I haven't seen it before, and after I realised it wasn't serious, it is kinda funny. I was horrified when I thought it was someone who actually believed what he was saying:s I'm a christian and I find most 'christian rock' extremely bland.. kind of like Nickelback, but with less panties.
Didn't know it was just a rumour, thanks for pointing it out (as several others have done too). My main point is still valid though - things should be kept as simple as possible, where possible. Especially for life and death stuff like this. The pen thing only came into my head as I was already writing my post.
It's good that they're looking into that, but that only eliminates the memories rather than the symptoms of PTSD. From your link
Dr Monica Thompson, a consultant clinical psychologist at London's Traumatic Stress Clinic, stressed that post traumatic stress disorder was a complex condition with many other symptoms other than bad memories.
She said that even if a treatment successfully dampened down bad memories patients could still be left with potentially debilitating symptoms, such as high fear levels. There is no silver bullet for this stuff.. I experienced a pretty horrific breakup with my gf of two years (who came over to the UK from Canada just to be with me, no less), I'd love to erase those memories, but as James Kirk once said
Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain! I know that's a bit trite for cases like rape and PTSD, but it's generally true.. drugs can help (I wish I hadn't come off my anti-depressants again because it's making me irritable and generally more anti-social again), but they can't eliminate the source of the problem if the damage is psychological rather than physical, because psychological problems affect so many things. You can't just fix it up like a broken bone..
Why not just make all lithium hydroxide canisters the same shape? Bah.. inventing zero-g pens when you can use a pencil and all.. always having to make everything so complicated!
I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but the force is purely a nepotistic force. Unless your dad was a Dark Lord of the Sith, the force will not be strong with you. The only thing you will be able to foresee is a life serving fries at McDonalds to the one handed children of Sith Masters.
Actually, the midichlorians thing really got me too:( I like your explanation. Darn parasitic midichlorians..
As I was saying though, simply erasing a memory isn't going to do the trick. I watched a presentation linked last week here on/. about 'happiness', and one of the points the guy talked about was an experiment on people who had lost the ability to form new memories. Even though they couldn't form new ones, they could still change their aesthetic preferences and such (in this case by being given a painting, and the fact that they owned it made them consider it more aesthetically pleasing, so next time they were shown it they liked it better, even though they no longer remembered that it was given to them as a gift). So you can't really remove the damage done by a traumatic event, even if you can't remember the event itself - though I suppose you could stop people from dwelling on it or having nightmares about it at least..
I think the only real solution to the mental and psychological trauma is not to go through it in the first place. Not very practical, but otherwise the only solution would be precision removal of the experience from your memory.. but other parts of your brain other than your memory will have been scarred too - you can't just take a full backup of someone's brain before a war and then restore it afterwards. Well, maybe someday we will be able to, but when we have that level of technological sophistication, why not just put the copy of the brain into a robot and let it do all the work?
For example these recently started 'wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq really weren't exactly 'necessary' were they? The need for war these days isn't really there (in my opinion and observations). A lot of countries are well past that phase, having learnt a lot in the World Wars, and developing friendlier trade and political relations (the internet surely is helping to create friendlier relations between countries too, just by breaking down communication barriers). There are of course still countries like North Korea (and to an extent Iraq, but I don't think it really posed a significant threat to the country which actually attacked it) which pose a possible threat to the surrounding nations with Nuclear or biochemical tech. War with these countries may be the only option if they have declared agressive intentions.. but I don't think that Afghanistan and Iraq were much of a threat to the US at all, and the invasions were all about politics and resources, rather than fighting to defend ourselves or an ally against an aggressor. Personally I think that's the only situation that I'd choose to fight. I was considering joining the armed forces just to get myself fit and more disciplined (I have a gross disrespect for basically all authority, which isn't really doing me any favours), but as for helping out in Afghanistan/Iraq or something, I just don't agree with it..
