For someone who thinks they have superior knowledge to me about problems of the brain, you make the huge mistake of confusing a disease such as diabetes, which is caused by lack of insulin, and some "diagnosis" of "depression", which is caused by "a chemical imbalance". If you'd ever spoken to a psychiatrist, you'd understand at once that it is their own fault the field has been retarded - they are unaware or choose not to use empirical evidence and instead pull diagnoses out of their asses. Zoloft may help people lead a happier, more productive life, but so will morphine. If someone has major problems dealing with people, by your logic that person has aspergers syndrome, something, which like depression, is "incurable", and instead of teaching social skills, various drugs and therapies are prescribed, costing tens of thousands.
Your, and the commonly presribed, idea that "mental illness" is a chronic disease in the same vein of diabetes is contrary to evidence that the mind can exert more control over body functions than simply thought and muscle control, witness studies documenting the effectiveness of prayer and positive thinking in greatly increasing survival rates of disease and cancer.
I do admit that depression is a real condition, but to call it a chronic disease necessitating lifelong treatment makes you far worse than a stupid asshole. If you take away your responsibility for, say, lung cancer caused by smoking, you simultaneously give up your control over prevention/curing. Show me some evidence for the chemical nature of depression, until then you're worse than an ignorant fool, you're an ignorant fool that thinks he knows something.
How do you get from the immune system needs to be exposed to germs to the immune system must be exposed to an open sewer? As this seems a foolish mistake, it seems that your description of yourself as an idiot is quite correct.
If you're gonna warn someone about conventional medicine, at least use some reputable field like surgery, instead of some quack field like psychiatry. The best they give for depression is "a chemical imbalance in the brain (seratonin)". This is equivalent to debugging a program, seeing the output is not what you think it should be (you not really having a good idea of what is should be), and then changing a few statements so the output pleases you. If your friend doesn't want to be drugged, recommend religion, yoga, or such positive spritual activities instead of pseudoscience.
Are you saying nobody will hire you because of disabilies, because, while I have no experience with it, I thought the ADA would cover you if you were qualified?
I agree that context generally will give the correct interpretation, it's just annoying that the english language being a bastard child enough as it is, gets beating by like a red-headed stepchild by the politically correct crowd. Expanding on the Hitchens quotes, it would've been infinitely preferable to use "(negative) generalization" to mean to judge by race. Effective communication is already fubar'd enough, I'd like to not make it harder by creating meanings for words contrary to their original defn.
>You're just being selfish and shortsighted. Not smart.
Ah, the great liberal catchall agruement - if you don't agree with me, you're a stupid heartless bastard.
You arguements about health care "for the good of society" are equally ridiculous, and the same justification for nearly all of the horrors perpetrated by govts. For all psychologists saying man is a social creature, do not make it so. In the past 10k years we've gone from tribal groups of hunter gatherers, to creatures stuck in strange and unfamilier towns and cities, and amoung thousands to millions of wildly differing viewpoints. Society is going to be stuck with society's ills until it adjusts to man, and doesn't expect vice versa, or someone figures out how to rewire the human brain to prefer concrete and steel towers to the savannah, and being surrounded by strangers to those of your tribe, and trying to legislate the problems away is, and will continue to be the most asinine solution.
>I benefit if my neighbor is not sick; my company benefits if my employees are not sick; children benefit if the vagrant in the park is not sick, or the other kids in school are not sick.
>I'm afraid you are mistaken, discrimination means:
>Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners, etc.
discriminate
1628, from L. discriminare "to divide," from discrimen, derived n. from discernere (see discern). The adverse (usually racial) sense is first recorded 1866, Amer.Eng. Positive sense remains in discriminating (adj.) "possessing discernment" (1792).
"It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious facility; by judging all members of one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination." [Christopher Hitchens]
from here
Just because you use a word to mean something in politically correct doublespeak doesn't mean jack, especially when the way in which you use it in a way contradictary to the original meaning. Words mean things.
I take "put to death" to mean capital punishment, since I think a warning would be more along the lines of "shall surely be smiteth himself", and these people agree.
