Well, I never said that I agree with science's point of view. Besides, we all create. Even if it's just the creator that we create.
Seriously though, the way things are today, there are a lot of folks out there that simply play the system in order to get funded. This shows how degraded the system is. People out there trying to discover something, just for the sake of getting funded, or fame, or whatever else. Of course it seems that in the past, most of the biggest steps taken to achieve our current understanding of the universe came from those who were simply observing the universe, and probably didn't give a damn about having their curiosity funded.
I don't even know who the Koch Brothers are. I don't watch any form of TV, so I don't care about Fox news either. What I do care about is a government that solves problems with more problems. I know that the medical industry has issues, but it all comes down to cost being so high. So what did the government do? They mandated things that made it more expensive. I know their aim was to have those with higher levels of income to pony up more money for medical insurance, and give tax breaks to those that need help, but it simply hasn't turned out that way. Dems doctors wants they mufukin moneys, yo.
There's no need to take everything that people say as being left or right. Doing so makes you more of a robot than a person capable of reviewing facts. They have ears, but they do not hear.
Why not just embed the hardware with geo-tracking software of some kind, and hardcode it to specifically not blow up in certain places on the planet. Hell you could even have it blow up immediately, once programmed to explode in the area that you don't want it to. That way you can still sell your weapons, and no need to worry.
Is it just me, or does anyone seem to not really care about this (regarding the seriousness of 'getting hacked' that is)? For some reason, I'd like to see obamacare's 'computer servers' all get waxed. Maybe if that happens they won't have to deliberate further about the legality of requiring citizens to put such data on a 'computer server'.
But if you need to look at my odometer from time to time, I'm fine with that. If I break down I'll just use my old style phone to call for a friend of mine to come help me.
Also:
technology
noun
1) the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry."advances in computer technology"
2) machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.
3) the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.
No, this doesn't sound like what's going on here. Maybe...
slave
noun
1) a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
2) a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something.
3) work excessively hard.
Yeah, that sounds more like it.
I agree. It's called "the ALS ice bucket challenge" and it's meant to spread awareness about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and yet when I ask most folks about it, all they know is that "...ALS is when you dump ice water on your head". WTF? Also, the point of dumping the ice water on your head, as far as I understand, is to put one temporarily into the condition closest to that of one who is suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease. Spreading awareness my ass, at this point, it's about being cool (no pun intended).
This article really brings to light the fact that some people seem to require perfection to the extent that they cannot see life as it is, but only how it's supposed to be. There is no way to ease their frustration.
If you work in support, you're going to eventually end up in a situation where there is a server that needs to be addressed, but there is no phone in that room, and so you end up with this same sort of scenario (talking through someone). You should probably just express your frustrations with your work mates, blow off some steam, try to laugh, but then forget about it.
Lots of people in the IT world seem to feel that their ability/knowledge should allow them to get frustrated when things don't go smoothly. Hell one reason that I have a successful IT business is due to the fact that I'm able to cope with people who need my services. I make sure that I do it in a way that makes them feel better. That way whenever there's some PC problem at a site, no one there hates to have to call me, and then bombard me with criticism once I get there.
Focus on the solution and the problem goes away. Make sure that the client is focused on what's going right, and not what's going wrong.
No, but if English is not your native language, it would explain part of the difficulty of communicating, and why your word choice is strange.
It could just be the nature of what we're talking about - health being tied to will. As far as I'm concerned, health is defined by the ability to use your will, and in that way, with a strong will you are healthy. I don't really know how else to properly express that proficiently.
Regarding the placebo effect, man unless you work at some drug-making facility, how are you more knowledgeable than I am? Is it simply because of my 'theory' of will and health, or my strange use of English? The placebo effect is extremely simple, because no one understands how or why it takes place. I have a few friends that are doctors, and another that's a dentist. They all tell me that it's 'just the placebo effect', and they don't really know anything about it, other than it just is. It's mainly the drug-making companies that have to deal with the placebo effect while they're trying to validate their latest drug. Doctors all have theories, like you and I, but they don't talk about it as if it's applicable to their daily lives. I say it has to do with the will, simply because where there's a will, there's a way. The will seems extremely underestimated, to my way of thinking, and to leave it out of the equation when there's some mystery, to me, seems wrong. So no, I don't think that the placebo effect is some huge mystery of a mystical force. But I do think that will power is.
