Sure, there is better stuff on Betamax, rentals, the 'net and Cable. But we shouldn't be working at trying to destroy the three big networks. They are a first line of defense or offense if needed. It's free and most of the population can get close to a TV.
We should however try to disrupt their cash flow! Think about it, GE, Westinghouse and now Disney are the owners of the three networks. Two are defense contractors... and one has their founder frozen!
People are worried about CNN and FOX News.... they don't even know what is up
Cost a few bucks, can rewind with my cable remote and don't even have to get up.
HBO has shows and movies [Sopranos, Band of Brothers etc] for a flat monthly rate, and there is a channel [#1] that I can 'play' and rewind movies just like HBO OnDemand.
Pretty cool huh? Digital Audio out [Fiber] on the cable box lets me enjoys DTS [when available] and the picture is pretty awsome.
The only thing: Can't zoom. Doesn't play MP3's like my DVD player... but it has USB and FireWire ports.
What will those be used for? Videoconference anyone?
Well, why not use the computers as a tool to communicate?
Their local gov't could ask anyone in the world for tips on anything. Solar cooking, ethernet over barbed wire... the point would be to find something to solve all of their smaller problems.
There is the point of view that GPL software can be used by someone who doesn't have a dime. This alone saves money. But being able to chat, e-mail, use USENET, browse the web, etc... can help them. It can certainly help anyone around the house. Anyone can get online and ask for help with anything. Sometimes you get answers. Of course sometimes you can't.
Being able to open a free web page somewhere could help a local gov't solve a problem. Geocities could host the question, you provide an e-mail.
Hopefully that is what the computers would go for. You know they aren't going to 'Nuclear Research', but you hope they will help someone interface with the world.
When someone orders something from Amazon.com I will lose my faith in the idea.
Establish permanent robotic outposts on other planets 4.8 12%
Tied with "Learn lessons about the Earth by studying other planets" for overall score [4.8]. But lost to Colonization and Safety. Both considerable needs, but I see outposts as gateways to other areas.
If we started with the ISS, and moved to outposts on Mars [the top vote getter]. Where else can we go? We can move further out, maybe even establish communities on the way.
Why not?
Bio-domes. Whatever. But having those stepping stones is what is important. Go from ISS, to the Moon to Mars. Let's get past BattleBots and Robotica. US First, or First as it's now known shows potential for being able to develop robots who help each other solve problems.
Let's see a prime time game show which has something to build and have people try to build it. NASA should fund robotic development in order to have these outposts and stepping stones.
Where are we? Not close. Could we be a lot closer? I think so.
As I sit here in my house coat, cold in the winter:
A 100+1 disc player. More than 100 I don't care. It must be software upgradable [we have come to that point right?]. It plays any codec which is ported, and you slip in a burned or payed-for-subscription CD. It's upgraded to the latest codecs.
I can play 100 MP3, OGG, playlists etc. Let me simply browse by playlist [maybe I make playlists for my CD's which I convert to OGG] or by song. Let me randomly play by folder, disc, and complete CD catalog.
I'm hooked
Isn't this what everyone wants? Let us burn CD's to 'upgrade' or 'update' the machine, er component. If you can't, $5 per year for 'updates'. Did I mention... it must be able to output to at least RCA cables so that I can use it with my stereo.
Is it that hard? They've got 100, 200 and 500 disc players. Just give us this... please! It's a hardware hack. Please?
Through Time Warner, I've got HBO OnDemand and iControl. Both let me watch movies/shows at exceptional quality. The cost: $3-6 / movie and ten dollars a month for HBO OnDemand.
Worth it all the way. HBO can be thin at times, but iControl even let me watch Half Baked... pause, rewind and all. Only $3.95 for all day pass.
A game? Remember that steam engines were once toys.
Everytime I post something I get at least one response like this. Last time it was "Cars were once hand made... so they must have been a hobby!" in response to my saying that many computers users such as myself are afraid of loosing our hobby to big business. So you think I've made your point? No. I've given you an example on an asinine statement which flies out of people's asses and onto Slashdot. The two [or three] are no where near connected. Steam engines are real, and can be held in your hand.
