You seem to be thinking of mild depression or even subclinical sadness
No, counseling is equally ineffective against major depression.
The last hundred years or so of medical research specifically tests for effectiveness VS a placebo, so it's not like people are just shooting in the dark here. (To throw you a bone, medications don't seem to be very effective against mild depression.)
The best supported counseling method, CBT, is no better than placebo for depression. Consider this metaanalysis Particularly look at figure 4 and see how the error bars for the effect size of CBT on depression overlaps the Y axis for every disorder except PTSD.
CBT is a well supported treatment for anxiety, not depression. No other form of therapy is well supported for anything at all. SSRIs, like you say are only effective in major depression. For those of us with mild depression, there is no well supported mainstream treatment at all.
Also, stop getting your medical knowledge from TV, it's wrong
Stop getting your medical information from salesmen (aka psychologists), it's wrong. These people have a vested interest in delivering you services, whether or not they're any help to you. A combination of confirmation bias on their part, and the placebo effect on your part fools both of you.
IMO, the real solution to depression, major and minor, is ketamine. It's safe, it's FDA approved, it's out of patent, and it's effective within hours and lasts for a week with one treatment. The only problem is you have to go through the entire battery of SSRIs, MAOIs, tricyclics and atypicals before they'll let you try something quick, easy, safe, and effective.
For my money, this video game works as well as conventional counseling because conventional counseling doesn't work.
Exactly right. Try finding a counseler who can produce clinical data showing a statistically significant effect of their tretament with appropriate placebo controls. They get pretty upset when you start asking about confidence intervals.
Seriously though, what is a "core game"? Is it short for "hardcore"? Then what's that? Is it a hard game? Is it a complex game? Is it a flashy blockbuster game?
There are people out there willing to pay millions of dollars in aggregate for single player games that don't even exist yet, and pre-owned games are killing the market for single player?
Sure, it sounds expensive when you hear $200 a month for the cable and internet bill, but in reality it's the cheaper form of entertainment for a family
The library is free. Crayons cost $2. You can get a soccer ball or scrabble board for $20. You can feed a dog for $60 a month.
TV and internet doesn't even come close to being the cheapest form of entertainment.
No problem. You can get the bulk of your calories and proteins through delicious rice and beans. And those cheap flash frozen packs of veggies contain more vitamins than the fresh veggies that were picked before they were fully ripe and trucked across the country anyway.
Let's face it, hipsters congregate in dense urban areas where any car is a luxury, and many just can't imagine that some of us actually live a long way away from anything;-)
Have you considered that living far away from everything is a luxury too? We're going to have to give up some of our luxuries if we want to be sustainable. Rural living for those not involved in agriculture is probably one of them.
Mac OS wasn't any more multitasking than DOS was. Programs like DESQview allowed you to switch tasks in DOS, which is done pretty much the same way as "multitasking" in Mac OS. Macs didn't support preemptive multitasking until OS X. The Amiga had it in 1985.
What has changed with the marketshare is that now Macs are used by the upper-middle and upper classes extensively at work and at home
Apple computers have always been expensive. Even as far back as the Apple II, it was the high end 8-bit computer. Later, the Atari ST was based on very similar hardware to the Macintosh, but it did color, and cost half as much.
No. Unless there's a selective advantage towards maintaining a specific stretch of DNA you can expect it to accumulate mutations or deletions and be selected out of the genome.
But is the corruption level high? not really, especially compared to many other states in the world
Depends on what you call corruption. The illicit bribery is among the lowest in the world. Legal bribery is among the highest.
I know you're just trying to score points by showing that the US is evil and more dangerous than states like North Korea or Iran, but even a basic knowledge of the issues shows your assertion is not all that well supported by the facts.
When was the last time North Korea invaded anyone on false pretenses? How much leverage does North Korea have to force other countries to pass laws contray to the interests of their peoples? Can North Korea force the EU to send them all their air traffic data in violation of numerous privacy mandates, for instance? Can North Korea extend a war on drug users or a war on copyright infringers across the globe?
If the North Korean regime was replaced by a sane one, it would be very good news for South Korea and welcome news to the rest of the world. If the US regime was replaced with a sane one, it would be cause for celebration in all corners of the world.
The soon to be former EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has been making some interesting comments about privacy, copyright and many aspects of the digital age.
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You seem to be thinking of mild depression or even subclinical sadness
No, counseling is equally ineffective against major depression.
The last hundred years or so of medical research specifically tests for effectiveness VS a placebo, so it's not like people are just shooting in the dark here. (To throw you a bone, medications don't seem to be very effective against mild depression.)
The best supported counseling method, CBT, is no better than placebo for depression. Consider this metaanalysis Particularly look at figure 4 and see how the error bars for the effect size of CBT on depression overlaps the Y axis for every disorder except PTSD.
CBT is a well supported treatment for anxiety, not depression. No other form of therapy is well supported for anything at all. SSRIs, like you say are only effective in major depression. For those of us with mild depression, there is no well supported mainstream treatment at all.
