Well, yes, Bhuddism is a godless religion, but the Thais still fear and respect "spirits". They build ornate little houses about the size of a bird house outside their home for the spirits to live in, so they won't go inside their own homes.
Yes, but it was informative to most, anyway. Most people actually do think schitzophrenia is multiple personalities, including the joker, or he would have said "DID" rather than "schitzophrenia". I got the joke, but I would have corrected him if the GP had not. I've known schitzophrenics, and Evil-X has DID. Both are pretty damned bad; I'm happy all I suffer from is arthritis.
Or to make another joke, "I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it!"
And that's what's wrong with modern psychiatry, which has made no progress in 50 years and whose sole focus now it to make new drugs that turn you into a zombie with less and less lethal side effects.
My friend has several disorders, the biggest being bipolar disorder. She's also a cocaine addict. They had her on Zoloft for a while, and she did become zombie-like and it didn't help her addiction. But they switched her to Paxil (another SSRI) and that actually worked, for her. When she's on it she stays sober and says "it doesn't make me feel like a zombie like Zoloft did." When she's not high or on Paxil, she's suicidal (IMO nobody should EVER get on SSRIs unless they're already suicidal). Clinical depression can be fatal; the patient suicides. SSRIs can prevent this.
Fifty years ago -- hell, thirty years ago, that would not have been possible.
Medicine has been married to the dopamine hypothesis for decades now, too low and you're schizophrenic, too high and you have parkinsons
You have it exactly backwards; Parkenson's is a neurological disease that comes from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain; the cause of this cell death is unknown. Schitzophrenia's treatments decrease dopamine, and judging from schitzophrenics I've known, sometimes the treatment works. One guy I knew who had it was just batshit insane, hearing voices and all, completely unable to be a productive member of society. They put him on Haldol, and the last time I saw him was at the poll; he seemed normal, had a paying job, and was an election judge.
It's true that mental health treatments are far behind physical health treatments, but they are in fact improving at a rapid pace.
I googled Foster, he doesn't even hold a doctorate. I wouldn't lend him much credence. Find a better source for your information, an MA is nowhere near enough education when you're talking about something as complex as brain and nervous system function.
No, they're doing it exactly as planned -- make the kids fucking HATE learning so they grow up ignorant enough that they'll vote for a Republican or a Democrat, think there's the slightest possibility they'll be rich and famous, and go deep into debt to keep up with the neighbors.
Keep the proles dumb and you'll have them cheering the government for cutting taxes when it's only the rich getting their taxes cut.
Only in comparison to other Microsoft operating systems. I don't find having to reboot at least twice a month nice, I don't find having to run AV nice, I don't find having to reopen all my apps after a forced reboot nice, I don't find having to reboot just because I installed an app nice, I don't find having to go to a command line to enable it to boot without a password nice, I don't find having to deal with a registry nice, I don't find not being able to turn off my notebook's tap-to-click "feature" from the control panel nice, I don't find having to relearn every damned thing after an upgrade nice, I don't find cleaning out crapware like toolbars and McAffee and Yahoo Messenger on a brand new machine nice, I don't find "do it the Microsoft way or don't do it at all" nice. Not the least bit nice.
Compared to previous Windows? Nice. Compared to any other OS? Not the least bit nice, unless by "nice" you mean "pretty", because W7 is indeed pretty, but I don't need my tools to be pretty. I feel sorry for those of you who have only used Windows. You don't know what you're missing.
This is only an anecdote, but let me tell you about Crazy John. They tell me John used to be "real smart" until he was beaten senseless and left in a dumpster (yes, the bar I see him in is a redneck bar in the ghetto).
He's now crazy as a loon, always talking about space aliens walking among us and crazy shit like that, no matter how I try to explain the speed of light's limitations to him, as well as the total improbability of any space alien looking anything like us.
That said, there are a number of people on readers forums who boast that they've never paid for a book because they always just return it when they're done reading it, or return it then buy it again if they want to "keep" it for another 7 days.
I use the public library for that. I only buy books I've already read, and know I'll want to re-read them.
The only main issue with a lot of returns is if you get a flood of returns all with the same reason ("copyright issues", "poor quality", "typos/editing issues", etc) you can get your book pulled for review.
Which is why I never buy a book by an author I've never read. Only a fool buys a pig in a poke. Look at it this way. If you were at a cinema watching a movie and, at any point for 7 days after watching a film you could stand in line and fill in a short form to get an immediate refund... would you? And we're not talking about $13 or $14 here, it's $5. Or $0.99. Most people can't be bothered.
I get my movies from the library, too, or rent them from Family Video for a buck each.
