I NEVER implied that MDMA wa going to be used for ling term patient-administered treatment. You are SO full of shit - adjust your dose of sertraline - you're letting your delusions interfere with reality, fucktard. I also never said that they had the same neurological effects, stupid.
You once again prove you don't know what you're talking about. Claiming a 20% success rate is grounds for a malpractice suit is really, really stupid. It's also not based in reality. According to your way of thinking, we should also abandon CPR in hospitals because the survival rate is less than 20%. And it gets worse outside hospitals.
Of course MDMA was being used in therapists offices and not for daily use. The idea is to get the patient into a mental state where they can FIX their problems with help, not keep them in an altered state of mind for the rest of their lives. I've already stated as much elsewhere. But of course you really don't want to fix the problem, because that would go against your narrative, that everybody must get stoned. Good song, shitty day-to-day lifestyle.
I NEVER said Prozac was useful for anything, so why do you keep bringing it up? Are you delusional?
I'll repeat myself - major depressive disorder has many causes, and many comorbid conditions. There will NEVER be a one-size-fits-all solution. So 10% here, 5% there, 20% elsewhere, it's the best we can expect. Anything else is fantasy.
Steve Jobs would always create a new product by destroying one of his old products. He never kept more than 5 major products going at the same time. Problem is, all their products are now pretty stale. iPad sales are down 2/3 from peak, making sh*t thinner is considered "the" major innovation, followed by discarding useful stuff and decreasing functionality, and their latest "killer product", their smartwatch, is a dud.
Their hardware is produced by the same assemblers that produce other computers, contains the same components, and sacrifices function for form. If you aren't already locked into their ecosystem, why would you bother now?
Directly and indirectly, the industry employs over 8 million. 800,000 jobs (one in 10) lost in any industry is going to have a huge impact on wages and working conditions for those who are left. Now repeat this in many industries. It gets ugly if not addressed.
A lot if this rings true..Abusers won't help the abused get a better job. Much easier for them to get the kid fired and move on to fresh meat. Happens all the time. Speak up, you're fired. Same as in universities. That's what those in power want to teach the sheeple, because anything else threatens their power.
What relevance is ANY education to the successful running of a huge multinational corporation? Being a lying conniving narcissistic psychopath is the current path to the top, the golden parachute when the business tanks, and repeating the experience over and over for profit. The more hurt you inflict on the workforce (see "Chainsaw Al" as the canonical example of the breed).
For an executive, the game is all about deftly managing a workforce composed of actual human beings while meeting the demands of the bottom line. The greatest of bosses can even become your friend as they bring smiles to shareholders' faces. On the other end of the spectrum are leaders like Al Dunlap, also known as the Chainsaw. Now retired, Dunlap spent his career hopping from one corporate boardroom to the next, applying a myopic obsession with his companies' financials at the expense of absolutely everything else. During his stint atop Scott Paper, a tenure that began in 1994, Dunlap engineered a corporate restructuring that put 35% of the workforce (or 11,000 people) out of a job. The move simultaneously brought a rise in share value of 225%, and resulted in Kimberly-Clark buying out Scott Paper the year after Dunlap took the helm.
Capitalizing on his own fame, Dunlap wrote a best-selling manifesto titled Mean Business. But making a career out of business brutality would prove his undoing. An ensuing stint at Sunbeam imploded when Dunlap was confronted in a 1998 investors' meeting over his strategy of moving up sales dates for consumer goods like outdoor cooking grills well ahead of delivery in order to advance quarterly sales statistics. After the investors' meeting, at which 200 Wall Street honchos were in attendance, Dunlap accosted one of his skeptics, placing his hand over an employee's mouth and, according to a report by the magazine then known as Businessweek, yelled into his ear, "You son of a bitch. If you want to come after me, I'll come after you twice as hard." Dunlap's financial craftiness was widely viewed to have crossed the lines of accounting norms, and he was let go later that year. Sunbeam could never shake the taint caused by Dunlap and filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
This same "packing the channel with goods and marking them as sold on financials was also what brought Michael Copeland (Corel) down. You can destroy any business by being a short-sighted sneaky bastard.
