Genocide is merely one aspect of oppression. A nasty one I'll grant you, but let's face it. If the Jews didn't want to die, why the fuck didn't they try to fight? A few thousand Jews in an extermination camp, even unarmed, would have been able to overwhelm the comparitavely (sp?) small number of guards in each camp.
Get with the program. The US today is just as Nazi as the Nazi government was, they're just not as overt about it.
I'm sure a large percentage of the populations of Afghanistan and Iraq would have that view anyway.
(And that's another point: Look at it however you will, the US has essentially annexed those two nations, just as Germany attempted to annex various nations.)
Firstly, I'm the poster of the other Ask Slashdot regarding 'Working with ADHD?', and I'd like to thank you for your original posting, as that gave me the courage to look further into my issues and seek treatment.
Now, I've since been looking into neural feedback as a potential treatment - more from the geek-side of things though, than as a patient. (I'm looking at building a home-made EEG-like device with input to my computer via either a serial or parrallel device.)
I'm sure that you're aware of all the technical information on EEG's and biofeedback, but for the benefit of the other readers:
A typical electroencephalogram (EEG) is where the electrical activity in your brain is recorded over generally a 1.5 to 2 hour session. During the test, the brain can be applied with different stimuli to see how the brainwaves react. Uses for this include detection of epilepsy, and determination of clinical brain death.
Neurofeedback is an extension of typical brainwave monitoring wherein the brainwaves are represented to the patient in a way that facilitates learning how to control them, i.e via a game of some description. Current methods include controlling the doppler effect on a virtual pool, or cloud generation/manipulation.
The brainwaves are approximately:
Beta
High Concentration
Between 15 and 40HZ
Alpha
Awake
Between 9 and 14HZ
Theta
Daydreaming
Between 5 and 8HZ
Delta
Sleeping
Between 1.5 and 4HZ
People with ADHD can exhibit brainwaves that have an unproportionally high period of time spent in the Theta state - essentially daydreaming. So if the patient is taught how to modify his brainwaves to between mid-Alpha and mid-Beta, then a lot of the symptoms can be reduced.
For instance, with the doppler effect method, more ripples could indicate a more higher-cycle brainwaves, and can thus be observed and trained.
There is also strong clinical evidence that shows that neurofeedback is an effective tool for people with ADHD, with a lot less of the harmful side-affects of the drugs, such as Ritalin.
For me personally, I had an EEG performed when I was 12 for suspected epilepsy. An EEG is non-invasive, and non-painful. No icky injections,
nothing that felt really weird. Particularly for children this can be a very important point.
I would recommend following this path highly, as it shows a lot of promise, and there is little to show it being harmful in any way.
I wish you, your daughter and your entire family the best through this, and I think that you'll be very happy with the results you'll find.
Just FYI, I'm still on Ritalin, but I do intend to go down the path of neurofeedback, but I'd rather do it via my home-made one. I'm a geek, after all.:)
I note that the SCO homepage title is "SCO | SCO Grows Your Business" - shouldn't that read "SCO | SCO Sues Your Business", or even "SCO | SCO Sues Your Community"?
The Cornyn-Feinstein bill also creates another federal felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, for using "an audiovisual recording device" in a movie theater to make a copy of a film
What if person X has an audio recorder, and person Y has a visual recorder - since this is not an audiovisual device in one, does that make that situation exempt? Or am I missing something?
Given the similarities between this and the SCO, Linux claims, is it possible that this could be a "ploy" by the JBoss people to establish a public precedent for the GPL?
I mean, if the public see Apache and JBoss figuring it out, could the outcry against SCO and their detrimental case against Linux be enough to quash it?
Well, I'm hearing a lot on here about "hey, if this happened to open source once, it may have already happened or it may happen again"... sure... but wait a minute, wasn't the halflife 2 source code leaked/stolen a while ago? Propietary code, no? Who is to say that they didn't add a few dozen back doors into it while they were at it, mmm?
The risk of this happening to open and closed source is roughly the same, and the benefit of open source it that it can be spotted...
Are you sure this was by a programmer? What if the Internet is becoming alive, and these worms are lifeforms it's creating on its own... perhaps the Internet hates Microsoft too... OH MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF BUGS!!!
A lot of you have made valid points regarding my question, and I thank you for those. As for the trolls, you don't exist to me anyway - I'm turned you off.:)
As for my story, I've gone through 3 jobs in 3 years, all in IT. Mainly as a programmer, but now I'm going out and visiting customers and thats working out a lot better..