The mythological value extracted from Everquest is highly valuable indeed, and people will pay to participate.
People do pay to play. They also take their time to play. I'm not saying that playing games of any genre is 'waste of time'... but that when it takes your life and money away it becomes a problem. The people who are selling items are the smart ones I guess; they are the ones who are extracting value.
Eventually games will become complex and compelling enough to replace the highly valuable service that the movie industry provides.
I do agree with you there. I get involved in games, and they do provide more entertainment than most movies and tv. The problem is the commitment that people are making to this game. BTW, are consumers on the top of the priority list of movie companies? Last I checked cash was. [Don't bother with customers == cash. We all know this, but if they could figure out a way to just get the money...]
That service is mythmaking. People need it as much as they need food and air. Storytellers and mythmakers have done pretty well for themselves over the ages and they will continue to do so.
They don't need it. I guess in the sense of an addict, they do. They have done pretty well for ages, I agree. But to what expense? Is it worth ruining your life or spending the rent? Just like my favorite slashdot sig: "After all is said and done, more will be said than done"
This isn't a book, and it isn't TV. I'm not saying "STOP EVERQUEST!". I'm just saying that it's kinda sick. Even I have my delusions, but not to this extent.
In one fatal crash all your work, money, and 'myth' could be out the door. What if the game was suddenly abandoned? Hypothetically speaking. Would people plummet to their deaths?
The really sick thing is that someone sat down and studied this.
I know it's interesting, but it's still just a game. I know that many people are making a fortune on ebay[tm, copyright, patent pending, rsvp, etc]but why further it?
So we all sit down and compare a FAKE world to the real thing. A buddhist would be appalled at not only your clouded mind, but that you blow more smoke into it.
IT IS A GAME!
Now if we were talking RA2... that would be a different story.:) Seriously, I thought it was 'news for nerds' not loosers.
I know it defeats the whole purpose... but there are 'cpu-killer' apps that slow down your PC to work with those applications.
Of course if one wants to see how fast DOS will boot on their Athlon... make a *indows Boot Disk. Just make sure you remove the references to win.com, and you'll be alright. Should be in 'DOS' as soon as the BIOS is done.
It's pretty fast.
I've got a question though... what about OS/2. I've got some disks laying around from a place I used to work.
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On the other hand it is Nash's belief that he was instrumental in his own recovery. And this is doubtless true as in many cases where folks consciously learn to identify and reconcile their delusions. He also believes he "aged out" of his illness which some percentage of schizophrenics also do.
My parent post really had little to do with schizophrenia. It's mental illness at large. I think it's dangerous to tell everyone else that we can fix our problems all on our own. I'm working everyday trying to secure funding for more care, more doctors, and more tolerence. Look at what is going on in Texas. The majority of people who want to hang Yates are the same people who don't even believe mental illness exists or it's a problem. [I care either way about the Yates case. What scares me is the fact that people don't understand one thing about mental illness and don't even want to learn... just string her up!]
The point is this was a biography and should be expected to reflect the views of the subject and those around him. It is not a psychiatry documentary nor should it be expected to present anything more then a realistic portrayal of the person's and events within it.
I don't know Nash, but I understand there is plenty of embelishing in this movie. It is a biography, but not an autobiography.
Or would you prefer every production that refers to a no-longer-held or controversial beliefs stop for an extended expository educating the audience on the "correct" facts of the situation with long disclaimer (as is found in pharmacological advertising)?
Ok, I see now. You are against medication, I guess. You think medication + mental illness = slave/robot/drugged up. That's fine. I used to think that too. But then I quickly learned I was wrong. I'm someone with Mental Illness, and it's taken over my life. Why would I turn down a medication that would bring me back to society?
No longer do we live in the days where everyone gets ECT for no reason. In fact ECT isn't inhuman at all. It's only bad if you are using it on people who don't need it. Just as with medication. It's not bad medication, it's bad doctors... they have to be the ones who give it to you.
I mean, we can get into a big debate over taking meds or not taking meds. But it's a moot point when there are medications out there that change people's lives for the better.
