That line wasn't in his original post. The original post was more closely worded like a statement of fact that publicly funded works are community property or public domain. It was unclear.
You really misread what I was trying to say and my level of knowledge on this subject. I was implying that this guy should stop listening to people tell him that he should do something and actually do something about it. And I don't mean "talk about your feelings", I mean he should go to a psychiatrist and try the drugs. And if the drugs don't work (even though they do work 9 out of 10 times), he should consider ECT.
I've seen family and friends spend years of their lives flunking out of school, drinking and smoking pot and not getting a job, hating their life but not doing anything about it. I see them freak out every now and then and talk about killing themselves. Their parents don't do anything because they want to think that their son or daughter (who is 25 and a "genius" in their eyes even though he dropped out of college) is perfect. Meanwhile, the depressed always rationalize not seeking treatment by saying things like, "I'm not that bad. Most of the time I'm fine. I don't want to be some kind of drugged into submission, 'happy all the time' zombie. I want to be myself." Meanwhile, they're drinking or smoking pot when they're not covering the windows with aluminum foil and sitting in the dark at 4 o'clock in the morning. It's very easy for people to literally waste years of their life that way when really all they need to do is go see a psychiatrist for a half hour or so and tell the doctor their symptoms. There are perfectly good cures out there. Depression is an amazingly treatable conditions, a success spoiled by the fact that people who have it are incredibly unlikely to seek treatment. People feel a stigma against antidepressant drugs and they really shouldn't. People feel a stigma against ECT, and they really shouldn't.
Anyway, I think that guy should do something. His comments came across to me as being typical of someone who is trying to justify their condition as being "normal", when it's clearly not. He sounds like one of those people who doesn't want to do anything because he's feels fine "most of the time".
If I were to meet your sister at the time she needed it, I'd sugegst she'd do it, but not as at a psychiatrist : you don't want to make it whle resting on a sofa, with some prozac to alter your perception. You want it to be painful, you want it to be like vomit.
How am I supposed to read "I'd sugegst she'd do it"?
If you've gotten a few of those talks through your life, maybe you do have a problem. Your average person doesn't get those kind of talks, ever. Your average person also doesn't burden their friends with those kind of things. And your average person doesn't have "suicidal phases". Consider keeping a log of how often you feel frustrated with life and want to end it all. You might discover that you're spending 25% of your life being seriously depressed. Even if you don't kill yourself, that's the kind of thing that can interfere with school, career, relationships, and pretty much anything in your life.
Of course, it's one thing to be depressed or despondant because something happened (death of spouse or child), but it's another to be depressed for no reason. Depressed people might say, "I'm depressed because my life sucks." It could be that their life sucks because they're depressed a lot of the time and don't get any of the things done that usually give people satisfaction (e.g., success in work, school, relationships).
Fuck you and your self-indulgent attitude. Fuck you and your arty "I want to kill myself" rock album. Fuck you and your "I'm cured" bullshit. Fuck you and your "If I were looking for suicide info, I'd offer money..." statements. Fuck you and your "delicious woman". Fuck you and your "I wanted to make it look like an accident". Fuck you and your "auto-therapy". Fuck you and your telling that other guy that you'd help his sister by telling her how to kill herself. FUCK YOU!
I see. You were saying that it belongs to the people because it was paid for by the government. Well, the government steals from Peter to give to Paul all the time. Get used to it. Welfare, farm subsidies, Social Security, military servitude, et cetera. Just consider it welfare for research workers.
Your idealism has nothing to do with reality. The government just funds things that it thinks are important to the nation to be developed. Companies that do the work get to patent any developed technologies. The rules for military technologies are probably different, however.
Yeah, but the ones who planned the terrorist attack are Islamic militants who want Kashmir to go to the Islamic Pakistan instead of being controlled by India as it is now.
What's wrong with the way U.S. companies do business with China? Lots of American companies do manufacturing in China. Chinese people get jobs. Chinese government gets tax revenue. American companies get cheaply made products. What's the problem?
A slight problem with putting the decryption key on the passport (e.g., as a barcode or mag stripe) is that it would make it easier for a forger to make a fake passport (i.e., they just make up whatever encryption key they want, print it on the passport, then encrypt the data with that key and put it on the RFID). The simple solution is to also include a digital signature on the encryption key.