I would have thought that it would help morale among the male soldiers too. And possibly fun times injecting mammary growing nanites into fellow officers in the night; male or female, depending on whether you're going for humour or fapworthiness of course
Yeah, what purpose does the military have in growing all natural 'breast implants'? Licensing it out to the porn industry could be a good source of funding I suppose, but it's not like they need any more money than the US government is throwing at them:s
I think the whole subject of regrowing limbs (or perhaps adding extra ones?) brings a whole new meaning to the term 'Armed Forces' anyway;)
True, though those were rather extreme circumstances. I hate political correctness. Even if I had a family member that died in 9/11, I wouldn't be looking to blame video games and movies (didn't one of the Spiderman movies have to be redone because one of the scenes involved the twin towers?), or accuse them of bad taste by releasing a game that was accurate in the time it was made. Admittedly a game where you can crash planes into towers could upset some people by digging up bad memories, but you can do that in pretty much any flight simulator.. it's not the game publisher's fault. If someone dropped some giant tetris blocks off of the top of a skyscraper (laced with explosives which would automatically go off when a line was completed, of course) and crushed/asploded lots of people, should we stop playing tetris? Or if someone dropped a giant pizza off the top of a tower and flattened a bunch of people, should we stop eating pizza? It's the highly dedicated person that setup these intricate acts of terror that is to blame, not computer games or food..
Both have a dedication to quality though. Well, not that I've played that many of their games, but most of them were ahead of their time in terms of what they could do (viewable cameras and remotely detonated pipebombs on Duke Nuken 3D - put them both together and you could have a lot of multiplayer fun:) ), or at least in attention to detail. I don't think 3D Realms are in the business of creating vapourware, but I do think they need to stop striving for 'perfection' quite so much.. if they keep trying to incorporate the latest and greatest tech into their games then they're never going to get DNF out the door! And the trouble is that games like HL and HL2 usually took the expectations for storytelling, gameplay and physics in FPS games to a new level, so the longer they wait, the more their original ideas for DNF are likely to be out of date..
if something the size of texas like in the movies was going to hit us, you have NO CHANCE of significantly altering it's course. We could install a massive sign in front of the sun saying "Free guns and beer!!"?
It turns sure, but that doesn't mean that if you stand in the same place for a year you'll see all of the stars that are possible to see from earth. Viewing the sky from the southern hemisphere, you see completely different stars (at least this is what I have gleaned from watching TV:P ). 3 directable 'scopes would presumably be enough.. one towards the north, one around the equator, one towards the south? Or am I oversimplifying? IANANASAE.
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I haven't seen it before, and after I realised it wasn't serious, it is kinda funny. I was horrified when I thought it was someone who actually believed what he was saying :s I'm a christian and I find most 'christian rock' extremely bland.. kind of like Nickelback, but with less panties.
I wonder - has anyone ever tested if it superconducts? Or superconducks as the case may be..
Scott Miller, is that you? ;)
Didn't know it was just a rumour, thanks for pointing it out (as several others have done too). My main point is still valid though - things should be kept as simple as possible, where possible. Especially for life and death stuff like this. The pen thing only came into my head as I was already writing my post.
Aye, the troll thing is confusing me, glad someone else agrees at least!
Hahahaha.. guess what I found on the Idle channel?
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/21/1551237
If the hammer doesn't work, you may need to use Chuck Norris.
Why not just make all lithium hydroxide canisters the same shape? Bah.. inventing zero-g pens when you can use a pencil and all.. always having to make everything so complicated!
I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but the force is purely a nepotistic force. Unless your dad was a Dark Lord of the Sith, the force will not be strong with you. The only thing you will be able to foresee is a life serving fries at McDonalds to the one handed children of Sith Masters.
:( I like your explanation. Darn parasitic midichlorians..
Actually, the midichlorians thing really got me too
As I was saying though, simply erasing a memory isn't going to do the trick. I watched a presentation linked last week here on /. about 'happiness', and one of the points the guy talked about was an experiment on people who had lost the ability to form new memories. Even though they couldn't form new ones, they could still change their aesthetic preferences and such (in this case by being given a painting, and the fact that they owned it made them consider it more aesthetically pleasing, so next time they were shown it they liked it better, even though they no longer remembered that it was given to them as a gift). So you can't really remove the damage done by a traumatic event, even if you can't remember the event itself - though I suppose you could stop people from dwelling on it or having nightmares about it at least..