Having said all that, I'd like to thank you for a good discussion. Not many here on slashdot are able to respond with anything but the type of harshness that only a 14yo boy can wield. It's funny how this is a tech site, and yet so many are unwilling to think outside the box, limiting everything to some electronic gadgetry. As if the technology that's embedded in nature has nothing to do with, well, nature.
First of all, let me say that your criticism is well written. Most here try to insult as much as possible, and I don't know why. Working through misunderstandings and/or disagreements without insulting each other is to enter into a higher order of things and a tell-tale sign of wisdom.
do you have a problem with antibiotics or something?
I don't have a problem with antibiotics, so long as they're not the doctors' go-to guy all the time. Where I am, that's basically what you'll get. Sometimes those antibiotics kill good bacteria, and things like our digestion system slowly crash, or worse.
You are using a definition of health that nobody else seems to have
I think you simply misinterpreted what I said. I did say, "Whenever people have a strong will, they are healthy." I didn't say, "Whenever people have a strong will, their body will not die at that time." Or, "When you have a strong will, your cholesterol levels are perfect." I feel that health is 'the ability to use your will'. My definition of health may differ from yours, but what is yours?
Calling people weak-willed is insulting.
When did I call anyone weak-willed? I seriously hope you re-read my first comment with a lighter heart.
you should be able to view any web page using any browser released in the last 5 years. If something doesn't work properly it means you are putting too much fucked up bullshit into your webpage.
This can be said every 10 years. All browsers, all web pages.
Do you care? Are you one of these that requires certain speech patterns in order to understand the point of the conversation? If so, you should learn another language, learn other ways to paint a picture with words. Play games with your friends whereby one has to make a point using X number of words. Dunno man, I couldn't care less if your english is choppy, so long as your message is positive.
This is where you seem to misunderstand what the placebo effect is.
I think that you and I both obviously know what the placebo effect is. As far as I understand, the science that is, no one knows how or why the placebo effect works. Sometimes, the "effect" is only that, an effect. The person may feel better, but indications like heart-rate or blood pressure may not change. Other instances may show that the person does actually improve (heart rate and blood pressure included). The only thing that science suggests, is that perhaps the body creates chemicals on it's own, via the person's expectations. If this were the case, it seems quite sensible to come up with some way to trick people into healing themselves.
So the will power is something different, but obviously we'll need to simply agree to disagree. Cheers!
I am indicating that health is the ability to use your will.
Again, sounding a bit cult-leader-y. Are you a non-native English speaker?
English is my mother-tongue.
It is not correct to say that "if you're healthy, you can use your will"
Being unhealthy can certainly have an adverse effect on decision-making, in various ways.
Ok, I [think] I understand what you mean, but I don't see how that follows my point. When you're sick you may be limited to what you can do, but that makes no point against what you can achieve. I mean, is this guy healthy or not?
because it indicates that health is the cause of will power, and that's not so. If it were the case, there would be no placebo effect to speak of.
That argument doesn't make sense. The placebo effect doesn't describe people getting better because they have a strong will to get better. It's describing when people feel better because they believe that they will feel better. That is to say, it's not a matter of will, but a matter of being fooled.
The placebo effect is caused by the will. What that means is that every time you take any medication, the will is also active and plays a part, regardless how small. What is the mechanism that you are suspecting is behind the placebo effect?
Also, you seem like a smart person (after all you keep referring to me as a cult leader, and not a cult follower), can you think of a successful person that has no will power? Can you do anything at all without first setting your will to do it?
I'll share a story with you since you seem interested. I have a 4-yo son, and an 11-yo nephew, and a 10-foot deep pool. My nephew comes over sometime and swims. He was sure that he couldn't go to the bottom of the pool, because it hurt his ears. I tried to get him to go down, and he simply couldn't do it. He'd come up, fingers in ears, almost crying. However, my 4-yo son was able to do it, because he simply didn't know that he wasn't supposed to be able to. So one day my nephew comes over, and sees the 4-yo touch the bottom of the 10-foot side (with his hands). Suddenly the 11-yo swam down and did the same. Now you tell me what changed? All I can detect is that the 11-yo 'made up his mind' (as we say in English) to do it. He did it on the first try too, not like it just gave him the want to do it, and he worked at it. No once he saw that he could do it (because hell, a 4-yo can do it), he could.