My friend has a grandmother who is p.schizophrenia. She is a danger to herself and others. At one point she was on drugs that just left her drooling. But that was in 1985. Since then she's gotten drugs that treat her better, and actually let her live her life. Free from a drugged state, and free from paranoid delusions.
The point is, if we say no more doctors and no more drugs; "Just let them live!". This well let us fall back into the days when no one was 'treated' but locked up and abused. We need drug companies and researchers to keep on researching.
About the disclaimer: Very interesting that you mention that. The funny thing is that many of the disclaimers in drug adverts are for things such as allergy medicine, usually describing the syptoms you are trying to fight in the first place. I'm not saying brain disorder drugs don't have side effects, they do. Why? Because we know nothing about the things we are trying to treat. Should we stop trying to treat them? No sometimes they work!
Ok, back on point. I've not seen the whole movie, but a note at the end that read as follows would be nice:
"Mr. Nash is an exceptional case. Unfortunately there are [number here] millions of people in America who can't fight mental illness on their own. In 1992 it was estimated that one third of the 600,000 homeless were are mentally ill. 'During the course of any given year, while more than 40 million adult Americans are affected by one or more mental disorders, 6.5 million Americans are disabled by severe mental illnesses. (NIMH, 1990)' We are currently in a mental health crisis according to Dr. David Satcher [Surgeon General]"
Sure, you helped people. But did they do it own their own? My point is that people with Mental Illness, like myself, can't always just 'get on with it'.
Sure, they can recover. But not many just wake up one day and say "I'm going to beat this today" and go back to bed 'ok'.
Read my other posts. I thought I could help myself, on my own. It doesn't work. It didn't for me. It made things 29349237593205 times worse.
Luckily I found [the much hidden] local clinics where I can get help. Med's aren't free, but @ 50/month I can get a few people to help out.
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Ok.
There are groups who spend time on 'intensive cognitive therapy'. There is also groups who over medicate.
But the message of this movie has become one of 'pull your self up by the boot straps' and get on with it! NAMI has said they support it, but other groups do not.
Sure, not every diagnosis of p.schitzophrenia is a life sentence. But not every person has the strongest degree.
But let's also remember that there are more than just one mental illness. Even clinical depression can be a life sentence. I, myself, suffer from rapid cycling bi-polar disorder. It has in effect ruined my life. To say that there are people who don't need treatment is to trivialize the ones who do.
Sure, they throw drugs at you and see which ones stick. What else can they do when not enough is known? We have a mental health crisis in America, and Bush kicked out the Surgeon General who actually cared.
Nine times out of ten you can blame your 'system' on stigma and the people who spread it, low or no funding, and reluctance to do anything.
I used to buy into the argument that being medicated would rob me of my life. But that got me where I am now. I've had the worst time, I've lost everything I've worked for, and can't get a job. Sure, I can get one, but I can't hold it.
I thought I should 'get over it' and not become a drugged up citizen. I'm now finally with a county clinic and maybe getting my life back on my own.
[i thought he had delusions at the nobel prize ceremony?]
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benign == no cancer
You missed the whole point. Just because someone is willing to get rid of an illness doesn't make them just come out of it.
If you push that prayer heals crap on me, let me head you off. Yes, it works. But there is a very dangerous part of that. If someone prays everyday, and nothing happens they begin to think that G-d wants them to/be sick/have cancer/die. Then you get the reverse.
The problem with showing Nash as someone who defeated his illness on his own, with love, can be dangerous as well. That makes people who can't defeat something on their own believe they aren't worthy of recovery. Then where are you? With worse problems.
A good spirit [or love] is important to recovery, but it's not the only part. You said that. But a story such as this makes people think that love will defeat all... which is dangerous. Or that they can't love enough.
File permissions? So you are saying that all critical files are set so no one can delete them? One's that installed by Windows itself can be deleted by any user.. I know they can.
I've set this system up twice, I've set up other people's XP systems. In all cases, all the users were set up as Admin's by default.
The article first states that the installation is limited because it doesn't ask you to add users other than root.
