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  1. Re:Too many people are depressed on A Brain Pacemaker for Depression · · Score: 1
    I can't tell if this is a joke, but diet and exercise are an integral part of your mental health. Your body is a system and it needs to be treated systemically.

    Keeping a regular sleep pattern, eating healthy, and exercise are the foundations of good health. For someone in very good shape (or who is young) they may be able to get away without skipping some of these things -- but for people with health problems, bad habits often exasturbate their condition.

    BPD can't be cured with exercise since the cause is chemical, but I guarantee you will feel better after doing these things:

    Limit "cokes" to two a week (and never before bed, half life of caffeine is 5 hours).
    Limit caffeine -- caffeine is a powerful drug which is addictive in as little as two days. It really does not belong in our food supply.
    Limit Nitrates... Sodium nitrate is found in cured meats such as bacon, sausage, salami, etc. Nitrates prevent botchulism but cause cancer.
    Limit aspertame intake -- aspertame is bad for you. It causes headaches, and it is an unstable molecule which dissasociates into 2 neuro-toxins and a metabolic posion.
    Do not eat margerine, at all. Margerine is a frankensite concotion of oils and plastic that is not good for you :) Eat regular butter in sane ammounts.
    Sugar and fat *ARE NOT* bad for you, as long as yuou don't go overboard. (40-30-30 principle)
    Decide how many times you will eat our per week, and stick to that (I would suggest no more then 2)
    Eat things like colorfull fruits and vegetables, oats, grains, beans (mexican food is great if you dont go overbaord on the fat). If it has a cartoon character on the package -- don't eat it.

    As far as sleep -- choose a time to wake up each morning and set an alarm. Your body will choose the time you need to go to sleep after a few days.

    As far as exercise, an hour a day would be great, an hour 4 days a week is acceptable. Walking is good exercise, jogging is one of the best exercises there is (with proper shoes), so is swimming. If you have access to a gym -- do it. Creatine is a very good safe supplement which increases muscle torque about 10% and increases healing times. BUT it does raise blood pressure a bi so if you are hypertensive don't take it, it also raises your tendancy to have cramps a bit.

    So there you are, a complete guide to healthy living on slashdot :)

  2. Re:Costs? on Music Labels May Seek Higher Download Prices · · Score: 1

    That books, like the rest of pop culture, are largely uninteresting?

  3. Re:OS X on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 2, Funny
    I thought it was obvious. I'm thinking it's fucking stupid to have two keys which do nothing useful in your operating system, when you could just as easily give them two functions that are immensely useful for people who edit lots of text.

    Like printscren and scroll lock?

  4. Re:A Huge fan of mc chris. on Ask mc chris · · Score: 1

    Rock has been dead for a long time ... there still is good stuff going on though. I just recently discovered "Guster" my god was I impressed.

  5. Re:Get a Leatherman Micra, too on Best Leatherman-Style Multitool? · · Score: 1

    I second this. I had one i used *EVERYDAY* as a sysadmin for years ... until my bitch of a g/f stole it :)

  6. Re:Binding on Effective XML · · Score: 2, Funny

    I once tried to "dry" a book that was rain soaked in the oven at very low temp ... my father turned the oven up to preheat some food ... physics book al larange

  7. Re:Per Square _inch_? on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Hindu *could* be a good paper ... however, theres a lot of newspapers closer to home then the Hindu :)

  8. Re:Per Square _inch_? on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Its more then fishy. Why is it published in "The Hindu" ? 120 watts per square inch? I could power my computer with 3 square inches. My whole house with a square foot of the stuff.

    This is either the biggest breakthrough in our modern age, or complete bullshit. Im inclined to belive its bullshit :)

  9. Re:A wee bit offtopic on Starting a Political Career with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    No its the other way around. Most people dont care if people that AGE get involved. All the old coots voting now do not vote for people that age.

  10. Re:Corporate Lobbies vs. Public Interest on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    The clinton administration was *disabled* by the lewinsky scandal which was BULLSHIT. Bush has done 40 things worse then lewinsky, but hmmmm, reps put a sunset provision in the independant council bill that expired if they took over the presidency ... how could that be!?