Alternatively, people who have nothing to lose will say "f*ck you, pay me what I want or do it yourself." After all, they've got nothing to lose, and at that point they'll find the best alternative is to stick a gun in your face and take what they want. You can't jail half the population.
How many people who got into coding because they enjoyed it are now fed up with it because of - well, it's a toxic, dysfunctional work environment? Never get into anything that is your favorite activity, because once you grow to hate it, you won't have a favorite activity to fall back on.
The amount of land didn't grow, and it won't over the next 100 years either. We already have massive economic migration. Do you want more of the same, along with the problems it brings? In general, the people whose votes count don't. That's the reality. Japan should be begging for immigrants as it has the highest ratio of elderly, but they're not. Eventually other countries will do the same, since it's cheaper than importing people in large quantities to take care of old people, and then a couple of decades later having to import more people to take care of the people who were imported to take care of the old people.
Any other course is economically unsustainable over the long term, and we're seeing that it's socially unsustainable in the short term once it passes certain limits. That's the ugly reality. At some point, it will be either close the borders to economic immigrants or kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Won't happen. Everyone assumed that the experience of other countries, that increasing standards of living translates to decreasing birth rates, would hold true in Africa. It did for a while, but now it's stuck - and Africa is going to produce more new people than the rest of the world by 2050. Nigeria will have more people in 2050 than the US. Half the continent's population are children or teenagers. Good luck trying to inculcate ideals of zero population growth into them when they see the exact opposite all around them.
India will have more people than China by 2030.
The current wave of economic migrants from Africa into Europe is only the beginning. Eventually EU borders will be closed, whether or not the EU breaks up, and the middle east will continue to be f*cked.
Russia and Europe will find that they're facing the same threats from the same source - overpopulated countries surplus populations moving north. If you thought politics made for strange bedfellows, economics is even more so, and always has been. Just look at western support for human rights violator Saudi Arabia.
At some point the northern countries will realize that they need to do a coordinated preemptive nuclear strike. THAT should take care of some of the population excess.
All that is saying is that the IT manager either didn't see that particular space as a priority, or that it would have interfered with a budget for much larger nice new shiny space.
The problem is, it's people like Obama and Clinton who believe in it, figuring that if they can pump wall street and bank profits enough, it will somehow magically trickle down to the plebes. Instead what has happened is a crazy real estate price rise, which doesn't benefit anyone trying to get on the housing ladder, so no accumulation of equity or capital for them.
Why not? If all the businesses in the same line face the same costs, they will all have to raise prices anyway, so while profit margin might be affected, gross profits wouldn't be.
Especially when companies that don't play by the rules get hit with tariffs and non-trade barriers.
They also now have the 3rd largest navy in the world - kind of handy if you want to project force into nearby territories like the South China Sea, Taiwan, and Japan. Supply lines are a lot shorter for any war in the South China Sea than what NATO can come up with. Push comes to shove (and it will) they will take over that area. They saw what Putin got away with in the Crimea and know that the west is more and more becoming what Mao described - a Paper Tiger.
The big future fight, though, will be between China and Russia over Chinese expansion into Russian territory. China needs the land, and there's some nice coastal territory on the border that is close to their historic rival Japan.
China has to do something with all that extra steel. War ships can suck up a lot more of that than airplanes and tanks.
". What makes this time a bit different is that the ethics of the businesses are pretty challenged this time around." The dot.com 1.0 bust had a lot of unethical crap flowing around as well, including business models that turned out to be nothing more than ponzi schemes to take investor cash and give back a big chunk to the earlier investors at overinflated evaluations, like $1 on every penny.
Uber makes money by undercutting taxis. Anything that increases costs makes them less profitable, as well as reducing the number of people who would be eligible to drive for them. For example, requiring the same class driver's license, with the associated testing, would eliminate a large swath. Background check, there goes some more. Mandatory inspections and re-testing, and regular testing of vision and health will also force some to drop out. Enough of those and you lose the "convenience" factor because you can't find enough people with the right qualifications to drive, so it becomes more dependable to call a taxi.
Not here. Here t he government wants all public transport businesses above a certain size to have an app. The bus companies, the cab companies, etc. It's seen as a way to make it easier for people to cut down on private vehicle use, cut pollution, and in the case of taxis, parking and congestion problems. Same as they mandated that all taxis have to accept chip-and-pin credit and debit cards. Don't want to be seen as too backwards.
