People bin things rather than repair them. People don't do things by themselves anymore, they buy something to do it for them. Apple is just one strain of consumerism that prevents people from thinking.
I'd argue that there are lot of people who do not need the drugs and are simply masking some other problems that could disappear from diet, exercise, education, finances, erasing personal demons?
Mental health is multi-faceted so I guess it's not all cut and dry. I just think that human beings have lived for generations without these drugs, something must be wrong with our lifestyle if we suddenly need them so bad.
I've considered the same. If you're reading this and want to get laid: If you're reasonably good looking, don't stutter, smile, be honest, talk about things that normal people talk about, look conversation topics if you have too. You can get by with girls. Even if you're not amazing looking you can still be hot in other ways; some people like being arrogant and cocky, others can be the 'bad guy'. I am the 'good guy', not 'too nice' but just 'nice enough'. I didn't have problems in college nor any broken hearts either. Girls tell me first hand that I am 'odd' but 'genuine'.
There are charities that roam the streets caring for people who are smashed out of their head. Personally, it's a waste of money. If you get drunk and you're out in the streets, why should you get free help? They should get fined!
I have not read those books but I will definitely look into them.
Another example of this was in the British newspaper industry in the 1960s. Working class newspapers faded from the market because corporate newspapers were able to raise more funding through advertisements.
Contrary to popular belief, reading news that is mass produced by large corporations with vested interests and that manipulate and actively suppress fact does not make you "well read".
Not even sophomoric. Books are real reading. I want badges for the number of science fiction books. I read four in the last two weeks!
These badges just prove that you're addicted to some thing that is new and always being updated. It's like refreshing on Slashdot for a new article to appear. At least I'll get a badge for wasting my time reading the news now! Facebook culture everywhere.
Being watched does make you feel uncomfortable. It is biological. In the animal kingdom and in our own to a lesser extent, eye contact is a form of non-verbal communication. If you stare down someone, they will biologically have a reaction. It may or not enter the conscious mind, depending on context.
In a bar with your friends, you will not care how your friends make eye contact with you. A guy on a table far away from you making eye contact with you, that's intimidating.
The human brain translates high level concepts of privacy into low level ones.
I don't want you to profit or benefit from my lack of privacy. I don't want to give you the satisfaction of being able to gossip about me.
Lack of privacy makes people agitated, irritable and uncomfortable. Lock people in a room for a while and you will see this first hand. People need their own space.
I need to know that I, as a person stand alone and individual in what I perceive. I like being in my room from time to time knowing that nobody else is here and there is silence. I am not necessarily doing anything.
I hate phone calls. It disrupts my peace.
If you agree that you don't care about your privacy, that's fine. I will respect your opinion and your privacy anyway. Can you respect my wish to privacy? Not putting my photos on a social networking website? Not trying to look up details about me? Not writing software for a faceless corporation that sells my data?
"What have you got to hide citizen?" This argument has nothing to do with anything. Respect of my comfort and person should be forefront in your mind when you interact with me. My privacy is part of my identity. An individual.
Yes. When life gets tough and you go to gamble, smoke, a quick lay, drink alcohol or clubbing -- that's not healthy.
Doing it for fun because you feel like regardless of your circumstances is perfectly healthy.
In the UK we have a binge drinking culture. Working class people go out at the end of every week for a big drink. It's a generalization. It's an escape. I wouldn't call it a high quality happiness. If you wake up feeling bad or crap the next day then it wasn't happiness.
The meaingless sex was a joke in that Slashdot people cannot get laid but you knew that, you just wanted to prove the exception to the rule!;-)
I've been in tons of interviews with guys who brag and think they know everything but know shit. You know, the really cocky guy who doesn't know anything.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
I can be happy in my circumstances but not completely content given all the things that are happening in the world. Call it idealism.
IT attracts more people that are arrogant and think they are right more than any other industry. They don't want to solve a problem, they want to brag and be an asshole.
Our society is a massive committe of people trying to argue what is right and what to do rather than just doing it. Government, local councils, nothing actually gets done.
Privacy is what I want. If you don't give it to me, you deserve the consequences. It costs you nothing to give it. You don't need my address, to listen to my phone calls or track my whereabouts (online or in real life).
Being watched fires a biological instinct of discomfort that is unfavourable. Think yellow eyes in a forest. It is not a social fear which what you think it is.
In this discussion you should now understood what makes me uncomfortable and why. Maybe you can help me stop that which makes me feel uncomfortable.
I imagine psychiatrists get commission on prescribing drugs. I can't describe how wrong it feels the fact he demanded your children be prescribed too. It sounds like in his medicated state that he must 'convert' others to the same mental state.
