People being treated with drug therapy for schizophrenia have it. For there to be much fewer people seeking treatment and ever being diagnosed with it cant be attributed to better drug therapies unless those people treat themselves.
You do not understand what the person you replied to is saying.
I do. I'm only suggesting that if marijuana use increases 1000% and there is no epidemic of schizophrenia afterward, there doesn't seem to be any reason to assume a causal link, or to fear one..
There may be underlying factors influencing the decrease in schizophrenia, but there is absolutely no evidence that using cannabis will increase your likelihood of being diagnosed with it.
Is schizophrenia on the decline in Canada?
The preliminary comparison showed a 42% decrease in the number of first-admission schizophrenia cases over 20 years. In the main study, the annual inpatient prevalence rates decreased significantly (52%) from 1986 to 1996 with no corresponding change in outpatient rates, regardless of sex. Although total major affective disorders increased, this was due to an increase in major depression, not bipolar disorder.
This is the first Canadian case-register study to support the widely reported falling rates of schizophrenia in other parts of the world over the last 40 years. Since this is a geographically limited prevalence study based on only 10 years of data, further research over longer periods of time in other regions of the country is required to support or refute these findings.
Canadian teens lead developed world in cannabis use: Unicef report
This is the second time in a row that the WHO study has ranked Canadian teenagers as the highest cannabis users, though the percentage of teens itself has dropped. In 2002, the same survey showed that 37.5 per cent of 15-year-olds in Canada had used cannabis in the past year.
If the incidence of schizophrenia decreases during the same period as marijuana usage increases, it becomes very difficult to show a causal link. That's the situation this discussion leads to. Incidence of schizophrenia should follow the increase in marijuana use when plotted against time, it doesnt. It's inverse.
If there was a causal link between marijuana use and schizophrenia for example, there would be an increase that could be shown in historical data. The evidence instead suggests that maybe some people have been successful at self-medicating.
Marijuana use has increased drastically since the 1920's, from thousands to millions. There is no corresponding increase in psychosis.
Does that fit your narrative?
Or even more strange, make it available to only one small region of another country.
I got my Google voice account by using a VPN and VOIP to U.S. servers. Its pretty well useless without integration with my home phone or my android phone though. Asterisk and MightyText give me basically the same features I'm missing out on.
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Any active Buzz users out there better take note â" your service is only guaranteed through July 17. For everyone else, you can go about continuing to live your lives.
18 months is fair notice, if it's something you care about you've got time to figure a solution.
Once? They've been removing useful features for a long time. You can't turn on focus-follows-mouse anymore without a google search to guide you through it. Expandable folders (tree view) in Nautilus is the latest victim.
It's bizarre and frustrating.
I disagree. There are many things about Gnome 3 that I prefer over Gnome 2. With multiple displays, you can switch workspaces on just one of the displays. (ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down) It is a good productivity enhancement.
My only real gripe with Gnome 3 is the hotspot corner, or rather the refusal to make it configurable. I do not want it. The only time I trigger it is by accident, usually when I'm trying to click "Activities", and then my click ends up closing the thing that I intended to open. I hope a swarm of very nasty mosquitos visits the fellow who came up with that, and an even larger swarm goes after the people who think configuration options are bad or that "features" should be forced on users for their own good.
I highly doubt the Reformacons are behind this in any official capacity. What could it possibly achieve through a DDoS? They extended the deadline several times to allow the ballots to be cast for each of the 4 rounds of voting. No real harm done other than causing a conflict with Hockey Night in Canada in the 4th round of voting.
If the real issue is that Brian Topp supporters are more likely to be hockey fans than Thomas Mulcair supporters, then lets get to the meat and potatoes of it.
embezzling billions in a governement of entitlement
The "billions" was in fact:
"In the end the Commission concluded that $2 million was awarded in contracts without a proper bidding process, $250,000 was added to one contract price for no additional work, and $1.5 million was awarded for work that was never done, of which $1 million had to be repaid. The total cost of the Commission was $14 million." -- (wikipedia cut/paste)
Much less than the money that disappeared over the G20 by the Harperites which was never investigated. Also much less money was misappropriated than the cost of the commission that investigated it.
gun legislation that cost into the billions of dollars
The gun registry cost nothing at all in the end. It would have been profitable had the Harperites not slashed the registration fee to $0. I still pay $30/yr to register my dog by the way. It costs nothing to register a gun.
we would have been better off without out our conservative approach to economics in the last 3 years
Stephen Harper was the one who wanted the banks deregulated while the US was building their bubble. It was a Liberal government that said no, and the resulting loan/mortgage collapse did not happen here. Our banks are the envy of the world because Conservatives were not in power.
