I was just wondering, do you people think that XFree will revert their license, or will this cause the opensource community to get at work and create another X11 server which would replace XFree86?
Personally I don't like the attitude of the XFree devel team with this license... smells a little too much like an attempt at licensing code without having people being aware of it, and sueing like SCO, with valid claims this time, no?
What the fuck are you talking about???? I'm saying that love doesn't depend on smell. You probably didn't understand what I was saying, dumbass! Besides, I understand science, I like it, that's my major in college. I'm just saying there are limits to it. So you're the animal barking at me because you misread what I was saying.
And no matter how far science goes, it will NEVER be able to explain some things. One example simple example : what exists outside our universe? Since you know about science, I don't need to explain the expansion of our universe since the big bang.
I can tell you how it went for one of my friends, who has already been through this, and for whom it went quite well. His girlfriend moved over from Scottland to live with him in Alsace (eastern France). She's only 17, and he's 19. That's how well you can fall in love distantly, and then have an even better experience in real life. I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining or expecting too much about her, nor her about me. Talking, whether through IMs or telephone can make you know alot more than you'd think about someone else.
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well, all I'm trying to point out is that science can't explain everything related to life. Besides, I am not desperate. I wasn't particularly looking online for women. In fact, I was actually trying to not end up in the situation I am in now. Seeing each other, yes. But the study is related to smell and pheromones, which, unless I am a total ignorant, are not yet transmitted over the web! How then can you explain romantic love without those pheromones in this particular study? That is the objection I have to make.
mmm, I'm not sure it's as simple as you describe it... I think there's one more dimension to the soul that science will never be able to grasp. Life in general is not just a bunch of chemical reactions behaving to logical laws, however complex they might be. There's something more behing it. Otherwise everything that happened and is to happen would be written or determined already. Freedom of thinking is not something that is a series of chemical reactions. At least not entirely. Those scientists are just dumbass capitalists that have not grasped the fact that there will always be something beyond comprehension, although it may not be god.
I'd like those guys to explain to me how they will explain how people can fall in love over the net if their theory is so strong... How do you start getting "addicted" to loving someone you haven't met in real life before? I mean, how would they explain the fact that before even meeting the other person you have realistic dreams (not involving any kind of sexual scenes)? I have been chatting with webcams and talking on the phone with a girl since October, and I know she is the one, and I haven't seen her anywhere in my life before... Anybody else thinks that science is and will always be limited, whereas the human mind can go against it?
I would like to talk about my own story.
Sunday is my 18th birthday, and about a year and 3 months ago I was diagnosed with ADD. I used to live in France, where it wasn't recognized, *at all*. Once I was diagnozed and started taking Ritalin, as for many others, my grades went up by an average of 25%.
Still, the one thing that is important, and that I would like to point out is this one : even though I have been taking ritalin for over a year, I am not yet dependent. I haven't taken any between Thanksgiving and New Year, and I haven't felt the need for it. The difference Ritalin makes for me, and the reason for which I keep taking it, is that it allows me to choose to focus on what I want, instead of randomly thinking of several things.
Mark my words : it allows me to choose.
It doesn't force me to focus, and doesn't affect my insights a bit. I am even more creative while taking Ritalin then when not taking it.
I think it is because I am a fully grown teenager that understands what the world requires from individuals, that I am able to take advantage of the option offered by the Ritalin.
My belief is that you cannot give a drug to a child and just hope he'll calm down, focus and grow into a regular person. It simply won't work. If the child has no motivation, no understanding of what or why he is taking the drug, it could have a reverse effect. Ritalin, and other similar drugs are stimulants, and naturally tend to affect the portions of the brain responsible for ADD or ADHD. But, if the child enjoys his state, it will strengthen the degree of ADD, ADHD and make the kid truly impossible to control.
Even today, taking 36mg of Ritalin Concerta a day I can daydream while doing my homework, listening to friends or music. Only before I had the medication, I was hardly aware of drifting off, and couldn't control it when I knew I should have been paying attention. Now, on the other hand, I can focus on what I am doing, allowing a much more structured writing and thinking, among other things. But, when looking at a math problem with the Concerta active, I look out the window, and suddenly here comes the insight I would have had without the drug. Only once I have that insight, I can force myself back into concentration, which would be impossible for me without the medication.
I have never tried Neural Feedback, and probably never will. I just don't feel as I need it.
My advice is : get in a serious talk with your daughter, very straightforward, and make it as brief as possible, but very clear. If she wants to be able to follow in school, then she has to want it all along, and work on her Neural Feedback exercises to achieve that goal. However, if she doesn't have the desire for it, I think you're just wasting money for the time being, and would be better off waiting a little later in her life when she'll understand the importance of focus, schoolwork and mind self-control better.