If I took the pill, I wouldn't be taking responsibility for what I feel.
What is the biological reasoning behind people who are depressed anyway? How can it be evolutionary? Surely it doesn't serve any good purpose besides feeding predators?
Perhaps it's a side effect of sapience? (of which sapience is a side effect of something else) Perhaps are consciousness and sapience is so unbelievably complex that it simply has 'failures' from times to time, overstimulation or sensitivity. In that case, that makes the pill more like a mechanical fix rather than a cop out.
Why aren't you happy? You (probably) have: electricity, abundance of food and water, computers, video games, (some) free time, a job, a loving girlfriend/wife? Money?
You're not happy because you cannot be you in this society.
It's that trite cliche that materials do not bring happiness but they are necessity for happiness. You cannot be happy about something before you have shelter, food and water. (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)
Our society lacks somethin that people need. Drugs really don't give that to you.
I imagine it's pretty easy to become depressed in our society.
Consumerism people judge themselves by products (Apple, car brands, discount retailers), they depend on corporate products to do what they could otherwise do, they are powerless to the system, they buy cake mixtures or microwave teleivsion dinners.
Devoid of meaning I'd hazard that most people feel that their life is meaningless which brings me to my next point.
Life = job People (by necessity) live life a job, not a life. office workers and labourers.
Unchecked capitalism Capitalism doesn't feel soft and fuzzy. You feel powerless. Advertising is harmful.
People who live a job rather than a life do things that advertising and media tell them to do or what other people in their situation do to escape. They turn to alcohol, nightclubs, meaningless sex*, gambling, smoking or anything that is meaningless or self destructive. * Not that meaningless sex means anything to Slashdotters but I hope my point is made intellectually.
I imagine that these factors, plus the fact that everyone seems to be a big asshole these days contribute to people turning to drugs. Ultmately, people feel disconnected from other people, they are ostracized and bullied. Drugs don't solve problems. You do.
I feel powerless because of the following:
My Privacy invaded day by day
My Government and the US government is massively corrupt, doesn't tax companies
The unjust succeed while the moral wither
Everyone thinks they are right so nothing gets done
As Adam Smith said, agriculture is the root of all progress. Our society is unsustainable and growth seems to be on top of artificial markets. For example, digital markets like the domain market. Or on advertising.
I see this argument parroted everywhere. It's very flawed. You assume that your content is worth the adverts. It is not.
It's up to me what my computer downloads. The cost in bandwidth, my time waiting for websites, tracking and potential for malware is not worth the adverts.
Vodafone treat multipart text messages as separate texts on the server side to rip people off. Especially when you consider that it does not charge if you break up a text manually by yourself.
My phone chops it up into small messages but the 'unlimited' only applies to the first message. I get charged a for additional texts if my message spans more than one. It's a money grab because if I break the text manually into two separate texts, I do not get charged.
This happens on my old W595 (supports MMS) and my current Nokia 1661 (no MMS, no 3G).
I think Minecraft is the antecedent to more user generated content. FarmVille is psuedo user generated because it lets you choose . Minecraft takes it to extremes and lets you build the individual items by manipulating the elements of an item, rather than an a prefabricated item.
I can see FPS games introducing more customizable 'bases'. We already have turrets in some games but maybe they can extend that and make the bases actually constructable.
It's why games like SimCity, Civialization and Command & Conquer games are fun - you are making choices and generating content by yourself. Personally Minecraft goes too far in one direction - I am not particularly bothered about the components, I just want to see the big picture of interactions. (Economy, macromanagement, Ascendancy game, city building)
I can see Minecraft being helpful in 3D printing. Imagine creating real life items in a minecraft like interface and then printing it? It would bring 3D to the messes.
Vodafone are a terrible company. They are one of the most expensive in the UK. They gouge me. I am changing as soon as I can. They claim to offer unlimited texts but if you send a text that is bigger than 160 characters, they charge you. They also don't pay taxes in the UK, they owe 4.8 billion in taxes but our government decided 'to let it go'.
Now in the UK we're facing cuts to public services, education, electricity rises. I'm not bitter. Vodafone is a bad business. You should change from them and warn people of the same. Didn't they have something to do with Egypt censorship too?
Their website is also littered with Java exceptions.
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No, consumerism.
People bin things rather than repair them. People don't do things by themselves anymore, they buy something to do it for them. Apple is just one strain of consumerism that prevents people from thinking.
It's not blind Apple-rhetoric, it's a symptom.
Don't you think it's a thin line though?
I'd argue that there are lot of people who do not need the drugs and are simply masking some other problems that could disappear from diet, exercise, education, finances, erasing personal demons?
