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  1. Re:5-HTP works on Anxiety and IT? · · Score: 1

    Try more magnesium, too. (mag citrate)

  2. Re:Not sure.. on Anxiety and IT? · · Score: 1

    The diving isn't just giving you nitrogen. The seawater has many essential minerals that are lacking in the modern diet, foremost among them magnesium. Having the pressure at 30' might help oush them in, but just being in seawater helps.

  3. More Magnesium on Anxiety and IT? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you suffer from anxiety (and even if you don't) I suggest you take a magnesium supplement, preferably magnesium citrate or magnesium ororate. Magnesium helps you relax.

  4. Re:Not like cowardly Westerners on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    War is won by the most violent -- Clausewitz

    Nah. This is simplistic thinking. For instance, take uber violent warrior A, and clever warrior B. If B tricks A into an uberviolent attack on the wrong target, making A expend his resources, B can win with relatively little violence. So war can easily be lost bu the most violent, especially if they're stupid or out of control.

  5. Re:Not like cowardly Westerners on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    I agree.. if western cultures defended freedom with the same vigilance (not the same methods) as hamas, hamas wouldn't exist..

    And, consequently, freedom wouldn't exist. Hypervigilance, no matter what the methods, destroys freedom.

  6. Re:Freedom of speech... on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    Semantics, all of it.

  7. Re:Freedom of speech... on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    If the government wasn't there to stop them, yes they could.

  8. Re:This explains the political process on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right, which is why it has continually baffled me that nominally "pro business" republicans have fought HCR. When you think of them as "pro BIG business" it makes sense, though. :)

  9. Goddamn. This is fucking shit. on Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation · · Score: 1

    Can you tell I'm pissed?

    I'm a java developer, but I much prefer the OSX platform over winders or linux. All of my desktops at home are macs, and I was just days away from buying a new macbook air. Well, not now. I'd regretted buying a PC laptop a few months ago. No longer. I often thought that if I decided to switch development platforms it'd be to OSX. No longer. I often scoffed at others grousing about Apple's "walled garden." NO LONGER. I was a satisfied Apple customer. NO LONGER!

  10. If you're really interested in Drools... on Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 · · Score: 1

    ...and you're in the Bay Area, head on down to the last day of Rulesfest, which includes a Drools bootcamp:

    http://rulesfest.org/html/bootcamps.html

  11. And in the end he was right on Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can transmute one element to another. It's called nuclear chemistry.

  12. Re:Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    And your assertions of Shipman's mental state rests on what authority?

  13. Re:Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Bubba, I know exactly what "appeal to authority" means, I just don't agree that claiming there's evidence someone is sane means they're an authority. :) By your line of reasoning any person making any argument can be discredited because you doubt tbeir sanity. (Based on zero evidence, as you're currently doing. You require evidence for others, but none for your own assertions.)

  14. Re:Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    This is not an "appeal to authority." This is an "appeal to you can't just dismiss these folks as crackpots.". But I guess in the mi d of a kneekrek skeptic anyone can be dismissed as a crackpot.

    But, just for fun, let's follow your line of reasoning. So you're saying that only a certified UFO expert could be a credible witness to a UFO? No one, no matter how otherwise trusted in their judgement, intelligence, or emotional stability, could be a credible witness to a UFO? I'm guessing that you would dismiss such an expert out of hand, but I'll leave that to you to confirm.

  15. Re:Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    And if by "UFO nuts" do you mean "five former USAF officers who were in charge of nuclear weapons and base commanders?"

  16. Re:Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    "coincince" is short for "iPad keyboard in the morning" :)

  17. Hmmmmmm... on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Coincince?. Maybe....

  18. Re:Cold Call on Google, Apple Settle Justice Dept. Hiring Probe · · Score: 1

    Yes, they really do cold call. I got one from Google a few years ago. I wouldn't care to repeat the experience, and I'm not just saying that because they didn't hire me. :) Between the time I scheduled my first phone technical interview and the interview date an old friend of mine committed suicide. I asked them to reschedule and they refused. I did the interview about an hour after getting off the plane from the funeral. Needless to say I didn't do well. It was a blessing in disguise, though. Had I gone out to live in silicon valley it would have been at the height of the housing market and I'd probably be deeply underwater on a house right now.

  19. Re:Correlation on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    ...the radiation was screwing with their head?

    My grandfather was a nuclear chemist at Oak Ridge National Labratory. He handled plutonium and many other ludicrously toxic radioactive materials for decades. He died at the ripe old age of 97 with all of his mental faculties intact.

    Yes, radiation can be dangerous, but the government does not trifle with it.

  20. Re:But wait.... on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    Was?

    How about will be.

    It's going to be on Monday, September 27th, 2010.

  21. Re:I missed the one for the KIN on Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event · · Score: 1

    That would be an insult to the NeXT.

  22. Re:i hate big brother but... on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 1

    Also why is the parent making a huge deal about memorizing 4 numbers? Don't these children know their 7-digit home phone numbers?

    I saw Star Wars for the first time when I was 5. A few weeks before that I'd memorized my phone number. When the trash compactor scene came up, the number of the compactor, 3263827, was a permutation of my phone number, and I knew it immediately. Now I'm a bit high on the math ability scale, but if it's a problem for a kid to memorize a four digit number there's something wrong.

  23. Re:MBA's on Leaders Aren't Being Made At Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    Have gone threw an MBA myself...

    The irony, it burns!

  24. Re:*Sigh* More liberal BS on The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally · · Score: 1

    Since when is this liberal?

  25. Re:I never downloaded Hurt Locker... on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    Note that I never said there was a justification for piracy.