Now a days it seems like only illegal immigrants are allowed to work with their hands. ( They also have the lowest rate of mental illness).
[citation needed]
Or, rather, not - because it's not true. Illegal immigrants tend to have a high rate of mental illness (on top of other health issues). They don't show up in psych clinics all that much because they're illegal aliens and have less access to medical care (along with various stigmas for mental health issues, other societal factors and other reasons).
So, no, kicking everyone out of the cubicles and making them pick lettuce is not the answer to psychiatric illness in the US. Exercise is important and it helps, but it isn't the only thing....
Umm, not so much. It's more along the line of alcohol + crazy fucker = really crazy fucker. Especially when you add methamphetamine (or whatever they sold the guy), sleep depression, plain old depression and C-span.
I sometimes wonder if when they cure one disease they invent another. And I mean invent, not discover.
Some of our neighbors have a three year old boy. He's been diagnosed with some kidney problem I can't even remember, let alone pronounce. And yet he's perfectly healthy.
Thirty years ago, you'd have just said he needs to pee a lot.
Idiot. I suppose that you, from your vaunted position as a 'neighbor', can diagnose a disease condition ("some kidney problem") and immediately dismiss it because everything that medicine does is bad. Thirty years ago, someone with high blood pressure or diabetes would be ignored because there wasn't much that we could do about it. Now there is. The incidence of strokes and heart failure is decreasing - not as much as people had suggested - but it's decreasing. Thirty years ago diabetes was a death sentence. Now it's just another chronic disease. But that means that Big Pharma is milking it for all it's worth since we can't 'cure' it.
There is an amazing amount of black and white thinking here. The world is complex, people more so. Yep, big Pharma is, in part, evil. So is the Law, Medicine, Politics and McDonalds. Sometimes I think the average Slashdotter should really be locked in the basement and left there. FWIW, the Al Jezeera article was pretty lame. It conveniently ignores the fact that human behavior is one of the biggest problems that humans face and we've been trying to chemically modify it for thousands of years (think tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, opium and other 'natural' solutions) and that despite this, we don't have very good tools for doing so.
Recently, Al Jezeera has made some inroads into good journalism but every now and again, they can't help themselves and revert to type.
and they can keep getting their money (even though normally is a nurse, the one that takes you blood pressure, asks you to open and say "ah", and dismiss you for some bucks).
We are SO not interested in your sexual peccadillos. Keep your filthy mind to yourself.
You know Chavez is from Venezuela, right? Not sure where the attitude against Argentina came from, but they are some ok dudes... Is your map of South America maybe upside down?
Argentina is close enough. When you have nuclear weapons you don't need pinpoint geography...
In the next ten years? Zero would be a good amount. Economic collapse is a much bigger threat than Korea/China.
Zero doesn't really work - these are complicated gizmos that don't just sit there. I rather doubt we need the new class of subs and we certainly don't need a new class of bombers. Whether or not we need to replace the Minutemen is more up in the air, IMHO - you just don't keep solid fuel boosters sitting there forever.
North Korea and Iran are not the problem. We've got the fly swatters for that. It's China - which isn't a problem militarily now but certainly could be and Russia (or whatever the former CCCP morphs into) with an enormous number of powerful, accurate nucs and a large identity problem.
That said, the premise of TFA is correct - we don't need to spend ALL the money we're currently spending on nuclear weapons, but the hard question is what is a reasonable level and spread.
No, any terrorist with half a brain knows to bypass the passenger cabin completely. You know all of those people that service the plane? That have access to all manner of hidden spaces in the plane and the airport? Those people who are given a cursory background check and even more cursory supervision.
The next terrorist attack will not the the same as the last terrorist attack.
"But because the Dragon has a propulsion-based landing system and a much more capable heatshield than the shuttle's, it can land anywhere in the solar system with a solid surface — as long as you can throw it there."
"If the shuttle's level of reliability was acceptable, we could fly astronauts this year."
Interesting that this thread has 430 replies already. For just entertainment, it sure hits a nerve. I always wondered how people can get all worked up over a television show or a movie. If I don't like the price / service / content I just do something different.
FWIW, I cancelled our streaming subscription. Given the wonky selection and crappy resolution, we rarely used it. It was an interesting experiment, for the $2 / month extra it was 'worth it' - for the additional cost, not so much. Turns out Gilligan's Island just isn't as funny as I thought it was when I was a kid.
All the hacks were a false flag operation by the government, PRECISELY TO ALLOW this kind of committee to be formed to pass more draconian laws about internet use, hacking, etc.