Also, stop getting your medical knowledge from TV, it's wrong
Stop getting your medical information from salesmen (aka psychologists), it's wrong. These people have a vested interest in delivering you services, whether or not they're any help to you. A combination of confirmation bias on their part, and the placebo effect on your part fools both of you.
IMO, the real solution to depression, major and minor, is ketamine. It's safe, it's FDA approved, it's out of patent, and it's effective within hours and lasts for a week with one treatment. The only problem is you have to go through the entire battery of SSRIs, MAOIs, tricyclics and atypicals before they'll let you try something quick, easy, safe, and effective.
For my money, this video game works as well as conventional counseling because conventional counseling doesn't work.
Exactly right. Try finding a counseler who can produce clinical data showing a statistically significant effect of their tretament with appropriate placebo controls. They get pretty upset when you start asking about confidence intervals.
The American propaganda system is the best in the world.
Right, and I was pointing out that they could switch to dried and frozen vegetables which are cheaper and equally nutritious.
Looks to me like Core Games is doing OK.
Seriously though, what is a "core game"? Is it short for "hardcore"? Then what's that? Is it a hard game? Is it a complex game? Is it a flashy blockbuster game?
There are people out there willing to pay millions of dollars in aggregate for single player games that don't even exist yet, and pre-owned games are killing the market for single player?
Awesome. Where's your paper?
Sure, it sounds expensive when you hear $200 a month for the cable and internet bill, but in reality it's the cheaper form of entertainment for a family
The library is free. Crayons cost $2. You can get a soccer ball or scrabble board for $20. You can feed a dog for $60 a month.
TV and internet doesn't even come close to being the cheapest form of entertainment.
No problem. You can get the bulk of your calories and proteins through delicious rice and beans. And those cheap flash frozen packs of veggies contain more vitamins than the fresh veggies that were picked before they were fully ripe and trucked across the country anyway.
That's the crappy /. threading, hiding the downmodded AC from you.
Good. Humans don't need meat every day anyway.
If it involves the continued release of CO2 into the atmosphere, it's not sustainable.
Inventor of the World Wide Web AND a comedian.
Let's face it, hipsters congregate in dense urban areas where any car is a luxury, and many just can't imagine that some of us actually live a long way away from anything ;-)
Have you considered that living far away from everything is a luxury too? We're going to have to give up some of our luxuries if we want to be sustainable. Rural living for those not involved in agriculture is probably one of them.
Mac OS wasn't any more multitasking than DOS was. Programs like DESQview allowed you to switch tasks in DOS, which is done pretty much the same way as "multitasking" in Mac OS. Macs didn't support preemptive multitasking until OS X. The Amiga had it in 1985.
What has changed with the marketshare is that now Macs are used by the upper-middle and upper classes extensively at work and at home
Apple computers have always been expensive. Even as far back as the Apple II, it was the high end 8-bit computer. Later, the Atari ST was based on very similar hardware to the Macintosh, but it did color, and cost half as much.
This is not true. DNA replication isn't perfect. Mutations will accrue.
No. Unless there's a selective advantage towards maintaining a specific stretch of DNA you can expect it to accumulate mutations or deletions and be selected out of the genome.
It has no active border disputes
But it seems to think its laws have worldwide jurisdiction.
no external threats to its existence
But, "Terrorism is an existential threat"
no significant internal insurgency
But we can hope!
has changed leaders in a relatively orderly fashion regularly for over a century
Changed figureheads, but we've been ruled by corporatists for decades.
tends to seek approval of at least its western allies before military action
Or rather, it manufactures the appearance of consensus. Does "doalition of the willing" ring a bell?
It's not an autocratic dictatorship, it's an oligarchical dictatorship.
But is the corruption level high? not really, especially compared to many other states in the world
Depends on what you call corruption. The illicit bribery is among the lowest in the world. Legal bribery is among the highest.
I know you're just trying to score points by showing that the US is evil and more dangerous than states like North Korea or Iran, but even a basic knowledge of the issues shows your assertion is not all that well supported by the facts.
When was the last time North Korea invaded anyone on false pretenses? How much leverage does North Korea have to force other countries to pass laws contray to the interests of their peoples? Can North Korea force the EU to send them all their air traffic data in violation of numerous privacy mandates, for instance? Can North Korea extend a war on drug users or a war on copyright infringers across the globe?
If the North Korean regime was replaced by a sane one, it would be very good news for South Korea and welcome news to the rest of the world. If the US regime was replaced with a sane one, it would be cause for celebration in all corners of the world.
The soon to be former EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has been making some interesting comments about privacy, copyright and many aspects of the digital age.
Then GTFO of NATO.
Lucky you. The Indian and Chinese scientists I work with are engaged in cargo cult science.
Stallman is out to spread a religion.
Note that I say this with no intention to imply anything Stallman says or believes is wrong.
How does that work?