Mental health is multi-faceted so I guess it's not all cut and dry. I just think that human beings have lived for generations without these drugs, something must be wrong with our lifestyle if we suddenly need them so bad.
What kind of depression do you have?
I've considered the same. If you're reading this and want to get laid: If you're reasonably good looking, don't stutter, smile, be honest, talk about things that normal people talk about, look conversation topics if you have too. You can get by with girls. Even if you're not amazing looking you can still be hot in other ways; some people like being arrogant and cocky, others can be the 'bad guy'. I am the 'good guy', not 'too nice' but just 'nice enough'. I didn't have problems in college nor any broken hearts either. Girls tell me first hand that I am 'odd' but 'genuine'.
As far our binge culture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96TS9qxnqaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wphz0Cj_LZQ&feature=related
There are charities that roam the streets caring for people who are smashed out of their head. Personally, it's a waste of money. If you get drunk and you're out in the streets, why should you get free help? They should get fined!
I have not read those books but I will definitely look into them.
I think there must be more to life than science, technology and computers. I just haven't found the non-technical hobby that is right for me.
Since it's my profession too, I fear that computers will get tiring, like a chore. Haven't found a proper hobby yet.
It's not self-pity my friend. It's world pity.
You need hobbies. Something to live for that is yours and yours only. That will give you an identity.
A hobby that is not computers that is. I still find that part difficult too.
Another example of this was in the British newspaper industry in the 1960s. Working class newspapers faded from the market because corporate newspapers were able to raise more funding through advertisements.
You cannot compete against well funded.
Contrary to popular belief, reading news that is mass produced by large corporations with vested interests and that manipulate and actively suppress fact does not make you "well read".
Not even sophomoric. Books are real reading. I want badges for the number of science fiction books. I read four in the last two weeks!
These badges just prove that you're addicted to some thing that is new and always being updated. It's like refreshing on Slashdot for a new article to appear. At least I'll get a badge for wasting my time reading the news now! Facebook culture everywhere.
That's very interesting.
Being watched does make you feel uncomfortable. It is biological. In the animal kingdom and in our own to a lesser extent, eye contact is a form of non-verbal communication. If you stare down someone, they will biologically have a reaction. It may or not enter the conscious mind, depending on context.
In a bar with your friends, you will not care how your friends make eye contact with you. A guy on a table far away from you making eye contact with you, that's intimidating.
The human brain translates high level concepts of privacy into low level ones.
I don't want you to profit or benefit from my lack of privacy. I don't want to give you the satisfaction of being able to gossip about me.
Lack of privacy makes people agitated, irritable and uncomfortable. Lock people in a room for a while and you will see this first hand. People need their own space.
I need to know that I, as a person stand alone and individual in what I perceive. I like being in my room from time to time knowing that nobody else is here and there is silence. I am not necessarily doing anything.
I hate phone calls. It disrupts my peace.
If you agree that you don't care about your privacy, that's fine. I will respect your opinion and your privacy anyway. Can you respect my wish to privacy? Not putting my photos on a social networking website? Not trying to look up details about me? Not writing software for a faceless corporation that sells my data?
"What have you got to hide citizen?"
This argument has nothing to do with anything. Respect of my comfort and person should be forefront in your mind when you interact with me. My privacy is part of my identity. An individual.
Yes. When life gets tough and you go to gamble, smoke, a quick lay, drink alcohol or clubbing -- that's not healthy.
Doing it for fun because you feel like regardless of your circumstances is perfectly healthy.
In the UK we have a binge drinking culture. Working class people go out at the end of every week for a big drink. It's a generalization. It's an escape. I wouldn't call it a high quality happiness. If you wake up feeling bad or crap the next day then it wasn't happiness.
The meaingless sex was a joke in that Slashdot people cannot get laid but you knew that, you just wanted to prove the exception to the rule! ;-)
I've been in tons of interviews with guys who brag and think they know everything but know shit. You know, the really cocky guy who doesn't know anything.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
I can be happy in my circumstances but not completely content given all the things that are happening in the world. Call it idealism.
IT attracts more people that are arrogant and think they are right more than any other industry. They don't want to solve a problem, they want to brag and be an asshole.
Our society is a massive committe of people trying to argue what is right and what to do rather than just doing it. Government, local councils, nothing actually gets done.
Privacy is what I want. If you don't give it to me, you deserve the consequences. It costs you nothing to give it. You don't need my address, to listen to my phone calls or track my whereabouts (online or in real life).
Being watched fires a biological instinct of discomfort that is unfavourable. Think yellow eyes in a forest. It is not a social fear which what you think it is.
In this discussion you should now understood what makes me uncomfortable and why. Maybe you can help me stop that which makes me feel uncomfortable.
