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  1. Afford on RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does" · · Score: 1

    How else can artists afford solid-gold humvees? Or diamond-studded swimming pools? These things don't grow on trees! So all I'm asking....

  2. Re:Were his, so called, "experiments" like this on on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    And what about that site makes you think its account isn't sensastionalized? I guess it's easy to condone killing just about anyone if you interpret what they do as extreme as you want to. Luckily, we have laws.

  3. Interesting Search: John Kerry on Google Launches Trends · · Score: 1

    Do a search for "kerry", and you will discover and interesting pattern up to election day and afterwards? Well, let's just say that I can't find a better analogy for flat-lining.

  4. Social Contract on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of news item that completely enrages me. If you visit the UCLA Primate Freedom site (http://www.uclaprimatefreedom.com/), you will discover that there are no email contacts for the members of the project, but plenty of information for terrorist targets, including said neuroscientist and many others. So ultimately I cannot tell them what I think. But of course, they don't care what I think. They have already broken the social contract, and such individuals don't deserve to be a part of our (free) society.

  5. Technology Complicates Life on Correlation Between Stress and Technology? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not just the fact that people cause stress regardless of technology, or that they are stupid. Technology creates stress through people by forcing them to rely on complicated things--things more complicated than they can understand. So when your boss screams at you for not having the server up, it's not because he only thinks he can't get by without it, he actually can't get by without it.

    That reliance on complex, unnatural mechanisms is a breeding ground for stress because, hey, complex, unnatural things are more prone to breaks. And unlike more physical things (say, compare a piece of paper to outlook), what you can expect to break changes with each version of the program, operating system, computer, and user.

    Complexity does cause stress. People are just doing the best they can. The technological enviornment people work in, however, causes them to appear stupid.

    And, of course, some people actually are just stupid.