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I was just wondering, do you people think that XFree will revert their license, or will this cause the opensource community to get at work and create another X11 server which would replace XFree86? Personally I don't like the attitude of the XFree devel team with this license... smells a little too much like an attempt at licensing code without having people being aware of it, and sueing like SCO, with valid claims this time, no?
What the fuck are you talking about???? I'm saying that love doesn't depend on smell. You probably didn't understand what I was saying, dumbass! Besides, I understand science, I like it, that's my major in college. I'm just saying there are limits to it. So you're the animal barking at me because you misread what I was saying. And no matter how far science goes, it will NEVER be able to explain some things. One example simple example : what exists outside our universe? Since you know about science, I don't need to explain the expansion of our universe since the big bang.
I can tell you how it went for one of my friends, who has already been through this, and for whom it went quite well. His girlfriend moved over from Scottland to live with him in Alsace (eastern France). She's only 17, and he's 19. That's how well you can fall in love distantly, and then have an even better experience in real life. I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining or expecting too much about her, nor her about me. Talking, whether through IMs or telephone can make you know alot more than you'd think about someone else.
well, all I'm trying to point out is that science can't explain everything related to life. Besides, I am not desperate. I wasn't particularly looking online for women. In fact, I was actually trying to not end up in the situation I am in now. Seeing each other, yes. But the study is related to smell and pheromones, which, unless I am a total ignorant, are not yet transmitted over the web! How then can you explain romantic love without those pheromones in this particular study? That is the objection I have to make.
mmm, I'm not sure it's as simple as you describe it... I think there's one more dimension to the soul that science will never be able to grasp. Life in general is not just a bunch of chemical reactions behaving to logical laws, however complex they might be. There's something more behing it. Otherwise everything that happened and is to happen would be written or determined already. Freedom of thinking is not something that is a series of chemical reactions. At least not entirely. Those scientists are just dumbass capitalists that have not grasped the fact that there will always be something beyond comprehension, although it may not be god.
I'd like those guys to explain to me how they will explain how people can fall in love over the net if their theory is so strong... How do you start getting "addicted" to loving someone you haven't met in real life before? I mean, how would they explain the fact that before even meeting the other person you have realistic dreams (not involving any kind of sexual scenes)? I have been chatting with webcams and talking on the phone with a girl since October, and I know she is the one, and I haven't seen her anywhere in my life before... Anybody else thinks that science is and will always be limited, whereas the human mind can go against it?
I would like to talk about my own story. Sunday is my 18th birthday, and about a year and 3 months ago I was diagnosed with ADD. I used to live in France, where it wasn't recognized, *at all*. Once I was diagnozed and started taking Ritalin, as for many others, my grades went up by an average of 25%. Still, the one thing that is important, and that I would like to point out is this one : even though I have been taking ritalin for over a year, I am not yet dependent. I haven't taken any between Thanksgiving and New Year, and I haven't felt the need for it. The difference Ritalin makes for me, and the reason for which I keep taking it, is that it allows me to choose to focus on what I want, instead of randomly thinking of several things. Mark my words : it allows me to choose. It doesn't force me to focus, and doesn't affect my insights a bit. I am even more creative while taking Ritalin then when not taking it. I think it is because I am a fully grown teenager that understands what the world requires from individuals, that I am able to take advantage of the option offered by the Ritalin. My belief is that you cannot give a drug to a child and just hope he'll calm down, focus and grow into a regular person. It simply won't work. If the child has no motivation, no understanding of what or why he is taking the drug, it could have a reverse effect. Ritalin, and other similar drugs are stimulants, and naturally tend to affect the portions of the brain responsible for ADD or ADHD. But, if the child enjoys his state, it will strengthen the degree of ADD, ADHD and make the kid truly impossible to control. Even today, taking 36mg of Ritalin Concerta a day I can daydream while doing my homework, listening to friends or music. Only before I had the medication, I was hardly aware of drifting off, and couldn't control it when I knew I should have been paying attention. Now, on the other hand, I can focus on what I am doing, allowing a much more structured writing and thinking, among other things. But, when looking at a math problem with the Concerta active, I look out the window, and suddenly here comes the insight I would have had without the drug. Only once I have that insight, I can force myself back into concentration, which would be impossible for me without the medication. I have never tried Neural Feedback, and probably never will. I just don't feel as I need it. My advice is : get in a serious talk with your daughter, very straightforward, and make it as brief as possible, but very clear. If she wants to be able to follow in school, then she has to want it all along, and work on her Neural Feedback exercises to achieve that goal. However, if she doesn't have the desire for it, I think you're just wasting money for the time being, and would be better off waiting a little later in her life when she'll understand the importance of focus, schoolwork and mind self-control better.