This is just somebody saying how much they agree with a book full of controversial ideas. And they are controversial, even within the scientific community.
Do a quick search of pubmed and you will find that there is, in fact, some pretty good evidence for the efficacy of homeopathic treatments, including the infamous ultra high dilution "placebo" treatments. The problem is that nobody is really sure how they work, but the evidence is there, they do seem to have specific effect.
And this guy's telling us chiropractic medicine is quackery? Do the footwork, folks. A quick search will show you that this is a bunch of bullshit; chiropractic medicine is a valid field of science and practice that uses randomized controlled trials just the same as all the rest of the medical community these days.
Bonus points for pandering to the idiots on slashdot, though. Everybody here thinks they're too smart to get cured by a placebo.
It's not just Australia, the CBT people have taken over everywhere. Works for some, but not for everyone. Search your local yellow pages for "adlerian" or even "jungian" for some alternative treatment methodologies.
My name is Duke, and I'm calling from the Great American Do-Not-Call-List Giveaway to let you know that you're a winner in our one million dollar sweepstakes entry sweepstakes, and are already automatically entered to win! Isn't that great?
On top of that, as one of our lucky winners, you're eligible to recieve outrageous discounts on subscriptions to all your favorite magazines! Exciting, huh? Which magazines do you like to read? Entertainment Weekly? Sports Digest? TV Guide?
Literature is not 'fun', literature is culture. Does everybody on slashdot really want to live in Sparta now? Maybe if we read a little more historical literature, we'd start understanding what happens to societies whose cultural base deteriorates.
Obesity is not caused by lack of exercise, it's caused by a poorly balanced diet.
You're right, the books should be smaller. And they should be printed on hemp paper.
How about if instead of bringing back 'the ruler', we go farther back than your goddamn golden 50s when everyone was locked in their heads with their weird little sexual-represession-psychoses and bring back personal freedom instead. Kids are assholes because our society is not for them. From day one we're trained to be producers and consumers, not real live living beings. That's why we need more art and literature: so kids will have the cultural heritage that has evolved for them and will stop turning into such freaks.
And finally, way to make a completely uninformed assertion about standardized testing. Maybe next time we play, you can first go and do some fucking reading like you want to force everyone else to do.
Yeah, focusing on the 3 Rs has done fucking wonders for us so far, huh?
The more art and music programs get slashed in this country, the more poorly we compare with other countries in the areas of math and science. Why? Because our brains need both sides in order to work.
Studies keep demonstrating that cognition is more efficient given broader and more frequent exposure to the arts, but idiots like you keep chattering on about the goddamn three Rs and 'getting back to basics.'
You want to know about fucking basics? Art came first.
2. Similarly, many Slashdot readers are brilliant people who have educated themselves to a large extent. Let's further accept that most people are not capable of doing this, or at any rate need help reaching that sort of educational self-sufficiency.
That condition is not one that is preexisting in human nature. Every child is a learning machine, mastering any and every activity that seems useful to it.
The problem with modern education is that it takes even useful activities and makes them seem useless. Children don't learn by sitting at a desk reciting things: they learn through a process of assisted exploration.
Everyone has their own natural inclinations: not every child is going to be an athlete, and not every one a philosopher. But by separating those categories completely in the academic setting rather than allowing them to interact and interrelate in an organic way, we ensure that the athlete will have little or no philosophical capability and vice-versa.
Like, if I didn't want to live indoors, why I bet I could get by on only $5k a year. That would be just peaches and fucking creamy too. Hell, I can give up eating and be a goddamn wiseman professionally for just pennies a day.
Yep, it is above the median wage, and it's still shit. That's why most people with these "high-paying" jobs are not land-owners in this wonderful 'property society' of ours. Most people rent shitty apartments, drive shitty cars, and still live paycheck to paycheck. Most people in this country have no medical coverage. None.
This country is in a process known as proletarianization, along with a good part of the rest of the western world. We, the masses, are being relegated back to serfdom.
What sort of warped reality do you live in where you can call cars and mortgages luxuries? Owning a home and a means of transportation are luxuries? No wonder you're happy making $17k. You're an idiot.
You make an average eight and a half bucks an hour (if they're not raping you on overtime, which they probably are) and you're happy about it?
You ought to be pissed off. Pizza delivery boys make more money than you.
$32k is a crappy wage. Knock off 20% for taxes, now you're down to $25600, which is only about $2130 a month.
Figure $1000 for a home mortgage payment, $400 for a car payment, plus an extra $300 a month for property taxes and home insurance, plus an extra $200 for auto insurance, plus about $300 for utilities (gas, electric, water, trash.) That's $2200. Look at that, not breaking even. Forget about buying food or keeping yourself entertained. Oh well, at least you'll have more time to work overtime and not get paid for it. Yummy.
$32 would be a great wage if you were living at home with your parents, which it sounds like you are. But for a real live grown-up with real expenses, it's a pile of piss.
Here here; I went back to school to be a psychologist!
School is a lot of fun, I'm excited about what I'm learning and becoming, and I'll only have to live through 5 more years of financial instability before I'm money. And satisfied. And making my own hours. Doing something that I know helps people.
Otherwise, I'd have a lifetime of financial instability to look forward to, along with long hours under a string of asshole bosses at shitty companies that produce no real wealth, scrimping and saving all the while for fear of the next certain round of layoffs.