People should be free to trade with whoever they want, when they want, without the need to get permission from some higher authority
I agree. However if you chose to trade in a specific currency, then there's a lot that comes with it. Also, I'd rather my neighbors not spend their time trading crack-cocain for rims at will.
Whatever happened to the Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is still around, as much as ever. Though, not much of that goes on here on slashdot.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
--Redd Foxx
So life comes and goes regardless of health. Besides, I never said health is the ability for ones body to live forever. I'd say that Steve Jobs was healthy his whole life, maybe more healthier than most - and maybe he was most healthiest during his last days. Because what I sad was "When people have a strong will, they are healthy". Health doesn't cause will power, but will power can cause health, as well as take it away.
Some say that homeopathy is as silly as the placebo effect. However both are real and caused mostly by will power.
What a great scam though....convince people that this is the secret to long life, then you can dismiss any contradicting evidence by simply claiming those people weren't "strong-willed" enough.
Scam? What am I getting out of this scam? I never said there was a secret to long life.
I guess it all comes down to our definition of "health". Some may argue that simply being short is in line with being unhealthy. All I said was that "when people have a strong will, they are healthy". I am indicating that health is the ability to use your will. It is not correct to say that "if you're healthy, you can use your will", because it indicates that health is the cause of will power, and that's not so. If it were the case, there would be no placebo effect to speak of.
There's an old proverb, "Where there's a will, there's a way". Probably some cult leader said it...
The CFS developed as the result of an infection, it was nothing to do with my "will power" and no amount of will can snap me out of it.
I'm very sorry to hear that ma'am/sir, really I am. Setting your will to "unable" seems to me to be a bad idea, as I've never heard of anyone overcoming anything in that state of mind.
Some people are lucky, some are not and telling the unlucky ones that they just need more "will power" is both insulting and unhelpful.
Nothing that I said is insulting. All I'm suggesting is that will power is a useful tool.
Maybe my definition of health is simply different than the common one proposed by today's anti-biotic-wielding doctors. As I stated, health, to me, seems to be a result of living in some sort of self-designed balance between activity and rest.
Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts, can be counted.
...I don't understand why this is so difficult. If I go to youtube, from my PC at home, I am handed a suggestion-list based on past videos browsed (if I use my work PC then I get handed different suggestions). If I change some stuff in my browser (firefox add-ons or the like) then I notice that youtube's suggestions change, but soon learn that it's my PC and eventually suggest the same videos as before (even if I have not looked at those videos since the change). So it seems to me that it's very possible (for the site owner) to use a combination of user/pass with browser recognition in order to validate a user.
And if you think it'd be to much for anyone to develop, then you're not thinking of personalized ads.
Or how about a series of these things mixed with a system of really small (but obviously big enough for skateboard and package) tubes (like the banks use, but without the vacuum or clear tubing) probably underground. The main problem with flying items is their weight. As long as you are able to push the weight, then that solves a lot of problems. Remember, at least I think, we're trying to do away with problems that drones bring to the table, right?
When people have a strong will, they are healthy. It's what it takes to have a strong will, that's the secret to life. Health is the result of living in some sort of self-designed balance between activity and rest - but there's more that's going on than activity or rest, because there's a part of us that's never active, and never at rest. Sometimes simply directing your will to do some job (temporary or not) will give you an insight into health and what it is.
All this hyped-up talk about what to eat is only to sell you something. If you want to be healthy, then you need to not only be active, but have your will in it. Once you get your goal in mind, and direct your attention to it, more than just your health will improve.
I understand what you mean, and on that point you're correct. But regarding the hardware and it's capacity, having hand-held PCs on us all the time, is a double-edged sword, no matter what. Once you cross that barrier (to have one on you at all times or not) then it's up to you to use it 'correctly'. These devices are capable of storing a lot of different information, and that fact can be taken advantage of, depending on the information that we choose to store on said device.
That being said, those that choose to enjoy someone being taken advantage of, and snickering about it... that's the definition of sociopath.
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Well, I never said that I agree with science's point of view. Besides, we all create. Even if it's just the creator that we create.
