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  1. Re:Or.. on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    if that's your experience, I'd get your whole family checked out.

    breakdown of the whys would be.

    toe-walking, this is fun, increases senses[ASD is basically a sensory 'problem'] and experimental.
    making repetitious sounds, this is a bit like swearing for someone who's not so emotional. it releases inner anguish. Other things could be rocking (side to side, or back to front or round and round) etc..., it is also a bit like om ne om ne, or hari chrishna chrishna hari forms of meditation used to 'clear' the mind.

    compulsive behaviour. This is repetitive behaviours, but on with a longer cycle time, and usually a trigger. When x happens you are compelled to do y. Everyone does this, it's just not so obvious that they don't have free will, because their heads are all over the place.
    problem recognizing faces/ Faces don't have much difference between them. They should be able to recognise characteristics about the person, or that person follows some kind of 'pattern', but due to the lower emotional response in someone with ASD, they can't bind the face and name to an emotional response to that person.

    refusing to be interrupted. This is like routine breaking and lack of free will associative. Breaking of concentration can cause 'emotional' pain, especially as it would require a modal or structural change in through process. Also no 'good' logical reason may have been given for the change. high ADHD/ADD co-morbidity may also come into play.

  2. Re:Or.. on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    no, 95% false positives, 20% false negatives.

    That is if it says yes it's 5% accurate,
    if it says no it's 90% accurate.

  3. 2 quuestions on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    1: source and qualification.
    2: Are there positive or negative effects of being diagnosed and put on the trial and error treatment process until something is found to help you in the long term, or treatment stopped.

    and retorically.

    Would you rather be diagnosed with something, given treatment which may well help you. Or, not be diagnosed with something, when you may have something similar but not quite the it, and the med's help anyway but you won't be allowed them because your condition doesn't have a little box for you to fit in.

    But Dr I have cancer, can't you at least give me radiotherapy.
    I'm sorry sir, but that has only been proven to work in cancer of the bowel and spleen, you have cancer of the elbow so we'll just have to wait and see if it develops to the bowel or spleen then we may be able to treat you, if it's the correct colour.

    Incidentally I have ASD and ADHD (with as greater degree of confidence as I have about anything), I can easily spot similar behaviours etc.. in other people and then go on to tell them pretty much exactly how they are thinking (I'll tell different people different things, and also ask them the other things just to check they don't hit that as well to build a better picture) and how they have been all their lives. I'd put the rates of people that I've done this to as high as 25% in adults (restricted social group[high self medication rates]).

    Due to a lack of diagnosis criteria in adults and the complexities of diagnosis as well as the failure of the NHS to follow NICE guidelines and possible prejudice against certain activities (against their membership of the GMC, indoctrination via government propaganda)[some forms of self medication for instance]. I was diagnosed with a serious mental health condition, put on the serious mental health register, and given hard core treatment [chemical lobotomy], that was the opposite of what I should have been on, which they continued for years even though they said it wasn't working.

    Given the serious ramifications of not being diagnosed correctly with ADHD/ADD for instance (high rates of crime, stock market crashes and that kind of thing), along with the even more serious problems associated with the classical alternative diagnosis [child hood schizophrenia is the old diagnosis]. What do you think they should do?

  4. Counter #0 on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    until they take neuroleptics

  5. How men can see the wisdom in a war... on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    I'm standing in the station,
    I am waiting for a train,
    To take me to the border,
    And my loved one far away;
    I watched a bunch of soldiers heading for the war,
    I could hardly even bear to see them go;

    Rolling through the countryside,
    Tears are in my eyes,
    We're coming to the borderline,
    I'm ready with my lies,
    And in the early morning rain, I see her there,
    And I know I'll have to say goodbye again;

    And it's breaking my heart, I know what I must do,
    I hear my country call me, but I want to be with you,
    I'm talking my side, one of use will lose,
    Don't let go, I want to know
    That you will wait for me until the day,
    There's no borderline, no borderline;

    Walking past the border guards,
    Reaching for her hand,
    Showing no emotion,
    I want to break into a run,
    But these are only boys, and I will never know
    How men can see the wisdom in a war...

    And it's breaking my heart, I know what I must do,
    I hear my country call me, but I want to be with you,
    I'm taking my side, one of us will lose,
    Don't let go, I want to know
    That you will wait for me until the day,
    There's no borderline, no borderline,
    No borderline, no borderline...

  6. bioshock on Apple Wants Patent On Video Game-Based iBooks · · Score: 1

    The write up say that killing has been 'linked' to potential for violent behaviour.

    But, so far as I can tell they missed an opportunity to criticise the game, for the more sinister and bio-shocking and I believe true reason for the girls.

    Clearly they want to turn us all into pedos, in-fact the first comment on the article quite clearly says.

    I've been saving them so far...I just couldn't bring myself to kill the first one.

    Saving them for what you pedo!

  7. Re:Irrational Market Behavior on Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us · · Score: 1

    "free individual rational choice"

    my god that's an oxymoron if ever there was one.