Why should it? Being that Windows will let any user do anything... why shouldn't lindows? I know XP has an 'admin' account, but that doesn't do much. Why should this be more secure, it wouldn't be like windows enough for the people.
Seriously, the only thing that XP's admin vs. non-admin users is the ability to add more users and other lame protections. It is a step in the right direction but isn't enough.
Regular users on my system have been able to delete critical files and change some settings. The main thing I noticed is that Red Alert won't let you play as a regular user. Just won't play. I had to give my girl friend a admin account so that it would start up. Kinda defeats the purpose.
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I was the parent... thank you.
Thank you very much mr roboto.
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lol...
How can I be ignorant? I've got mental illness. I'm in the worst 4 years of my life ever.
Like I just posted a second ago... I should have stated 'fight back, on your own'.
But, there is no 'recovery'. It doesn't go away. Some illness can, but never on their own.
In case you haven't noticed, there is a stigma, there is very little treatment, and there is very little actually known about these diseases.
I don't want to take away anyone's hope. I want to point out that they need somewhere to turn. It's not my fault there isn't so many places to go to.
I just started a program connected to my county. Lucky for me, because in about 6 months I'd be out on the street.
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Hey, I'm not knocking anyone... I'm trying to support the idea of having computers everywhere.
We have been trying to kill it, but we shouldn't.
Sure, there is better stuff on Betamax, rentals, the 'net and Cable. But we shouldn't be working at trying to destroy the three big networks. They are a first line of defense or offense if needed. It's free and most of the population can get close to a TV.
We should however try to disrupt their cash flow! Think about it, GE, Westinghouse and now Disney are the owners of the three networks. Two are defense contractors... and one has their founder frozen!
People are worried about CNN and FOX News.... they don't even know what is up
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I've got movies on demand. 24 hours a day.
Cost a few bucks, can rewind with my cable remote and don't even have to get up.
HBO has shows and movies [Sopranos, Band of Brothers etc] for a flat monthly rate, and there is a channel [#1] that I can 'play' and rewind movies just like HBO OnDemand.
Pretty cool huh? Digital Audio out [Fiber] on the cable box lets me enjoys DTS [when available] and the picture is pretty awsome.
The only thing: Can't zoom. Doesn't play MP3's like my DVD player... but it has USB and FireWire ports.
What will those be used for? Videoconference anyone?
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/microdrive .html
Besides, I want one. This web-pad sounds too cool.
This is the sort of thing I've wanted for years.
Well, why not use the computers as a tool to communicate?
Their local gov't could ask anyone in the world for tips on anything. Solar cooking, ethernet over barbed wire... the point would be to find something to solve all of their smaller problems.
There is the point of view that GPL software can be used by someone who doesn't have a dime. This alone saves money. But being able to chat, e-mail, use USENET, browse the web, etc... can help them. It can certainly help anyone around the house. Anyone can get online and ask for help with anything. Sometimes you get answers. Of course sometimes you can't.
Being able to open a free web page somewhere could help a local gov't solve a problem. Geocities could host the question, you provide an e-mail.
Hopefully that is what the computers would go for. You know they aren't going to 'Nuclear Research', but you hope they will help someone interface with the world.
When someone orders something from Amazon.com I will lose my faith in the idea.
Establish permanent robotic outposts on other planets 4.8 12%
Tied with "Learn lessons about the Earth by studying other planets" for overall score [4.8]. But lost to Colonization and Safety. Both considerable needs, but I see outposts as gateways to other areas.
If we started with the ISS, and moved to outposts on Mars [the top vote getter]. Where else can we go? We can move further out, maybe even establish communities on the way.
Why not?
Bio-domes. Whatever. But having those stepping stones is what is important. Go from ISS, to the Moon to Mars. Let's get past BattleBots and Robotica. US First, or First as it's now known shows potential for being able to develop robots who help each other solve problems.
Let's see a prime time game show which has something to build and have people try to build it. NASA should fund robotic development in order to have these outposts and stepping stones.
Where are we? Not close. Could we be a lot closer? I think so.
my 2 sense.