Try my book!" I say, "If you don't like it, 7 days, no questions asked return policy, even if you read the whole thing."
Interesting, I'd like to read some of your stuff, is it in the public library? Because I won't buy a pig in a poke. Those two dozen Asimov volumes wouldn't be on my shelf now had I not read a few of his other books checked out from the library, and I wouldn't have those two Doctorow titles on my shelf if he didn't give them away as free downloads from boingboing.
It's been 35 years since I got out of the USAF, and there were things about the SR-71 that are still secret, and rightly so. Stuff that will make your skin crawl. God only knows what they have now.
No, I'm not going to describe the stuff to you. You wouldn't believe it anyway.
Thanks, asshole, that was at a -1 already. If you hadn't drawn attention to it I'd have never seen it. Mods, please mod me and the parent down to -1 so nobody else will see the damned GP's post!
Manic depression captures my soul I know what I want but I just don't know (how to go about gettin' it) Music, sweet music, slips from my fingers Fingers Manic depression Captures my soul
OK, my notebook that still has Windows on it (out of pure laziness) has been nagging me about a security update for a couple of days, yesterday I went ahead and updated. Should I worry?
Have any of you ever thought about what "think outside the box" really means? The designers, engineers, and marketers are all thinking "how can we sell this box?" Thinking outside the box means changing the question to "what is the user going to do when he takes the product out of the box we've sold him?"
Edit "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled" to have a value of 0 and reboot. Now the start button works like you want. You don't have to leave the desktop.
Um, you can reboot without leaving the desktop? Everything you had open before the reboot is open afterwards (like Linux does by default)?
Yeah, grandma's going to LOVE editing her registry. Odd how you Windows guys bash Linux because "oh noes! U haff two use teh COMMAND LINE!!" (Nope, you don't. And you have no stupid registry to edit and possibly screw your OS up enough to need a reinstall to boot, either).
Speaking of command lines, I was amused yesterday when someone clued me in to how to make it so you don't have to input a password on a W7 single user system. It (and I really laughed at this) entailed entering a command in Windows' command line!
You can switch from Gnome to Kubuntu with a single mouse click if you have both desktops installed. No registry hacks, no command line voodoo. It just works. Too bad Windows isn't so easy...
Those of us who are used to reading are used to all the nuances that writing entails, including punctuation, capitalization, and often spelling if the misspelling changes the meaning of the sentence. Writing in either all caps or all lowercase makes one think the only thing you've ever read was the internet. Meaning, of course, a whole lot of ignorance.
Those of us who actually read don't have to struggle to understand what is written, so long as the so-called "writer" can actually write coherently. Not using capitals us incoherent, a pain to read, and just not worth the effort. If you want to talk to me, speak English (or Spanish if you know no English) and if you want me to read what you've written, make an effort to be readable.
h0w eAZIe iZ thI5 two REED? Sure looks retarded, doesn't it? That's what your writing looks like to me.
Fully 4/5ths of the world's population are religious "kooks". Roughly a third are Christian, a quarter Muslim, most of the rest Hindu or Bhuddist and a few million Jews.
So I'd say since you fellows are in the minority, YOU are the kooks. Poor blind fools, I pity you.
I can vouch for that. When I was in the USAF stationed at Dover in 1971-3, one of the tow tractors backing a C5-A into a hangar hit the hangar door with a wing. We're talking really low speed here, slower than a normal walk. It did five million dollars in damage. Worried the hell out of the tractor driver until they layed the blame on the wingwalker.
The more people that pay, the more money that goes to the creators, so they can hit their break even point and then make a profit.
Yeah, piracy really hurt The Avengers, didn't it? Funny how they release it world-wide at the same time and break box office records, isn't it? The industry you work in suffers from extreme stupidity. Nobody that stupid deserves a damned dime.
Your "style" is completely unreadable. There was a book written by a drug addict with the same style that a friend wanted me to read, I got halfway through the first page and gave up.
Yes, sometimes I'm an asshole, especially when responding to someone's bullshit that they refuse to back up. You know what? Grow up, son. If you're going to make a rediculous statement, you need to back it up. Bullshit is free.
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Well, yes, Bhuddism is a godless religion, but the Thais still fear and respect "spirits". They build ornate little houses about the size of a bird house outside their home for the spirits to live in, so they won't go inside their own homes.
Yes, but it was informative to most, anyway. Most people actually do think schitzophrenia is multiple personalities, including the joker, or he would have said "DID" rather than "schitzophrenia". I got the joke, but I would have corrected him if the GP had not. I've known schitzophrenics, and Evil-X has DID. Both are pretty damned bad; I'm happy all I suffer from is arthritis.
