Thank you. Excellent comment.

In reply to this comment by Fletch:
>> ^westy:

Nice trailer visually.

However tells you nothing about the actually game play which will likely be utter shite and contain all the crap players have come accustomed to with MMO games.
Maybe in 9-15 years time the technology and network infra structure will exist to actually do a space MMO that's decent and can come close to delivering game play that matches the promotional material.
The game has been out for eight fucking years, so if you actually cared to know what the game is like, you have had more than ample opportunity to find out before coming here and making ignorant statements about what it will "likely" be.



JFC westy, did someone crank down your morphine drip or something? Every other video I watch this morning has some pissy, righteous commentary from you. Note, this observation is from someone practiced in pissy, righteous commentary.

>> ^westy:

Nice trailer visually.

However tells you nothing about the actually game play which will likely be utter shite and contain all the crap players have come accustomed to with MMO games.
Maybe in 9-15 years time the technology and network infra structure will exist to actually do a space MMO that's decent and can come close to delivering game play that matches the promotional material.
The game has been out for eight fucking years, so if you actually cared to know what the game is like, you have had more than ample opportunity to find out before coming here and making ignorant statements about what it will "likely" be.



JFC westy, did someone crank down your morphine drip or something? Every other video I watch this morning has some pissy, righteous commentary from you. Note, this observation is from someone practiced in pissy, righteous commentary.

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Atheists convert for all sorts of reasons..it's actually fairly common and not hard to find. If you want a citation, you can check out this site called google and try putting in "2008 pewforum religion public life survey"

>> ^hpqp:
>> ^shinyblurry:
"According to one underreported 2008 U.S. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, 21 per cent of atheists expressed at least some certainty of belief in God or universal spirit, and 10 per cent admitted to praying on a weekly basis.
Nor should we be surprised to learn that more “than 20 per cent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be ‘spiritual,’ according to a Rice University study.” From the Religion News Service: “The findings, to be published in the June issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists from 21 of the nation’s top research universities.” The two in ten study refers to atheist scientists who acknowledge their spirituality. Like Oscar Wilde’s deathbed conversion, this is an issue campaigning journalists are afraid to touch. Scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find that all men make spiritual-sounding noises, from Catholics to self-styled New Atheists."
>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Umm, if he really was an Athiest, what was he doing praying in the first place?


Ha, you do well to bring Oscar Wilde's "conversion" as a comparison. So atheists "convert" when:
a) They win the lottery
b) They are dying of cerebral meningitis, pumped on morphine and semi-comatose
Sweet.
As for the rest: citation needed

>> ^shinyblurry:

"According to one underreported 2008 U.S. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, 21 per cent of atheists expressed at least some certainty of belief in God or universal spirit, and 10 per cent admitted to praying on a weekly basis.
Nor should we be surprised to learn that more “than 20 per cent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be ‘spiritual,’ according to a Rice University study.” From the Religion News Service: “The findings, to be published in the June issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists from 21 of the nation’s top research universities.” The two in ten study refers to atheist scientists who acknowledge their spirituality. Like Oscar Wilde’s deathbed conversion, this is an issue campaigning journalists are afraid to touch. Scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find that all men make spiritual-sounding noises, from Catholics to self-styled New Atheists."
>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Umm, if he really was an Athiest, what was he doing praying in the first place?



Ha, you do well to bring Oscar Wilde's "conversion" as a comparison. So atheists "convert" when:

a) They win the lottery
b) They are dying of cerebral meningitis, pumped on morphine and semi-comatose

Sweet.

As for the rest: *citation needed*

>> ^jan:
warning, morphine may be a life altering experience


He said in the video they hadn't given him anything yet. Did you take anything?

warning, morphine may be a life altering experience

Morphine pills? He may get sleepy, but not eternally so... Shoulda been cyanide or something.

Placebos are a joke unto themselves as all testing so far has been done in a scenario were psychology can be manipulated and pathology is fixed.

If you offer a placebo to someone with REAL chronic pain they will throw it back at you, or be back the next day telling you it did nothing or helped within a normal range of perception (I think it's usually 10% or so; the more time you add the higher that percentage gets, eventually proving a placebo correct or completely wrong no matter what). Most of the studies look at conditions that are not pathological (or could barely be described as a true medical condition; it's usually mental health studies were the conditions barely exist if at all). Like a simple headache, but not a gunshot, cancer, or a cluster headache. Placebo study is a psychological study. No real doctor is going to screw over someone with pancreatic cancer with a placebo "radiation treatment". No real doctor will use a placebo as it's illegal. The very definition of placebo tells you why.