I guess you missed out on a few trends. High rates of divorce and relationship breakup, cesareans done for cosmetic purposes (avoid stretch marks, varicose veins, etc.), high rates of cheating in relationships (and if you believe all those women on Ashley Madison were real, well, I'm not going to pop your bubble...)...
And getting back into shape to be in the meat market is something both sexes do.
That's not a feminist - that's a kook. Let's call it what it is instead of letting them hide behind more innocuous labels so they can generate bird-dog rage when someone calls them out on it.
They're attention-whoring profit-seeking trolls, not feminazis. If it weren't feminism, it would be something else. Most people recognize that their brand of feminism is toxic. There's a huge difference between wanting ot be treated as equals and making a career out of dumping on men. You can include Germaine Greer in that latter group - a feminist well past her best before date stuck in an alternate future.
Money thought that gender identity was mutable, same as people who think that sexual orientation can also be changed by "reparative therapy", another ridiculous and increasingly illegal practice. Since the botched circumcision left the child without a penis, he convinced the family to raise him as a girl.
He claimed for years that it was a success. It was only when a grad student got access to his raw data that it was obvious that Money's basic premise was wrong - you can't change a person's gender identity.
Now as for the term gender identity, other languages such as french use gender interchangeably with sex on things like employment forms. If you don't like the term, use sexual identity (what sex do you self-identify as) instead. It's distinct from both chromosomal sex and sexual orientation.
The people still following Money's beliefs are religious groups and TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) who wrongly believe that both sexual identity and sexual orientation can be changed.
In other words, you've got it all backwards. Not a big deal, we see this all the time, and as both legal and social acceptance increases, who really cares? It's like Lets Make a Deal - survey says that it's mostly older people, more specifically older men, who still have a problem with it.
Transgender Americans may find greater acceptance in the future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll that shows young adults and women more open to people using public bathrooms matching their gender identity.
Americans aged 18 to 29 favor letting transgender people use the restroom of their identity by a 2-to-1 ratio. Among Americans aged 60 or more, the ratio was 2-to-1 in reverse with people saying restroom use should be mandated by the gender on one's birth certificate.
If you're an older male, you're in the demographic that has a problem with accepting transsexuals. And of course, the 40-50 white male demographic is the one that's seeing the rise in suicides, contrary to everyone else. Long-term trend is irresistibly going to be for greater acceptance as the old white guys who for some reason feel threatened by the existence of transpeople (probably suppressed castration fears) die off.
TL;DR - the opinions you hold are increasingly viewed as being grounded in bigotry and ignorance.
Nope. Suicide rate after surgery drops to almost the same level as the general population. The reason it's still sightly higher after surgery from the stresses dealing with ignorant assholes spreading lies on a daily basis. In other words, you're the problem.
Scientist discovers particular seaweed reduces methane to nearly zero in cow burps, farts
A P.E.I. farmer has helped lead to a researcher's discovery of an unlikely weapon in the battle against global warming: a seaweed that nearly eliminates the destructive methane content of cow burps and farts.
Joe Dorgan began feeding his cattle seaweed from nearby beaches more than a decade ago as a way to cut costs on his farm in Seacow Pond. He was so impressed with the improvements he saw in his herd, he decided to turn the seaweed into a product.
"There's a mixture of Irish moss, rockweed and kelp, and just going to waste," he said. "And I knew it was good because years ago, our ancestors, that's what they done their business with."
Then researcher Rob Kinley caught wind of it.
The agricultural scientist, then at Dalhousie University, helped test Dorgan's seaweed mix, and discovered it reduced the methane in the cows' burps and farts by about 20 per cent.
Kinley knew he was on to something, so he did further testing with 30 to 40 other seaweeds. That led him to a red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis he says reduces methane in cows burps and farts to almost nothing.
"I was testing one day a series of samples when all of a sudden it looked like my instruments were having problems, and I wasn't able to see emissions from one particular sample," he said. "So I did it over and over again and lo and behold the methane emissions were eliminated.
