Back in February, when few had a clue that our totalitarian Government was
plotting the creation of a database on citizens 20x more intrusive than anything
else on the planet, Richard was busy trying to explain
it to any MP who would listen.
The hypnotic subject reacts actively to suggestions, creatively interpreting them according to their biases at the time.
Say a compulsion to perform some behaviour is induced in a hypnotised subject. When the suggestion is given to stop that compulsion, it's quite likely that choice is reintroduced in a similar way to getting bored of computer games.
Unless you can get the client's subconscious mind to accept the need to be 'honest' (and how would you know if this was the case?), you have to rely on traditional lie detection methods to determine whether the recovered memory is fake or real.
Erickson was one of the first people to discover and utilise covert hypnosis.
Since he was an MD reportedly getting miracle results, the medical board assumed he was a crank and tried to remove his license. Twice.
The meetings both went the same way. Erickson would start talking in his monotonous drawl, which would be the only thing board members would remember, apart from letting him keep his license.
So much of what Milton did is mindblowing. One of his patients wanted to lose weight. Erickson hypnotised her so that, whilst eating, she would experience time going so slowly that each spoonful would subjectively take an hour to reach her mouth.
Perhaps one of the most interesting of his papers was his collaboration with Aldous Huxley.
You might have to take my word for it, but I am one of the most successful clinical therapists in the UK and have worked for a decade eliminating (as opposed to repressing) clients' fears as well as my own.
Your assertions match my experience. The AC makes a partially relevant point in that a genetic alteration might knock out other more useful functions. However, fear is not necessary for protection. An obvious analogy is that a robot could be programmed to protect itself without fear.
A transition to being fearless might lead to unforseen responses from others as this story from my own life should illustrate. I decided to eliminate as much of my anxiety around people (especially strangers) as possible.
That weekend I got into 3 fights! Whereas my anxiety had previously compelled me to avoid situations where I'd push others' aggression buttons (usually around women), I then had to learn how to first communicate to those aggressive males that there was no point trying to intimidate me.
I have been thinking about the same thing. Democracy seems to be dying at the moment and maybe something like this is the solution.
National issues would seem to be the best basis, so the US would have a different server from the UK where I am. Some karma whoring is inevitable, but it would serve to remove political spamming.
I don't think it's necessary to cater for political biases as the best arguments/lower common denominator would be most likely modded up.
Standard slashcode might do it, but it would be worth connecting recent comments eg Clinton's comments on Iraq with the best comments on previous Iraq stories.
With enough users, it would become a better political guide than Wikipedia, the media, government spin etc
The biggest problem with Opera is that most of its superior features are hidden. Several times I've gone on the forums and said "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Opera could do this" - only to find out it already did.
I tried Firefox when it came out. Apart from the tabs I couldn't see much difference from IE. Both are so basic in comparison to Opera and make you do things in unintuitive ways.
Haven't tried Safari as I presume there's no PC version.
I'd have thought they'd be happy to trade off short-term income for the opportunity to be their own boss and work on their dream game. I'd guess they'd be more concerned about eventual payoff since I doubt there's much precedent for this kind of business model.
As the other respondent wrote, lack of capital is the main reason for not producing a game.
However, it seems you shouldn't need all that capital in the beginning.
Whilst it might take longer, 1-3 people should be able to code a concept version of an original game, enough to demonstrate to a games (or even VC) company that it's worth investing in the best graphics, sound etc available at the time.
According to my doctor friend, Ritalin also doesn't carry the risk of nasty pulmonary embolisms. Seems it's much easier to get pharmaceutical grade too.
Just a tip from a hypnotherapist & sympathetic ex-insomniac: learn self-hypnosis & progressive relaxation. A hypnotic trance is very similar to sleep and even provides many of the benefits.
If you want other tips (free), email me - address on website.
PTSD is a learned response and can be unlearned. Therapy has come a long way in the last 20 years, and I'm not talking about medication, virtual reality or even CBT. I'm talking about NLP, hypnotherapy, Provocative Therapy & EFT.
Considering how many people suffer from bad backs, I'd say there's a lot of hidden complexity of the spine - in terms of how bits connect to other bits with muscles, ligaments etc. If one bit is out, it tends to throw out the whole spine. As any osteopath will tell you.
Given that the UK Government have now admitted
that our ID Cards will contain RFID chips,
we have an even greater concern.
Certainly, there will be nothing to stop any future government tracking our
day to day movements. Given the vast amount of data which our unique identity
numbers will tie together, this amounts to a police state worse than even Orwell
envisioned.