I think the only real solution to the mental and psychological trauma is not to go through it in the first place. Not very practical, but otherwise the only solution would be precision removal of the experience from your memory.. but other parts of your brain other than your memory will have been scarred too - you can't just take a full backup of someone's brain before a war and then restore it afterwards. Well, maybe someday we will be able to, but when we have that level of technological sophistication, why not just put the copy of the brain into a robot and let it do all the work?
For example these recently started 'wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq really weren't exactly 'necessary' were they? The need for war these days isn't really there (in my opinion and observations). A lot of countries are well past that phase, having learnt a lot in the World Wars, and developing friendlier trade and political relations (the internet surely is helping to create friendlier relations between countries too, just by breaking down communication barriers). There are of course still countries like North Korea (and to an extent Iraq, but I don't think it really posed a significant threat to the country which actually attacked it) which pose a possible threat to the surrounding nations with Nuclear or biochemical tech. War with these countries may be the only option if they have declared agressive intentions.. but I don't think that Afghanistan and Iraq were much of a threat to the US at all, and the invasions were all about politics and resources, rather than fighting to defend ourselves or an ally against an aggressor. Personally I think that's the only situation that I'd choose to fight. I was considering joining the armed forces just to get myself fit and more disciplined (I have a gross disrespect for basically all authority, which isn't really doing me any favours), but as for helping out in Afghanistan/Iraq or something, I just don't agree with it..
They are a supernet of a series of tubes.
:O awesome.. me wanty!
Get back into the picture box, Impy! Nobody is asking your opinion! ;)
I would have thought that it would help morale among the male soldiers too. And possibly fun times injecting mammary growing nanites into fellow officers in the night; male or female, depending on whether you're going for humour or fapworthiness of course
Granted, it could divert blood away from enemy brains, and even take care of the crack man-hating dyke platoons..
Petri dishes are too small - you need a decent sized brain jar if you want to grow brains!
Yeah, what purpose does the military have in growing all natural 'breast implants'? Licensing it out to the porn industry could be a good source of funding I suppose, but it's not like they need any more money than the US government is throwing at them :s
;)
I think the whole subject of regrowing limbs (or perhaps adding extra ones?) brings a whole new meaning to the term 'Armed Forces' anyway
Sounds like you have a little in common with this guy, he's a C64 artist ;)
True, though those were rather extreme circumstances. I hate political correctness. Even if I had a family member that died in 9/11, I wouldn't be looking to blame video games and movies (didn't one of the Spiderman movies have to be redone because one of the scenes involved the twin towers?), or accuse them of bad taste by releasing a game that was accurate in the time it was made. Admittedly a game where you can crash planes into towers could upset some people by digging up bad memories, but you can do that in pretty much any flight simulator.. it's not the game publisher's fault. If someone dropped some giant tetris blocks off of the top of a skyscraper (laced with explosives which would automatically go off when a line was completed, of course) and crushed/asploded lots of people, should we stop playing tetris? Or if someone dropped a giant pizza off the top of a tower and flattened a bunch of people, should we stop eating pizza? It's the highly dedicated person that setup these intricate acts of terror that is to blame, not computer games or food..
Both have a dedication to quality though. Well, not that I've played that many of their games, but most of them were ahead of their time in terms of what they could do (viewable cameras and remotely detonated pipebombs on Duke Nuken 3D - put them both together and you could have a lot of multiplayer fun :) ), or at least in attention to detail. I don't think 3D Realms are in the business of creating vapourware, but I do think they need to stop striving for 'perfection' quite so much.. if they keep trying to incorporate the latest and greatest tech into their games then they're never going to get DNF out the door! And the trouble is that games like HL and HL2 usually took the expectations for storytelling, gameplay and physics in FPS games to a new level, so the longer they wait, the more their original ideas for DNF are likely to be out of date..
I think it would be more appropriate to call it Missile Command
It turns sure, but that doesn't mean that if you stand in the same place for a year you'll see all of the stars that are possible to see from earth. Viewing the sky from the southern hemisphere, you see completely different stars (at least this is what I have gleaned from watching TV :P ). 3 directable 'scopes would presumably be enough.. one towards the north, one around the equator, one towards the south? Or am I oversimplifying? IANANASAE.