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This is just somebody saying how much they agree with a book full of controversial ideas. And they are controversial, even within the scientific community.
Do a quick search of pubmed and you will find that there is, in fact, some pretty good evidence for the efficacy of homeopathic treatments, including the infamous ultra high dilution "placebo" treatments. The problem is that nobody is really sure how they work, but the evidence is there, they do seem to have specific effect.
And this guy's telling us chiropractic medicine is quackery? Do the footwork, folks. A quick search will show you that this is a bunch of bullshit; chiropractic medicine is a valid field of science and practice that uses randomized controlled trials just the same as all the rest of the medical community these days.
Bonus points for pandering to the idiots on slashdot, though. Everybody here thinks they're too smart to get cured by a placebo.
When me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
Oy vey! Browser extensions you have to pay for!
By definition, the average IQ is always 100.
Haha I was thinking the same thing.
Well, I tried Civ4 for a few minutes but my onboard nForce video wasn't nearly good enough to handle it.
Apparently its hip to hate on EA this year.
All I'm saying is this:
Tiger Woods for Wii.
Think about it.
It's not just Australia, the CBT people have taken over everywhere. Works for some, but not for everyone. Search your local yellow pages for "adlerian" or even "jungian" for some alternative treatment methodologies.
Dude... use electric.
Wow, man, that's some funy shit.
...written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." Revelation 20:15
My name is Duke, and I'm calling from the Great American Do-Not-Call-List Giveaway to let you know that you're a winner in our one million dollar sweepstakes entry sweepstakes, and are already automatically entered to win! Isn't that great?
On top of that, as one of our lucky winners, you're eligible to recieve outrageous discounts on subscriptions to all your favorite magazines! Exciting, huh? Which magazines do you like to read? Entertainment Weekly? Sports Digest? TV Guide?
Well, no, not really.
The site itself isn't worth a shit, it's all the eyeballs that keep clicking in to play flash-games and read about each other's drunken blackouts.
You know, it's Fox's market.
Yeah, focusing on the 3 Rs has done fucking wonders for us so far, huh?
The more art and music programs get slashed in this country, the more poorly we compare with other countries in the areas of math and science. Why? Because our brains need both sides in order to work.
Studies keep demonstrating that cognition is more efficient given broader and more frequent exposure to the arts, but idiots like you keep chattering on about the goddamn three Rs and 'getting back to basics.'
You want to know about fucking basics? Art came first.
That condition is not one that is preexisting in human nature. Every child is a learning machine, mastering any and every activity that seems useful to it.
The problem with modern education is that it takes even useful activities and makes them seem useless. Children don't learn by sitting at a desk reciting things: they learn through a process of assisted exploration.
Everyone has their own natural inclinations: not every child is going to be an athlete, and not every one a philosopher. But by separating those categories completely in the academic setting rather than allowing them to interact and interrelate in an organic way, we ensure that the athlete will have little or no philosophical capability and vice-versa.
I highly recommend looking into the Montessori method.
Well, you're going to want to use the left wire on your green box as the right wire on your handset. Dial '0' and then fire off the bat signal.
Hey, yeah, that all sounds great.
Like, if I didn't want to live indoors, why I bet I could get by on only $5k a year. That would be just peaches and fucking creamy too. Hell, I can give up eating and be a goddamn wiseman professionally for just pennies a day.
Yep, it is above the median wage, and it's still shit. That's why most people with these "high-paying" jobs are not land-owners in this wonderful 'property society' of ours. Most people rent shitty apartments, drive shitty cars, and still live paycheck to paycheck. Most people in this country have no medical coverage. None.
This country is in a process known as proletarianization, along with a good part of the rest of the western world. We, the masses, are being relegated back to serfdom.
What sort of warped reality do you live in where you can call cars and mortgages luxuries? Owning a home and a means of transportation are luxuries? No wonder you're happy making $17k. You're an idiot.
You make an average eight and a half bucks an hour (if they're not raping you on overtime, which they probably are) and you're happy about it?
You ought to be pissed off. Pizza delivery boys make more money than you.
$32k is a crappy wage. Knock off 20% for taxes, now you're down to $25600, which is only about $2130 a month.
Figure $1000 for a home mortgage payment, $400 for a car payment, plus an extra $300 a month for property taxes and home insurance, plus an extra $200 for auto insurance, plus about $300 for utilities (gas, electric, water, trash.) That's $2200. Look at that, not breaking even. Forget about buying food or keeping yourself entertained. Oh well, at least you'll have more time to work overtime and not get paid for it. Yummy.
$32 would be a great wage if you were living at home with your parents, which it sounds like you are. But for a real live grown-up with real expenses, it's a pile of piss.
Well, it's nice to know that everyone's making equally crappy wages, I guess.
Here here; I went back to school to be a psychologist!
School is a lot of fun, I'm excited about what I'm learning and becoming, and I'll only have to live through 5 more years of financial instability before I'm money. And satisfied. And making my own hours. Doing something that I know helps people.
Otherwise, I'd have a lifetime of financial instability to look forward to, along with long hours under a string of asshole bosses at shitty companies that produce no real wealth, scrimping and saving all the while for fear of the next certain round of layoffs.
Yeah, fuck being a programmer.
...and find out how much the average pay really is... I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 a day.
Then everyone in the states making $15/hour could start to feel real fortunate when they fire up their microwave on another bowl of ramen.
'Cause, uh... dude, it's google!
But, uh, dude... it's for google!