However, I frequently (used to) look at my screen in utter confusion as to what I should be doing...
As for trying ritalin, I researched it for weeks before I let my doctor prescribe it for me, so yeah - I reckon I've covered most of the bases... my main reason for asking slashdot is because there is little information regarding ADHD in computer/IT works - at least that google can find..
I would continue this message, but my ritalin has worn off for today and forgot where my point was going...
So far, I've been reading all these threads, and they all say pretty much one of the follows:
"RedHat sucks."
"Software Patents are evil."
"The GPL requires that all software patents on GPL code have free licensing."
"Good for RedHat."
Right.
I'm a software engineer for a company that develops proprietary code on Linux systems.
I make money from software. Linux software.
Some of which have software patents.
Does that make me evil?
No, it doesn't.
Software patents are a good thing.
I spend, offically, 8.5 hours a day coding. (Unoffically, closer to 16-20 hours a day).
Why should I not be able to patent an idea that I came up with, while ensconced in front of my PC?
Moving on....
I'm no RedHat fan. Actually, I hate RedHat.
Not because they're RedHat, or they're big, or they make money from Linux..
My gripe with RedHat is that they release RedHat distributions without proper QA procedures. They fix "bugs" in programs that don't exist. They patched "ping" to do a DNS lookup on each and every ping request it sent.
They broke 'tar', so it'd generate 0-length real-files from symlinks, when extracting.
They used a development version of glibc in a production distribution.
The list is endless. That's my gripe with them, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
But don't diss them for trying to protect the intellectual property and hard work of their software developers.
Indeed, more power to them for it.
OpenSource is well and good, but, personally, I like to be able to put food on my table. And I don't even have kids -- if I did, I'd work for Microsoft themselves, if it was the only way to put food on the table.
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Genocide is merely one aspect of oppression. A nasty one I'll grant you, but let's face it. If the Jews didn't want to die, why the fuck didn't they try to fight? A few thousand Jews in an extermination camp, even unarmed, would have been able to overwhelm the comparitavely (sp?) small number of guards in each camp.
Get with the program. The US today is just as Nazi as the Nazi government was, they're just not as overt about it.
I'm sure a large percentage of the populations of Afghanistan and Iraq would have that view anyway.
(And that's another point: Look at it however you will, the US has essentially annexed those two nations, just as Germany attempted to annex various nations.)
and get a BlueSocket device. Truely, they are the best.
Because as we all know, Moccona has more MMMM! :)
Frankly, I'd prefer an opt-out tick-box for those kind of warnings. I don't mind snail-mail thaat much. :)
Now, I've since been looking into neural feedback as a potential treatment - more from the geek-side of things though, than as a patient. (I'm looking at building a home-made EEG-like device with input to my computer via either a serial or parrallel device.)
I'm sure that you're aware of all the technical information on EEG's and biofeedback, but for the benefit of the other readers:
A typical electroencephalogram (EEG) is where the electrical activity in your brain is recorded over generally a 1.5 to 2 hour session. During the test, the brain can be applied with different stimuli to see how the brainwaves react. Uses for this include detection of epilepsy, and determination of clinical brain death.
Neurofeedback is an extension of typical brainwave monitoring wherein the brainwaves are represented to the patient in a way that facilitates learning how to control them, i.e via a game of some description. Current methods include controlling the doppler effect on a virtual pool, or cloud generation/manipulation.
The brainwaves are approximately:
People with ADHD can exhibit brainwaves that have an unproportionally high period of time spent in the Theta state - essentially daydreaming. So if the patient is taught how to modify his brainwaves to between mid-Alpha and mid-Beta, then a lot of the symptoms can be reduced.
For instance, with the doppler effect method, more ripples could indicate a more higher-cycle brainwaves, and can thus be observed and trained.
There is also strong clinical evidence that shows that neurofeedback is an effective tool for people with ADHD, with a lot less of the harmful side-affects of the drugs, such as Ritalin.
For me personally, I had an EEG performed when I was 12 for suspected epilepsy. An EEG is non-invasive, and non-painful. No icky injections, nothing that felt really weird. Particularly for children this can be a very important point.
I would recommend following this path highly, as it shows a lot of promise, and there is little to show it being harmful in any way.
I wish you, your daughter and your entire family the best through this, and I think that you'll be very happy with the results you'll find.
Just FYI, I'm still on Ritalin, but I do intend to go down the path of neurofeedback, but I'd rather do it via my home-made one. I'm a geek, after all.
Let me guess, this guy probably isn't going to vote for Return of the Kings...