Same party was in contempt of parliament. Same party was guilty of shutting down parliament to avoid an inquiry to torture allegations. Same party plead guilty to election fraud in their in-and-out scheme.
There's lots of lone operatives in this party it seems.
People are much more humane to each other once they have met in person.
This is a good point. People are also more receptive to criticism from someone they have met in person too. For some reason in the Gnome community there is this bizarre phenomenon where strange UI decisions are enforced on their users.
<RANT>Think: Spacial Nautilus. It was a terrible idea, nobody liked it except the developers who implemented it. The more users complained about it, the deeper they hid the settings to turn it off. I'm feeling this again with the Gnome 3 beta's. It's extremely hard to get used to this UI, and I wonder why they are trying to turn my desktop computer into a cell phone. For example they have this new "feature" called a hotspot which shuffles your screen into an "overview" mode when you move the mouse to the top left corner of ANY monitor. There are many ways to open the overview, such as clicking the button that is present at the top left corner. The hotspot more times than not happens as I click the button, so that clicking the button actually closes the thing that I wanted open.</RANT>
Its been my impression that things like this are driving the GNOME -vs- Canonical hostility. When Canonical does research to show that its users dislike a feature, they should damn well be able to turn it off on their desktop without pissing off some Gnome developer who thinks it's really really cool.
The wattage on the bulb is the power that it consumes. It doesn't say anything about its efficiency, how much light -vs- heat you will get. Just what it will cost you to have it running.
I don't understand. Are you outraged that this guy spent $50,000 to support Prop 19?
Actually, This guy spent $20 000, and then another $50 000, and another Facebook co-founder spent $100 000. For a total of $170 000.
Marijuana legalization isn't just for the potheads, they already have easy access to pot. It's for the rest of us who are sick and tired of paying billions of dollars to tell people what to do with their own bodies, and are sick of the violence that comes from the black market which prohibition encourages.
If the RCMP can prove that what he claims is false, and for criminal charges the burden surely lies with them (but IANAL), then he deserves what he gets
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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When asked Tuesday if there actually was a five-metre rule given the ministry's clarification, Chief Bill Blair smiled and said, "No, but I was trying to keep the criminals out."
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Thank you very much for writing awesome software. I've been using Enlightenment since way back when it was the default wm in Gnome.
People being treated with drug therapy for schizophrenia have it. For there to be much fewer people seeking treatment and ever being diagnosed with it cant be attributed to better drug therapies unless those people treat themselves.
I do. I'm only suggesting that if marijuana use increases 1000% and there is no epidemic of schizophrenia afterward, there doesn't seem to be any reason to assume a causal link, or to fear one..
There may be underlying factors influencing the decrease in schizophrenia, but there is absolutely no evidence that using cannabis will increase your likelihood of being diagnosed with it.
Etc...
If the incidence of schizophrenia decreases during the same period as marijuana usage increases, it becomes very difficult to show a causal link. That's the situation this discussion leads to. Incidence of schizophrenia should follow the increase in marijuana use when plotted against time, it doesnt. It's inverse.
It's been documented in may places.
Decline in the Incidence of Schizophrenia in Finnish Cohorts Born From 1954 to 1965
If there was a causal link between marijuana use and schizophrenia for example, there would be an increase that could be shown in historical data. The evidence instead suggests that maybe some people have been successful at self-medicating.
Marijuana use has increased drastically since the 1920's, from thousands to millions. There is no corresponding increase in psychosis. Does that fit your narrative?
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The missing link: Google Voice for Calgary only in Canada
Or even more strange, make it available to only one small region of another country.
I got my Google voice account by using a VPN and VOIP to U.S. servers. Its pretty well useless without integration with my home phone or my android phone though. Asterisk and MightyText give me basically the same features I'm missing out on.
They have a pretty good migration shedule, sure, they "close" stuff without warning, but they give you plenty of time to get your data out
They give you the ability to get your data out, that's what makes them not evil AFAIC. Example:
Google Buzz, The Social Network No One Cared About, Is Finally Going Offline
18 months is fair notice, if it's something you care about you've got time to figure a solution.
If they've done that once, they'll do it again.
Once? They've been removing useful features for a long time. You can't turn on focus-follows-mouse anymore without a google search to guide you through it. Expandable folders (tree view) in Nautilus is the latest victim. It's bizarre and frustrating.
