Actually, my 7.9" tablet that acts as a phone as well goes with me everywhere. Fits in my pocket and is really light and durable, as well. Bluetooth is your friend.
You must walk around with a constant snorting sound as background noise, where people are trying not to laugh openly at you.
"So do you carry the tablet absolutely everywhere you go?"
Do you carry a briefcase absolutely everywhere you go? Or maybe a purse? To be honest, usually I carry a small backpack. Tablet in backpack + bluetooth headset sounds good to me.
As I'm not a lawyer, woman or student, no I don't carry something with me all the time that would fit a tablet in. I suppose you could get a 7 inch tablet in my coat pocket, but it would feel awkward and vulnerable.
Those are both Android phones, with relatively large (and therefore vulnerable) screens.
The advantage of old fashioned dumbphones is that they have a tiny screen which is much easier to protect, and means you can get a nice small overall phone to fit in your pocket
That's what I would go for if I wanted a phone I could take on building sites or on wilderness camping trips.
Indeed, a sane and rational person would reason that IF assult weapons are to be banned, that they should be banned from government as well.
No, only a deranged fantasist with as tenuous a grasp on spelling and grammar as he has on logic or reality would reason that IF ass-slut weapons are to be banned, that they should be banned from government as well.
Does anyone seriously think that private citizens should be allowed to own nuclear weapons?
So now in addition to all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average, all communities have above normal incidents of mental health issues?
The things you describe, there's a lot of that everywhere.
Most activist communities have a higher than normal incidence of mental health issues. Personality disorders, paranoia, anger management issues, I've seen a lot of them in various political activist groups.
That's because the government finds out where you live and puts LSD in your tap water.
But to judge by slashdot, most geeks idea of the "good" direction is some bizarre Randian dystopia where the only law is that of The Big Fucking Gun, but everyone follows the GPL.
People who don't take their meds are more prone to suicide or self injury.
Yeah, taking a pill for the rest of your life sucks, but it beats flipping out and hurting or killing yourself.
My brother killed himself after refusing to take his anti-depressive and anti-psychotic medicine for several months. He'd tell me over and over how he wanted to feel normal and hated how he felt when on meds, but he never was "normal" without the medicine; he was insane.
You're not allowed to say that on slashdot. All medicine is part of ZOG's conspiracy to turn us into sheeple.
if intelligence is the having of facts whereas wisdom is the making of good decisions, it is obvious that one needs facts (accurate ones) in order to make good decisions
In the real world, people make decisions based on whichever facts are convenient for them. That is because it is impossible to know everything. And some sort of selection bias is almost impossible to avoid.
Generally, it is the consequences of decisions that are more important than the reasons for them.
The more intelligence, the sooner a person will come to realize basic facts about the world, such as:
1. It is filled with injustice all around. Some of it can be fixed, most of it can not be fixed.
2. Most of what can be fixed will never actually be fixed, due to reasons such as status-quo and conflicts of interest, corruption, bribes, lobbying and differing ideologies.
Don't worry, when you get to about 21 you'll grow out of that "adolescent romantic cynic" phase. It happens to us all. You can then go and do something useful, even if in a small way, rather than just whine about how horrible the world is.
I think the problem is that this started with the OP more or less saying that because taking Vitamin D helped with his version of "depression" that therefore any depression could be cured by relatively minor changes that left you basically the same person, but happy.
Actually I think it's very ill-advised to practice medicine without a license, even on myself.
Why should you need a license? A license is there to tell people that this guy knows what he is doing. Do you know if you know what you are doing, or do you need a piece of paper to tell you that?
As far as "practicing medicine" goes, I am guessing you practice it more often than you think. Or do you go to the ER for paper cuts?
I'm sure you're one of those slashdot tough guys who can rope a steer, re-wire a skyscraper, take out your own appendix with a paperclip, play the Brandenburg Concertos better than Gould, outsprint Usain Boult over a hundred yards, write an entire Operating System before breakfast, leap tall buildings at a bound, and so on, but some of us are mere mortals who realise that we're not geniuses at everything we do, and are prepared to listen to so-called "experts" to help us out from time to time.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
No, the word for that is confirmation bias. If clinical experience trumps controlled scientific experiments, why do we bother with the controlled scientific experiments at all?
Doctors don't generally get the opportunity to do controlled scientific experiments on their patients. They have to treat them. Medical research is a different thing.
The truth is, doctors aren't experts in everything. In fact, from my experiences with med students, they're not very bright at all
You can accuse doctors of many things, but plain stupidity is not one of them. You have to be pretty bright just to get onto a medical degree/doctor training course where I live. They may not all be geniuses, but they're certainly in the top 5% in pure intelligence terms.
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Actually, my 7.9" tablet that acts as a phone as well goes with me everywhere. Fits in my pocket and is really light and durable, as well. Bluetooth is your friend.
You must walk around with a constant snorting sound as background noise, where people are trying not to laugh openly at you.
"So do you carry the tablet absolutely everywhere you go?"
Do you carry a briefcase absolutely everywhere you go? Or maybe a purse? To be honest, usually I carry a small backpack. Tablet in backpack + bluetooth headset sounds good to me.
As I'm not a lawyer, woman or student, no I don't carry something with me all the time that would fit a tablet in. I suppose you could get a 7 inch tablet in my coat pocket, but it would feel awkward and vulnerable.
its true remember the rootkit fiasco and the remove of other os
Why would that affect what phone, TV or other piece of consumer electronics you bought?