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I NEVER implied that MDMA wa going to be used for ling term patient-administered treatment. You are SO full of shit - adjust your dose of sertraline - you're letting your delusions interfere with reality, fucktard. I also never said that they had the same neurological effects, stupid.
You once again prove you don't know what you're talking about. Claiming a 20% success rate is grounds for a malpractice suit is really, really stupid. It's also not based in reality. According to your way of thinking, we should also abandon CPR in hospitals because the survival rate is less than 20%. And it gets worse outside hospitals.
Of course MDMA was being used in therapists offices and not for daily use. The idea is to get the patient into a mental state where they can FIX their problems with help, not keep them in an altered state of mind for the rest of their lives. I've already stated as much elsewhere. But of course you really don't want to fix the problem, because that would go against your narrative, that everybody must get stoned. Good song, shitty day-to-day lifestyle.
I NEVER said Prozac was useful for anything, so why do you keep bringing it up? Are you delusional?
I'll repeat myself - major depressive disorder has many causes, and many comorbid conditions. There will NEVER be a one-size-fits-all solution. So 10% here, 5% there, 20% elsewhere, it's the best we can expect. Anything else is fantasy.
Steve Jobs would always create a new product by destroying one of his old products. He never kept more than 5 major products going at the same time. Problem is, all their products are now pretty stale. iPad sales are down 2/3 from peak, making sh*t thinner is considered "the" major innovation, followed by discarding useful stuff and decreasing functionality, and their latest "killer product", their smartwatch, is a dud.
Their hardware is produced by the same assemblers that produce other computers, contains the same components, and sacrifices function for form. If you aren't already locked into their ecosystem, why would you bother now?
Nah, they had their brain cells decimated (1 in 10).
Directly and indirectly, the industry employs over 8 million. 800,000 jobs (one in 10) lost in any industry is going to have a huge impact on wages and working conditions for those who are left. Now repeat this in many industries. It gets ugly if not addressed.
A lot if this rings true..Abusers won't help the abused get a better job. Much easier for them to get the kid fired and move on to fresh meat. Happens all the time. Speak up, you're fired. Same as in universities. That's what those in power want to teach the sheeple, because anything else threatens their power.
What relevance is ANY education to the successful running of a huge multinational corporation? Being a lying conniving narcissistic psychopath is the current path to the top, the golden parachute when the business tanks, and repeating the experience over and over for profit. The more hurt you inflict on the workforce (see "Chainsaw Al" as the canonical example of the breed).
For an executive, the game is all about deftly managing a workforce composed of actual human beings while meeting the demands of the bottom line. The greatest of bosses can even become your friend as they bring smiles to shareholders' faces. On the other end of the spectrum are leaders like Al Dunlap, also known as the Chainsaw. Now retired, Dunlap spent his career hopping from one corporate boardroom to the next, applying a myopic obsession with his companies' financials at the expense of absolutely everything else. During his stint atop Scott Paper, a tenure that began in 1994, Dunlap engineered a corporate restructuring that put 35% of the workforce (or 11,000 people) out of a job. The move simultaneously brought a rise in share value of 225%, and resulted in Kimberly-Clark buying out Scott Paper the year after Dunlap took the helm.
Capitalizing on his own fame, Dunlap wrote a best-selling manifesto titled Mean Business. But making a career out of business brutality would prove his undoing. An ensuing stint at Sunbeam imploded when Dunlap was confronted in a 1998 investors' meeting over his strategy of moving up sales dates for consumer goods like outdoor cooking grills well ahead of delivery in order to advance quarterly sales statistics. After the investors' meeting, at which 200 Wall Street honchos were in attendance, Dunlap accosted one of his skeptics, placing his hand over an employee's mouth and, according to a report by the magazine then known as Businessweek, yelled into his ear, "You son of a bitch. If you want to come after me, I'll come after you twice as hard." Dunlap's financial craftiness was widely viewed to have crossed the lines of accounting norms, and he was let go later that year. Sunbeam could never shake the taint caused by Dunlap and filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
This same "packing the channel with goods and marking them as sold on financials was also what brought Michael Copeland (Corel) down. You can destroy any business by being a short-sighted sneaky bastard.