Wow! 54,000... all linked from slashdot. At least 57% wanted the 'www' to provide space exploration information.
Maybe pop-ups and banner ads? Flash and techno beats? Maybe a popular boy band?
Right now you've only got 54,000 people at the site [or more, these people didn't feel the need to provide input]. Space is Cool![tm]
When will it catch on?
As I sit here in my house coat, cold in the winter:
A 100+1 disc player. More than 100 I don't care. It must be software upgradable [we have come to that point right?]. It plays any codec which is ported, and you slip in a burned or payed-for-subscription CD. It's upgraded to the latest codecs.
I can play 100 MP3, OGG, playlists etc. Let me simply browse by playlist [maybe I make playlists for my CD's which I convert to OGG] or by song. Let me randomly play by folder, disc, and complete CD catalog.
I'm hooked
Isn't this what everyone wants? Let us burn CD's to 'upgrade' or 'update' the machine, er component. If you can't, $5 per year for 'updates'. Did I mention... it must be able to output to at least RCA cables so that I can use it with my stereo.
Is it that hard? They've got 100, 200 and 500 disc players. Just give us this... please! It's a hardware hack. Please?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
Runs nice and smooooth. I'd say fix the "Get All Mail" an viola!
Through Time Warner, I've got HBO OnDemand and iControl. Both let me watch movies/shows at exceptional quality. The cost: $3-6 / movie and ten dollars a month for HBO OnDemand.
Worth it all the way. HBO can be thin at times, but iControl even let me watch Half Baked... pause, rewind and all. Only $3.95 for all day pass.
A game? Remember that steam engines were once toys.
Everytime I post something I get at least one response like this. Last time it was "Cars were once hand made... so they must have been a hobby!" in response to my saying that many computers users such as myself are afraid of loosing our hobby to big business. So you think I've made your point? No. I've given you an example on an asinine statement which flies out of people's asses and onto Slashdot. The two [or three] are no where near connected. Steam engines are real, and can be held in your hand.
The mythological value extracted from Everquest is highly valuable indeed, and people will pay to participate.
People do pay to play. They also take their time to play. I'm not saying that playing games of any genre is 'waste of time'... but that when it takes your life and money away it becomes a problem. The people who are selling items are the smart ones I guess; they are the ones who are extracting value.
Eventually games will become complex and compelling enough to replace the highly valuable service that the movie industry provides.
I do agree with you there. I get involved in games, and they do provide more entertainment than most movies and tv. The problem is the commitment that people are making to this game. BTW, are consumers on the top of the priority list of movie companies? Last I checked cash was. [Don't bother with customers == cash. We all know this, but if they could figure out a way to just get the money...]
That service is mythmaking. People need it as much as they need food and air. Storytellers and mythmakers have done pretty well for themselves over the ages and they will continue to do so.
They don't need it. I guess in the sense of an addict, they do. They have done pretty well for ages, I agree. But to what expense? Is it worth ruining your life or spending the rent? Just like my favorite slashdot sig: "After all is said and done, more will be said than done"
This isn't a book, and it isn't TV. I'm not saying "STOP EVERQUEST!". I'm just saying that it's kinda sick. Even I have my delusions, but not to this extent.
In one fatal crash all your work, money, and 'myth' could be out the door. What if the game was suddenly abandoned? Hypothetically speaking. Would people plummet to their deaths?
Apparently not.
If you want to get into it about the buddhist's... they aren't open to further clouding your mind with fiction when reality clouds it enough.
The really sick thing is that someone sat down and studied this.
:) Seriously, I thought it was 'news for nerds' not loosers.
I know it's interesting, but it's still just a game. I know that many people are making a fortune on ebay[tm, copyright, patent pending, rsvp, etc]but why further it?
So we all sit down and compare a FAKE world to the real thing. A buddhist would be appalled at not only your clouded mind, but that you blow more smoke into it.
IT IS A GAME!
Now if we were talking RA2... that would be a different story.
I know it defeats the whole purpose... but there are 'cpu-killer' apps that slow down your PC to work with those applications.