Or to make another joke, "I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it!"
I'm afraid you're a little misinformed.
And that's what's wrong with modern psychiatry, which has made no progress in 50 years and whose sole focus now it to make new drugs that turn you into a zombie with less and less lethal side effects.
My friend has several disorders, the biggest being bipolar disorder. She's also a cocaine addict. They had her on Zoloft for a while, and she did become zombie-like and it didn't help her addiction. But they switched her to Paxil (another SSRI) and that actually worked, for her. When she's on it she stays sober and says "it doesn't make me feel like a zombie like Zoloft did." When she's not high or on Paxil, she's suicidal (IMO nobody should EVER get on SSRIs unless they're already suicidal). Clinical depression can be fatal; the patient suicides. SSRIs can prevent this.
Fifty years ago -- hell, thirty years ago, that would not have been possible.
Medicine has been married to the dopamine hypothesis for decades now, too low and you're schizophrenic, too high and you have parkinsons
You have it exactly backwards; Parkenson's is a neurological disease that comes from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain; the cause of this cell death is unknown. Schitzophrenia's treatments decrease dopamine, and judging from schitzophrenics I've known, sometimes the treatment works. One guy I knew who had it was just batshit insane, hearing voices and all, completely unable to be a productive member of society. They put him on Haldol, and the last time I saw him was at the poll; he seemed normal, had a paying job, and was an election judge.
It's true that mental health treatments are far behind physical health treatments, but they are in fact improving at a rapid pace.
I googled Foster, he doesn't even hold a doctorate. I wouldn't lend him much credence. Find a better source for your information, an MA is nowhere near enough education when you're talking about something as complex as brain and nervous system function.
No, they're doing it exactly as planned -- make the kids fucking HATE learning so they grow up ignorant enough that they'll vote for a Republican or a Democrat, think there's the slightest possibility they'll be rich and famous, and go deep into debt to keep up with the neighbors.
Keep the proles dumb and you'll have them cheering the government for cutting taxes when it's only the rich getting their taxes cut.
An honest question:
Mosquito's [sic} are one species I for one could do without.
Why do you do that?
Just... the... ENTERPRISE? Scotty, have you... been... DRINKING... again?
Windows 7 is a very nice OS.
Only in comparison to other Microsoft operating systems. I don't find having to reboot at least twice a month nice, I don't find having to run AV nice, I don't find having to reopen all my apps after a forced reboot nice, I don't find having to reboot just because I installed an app nice, I don't find having to go to a command line to enable it to boot without a password nice, I don't find having to deal with a registry nice, I don't find not being able to turn off my notebook's tap-to-click "feature" from the control panel nice, I don't find having to relearn every damned thing after an upgrade nice, I don't find cleaning out crapware like toolbars and McAffee and Yahoo Messenger on a brand new machine nice, I don't find "do it the Microsoft way or don't do it at all" nice. Not the least bit nice.
Compared to previous Windows? Nice. Compared to any other OS? Not the least bit nice, unless by "nice" you mean "pretty", because W7 is indeed pretty, but I don't need my tools to be pretty. I feel sorry for those of you who have only used Windows. You don't know what you're missing.
This is only an anecdote, but let me tell you about Crazy John. They tell me John used to be "real smart" until he was beaten senseless and left in a dumpster (yes, the bar I see him in is a redneck bar in the ghetto).
He's now crazy as a loon, always talking about space aliens walking among us and crazy shit like that, no matter how I try to explain the speed of light's limitations to him, as well as the total improbability of any space alien looking anything like us.
"He's CRAZY, Louie!" -- Firesign Theater
That said, there are a number of people on readers forums who boast that they've never paid for a book because they always just return it when they're done reading it, or return it then buy it again if they want to "keep" it for another 7 days.
I use the public library for that. I only buy books I've already read, and know I'll want to re-read them.
The only main issue with a lot of returns is if you get a flood of returns all with the same reason ("copyright issues", "poor quality", "typos/editing issues", etc) you can get your book pulled for review.
Which is why I never buy a book by an author I've never read. Only a fool buys a pig in a poke.
Look at it this way. If you were at a cinema watching a movie and, at any point for 7 days after watching a film you could stand in line and fill in a short form to get an immediate refund... would you? And we're not talking about $13 or $14 here, it's $5. Or $0.99. Most people can't be bothered.
I get my movies from the library, too, or rent them from Family Video for a buck each.
Try my book!" I say, "If you don't like it, 7 days, no questions asked return policy, even if you read the whole thing."
