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  1. Re:Nitrovirutal Reality on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I can assure you, someone somewhere has that rigged up. And most likely with a hooka tube attached below.

  2. Re:high tech mind tricks on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a better way to 'distract' the patient. Hypnosis.

    Actually, that's pretty much backwards: 'Another name for distraction is hypnosis'.

    Nothing empirically special can be found to identify hypnosis. Indeed, from the above article:

    The upshot is there's no consistent and agreed-on set of procedures among practitioners. Any therapeutic incident can be considered hypnotherapy--as long as a therapist says it is.

    So, a therapist calling VR "hypnotherapy" meets the goal simply by naming it so. But, I agree with you , I just say it differently - "Health care givers need to learn better and more varied assurance techniques."

    Again, from same article:

    Roughly 15 percent of the population is held to be highly hypnotizable. About 25 percent are thought to be not hypnotizable at all.

    One quarter of us can't be hypnotized and 60% are on a scale between. Don't throw out the juice or knockout gas just yet.

  3. If it is, please provide a link. I think you're bsing.

  4. You hire one of the people already living there. With a population of 6.77M, that isn't a problem.

  5. Re: What about electrical, plumbing etc? on Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    None of the above. It's an attempt to close off private work and coerce the use of pro or union labor. And one cannot assume the pro did it correctly so there's no more danger than with final inspection on a professional installation. If it passes it's right.

  6. Re:What about electrical, plumbing etc? on Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I've done all three on my houses; one center of KC, other rural. Yes, the meter was company installed, but that was because the company owned it. I ran the wire up to it. Got inspections and passed and that was it.

    It's not as if municipalities just mark everything OK if a licensed tech does it. Your accusation of him failing to get inspections came from where exactly?

  7. But it's still the owner's house and you don't know what they know regardless of your assigning them no "clear reason". That's just some grammar you tacked on in an attempt to cutoff a rebut. As is "everything else is sold out". It's not even close to sold out - plenty of space and resources - it's because their kith, kin and neighbors just don't want them.

  8. That's all men not just the "common man".

  9. Re:This explains a lot... on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the poster is just as crazy as they are but they're self-medicating. Part of schizophrenia is not seeing the world as it is.

  10. Re:Why restrict this to US citizens? on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Who was it with the Roman columns, hymns sung by school children and proclamations about his victory marking "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" again? Criticize Trump for pomposity but don't pretend it's only him and not every other politician as well.

  11. Re:You just now started worrying? on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    And where can we find one of those? We certainly don't have one at the moment.

  12. Re:Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... if there is a pressing need.

    Ah... ah hah hah hah ha ha ha ha.......

    Thank you so much. I feel more relaxed now.

    Trump threatened...

    Cite please. No elided quotes, full cite.

  13. Re:Da, comrade. on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    No, he's simply aware that those ideas are only good on paper and that in reality they (and all other ideals) are failures, causing more harm than good and are typically used disingenuously during argument.

    Turn the other cheek? Only good for achieving matching bruises. Ethically, it can be said that returning that slap is better as it may prevent the slapper from abusing others.

    Do unto others is a good life goal, unless you keep doing so after getting screwed over by those others. Then it's simply enabling.

    The last depends entirely on your interpretation of great and whether it was inserted genuinely or as a political barb.

  14. Re:A problem without a good solution. on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 2

    So basically, fuck small, competent developers who provide products that don't require much if any support services?

  15. I do believe his winky eye emoti made clear he was being facetious.

  16. Re:I call BS yet again on FTC Dismantles Two Huge Robocall Organizations (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Lie. "I'm keeping tabs on you political spammers and I won't vote for them. Congrats. You're now only one call below (other party)." Skeeze deserves skeeze.

  17. Re:Now how about... on FTC Dismantles Two Huge Robocall Organizations (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Certainly not a corporate policy as I order by phone, pay with a credit card over said call and get it delivered.

  18. Re:Fingers crossed on FTC Dismantles Two Huge Robocall Organizations (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Better is to feign age. That gives you hard of hearing, confusion, memory problems and the need to go look for your wallet with the credit card. After diddling with them for around five minutes I carefully and quietly lay down my phone on the desk and go about my business.

    That or, if I'm in need of catharsis, I speak very softly to make sure they're listening then scream like a I'm being attacked by an axe murderer. Always makes me feel more relaxed.

  19. Re:The right people for the job? on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Because he's good at math?

  20. Re:Some odd things in their guidelines on CBS, Paramount Settle Lawsuit Over 'Star Trek' Fan Film (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    After that silhouette of Uhura I have to agree with the ban on nudity.

  21. From comic book dictionary on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    canon: (noun)

    What some writer decides today what happened in a fictitious past. This is primarily caused by s/he wanting a personal thumbprint on a character set combined with an inability to imagine extensions to current story lines. In most cases this leads to conflict in story lines that produce confusion in the readership and at times actual outrage at the bastardization and extreme vandalism of admired characters (see Green Lantern).

  22. Re:Didn't think this was in doubt. on Netflix's Subscriber Boom Shows the World is Accepting Internet TV (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the Kodi website:

    IMPORTANT: The official Kodi version does not contain any content whatsoever. This means that you should provide your own content from a local or remote storage location, DVD, Blu-Ray or any other media carrier that you own.

  23. I know. First thing I did was laugh at 'learned'.

  24. Yep. It may be a survival mechanism until males arrive or, if no males show up, continue on with only females. We have a mantid - Brunneria borealis - which has no males at all.

  25. More like one in four, so no.