Alternatively, people who have nothing to lose will say "f*ck you, pay me what I want or do it yourself." After all, they've got nothing to lose, and at that point they'll find the best alternative is to stick a gun in your face and take what they want. You can't jail half the population.
How many people who got into coding because they enjoyed it are now fed up with it because of - well, it's a toxic, dysfunctional work environment? Never get into anything that is your favorite activity, because once you grow to hate it, you won't have a favorite activity to fall back on.
The amount of land didn't grow, and it won't over the next 100 years either. We already have massive economic migration. Do you want more of the same, along with the problems it brings? In general, the people whose votes count don't. That's the reality. Japan should be begging for immigrants as it has the highest ratio of elderly, but they're not. Eventually other countries will do the same, since it's cheaper than importing people in large quantities to take care of old people, and then a couple of decades later having to import more people to take care of the people who were imported to take care of the old people.
Any other course is economically unsustainable over the long term, and we're seeing that it's socially unsustainable in the short term once it passes certain limits. That's the ugly reality. At some point, it will be either close the borders to economic immigrants or kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Won't happen. Everyone assumed that the experience of other countries, that increasing standards of living translates to decreasing birth rates, would hold true in Africa. It did for a while, but now it's stuck - and Africa is going to produce more new people than the rest of the world by 2050. Nigeria will have more people in 2050 than the US. Half the continent's population are children or teenagers. Good luck trying to inculcate ideals of zero population growth into them when they see the exact opposite all around them.
India will have more people than China by 2030.
The current wave of economic migrants from Africa into Europe is only the beginning. Eventually EU borders will be closed, whether or not the EU breaks up, and the middle east will continue to be f*cked.
Russia and Europe will find that they're facing the same threats from the same source - overpopulated countries surplus populations moving north. If you thought politics made for strange bedfellows, economics is even more so, and always has been. Just look at western support for human rights violator Saudi Arabia.
At some point the northern countries will realize that they need to do a coordinated preemptive nuclear strike. THAT should take care of some of the population excess.
All that is saying is that the IT manager either didn't see that particular space as a priority, or that it would have interfered with a budget for much larger nice new shiny space.
The problem is, it's people like Obama and Clinton who believe in it, figuring that if they can pump wall street and bank profits enough, it will somehow magically trickle down to the plebes. Instead what has happened is a crazy real estate price rise, which doesn't benefit anyone trying to get on the housing ladder, so no accumulation of equity or capital for them.
Especially when companies that don't play by the rules get hit with tariffs and non-trade barriers.
They also now have the 3rd largest navy in the world - kind of handy if you want to project force into nearby territories like the South China Sea, Taiwan, and Japan. Supply lines are a lot shorter for any war in the South China Sea than what NATO can come up with. Push comes to shove (and it will) they will take over that area. They saw what Putin got away with in the Crimea and know that the west is more and more becoming what Mao described - a Paper Tiger.
The big future fight, though, will be between China and Russia over Chinese expansion into Russian territory. China needs the land, and there's some nice coastal territory on the border that is close to their historic rival Japan.
China has to do something with all that extra steel. War ships can suck up a lot more of that than airplanes and tanks.
". What makes this time a bit different is that the ethics of the businesses are pretty challenged this time around." The dot.com 1.0 bust had a lot of unethical crap flowing around as well, including business models that turned out to be nothing more than ponzi schemes to take investor cash and give back a big chunk to the earlier investors at overinflated evaluations, like $1 on every penny.
Agreed. That's why there's a separate line item for extraordinary expenses and income.
Uber makes money by undercutting taxis. Anything that increases costs makes them less profitable, as well as reducing the number of people who would be eligible to drive for them. For example, requiring the same class driver's license, with the associated testing, would eliminate a large swath. Background check, there goes some more. Mandatory inspections and re-testing, and regular testing of vision and health will also force some to drop out. Enough of those and you lose the "convenience" factor because you can't find enough people with the right qualifications to drive, so it becomes more dependable to call a taxi.
Not here. Here t he government wants all public transport businesses above a certain size to have an app. The bus companies, the cab companies, etc. It's seen as a way to make it easier for people to cut down on private vehicle use, cut pollution, and in the case of taxis, parking and congestion problems. Same as they mandated that all taxis have to accept chip-and-pin credit and debit cards. Don't want to be seen as too backwards.