It sounds like you get it.
Interesting, I'd like to read some of your stuff, is it in the public library? Because I won't buy a pig in a poke. Those two dozen Asimov volumes wouldn't be on my shelf now had I not read a few of his other books checked out from the library, and I wouldn't have those two Doctorow titles on my shelf if he didn't give them away as free downloads from boingboing.
It's been 35 years since I got out of the USAF, and there were things about the SR-71 that are still secret, and rightly so. Stuff that will make your skin crawl. God only knows what they have now.
No, I'm not going to describe the stuff to you. You wouldn't believe it anyway.
Thanks, asshole, that was at a -1 already. If you hadn't drawn attention to it I'd have never seen it. Mods, please mod me and the parent down to -1 so nobody else will see the damned GP's post!
Manic depression captures my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know
(how to go about gettin' it)
Music, sweet music, slips from my fingers
Fingers
Manic depression
Captures my soul
--Jimi Hendrix (another batshit insane genius)
OK, my notebook that still has Windows on it (out of pure laziness) has been nagging me about a security update for a couple of days, yesterday I went ahead and updated. Should I worry?
Have any of you ever thought about what "think outside the box" really means? The designers, engineers, and marketers are all thinking "how can we sell this box?" Thinking outside the box means changing the question to "what is the user going to do when he takes the product out of the box we've sold him?"
"The box" is the box the product comes in.
Edit "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled" to have a value of 0 and reboot. Now the start button works like you want. You don't have to leave the desktop.
Um, you can reboot without leaving the desktop? Everything you had open before the reboot is open afterwards (like Linux does by default)?
Yeah, grandma's going to LOVE editing her registry. Odd how you Windows guys bash Linux because "oh noes! U haff two use teh COMMAND LINE!!" (Nope, you don't. And you have no stupid registry to edit and possibly screw your OS up enough to need a reinstall to boot, either).
Speaking of command lines, I was amused yesterday when someone clued me in to how to make it so you don't have to input a password on a W7 single user system. It (and I really laughed at this) entailed entering a command in Windows' command line!
You can switch from Gnome to Kubuntu with a single mouse click if you have both desktops installed. No registry hacks, no command line voodoo. It just works. Too bad Windows isn't so easy...
Those of us who are used to reading are used to all the nuances that writing entails, including punctuation, capitalization, and often spelling if the misspelling changes the meaning of the sentence. Writing in either all caps or all lowercase makes one think the only thing you've ever read was the internet. Meaning, of course, a whole lot of ignorance.
Those of us who actually read don't have to struggle to understand what is written, so long as the so-called "writer" can actually write coherently. Not using capitals us incoherent, a pain to read, and just not worth the effort. If you want to talk to me, speak English (or Spanish if you know no English) and if you want me to read what you've written, make an effort to be readable.
h0w eAZIe iZ thI5 two REED? Sure looks retarded, doesn't it? That's what your writing looks like to me.
Fully 4/5ths of the world's population are religious "kooks". Roughly a third are Christian, a quarter Muslim, most of the rest Hindu or Bhuddist and a few million Jews.
So I'd say since you fellows are in the minority, YOU are the kooks. Poor blind fools, I pity you.
Low speed doesn't mean little damage necessarily
I can vouch for that. When I was in the USAF stationed at Dover in 1971-3, one of the tow tractors backing a C5-A into a hangar hit the hangar door with a wing. We're talking really low speed here, slower than a normal walk. It did five million dollars in damage. Worried the hell out of the tractor driver until they layed the blame on the wingwalker.
Dear Mark Shuttleworth,
You're product
Shuttleworth is NOT product! They outlawed slavery over a century ago!
The more people that pay, the more money that goes to the creators, so they can hit their break even point and then make a profit.
Yeah, piracy really hurt The Avengers, didn't it? Funny how they release it world-wide at the same time and break box office records, isn't it? The industry you work in suffers from extreme stupidity. Nobody that stupid deserves a damned dime.
And what did [imagineering] accomplish outside of a very narrow area of producing animation for kids?
Android presidents, android pirates, holographic ghosts, theaters with moving seats, polaroid 3D thirty years ago... I see you've never been to EPCOT.
Your "style" is completely unreadable. There was a book written by a drug addict with the same style that a friend wanted me to read, I got halfway through the first page and gave up.
Your aliteracy is showing, son.
Yes, sometimes I'm an asshole, especially when responding to someone's bullshit that they refuse to back up. You know what? Grow up, son. If you're going to make a rediculous statement, you need to back it up. Bullshit is free.
You don't think Nazis deserve all the insults they can get?