I totally agree. Doom 3's engine can produce a revolutionary 2 trillion shades of black for each of the 4879 wall textures. Truly this game is worth far more than $50.
Since no one has mentioned it in a clear and correct fashion, rockets don't need anything to kick against, they work by conservation of momentum, not by Newton's 3rd law. In intermediate classical mechanics we did a ton of rocket problems, given mass ejected per second, ejection velocity, and orbital height, and had to find out the fuel/mass ratio using F = dp/dt and some calculus.
Yes, I agree that there are ages that society deems children to be able to handle certain responsibilities, I was replying to the GP that seemed to say that someone younger than 20 is inherently less capable solely because of age. I'n not complaining about the fairness of some policy of age-based rights, since things like alcohol and drugs has much more damaging results on those still growing, I was flaimbaiting people who seem to think that intelligence is directly proportional to age, since they seem to be exactly the people who *still* aren't responsible/wise enough to have those age-based rights. Butchering an Einstein quote "Life experience and the wisdom acquired from it is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
flaw? I thank the gods that Nintendo didn't allow a regular DVD to fit into the unmodded GC. I still have nightmares about the mid-90's when CDROM games became popular - quality went down, FMV went up. I'd like to see some hard facts about space, it seems that the people saying that DVDs are too small are just saying it because there are larger formats on the horizon. I stick with playing Zelda 18 on 1 disc, keep your FF29 with 912 hours of FMV and voice acting in 18 languages on 487 discs of whatever format it's released on.
Wow, I never knew there was some magic age when kids stop being stupid and are able to make decisions with the same competency as adults.
You're just some bitter old dipshit that's wasted his life and trying to justify it by pretending that you've got more wisedom and life experience. I've known morons that are 15, and morons that are 55, the difference being, there's actually a chance that the 15 year old might not be a moron.
Really? The Catholic Church (you are aware that the whole fragmentation thing didn't happen to Martin Luther) had a time machine, and somehow reached forward in time, gathering up science and its writings from the European Renaissance, and protected them from 500-1500 in some sort of Terminator style time loop? Or perhaps you mean mathematics, which would mean that the Church masqueraded as Arabs for some unknown reason. Better get writing on that novel before Dan Brown beats you to the punch.
You sir, are my hero. I hope I can follow in your footsteps someday by posting an on topic goatse link.
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Since you don't seem to know that a thermonuclear explosion is caused by fusing atomic nuclei, I think it's safe to say that your opinions on how the water got there are equally devoid of scientific merit.
Do you commonly read gaming magazines? (Not intended as an insult, just asking).
I recall seeing full page ads for the Zodiac for THPS a few times, but I don't ever recall reading a review. Other than that, I can't remember any other games/advertising for it - so yeah, your point still stands that it was hideously undermarketed and not sold at Best Buy.
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For someone who thinks they have superior knowledge to me about problems of the brain, you make the huge mistake of confusing a disease such as diabetes, which is caused by lack of insulin, and some "diagnosis" of "depression", which is caused by "a chemical imbalance". If you'd ever spoken to a psychiatrist, you'd understand at once that it is their own fault the field has been retarded - they are unaware or choose not to use empirical evidence and instead pull diagnoses out of their asses. Zoloft may help people lead a happier, more productive life, but so will morphine. If someone has major problems dealing with people, by your logic that person has aspergers syndrome, something, which like depression, is "incurable", and instead of teaching social skills, various drugs and therapies are prescribed, costing tens of thousands.
Your, and the commonly presribed, idea that "mental illness" is a chronic disease in the same vein of diabetes is contrary to evidence that the mind can exert more control over body functions than simply thought and muscle control, witness studies documenting the effectiveness of prayer and positive thinking in greatly increasing survival rates of disease and cancer.
I do admit that depression is a real condition, but to call it a chronic disease necessitating lifelong treatment makes you far worse than a stupid asshole. If you take away your responsibility for, say, lung cancer caused by smoking, you simultaneously give up your control over prevention/curing. Show me some evidence for the chemical nature of depression, until then you're worse than an ignorant fool, you're an ignorant fool that thinks he knows something.