I guess you missed out on a few trends. High rates of divorce and relationship breakup, cesareans done for cosmetic purposes (avoid stretch marks, varicose veins, etc.), high rates of cheating in relationships (and if you believe all those women on Ashley Madison were real, well, I'm not going to pop your bubble ...) ...
And getting back into shape to be in the meat market is something both sexes do.
That's not a feminist - that's a kook. Let's call it what it is instead of letting them hide behind more innocuous labels so they can generate bird-dog rage when someone calls them out on it.
They're attention-whoring profit-seeking trolls, not feminazis. If it weren't feminism, it would be something else. Most people recognize that their brand of feminism is toxic. There's a huge difference between wanting ot be treated as equals and making a career out of dumping on men. You can include Germaine Greer in that latter group - a feminist well past her best before date stuck in an alternate future.
Money thought that gender identity was mutable, same as people who think that sexual orientation can also be changed by "reparative therapy", another ridiculous and increasingly illegal practice. Since the botched circumcision left the child without a penis, he convinced the family to raise him as a girl.
He claimed for years that it was a success. It was only when a grad student got access to his raw data that it was obvious that Money's basic premise was wrong - you can't change a person's gender identity.
Now as for the term gender identity, other languages such as french use gender interchangeably with sex on things like employment forms. If you don't like the term, use sexual identity (what sex do you self-identify as) instead. It's distinct from both chromosomal sex and sexual orientation.
The people still following Money's beliefs are religious groups and TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) who wrongly believe that both sexual identity and sexual orientation can be changed.
In other words, you've got it all backwards. Not a big deal, we see this all the time, and as both legal and social acceptance increases, who really cares? It's like Lets Make a Deal - survey says that it's mostly older people, more specifically older men, who still have a problem with it.
Transgender Americans may find greater acceptance in the future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll that shows young adults and women more open to people using public bathrooms matching their gender identity.
Americans aged 18 to 29 favor letting transgender people use the restroom of their identity by a 2-to-1 ratio. Among Americans aged 60 or more, the ratio was 2-to-1 in reverse with people saying restroom use should be mandated by the gender on one's birth certificate.
If you're an older male, you're in the demographic that has a problem with accepting transsexuals. And of course, the 40-50 white male demographic is the one that's seeing the rise in suicides, contrary to everyone else. Long-term trend is irresistibly going to be for greater acceptance as the old white guys who for some reason feel threatened by the existence of transpeople (probably suppressed castration fears) die off.
TL;DR - the opinions you hold are increasingly viewed as being grounded in bigotry and ignorance.
Nope. Suicide rate after surgery drops to almost the same level as the general population. The reason it's still sightly higher after surgery from the stresses dealing with ignorant assholes spreading lies on a daily basis. In other words, you're the problem.
A Canadian invented a way to almost completely eliminate cow farts
Scientist discovers particular seaweed reduces methane to nearly zero in cow burps, farts
A P.E.I. farmer has helped lead to a researcher's discovery of an unlikely weapon in the battle against global warming: a seaweed that nearly eliminates the destructive methane content of cow burps and farts.
Joe Dorgan began feeding his cattle seaweed from nearby beaches more than a decade ago as a way to cut costs on his farm in Seacow Pond. He was so impressed with the improvements he saw in his herd, he decided to turn the seaweed into a product.
"There's a mixture of Irish moss, rockweed and kelp, and just going to waste," he said. "And I knew it was good because years ago, our ancestors, that's what they done their business with."
Then researcher Rob Kinley caught wind of it.
The agricultural scientist, then at Dalhousie University, helped test Dorgan's seaweed mix, and discovered it reduced the methane in the cows' burps and farts by about 20 per cent.
Kinley knew he was on to something, so he did further testing with 30 to 40 other seaweeds. That led him to a red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis he says reduces methane in cows burps and farts to almost nothing.
"I was testing one day a series of samples when all of a sudden it looked like my instruments were having problems, and I wasn't able to see emissions from one particular sample," he said. "So I did it over and over again and lo and behold the methane emissions were eliminated.