Seriously though, the way things are today, there are a lot of folks out there that simply play the system in order to get funded. This shows how degraded the system is. People out there trying to discover something, just for the sake of getting funded, or fame, or whatever else. Of course it seems that in the past, most of the biggest steps taken to achieve our current understanding of the universe came from those who were simply observing the universe, and probably didn't give a damn about having their curiosity funded.
But why can the two protocols not run on top of the same Layer 2 infrastructure?
Because once they do get it rolled out, only "terrorists" (properly pronounced 'tarrists') will be using IPv4 or IPv6.
I don't even know who the Koch Brothers are. I don't watch any form of TV, so I don't care about Fox news either. What I do care about is a government that solves problems with more problems. I know that the medical industry has issues, but it all comes down to cost being so high. So what did the government do? They mandated things that made it more expensive. I know their aim was to have those with higher levels of income to pony up more money for medical insurance, and give tax breaks to those that need help, but it simply hasn't turned out that way. Dems doctors wants they mufukin moneys, yo.
There's no need to take everything that people say as being left or right. Doing so makes you more of a robot than a person capable of reviewing facts. They have ears, but they do not hear.
According to science, there is no creator. So no, there is no creativity. Since there is no creativity, there can be no lack of creativity.
Why not just embed the hardware with geo-tracking software of some kind, and hardcode it to specifically not blow up in certain places on the planet. Hell you could even have it blow up immediately, once programmed to explode in the area that you don't want it to. That way you can still sell your weapons, and no need to worry.
Is it just me, or does anyone seem to not really care about this (regarding the seriousness of 'getting hacked' that is)? For some reason, I'd like to see obamacare's 'computer servers' all get waxed. Maybe if that happens they won't have to deliberate further about the legality of requiring citizens to put such data on a 'computer server'.
But if you need to look at my odometer from time to time, I'm fine with that. If I break down I'll just use my old style phone to call for a friend of mine to come help me.
Also:
technology
noun
1) the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry."advances in computer technology"
2) machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.
3) the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.
No, this doesn't sound like what's going on here. Maybe...
slave
noun
1) a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
2) a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something.
3) work excessively hard.
Yeah, that sounds more like it.
I agree. It's called "the ALS ice bucket challenge" and it's meant to spread awareness about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and yet when I ask most folks about it, all they know is that "...ALS is when you dump ice water on your head". WTF? Also, the point of dumping the ice water on your head, as far as I understand, is to put one temporarily into the condition closest to that of one who is suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease. Spreading awareness my ass, at this point, it's about being cool (no pun intended).
Then I guess all of the folks of Oregon will just have to grow cannabis and self medicate till this thing blows over.
This article really brings to light the fact that some people seem to require perfection to the extent that they cannot see life as it is, but only how it's supposed to be. There is no way to ease their frustration.
If you work in support, you're going to eventually end up in a situation where there is a server that needs to be addressed, but there is no phone in that room, and so you end up with this same sort of scenario (talking through someone). You should probably just express your frustrations with your work mates, blow off some steam, try to laugh, but then forget about it.
Lots of people in the IT world seem to feel that their ability/knowledge should allow them to get frustrated when things don't go smoothly. Hell one reason that I have a successful IT business is due to the fact that I'm able to cope with people who need my services. I make sure that I do it in a way that makes them feel better. That way whenever there's some PC problem at a site, no one there hates to have to call me, and then bombard me with criticism once I get there.
Focus on the solution and the problem goes away. Make sure that the client is focused on what's going right, and not what's going wrong.
Try here: new reactor design.
Because I read a lot, and studied related topics in college. I've continued to study psychology in the years since.
Good enough for me, as that's all I've done.
Cheers!
No, but if English is not your native language, it would explain part of the difficulty of communicating, and why your word choice is strange.
It could just be the nature of what we're talking about - health being tied to will. As far as I'm concerned, health is defined by the ability to use your will, and in that way, with a strong will you are healthy. I don't really know how else to properly express that proficiently.
Regarding the placebo effect, man unless you work at some drug-making facility, how are you more knowledgeable than I am? Is it simply because of my 'theory' of will and health, or my strange use of English? The placebo effect is extremely simple, because no one understands how or why it takes place. I have a few friends that are doctors, and another that's a dentist. They all tell me that it's 'just the placebo effect', and they don't really know anything about it, other than it just is. It's mainly the drug-making companies that have to deal with the placebo effect while they're trying to validate their latest drug. Doctors all have theories, like you and I, but they don't talk about it as if it's applicable to their daily lives. I say it has to do with the will, simply because where there's a will, there's a way. The will seems extremely underestimated, to my way of thinking, and to leave it out of the equation when there's some mystery, to me, seems wrong. So no, I don't think that the placebo effect is some huge mystery of a mystical force. But I do think that will power is.