The first season of Battlestar Galactica was the best sci-fi series since Babylon 5. Dr Who isn't close IMHO.
In regards to your other point, I think our environment affects our ability to solve problems. If we've spent time feeling bad or stupid in those environments, they can sometimes limit our ability to solve problems. Likewise, we just get used to thinking in certain ways.
For me, Sci-Fi is freeing yourself of that conditioning to solve the heroes' problems and maybe solve your own in parallel.
ID Cards - we're desperately trying to
stop the Government passing this Bill, along with its mass surveillance database
around the end of this month. Even Tony has said now it won't make any
difference to determined terrorists like the scum who blew up the London Underground.
We're hoping that the Lords will stop it and that by the time Blair will get
to his favourite undemocratic tool, the Parliament Act, the public will be so
against the ID scheme that he won't dare.
Note the recent announcements that a) corporations want into the Database and
to force their customers to get ID Cards and b) that Clarke went to the EU ministers
to talk about extending government access to our ISP trails.
If No2ID believes important factual information is being suppressed by
the media maybe a blog similar to groklaw.net could go some way to redress the
balance. I am sure there are lazy journalists - if all the leg-work is done
I'm sure it will receive wider coverage.
The media are gradually waking up. There's still evidence of widespread
bias at the BBC though.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I never have them when I need them either. The scary thing is how little the public knows. If you have any questions, please ask.
Back in February, when few had a clue that our totalitarian Government was plotting the creation of a database on citizens 20x more intrusive than anything else on the planet, Richard was busy trying to explain it to any MP who would listen.
He was also one of the few who understood the 'Nazi Enablement Act' which granted our Government unlimited power under the law.
And he questioned the Government on who DID actually seize Indymedia servers.
Until someone NeuroLinguisticly Programs me to believe otherwise, NLP is pseudoscience.
Absolutely! And until a scientist reprograms my mind with some kind of brain scanner, science is bunkum too.
The hypnotic subject reacts actively to suggestions, creatively interpreting them according to their biases at the time.
Say a compulsion to perform some behaviour is induced in a hypnotised subject. When the suggestion is given to stop that compulsion, it's quite likely that choice is reintroduced in a similar way to getting bored of computer games.
It's not as if the medically sanctioned psychiatrists are any more effective.
Unless you can get the client's subconscious mind to accept the need to be 'honest' (and how would you know if this was the case?), you have to rely on traditional lie detection methods to determine whether the recovered memory is fake or real.
Erickson was one of the first people to discover and utilise covert hypnosis.
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Since he was an MD reportedly getting miracle results, the medical board assumed he was a crank and tried to remove his license. Twice.
The meetings both went the same way. Erickson would start talking in his monotonous drawl, which would be the only thing board members would remember, apart from letting him keep his license.
So much of what Milton did is mindblowing. One of his patients wanted to lose weight. Erickson hypnotised her so that, whilst eating, she would experience time going so slowly that each spoonful would subjectively take an hour to reach her mouth.
Perhaps one of the most interesting of his papers was his collaboration with Aldous Huxley.
There is a copy here, third item down:
http://www.geocities.com/franzbardon/erickson.htm
You might have to take my word for it, but I am one of the most successful clinical therapists in the UK and have worked for a decade eliminating (as opposed to repressing) clients' fears as well as my own.
Your assertions match my experience. The AC makes a partially relevant point in that a genetic alteration might knock out other more useful functions. However, fear is not necessary for protection. An obvious analogy is that a robot could be programmed to protect itself without fear.
A transition to being fearless might lead to unforseen responses from others as this story from my own life should illustrate. I decided to eliminate as much of my anxiety around people (especially strangers) as possible.
That weekend I got into 3 fights! Whereas my anxiety had previously compelled me to avoid situations where I'd push others' aggression buttons (usually around women), I then had to learn how to first communicate to those aggressive males that there was no point trying to intimidate me.
I have been thinking about the same thing. Democracy seems to be dying at the moment and maybe something like this is the solution.
National issues would seem to be the best basis, so the US would have a different server from the UK where I am. Some karma whoring is inevitable, but it would serve to remove political spamming.
I don't think it's necessary to cater for political biases as the best arguments/lower common denominator would be most likely modded up.
Standard slashcode might do it, but it would be worth connecting recent comments eg Clinton's comments on Iraq with the best comments on previous Iraq stories.
With enough users, it would become a better political guide than Wikipedia, the media, government spin etc
The biggest problem with Opera is that most of its superior features are hidden. Several times I've gone on the forums and said "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Opera could do this" - only to find out it already did.