Of course, this whole thing could be solved by printing a big 2D barcode on a page of the passport instead of including an RFID at all. Biometric data could easily be included. Make the barcode be encrypted and digitally signed (so you can easily check if it's a forgery). Tightly control who can make barcodes (i.e., only the passport authority of your country). I guess the only problem with the barcodes is that they're easily copyable. Though people will figure out how to copy RFID's soon as well (if not already).
Anyway, whole point of using RFID's is so that they can track people as they walk through various corridors of airports without having guards checking passports at every corridor.
Have you tried playing tapes from 7 years ago? A few years ago, I went through a box of 1.44 floppies from when I was in high school looking for some old DOS progrmas I wrote. Most (but not all) of the "real" 1.44 HD floppies worked fine. None of the 720K punched and formatted to 1.44MB worked at all.
Good thing nothing I did back then was that important.
This is also the basis of self-defense training. You practice over and over again what to do when someone pulls their fist back to punch you or what you do when someone puts their hands on your throat. You practice techniques over and over again so that if you need to use them, you don't freeze up and get punched or choked unconscious.
You can describe to someone what to do very easily. However, getting a person to react intelligently that way takes a long, long time.
Also, the goal of modern military training is not to produce soldiers who act like automatons, unthinking, but to act in an intelligent way under stress and to have confidence in their training and skills.
First of all, you should be behind a firewall that disallows incoming connections to almost everything. Even if you're not, FC3 has a kernel firewall enabled that blocks just about everything.
As for the packages, who cares if they're just sitting on your HD taking up space?
For a server machine "outside the wall" it's important to keep things as lean as possible. But for your desktop machine, who cares?
WARNING: This guy whose personal ad you're reading is the kind of paranoid weirdo who does FBI criminal background checks on women he's thinking of dating.
Go watch Audition and then see if you feel that way.
(Yeah, I know it's just a movie, but I'm still freaked out.)
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That line wasn't in his original post. The original post was more closely worded like a statement of fact that publicly funded works are community property or public domain. It was unclear.
You really misread what I was trying to say and my level of knowledge on this subject. I was implying that this guy should stop listening to people tell him that he should do something and actually do something about it. And I don't mean "talk about your feelings", I mean he should go to a psychiatrist and try the drugs. And if the drugs don't work (even though they do work 9 out of 10 times), he should consider ECT.
I've seen family and friends spend years of their lives flunking out of school, drinking and smoking pot and not getting a job, hating their life but not doing anything about it. I see them freak out every now and then and talk about killing themselves. Their parents don't do anything because they want to think that their son or daughter (who is 25 and a "genius" in their eyes even though he dropped out of college) is perfect. Meanwhile, the depressed always rationalize not seeking treatment by saying things like, "I'm not that bad. Most of the time I'm fine. I don't want to be some kind of drugged into submission, 'happy all the time' zombie. I want to be myself." Meanwhile, they're drinking or smoking pot when they're not covering the windows with aluminum foil and sitting in the dark at 4 o'clock in the morning. It's very easy for people to literally waste years of their life that way when really all they need to do is go see a psychiatrist for a half hour or so and tell the doctor their symptoms. There are perfectly good cures out there. Depression is an amazingly treatable conditions, a success spoiled by the fact that people who have it are incredibly unlikely to seek treatment. People feel a stigma against antidepressant drugs and they really shouldn't. People feel a stigma against ECT, and they really shouldn't.
Anyway, I think that guy should do something. His comments came across to me as being typical of someone who is trying to justify their condition as being "normal", when it's clearly not. He sounds like one of those people who doesn't want to do anything because he's feels fine "most of the time".
If I were to meet your sister at the time she needed it, I'd sugegst she'd do it, but not as at a psychiatrist : you don't want to make it whle resting on a sofa, with some prozac to alter your perception. You want it to be painful, you want it to be like vomit.
How am I supposed to read "I'd sugegst she'd do it"?
If you've gotten a few of those talks through your life, maybe you do have a problem. Your average person doesn't get those kind of talks, ever. Your average person also doesn't burden their friends with those kind of things. And your average person doesn't have "suicidal phases". Consider keeping a log of how often you feel frustrated with life and want to end it all. You might discover that you're spending 25% of your life being seriously depressed. Even if you don't kill yourself, that's the kind of thing that can interfere with school, career, relationships, and pretty much anything in your life.
Of course, it's one thing to be depressed or despondant because something happened (death of spouse or child), but it's another to be depressed for no reason. Depressed people might say, "I'm depressed because my life sucks." It could be that their life sucks because they're depressed a lot of the time and don't get any of the things done that usually give people satisfaction (e.g., success in work, school, relationships).