How do you get from the immune system needs to be exposed to germs to the immune system must be exposed to an open sewer? As this seems a foolish mistake, it seems that your description of yourself as an idiot is quite correct.
If you're gonna warn someone about conventional medicine, at least use some reputable field like surgery, instead of some quack field like psychiatry. The best they give for depression is "a chemical imbalance in the brain (seratonin)". This is equivalent to debugging a program, seeing the output is not what you think it should be (you not really having a good idea of what is should be), and then changing a few statements so the output pleases you. If your friend doesn't want to be drugged, recommend religion, yoga, or such positive spritual activities instead of pseudoscience.
And as a service to those who actually want to kill themselves and aren't just cutting their wrists for attention, here are some successful ways to shuffle off this mortal coil: nicotine poisoning, breathing hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, or hydrogen cyanide gas (all easy to make, check out your local college chem library), hanging (if you want the neck to snap, the drop should be calculated by Weight*Drop = 1260 ft/lbs, otherwise you'll go unconciously after a minute or so, and be dead by 15, but we wouldn't want someone to come and find you in those 14 minutes or so, would we?, and finally, if you're not a coward, stabbing though the heart.
Are you saying nobody will hire you because of disabilies, because, while I have no experience with it, I thought the ADA would cover you if you were qualified?
I agree that context generally will give the correct interpretation, it's just annoying that the english language being a bastard child enough as it is, gets beating by like a red-headed stepchild by the politically correct crowd. Expanding on the Hitchens quotes, it would've been infinitely preferable to use "(negative) generalization" to mean to judge by race. Effective communication is already fubar'd enough, I'd like to not make it harder by creating meanings for words contrary to their original defn.
>You're just being selfish and shortsighted. Not smart.
Ah, the great liberal catchall agruement - if you don't agree with me, you're a stupid heartless bastard.
You arguements about health care "for the good of society" are equally ridiculous, and the same justification for nearly all of the horrors perpetrated by govts. For all psychologists saying man is a social creature, do not make it so. In the past 10k years we've gone from tribal groups of hunter gatherers, to creatures stuck in strange and unfamilier towns and cities, and amoung thousands to millions of wildly differing viewpoints. Society is going to be stuck with society's ills until it adjusts to man, and doesn't expect vice versa, or someone figures out how to rewire the human brain to prefer concrete and steel towers to the savannah, and being surrounded by strangers to those of your tribe, and trying to legislate the problems away is, and will continue to be the most asinine solution.
>I benefit if my neighbor is not sick; my company benefits if my employees are not sick; children benefit if the vagrant in the park is not sick, or the other kids in school are not sick.
If you'd take a look around you'd see that's a very false statement. Several recent papers show that allergies may be caused by lack of work for your immune system. When a germ gets into your blood stream, you make proteins called antibodies that attach to and kill that germ. If you have few infections early in life, your antibodies look for something to attack, even if it is not an invading germ: It may attack dust mites or cat dander or ragweed pollen. However, before you try to give your young child an infection, realize that this is just a theory, has not been proved yet, and may be wrong. Trying to make the world a "clean" place is a very dangerous idea, humans and other creatures were created in an environment with various "positives" and "negatives", and when you go about trying to eliminate all the "negatives", unintended shit happens. The human body is a very complex machine, and has evolved to take care of itself very well. Unless they're suturing a wound, removing a tumor, or such proven techniques, doctors are generally about as useful as bloodletters.
>I'm afraid you are mistaken, discrimination means:
>Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners, etc.
Merriam-Webster would disagree discrimination Pronunciation: dis-"kri-m&-'nA-sh&n Function: noun 1 a : the act of discriminating b : the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently 2 : the quality or power of finely distinguishing 3 a : the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually b : prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment
discriminate
1628, from L. discriminare "to divide," from discrimen, derived n. from discernere (see discern). The adverse (usually racial) sense is first recorded 1866, Amer.Eng. Positive sense remains in discriminating (adj.) "possessing discernment" (1792).