  11. Re:Irresponsible on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 1
    It's all observational ... I am definately the worst case scenario though. I have experience in several areas, some of which are fringe. I am involved in research, I was one of the original founders of a major linux distribution. If I go in for a windows admin position people see my unix credentials as a problem. If I go in for unix they say "you look like a programmer" .. if I go in for programming they say, "you look like a administrator". I am involved in research, I was one of the original founders of a major linux distribution. Businesses do NOT want creative multi-faceted people.

    Ive also had some MAJOR bad luck. Ive been offered jobs 3 times that fell through (hiring freezes, acquisitions, and one insane HR person who instruced me to call back in two weeks and said, "Oh, we gave the job to somone else").

    Anyways ... my thesis statement is, now you know an unemployed programmer in the IE so I guess your theory is broken ;-)

  12. Re:Irresponsible on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 1

    Ive been looking for steady IT/programming work in the Inland Empire for 3 years and I have an *excellent* resume.

  13. Irresponsible on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With so many PEOPLE unemployed in IT, is it really responsible to encouarge people to take up this profession?

  14. Re:Huh? on Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie Falls Through · · Score: 1
    common, get real and be honest and true to the truth... firefly is very good ... but its not *great*.

    Sure had a shot at being great thou.

  15. Re:Finally on 100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed · · Score: 1

    Wow you really are unemployed ... because thats exactly waht it feels like. Ive been unemployed for almost 3 years after hte dot com bust ... (unless you count walmart). Cant find a job for love or money :)

  16. Finally on 100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed · · Score: 5, Funny

    An upside to being unemployed.

  17. Re:Boring day? on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1
    No, Jon Katz was sinserely wrong. He watched Buffy reruns and thought he understood modern teens, read Kevin Mitnick interviews in 2600 and thought he understood hacker culture, read Slashdot comments and thought they were a representative sample of American geeks. I think he was genuinely surprised at how detested some of his rambling became around here.

    The problem with Katz was he projected his need for social revolution on to mundane situation. He was connecting dots that just weren't there. Anyone know what happened to him?

  18. Re:References to Bush are utterly irrelevant on Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Exactly. Certain Questions need to be asked and answered before we just leap willy nilly into embryo harvesting.

    Yes, that question is, "can this technology help cure my diabetes?" Fuck you and your religion, *I'M* the one whose been sentenced to kidney failre, blindness and limb amputations for the crime of eating.

    A couple cells are not human. I do NOT care what some 2000 year old book implies about the situation.

  19. Re:Still dumb, but I'll answer, anyway. on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    Wrong my friend. If congress says you own something, you do. If congress says you don't, you don't. Our ideals mean nothing to moneyed interests.

  20. Re:Still dumb, but I'll answer, anyway. on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1
    look, again, it's got nothing to do with if it's got "content". Phone listings have content, but they're not copyrightable because being sorted by alphabetical order requires no creativity.

    Also, phone books are considered lits of facts and public information and as such are not copyrightable.

    Every few years a law comes up and is voted down on this subject -- usually something like the "database protection act" or something like that. The last iteration was HORRIBLE. It that made any collection of facts copyrightable-- and even stranger -- the companies didnt have to OWN the information they collected, which is an extremely strange concept if you think about it. I take your data and someone elses, and now I own them both because they're in a database.

  21. Re:Mandrakesoft = (very) profitable company on Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva · · Score: 1
    1.8 Million USD is "Very" profitable? What planet are you from? 1.8 milion could buy a couple nice computers at a "very profitable" company :)

    I wanted to look up their stock stats but yahoo finance doesn't have them. Anyone know how many outstanding shares Mandrake has?

  22. Re:There's No Bottom on Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Yea, what is WITH this "fox guarding the hen house" complex the bush admin has?

    We have oil execs writing our energy policy, privacy invaders writing our privacy laws. Drug companies writing our drug-company laws... It's absolute madness.

    Are there any bushies out there who can defend this and tell me why I shouldn't be having a fit?

  23. Re:Is 150 second Kernel Compile really that fast? on 4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I really dont think it is. My Athlon 1700 compiles a kernel in under 5 mins. I think my P4 is 3 - 4 minutes.

    I suspect that kernel building does not run in parallel very easy.

  24. Re:My experience with municipal broadband on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 2, Informative
    My god thats great... Let me go over the bills in my house:

    Single phone line: $40 (verizon)

    Basic Digital TV Package: 80$/m (adeplhia...)

    3/256 Cable Modem: 50$/m.

    There's simply no other choices in my community.

  25. Re:well on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 1

    If france has a problem with it then its surely a good idea.