LulzSec and those other groups aren't real, in that the people running them are working for the government. They may have enticed real hackers to join so they'd have people to jail later. It's all fake though.
How is it that hackers that touch federal sites are typically in jail within a week, yet nobody has been taken down for the multiple federal site hacks that have happened? That's never happened in the history of hacking, yet somehow LulzSec does it along with 800 other hacks in a bizarrely short time frame.
It's fake. Be careful.
You be careful. You're ascribing competence to the US Government's 'cybersecurity' forces. That's never happened in the history of anything.
No one will openly say it, but the U.S. doesn't have the money for space projects anymore. No politician wants to be the first to say it (because Americans don't like to hear anything besides "We're Number One!!!!"), so they're just quietly defunding everything.
Oh we have plenty of money. NASA's budget is a rounding error.
> "OMG FLASH LETS PUT FLASH IN OUR SITES" and make user
> experience WORSE.
Actually this applies to more than just the use of Flash. My computers have gotten exponentially faster, same with the connection, the browser promise 20 and more percent more speed with each major release....and yet tons of farking pages load slower and slower. Woe you if you try to scroll before the whole damn thing actually loaded its crap. Then it jumps all over the place and whatnot. Even clicking on a story and then going Back reloads the page again with a similar waiting period. There are sites (for example, some news sites) I hardly use anymore specifically because of abysmal performance issues. I can see the advantage of correlating and aggregating information from various sources and using dynamic techniques to display them. And yet, there's a very distinct point of diminishing and then reversing 'benefits'. Too bad most site developers haven't gotten that yet and still think, the more pictures move around, flip up and down, advertisements scroll along with user scrolling and various other completely annoying stuff, incl. soundtrack, the 'more exciting' the site. It's bullshit and the blink-tag craze all over. KEEP IT SIMPLE AND USEFUL, YOU MORONS!
Sounds like you've been hanging out on Slashdot again, sonny.
Just a hint to "Smarter Technology". If you want someone to believe what you're saying, or even be able to read it, you might figure out a way to flow paragraphs so that wordsdon't smashtogetherall of the time.
Agreed. Gates is just a rich old retired guy now. Kids have no idea who he is now. Might want to queue up a Zuckerborg icon while we're at it.
Look buddy, there are a bunch of us old guys still here (We're not dead yet, get it?). As should be obvious from most of the postings here, our connection to reality is tenuous at best. By taking away those old familiar icons you would be depriving us of one of the few elements of stability in our lives. That's not a nice thing to do to your elders.
"Nurse! Oh nurse! Is it time for my medication yet?"
Ron Paul still doesn't accept medicare or medicaid when he's practicing medicine; instead he'll work something out with the individual just as doctors did in ages past. Private charities, the local church, friends, and family were usually enough support for those who needed help.
Sure, that's OK for the $250 - $5000 dollar physician bill. Doesn't work too well for the $20,000 - $200,000 hospital bill. Are medical costs inflated? Sure, but the underlying issue is that we're doing more for people.
"Back in the days before Federal shenanigans" doctors didn't do all that much. Having a heart attack? Here's some oxygen and morphine. Hope you make it. Now, it's drugs, stents, perhaps a bypass or two. Is it 'cost effective'? That's a whole other argument, but to state that Ron Paul understands how to reform the US medical system because he accepts chickens in payment is completely ludicrous. It is a whole lot more complex than that but I don't think Paul really has a handle on it, despite being a physician.
If we eliminate entitlements and let communities take over for caring for the needy and then cut the rest of the budget, defense included, to a fraction of its former self, we could pay off the debt within a decade or so and then possibly eliminate the IRS entirely
We probably could. We would be a nice, debt free third world country. A neat place to live if you're one of the lucky ones (lots of places are nice places to live if you're lucky). But your last statement lets me understand that you've swallowed too much of the Rand Flavored Kool-Aid. Nice talking points, not a very useful way to run a large country.
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Now a days it seems like only illegal immigrants are allowed to work with their hands. ( They also have the lowest rate of mental illness).
[citation needed]
Or, rather, not - because it's not true. Illegal immigrants tend to have a high rate of mental illness (on top of other health issues). They don't show up in psych clinics all that much because they're illegal aliens and have less access to medical care (along with various stigmas for mental health issues, other societal factors and other reasons).
So, no, kicking everyone out of the cubicles and making them pick lettuce is not the answer to psychiatric illness in the US. Exercise is important and it helps, but it isn't the only thing....