"It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious facility; by judging all members of one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination." [Christopher Hitchens] from here
Just because you use a word to mean something in politically correct doublespeak doesn't mean jack, especially when the way in which you use it in a way contradictary to the original meaning. Words mean things.
I take "put to death" to mean capital punishment, since I think a warning would be more along the lines of "shall surely be smiteth himself", and these people agree.
I totally agree. Doom 3's engine can produce a revolutionary 2 trillion shades of black for each of the 4879 wall textures. Truly this game is worth far more than $50.
Since no one has mentioned it in a clear and correct fashion, rockets don't need anything to kick against, they work by conservation of momentum, not by Newton's 3rd law. In intermediate classical mechanics we did a ton of rocket problems, given mass ejected per second, ejection velocity, and orbital height, and had to find out the fuel/mass ratio using F = dp/dt and some calculus.
Too bad that you only took the jr high QM. It's still an unsolved problem whether particles have definate places before you measure them.
Yes, I agree that there are ages that society deems children to be able to handle certain responsibilities, I was replying to the GP that seemed to say that someone younger than 20 is inherently less capable solely because of age. I'n not complaining about the fairness of some policy of age-based rights, since things like alcohol and drugs has much more damaging results on those still growing, I was flaimbaiting people who seem to think that intelligence is directly proportional to age, since they seem to be exactly the people who *still* aren't responsible/wise enough to have those age-based rights. Butchering an Einstein quote "Life experience and the wisdom acquired from it is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
EXT out port which allows you to do many things including using the gp32 for wireless multiplayer or connecting a mini keyboard
GP32 Mini Keyboard Works with Computer Emulators, GPapps and Linux.
>Who needs to account for every situation? The idea is that the extra capacity simply adds the ability to account for more situations.
Great, you just invented Myst - with 1000 prerendered POVs per place.
If you're gonna make something more detailed, make it more detailed in all situations, don't half-ass it.
flaw? I thank the gods that Nintendo didn't allow a regular DVD to fit into the unmodded GC. I still have nightmares about the mid-90's when CDROM games became popular - quality went down, FMV went up. I'd like to see some hard facts about space, it seems that the people saying that DVDs are too small are just saying it because there are larger formats on the horizon. I stick with playing Zelda 18 on 1 disc, keep your FF29 with 912 hours of FMV and voice acting in 18 languages on 487 discs of whatever format it's released on.
Wow, I never knew there was some magic age when kids stop being stupid and are able to make decisions with the same competency as adults.
You're just some bitter old dipshit that's wasted his life and trying to justify it by pretending that you've got more wisedom and life experience. I've known morons that are 15, and morons that are 55, the difference being, there's actually a chance that the 15 year old might not be a moron.
Really? The Catholic Church (you are aware that the whole fragmentation thing didn't happen to Martin Luther) had a time machine, and somehow reached forward in time, gathering up science and its writings from the European Renaissance, and protected them from 500-1500 in some sort of Terminator style time loop? Or perhaps you mean mathematics, which would mean that the Church masqueraded as Arabs for some unknown reason. Better get writing on that novel before Dan Brown beats you to the punch.
You sir, are my hero. I hope I can follow in your footsteps someday by posting an on topic goatse link.
Since you don't seem to know that a thermonuclear explosion is caused by fusing atomic nuclei, I think it's safe to say that your opinions on how the water got there are equally devoid of scientific merit.
Shouldn't you be sleeping with the fishes?
"The average air pressure at the surface of Mars is 6 millibars (compared to 1013 millibars on Earth)."
So it seems to be just barely possible.
Note to Americans: the exchange rate is 297 trillion yen to a dollar. That means Ninendo is making only .000126 cents!
Do you commonly read gaming magazines? (Not intended as an insult, just asking).
I recall seeing full page ads for the Zodiac for THPS a few times, but I don't ever recall reading a review. Other than that, I can't remember any other games/advertising for it - so yeah, your point still stands that it was hideously undermarketed and not sold at Best Buy.