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  1. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1
    My, my. How very certain. Maybe I should have used the word 'blister' not burn. Would that have suited you better? I have also given reasons why power may not be part of it. You ignore that and repeat the power crap. Why?

    Did you have anything to say that was a response to me or my reasoning? "That is something different" seems to be your soul objection. What are you trying to tell me that I don't know?

  2. Re:Litigation Land on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Well if you want to say that is wrong I have to ask is you know what empathy is. A twelve year old girl being stood over by some one much larger? Yes, she is going to see that as a threat.

  3. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    A prick who wanted to prove a point and get into another undergraduates pants. It was forty years ago if he pulled it again he would be removed from practice.

  4. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Only reference I could find on google was for France but same deal. I may have beed wrong about the country.

  5. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1
    I've seen a hypnotist touch some one with an ice cube after telling them it was a lit cigarette. I've seen them do it telling them that there finger is a cigarette too. It caused blisters

    The blistering is a reaction that can be cause physically or mentally.

  6. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Is that not physics rather than chemistry? Admittedly the line is sort of blurred nowadays.

  7. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 0
    It takes zero energy to cause a burn. While the 'required energy' will always cause a burn, you can also burn from believing you are being burned.

    I've seen it done and while that is not evidence for you, it suffices for me.

  8. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1
    Not so much actually. Tourette's is usually triggered by an event. If not exposed to that event people with the genetic tendency may never have it happen.

    There is a difference between cause and trigger.

  9. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Seen it done.

  10. Re:Litigation Land on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1
    Lets look a a few other beliefs;

    Even normal sunlight can cause hypnotic and epileptic states. That people have died because of this.

    At least two companies make and sell lenses to reduce these effects (Z1 and UM80)

    In a state of hypnosis sensations can be misconstrued(ice cubes, fingers can produce blisters)

    Tourettes can be triggered (not caused so far as I know) by something as trivial as a bee buzzing in sunlight.

    And

    That deliberately performing an act causing threat to someone is a criminal assault.

    That waving a scanner like that in the face of a 12 year old child could reasonably be perceived as a threat.

    So,

    Which of these beliefs is false?

  11. Re:A Possibility on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1
    There is more than one commercial coloured lens that are made just to prevent fluorescent lights triggering epileptic attacks. One called U80 and another called Z1.

    This suggests you are incorrect.

  12. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    If an ice cube can burn some one, then the possibility exists. When you shine something into someone's eyes you are dealing with something that is intimately connected to the brain. When the light shining on the retina is at particular frequencies there are known hypnotic (and epileptic) effects. There could be issues here and I would not dismiss them without consulting a neurologist and providing them with full information Including that particular gun, how it was used, what other lights there were, distances and more. http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=57826 http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/epilepsyusa/news/3D-TV-May-Trigger-Photosensitive-Seizures.cfm Pulsing light have been used in hypnosis for centuries. With the infinitely more accurate clock speeds available with elecrtonis there are going to be issues. Anyone read the health warnings on the new 3D tv's? It is very easy for an expert in one field to dismiss a case because of ignorance in another field.

  13. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since burns can be caused by a hypnotist and an ice cube I am not sure the intensity of energy emissions is relevant. I mean an an ice cube can not burn can it? But add hypnotist? That aside, what about faulty equipment?

  14. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    No, that is not true. You can hypnotise some one and tell them an ice cube is a cigarette. Quite a few blister when touched with the ice cube.

  15. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. That audience might or might not include remembering a case where normal sunlight caused blackouts in normal people. Killed quite a few people before they realised that there was a problem and more before they worked out what it was. Happened in England. Memorial trees planted in a regularly spaced row. If it was near sunset and people were traveling at the speed limit the "flash, flash, flash" of the sunlight through the trees caused people to space out and drive through a dangerous intersection in a spaced out state. Took some landscaping to solve the problem. Point being that you need to look at all the individual situations and work out what the factors are in any given case. Even if there does turn out to be some unique circumstances here and it really was the cause (very, very unlikely but perhaps possible) it would be probable that no one is to blame.

  16. Re:Fire that Judge on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Unless faulty.

  17. Errm.... on In EU, Google Accused of YouTube "Free Ride" · · Score: 1

    I don't want the telcos to be anything more than dumb pipes. That is what I am paying them for. I am not paying them for Google's contents.

  18. Um... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    An apostrophe simply means missing letters. Check old documents and you will see things like Thos' as an abbreviation for Thomas. The usage may be archaic but it is indeed English. Perhaps not American English tho'.

  19. Non Sequiteur. on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1
    You connect formal rules to coding on the fly when they are not connected in any way. Before you can become good at what you do you L2P (I'm, 60 bye the way not some young gamer, but that phrase fits the situation perfectly).

    When you have learnt the rules, the mundane use them to grind out mundane code. he great never need to think about them anymore and program creatively. It is a creative act. "The Mystique of the Programmer" is a real thing. If you playing filling in the blanks you are not a programming.

  20. Re:Hang Gliding while being paid to write code... on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Thank you! Four any four weeks of coding you will spend of maybe be one of it writing code. Three weeks is getting a handle on the problem, giving time for the "art" to coalesce. Usually the bigger the ratio of percolation time to coding time the better the quality of the code.

  21. Re:When you don't understand something... on Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your information. I will be following your footsteps.

  22. Re:When you don't understand something... on Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The books I respect I buy in hard cover, largely Pratchett and reference books The ones that will enjoy and read casually I want to carry around I buy in paperback. If they really wanted to promote sales they would include an electronic copy with the purchase. I don't pirate (really) so there are very few that I have in electronic form. The ones I have are very largely from Tor. The ones that I really enjoy I will buy in paperback or hard copy. Tor publishers have effectively proved that giving books away get them more sales. Many times I have read a book provided online and then bought the entire series in paperback or hardcover.

  23. Re:Does a bigger brain really mean higher IQ? on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 1

    Given that identity, self, is a holographic issue it may very well imply that. Also the notion that the intelligence was "no use" seems to smack of jealousy. Intelligence is always useful. Increased or better filtered perception would be a given. I would hypothesise that disease wiped them out before they really got going. Intelligence actually seems to increase risky behaviour to a point. Curiosity does that. It might counter the revulsion and fear we have to death and disease that has helped us survive in the past.

  24. What? on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    They illegally enter the users computer and cause problems? They are in as much shit as Garry Mackinnon. Report them to the FBI.

  25. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 0

    Regardless is "regardless of the reason given" Irregardless is "regardless of any possible reason" Regardless is comparative, irregardless is superlative. That cover it?