Samsung Rugby Pro or Sony Acro S
Those are both Android phones, with relatively large (and therefore vulnerable) screens.
The advantage of old fashioned dumbphones is that they have a tiny screen which is much easier to protect, and means you can get a nice small overall phone to fit in your pocket
That's what I would go for if I wanted a phone I could take on building sites or on wilderness camping trips.
. "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
That does not mean that every illegal thing is right.
the Marxist scum media in the U.K.
Yes, reality has a Marxist bias.
Someone once joked that only the most intelligent people are able to grasp how bad things really are!
You don't need to be intelligent to want to change things that are wrong, you just need a conscience.
Sadly, there is no correlation between intelligence and ethical behaviour.
Indeed, a sane and rational person would reason that IF assult weapons are to be banned, that they should be banned from government as well.
No, only a deranged fantasist with as tenuous a grasp on spelling and grammar as he has on logic or reality would reason that IF ass-slut weapons are to be banned, that they should be banned from government as well.
Does anyone seriously think that private citizens should be allowed to own nuclear weapons?
So now in addition to all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average, all communities have above normal incidents of mental health issues?
The things you describe, there's a lot of that everywhere.
In the hacker community, all the women are men.
Posted AC for obvious...oh shit.
Most activist communities have a higher than normal incidence of mental health issues. Personality disorders, paranoia, anger management issues, I've seen a lot of them in various political activist groups.
That's because the government finds out where you live and puts LSD in your tap water.
Writers such as Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick and others, had a history of depression. Look at Poe while you're at it.
Yeah, that's like every writer you've ever heard of had depression, so obviously all creative people are mentally ill.
It's amazing no one's noticed this precise one to one correlation before.
If you'll let me be your friend, will you promise to excuse me from the battery thing?
But to judge by slashdot, most geeks idea of the "good" direction is some bizarre Randian dystopia where the only law is that of The Big Fucking Gun, but everyone follows the GPL.
People who don't take their meds are more prone to suicide or self injury.
Yeah, taking a pill for the rest of your life sucks, but it beats flipping out and hurting or killing yourself.
My brother killed himself after refusing to take his anti-depressive and anti-psychotic medicine for several months. He'd tell me over and over how he wanted to feel normal and hated how he felt when on meds, but he never was "normal" without the medicine; he was insane.
You're not allowed to say that on slashdot. All medicine is part of ZOG's conspiracy to turn us into sheeple.
You used the word sheeple. As a logical necessity, you should now kill yourself. Bye.
I don't see the connection. Your correlations are obvious. Mine is not.
Because you're all depressed and intelligent and he's just a carefree dumbass?
I never actually read "the Catcher in the Rye,"
You haven't missed much. It is one of the most over-rated books of the last Century, apart (of course) from anything by Ernest Hemingway.
if intelligence is the having of facts whereas wisdom is the making of good decisions, it is obvious that one needs facts (accurate ones) in order to make good decisions
In the real world, people make decisions based on whichever facts are convenient for them. That is because it is impossible to know everything. And some sort of selection bias is almost impossible to avoid.
Generally, it is the consequences of decisions that are more important than the reasons for them.
The more intelligence, the sooner a person will come to realize basic facts about the world, such as:
1. It is filled with injustice all around. Some of it can be fixed, most of it can not be fixed.
2. Most of what can be fixed will never actually be fixed, due to reasons such as status-quo and conflicts of interest, corruption, bribes, lobbying and differing ideologies.
Don't worry, when you get to about 21 you'll grow out of that "adolescent romantic cynic" phase. It happens to us all. You can then go and do something useful, even if in a small way, rather than just whine about how horrible the world is.
Take psychedelics; fight the underlying causes of your mental issues, the fears and traumas that actually comprise your world.
Taking mind-altering drugs when you're mentally ill: what could possibly go wrong?
It's not as simple as that, obviously..
What if you're not really happy but only think you are? Would it matter?
If someone says they're happy, and they're functioning normally, how could you prove otherwise?
Actually I think it's very ill-advised to practice medicine without a license, even on myself.
Why should you need a license? A license is there to tell people that this guy knows what he is doing. Do you know if you know what you are doing, or do you need a piece of paper to tell you that? As far as "practicing medicine" goes, I am guessing you practice it more often than you think. Or do you go to the ER for paper cuts?
I'm sure you're one of those slashdot tough guys who can rope a steer, re-wire a skyscraper, take out your own appendix with a paperclip, play the Brandenburg Concertos better than Gould, outsprint Usain Boult over a hundred yards, write an entire Operating System before breakfast, leap tall buildings at a bound, and so on, but some of us are mere mortals who realise that we're not geniuses at everything we do, and are prepared to listen to so-called "experts" to help us out from time to time.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
No, the word for that is confirmation bias. If clinical experience trumps controlled scientific experiments, why do we bother with the controlled scientific experiments at all?
Doctors don't generally get the opportunity to do controlled scientific experiments on their patients. They have to treat them. Medical research is a different thing.
The truth is, doctors aren't experts in everything. In fact, from my experiences with med students, they're not very bright at all
You can accuse doctors of many things, but plain stupidity is not one of them. You have to be pretty bright just to get onto a medical degree/doctor training course where I live. They may not all be geniuses, but they're certainly in the top 5% in pure intelligence terms.