Wow. That's horrific. I am glad you moved away.
I imagine psychiatrists get commission on prescribing drugs. I can't describe how wrong it feels the fact he demanded your children be prescribed too. It sounds like in his medicated state that he must 'convert' others to the same mental state.
Medicated ostracization.
If I took the pill, I wouldn't be taking responsibility for what I feel.
What is the biological reasoning behind people who are depressed anyway? How can it be evolutionary? Surely it doesn't serve any good purpose besides feeding predators?
Perhaps it's a side effect of sapience? (of which sapience is a side effect of something else) Perhaps are consciousness and sapience is so unbelievably complex that it simply has 'failures' from times to time, overstimulation or sensitivity. In that case, that makes the pill more like a mechanical fix rather than a cop out.
Ask yourself.
Why aren't you happy? You (probably) have: electricity, abundance of food and water, computers, video games, (some) free time, a job, a loving girlfriend/wife? Money?
You're not happy because you cannot be you in this society.
It's that trite cliche that materials do not bring happiness but they are necessity for happiness. You cannot be happy about something before you have shelter, food and water. (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)
Our society lacks somethin that people need. Drugs really don't give that to you.
Arguing about happiness on Slashdot. Very odd.
I imagine it's pretty easy to become depressed in our society.
People who live a job rather than a life do things that advertising and media tell them to do or what other people in their situation do to escape. They turn to alcohol, nightclubs, meaningless sex*, gambling, smoking or anything that is meaningless or self destructive.
* Not that meaningless sex means anything to Slashdotters but I hope my point is made intellectually.
I imagine that these factors, plus the fact that everyone seems to be a big asshole these days contribute to people turning to drugs. Ultmately, people feel disconnected from other people, they are ostracized and bullied. Drugs don't solve problems. You do.
I feel powerless because of the following:
As Adam Smith said, agriculture is the root of all progress. Our society is unsustainable and growth seems to be on top of artificial markets. For example, digital markets like the domain market. Or on advertising.
I see this argument parroted everywhere. It's very flawed. You assume that your content is worth the adverts. It is not.
It's up to me what my computer downloads. The cost in bandwidth, my time waiting for websites, tracking and potential for malware is not worth the adverts.
Treat the scale of the blocks as being a few microdroplets of plastic and you work from there.
The idea is that you would change the scale or size of the blocks so you could construct a 3D object. Like a plastic sandal.
Maybe this is what you would use Mozilla Sync for? (At the risk of keeping your internet life at a single provider.)
Of course you backup your Mozilla profile*, don't you?
* That directory that keeps all your bookmarks, history and saved passwords.
My Nokkia 1661 does not support MMS.
Vodafone treat multipart text messages as separate texts on the server side to rip people off. Especially when you consider that it does not charge if you break up a text manually by yourself.
My phone chops it up into small messages but the 'unlimited' only applies to the first message. I get charged a for additional texts if my message spans more than one. It's a money grab because if I break the text manually into two separate texts, I do not get charged.
This happens on my old W595 (supports MMS) and my current Nokia 1661 (no MMS, no 3G).
Apologies. I have learnt my lesson.
That should read;
FarmVille is psuedo user generated because it lets you choose what to build and where to place it.
I think human beings enjoy making decisions and perceiving the environment react to them.
I think Minecraft is the antecedent to more user generated content. FarmVille is psuedo user generated because it lets you choose . Minecraft takes it to extremes and lets you build the individual items by manipulating the elements of an item, rather than an a prefabricated item.
I can see FPS games introducing more customizable 'bases'. We already have turrets in some games but maybe they can extend that and make the bases actually constructable.
It's why games like SimCity, Civialization and Command & Conquer games are fun - you are making choices and generating content by yourself. Personally Minecraft goes too far in one direction - I am not particularly bothered about the components, I just want to see the big picture of interactions. (Economy, macromanagement, Ascendancy game, city building)
I can see Minecraft being helpful in 3D printing. Imagine creating real life items in a minecraft like interface and then printing it? It would bring 3D to the messes.
I can't say I am surprised.
Vodafone are a terrible company. They are one of the most expensive in the UK. They gouge me. I am changing as soon as I can. They claim to offer unlimited texts but if you send a text that is bigger than 160 characters, they charge you. They also don't pay taxes in the UK, they owe 4.8 billion in taxes but our government decided 'to let it go'.
Now in the UK we're facing cuts to public services, education, electricity rises. I'm not bitter. Vodafone is a bad business. You should change from them and warn people of the same. Didn't they have something to do with Egypt censorship too?
Their website is also littered with Java exceptions.
Vodafone = Incompetent