I'd be surprised if he is even allowed to vote, now.
Hey, you know what? That works for Chernobyl too! :)
I note that the SCO homepage title is "SCO | SCO Grows Your Business" - shouldn't that read "SCO | SCO Sues Your Business", or even "SCO | SCO Sues Your Community"?
Appears to be, but it's running ColdFusion, so what else do you expect? :)
The Cornyn-Feinstein bill also creates another federal felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, for using "an audiovisual recording device" in a movie theater to make a copy of a film
What if person X has an audio recorder, and person Y has a visual recorder - since this is not an audiovisual device in one, does that make that situation exempt? Or am I missing something?
Given the similarities between this and the SCO, Linux claims, is it possible that this could be a "ploy" by the JBoss people to establish a public precedent for the GPL?
I mean, if the public see Apache and JBoss figuring it out, could the outcry against SCO and their detrimental case against Linux be enough to quash it?
it most certainly is - it's probably the best software out there to do what it does... i like my copy anyway.
Well, I'm hearing a lot on here about "hey, if this happened to open source once, it may have already happened or it may happen again" ... sure... but wait a minute, wasn't the halflife 2 source code leaked/stolen a while ago? Propietary code, no? Who is to say that they didn't add a few dozen back doors into it while they were at it, mmm?
The risk of this happening to open and closed source is roughly the same, and the benefit of open source it that it can be spotted...
My chip can leap Venti buildings in a single bound!
Oh good - time to change my dns servers... and convince my isp to as well.
I vote that we all boycott the VeriSign root-servers, and setup an international non-profit agency to maintain new non-commercially-run root servers.
This is outrageous, and despite what they say, is completely in violation of internet standards and best practices.
Are you sure this was by a programmer? What if the Internet is becoming alive, and these worms are lifeforms it's creating on its own... perhaps the Internet hates Microsoft too... OH MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF BUGS!!!
Tried http://add.miningco.com?
Well I'm in New Zealand and we haven't had anything like that on TV out here, so it's probably co-incidence :)
You can bet your boots that I'll be asking my doctor about Stattera :) Hopefully it's available out here in misty New Zealand :)
I lucked out here. Most of middle-management in my company has ADHD too. :)
Not true. 5-HTP is a natural extract of the Griffonia (sp) Bean.
I know exactly how you feel, my doctor and I are slowly upping my dosage - I've only been on it for a week or so now myself :)
The clarity - when I first had it, I got big smiles all over as the world came into crystal clarity... and my driving has improved no end!!!
A lot of you have made valid points regarding my question, and I thank you for those. As for the trolls, you don't exist to me anyway - I'm turned you off. :)
As for my story, I've gone through 3 jobs in 3 years, all in IT. Mainly as a programmer, but now I'm going out and visiting customers and thats working out a lot better..
However, I frequently (used to) look at my screen in utter confusion as to what I should be doing...
As for trying ritalin, I researched it for weeks before I let my doctor prescribe it for me, so yeah - I reckon I've covered most of the bases... my main reason for asking slashdot is because there is little information regarding ADHD in computer/IT works - at least that google can find..
I would continue this message, but my ritalin has worn off for today and forgot where my point was going...
So far, I've been reading all these threads, and they all say pretty much one of the follows:
"RedHat sucks."
"Software Patents are evil."
"The GPL requires that all software patents on GPL code have free licensing."
"Good for RedHat."
Right.
I'm a software engineer for a company that develops proprietary code on Linux systems.
I make money from software. Linux software.
Some of which have software patents.
Does that make me evil?
No, it doesn't.
Software patents are a good thing.
I spend, offically, 8.5 hours a day coding. (Unoffically, closer to 16-20 hours a day).
Why should I not be able to patent an idea that I came up with, while ensconced in front of my PC?
Moving on....
I'm no RedHat fan. Actually, I hate RedHat.
Not because they're RedHat, or they're big, or they make money from Linux..
My gripe with RedHat is that they release RedHat distributions without proper QA procedures. They fix "bugs" in programs that don't exist. They patched "ping" to do a DNS lookup on each and every ping request it sent.
They broke 'tar', so it'd generate 0-length real-files from symlinks, when extracting.
They used a development version of glibc in a production distribution.
The list is endless. That's my gripe with them, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
But don't diss them for trying to protect the intellectual property and hard work of their software developers.
Indeed, more power to them for it.
OpenSource is well and good, but, personally, I like to be able to put food on my table. And I don't even have kids -- if I did, I'd work for Microsoft themselves, if it was the only way to put food on the table.