Of course if one wants to see how fast DOS will boot on their Athlon... make a *indows Boot Disk. Just make sure you remove the references to win.com, and you'll be alright. Should be in 'DOS' as soon as the BIOS is done.
It's pretty fast.
I've got a question though... what about OS/2. I've got some disks laying around from a place I used to work.
On the other hand it is Nash's belief that he was instrumental in his own recovery. And this is doubtless true as in many cases where folks consciously learn to identify and reconcile their delusions. He also believes he "aged out" of his illness which some percentage of schizophrenics also do.
l th /home.html
My parent post really had little to do with schizophrenia. It's mental illness at large. I think it's dangerous to tell everyone else that we can fix our problems all on our own. I'm working everyday trying to secure funding for more care, more doctors, and more tolerence. Look at what is going on in Texas. The majority of people who want to hang Yates are the same people who don't even believe mental illness exists or it's a problem. [I care either way about the Yates case. What scares me is the fact that people don't understand one thing about mental illness and don't even want to learn... just string her up!]
The point is this was a biography and should be expected to reflect the views of the subject and those around him. It is not a psychiatry documentary nor should it be expected to present anything more then a realistic portrayal of the person's and events within it.
I don't know Nash, but I understand there is plenty of embelishing in this movie. It is a biography, but not an autobiography.
Or would you prefer every production that refers to a no-longer-held or controversial beliefs stop for an extended expository educating the audience on the "correct" facts of the situation with long disclaimer (as is found in pharmacological advertising)?
Ok, I see now. You are against medication, I guess. You think medication + mental illness = slave/robot/drugged up. That's fine. I used to think that too. But then I quickly learned I was wrong. I'm someone with Mental Illness, and it's taken over my life. Why would I turn down a medication that would bring me back to society?
No longer do we live in the days where everyone gets ECT for no reason. In fact ECT isn't inhuman at all. It's only bad if you are using it on people who don't need it. Just as with medication. It's not bad medication, it's bad doctors... they have to be the ones who give it to you.
I mean, we can get into a big debate over taking meds or not taking meds. But it's a moot point when there are medications out there that change people's lives for the better.
My friend has a grandmother who is p.schizophrenia. She is a danger to herself and others. At one point she was on drugs that just left her drooling. But that was in 1985. Since then she's gotten drugs that treat her better, and actually let her live her life. Free from a drugged state, and free from paranoid delusions.
The point is, if we say no more doctors and no more drugs; "Just let them live!". This well let us fall back into the days when no one was 'treated' but locked up and abused. We need drug companies and researchers to keep on researching.
About the disclaimer: Very interesting that you mention that. The funny thing is that many of the disclaimers in drug adverts are for things such as allergy medicine, usually describing the syptoms you are trying to fight in the first place. I'm not saying brain disorder drugs don't have side effects, they do. Why? Because we know nothing about the things we are trying to treat. Should we stop trying to treat them? No sometimes they work!
Ok, back on point. I've not seen the whole movie, but a note at the end that read as follows would be nice:
"Mr. Nash is an exceptional case. Unfortunately there are [number here] millions of people in America who can't fight mental illness on their own. In 1992 it was estimated that one third of the 600,000 homeless were are mentally ill. 'During the course of any given year, while more than 40 million adult Americans are affected by one or more mental disorders, 6.5 million Americans are disabled by severe mental illnesses. (NIMH, 1990)' We are currently in a mental health crisis according to Dr. David Satcher [Surgeon General]"
Read:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhea
Simply, a vehicle for advocacy can be seen by the ignorant as an excuse to ignore our problem.
Bill collectors call my mom almost daily.
Doesn't do a thing.
Don't we get these questions at least once a month asking about:
:)
"What should I major in"
"Is this major better"
"What did you do with your major"
etc...etc...etc...?
I just seems to me that we do. Mod me down, karma cap lets me be like this
You so missed my point.
Sure, you helped people. But did they do it own their own? My point is that people with Mental Illness, like myself, can't always just 'get on with it'.
Sure, they can recover. But not many just wake up one day and say "I'm going to beat this today" and go back to bed 'ok'.