117 in stock
???? You can also get one from Adafruit. Seeedstudio used to have the first (non-OTG) version that I bought, but I guess they dont make the new one.
The missing piece is a USB I/O board that plugs into your phone
IOIO-OTG. It costs more than a Raspberry Pi though.
I disagree. There are many things about Gnome 3 that I prefer over Gnome 2. With multiple displays, you can switch workspaces on just one of the displays. (ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down) It is a good productivity enhancement. My only real gripe with Gnome 3 is the hotspot corner, or rather the refusal to make it configurable. I do not want it. The only time I trigger it is by accident, usually when I'm trying to click "Activities", and then my click ends up closing the thing that I intended to open. I hope a swarm of very nasty mosquitos visits the fellow who came up with that, and an even larger swarm goes after the people who think configuration options are bad or that "features" should be forced on users for their own good.
I highly doubt the Reformacons are behind this in any official capacity. What could it possibly achieve through a DDoS? They extended the deadline several times to allow the ballots to be cast for each of the 4 rounds of voting. No real harm done other than causing a conflict with Hockey Night in Canada in the 4th round of voting.
If the real issue is that Brian Topp supporters are more likely to be hockey fans than Thomas Mulcair supporters, then lets get to the meat and potatoes of it.
embezzling billions in a governement of entitlement
The "billions" was in fact:
"In the end the Commission concluded that $2 million was awarded in contracts without a proper bidding process, $250,000 was added to one contract price for no additional work, and $1.5 million was awarded for work that was never done, of which $1 million had to be repaid. The total cost of the Commission was $14 million." -- (wikipedia cut/paste)
Much less than the money that disappeared over the G20 by the Harperites which was never investigated. Also much less money was misappropriated than the cost of the commission that investigated it.
gun legislation that cost into the billions of dollars
The gun registry cost nothing at all in the end. It would have been profitable had the Harperites not slashed the registration fee to $0. I still pay $30/yr to register my dog by the way. It costs nothing to register a gun.
we would have been better off without out our conservative approach to economics in the last 3 years
Stephen Harper was the one who wanted the banks deregulated while the US was building their bubble. It was a Liberal government that said no, and the resulting loan/mortgage collapse did not happen here. Our banks are the envy of the world because Conservatives were not in power.
Thanks for playing though.
Same party was in contempt of parliament. Same party was guilty of shutting down parliament to avoid an inquiry to torture allegations. Same party plead guilty to election fraud in their in-and-out scheme. There's lots of lone operatives in this party it seems.
This is a good point. People are also more receptive to criticism from someone they have met in person too. For some reason in the Gnome community there is this bizarre phenomenon where strange UI decisions are enforced on their users.
<RANT>Think: Spacial Nautilus. It was a terrible idea, nobody liked it except the developers who implemented it. The more users complained about it, the deeper they hid the settings to turn it off. I'm feeling this again with the Gnome 3 beta's. It's extremely hard to get used to this UI, and I wonder why they are trying to turn my desktop computer into a cell phone. For example they have this new "feature" called a hotspot which shuffles your screen into an "overview" mode when you move the mouse to the top left corner of ANY monitor. There are many ways to open the overview, such as clicking the button that is present at the top left corner. The hotspot more times than not happens as I click the button, so that clicking the button actually closes the thing that I wanted open.</RANT>
Its been my impression that things like this are driving the GNOME -vs- Canonical hostility. When Canonical does research to show that its users dislike a feature, they should damn well be able to turn it off on their desktop without pissing off some Gnome developer who thinks it's really really cool.
The wattage on the bulb is the power that it consumes. It doesn't say anything about its efficiency, how much light -vs- heat you will get. Just what it will cost you to have it running.
Summary is false. Flanagan does NOT currently openly advocate assassination of Assange.
He also hasn't been an advisor to Harper for several years. Conservative Party MP, proclaims that she "doesn't know who Tom Flanagan is". I'm usually the first guy to jump in on a Conservative bashing.. But let's not go making stuff up.
Actually, This guy spent $20 000, and then another $50 000, and another Facebook co-founder spent $100 000. For a total of $170 000.
Marijuana legalization isn't just for the potheads, they already have easy access to pot. It's for the rest of us who are sick and tired of paying billions of dollars to tell people what to do with their own bodies, and are sick of the violence that comes from the black market which prohibition encourages.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Because the people who worked on WebTV at Microsoft work at Google now.
Can the banks and the patent office please get together with the trademark office and put and end to people calling things Qi?
Qi: The Bootloader
Qi: The Open Source Hardware
Qi: The wireless charging standard
Kthxbye