Fuck you and your self-indulgent attitude. Fuck you and your arty "I want to kill myself" rock album. Fuck you and your "I'm cured" bullshit. Fuck you and your "If I were looking for suicide info, I'd offer money..." statements. Fuck you and your "delicious woman". Fuck you and your "I wanted to make it look like an accident". Fuck you and your "auto-therapy". Fuck you and your telling that other guy that you'd help his sister by telling her how to kill herself. FUCK YOU!
Fucker.
I see. You were saying that it belongs to the people because it was paid for by the government. Well, the government steals from Peter to give to Paul all the time. Get used to it. Welfare, farm subsidies, Social Security, military servitude, et cetera. Just consider it welfare for research workers.
Your idealism has nothing to do with reality. The government just funds things that it thinks are important to the nation to be developed. Companies that do the work get to patent any developed technologies. The rules for military technologies are probably different, however.
Yeah, but the ones who planned the terrorist attack are Islamic militants who want Kashmir to go to the Islamic Pakistan instead of being controlled by India as it is now.
What's wrong with the way U.S. companies do business with China? Lots of American companies do manufacturing in China. Chinese people get jobs. Chinese government gets tax revenue. American companies get cheaply made products. What's the problem?
A slight problem with putting the decryption key on the passport (e.g., as a barcode or mag stripe) is that it would make it easier for a forger to make a fake passport (i.e., they just make up whatever encryption key they want, print it on the passport, then encrypt the data with that key and put it on the RFID). The simple solution is to also include a digital signature on the encryption key.
Of course, this whole thing could be solved by printing a big 2D barcode on a page of the passport instead of including an RFID at all. Biometric data could easily be included. Make the barcode be encrypted and digitally signed (so you can easily check if it's a forgery). Tightly control who can make barcodes (i.e., only the passport authority of your country). I guess the only problem with the barcodes is that they're easily copyable. Though people will figure out how to copy RFID's soon as well (if not already).
Anyway, whole point of using RFID's is so that they can track people as they walk through various corridors of airports without having guards checking passports at every corridor.
Have you tried playing tapes from 7 years ago? A few years ago, I went through a box of 1.44 floppies from when I was in high school looking for some old DOS progrmas I wrote. Most (but not all) of the "real" 1.44 HD floppies worked fine. None of the 720K punched and formatted to 1.44MB worked at all.
Good thing nothing I did back then was that important.
This is also the basis of self-defense training. You practice over and over again what to do when someone pulls their fist back to punch you or what you do when someone puts their hands on your throat. You practice techniques over and over again so that if you need to use them, you don't freeze up and get punched or choked unconscious.
You can describe to someone what to do very easily. However, getting a person to react intelligently that way takes a long, long time.
Also, the goal of modern military training is not to produce soldiers who act like automatons, unthinking, but to act in an intelligent way under stress and to have confidence in their training and skills.
I need more sleep. I just read that as 'British Pornographic Industry'.
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post [wikipedia.org] on slashdot.org [slashdot.org], a popular "news for trolls" website.
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings, right?
Congratulations.
Surely we will be safe with all these new laws to protect us.
(sarcasm)
It's called being "kiasu"
Hmm... that's not in EDICT. Is it Japanese? It's got () kiyasui: (adj) relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
Not a standard English keyboard then. It's probably Dvorak, but you probably know that already and were being a smartass.
Did you notice how "g" is just to the left of "h" and "i" is just to the left of "o" on an English-language keyboard?
(His left hand was in the right place, but the right hand was shifted left by one key).
First of all, you should be behind a firewall that disallows incoming connections to almost everything. Even if you're not, FC3 has a kernel firewall enabled that blocks just about everything.
As for the packages, who cares if they're just sitting on your HD taking up space?
For a server machine "outside the wall" it's important to keep things as lean as possible. But for your desktop machine, who cares?
WARNING: This guy whose personal ad you're reading is the kind of paranoid weirdo who does FBI criminal background checks on women he's thinking of dating.
Go watch Audition and then see if you feel that way.
(Yeah, I know it's just a movie, but I'm still freaked out.)
Who cares if he used to be an asshole or not? It's fairly obvious what he is now.
lots of emulators for Mac.
The Mac Mini is a computer. This is an appliance.
Is it still a computer if you use it like it's an appliance?
Slashdot has a bias toward stupid tech jokes in comments.