Umm, not so much. It's more along the line of alcohol + crazy fucker = really crazy fucker. Especially when you add methamphetamine (or whatever they sold the guy), sleep depression, plain old depression and C-span.
I sometimes wonder if when they cure one disease they invent another. And I mean invent, not discover.
Some of our neighbors have a three year old boy. He's been diagnosed with some kidney problem I can't even remember, let alone pronounce. And yet he's perfectly healthy.
Thirty years ago, you'd have just said he needs to pee a lot.
Idiot. I suppose that you, from your vaunted position as a 'neighbor', can diagnose a disease condition ("some kidney problem") and immediately dismiss it because everything that medicine does is bad. Thirty years ago, someone with high blood pressure or diabetes would be ignored because there wasn't much that we could do about it. Now there is. The incidence of strokes and heart failure is decreasing - not as much as people had suggested - but it's decreasing. Thirty years ago diabetes was a death sentence. Now it's just another chronic disease. But that means that Big Pharma is milking it for all it's worth since we can't 'cure' it.
There is an amazing amount of black and white thinking here. The world is complex, people more so. Yep, big Pharma is, in part, evil. So is the Law, Medicine, Politics and McDonalds. Sometimes I think the average Slashdotter should really be locked in the basement and left there. FWIW, the Al Jezeera article was pretty lame. It conveniently ignores the fact that human behavior is one of the biggest problems that humans face and we've been trying to chemically modify it for thousands of years (think tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, opium and other 'natural' solutions) and that despite this, we don't have very good tools for doing so.
Recently, Al Jezeera has made some inroads into good journalism but every now and again, they can't help themselves and revert to type.
and they can keep getting their money (even though normally is a nurse, the one that takes you blood pressure, asks you to open and say "ah", and dismiss you for some bucks).
We are SO not interested in your sexual peccadillos. Keep your filthy mind to yourself.
Subs - Even boomers have quite a few uses other than flinging nukes.
I should hope so, they've been around for decades, cost billions and have never actually fired a missile in anger.
Other than scaring random boaters and bothering whales, I am interested in just what SSBN's can do.
You know Chavez is from Venezuela, right? Not sure where the attitude against Argentina came from, but they are some ok dudes... Is your map of South America maybe upside down?
Argentina is close enough. When you have nuclear weapons you don't need pinpoint geography ...
In the next ten years? Zero would be a good amount. Economic collapse is a much bigger threat than Korea/China.
Zero doesn't really work - these are complicated gizmos that don't just sit there. I rather doubt we need the new class of subs and we certainly don't need a new class of bombers. Whether or not we need to replace the Minutemen is more up in the air, IMHO - you just don't keep solid fuel boosters sitting there forever.
North Korea and Iran are not the problem. We've got the fly swatters for that. It's China - which isn't a problem militarily now but certainly could be and Russia (or whatever the former CCCP morphs into) with an enormous number of powerful, accurate nucs and a large identity problem.
That said, the premise of TFA is correct - we don't need to spend ALL the money we're currently spending on nuclear weapons, but the hard question is what is a reasonable level and spread.
No, any terrorist with half a brain knows to bypass the passenger cabin completely. You know all of those people that service the plane? That have access to all manner of hidden spaces in the plane and the airport? Those people who are given a cursory background check and even more cursory supervision.
The next terrorist attack will not the the same as the last terrorist attack.
I don't mind groping my crotch as long as somebody else is doing the striptease for me to watch...
DO NOT WANT! Have you seen the people that TSA hires? Ewww!
"But because the Dragon has a propulsion-based landing system and a much more capable heatshield than the shuttle's, it can land anywhere in the solar system with a solid surface — as long as you can throw it there."
"If the shuttle's level of reliability was acceptable, we could fly astronauts this year."
Ok. Mars, how much? Will you take a check?
PayPal only. Sorry.
A rubber hose is the fast, most sure-fire way to get any info out of any body, dead or alive !!
Up your nose with a rubber hose brings back such fond mammories !!
You have a rather strange sex life. And thank you, no, you don't have to add any additional details.
Interesting that this thread has 430 replies already. For just entertainment, it sure hits a nerve. I always wondered how people can get all worked up over a television show or a movie. If I don't like the price / service / content I just do something different.
FWIW, I cancelled our streaming subscription. Given the wonky selection and crappy resolution, we rarely used it. It was an interesting experiment, for the $2 / month extra it was 'worth it' - for the additional cost, not so much. Turns out Gilligan's Island just isn't as funny as I thought it was when I was a kid.
I've been saying this since the very beginning.
