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  1. Re:Used to be able to dream lucidly when ... on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 1
    Dealing with symbolism in lucid dreams takes a lot of control, lot more activity in the brain, more chance of too much excitation which will collapse lucidity. It's the reason most people can't even read things in their dreams, everything is just all jumbled.

    That being said, doing math using objects/landscape is a lot easier, it's what helped me when I couldn't understand the way normal people do math. Last dream I 'had' to do math, it was part of a list of 100 tasks to accomplish to marry someones daughter. You think math is hard, try having to read and work out math word problems.

  2. Re:Used to be able to dream lucidly when ... on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 1

    You can use lucid dreaming to induce drug states. If you're a competent lucid dreamer, you should be able to retain control under almost any drug-induced mind state (almost cause I haven't tried them all).

  3. Re: Used to be able to dream lucidly when ... on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 1
    Actually, you can choose sleep. Or rather, you can choose to enter into a REM state (or non-rem for that matter, depending what kind of lucidity you want) whenever you want.

    It seems you didn't get too far into your lucid abilities since the ability to enter into a dream state is the next logical progression once you start recognizing the switch points between awake/hpynogogia/non-rem/rem.

    The techniques are similar to going into an OOBE state. I remember in the early 90's being amazed at finding a mailing list where others could do the same as well.

  4. Re:this is why my kids won't be coders on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1
    Well, you could tell them to do what makes them happy.

    But maybe your way is right, after all, we could always use more miserable cynical fucks chasing after money.

  5. Re:Nice flat line? on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1
    Oh, I'm sorry, are.you now changing your story from equal increases every year?

    Sure took you/a long time/to come up with anything to not admit you're cherry picking your/facts. Try and be a little more snappier with the response next time, makes/you/look less like a weaseling douche.

  6. Re:you've got male on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 1
    Why?

    All so some introverted geeks don't have to go out in public to meet and interact with women?

  7. Re:Seriously. on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Dude, I've been cooking with a microwave since I was a little kid.

    n.b. this is not something to be proud of, but hey if you can't tell the difference, kudos to you.

  8. Re:Somebody needs to buy... on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Perhaps YOU need to buy a less powerful microwave and/or read the instructions.

  9. Re:The only way to resolve this conundrum: on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 2
    as long as the study is carefully constructed so that pretty much all of it can be eaten afterwards.

    Wouldn't want to offend our asian brothers! After all, everbody seems to be against carefully conducted whale studies.

  10. Re:Fuck seaworld on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...but it's for 'education' purposes!!!

    I'm starting to think the only useful things a human can learn about wildlife in captivity is that it is no longer wild, nor alive, and we're despicable creatures for constraining other living beings for the rest of their, now-shortened, lives.

    But, hey, at least some 'scientific' proof of how much we're being a bunch of dumbasses. This is the one field where I would expect serious scientists to shut down everything if they have proof they're doing more harm than good.

  11. but..but..this can't be!!! on Humans Causing California's Mountains To Grow · · Score: 1

    Every slashdotter knows no amount of human activity can have any effect whatsoever on the environment around us! That's we rape and pillage every speck of nature around us, it's the truth and beauty of Keynesian economics!

  12. Re:! half the world's population on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1
    You're either a statistican or a marketer.

    Nice way to cherry pick your graphs to prove your false point. Next time try something with anywhere from 100-2000 years more data. Then you'll see the nice flat line that was there before, oh, about 1855.

  13. Re:Space? on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1
    omg, because we haven't ever heard of slingshot manoevers before!! What will we do??

    Oh no! Now, I might have to use math to combine some vectors, oh the horrors!!! I might even have to understand the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces!! oh woe unto me, how can I survive the horrors of the job???

    Even a moron doesn't have to wonder about that, because we know why it happens!! In fact, it's part of how we keep track of all those objects!

    If science was easy, slashdot wouldn't be full of whiny people who don't understand it. The fucking idiots here think I'm putting down science just because they can't seem to understand that complex problems like this are what scientists actually ENJOY working on.

  14. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    If that's what you think, my assessment of your thinking abilities was right on.

    Put your ego aside so you can realize your stupidity.

  15. Re:Dear Mark on Zuckerberg's $100 Million Education Gift Solved Little · · Score: 1
    Ah, you assume capability and dedication.

    Sorry my friend, society no longer works that way.

  16. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: -1, Troll
    No, you call it science when the party who did wrong owns up to it.

    As long as they stand by their ground, then it's belief and therefore religion.

  17. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    Again, go learn how it works!!!

    And in the future, if you're going to link to a definition, link to a definition that is specific to what you're talking about.

  18. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    Yeah, you're just overly paranoid. Go take a look at how it works.

    btw, I know you don't know anything because of the stupidity you are spouting. It's the general way any knowledgable person can spot the ignorant. I don't like to hand out information because babies with silver spoons in their mouths...

  19. Re:Space programs as a crowbar? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1
    Spoken like one of the elite.

    Yes master, we appreciate all the compassion you grant us to live out our meaningless lives.

  20. Re:WTF does it do for me? on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    Sounds like you're on more expensive drugs than caffeine!

    Btw, i'm poor.

  21. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    And what do protocols have to do with implementations???

    Why can't you just admit you don't know how it's implemented and that the wifi in this case is inconsequential?

  22. Re:Public Transportation on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    You're a whining idiot. I don't pay a cent for any bank services. If you can't do the same, you're either moronic or live in a police state.

  23. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    ah, so you don't know how it works so your first response is to bury your head in the sand.

    Understood, I'm dealing with a non-competent-thinker/emotional-reactionist.

  24. Re:Space programs as a crowbar? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1
    For whom? The rich?

    Great, more time to live while being oppressed. Maybe we should make a holiday?

  25. Re:who on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    ah, that explains it.

    You don't hang around here enough to know that logic and facts are not very appreciated around here. Calling people out on not providing them is, but unfortunately the trogs don't know how to digest facts.