Having said all that, I'd like to thank you for a good discussion. Not many here on slashdot are able to respond with anything but the type of harshness that only a 14yo boy can wield. It's funny how this is a tech site, and yet so many are unwilling to think outside the box, limiting everything to some electronic gadgetry. As if the technology that's embedded in nature has nothing to do with, well, nature.
Cheers!
do you have a problem with antibiotics or something?
I don't have a problem with antibiotics, so long as they're not the doctors' go-to guy all the time. Where I am, that's basically what you'll get. Sometimes those antibiotics kill good bacteria, and things like our digestion system slowly crash, or worse.
You are using a definition of health that nobody else seems to have
I think you simply misinterpreted what I said. I did say, "Whenever people have a strong will, they are healthy." I didn't say, "Whenever people have a strong will, their body will not die at that time." Or, "When you have a strong will, your cholesterol levels are perfect." I feel that health is 'the ability to use your will'. My definition of health may differ from yours, but what is yours?
Calling people weak-willed is insulting.
When did I call anyone weak-willed? I seriously hope you re-read my first comment with a lighter heart.
Cheers!
you should be able to view any web page using any browser released in the last 5 years. If something doesn't work properly it means you are putting too much fucked up bullshit into your webpage.
This can be said every 10 years. All browsers, all web pages.
English is my mother-tongue.
Somehow I'm not convinced.
Do you care? Are you one of these that requires certain speech patterns in order to understand the point of the conversation? If so, you should learn another language, learn other ways to paint a picture with words. Play games with your friends whereby one has to make a point using X number of words. Dunno man, I couldn't care less if your english is choppy, so long as your message is positive.
This is where you seem to misunderstand what the placebo effect is.
I think that you and I both obviously know what the placebo effect is. As far as I understand, the science that is, no one knows how or why the placebo effect works. Sometimes, the "effect" is only that, an effect. The person may feel better, but indications like heart-rate or blood pressure may not change. Other instances may show that the person does actually improve (heart rate and blood pressure included). The only thing that science suggests, is that perhaps the body creates chemicals on it's own, via the person's expectations. If this were the case, it seems quite sensible to come up with some way to trick people into healing themselves.
So the will power is something different, but obviously we'll need to simply agree to disagree. Cheers!
I am indicating that health is the ability to use your will.
Again, sounding a bit cult-leader-y. Are you a non-native English speaker?
English is my mother-tongue.
It is not correct to say that "if you're healthy, you can use your will"
Being unhealthy can certainly have an adverse effect on decision-making, in various ways.
Ok, I [think] I understand what you mean, but I don't see how that follows my point. When you're sick you may be limited to what you can do, but that makes no point against what you can achieve. I mean, is this guy healthy or not?
because it indicates that health is the cause of will power, and that's not so. If it were the case, there would be no placebo effect to speak of.
That argument doesn't make sense. The placebo effect doesn't describe people getting better because they have a strong will to get better. It's describing when people feel better because they believe that they will feel better. That is to say, it's not a matter of will, but a matter of being fooled.
The placebo effect is caused by the will. What that means is that every time you take any medication, the will is also active and plays a part, regardless how small. What is the mechanism that you are suspecting is behind the placebo effect?
Also, you seem like a smart person (after all you keep referring to me as a cult leader, and not a cult follower), can you think of a successful person that has no will power? Can you do anything at all without first setting your will to do it?
I'll share a story with you since you seem interested. I have a 4-yo son, and an 11-yo nephew, and a 10-foot deep pool. My nephew comes over sometime and swims. He was sure that he couldn't go to the bottom of the pool, because it hurt his ears. I tried to get him to go down, and he simply couldn't do it. He'd come up, fingers in ears, almost crying. However, my 4-yo son was able to do it, because he simply didn't know that he wasn't supposed to be able to. So one day my nephew comes over, and sees the 4-yo touch the bottom of the 10-foot side (with his hands). Suddenly the 11-yo swam down and did the same. Now you tell me what changed? All I can detect is that the 11-yo 'made up his mind' (as we say in English) to do it. He did it on the first try too, not like it just gave him the want to do it, and he worked at it. No once he saw that he could do it (because hell, a 4-yo can do it), he could.
