where radio stations will do recordings (live or not) as a way to pitch concerts and albums (and you don't need to be big) and recordings are basically what they were supposed to be: the marketing. The situation is often the same for jazz.

  16. Re:Presumption of Guilt on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    The author of the tragedy of the commons pointed out that it was about the tragedy of the unmanaged commons - i.e. the commons used based on nothing more than mutual agreement without formalities.

  17. Re:Bull on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    The typical jazz and classical musician has a college education in music and does it because they're passionate, first, for the money second. And they're not the ones who stand to benefit from this kind of decision. A lot do manage to live off their music, they're just NOT MOOCHING ON RECORDINGS!

  18. Re:There should be on iPod Fee Proposed For Canada · · Score: 1

    The fees exist in Canada too for blank media.

  19. Re:Frustrating! on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    Classics fail. Regulations are considered important to stop trusts and the secretive trade guilds that ended up forming around different trades. An unregulated market doesn't mean nothing is unregulated, and it also means no single monopoly gets to be in charge.

  20. Re:I'd hate to own a mobile phone in Canada on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    80% of the population lives in four dense areas (the Saint-Lawrence delta and the south East of Quebec, Greater Edmonton, Vancouver-Victoria and Southern Ontario). They don't even pretend to have coverage in Quebec outside of a few urban areas if you leave the Saint-Lawrence valley or the south.

  21. Re:Free press on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    Sorry to burst your stupid argument, but 80% of Canada's population is concentrated in 4 conurbations - Southern Ontario, the Saint-Lawrence Delta-Monteregia, Vancouver-Victoria and the Edmonton Area.

  22. Re:Frustrating! on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    Funny, the conservatives were always pretty damn keen on some government resources. It has hardly ever meant it.

  23. Re:Oh well. on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 1

    I think you may have misread your contract with Rogers, we are good clean people who do not partake in this "assrape" thing. Instead, we just want YOUR SOUL. But we have iphones and g1s, look at the nice phone.
    Please have my pen.

  24. Re:Get a newer PC on Running Old Desktops Headless? · · Score: 1

    That. I've kept two boxes running since I was a teenager and I'm 24, when I turned them off for the last time, I did a quick calculation and came to the conclusion that I could probably have run 5 years younger hardware and replace both more efficiently for half the power - and now that same box could be replaced at more power for a fifth to a tenth of the power.

  25. Re:Amazing? on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suddenly feel like a moron for wasting my time trying to find/keep legit or even grey-area work... wtf