Read my other posts. I thought I could help myself, on my own. It doesn't work. It didn't for me. It made things 29349237593205 times worse.
Luckily I found [the much hidden] local clinics where I can get help. Med's aren't free, but @ 50/month I can get a few people to help out.
Ok.
There are groups who spend time on 'intensive cognitive therapy'. There is also groups who over medicate.
But the message of this movie has become one of 'pull your self up by the boot straps' and get on with it! NAMI has said they support it, but other groups do not.
Sure, not every diagnosis of p.schitzophrenia is a life sentence. But not every person has the strongest degree.
But let's also remember that there are more than just one mental illness. Even clinical depression can be a life sentence. I, myself, suffer from rapid cycling bi-polar disorder. It has in effect ruined my life. To say that there are people who don't need treatment is to trivialize the ones who do.
Sure, they throw drugs at you and see which ones stick. What else can they do when not enough is known? We have a mental health crisis in America, and Bush kicked out the Surgeon General who actually cared.
Nine times out of ten you can blame your 'system' on stigma and the people who spread it, low or no funding, and reluctance to do anything.
I used to buy into the argument that being medicated would rob me of my life. But that got me where I am now. I've had the worst time, I've lost everything I've worked for, and can't get a job. Sure, I can get one, but I can't hold it.
I thought I should 'get over it' and not become a drugged up citizen. I'm now finally with a county clinic and maybe getting my life back on my own.
Read this:
http://www.bipolarbrain.com/statistics.html
[i thought he had delusions at the nobel prize ceremony?]
benign == no cancer
/be sick/have cancer/die. Then you get the reverse.
You missed the whole point. Just because someone is willing to get rid of an illness doesn't make them just come out of it.
If you push that prayer heals crap on me, let me head you off. Yes, it works. But there is a very dangerous part of that. If someone prays everyday, and nothing happens they begin to think that G-d wants them to
The problem with showing Nash as someone who defeated his illness on his own, with love, can be dangerous as well. That makes people who can't defeat something on their own believe they aren't worthy of recovery. Then where are you? With worse problems.
A good spirit [or love] is important to recovery, but it's not the only part. You said that. But a story such as this makes people think that love will defeat all... which is dangerous. Or that they can't love enough.
I'm on XP now.
File permissions? So you are saying that all critical files are set so no one can delete them? One's that installed by Windows itself can be deleted by any user.. I know they can.
I've set this system up twice, I've set up other people's XP systems. In all cases, all the users were set up as Admin's by default.
Running as root.
The article first states that the installation is limited because it doesn't ask you to add users other than root.
Why should it? Being that Windows will let any user do anything... why shouldn't lindows? I know XP has an 'admin' account, but that doesn't do much. Why should this be more secure, it wouldn't be like windows enough for the people.
Seriously, the only thing that XP's admin vs. non-admin users is the ability to add more users and other lame protections. It is a step in the right direction but isn't enough.
Regular users on my system have been able to delete critical files and change some settings. The main thing I noticed is that Red Alert won't let you play as a regular user. Just won't play. I had to give my girl friend a admin account so that it would start up. Kinda defeats the purpose.
I was the parent... thank you.
Thank you very much mr roboto.
lol...
How can I be ignorant? I've got mental illness. I'm in the worst 4 years of my life ever.
Like I just posted a second ago... I should have stated 'fight back, on your own'.
But, there is no 'recovery'. It doesn't go away. Some illness can, but never on their own.
In case you haven't noticed, there is a stigma, there is very little treatment, and there is very little actually known about these diseases.
I don't want to take away anyone's hope. I want to point out that they need somewhere to turn. It's not my fault there isn't so many places to go to.
I just started a program connected to my county. Lucky for me, because in about 6 months I'd be out on the street.
I'm also suffering from mental illness.
I should have said 'fight back, on your own'.
I used to think I could do this, but I slipped into the worst 4 years of my life.
for the record: Rapid Cycling Bi-Polar.
I would like to continue, but I've got to catch a bus to get medicaid so when my sample medicine runs out I'm not back to square one.