I tried Firefox when it came out. Apart from the tabs I couldn't see much difference from IE. Both are so basic in comparison to Opera and make you do things in unintuitive ways.
Haven't tried Safari as I presume there's no PC version.
Wow, some people are so pro-OSS that they'll slag off a vastly superior product when it becomes free.
Spot on. I was beginning to think I was the only one who'd actually played it.
At least DS II sounds like the battles will be quicker. Just play on easy and you might get to the end before falling asleep.
Not sure I follow you. Those who can afford 6-12 months without pay can do it. It's not like many of them are married with families to support. ;)
Are programmers that spendthrifty?
I'd have thought they'd be happy to trade off short-term income for the opportunity to be their own boss and work on their dream game. I'd guess they'd be more concerned about eventual payoff since I doubt there's much precedent for this kind of business model.
As the other respondent wrote, lack of capital is the main reason for not producing a game.
However, it seems you shouldn't need all that capital in the beginning.
Whilst it might take longer, 1-3 people should be able to code a concept version of an original game, enough to demonstrate to a games (or even VC) company that it's worth investing in the best graphics, sound etc available at the time.
According to my doctor friend, Ritalin also doesn't carry the risk of nasty pulmonary embolisms. Seems it's much easier to get pharmaceutical grade too.
Just a tip from a hypnotherapist & sympathetic ex-insomniac: learn self-hypnosis & progressive relaxation. A hypnotic trance is very similar to sleep and even provides many of the benefits.
If you want other tips (free), email me - address on website.
PTSD is a learned response and can be unlearned. Therapy has come a long way in the last 20 years, and I'm not talking about medication, virtual reality or even CBT. I'm talking about NLP, hypnotherapy, Provocative Therapy & EFT.
Considering how many people suffer from bad backs, I'd say there's a lot of hidden complexity of the spine - in terms of how bits connect to other bits with muscles, ligaments etc. If one bit is out, it tends to throw out the whole spine. As any osteopath will tell you.
Given that the UK Government have now admitted that our ID Cards will contain RFID chips, we have an even greater concern.
Certainly, there will be nothing to stop any future government tracking our day to day movements. Given the vast amount of data which our unique identity numbers will tie together, this amounts to a police state worse than even Orwell envisioned.
OK - it helped "a bit", and only after the bus bomber's Mum reported him missing. 56 people still dead & 700+ injured though.
The first season of Battlestar Galactica was the best sci-fi series since Babylon 5. Dr Who isn't close IMHO.
In regards to your other point, I think our environment affects our ability to solve problems. If we've spent time feeling bad or stupid in those environments, they can sometimes limit our ability to solve problems. Likewise, we just get used to thinking in certain ways.
For me, Sci-Fi is freeing yourself of that conditioning to solve the heroes' problems and maybe solve your own in parallel.
ID Cards - we're desperately trying to stop the Government passing this Bill, along with its mass surveillance database around the end of this month. Even Tony has said now it won't make any difference to determined terrorists like the scum who blew up the London Underground.
We're hoping that the Lords will stop it and that by the time Blair will get to his favourite undemocratic tool, the Parliament Act, the public will be so against the ID scheme that he won't dare.
Note the recent announcements that a) corporations want into the Database and to force their customers to get ID Cards and b) that Clarke went to the EU ministers to talk about extending government access to our ISP trails.
I have a PS/2 keyboard, model #06H5283. Not sure if it's buckling spring, but I can type very fast on it and have kept it through several upgrades.
I have a bunch of the original clicky PC AT keyboards in the attic. They are really heavy but if anyone wants to pay £10+postage...
If No2ID believes important factual information is being suppressed by the media maybe a blog similar to groklaw.net could go some way to redress the balance. I am sure there are lazy journalists - if all the leg-work is done I'm sure it will receive wider coverage.
The media are gradually waking up. There's still evidence of widespread bias at the BBC though.
No2ID's own website
Spyblog ID Card section
http://www.no2id-petition.net/
I beg to differ... Read the radio button text immediately above the submit button.
"like to support the NO2ID campaign" - yeah I see your point. "Like to" is different from "do support" but it is clumsy language.
For example, even if we block the Bill, Blair has promised to introduce the same database via the "royal prerogative" that covers e-passports.
THAT is newsworthy. If backed with credible evidence that would be a dynamite headline.
Guardian article
If Blair makes a threat like that before parliament has voted it shows two things:
That Blair considers it likely that over half the MPs will oppose the bill.
That Blair does not intend to respect the democratic process.
Both of these play straight into the hands of the National ID opposition.
Yeah, if we could get anyone to take notice. Ironic really... ;)