  8. Re:Irrational Market Behavior on Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us · · Score: 1

    what's you margin of error? are you accounting for random clusters?

  9. Re:Irrational Market Behavior on Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us · · Score: 1

    I would also say that it comes from a notion of 'free will', such that in any circumstance you are capable of making a rational decision of your own free will.

    will free may exist, but free will hmm....

  10. Re:opps, out by a factor on 100. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    Well I know it's entirely accurate.

    It is after all only pulling a leg end!

  11. Re:opps, out by a factor on 100. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    Try no food, tea, joints and Acid for a couple of days.

    I'm bot sure what your suggesting?
    Can you put the missing or in, it sounds like it may be an interesting proscription.
    Do I put milk in the tea, opiates in the joint and then mix the left over opiates with some citric and bang it up?

    That would probably chill me out a bit, but opiates keep me awake and make me crash big stylie.

    'That would just be a drag, and too much bother to boot.', relatively, even with your proscription it would be a pleasant comfort for me, a drag and too much bother for everyone else involved though!

  12. Re:USD and NASA on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    context.
    What this context

    http://costofwar.com/

    I see no mention of the words billion or million. Only numbers.
    The context was my head.

  13. Re:"Less invasive than X-rays" on Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    What Pluto?

    Made of mostly water, a body, not much sunshine.

  14. wet suit. on Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Time to buy a wet suit, or as this is military, a full metal jacket.

  15. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    hmm... again.

    I would have liked it to have something more enlightening as to why it's not an easy problem to solve.

    Since it's obvious that N=N+1 for N [0,0] != N=N+1 for N : [ 0, >0], N != NP seems obvious. I think proof of the problem is that you can't reduce N!=NP down to that.

  16. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    hmm... I agree.

    I think that the question asks is verifying the problem analogous to computing it.

    If a function can be computed in linear proportion to the number of elements within that problem, and their exists a problem which is a superset of that problem. Can the subset be used to calculate the superset.

    and then go on to NP complete and how any NP problem can be represented as a subset of an NP complete problem, so that if P = NP (complete) then, all problems of this kind can be computed in linear time (resource dependant)

  17. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    Bet that 'IT guy' has a PHd too.

  18. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeh, I get moded as a troll all the time!

    I've mearly been hanging around a little to long, and have grown to post more dry humour, feeling it a little more insightful that just repeating the contents of the past 10 years of ./ posts.

    the smelling old grandma Nazis are still around though!.

    Please, remind me of Godwin's law again.

    What is it again, the more repressive that the indoctrinated members of society become against a topic controversial (with them) enough that it leads to a longer and longer discussion on the internet. The greater the chance that people begin to realise that that not to dissimilar to cultural and other oppression as faced under the Nazis. (by the Gypsies, disabled, polish oh and some other people who didn't do too badly out of it)

  19. Re:Next step to prevent PC piracy on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or to put it another way.
    My life long, brainwashing as the result of government propaganda and supported, licensed and run institutions has taught me the following.

    America: Land of the brave, home of the FREE.

  20. Re:Next step to prevent PC piracy on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    IP laws are actually, a very modern concept.

    Maybe you should be asking, for what percentage of the time humans have been on earth, have people been allowed to charge for IP.

    In some cultures, even things like money are very modern concepts. Some still only use money for 'western' things, everything else is shared.

  21. Re:It's true, I'm perverted on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's spent so long looking at bestiality on internet porn sites. That he now things he's a cat that has sex with computers.

  22. Re:USD $700 million, that's practically free. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm being facetious.

    'you are mixing up millions vs billions
    the cost of project'

    That statement is impertinent. Asserting that they knew what I was doing, when in-fact I didn't do that.

    Looking at your precious posts, your only criterion for idiocy is poor spelling.

    Fuck me, can't your tiny brain even fix that one up, no wonder I'm a little to dry for you.

  23. Re:USD $700 million, that's practically free. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    Like there's actually news in the news papers.

    How do you know that I didn't in-fact mix up billiard and million?

    Why do you assume I think the same way as you do?

    Also, billiard is used in many many countries.

  24. Re:USD $700 million, that's practically free. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    Doh,
    Classic mistake.
    The figure wasn't written in text it was written in numerical figures. The word 'billion' never came into it.
    I was mixing up a thousand million and a million (initially)

  25. Re:opps, out by a factor on 100. on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I've been down the 'so called' doctor and got given some benzos the other day.
    Which kept me awake. God knows why they thought
    they would make me sleepy, they should know by now the sedatives keep me awake, stimulants help me sleep and anti-psychotics give me psychosis.
    (I'm hoping that one day, I'm not so stressed by the anal idiots that I actually remember to ask them, why that is. And if they say the word think or anything like that, then to ask them exactly what those thoughts are etc...)

    I've tried food, since that's a commonly available stimulant drug, along with about 10 cigarettes and a could of good strong litres of coffee, and managed to fall asleep for a little while shortly afterwards.

    Now, I'm strongly thinking about getting myself arrested and sent to court, in a continuous cycle until. Hopefully it won't take another 20 years for them to pull their heads out their arse.