People should be free to trade with whoever they want, when they want, without the need to get permission from some higher authority
I agree. However if you chose to trade in a specific currency, then there's a lot that comes with it. Also, I'd rather my neighbors not spend their time trading crack-cocain for rims at will.
Whatever happened to the Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is still around, as much as ever. Though, not much of that goes on here on slashdot.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
--Redd Foxx
So life comes and goes regardless of health. Besides, I never said health is the ability for ones body to live forever. I'd say that Steve Jobs was healthy his whole life, maybe more healthier than most - and maybe he was most healthiest during his last days. Because what I sad was "When people have a strong will, they are healthy". Health doesn't cause will power, but will power can cause health, as well as take it away.
Some say that homeopathy is as silly as the placebo effect. However both are real and caused mostly by will power.
What a great scam though....convince people that this is the secret to long life, then you can dismiss any contradicting evidence by simply claiming those people weren't "strong-willed" enough.
Scam? What am I getting out of this scam? I never said there was a secret to long life.
I guess it all comes down to our definition of "health". Some may argue that simply being short is in line with being unhealthy. All I said was that "when people have a strong will, they are healthy". I am indicating that health is the ability to use your will. It is not correct to say that "if you're healthy, you can use your will", because it indicates that health is the cause of will power, and that's not so. If it were the case, there would be no placebo effect to speak of.
There's an old proverb, "Where there's a will, there's a way". Probably some cult leader said it...
The CFS developed as the result of an infection, it was nothing to do with my "will power" and no amount of will can snap me out of it.
I'm very sorry to hear that ma'am/sir, really I am. Setting your will to "unable" seems to me to be a bad idea, as I've never heard of anyone overcoming anything in that state of mind.
Some people are lucky, some are not and telling the unlucky ones that they just need more "will power" is both insulting and unhelpful.
Nothing that I said is insulting. All I'm suggesting is that will power is a useful tool. Maybe my definition of health is simply different than the common one proposed by today's anti-biotic-wielding doctors. As I stated, health, to me, seems to be a result of living in some sort of self-designed balance between activity and rest.
Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts, can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein
...I don't understand why this is so difficult. If I go to youtube, from my PC at home, I am handed a suggestion-list based on past videos browsed (if I use my work PC then I get handed different suggestions). If I change some stuff in my browser (firefox add-ons or the like) then I notice that youtube's suggestions change, but soon learn that it's my PC and eventually suggest the same videos as before (even if I have not looked at those videos since the change). So it seems to me that it's very possible (for the site owner) to use a combination of user/pass with browser recognition in order to validate a user.
And if you think it'd be to much for anyone to develop, then you're not thinking of personalized ads.
Or how about a series of these things mixed with a system of really small (but obviously big enough for skateboard and package) tubes (like the banks use, but without the vacuum or clear tubing) probably underground. The main problem with flying items is their weight. As long as you are able to push the weight, then that solves a lot of problems. Remember, at least I think, we're trying to do away with problems that drones bring to the table, right?
But man the loss of jobs...
When people have a strong will, they are healthy. It's what it takes to have a strong will, that's the secret to life. Health is the result of living in some sort of self-designed balance between activity and rest - but there's more that's going on than activity or rest, because there's a part of us that's never active, and never at rest. Sometimes simply directing your will to do some job (temporary or not) will give you an insight into health and what it is.
All this hyped-up talk about what to eat is only to sell you something. If you want to be healthy, then you need to not only be active, but have your will in it. Once you get your goal in mind, and direct your attention to it, more than just your health will improve.
I understand what you mean, and on that point you're correct. But regarding the hardware and it's capacity, having hand-held PCs on us all the time, is a double-edged sword, no matter what. Once you cross that barrier (to have one on you at all times or not) then it's up to you to use it 'correctly'. These devices are capable of storing a lot of different information, and that fact can be taken advantage of, depending on the information that we choose to store on said device.
That being said, those that choose to enjoy someone being taken advantage of, and snickering about it... that's the definition of sociopath.