/Not trying to come off to snippy, but I have chronic pain and a placebo would be a day and night experience to me. Most will tell you the same thing. Example: a high morphine dose vs. a fake one. In 15 to 30 minutes your patient will be back, pissed, and emotionally/mentally upset. Placebos are meant for specific uses in testing not an actual treatment; as they do nothing if it is pathological, duh.

//edit: Yes, I know we don't know everything yet. Especially, how the mind interprets and "saves" it's data. Psychology is very young compared to other fields, but neuroscience is helping it catch up FAST. This is where you'll find placebo studies that go no where. (Placebos only work on pain that is thought of and borderline in the first place...)
///Also a few clarifications.

Congrats on the Ruby level, please enjoy the complimentary morphine and go go girls.

Music doesn't seem to sift very well here, but I'd vote for it!

Cheers.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
You made me research Neil, but I like what I hear. I'm more of a Michael Franks kind of guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtQ6c3uUkI

Do you think it would sift?

In reply to this comment by rougy:
Not bad, Kymbos, not bad at all.

Almost forgot you came from the sedate, Neil Sedaka-esque sands of Oz.

I have always been a doubter-I throw these posts into the mix from time to time to reinforce the spirit of the questioning voice within.

Two times in the history of the United States there have been attempts by presidents to issue currencies that had nothing to do with the federal reserve. President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Using the power he had as president, about 4.8 billion in U.S. Notes backed by silver were put into circulation. June 4, 1963-(my birthday)

February 25, 1863-The National Banking Act-Lincoln did the same thing. Issuance of currencies backed by bank holdings.

No mystery as to why these guys were fucking shot in the head considering how far the world has come with regard to currencies.....

We are headed for one. One currency backed by nothing at all but fart-gas and blood of folks like us.

You wonder why someone with their head extricated through many an hour of mentation from their own asshole, has a problem with official stories, considering the history of power and control?

If the civil war had not been resolved, by a president later shot in the head, the fucking Brits in Canada at the time, and the fucking French army in Mexico, would have been able to march right the fuck up and down, and secure the states-What would a bunch of morphine addicts and women and children have done about it??

Fast-forward to the now, and we are on the verge AS A WORLD, of handing this power over to the fucking wankers who are behind the shit spoken of above. Not by killing off the men brother by brother with gunpowder....but by killing them with blind, fucking, obedient servitude-that and a piss-poor education, shitty food grown by corporate farms..etc etc etc OH, and by turning a few generations into video game playing ineffectual girly-men!!
^Not the government of the United States, ya pusillanimous bunch of crotch-scratching nose-pickers, the motherfucking cocksuckers who lead entire countries around like puppy dogs and kitty cats, to build fucking empire!

This history lesson brought to you by someone who could give a fuck about the most widely accepted opinions, commentaries, or editorials.

Yeah Platypus venom isn't going to kill you but it sure as fuck isn't harmless - it's said to be excruciating, can last for days, weeks, or a month, and the unique thing is that morphine has no effect on the pain. They use it to fight during mating season but apparently the venom doesn't work on each other.

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^ I'm a bit more charitable towards doctors -- they just have the wrong incentive structure.

What makes you more money, focusing on the patients' well being, or using the patient as a vehicle for running the maximum number of tests?

The insurance companies' incentives are wrong too -- they aren't looking for the best way to provide total care at lower and lower cost, they're looking to get the biggest profit by having high premiums and covering the healthiest people, and denying care to people on even the most flimsy of excuses.

Jillette is the only person here worth listening to, but I didn't really hear a concrete solution from him. I would agree that there's a problem with the detachment of payment decisions here, but in the case of healthcare you almost by definition don't know what it is that you need to get (hence what the doctor's there for), nor really judge what quality level you need (do I need aspirin, lidocain, morphine? is there any benefit to brand-name over generic? etc.)?

Likewise, do you want the doctor to limit his choices based on cost? Even Beck found that idea unsettling.

So how do we untangle this mess of perverse incentives and incomplete information, if you rule out anything a liberal like me would propose?