All the hacks were a false flag operation by the government, PRECISELY TO ALLOW this kind of committee to be formed to pass more draconian laws about internet use, hacking, etc.
LulzSec and those other groups aren't real, in that the people running them are working for the government. They may have enticed real hackers to join so they'd have people to jail later. It's all fake though.
How is it that hackers that touch federal sites are typically in jail within a week, yet nobody has been taken down for the multiple federal site hacks that have happened? That's never happened in the history of hacking, yet somehow LulzSec does it along with 800 other hacks in a bizarrely short time frame.
It's fake. Be careful.
You be careful. You're ascribing competence to the US Government's 'cybersecurity' forces. That's never happened in the history of anything.
No one will openly say it, but the U.S. doesn't have the money for space projects anymore. No politician wants to be the first to say it (because Americans don't like to hear anything besides "We're Number One!!!!"), so they're just quietly defunding everything.
Oh we have plenty of money. NASA's budget is a rounding error.
Just take out Washington DC. Then nothing of value would be lost.
I think it's more along the lines of the Winston Churchill aphorism:
"You can always depend on the Americans to do the right thing. After they have exhausted all other possibilities".
Now, I think you should take a breather and get a nice relaxing cup of tea.
Careful. Look at his UID. He must have disconnected his bed alarm and made it out to the computer again.
> "OMG FLASH LETS PUT FLASH IN OUR SITES" and make user > experience WORSE.
Actually this applies to more than just the use of Flash. My computers have gotten exponentially faster, same with the connection, the browser promise 20 and more percent more speed with each major release....and yet tons of farking pages load slower and slower. Woe you if you try to scroll before the whole damn thing actually loaded its crap. Then it jumps all over the place and whatnot. Even clicking on a story and then going Back reloads the page again with a similar waiting period. There are sites (for example, some news sites) I hardly use anymore specifically because of abysmal performance issues. I can see the advantage of correlating and aggregating information from various sources and using dynamic techniques to display them. And yet, there's a very distinct point of diminishing and then reversing 'benefits'. Too bad most site developers haven't gotten that yet and still think, the more pictures move around, flip up and down, advertisements scroll along with user scrolling and various other completely annoying stuff, incl. soundtrack, the 'more exciting' the site. It's bullshit and the blink-tag craze all over. KEEP IT SIMPLE AND USEFUL, YOU MORONS!
Sounds like you've been hanging out on Slashdot again, sonny.
Interestingly, they fixed it.... Or it's working now or something. Odd. (Firefox 3.6, OS X 10.6.8).
Just a hint to "Smarter Technology". If you want someone to believe what you're saying, or even be able to read it, you might figure out a way to flow paragraphs so that wordsdon't smashtogetherall of the time.
Jesus, that hurts.
Agreed. Gates is just a rich old retired guy now. Kids have no idea who he is now. Might want to queue up a Zuckerborg icon while we're at it.
Look buddy, there are a bunch of us old guys still here (We're not dead yet, get it?). As should be obvious from most of the postings here, our connection to reality is tenuous at best. By taking away those old familiar icons you would be depriving us of one of the few elements of stability in our lives. That's not a nice thing to do to your elders.
"Nurse! Oh nurse! Is it time for my medication yet?"
Ron Paul still doesn't accept medicare or medicaid when he's practicing medicine; instead he'll work something out with the individual just as doctors did in ages past. Private charities, the local church, friends, and family were usually enough support for those who needed help.
Sure, that's OK for the $250 - $5000 dollar physician bill. Doesn't work too well for the $20,000 - $200,000 hospital bill. Are medical costs inflated? Sure, but the underlying issue is that we're doing more for people.
"Back in the days before Federal shenanigans" doctors didn't do all that much. Having a heart attack? Here's some oxygen and morphine. Hope you make it. Now, it's drugs, stents, perhaps a bypass or two. Is it 'cost effective'? That's a whole other argument, but to state that Ron Paul understands how to reform the US medical system because he accepts chickens in payment is completely ludicrous. It is a whole lot more complex than that but I don't think Paul really has a handle on it, despite being a physician.
If we eliminate entitlements and let communities take over for caring for the needy and then cut the rest of the budget, defense included, to a fraction of its former self, we could pay off the debt within a decade or so and then possibly eliminate the IRS entirely
We probably could. We would be a nice, debt free third world country. A neat place to live if you're one of the lucky ones (lots of places are nice places to live if you're lucky). But your last statement lets me understand that you've swallowed too much of the Rand Flavored Kool-Aid. Nice talking points, not a very useful way to run a large country.
[citation needed]
[WHOOSH needed]
and badly.